My Portals of Interest

Scientific Material

World Science Network

Is a very interesting web portal with the most recent news in the scientific world

Science Timeline

A comprehensive description of the history of science and technology.

Web Chronology Project

The site consists of a series of hyperlinked chronologies developed by the instructors and historical articles prepared by students intended for use in history classes.  The chronologies present alternatives to conventional historical periodizations; the articles allow students to share information with one another and with the world.

Science and Creation

In this excellent text the National Academy of Sciences, USA compiles the philosophical and fundamental basis of science. The text clearly distant science from any bias of theist believes and portrays it as a method of life.

Search Engines

Google Scholar

A scientific material search engine from the Google.

Sicrus

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.

Scientific Journals

Breakthrough Science Society, India

Breakthrough Science Society, Kerala Chapter

The Breakthrough Science Society (Established in 1995) is a non-profit social welfare organization. The organization publishes a regular popular scientific journal ‘Breakthrough’.

Current Science

The best scientific journal from India, it often contains articles on interesting topics related to Remote Sensing and GIS.

Copernicus Online

Copernicus is a publisher of high quality literature in science and fine arts since 1990. Copernicus is specialized in serving scientific associations in publishing and distributing their books, journals and magazines, but it also publishes and distributes its own literature. Copernicus plays a leading role in the areas of online, of public peer-reviewed and of open access publications. It includes many journals publishing earth science related research works.

Down to Earth Magazine

India's most popular Science and Environment magazine published by the Society for Environmental Communications in 1992. It often features hot environmental issues from Indian subcontinent, providing far reaching insights into the scientific intricacies of the issues. It is a real treat to the environmentally active earth scientists.

Open Journal Gateway

This is the world’s biggest open journal gateway. This gives access to several open scientific peer reviewed journals. One can search with key words and get the abstract or the full text as a PDF.

 

GIS,  RS and Earth Sciences

Geo Community

A portal with immense information for Geo-Spatial Technology Professional. It contains a lot of useful software and amazingly lot of extensions for Arc View and Map Info. Other interesting stuff include a series of software for applications along side GPS.

Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF)

The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) provides earth science data and products to help everyone to better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.

Earth Observing System Gateway

Enables to search and download data from NASA and associated organizations.

DIVA GIS

A source of vector layers of many countries. The vector layers for India are really good.

Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS)

The SCGIS is a non-profit organization that builds community, provides knowledge and supports individuals using GIS and science for the conservation of natural resources and cultural heritage.

GLOVIS

USGS Global Visualization Viewer - This utility is especially good if you are looking to search and find ASTER images for your study area.

USGS

The United States Geological Survey. An immense source of information for earth scientists

Dr. D.G Rossiter’s Home Page

He is Associate Professor at ITC in Quantified Soil Modelling. His personal webpage is a store house of a plethora of scientific information. Those of you, who are into scientific writing, should never miss this page.

Politics

Socialist Unity Center of India (SUCI)

Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) is a revolutionary party based on Marxism-Leninism, which emerged as the only communist party of the Indian soil. It was founded on the 24th April, 1948, under the leadership of a foremost Marxist thinker of this era, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. The party publishes its organ PEra, which may be accessed from the website. The organ covers critical analysis of socio-political and cultural issues of India from a Marxist-Leninist perspective.

International Action Center

Founded by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General for coordinating world wide efforts against the exploitation of the poor.

Fun

PhD Comics

An interesting website about PhD research and a lot of sarcasm.

 

 

 

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