Internet

For Internet beginners

Specific searching for medical scientific literature:

Less specific search tools (though some have special scientific / occupational / environmental health URLs as indicated below):

Alltheweb - very fast and comprehensive, and endowed with a number of very useful features
Altavista*
Excite search* (quite fast - and with various search options) Excite maintains the largest index. You can search specific "channels", or access a UK-only index. Click on "more like this" to narrow the search.
GO
Google (relatively fast and user-friendly) , now includes Google Scholar for 'academic' articles and it also has subject specific URLs e.g. on Occupational Health and Safety
HotBot * It lets you search for URLs or limit the search to specific top-level domains (uk, edu, etc). Probably one of the better engines for those who take the trouble to learn its advanced features.
Looksmart:Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Health
Lycos *
Metacrawler* very comprehensive, searches all the following Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, Alta Vista, and Yahoo.
Metasearch* (leads to many other search tools - but some can be very slow)
Yahoo - it also has subject specific URLs e.g. on Environmental Health
WebCrawler *

National Academic Mailing List Service:occenvmed (Facilitating Discussion, Collaboration and Communication within the UK Academic Community and beyond) - The primary focus of the list is to facilitate research and teaching in occupational and environmental medicine and aims to promote discussion about current issues. Although Occenvmed is a United Kingdom-based list, membership is encouraged from other European Member States, as well as from other parts of the World.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work hosts a number of Good Practice Forums (or is it fora ?)
Duke Occupational & Environmental Medicine. This is the Home Page for the Occ-Env-Med-L Internet Mail-list which is almost certainly the most longstanding list of its kind (founded Jan 1994). It is US based and is probably the largest list in this subject area worldwide with large archives.
Safety e-mail list archives, and link to permit joining
Environmental Impact Assessment Subscription List (includes Environmental Health) - from CEDAR, the Central European Environmental Data Request Facility - a project of the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment.
Public Health (general public health - from JISCMail),