Science.gov, a gate­way to gov­ern­ment sci­ence infor­ma­tion pro­vided by US Gov­ern­ment sci­ence agen­cies, has intro­duced an Image Search link under Spe­cial Col­lec­tions to enable users to quickly find sci­ence images, includ­ing ani­mal and plant, weather and space, and earth and sun images and more. The infor­ma­tion is free and no reg­is­tra­tion is required.

To begin with, three data­bases are being searched from one search box. These include: The National Bio­log­i­cal Infor­ma­tion Infra­struc­ture (NBII) Library of Images from the Envi­ron­ment (LIFE), The National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA) Image eXchange (NIX) and The National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion Photo Library. More image data­bases will be added in the com­ing months.

In addi­tion to the image search, Science.gov has under­gone sig­nif­i­cant soft­ware upgrade for quicker per­for­mance. It has included both the Fed­eral Reg­is­ter and Code of Fed­eral Reg­u­la­tions in the basic search and also pro­vides an author clus­ter on the results page. The alerts ser­vice has also been upgraded so that users can man­age their Science.gov alerts directly from their alerts email and get daily alerts rather than weekly.

Science.gov is hosted by the Depart­ment of Energy Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion, within the Office of Sci­ence, and is sup­ported by CENDI, an inter­a­gency work­ing group of senior sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion man­agers. Cur­rently in its fifth gen­er­a­tion, Science.gov pro­vides a search of over 42 sci­en­tific data­bases and 200 mil­lion pages of sci­ence infor­ma­tion with just one query.”
Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 12/21/10