About Applied Math and Science Education Repository

What is AMSER? AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges � but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout. How do I get started using AMSER? One of the best ways to get started is to create a user name and password for yourself so you can log in to the site and take full advantage of all the portal�s features. To create a user name and password simply click here and follow the directions. For more information about logging in please see our help for login section. If you're curious about how we use the information you give us, please take a look at our Privacy Policy. Why is it a good idea to log in whenever I visit the AMSER site? Each time you log in to AMSER you have access to a variety of special features. Because these features are tied to you and your user name you need to be logged in to the system to make use of these services. Examples of these types of features or services are listed below -- click on each to get more information. Bulletins Ratings Comments Saved Searches Folder System Recommendations
Project Partners The Internet Scout Project research team creates and delivers practical Web-based information and software solutions for educators, librarians and researchers. Through stand-alone and collaborative projects Scout focuses on joining concepts from both Library and Computer Science with the latest in internet technology to create tools and publication services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata. MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an established international cooperative dedicated to aggregating and making high quality online resources freely accessible to improve learning and teaching within higher education. The NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Projects promote improvement in technological education at the undergraduate and secondary school levels by supporting curriculum development; internships and field experiences for faculty, teachers, and students; and other activities with an emphasis on two-year colleges. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) was founded in 1920 and is the leading proponent and national voice for community colleges, with membership representing close to 95% of all accredited U.S. two-year community, junior and technical colleges and their 11 million students The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) was formed in 1974 and is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of the instruction of the mathematics in the first two years of college.
Privacy Policy AMSER provides links to resources for faculty, staff, librarians, students and others for use in both educational settings or in their pursuit of life long learning. The privacy policy set forth here refers solely to the AMSER Web site. The policy pertains to how we gather and use information you provide to us while using the AMSER site. This policy does not pertain to information you provide to us off-line. Please read over this policy carefully, and if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. As AMSER develops and evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, our practices, and the features of AMSER. As a result, you should review the Privacy Policy from time to time, so that you are up to date on our most current version. Gathering and Use of Information To register with AMSER you must supply us with some personally identifiable information in order to have access to the tools available through the site. This information is only used to help us personalize the site for your experience -- for services like bulletins or recommendations. AMSER will not willfully disclose your personal information to any third party without first receiving your permission, unless required by law. AMSER may use elements of the information you provide us (such as XX, XX or primary teaching discipline, but not any personally identifiable information such as your name, school name, or email address) for internal and promotional purposes. You may choose to receive saved searches or Bulletins from AMSER. You can select these services on the web site -- Scout will not share your email address with any other organization. Community Postings In the future, listservs, forums and other opportunities to share information may become available. Please be aware that information you convey in these areas becomes public information. You should use caution in disclosing personal information while participating in these areas. Aggregated Data In order to evaluate use of the Web site, we will record traffic records to determine information such as which pages are most popular, which browsers are most used, how long users spend on the Web site, and which sites they have come from. This helps us understand our audience, but is not matched in any way to personal data that we may also receive. Cookies We use a small software file called a cookie to keep track of resource folders (yours and guest) and profile preferences. These cookies are required to use AMSER. The user\'s cookie file lives on the user\'s machine, and can be deleted at any time by the user. External Links You will find links from AMSER to selected Web sites with content of interest to our users. These external links may be operated by third parties who independently produce, maintain, and monitor these sites. AMSER does not control the content of these sites. You should review the privacy policies of these third party sites for their policies and practices regarding the collection and use of personally identifiable information as their policies may differ from ours. Acceptance of AMSER Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions By using this site, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this AMSER Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of AMSER following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.
Copyright Information It is important to note that AMSER metadata records (the fields and information that describe each resource in AMSER) come from a variety of sources. You can see what source these records come from by looking at the field marked Source in the full resource record. If the source has Scout Archives in it then please use the copyright information below. If the source field lists another entity then please click on the source name to be transfered to their site and use the copyright information provided there. Copyright notice to be used when reproducing an entire ASMER metadata record which has Scout Archives in the Source field: Copyright 2006 Internet Scout - http://scout.wisc.edu Copyright notice to be used when reproducing a portion of an AMSER Project publication, in any format: Copyright 2006 Internet Scout - http://scout.wisc.edu