ATTENTION:
The Kline Science Library is now operating as the Center for Science and Social Science Information, which is located at 219 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8499
Search Portals People Networks Libraries Cool Tools
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, Intelways, Trovando, DogPile, WebCrawler,
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,