Selected Search Pages

Databases

Extensive list, mostly available at W.U. only.

Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.

Freely available on the web.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [WU access only]

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia

Internet Indexes and Search Engines

More complete lists include: Search Engine Watch Links or Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher (LITA)

Internet Public Library

Intute - search web resources selected by subject specialists

Librarians' Internet Index

Podscope; everyzing; Blinkx, search for spoken words within audio or video files on the internet

Search Scout Report Archives, selective listing of websites

Search Tools for Web Sites and Intranets

refdesk

E-Ref, search in a collection of online reference tools appropriate for undergraduates

science.gov; then click on Search

Information provided by 12 U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Allows multidatabase searching across up to 10 files, such as, ERIC, PubMed, Agricola, USDA Integrated Taxonomic Information System, NSF Publications and many more. More info.

National Science Digital Library

Search web resources for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Science and Engineering Encyclopaedia

Wikipedia style resource

Scientific Search Engines at LLEK

Scirus, from Elsevier Science, searches web sources and other "proprietary" sources; some proprietary sources will not be freely available. Note: To display Get it! button and link directly to fulltext articles available at WU:
1. Go to Scirus Search Preferences
2. Click Enable Library Partner Links and select Washington University in St. Louis (under W)
3. Click Save Preferences button

Science Tracer Bullets

Selective bibliographic guides, prepared at the Library of Congress, designed to help persons locate published materials on a particular subject in the field of science and technology about which they have only a general knowledge.

AgNIC Agriculture Network Information Center, quality agricultural information selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.

Biology Databases: Long list or Short list, many W.U. only.

Biology Browser, from BIOSIS.

BioMed Central Databases, searchable catalog of databases on the web.

Bio Netbook, from Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Enature.com, from National Audubon Society Field Guides; searchable by group, for example, mammals, birds, trees, spiders, etc.

E-Answers, research-based information on a wide range of Extension subjects, including: agriculture, forestry, fishing, family/consumer issues, lawn and garden, child development, 4-H/youth, environment, public policy, economics, water quality and communities; funded by Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)-USDA.

Google Directory: Biology

NatureServe, from the Association for Biodiversity Information.

Search the Tree of Life, organismal names

Wikipedia. Biology

Vladlo.com, life sciences search engine with 5 categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software.

Bioinformatik.de

BioResearch, now Intute: Bioresearch

Biology, biochemistry, biosciences, from Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek

Medical Databases (Biology list) or Medical Databases (Becker Medical Library), many W.U. only.

NLM Gateway, More info.

MedlinePlus, also included in NLM Gateway

Netting the Evidence - searches over 100 evidence-based medicine sites

Medical Encyclopedia, from MedlinePlus; sections on Disease, Injury, Nutrition, Poison, Special, Surgery, Symptoms, Tests.

Healthfinder™, consumer health and human services information from the U.S. DHHS, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in cooperation with other federal agencies.

Hardin MD (Meta Directory) of Internet Health Sources

Healthline.com

Hippocrates Medical Search

Intelihealth, from Aetna

Intute: Medicine

Martindales Health Sciences Guide

MedHunt, Health on the Net Foundation

Health A to Z

Karolinska Institute Library: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

Netwellness

OmniMedicalSearch.com, search web, news, images, forums and "medpro" (peer-reviewed sources)

Search for resources in the Libraries' web pages

Search Washington University School of Medicine web

Washington University Site Search, searches all W.U. pages that can be found from the main WU homepage

Search Washington University Directory

Finding Images Resource Guide, from Washington University Becker Medical Library.

ARTstor, art works from ancient times to present.

BioMed Search, indexes image captions along with the citations to these images.

Education Image Library, Bacteria, Algae, Plants, Insects, Viruses, and more, from Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.

iLumina - digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.

ImageBank, from Learning and Teaching Support Network Bioscience

JCB Data Viewer - original image files from Journal of Cell Biology

Plant Information Online -- citations to more than 350,000 images of wild and cultivated plants from around the world in botanical and horticultural books and magazines from 1982 to the present, searchable by common or scientific name

SpringerImages

Scientific images, photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image "sets," and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures (usually limited to educational, personal, scientific, or research purposes.) Images are searchable and arranged in 18 subject collections: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics / Management Sciences, Education, Engineering, Environment, Geography, Geosciences, Humanities / Arts, Life Sciences, Material Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Pharmacy, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences. The Becker Medical Library has subscribed for use by all WU users.

AltaVista Image search | Google Image Search | Lycos Search for Multimedia | PicSearch | Pixsy visual search

Picture Collection Online, digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923, taken from the in-print collection of images the New York Public Library has been collecting

Plants, image gallery of Plants Database, USDA.

Nature Picture Library, searchable; downloads require free registration; some require fee.

bioDiTRL, digital media that can be used to assist in teaching biology; downloads require free "subscription"

MedPix, radiology teaching files.

Images from the History of Medicine, searchable prints and photographs from the collection of the History of Medicine Division, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM); includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Miscellaneous Biology Image Sources

Perseus Image Browser, from the Perseus Digital Library of the Ancient World.

Finding Images on the Web, from Boston University Libraries

WebPlaces Clip Art Searcher

AP Images, photographs with a full descriptive caption giving the details of the event. Use restrictions: please READ! More info.

Amica Library