Using the Internet in Scientific Research

How do you think scientists use the internet in their research?

Wrong on the Internet

Academic Search Engines

• iSeek – education.iseek.com • iSEEK is a non-commercial search engine that delivers editor-reviewed results from

universities, government sites and other noncommercial providers.

• Scirus – www.scirus.com • Scirus is another search engine focused on the sciences. It has indexed over 410 million

scientific items, including journal articles, patent information, scientists' web pages and institutional repositories.

• DMOZ – www.dmoz.org• Although it's technically not a search engine because it doesn't index the whole Web,

DMOZ, or the Open Directory Project, offers searchable access to millions of links that have been hand-picked by volunteers who are experts in their fields

Meta Search Engine

• Dogpile – www.dogpile.com• Searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask• Portions of revenue go to the ASPCA

• Yippy – www.yippy.com• Clusters results into broad categories

• MetaCrawler – www.metacrawler.com• Searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, MIVA and About

How can you decide which sites to trust?• Publisher• Who are they?

• Commercial site• Non-profit• University

• Do they have an agenda?

• Can you verify the information on another, independent site?