"Founded in 1848, the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has a well-established reputation of serving both the public and scientific communities with a mission to advance science around the world through programs and publications, especially its own journal, Science." -- Choice

“Since 1881 the American Museum of Natural History has sponsored expeditions, fieldwork, and laboratory work, and published the results in its four scientific publication series, the Bulletins, Memoirs, Anthropological Papers, and American Museum Novitates. The research, in anthropology, zoological systematics, paleontology, evolution, and geology, includes classics and new work by some of the best-known researchers in their fields. Memoirs and later Bulletins, in particular, offer in-depth, book-length studies; there are also shorter reports of new findings. Now this institutional repository, powered by the DSpace open source system, provides free access to PDF files of all these publications from their inception to the current issues.” – Choice

“The Advanced Placement Digital Library (APDL) is a collection of recommended Internet resources in biology, chemistry, physics, and English for AP or pre-AP students. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, this project includes resources that are reviewed by a panel of AP educators and linked to the College Board AP content outlines. Users can find information by accessing the subject tabs and scrolling through the list of subtopics of the more than 1,000 Web sites available” -- Choice

“AMSER is a portal of educational resources geared to community and technical colleges, but free to all. Funded by the National Science Foundation and led by the renowned Internet Scout Project, its other partners are the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE), American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), and American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). Resources can be accessed by searching or browsing. They are classified by both Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and LCC (more detailed) classifications.” -- Choice

"The arXiv.org e-print archive is the premier electronic source for most streams of research in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, and quantitative biology. Currently the means of access to almost a half million papers, it is owned, operated, and funded by Cornell University. ArXiv has existed as a means to preserve and provide free access to scientific preprints since 1991. Mirrored worldwide, arXiv also distributes its materials to RSS and e-mail subscribers. To sustain the timeliness of submissions, peer review is not a requirement for inclusion. However, arXiv has an active editorial board and policies, with the home page stating that the contents conform to Cornell's academic standards; contributors are assured to be members of the scientific community through the practice of endorsement." -- Choice

"The ChemCollective features interactive activities that may be incorporated into introductory chemistry courses by high school and college educators. Developed by faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University and funded by the National Science Foundation, the site was officially launched in 2004 at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society." -- Choice

“eNature: Field Guides is a useful, credible resource for basic information about the plants and animals of the US. Its content comes from the same data used to produce the printed Audubon field guides. This online guide covers over 5,500 wildflower, tree, invertebrate, and vertebrate species.” – Choice

“Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) creates a "pile of great content" out of the Web's "great piles of content." Searching global warming, e.g., yields over 40 million hits on Google, but only around 150 on EoE. Quality content is achieved in three ways: authors who are experts in their fields, content partners who follow strict guidelines for inclusion of appropriate topics (e.g., International Arctic Science Committee), and a thorough editorial process.” – Choice

"Designed to complement Essential Science Indicators (ESI) http://scientific.thomson.com/, the Special Topics site provides citation analysis, interviews, and essays on current high-interest topics in science by noteworthy scientists in their particular fields of study." -- Choice

"The Web-only National Atlas is the product of the US Geological Service's coordination of geographically oriented data from more than 20 federal agencies. It portrays a plethora of cultural and physical phenomena, including information on health, the environment, demography, agriculture, climate, and geology." -- Choice

“SciDev.Net is the Web site of the Science and Development Network, a nonprofit organization intent on providing science and technology information to developing countries. SciDev.Net has the support of several international development agencies, including the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.” – Choice

"Integrating the diverse sources of technological information concerning the universe and approaches used to explore the cosmos, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has developed this Web site as part of its education and outreach group." - Choice

"ScienceNOW, the news section of the Web site for Science, a leading scientific multidisciplinary journal, features current news briefs produced by the magazine's team of journalists. The site offers free access to the latest four weeks of articles; older articles dating back to 1996 require payment (subscription or pay per article)." Choice

“This federated search portal currently searches the content libraries of 15 affiliated societies. It is becoming a free "one-stop shopping center" in the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, and geosciences. Scitopia.org serves as an online gateway to these societies' published scholarly research, patents, and government documents.” – Choice

“Timelinescience contains a list of scientific achievements between the years 1000 and 2000, as well as brief articles, student activities, and teacher notes for several major topics of the past millennium.” – Choice

“This online exhibition is a useful introductory history of science and technology. The source is the Linda Hall Library, an independent public library of science, engineering, and technology located in Missouri, serving academic and business clients internationally.” – Choice

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