The Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries is "a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science." Provided by the Galileo Project of Rice University, the biographies include everything from their date of birth and death, to their...
Elsevier Science, the scientific communications branch of Reed Elsevier, started its official World-Wide Web and Gopher service which includes: the Elsevier Science Internet Catalogue of Journals and Books; information about - TULIP - The University Licensing Program, a research project Elsevier Science is performing with nine universities in the USA; and, the Proceedings of the WWW'94 Conference...
This site will keep users abreast of the latest publications from the National Academy Press (NAP), the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The New Books sites provides annotated descriptions of recent publications.