1. Using the Internet in Scientific Research

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

3. Wrong on the Internet

4. 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.comwww.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

5. Meta Search Engine Dogpile – www.dogpile.comwww.dogpile.com Searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask Portions of revenue go to the ASPCA Yippy – www.yippy.comwww.yippy.com Clusters results into broad categories MetaCrawler – www.metacrawler.comwww.metacrawler.com Searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, MIVA and About

6. 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?