The American Association for the Advancement of Science offers this current awareness site for reading about the latest research in medicine, health, science and technology. Research institutions and scientific organizations, who have registered with the site, post news releases. The site offers a search engine, with advanced features, for finding older news. HighWire Press, founded by Stanford University, assists in the publication of 210 online medical or science journals. It offers a database for searching the content of these journals.
Some journals require registration or paid subscription for full-text access.
Article abstracts, which include the complete bibliographic citation, are available free of charge. To purchase articles, you must register to use the site. Life Science Dictionary 21 February 2001. The Ellington Lab at University of Texas at Austin, which hosts BioTech, a biology and chemistry educational resource, offers this dictionary of terms in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. Use the search box on the left to look up a definition, or the search box on the right to find use of the term in other definitions.