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Portals of Interest
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Is a very interesting web
portal with the most recent news in the scientific world |
A comprehensive description of the history of
science and technology. |
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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. |
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. |
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Search Engines |
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A scientific material search engine from the Google. |
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine
on the Internet. |
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Scientific Journals |
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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’. |
The best scientific
journal from |
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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. |
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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. |
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GIS, RS and Earth Sciences |
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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. |
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Earth
Observing System Gateway Enables to search and
download data from NASA and associated organizations. |
A source of vector layers
of many countries. The vector layers for |
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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. |
USGS Global Visualization Viewer - This utility is especially
good if you are looking to search and find ASTER images for your study area. |
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The
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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. |
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Politics |
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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 |
Founded by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General for
coordinating world wide efforts against the exploitation of the poor. |
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Fun |
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An interesting website about PhD research and a lot of sarcasm. |
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Copyright© 2006,
Sekhar Lukose Kuriakose