The following links to Internet search engines will help you find just the information you are seeking. Most contain tips on how to search, but if you have questions or want the latest news on searching, ask Elaine Wells, the Library Director. Additional help with searching and evaluating results can be found at the sites listed below.
Medical, Science, and Health Search Engines
- Google Scholar - Searches scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Can also tell you where articles you've written have been cited.
- Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine (NLM) - cross-database search page
- CAM on PubMed - search complementary and alternative medicine on PubMed
- Healia - health search engine
- Intute: Health and Life Sciences - searches databases for free access to resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by specialists (from the UK).
- MedWeb Community (Emory University) - searches database of biomedical & health sites
- NARIC Databases - search National Rehabilitation Information Center
- Science.gov (FirstGov for Science) - Government Science Portal
- Scirus (Elsevier Science) - connects many results to full-text in ScienceDirect
- TRIP Database - search Evidence-Based Medicine resources
- Yahoo! Directory : Health - directory and search engine
- AllTheWeb - Livesearch
- Ask.com - new look and features
- The Google Family
- Lycos
- Yahoo!
Meta Search Engines and Portals
- BigEye - Search Center
- Dogpile
- SurfWax
- Clusty (from Vivisimo)
How to Use Search Engines and Evaluate Results
- Internet Tutorials (SUNY University at Albany Libraries) - An excellent site, maintained by Laura Cohen, the Network Services Librarian, is a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Internet, from the basics to complex searching.
- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (UC Berkeley) - This award-winning tutorial has been updated for fall 2006. Covers the Internet, searching, and best search engines.