General Reference

Grants

• DOE Office of Science Grants & Contracts
• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• Grants.Gov
• FedBizOpps.gov

Maps

• Atlapedia Online
• Perry-Casteneda Library Map Collection
• U.S. Gazetteer
• Color Landform Atlas
• Maps of National Historic & Military Parks, Memorials, and Battlefields
• Maps of National Parks and Monuments

News

• The National Academies
• Science Daily
• New Scientist
• SciCentral

Statistics

• American FactFinder
• CIA World Factbook
• Data.gov
• FedStats
• Los Alamos County QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau
• New Mexico QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Science and Engineering Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• U.S. Census Bureau

Technical Writing

• MIT's Introduction to Technical Communication
• National Association of Science Writers
• NCSU's LabWrite for Students
• The Purdue OWL: Conducting Research
• UNC's Scientific Reports handout

US Patents

• Google Patents - search USPTO patents in a Google interface
• USPTO Database (United States Patent and Trademark Office)
• DOE Patents - only patents resulting from DOE-sponsored research

Worldwide Patents

• Espacenet Patent Search (European Patent Office)
• Free Patents Online
• SciFinder (from Chemical Abstracts Service)

Ordering Patents

• Thomson Innovation - contact the Library to set up a personal account within our subscription to Thomson Innovation.
• Thomson File Histories (formerly Optipat) - downloadable patent publications from WIPO, Europe, the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and more