In this section we continue to divulge online resources, which may be personal web pages, blogs, institutional portals, etc. A large part will be dedicated to the medical sciences.
In the present edition, we focus essentially on scientific dissemination.

e! Science News – http://esciencenews.com
There are several websites and pages on the Internet that aim to disseminate science and disclose the most current and relevant scientific news. Some produce content, others merely disseminate it, but many do a little of both.

Like others, e! Science News also uses specific parameters in the field of artificial intelligence and the most recent developments in terms of search engines to select information on the Internet from particular sources. http://esciencenews.com/about

It includes a selection of medical articles, «Health and Medicine».

Ciência Hoje (Science Today) – http://www.cienciahoje.pt
Similar to the previous example but focusing on the Portuguese reality in particular, this website is not, like others, a sort of personalized search engine with specific parameters to select information. Rather, since its inception in 2005, it has been producing its own articles and news.

Ciência Viva (Living Science) – http://www.cienciaviva.pt/home
Ciência Viva has existed since 1996, that is, well before the Internet boom in our country, which took place in the first years of the following decade. Its look is slightly old-fashioned and it has some operational insufficiencies, but the contents are interesting, relevant and up-to-date, particularly for a younger audience in secondary and higher education, as a result of the large number of news about grants, projects, competitions etc.

ReadWriteWeb – http://www.readwriteweb.com
One of the most popular technology blogs, ReadWriteWeb is probably the ideal place to search for relevant and current information on new products and applications, as well as on trends, usage statistics, expert opinions etc. in the field of ICT.

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – http://wayback.archive.org/web
This website offers a lot more than it seems. It can be fun to see the first versions of pages that became an integral part of our activity on the Internet, like Google, since they first emerged up to now. However, and in addition, this Internet website application enables viewers to access information from pages no longer available.

As one can read on the Wikipedia, «This service allows users to see archived versions of web pages of the past, what the Internet Archive calls a “three dimensional index”. Millions of websites and their associated data (images, source code, documents, etc.) are saved in a gigantic database. The service can be used to see what previous versions of websites used to look like, to grab original source code from websites that may no longer be directly available, or to visit websites that no longer even exist».

However, the same source writes that «Not all websites are available, however, because many website owners choose to exclude their sites. As with all sites based on data from web crawlers, the Internet Archive misses large areas of the web for a variety of other reasons. International biases have also been found in its coverage, although this does not seem to be the result of a deliberate policy».

André Silva
andresilva@fm.ul.pt