Online tutorials on how to use the Internet.

Patents, IUPAC full-text of iupac nomenclature recommendations , BUBL link - Lists selected standards resources available via the Internet, Chemistry historical websites and  nobel prize winners

BIOME
BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics
and practitioners. It is based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library.

Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000 is a new online research tool that highlights the most interesting papers in biology, based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading scientists

Pubscience
Pubscience has been discontinued. Scientific and technical information is available at www.osti.gov. Specific links are available for journal literature at www.osti.gov/journal_sources.html.


ScienceResearch
A web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily.

TheScientificWorld
TheScientificWorld is an integrated scholarly Web portal to services, resources, and products intended to enhance and accelerate the research efforts of science professionals. Within its dynamic and interlinked system, individuals are able to:  access a free bibliographic database, retrieve the full-text of indexed publications,  search or browse an integrated multidisciplinary electronic journal, electronically prepare, submit, and publish a peer-reviewed paper, request personalized e-mail alerts to the latest scientific and clinical research findings, news, and funding opportunities, search, browse and locate the most modern methods and protocols in the life sciences, search or browse forthcoming meetings, prepare, submit and review funding proposal applications online, procure equipment, supplies or biological materials online, and access major Web references resources and tools. 
 

Life sciences

MicrobeWorld
An educational resource covering bacteria, fungi, viruses, biological control, environmental microbiology, disease of plants, humans and animals.

Current protocols in microbiology

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops
software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information -
all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Google Scholar
For scientific information

Scirus
Scirus covers scientific, technical and medical information sources as well as a unique combination of both web and membership sources. It excludes sites that contain no scientific content and reads non-text files (like pdf). It searches deeper by indexing complete documents and classifies results into pre-defined subject areas.

Societies & Councils

American Society for Microbiology - Site Map
A comprehensive index to the ASM site.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Society for General Microbiology
The SGM has been established for over 50 years, promoting and supporting the art, science and significance of microbiology and associated subjects world-wide. Here you will find information about all the Society’s activities, and about the importance of microbiology in today’s world.