The American Instititute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a large professional organization devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. This site contains information on conferences, events, courses, publications, industry news, and information for educators and students.

Digital material for the aviation educator, including pictures, movie clips, and presentation aids.

Aviation Week's web site, containing news about all aspects of aviation, plus job listings.

As an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the FAA web site contains information on airports, air traffic, safety, education and training, licenses and certificates, information for passengers, and research publications.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration main web page. Contains both popular and scholarly links, news, events, photographs, multimedia, launch schedules, history, facts, and more.

The Publications provide detailed information on the most recent aviation accidents (1996-) and brief
information on old accidents. The full text annual reviews of U.S. aircraft accident data from 1994 and later is available online as well.

From the National Weather Service, this site provides digital, graphic, and textual weather forecasts, analyses, and observations of aviation-related weather variables.

Searchable database of technical reports produced by NASA, as well as other agencies, such as BioMed Central, Aeronautical Research Council (UK), arXiv Physics Eprint Server, and Energy Citation Database (OSTI)). Coverage includes research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data.

This database provides both accident and incident records from 1983 to the present and offers
access to several aviation accident/incident databases which includes: NTSB Aviation
Accident/Incident Database, FAA Incident Data System, Near Midair Collisions System Database, Bureau of Transportation Statistics Airline Traffic Statistics.

"Welcome to the Community Learning Network, a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you'll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search."

This site is considered the "Educator's Best Friend." It contains lesson plans, professional development, an administrator's desk, technology, school issues, and Ed World.

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, text books and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the internet.

Entire collection of approximately seven million patents made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, from 1790's through mid-2006.

901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in the broader sense. Includes data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, other properties. Includes 7 interactive tables. Published by KNOVEL.

This division of NIST uses information technology to implement computer-aided integrated manufacturing systems.

Official web site for the national academies of the United States, which include the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, The National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council. National Academies perform an unparalleled public service by bringing together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor. These experts serve pro bono to address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public. Most areas of science are covered, including chemistry and physics, biology, and more, with access to full-text of reports.

A place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by a professional curation team for relevance and quality, but are not subjected to peer review. Biology, chemistry, medicine (except clinical trials), and earth science are covered. RSS feeds and e-mail notices of new submissions available.

International science and technology news and innovations. Also includes international job listings.

Search for issued patents, full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790.

Introductory article about patents and patent searching written by Alice Kawakama, originally published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 19:Summer 1998.

A division of Firstgov, the government information portal for science information and websites of government agencies involved in science. Links to each scientific discipline, and access to Federal Regulations.
Earth and Ocean Sciences

Links to news in science, technology, and medicine from universities and other research organizations, updated daily.

Searchable database of scientific and technical acronyms and more. Online companion to the printed version.

A comprehensive science-specific search engine that filters out non-scientific sites and finds peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files. Searches specialty sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect, the U.S. Patent Office, BioOne, and more.

A collection of links to news and opinion in science and technology, updated daily.

This web site offers an international calendar of IT and business technology events, conferences, and courses. Viewing events is free of charge.

News for IT managers on all aspects of business technology from CMP Media. Contains editorials/opinions contributed by writers from Information Week, Network Computing, and other publications, as well as an encyclopedia of IT terms.

Corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps that conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development.

Each of the virtual journals included presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical sciences. Full-text freely available for those journals to which Kent State University Libraries and Media Services subscribes.