Patricia A. Piermatti and Jackie Mardikian Pharmaceutical Sciences Librarian mardikia@rci.rutgers.edu February 25, 2008

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Pharmaceutical Sciences:
Finding What You Want on the Web: A Guide

Background Information Search Engines Getting Started - A Few Subject Web Guides Daily Almanacs General Science Biological Sciences Chemistry and Physics

Earth Sciences Engineering Medical Sciences Pharmaceutical Sciences Psychology Evaluating Web Sites Citing and Writing

Background Information

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial-Tutorial Table of Contents (UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops)
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• LIBDEX - Index to 18,000 Libraries
• Librarians' Internet Index: Websites You Can Trust
• Scholarly Societies Project - sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library
• The HelpWeb: A Guide to Getting Started on the Internet
• T.H.E. Journal & netTrekker: Educational Road Map to the Web

Search Engines

• DOGPILE - All the best search engines piled into one
• Google Advanced Search
• Google - for U.S. Government websites
• Google Scholar
• Internet Tutorials: How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory (Laura Cohen)
• Search Engine Showdown: The Users Guide to Web Searching (Greg R. Notess)
• ResourceShelf (Gary Price, Shirl Kennedy et al)

Getting Started - A Few Subject Web Guides

Daily Almanacs ... or, "on this date in history ..."

• On This Day ... New York Times Learning Network
• Refdesk.com Daily Almanac
• This Day in History (History Channel.com)
• Today in History - Library of Congress - American Memory
• Infoplease - Year by Year: 1900 to 2007

General Science:

• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Frank Potter's Science Gems - Great links to Great Science Resources
• How Stuff Works
• Newton/ANL (includes "Ask a Scientist")

Biological Sciences:

• Biology-Online.org
• ORNL Research Libraries - Biology Resources
• The WWW Virtual Library: BioSciences

Chemistry and Physics:

• American Chemical Society
• APS Physics - American Physical Society
• CHEMINFO: Chemical Information Sources (Indiana University)
• Physlink.com

Earth Sciences:

• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Rutgers Geography
• University of California-Berkeley, Earth Sciences & Map Library home page

Engineering:

• EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines
• IEEE History Center
• National Science Foundation - Engineering Classroom Resources
• Yahoo!: Science: Engineering

Medical Sciences:

• AMA: American Medical Association
• Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd edition 2007
• HealthyNJ - Information for Healthy Living (The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
• Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI)
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
• Quackwatch
• USA Weekend.com: Health
• Who Named It? (The World's Most Comprehensive Dictionary of Medical Eponyms)

Pharmaceutical Sciences:

• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP)
• PharmWeb

Psychology:

• American Psychological Association
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Finding Tests and Measures: Finding Aid (Rutgers University Libraries)
• The Internet Public Library - Psychology

Evaluating Web Sites

• Evaluating Sources of Information (Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory (OWL))
• Rutgers Writing Program - Research Depot: Evaluating Internet Sources
• SearchPath - Module 6: Citing Sources (Rutgers University Libraries)
  Within SearchPath, click on "Return User," then select module 6.

Citing and Writing

• Books and Writing (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd edition 2007
• Citing Net Sources > Quick Guide
• Copyright Information (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Dissertations and Theses (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Grammar and Writing Style Manuals (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Learning Tools for Students (Rutgers University Libraries)
• The OWL at Purdue: Free Writing Help and Teaching Resources
• Quick Reference: Citing Sources/Style Manuals (Samford University)
• Rutgers Writing Program
• Style Manuals & Writing Guides (University Library, California State University - Los Angeles)
• Writer's Handbook (The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)