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• Newscientist.com
• ScienceDaily.com
• EurekAlert!

Newscientist.com touts itself as "The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service." Besides the latest news in science and technology, it covers the hottest topics of the day, such as the frightening new disease Severe Acute Upper Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). A welcome feature of the site is Elsewhere Today, which gathers science and technology news from the Web. The searchable archive is case insensitive and stemming or wildcard searches are possible.

http://www.newscientist.com

SCIENCEDAILY.COM

ScienceDaily.com opens its site, which is dedicated to science, technology and medicine, with Today's Headlines. Alternatively, you can click on Headlines on the left side menu for news summaries for each day of the week. Look to the archives for more weekly science news. You don't need to go to the archives to begin your search. A search box is conveniently located at the top of the page for simple queries, which can be sorted by date or relevance.

The site features science news by topic. Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain, Plants & Animals, Space & Time, Matter & Energy, Earth & Climate, Computers & Math and Fossils & Ruins are the choices for a researcher to use to uncover the scientifically inclined prospect or to inform the calling officers of your prospect's field of interest. Also, you can find links to over 300 science news groups to bolster your resources.

ScienceDaily focuses on news releases from universities, other research organizations and news bureaus, to keep readers apprised of the latest news, research projects and discoveries. ScienceDaily says it best: "ScienceDaily takes what has been compared to the 'C-SPAN' approach – delivering science news in its original, unedited format directly from the source . . . ."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

EUREKALERT!

EurekAlert! is an online news service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general science organization.

"The primary goal of EurekAlert! is to provide a forum where research institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media."

The science news is suitably organized by topic. All public information in the archives is searchable. You need to subscribe to access other materials.

http://www.eurekalert.org/

Pamela J. Smith

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