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ISSUE #46  << STAR PICKS
June 2005

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   EEVL Xtra

EEVL Xtra 
(http://www.eevlxtra.ac.uk)

This isn't a straight chemistry site, but could be so useful it would be a shame not to review is. EEVL Xtra comes out of Edinburgh's Heriot Watt University and is produced by EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics, and computing. It is a new, free service which helps in the retrieval of articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics, and computing. So there have it. Even chemists should find something of interest among that lot.

 
Xplora   
 

Xplora 
(http://www.xplora.org)    

This is another "not-straight-chemistry" site, but worth a visit (unless you're a Firefox user, in which case it won't load properly). The Xplora site provides a eurocentric site for science education for teachers and students alike, as well as for those involved in science communication (from journalists to public relations people by way of those involves in public engagement). It provides teaching resources, experiments, classroom practice, an events calendar, a community section and more.

 

PubChem

PubChem
(http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)    

At the time of writing, a dispute between the National Institutes of Health, sponsors of the PubChem database of small molecules and the American Chemical Society is underway. Nevertheless, the PubChem initiative hopes to provide researchers in the life sciences with ready access to the small molecules that they might face in their work.