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BIOME. This search engine offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the health and life sciences. Unlike generic search engines, BIOME direct you to Internet resources that have been hand selected and quality evaluated.

Datasurge Company: GeoIndex. The areas covered by this search engine are: Geotechnical, Environmental, Hydrogeology, Geology, Mining, Petroleum. The information available is broken down into four different categories, they are Companies, Associations, Education, and Goverment.

GEIN, German EnvironmentalInformation Network (in German). The GEIN search engine consolidates a wide range of information currently distributed across many different Web sites run by public institutions in Germany, such as environmental authorities, agencies and ministries at the federal levels. It thus acts as an information broker for environmental information in Germany.

GERHARD (GERman Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory), developed by BIS Oldenburg, OFFIS Oldenburg, and ISIV, Osnabrück University. GERHARD is a quality service specialized in scientifically relevant information. It is created automatically and, therefore, it is more extensive, professional, multilingual, and contains 70.000 searchable categories. In contrast to conventional search engines and directories Gerhard offers the complete integration of searching and browsing. Go to GEOLOGIE + VERWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN + METEOROLOGIE.

Jerry Parsons and Dan Lineberger, PLANTanswers. This new searching tool, the PLANTanswer Machine, searches all the files in Aggie Horticulture, the Texas Plant Disease Handbook, and the TAMU Entomology web site simultaneously.

! Scirus. Responding to the need for focused, comprehensive and reliable overviews of relevant scientific information, Elsevier Science has developed the powerful Internet search tool Scirus. Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both Web and membership sources (see below for more details). It enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports. At this stage Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb and Neuroscion. Excellent!

U.S. Geological Survey, (a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior), Reston, VA: Search Engine. Topics are: "Biological Resources", "Earthquakes", "Fact Sheets", "Floods", "Jobs/Employment Opportunities", "Maps", "Minerals", "News Releases", "USGS Manual", "USGS by State", "Volcanoes", etc.

wwwINTERNETS, Inc.: Science Databases, and To Science Databases. Go to: Geology Databases, or Botany Databases. Updated within the last 6 month.