Web Resources
Here are a few websites related to major disciplines which are useful for students and faculty in their academic endeavors. Sites are categorized by disciplines
BOTANY
What is a Herbarium? What makes a good specimen? How to manage the collection?
CHEMISTRY
- Periodic Table: This online resource for public was created by Robert Husted (Los Alamos National Laboratory) in (circa) 1992. Later it was modified during 2002/2003 by Mollie Boorman, and again in 2011 redesigned by Maida Trujillo of the Chemistry Division web team with assistance from Dave Hobart and Josh Smith.
- Periodic Table of Elements (Click on the atomic symbol to get a table of basic information related to that element).
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise and Redistribute. Check it Out….
- Analytical Chemistry 2.0 by Harvey
- Introductory Chemistry by Ball
COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise and Redistribute. Check it Out….
- Programming languages: Application and interpretation by Krishnamurthi
ECONOMICS
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise, and Redistribute. Check it Out….
- Principles of Economics by Taylor and Greenlaw.
- Economics: Theory through applications by Cooper and John
- International Trade: Theory and policy by Suranovic
- Microeconomics: Theory through applications by Cooper
- Money and Banking by Wright
ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise, and Redistribute. Check it Out…
- Bullfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfynch. This document contains his classical works – Age of Fable, Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne.
- Outline of American Literature by US Department of State. This authoritative work covers Early American and Colonial periond 1776, Revolutionary Writers, Romantic Period, Rise of Realism, Modernism, American Poetry, etc.
- Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence. It studies Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Whitman.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Edited by Mona Baker
HISTORY
- Ancient History Encyclopedia: It is an online encyclopedia with a global vision. It contains peer-reviewed and signed articles which ensure authenticity of the content.
- Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 03 Part 02. By John Boardman et al.
PHYSICS
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise and Redistribute. Check it Out….
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- Basics of fluid mechanics by Bar-Meir
- Calculus-based Physics 1 by Schnick
- Calculus-based Physics 2 by Schnick
PSYCHOLOGY
- Open Textbooks: These are open educational and instructional resources (OER) created and shared by not-for-profit agencies. They are released under an intellectual property licence for free and fair use with the principle of 5 R’s: Retain, Reuse, Remix, Revise and Redistribute. Check it Out….
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- Cognitive psychology and Cognitive neuroscience by Wikibooks
- Emotions, Feeling and Thoughts byMark Pettinelli
- Introduction to Psychology by Stangor
- Principles of Psychology by Stangor
- Principles of Social Psychology by Stangor
- Research methods in Psychology by Price
ZOOLOGY
Henri Gray features 1247 engravings alongwith an index of 13,000 entries. Visit: https://www.bartleby.com/107/
University of Michigan has developed an excellent Animal Diversity Web – a database of animal natural history, taxonomy etc. Being considered as an encyclopedia or a virtual Museum or science learning tool, it has thousands of images, sound recordings, movies and specimens. However, they advise some caution in following the authenticity of the text accompanies the images because they are contributed by students of UoM. If you have something to contribute to the database, Oh, great! you are welcome.
Basic anatomic structures of human body, by Juraj Artner. Visit: https://fhs.mcmaster.ca/surgery/documents/atlas_hsa.pdf
Images and brief descriptions of a few cockroaches are available here. A link at the end of the page (Cockroach Links) connects to “virtual cockroach” and “cockroach simulation” also might be interesting. Other sites: Cockroach Phylogeny; Bug guide.
This is an online database of mammalian taxonomy. It can be used as an online reference for identifying or verifying scientific names. the names are arranged in a hierarchical fashion which includes Order, Suborder, Family, Subfamily, Genus etc.
It is a collaborative effort of biologists around the world to provide information about the biodiversity, characteristics of different groups of organisms and their phylogeny. The pages are arranged hierarchically in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. stores a few movies as well.
The mission, vision, strategies and activities of WWF explained. Several photographs and videos will be interesting for students. Also, includes a map database of 26,000 species worldwide.