Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Useful Weblinks for Science & Engineering Educators

EurekAlert!
EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology. 

eFunda
eFunda stands for engineering Fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs.
eFunda is all about the basics, for most part, that means college level material covered in engineering schools. If you practice engineering, more often than not you would find yourself searching for something you knew but could not quite remember. eFunda wants to be your reminder of these formulas. Not only that, eFunda wants to tell you exactly under what conditions those formulas apply, so you don't have to read an entire chapter of the good old textbook.

Freepatentsonline.com 
SumoBrain Solutions is the company behind FPO. We have been working with patents, patent data, and tackling the problems of “big data” before the term was even popularized. SBS is most well-known through its patent properties, notably FPO. The reality is that FPO is just the tip of the iceberg in capturing the depth and breadth of the capabilities and solutions of SBS – our press release in September, 2011 and the launch of SBS’s web site is an important step in addressing this delta.
"With an impressive collection of web sites, data sets, and services, including FreePatentsOnline.com, SumoBrain.com, BioMedSearch.com, and OpenThesis.org, we needed an identity outside of our hugely popular (but primarily functional) web properties. Many people don’t realize the scope of our capabilities, data and services just from using one of our sites," said Erik Reeves, CEO.
"Providing better tools for patent search was easy for us because we had conducted 100's of patent searches and understood the challenges of the IP professional – facing scarce resources to do complex and incredibly important analysis," added James Ryley, PhD.
By leveraging FPO's years of experience with patent searching, patent data (as well as a rapidly growing collection of Non-patent literature), and its massive community of users, FPO is uniquely positioned to serve the IP community.

Creative Commons Science
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

Scopus.com 
The largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources covering nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers.
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