Scientific Searching on the web

Data Bases of Scientific Articles

INSPEC (Ovid Search)
Scientific Databases (SEL)
Uncover gateway

Bibliographies

Cold Region Bibliography (e.g. papers on ice)

Guides to the Web

SEL Web Guides: Astronomy | Chemistry | Physics | Other Web Guides
Particle-Solid Reference Shell

Libraries

UVA Science and Engineering Library (SEL)  |  UVA Libraries  |  VIRGO

Web Search Tools

Google | ProFusion | 37 Search Engines | Altavista | Northern Light | Hotbot | Eureka | About | Dogpile
SEL list of web search tools

The article Souped-up searched engines, D. Butler, Nature 405, 112 - 115 (2000) discusses searching the web specifically for scientific purposes.This is the list of covered sites:

Advanced search engines

Google http://www.google.com
IBM Clever project http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html
Research Index http://www.researchindex.com

Search engines

AltaVista http://www.altavista.com
Ask Jeeves http://www.askjeeves.com
Direct Hit http://www.directhit.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
FAST Search http://www.alltheweb.com
Go (Infoseek) http://www.go.com
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Inktomi http://www.inktomi.com/products/portal/search/tryit.html
Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com

Metasearch engine

SherlockHound http://www.sherlockhound.com

Automated search tools

Autonomy http://www.autonomy.com
Kenjin http://www.kenjin.com