The following resources are available to help you find selected science resources in cyberspace:

Searching the Internet: (tips and tricks on searching)

By Keyword (single search engines):

• Google -- uses frequency of hits to rank results
• Yahoo -- good limitation screen options
• Ask -- creates subject headings for results
• science vertical search engine -- searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages

  Try searching across multiple search engines simultaneously:
  

• TurboScout, CrossSearch, Trovando, DogPile, WebCrawler,

• Yahoo, Open Directory Project, EiNet Galaxy, WWW Virtual Library

or Subject Portals:

Consider browsing through subject gateways:
• Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Geology, Mathematics, Physics

People:

• Universities: alphabetical list of institutions, geographic listing
• U.S. Telephone Listings: Switchboard (white pages), AnyWho (reverse directory), Four 11, Yahoo! People Search, Addresses.com
• International Phone Listings: teldir.com (country and area codes), infobel

Professional Networking Information:

• Society servers: a list of society-based WWW servers.
• upcoming conferences
• TILENET/LISTS: discussion lists, newsgroups, interest groups.

Libraries: World-Wide Internet libraries

Cool Tools: examples of available Web resources:

• online journals -- samples
• online books
• online Newspapers
• Nobel Prize winners.
• science biographies
• NSF Science and Engineering Indicators.
• online Calculators.
• unit conversions
• Statistical Calculation Information
• Martindale's Reference tools.
• online science encyclopedia.
• public domain encyclopedia (wikipedia)
• Science answers to popular questions.
• PSIgate (Physical Sciences Information Gateway) - part of the Resource Discovery Network, selects and annotates quality Web resources in the physical sciences.
• MapQuest Interactive Atlas.
• MapBlast Interactive Map.
• Google image search engine, Yahoo image search engine,