Online Scientific Information Portals?

Knacklappen asks: "On August 5th, vascoda, Germany's new central access point for comprehensive scientific information, goes online. It will incorporate 23 virtual libraries and 4 scientific information networks, and offer these information for free. For the paying customer, there will also be access to electronic journals. What freely accessible scientific information portals do you use? I usually turn to the following when searching for articles: arxiv.org, AVEL, CiteSeer, dissonline.de, DOE Information Bridge, DSpace, ETD, NDLTD, OAIster, OPUS, TheO. Are there any others that you can recommend?"

Google

[Lady Jazzica]

I use Google. I know you can find articles at arxiv and citeseer with it...

science.slashdot.org

[rmohr02]

Seriously though, you have the biggest list of these indexes that I've ever seen.

PubMed!

[occamboy]

While most medecine is only pretend science, there is some actual science going on beneath the surface.

At www.pubmed.gov [pubmed.gov], you'll find abstracts of virtually every medical journal article published over the last 30 or so years. It includes the Medline database and some other stuff.

If you're wondering about a specific topic, fire it up, and in minutes you'll know more than most physicians ever will about real science in medicine.

Re:PubMed!

[dondelelcaro]

While most medecine is only pretend science, there is some actual science going on beneath the surface.

Actually, alot of medical research is real live science, as the broad topic of medical research includes most of biology, genetics, bioinformatics, and a large slice of biophysics, biochemistry, chemistry, and even some physics.

Now, if you're talking about the practice of medicine itself, that's a slightly different area, predominated with case studies rather than experiments. But that's the fluff pr

What a change

[whoda]

Who remembers the days when you could hardly find any NON-scientific things on the net?

Then someone made a search engine called yahoo to do that.
Now it comes full circle.

A better link for AVEL

[bigsteve@dstc]

Here is a better link for the AVEL [avel.edu.au] website. The AVEL portal is based on DSTC's [dstc.edu.au] MetaSuite [dstc.edu.au] software for managinq Dublin Core [dublincore.org] metadata. The portal provides simple and advanced search functions, as well as browsing by category.

(Disclaimer: I work for DSTC ...)

NASA Astrophysics Data System

[hubie]

NASA ADS [harvard.edu] is a great place for searching for articles in many journals (not just astronomy and astrophysics). There are also mirrors [harvard.edu] located around the world.

Not quite a portal, but...

[shamino0]

The weekly magazine Science News [sciencenews.org] has a web site with each week's articles.

While this is a single magazine and not a portal, the nature of Science News is that each article is a summary of some interesting piece of research. The articles on the web site have links and references to the source material, in case you want to read the orginal papers that the article was based on.

While you have to be a magazine subscriber to see the full text of all the articles (non-subscribers get the full text to some art

MathSciNet

[portscan]

For matematics, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, and other things in that vein, the indespensible resource is MathSciNet [ams.org], a service of the AMS (American Mathematical Society. Almost every article is reviewed, many have abstracts, and all have citations. Some have the full text of the article (or links to it).

You should also check out jstor.org [jstor.org], sciencedirect [sciencedirect.com], and springerlink [springerlink.com].