John Maunder's
Newfoundland and Labrador
Natural Sciences Links
Search Tools,
Directories,
and Other Useful Resources
Website Goal:
- To compile an extensive reference resource for students of the natural
history of Canada's easternmost province.
Always under construction! Please check back periodically.
All links checked October 25, 2009.
Page last updated October 25, 2009.
Navigate Website:
- Homepage
- Astronomy and Space Science
- Biology and Ecology: Animals: Invertebrates
- Biology and Ecology: Animals: Vertebrates
- Biology and Ecology: Plants, Lichens, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria and Viruses
- Biology and Ecology: Miscellaneous Topics
- Commercial
Sites with Natural Sciences Content
- Earth Science
- Environmental Issues, Conservation, and Park Reserves
- Lists of Links
- News,
Periodicals, Books and Media Online
- Newsgroups, Listservs, FTP Sites, and Blogs
- Organizations, Associations and Agencies
- People
- Search
Tools, Directories, and Other Useful Resources
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- Species at Risk
- Young People
Navigate
this Page - "Search Tools, Directories, and Other Useful
Resources":
Best Search
Engines
- Searchy.com An excellent,
fast, general purpose metasearch engine. Accesses 15 search engines. Tick "combine results".
- Mamma Power Search An excellent,
fast, general purpose metasearch engine. Limited number of hits.
- Metacrawler Power Search An excellent,
lightening-fast, general purpose metasearch engine. Limit of about 100 hits.
Compiles a single list.
- Google Groups - Advanced Groups Search. Replaces Deja.com,
which Google bought on February 12, 2001. Still searches
newsgroups, but returns results in the style of Google web searches. Covers the full Deja.com archive.
- Newzbot This search engine
will allow you to locate USENET newsgroups by keyword search, locate servers which
support any particular USENET newsgroup, and launch desired newsgroups from any of
the located servers! Particularly excellent if your regular server does not support
newsgroups, or does not support the particular newsgroup(s) you are interested in. Can be a bit cranky!
- Find it @ NASA Search
all of the many NASA web pages from one place! Great tool. Works best with Internet Explorer.
- Biodiversity Heritage Library Searches numerous older journals and returns whole documents. Interface is slow and frustrating, but worth the trouble.
- Botanicus Searches numerous older BOTANICAL journals and returns whole documents. Interface is slow and frustrating, but worth the trouble.
- Index to American
Botanical Literature Search Form from the New York Botanical Garden. [May be hard to reach]
- Find Articles Format recently changed. Still very useful.
- Find a Thesis
- Google Scholar Advanced Search Finds only scientific articles and books. Offers additional functionality, such as direct web searches of results. Excellent.
- IngentaConnect Advanced Search An awesome database of current
periodical article citations, and related resources. You may search it for free! In addition, you may order
FAX or electronic copies of any articles listed,
but the price [subscription or pay-per-view] is VERY steep; check your library first!
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
- Scirus "For Scientific Information Only". Will also search general web sources for scientific topics. Excellent!
- VADLO Biomedical and Life Sciences Search Engine
- eNature Guides Searchable field guides to over
4800 species on Plants and Animals. Returns good descriptions and photos.
- Envirofinder the environmental vertical search.
- CalPhotos Search
form for accessing images assembled by the Digital Library Project, University of California,
Berkeley. Despite a California bias, the database contains photos of many species
also found in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Nature Photo Index
- NASA Image eXchange Excellent.
- NOAA Photo Library Some interesting Newfoundland and Labrador material.
Additional
Search Engines and Other Search Tools - Lists, Evaluations, and Use
Internal Search Forms in Major Websites
General Directories
Announce
Directories
Newfoundland
and Labrador Directories
Directories of
Scientists and Other Experts
Other
Useful Resources
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and
Glossaries
- NetLingo An online dictionary
defining the hundreds of words, and symbols (like "smileys", ie. " :-) "), that are
emerging as the new vocabulary of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Go there!
- Webopedia If you don't understand a
word or a term associated with the Web, look it up here!
This website is the creation of John E. Maunder, Pouch
Cove, Newfoundland,
Canada.
E-mail: jem @ nl.rogers.com
Enough to keep you going for months!
Try searches on
"Newfoundland", "Labrador", etc. [No response the last time the link was checked]