Selected Search Strategies

A good place to start for any search is the collection of WWW search engines or a choice from a catalogue of search engines. A webcrawler interface is

To search for biology related WWW info try Keith Robison's WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences (and its corresponding virtual library Biosciencesx, or direct to its evolution section), or the W3 Biology Research Tools. For a search of mathematical topics try CSC Mathematical Topics search services.

For software see

• ExPASy Life Science Directory
• EBI's BioCatalog
• ftp to EMBL's catalog at Hinton

Or you can always find something interesting at the bionet pages.

To search for people try

• For Canadian Tel. Numbers
• For Yellow Pages

To search library catalogues try

• Biology section
• McMaster's online system
• McMaster's Health Sci online system
• U.of T. or go directly to a search of their e-resources.
• CISTI's system

The first major biological journal to go entirely "on-line" (to my knowledge) was the Journal of Biological Chemistry -- check out JBC. There are now many other journals on-line and for links to these see

• Pedro's Bio/Chemical Journals and Newsletters
• Keith Robison's Journals, Conferences, and Current Awareness Services (Biosciences)
• Univ. Houston's Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
• Cell Mol Bio Online
• Mol Bio Journals
• a select group.

For free FAX's see the FlexFax system.

To search for MSDS sheets try msdssolutions.com, ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca, www.hazard.com, www.msc.cornell.edu, www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html, or for biohazards www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/bmb/biosaf_e.html.

For an archive of TIBS Methods and Reagents column or for the Methods FAQ list.