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Adobe Systems Incorporate: Search Adobe PDF Online. Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of PDF files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF.

American Geophysical Union (AGU): Science for Everyone. Selected Publications of AGU.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. With search engine.

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP): Highlights from Recent CAP Newsletters. Selected articles online in palynology.

! Biodiversity Heritage Library. Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. For the first time in history, the core of our natural history and herbaria library collections will be available to a truly global audience. Browse by titles, authors, subjects, names, map, or year.
Go to: Plants. Currently mor then 1500 titles tagged with "Plants". Superbly done!
Comment: Using "View text" is much quicker (for a first glance) then "View image".

BiologyBrowser (produced by Thomson Scientific). This is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Go to: Paleontology > Publications > Full-text documents.

Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR); Hannover: Commodity Top News. Monthly updated reports and working papers on the global development of the business market for natural resources, downloadable for Acrobat Reader (in German).

! James Campbell, Western European Studies Section: Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature. This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

The State Library of Colorado, the Electronic Journal Access Project: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ACCESS. With electronic journals, alphabetically by title, electronic journals by Library of Congress subject headings, and other directories of electronic journals.

CORDIS, Community Research and Development Information Service, Luxembourg (an initiative of the European Commission): Search CORDIS Databases. CORDIS provides information about Research and Development sponsored and supported by the European Union. Search on criteria such as subject, programme acronyms, countries, organisation types, collaboration types and collaboration interests.

! Elsevier: ContentsDirect. ContentsDirect is the free e-mail alerting service which delivers directly to your desktop journal tables-of-contents and abstracts for Elsevier journals and book tables-of-contents for forthcoming Elsevier books.

EurekAlert: EurekAlert, produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a comprehensive news server for up-to-date research in science and engineering.

! FINDarticles.COM. FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

GeoGuide, SUB Göttingen: The Geo-Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in earth sciences, geography and mining. Go to: Series of Preprints, Reports, and Working Papers. Seea also:
Preprintserver, and Electronic Books. In German.

! Geoscience e-Journals, the portal. This website incorporate peer-reviewed electronic journals in the field of Earth Sciences (geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, regional geology, stratigraphy, geography, etc.) permitting free online access to all or at least a major part of their current issue and/or archives. Excellent!

! Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg: Digitalisierte Literatur weltweit. An annotated link list (in German).

Hot Neuron LLC.: MagPortal.com. This is a free web site that provides a full-text search engine for online magazine articles. You can browse through nearly 250 categories to find the most recent magazine articles and news feeds for your area of interest. Unlike general search engines which can take weeks to add a new page, new articles in MagPortal.com normally added within 1 business day of their publisher placing them on the net. Go to: Environment & Geology.

NATURE: Nature Debates. Nature debates aim to use the space and reach of the Web to map out and define the landscape of international scientific controversy. They are moderated and involve both invited contributions and email from interested readers.

! NASA: Nasa Technical Reports Server ( NTRS). NTRS is an experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. Specifically, it is a unified interface to many separate WAIS servers. NTRS is open to all members of the Internet/World Wide Web community.

! Open access (OA), Germany, and Public Library of Science (PLoS). "Open access means immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material, primarily peer-reviewed research articles in scholarly journals" (Wikipedia). Excellent! Go to:
Earth Sciences, and Biology (in German). See also:
Open access to scientific literature (OASE, Universitätsbibliothek Karlsruhe),
Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints, and
Open Access News. News from the open access movement.

The PaleoNet Forum: Current and Back Issues. An index of online articles.

The Public Library of Science (PLoS). All material published by the Public Library of Science (a non-profit organization), whether submitted to or created by PLoS, will be published under an open-access license that allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Go to: PLoS Biology, and PLoS News.

! Scott Russell, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma: Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals. These are links to journals in which articles concerning plant biology are published. The sites will almost always have a Tables of Contents available free and may frequently have selected articles, or the entire text online. Some sites are free; others require registration or paid subscriptions.

Science & Engineering Library, University of California ( UCSD Libraries), San Diego (La Jolla): Article Indexes for the Sciences.

SPRINGER: Link Helpdesk. Search in bibliographic records, abstracts of the articles and the general information about the SPRINGER journals.

! Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia:
Category:Academic publishing.
Category:Scholarly databases.
Category:Scholarly search services.
! List of academic databases and search engines.
List of online encyclopedias.