Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents. CLICK HERE
NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): doaj.org
ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
The Red List: iucnredlist.org
NASA Climate Change: http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/
National Wildlife Health Center: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/publications
USDA nutrient database:
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ (contains a complete nutrition profile for various food and drink items)
Satellite Data: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goes
Ocean Tracks: oceantracks.org
The Paleobiology Database: http://paleobio.org/education/education.html
eBird: ebird.org
RCSB Protein Data Bank: http://pdb101.rcsb.org/
BioServers: http://www.bioservers.org/bioserver/ (Easy to use interface for DNA database searches)
ALFRED: https://alfred.med.yale.edu/ (allele frequency)
Helpful articles about understanding how to write an essay in physics in the journals The Physics Teacher (AAPT Physics Education) or Physics Education (IOP Science).
Example of an article from The Physics Teacher: The Physics Teacher, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pages 160-163, 1967 “A student exercise for determining the average density of a celestial body by a limiting process” by T. E. Pomeroy.
Online video analysis: Vernier’s LoggerPro https://www.vernier.com/product/logger-pro-3/. This programme allows the student to insert a video for analysis. The video can be one made by the student or one found online. The LoggerPro software comes with hundreds of videos. The student calibrates the scale, tracks the motion, and then can analyze the result.
Iteration: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_09.html
Simulations:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=physics&sort=alpha&view=grid
Interactive Physics Simulations:
SERC, The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.
https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/search.html?search_text=physics+videos&search=Go
The PIVOT Interactives from Vernier provide an online supplement to hands-on experiments, videos that allow students to vary experimental parameters, and allows students to use embedded analysis tools to make measurements and develop their own conclusions
www.vernier.com/pivot-interactives
Interactive Video Vignettes: https://www.compadre.org/ivv/
Statistical and Thermal Physics: https://www.compadre.org/stp/
Cosmic Ray-eLab: http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/home/project.jsp
KCVS: King’s University in Edmonton, Canada, the website of King’s Center for Visualization
in Science: https://kcvs.ca/cards.html?type=applets
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), undergraduate computer programs to download:
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/UndergradProgs/index.htm
Particle Physics: OnScreen Science—accurate subatomic particle decay events simulation with analysis tools.
geophysics: Interactive Physics Simulations listed by topic: https://ophysics.com/index.html
PhET: The University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, the website for Physics Education Technology.
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics
Physlets and HTML5 Simulations for physics from Andrew Duffy. http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/sims.html
The Physics Aviary: From Boston University includes topics for AP physics courses.
https://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/Programs/Labs/find.php
yTEACH Web Site: http://www.yteach.com/
There are hundreds of simulations that are categorized by IB physics syllabus topics.
The Royal Society of Chemistry: www.rsc.org
PubChem: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ChemSpider: www.Chemspider.com
Chemistry Views: www.chemistryviews.org
ACS: http://bitly.ws/fwhA
Virtual Chemistry Laboratory: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/
Virtual lab: http://vlab.co.in/broad-area-chemical-sciences
Websites with information on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize small collections of search results, into thematic categories. You can see these results either as a tree or you can click 'visualize' to see a diagram like the one shown here. If, as in the example above, you were thinking of doing a project on Humanitarian NGOs, you could search for the keyword terms Humanitarian and NGOs, and it will bring up a number of related topics, such as disaster relief, faith-based and secular organizations, and IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation. You can choose one of these topics to see those relevant results. This may help you to find research topics for a subject you are interested in.
