AMSER: The Applied Math and Science Education Repository

AMSER - the Applied Math and Science Education Repository - is an NSDL Pathways project consisting of a portal (http://amser.org) of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER  is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout and provides access to high quality applied STEM resources and tools that support finding, organizing and sharing information about these resources including an online foldering system, saved search capabilities and customizable email bulletins.  Covering 350 applied STEM topics, AMSER uses three different subject vocabularies to describe resources - Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and AMSER's homegrown Key Concept vocabulary. The project produces two different online publications: the AMSER Quarterly provides information about project partners, new collections and resources, and upcoming events; the AMSER Science Reader Monthly links an applied STEM article from a popular journal with contextual resources from the AMSER collection.