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Internet Search Engines

Google Book Search (http://books.google.com) Exit NIEHS Website
Allows you to search full-text across a book. Results will provide you with a limited preview of the searched words in context as well as some additional pages in the book

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) Exit NIEHS Website
Google has targeted its search engine to retrieve scholarly works from peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations Use their advanced search tips (http://http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch.html) Exit NIEHS Website

Scirus (http://www.scirus.com) Exit NIEHS Website
Elsevier has created a "science-only" search engine to filter out non-relevant content.

Science.gov (http://www.science.gov/) Exit NIEHS Website
Science.gov searches over 1,800 scientific and technical government web sites from twelve different federal agencies. The site allows you to set up alerts, search within results, email results, and sort results by author, date, and title.

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Last Reviewed: April 30, 2007