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Linux4Chemistry  (http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~nikodem/ linux4chemistry.html) There doesn't seem to be a day pass without some aspect of Linux setting the world alight with claims of a computer operating system to die for. This page is part of the WWW Virtual Library and is maintained by Nikodem Kuznik and provides chemists with access to the growing number of resources available to them under the Linux OS. Links include software such as "achemso", "Khimera", and ZORTEP.

The British Council's guide to the organisation of science, engineering, and technology in the UK  (http://www.britishcouncil.org/science/gost)     This Guide might seem a little parochial but it does offer a comprehensive and informative picture of how science and technology are organised in the UK. There are links to more than 500 organizations helping visitors find out how UK research is funded and how advice is given to government on scientific matters.

Chemical Calculations (http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/magnus/)     A whole raft of chemical calculators are available on the Cambridge University chemistry department website, including the "rotavap" simulator featured in Issue 35 of Reactive Reports. Periodic table calculators, kinetics and thermodynamics, and Java display of molecules from DNA to Cyclodextrin are available. There's also a handy synthesis calculator that will work out required quantities for a given reaction.