Internet security Article

World’s Most Dangerous Search Terms

This paper from Mcafee examines a new phenomenon — the use of search engines as a conduit for profit-driven hackers—by analyzing the risk of searching for more than 2,000 of the most popular words and phrases (“keywords”) used in search engines in 2008. The article does an excellent job breaking out the risk by category and country.

Using Web 2.0 for Research

If you are looking for hard to find information particularly on recent topics then this excellent presentation from Lissa Lord at the University of Kansas provides ideas for non-print sources to retrieve relevant and up-to-date information

AuseSearch

This site provides a single access point to the open access repositories in Australia.

It searches all full-text research articles and (if available) theses from repositories 48 sites from the major Australian universities

Entrez:The Life Sciences Search Engine

Although this is not a new resource it is one well that is worth looking at. It is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) and provides access to a wide-range of databases and access to some full text articles.

Vroosh

Try this new metasearch engine. It has a very clean add-free look and works well for searching for Australian sites.

Google Advanced Search Changes

Have you made use of the advanced search in Google? It provides more options to narrow your search and the page has recently changed to make it even easier to input your terms and select from a range of tools to refine your search further. Click on the link above to access the new format.

Sapling.info

This architectural, planning and landscape information gateway features reviewed links to topics including sustainabiity, regneration, heritage and urban design.

World Wide Science

World Wide Science is a global science gateway — accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Databases you can search simultaneously include the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information and Science.gov (US).

Intute: Science, engineering & technology

Intute: Science, engineering & technology is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science. The database currently contains 33696 records.