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Annual Reviews: Search, Go to: Abstracts, Titles, & Authors Search. Locate chapters by specific authors, series, keywords, and even the text within the abstracts. Information from all 28 series and special publications from 1992 to the present is available here. Excellent!

Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California, Berkeley: Electronic Publications. One of the biggest list of links to geology-related journals that are online.

BIDS: JournalsOnline. provides access to content and abstracts of academic journals world-wide. Log in: Guest user.

Cadmus Journal Services: e-doc Electronic Journal Database.

Elsevier Trends Journals. Unrestricted access to some of the highest-cited review articles in the life sciences are now exclusively available until June 1st 1999 (to all BioMedNet members, membership free of charge). The Elsevier Trends Journals contain a mix of commissioned reviews, news and commentaries, techniques, letters and book reviews, plus occasional special issues. Some of the best-known titles cover the latest developments in established biology disciplines. Including Trends in Plant Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, etc.

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.

The Geological Society of America (GSA): Summit 2000, Reno, Nevada. Search the Summit 2000 Abstracts (e.g. "paleobotany").

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: Biology & Life Sciences.

Looksmart: Find Articles.com. This is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free (more than 350 magazines and journals).

On-line Earth Science Journals, available via http://www.colostate.edu/~cwis70/journals.html. Categorized by full articles available, with selected articles, abstracts, searchable indices, etc. Excellent!

Science Service, Washington, DC: Science News Online. Science Service is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and educational programs. Visit the "Selected Full-Text Articles" and the "Headlines" (with table of contents, summaries, references, and people to contact). Search the archives of selected full-text articles & online features.

UNL AgNIC Plant Sciences Page: Full Text Electronic Publications and Full Text Electronic Newsletters. This pages contain links to full-text online journals, newsletters and a few books in plant science and related fields.

University of St. Louis: Directories of Electronic Journals.

University of Waterloo, Electronic Library (UWELib), Canada: Electronic Journals.

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ATHENA, Geneva, Switzerland: Texts related to science. Excellent!

Missouri Botanical Garden: Online Books and Publications.

National Academy Press. Over 1000 science and technology books online! Visit the "Reading Room".

National Academy of Sciences: Earth Sciences, Online Books, and Biology, Online Books.

John Mark Ockerbloom, The On-Line Books Page. Excellent!

Universal Library (located at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): Antique Books - presents online versions of texts. Instead of just uploading ASCII text, full color scans are given. You can enjoy the weathered character that makes them so fascinating. To reduce download time they have developed techniques to reduce the bandwidth these pages need, so you can enjoy the book over a modem connection without waiting too long, without any plug-ins. See also: Related Links.

University of Virginia Library: Books and Other Electronic Texts

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The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Inc. (AASP): Abstracts, 32nd Annual AASP Meeting, October 1999, Savannah, Georgia, US.

The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Inc. (AASP): Abstracts, 31st Annual AASP Meeting, October 27-31, 1998 Ensenada, Baja, California, Mexico.

Northeastern Section, 36th Annual Meeting (March 12-14, 2001) Burlington, Vermont: Session No. 27, Paleontology/Paleobotany.

The Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paléozoique (C.I.M.P.): Publications, Proceedings of Symposia and journal volumes related to C.I.M.P., 1st Meeting of the Spores and Pollen Subcommission, University College Cork, Ireland, 2nd to 7th September, 2001 (downloadable Word 2000 file).

Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London. Earth System Processes - Global Meeting (June 24-28, 2001) Edinburgh: Technical Sessions. Go to: Controls on Phanerozoic Diversifications and Extinctions: Long-Term Interactions Between the Physical and Biotic Realms, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes (Posters).

Earth System Processes - Global Meeting (June 24-28, 2001) Edinburgh: Session No. T7 Tuesday, June 26, 2001; Global Change in the Late Paleozoic. Abstracts.

XVI International Botanical Congress, 1-7 August 1999, Saint Louis, Missouri (database hosted by A. Bergfeld, R. Bergmann, P. v. Sengbusch, "Botany Online", Hamburg University. Converted to HTML-files by K. Stüber, Cologne): Abstracts of oral presentations and posters. The abstracts you may find here are the contents of the IBC database as of July 6, 1999. Abstracts sorted by session, author and keywords. Excellent!

American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT): ASPT Publications. An entry page for a prototype ASPT publications search system. Access to all issues of the ASPT journal, Systematic Botany, currently indexed by BIOSIS (1981-85 issues will be available soon) and all issues of Brittonia that were published under the auspices of the ASPT (start to 1976).

Annual Reviews. The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. Full Online Access for Articles. Go to Search All Available Annual Reviews Content, Keyword Search, e.g. in "Word(s) Anywhere in Article". Excellent!

Botanical Society of America: Botany 2001. August 12 - 16, 2001; Albuquerque, New Mexico. More then 660 online abstracts available. Browse abstracts via the Electronic Abstract Site Overview, or by keywords. Worth checking out: Paleobotanical Section Abstract Index, By Senior Author. 48 abstracts.

Botanical Society of America: Botany 2000. August 6 - 10, 2000; Portland, Oregon. Abstracts to Selected Land Plant Phylogeny Papers, or Paleobotanical Section Abstract Index, By Senior Author.

Botanical Society of America: 1998 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America 2-6 August, 1998 Baltimore, MD. Summary Abstract Index, by Author. See also: BSA Abstract Web Site Overview, or Paleobotany Section Abstract Index, By Author, or Paleobotany Section, Abstract Index, By All Author's Names.

CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia: Search Page. Search for Abstracts, e.g. in Australian Journal of Botany and Australian Systematic Botany. Readers who do not have full electronic access through their institution will still be able to freely view papers in press to the level of title/author and published papers to the level of title/author/abstract but not full papers. Click "Journal Abstracts Only" and/or "Full Journal Articles".

Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft e.V., (Geo-Berlin 98): Geo 98 Abstracts Online, 6.10.-9.10.1998; (published in Terra Nostra, Cologne).

Geological Society of America: GSA Data Repository. View contents and abstracts for GSA BULLETIN , GEOLOGY or GSA TODAY! Electronic copies of entries from 1992 are downloadable from the FTP site. Although these files are in Adobe Acrobat format, each carries the "bin" filename-extension (ex: 9201.bin)* which you must change to the Acrobat "pdf" filename extension (ex: 9201.pdf) before viewing in an Acrobat reader. Usually, you can change this extension in the "save as" dialog box you get when you click to download an entry.

Geological Society of America: GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts: Paleobotany. Abstracts.

Geological Society of America: GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts: Insects and Terrestrial Arthropods in the Fossil Record: Are So Many Really Represented by So Few? Abstracts.

The International Plant Taphonomy Meeting. The purpose of the International Plant Taphonomy Meetings is to stimulate scientific research and to promote contacts among scientists engaged in the study of plant taphonomy including living and fossil plants of all geological periods. Abstracts available: The 12th Plant Taphonomy Meeting 2001, Altlengbach, The 11th Plant Taphonomy Meeting 2000, Barcelona, The 10th Plant Taphonomy Meeting 1999, Leeds.

Wolfgang E. Krumbein, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; David M. Paterson, Gatty Marine Laboratory University of St. Andrews; and George A. Zavarzin, Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Hanse Institute for Advanced Study: Fossil and Recent Biofilms. A natural history of the impact of life on Planet Earth. Workshop, February 2001. Visit the Titel and link to the abstracts page

VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, September 26 - October 1 - 1999. Buenos Aires, Argentina (page hosted by Paleonet, Argentina): Downloadable Abstracts. (MS Word File WinZip, 100 kilobytes).

National Library of Medicine: PubMed NLM´s search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases. Search for Extinction, Evolution, Triassic etc. (Abstracts)!

The Palaeontological Association, Abstracts are available for the Palaeontological Association Annual Meetings:
Edinburgh 1999,
Manchester 1999,
Portsmouth 1998,
Cardiff 1997.

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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.

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.

BioMedNet: Library. Registration procedure necessary, downloadable articles.

Britannica Online: Limited Search. Britannica Sample Search allows you to search the entire database of Britannica Online and review search results (article or section titles)

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.

Elsevier: ContentsDirect. The free pre-publication contents alerting service from Elsevier Science. ContentsDirect delivers the tables of contents pages by e-mail directly to your PC. ContentsDirect is free.

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.

FindSame. FindSame is a service that lets you find documents on the Web that match large pieces of the search. It finds documents that contain phrases, sentences, and paragraphs of the submitted document. The "whole document search" is useful in many different situations where current search engines aren't helpful. For example, if you are an author or publisher you can check if someone has copied your material by submitting it. You can also use it to find poems, songs, or stories where you only know a few lines or a verse.

Looksmart: Find Articles.com. This is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free (more than 350 magazines and journals).

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. See also: Nature. First issue (1869).

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.

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany: Preprintserver, and Electronic Books. In German.

INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY (IDEAL). IDEAL is an online electronic library containing all 175 Academic Press journals. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat© format. Guest access, or via http://www.janet.idealibrary.com/glogin.htm

Library of Congress: Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources

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

The Palaeontological Association, 41st Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 1997: ABSTRACTS.

SciencePosters. SciencePosters is intended to expand the location and accessibility of poster and oral presentations after scientific meetings, by presenting these communications on the internet. Geosciences not included.

Geoscience Information Center, Scripps, University of California, San Diego: Geoscience Bibliography. This database contains geoscience publication references (many with abstracts) since 1997. It is searchable by author, year, title word, key word, or a combination of criteria. Please submit your references (including those in press) to this database so that people can find your papers quickly. Excellent idea!

SPRINGER: Link Helpdesk. Search in bibliographic records, abstracts of the articles and the general information about the SPRINGER journals with the search engine. Much better: The Power Search Engine and the Link Global Search Search in all data available in the LINK service - including full articles.

UNL AgNIC Plant Sciences Page, The Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC): Full Text Electronic Publications. This page contains links to full-text online periodicals in plant science and related fields.