A staple of many web sites is a list of links to other sites. In the materials field, many organizations compile these links quite effectively into portals. Therefore, rather than maintaining our own list of links, we prefer to direct you to the following portals that provide excellent launching points toward accessing the wealth of materials-related information that is available on the web.

About.com --> Metals
Moderated links, resources, news, forums, and chat about metals technology and business. Be prepare for many ads, however.

About.com --> Composites/Plastics
Moderated links, resources, news, forums, and chat about materials other than metals: composites and plastics.

About.com --> Metals
Moderated links, resources, news, forums, and chat about metals technology and business. Be prepare for many ads, however.

Community of Science
Community of Science, according to the boilerplate, "is the leading Internet site for the global R&D community. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists and researchers at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides tools and services that enable these professionals to communicate, exchange information and find the people and technologies that are important to their work."

corrosionsource
This site strives to serve as the default location on the web for corrosion information. The goal "is to educate, enrich and interact, and bring together the worldwide corrosion community."

Eng-Tips Forums
Independent online discussion groups designed to help engineers of all disciplines solve work-related problems. Eng-Tips Forums are free and confidential discussions on any subject, product, or strategy within the engineering discipline. Membership in the forums is in the hundreds of thousands. The site includes notification of new questions or responses within selected forums, keyword searches, and a link library.

Google Directory --> Science/Technology
Massive collection of indexed links on many disciplines and technologies, including metals, materials, electronics, semiconductors, mining, welding, and energy.

INFOMAT
This is a directory offered by the International Materials Assessment and Application Centre which includes links to about 400 subscription databases of interest to materials science and engineering; links to more than 200 materials-oriented databases in the public domain; and linkes a variety of additionan Internet sites related to materials science and engineering.

MaterSci.Net
MaterSci.Net comprises a searchable database of Internet resources (links) related to materials science and metallurgy. The mission of MaterSci.Net is "to become the best source for information related to all branches of materials science."

MatWeb
MatWeb contains a database of material properties, including "thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, and polyolefins; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus a growing list of semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials." Users can find materials property data via trade names, manufacturers, and UNS Numbers as well as by property-based, composition-based, and material type searches.

MiningLife
Features mining news, job information, buyers guide, technical reference geologists and engineers, discussion forums, links, and free e-mail accounts.

nanotechweb.org
Research papers, news, links and more concerning this current hot-button materials matter: nanotechnology

Nature --> Materials Portal
One of the world's leading science publications maintains one of the world's leading sites for materials news and information.

Re-Sourcing Associates --> Recycling Links
A catagorized list of web sites containing recycling information.

steelonthenet.com
News, links, and information on the most heaviliy utilized metal around the globe.

Yahoo --> Engineering/Materials Science
The world's foremost web indexing site provides hundreds of links for the materials field.