Allows searching in multiple languages by both common and scientific name. It is produced by an international consortium of institutions led by the WorldFish Center. It includes environment, distribution, morphology, family, order, and class for economically important species, as well as photographs and maps. It is updated continually.
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Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%).
Provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. This resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains over 1 million references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts and Index.
Contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences.
The United Nations Environment Programme and World Conservation Monitoring Centre combined their interests for this site has information on biodiversity worldwide, including publications and a species database.
Well organized, very interactive, and full of information for all, theEPA site offers news, local information, teacher resources, multimedia(videos, photos, audios), resources, and even a trivia quiz, allaccessible from the homepage.
Since the Scout Report last visited the Digital Map Collection at the University of California, there have been many worthy additions to this cartographic cornucopia.