This site is the result of an on-going project, set up to photograph and record all the leaf mining fauna which occur in Britain. Use has been made of SLR and Digital cameras as well as scanners, in compiling the site. The leaf mining fauna include Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), Hymenoptera (sawflies) and Lepidoptera (moths). The information is organised both under species of leafminers and under types of host plant, and their are distribution maps as well as keys for indentifying mines. Users of the site are encouraged to contribute images (with some advice as to equipment and techniques). The site is sponsored by Pennine Books and there is a section on recommended books.

The Pearson Education site provides access to the catalogues of Pearson Education, by subject resource centres including most areas of engineering as well as mathematics and computing. Some Companion Websites are also available.

The Natural History Museum offers this database containing new, high quality colour images of Stanley Duxbury's (1983) type and figured specimens, from the Micropalaeontology Collections. The database can searched via taxon; in addition there are browsable collections of images, plates and movies (requires Quicktime), plus a list of type specimens. The introductory section comments on the techniques used to produce the images including the use of 'Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy' (CLSM).

The Internet for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) site provides free online training in Internet skills to students and lecturers in further education. The tutorial highlights the key Internet sites for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and includes quizzes, examples, and case studies. Teaching packs offer case study examples of how these tutorials can be used in UK further education courses and printable worksheets for students. A glossary of computing terminology and words used in the tutorial is also provided. Is part of - Intute

BioImages offers a wide selection of natural history related images, mostly of British specimens. Access to them is through links in a hierarchical taxonomic tree or via a 'shortcut' browse list of phyla, classes, orders and families. There are over 30,000 images to view, covering 3000 different species. BioImages aims to aid users in identification of species and to illustrate biodiversity.

FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products and history covering all aspects of computing.

This gallery represents the work of some of the foremost British wildlife and botanical artists. The current collections are: The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1804 - 1881) British Entomology by John Curtis (1791 - 1862) British mammals by Archibald Thorburn (1860 - 1935) British plants by Beatrice Corfe (? - 1947)Further collections, comprising an additional 4,000 images are in preparation. Is part of - Nature-Online collection

Research in the department is concentrated in the areas of applied formal methods, medical informatics, computational intelligence, communications and services, algebraic graph theory, applied nonlinear dynamics, and mathematical ecology. Information about the course units contains some teaching materials, which include past exam papers, tutorials, and Java applet examples.

Online version of the Thomas Pennant Exhibition held at the National Library of Wales from December 1998 to February 1999. Thomas Pennant was an author of topographical and natural history works, who helped to popularize and promote the study of natural history. For his illustrations, he employed a full-time artist, Moses Griffith, and used John Ingleby of Halkin extensively on a contract basis. Many of the images used in the exhibition can be viewed on the site and there is a complete index of the objects exhibited. There is also a selected bibliography and short chronology. The extensive supporting notes were prepared by Sian Bowyer, Paul Joyner and Charles Parry.

Information about the computing related courses offered by NEWI are available here. Subject specialisms of staff members are listed along with contact details. Recent research activity and publications are also detailed.

This site gives access to ePIC (Electronic Plant Information Centre), a set of botanical databases from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data sets currently available include living collections, Kew Record of taxonomic literature, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) and SEPASAL a database of vascular plant species of the tropical and sub-tropical drylands. The database may be searched by genus or species name. Full entries can be viewed via the component databases. The site also provides links to a number of related Web projects. ePIC has received UK government support via the Capital Modernisation Fund.

The Virtual Field Herbarium plant image gallery (VFH for short) is composed of images and linked data from eco-friendly researchers and artists. The Image Database allows users to filter searches according to one or more characteristics. The purpose of the website is to encourage the creation of field guides to plants in the tropics and registered users can use the website to create a simple field guide using the tools provided.

Available on this site are technical briefings, analysis by expert columnists, white papers, articles, case studies, job listings, and news feeds concerning all aspects of the IT industry. Articles require registration of details to access the full-text. A search function is provided for the news stories archive.

The information on these pages corresponds to an exhibition held at the Hunterian Museum in Scotland on the voyages of Captain Cook. Clickable maps show the routes followed in each of Cook's three voyages between 1768 and 1780. Each map is linked to images and descriptions of the areas and of the artefacts collected on the journeys. This site represents a very general introduction to the expeditions and the discoveries that these voyages brought to the Europeans of the 18th century.

This site offers the largest collection of animal and plant population data in the world, and brings together nearly five thousand time series. The facility has been constructed by researchers at the NERC Centre for Population Biology in collaboration with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Tennessee. The type of data varies considerably from annual counts of mammals or birds at individual sampling sites to weekly counts of zooplankton and other marine fauna. The service is provided free; however researchers are asked to register first.

Computing and Control is part of the IET Engineering Communities which aims to bring engineering and IT professionals together to discuss issues. They are open to non-members as well as members of the IET. The site includes news headlines as well as full-text papers in PDF format. There is an online library and a discussion forum. Details of events and a careers service are provided.

This website provides information about the Higher Education Academy (formerly the Learning and Teaching Support Network) biosciences programme. The Centre for Bioscience provides resources on all areas of life sciences, forestry, agriculture and food science and aims to provide a comprehensive service to support all areas of teaching and learning in higher education. Resources can be searched online. Publications, including the Bioscience Education E-Journal (BEE-j), The Centre for Bioscience Bulletin and guides in the 'Teaching Bioscience - Enhancing Learning' series can be accessed online. The Bioscience Image Bank is part of this resource. Is part of - Higher Education Academy

The wildlife sightings database contains information on recent wildlife activities at both RBG Kew and Wakehurst Place (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Surrey and the sister gardens in West Sussex). Input into the database is undertaken by staff of the gardens and volunteers throughout the year. Data is retrievable via different groups of organisms; vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi and lichens. The vertebrates, invertebrates and plant groups are then further sub-divided into smaller searchable groups. Contact details are provided for those who wish to volunteer in wildlife observation activities both at Kew or Wakehurst.

Hosted by the British Antarctic Survey the Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) has been designed as the premier source of vector topographic data for scientific GIS (geographic information systems) applications and educational uses. It is the product of an international collaborative project under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Originally published on CD, this updated online version (4.1) provides access to cartographic material published by 11 nations and to the first seamless digital map of Antarctica compiled from these data. It is an essential resource for environmental scientific research, including information on conservation areas, bird populations and satellite altimetry. Access is through electronic registration, free of charge for non-commercial purposes. The downloaded data requires unzipping.

The website of the Suffolk Biological Records Centre offers information about the services offered, and examples of distribution maps which can be produced from existing data. There is also information about specific surveys carried out, protected sites in the county. There are also instructions on use of grid references, various documents for download, a section on policies of the Centre, and links to relevant local groups.

The website of Hainault Forest, situated on the North East edge of London. The forest was secured in 1903, as an open space forever. The site gives forest history and social history, general information and events, photographs - with an index, species data and surveys, tree identification, a nature diary and poetry. Recent revisions include photographs of slime moulds, water birds, reptiles and amphibians and mammals. A list of related academic papers is given, with links to online versions.

The AgentLink III site has information about the activities of this IST-funded Co-ordination Action for agent-based computing. This includes details of industrial meetings, workshops, special interest groups, summer schools and courses, standardisation updates, and dissemination of research results. The site also provides access to a newsletter (freely available online), selected research papers and research profiles of members, agent-related software, descriptions of research projects and links to the corresponding websites.

The Ensembl trace repository provides a permanent archive for single-pass DNA sequencing reads and associated traces and quality values. These data come from whole-genome shotgun projects, EST projects, and other large-scale sequencing projects. Data is regularly exchanged with the NCBI trace archive.Current services include the ability to examine individual reads by name, to search the whole archive or subsets of the archive with another DNA sequence using SSAHA (a fast sequence search) and to download sets of read sequences in fasta format and associated quality values by FTP. Is part of - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: Database Resources

The School of Informatics (SOI), Bangor University site contains a short description of the School and information about staff, research centres and available courses. A publications database can be searched.

The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) contains information about the research projects within EPCC on high performance parallel computing systems. There is also access to selected full-text research journal publications and conference papers, course materials, the EPCC Newsletter, and documentation lists. News and events, links to staff pages, and details of the centre's training programmes and commercial services are also available.

The Knowledge Centre provides access to a wide range of Wellcome Trust resources including newsletters, educational resources, reports and other publications.

The Neural Nets site provides the basis of a book, providing an illustrated introduction to neural networks, that was subsequently published in the UK in 1997. The book is available online and can be downloaded in postscript format.

The Internet Parallel Computing Archive (IPCA) is hosted by WoTUG Parallel Systems Engineering, at the ComputerScience Department, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. It contains material on Parallel and High Performance Computing, with special interest in the Transputer processor concept including those made by SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (formerly INMOS) and the occam language.

The Archive of the SLTB provides access to the Constitution, AGM Minutes and Newsletters of the charity.

DIRC aimed to address the dependability of computer-based systems. The web pages provide details of the project including results, details of related projects, and abstracts from journal articles and conference papers. Some full text publications are available.

The BBSRC is one of the seven councils under the umbrella of research councils UK. The site provides access to publications, media briefings and public dialogue resources. An archive of exhibitions is also provided. All information can be freely downloaded from the site.

Links to project websites and access to publications from this centre concerned with research and development in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and eLearning in education are provided here. Reports, presentations, and details of journal articles and conferences papers produced by centre members are included, as are brief biographical details.

Asynchronous Logic, University of Manchester

The Online Industrial Ethernet Book contains a selection of technical articles, case studies, and new product bulletins covering industrial networking issues. A directory of industrial Ethernet products and suppliers and a technical forum and links to related organisations and publications are also featured.

The Guide to HTML is provided by Garsonix, based in the UK. The site includes several short lessons in aspects of html.

Practical Perl Programming is hosted by Dave Marshall, a lecturer in the Computer Science at Cardiff University, and is a tutorial on the Perl programming language, based on course notes. The site contains introductory material, the tutorial proper and recommended reading on the subject, presented in HTML format. A PDF version is available to Cardiff University students only.

Topology of Protein Structure (TOPS) contains general information about protein structural topology and an atlas of topology cartoons (accessed by a Java applet). The atlas contains a topology cartoon to represent every protein chain of more than 30 residues in the current release of the Brookhaven protein structure databank, and is accessed by entry of the Brookhaven code and chain for the structure in question. A topology-based structure comparison service is available for comparing a user-supplied target protein domain with the TOPS Atlas. The user may also submit protein structures for a topology cartoon calculation. Made available on the Web by the University of Leeds.

Learn to Program Using Python, by Alan Gauld, covers the basic theory of computer programming and the basic techniques needed to solve problems using Python and is intended for absolute beginners on web programming. A table of contents, full-text chapters, references and bibliography are freely available for browsing in HTML format.

The Genome Database of Naturally Occurring Plasmids is produced by Yan Ong, John Ward and Sylvia Nagl of the Bloomsbury Centre for Structural Biology at University College London (UCL) and Birkbeck College. The plasmids held in the database are categorised as either Eschericia coli plasmids, broad host range plasmids, or plasmids of close relation. Full DNA sequences of plasmids are provided in FASTA format, along with GENBANK reports for each plasmid recorded in the database. Additional information is provided on replication, transfer/mobility, bacteriocins, antibiotic resistance, incompatability, and other features of plasmids, along with a list of fully sequenced naturally occurring plasmids. Links to relevant protein analysis tools are also provided. Made available on the Web by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCL.

The JavaScript Resources site, made available by Iain Hendry, is a JavaScript resource site with scripts, links, and downloads of Javascript related products, books and tutorials. The site contains example scripts, links to related resources and the JavaScript manual of style, an electronic book, published by MacMillan Publishing, that describes the basic building blocks of the JavaScript language. The full-text of the book is available for browsing in HTML format.

Code Punk's Web Tutorials is based in the UK. This site contains free tutorials on how to make websites using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as development tips. There are links to freeware and shareware which can be downloaded.

The Atlas of Cyberspaces is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World Wide Web and other emerging cyberspaces. The site plots maps along different dimensions, conceptual (by protocol, for example), and geographic (in terms of connections, latency, isp density and many other axes). There is a census of Internet activity, topology, info maps, info landscapes, info spaces, isp maps, website maps, and historical maps. Supporting this is a collection of references of all kinds. Visitors can subscribe to the free Cyber-Geography Bulletin, and look at archives of past issues online.

GeneWatch UK is a non-profit policy research and public interest group. The areas of interest are divided into the following sections: genetically modified (GM) crops and food, human genetics, GM animals, laboratory use of GMOs, patenting, and bio-weapons. A comprehensive archive of publications relating to these topics is provided. There is also an archive of press releases. A database of information on GM crops and food is also available, which was developed in assistance with a grant from the Greenpeace Environmental Trust. GeneWatch is aimed at anyone who has an interest in the ethical issues raised by genetic engineering. This website has been included in the Biotechnology section of the Nature Net Guide as an example of what impressive things can be done in communicating and facilitating research.

The ScotlandIS website site includes information on activities and services available to members in Internet, software and multimedia businesses in Scotland. There are news stories related to the organisation as well as details of its conference.

VIDA is a database that organises open reading frames from viral genomic sequences into virus-specific homologous protein families. Conserved sequence regions of potential functional importance are identified and can be retrieved as sequence alignments. A controlled virus taxonomical and functional classification has been used for all the proteins and protein families in the database. Where available, protein structures that are related to the families have also been included. Made available on the Web by the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University College London. Some of the links access external data hosted by EBI. Version 3.0 is based on GenBank release 140.

The National Grid Service (NGS) provides deployment and operations support for the UK e-Science programme built around operation of the National Grid Service (NGS). Resources include a collection of documents, user guides, software, details of training courses, and web links for those involved in setting up a computational Grid in the UK.

The Research Computing community at UCL aims to facilitate a collegial and collaborative approach to the provision, management and development of services and infrastructure for capacity and capability High End Computing (HEC). The website includes information about the group, general news items and details of the services the community provides.

The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (emap) is developing a digital atlas of mouse development to be a resource for spatially mapped data such as in situ gene expression and cell lineage. The project is creating a series of interactive three-dimensional computer models of mouse embryos at successive stages of development with defined anatomical domains linked to a stage-by-stage ontology of anatomical names. This research programme is a collaboration between the UK MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the Section of Biomedical Sciences within the Division of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Made available on the Web by the UK's MRC Human Genetics Unit.

NextGRID is part of an EC initiative on grid computing, this site offers links to partner project pages and to publications and reports. There are also listings of events and meetings, presentations, and press releases.

Protein-Haem Interactions is an analysis of known haem-binding proteins deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It includes: Structure of Ligand; Dataset of Haem-binding Protein structures (Haem Lexicography and definitions, and Flow diagram of the analysis); Representative Protein-Haem complexes; and Summary Information Data (Ligand Conformational Analysis and Analysis of Protein Ligand Interactions). Produced by Maria Karmirantzou and Janet M. Thornton of the Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Unit, University College London.

Welsh e-Science Centre is concerned with researching, developing, and promoting e-Science technologies, infrastructure, and services. A range of resources are available including details of the Centre's projects, downloadable software and tools from current projects, case studies, PowerPoint presentations, publications dating back to 2002, whitepapers, and an annotated list of books and in-house brochures.

n December 2002, the Biosciences Federation was founded as a single authority representing the UK's biological expertise. It currently (2007) has 44 member societies and organisations, and five associate members. Their areas of work cover the range from physiology and neuroscience, biochemistry and microbiology, to ecology, taxonomy and environmental science. Its key aims include: promoting liaison, dialogue and interactions within the diverse community of bioscientists on common issues that relate to research and teaching; providing opinion and information to assist the formulation of public policy; and promoting wide and open debate, involving the wider public where appropriate, about the practical and ethical issues surrounding developments in the biosciences and their applications. An extensive collection of reports, consultations and associated responses are available here, and there are links to the research activities of the committees and working groups.

Virus Bulletin is a subscription-based journal with a number of free resources available to non-subscribers concerned with the prevention, detection and removal of computer viruses. The magazine has some current articles available to non-subscribers. The back issues archive is full-text starting from 1989 and articles can be downloaded free in PDF.

The School of Engineering at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, covers the following areas: oil and gas engineering; electronic and electrical engineering, computer network management and design; mechanical engineering; engineering design; engineering for sustainability and the environment; electronic and communication engineering; mechanical and offshore engineering; artificial intelligence and robotics; electronic and computer engineering; and information systems. The site gives information about courses, research projects and members of staff. Research areas have PDF format posters giving an overview of their research as well as information on the relevant groups.

The School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia site includes news, descriptions of research projects as well as lists of publications and theses, some of which are available online. There is a brief tour of the department and the local area.

The Database Resources section of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute website provides a large number of resources relating to the field of genetics and bioinformatics in general. The Ensembl resource provides a 'Trace Archive' enabling users to view data sequences from a large number of species and the opportunity to download this data via ftp.This section of the site is divided into several sections these are: Software Resources, Genome Resources, Family Resources and Functional Annotation Database & Resources. Some of the featured services such as WormBase mirror other international resources.

Rat mapping resources provides access to an online database enabling users to compare the genes of rats and mice. Please note that on 2008-01-14 the section 'SNP-based genetic maps of the Rat' was under contruction. The site also appears to have some broken links in the Markers section. The four main sections of the site are maps, markers, congenics and gene variants. Whilst the site is classed as a database it does not appear to have search functionality and all resources can be accessed from the home page.

Polygenic pathways is a database relating to genes and risk factors associated with Alzheimers disease, Bipolar disorder or Schizophrenia. The database is concerned mainly with the interactions between the protein products of these genes, rather than the genetic aspects such as polymorphisms or other mutations. The genes associated with these diseases appear to etch out well-known signalling networks, whose dysfunction may define the pathology of the disease. Published and made available on the Web by Dr Chris Carter.

The PC Plus website is the online version of the print magazine, and is published by Future Publishing. The archive section contains complete issues of past PC Plus magazines in PDF format. News, featured articles, regular columns and product reviews are also provided. The downloads section lists free software that is available on the Internet and the tutorials section covers topics such as Web development, programming, the Internet, and Linux.

The Open Grid Services Architecture - Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) project is concerned with constructing middleware to assist with access and integration of data from separate data sources via the Grid. Free downloads of OGSA-DAI distributions (requires registration), and documentation for each release, are available from this project site. Is part of - Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK (OMII-UK)