Question:  Where can I go on the Internet to search for technical and scientific articles in aquatics?

Answer:  Beyond the usual search engines Google (including http;//scholar.google.com, and www.google.com/Top/Science/), Yahoo, etc., consider the following:

For a list of science search engines see http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156301.  To receive newsletters to keep up with what is happening with search engines see Free Search Engine Newsletters & Web Feeds on the homepage of this site. Search Engine Watch offers a variety of different newsletters and web feeds (RSS & Atom) about search engines.

SciWeb Life Science Home Page http://www.sciweb.com/.  Provides access to search engines in the life sciences, including medical.

AquaNIC  Aquaculture Network Information Center see http:/www./aquanic.org
“The Aquaculture Network Information Center (AquaNIC) was conceived in 1994 by the former USDA-Extension Service (currently Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service) as one of the nation’s first network information centers to serve as a gateway to the world’s electronic aquaculture resources. AquaNIC was created, through grants from USDA-Extension Service, the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program, and Purdue University Libraries.

“Primary funding of AquaNIC is through the NOAA Sea Grant College Program with secondary support from USDA North Central Regional Aquaculture Center.  In-kind support is provided by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, Auburn University's Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture, and the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program.  Land Grant institutions, Sea Grant Colleges, the USDA Regional Aquaculture Center Program, and others with an expertise in aquaculture provide significant oversight and contribute to the resource base.  AquaNIC houses or provides links to thousands of state, national, and international aquaculture publications, newsletters, visual media, calendars, job services, directories and specialty sections for species and production systems.

“Vision:  AquaNIC is the gateway to the world’s electronic resources for aquaculture information.
“Goals:
   1.   Provide access to all electronic aquaculture information at the national and international level.
   2.   Increase the quantity and quality of electronic information available to the aquaculture industry.
   3.   Provide self-paced aquaculture instruction to the aquaculture industry.
   4.   Obtain user input in directing AquaNIC services.”

Wikipedia http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page   should not be overlooked, because it is constantly changing and expanding.  On technical subjects it is often providing the latest up to date information. 

ISI Web of Knowledge  http://www.thomsonisi.com/

“Thomson Scientific, formerly known as Thomson ISI has been an established leader in providing access to high-value, essential information for researchers and scholars worldwide for over 45 years. Our goal is to increase the impact of research by empowering researchers with the information they need to accelerate discovery. You can keep up to date with all our product, events and training news via our new home page.

“ISI Web of KnowledgeSM is a unique, fully integrated research environment that delivers a powerful combination of content, tools and technology. Built on a foundation that emphasizes quality, selectivity and objectivity, ISI Web of Knowledge delivers the essential data researchers seek.”
           
Web of Science®   http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/
“The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.

“Launched in January 2005, the Century of Science initiative makes hundreds of thousands of older, twentieth century scientific journal items available in one place and on one platform for the first time. Approximately 850,000 fully indexed journal articles have been added to Web of Science, from 262 scientific journals published in the first half of the twentieth century. This comprehensive collection is fully searchable, with complete bibliographic data, cited reference data and navigation, and direct links to the full text.

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    * Access groundbreaking scientific journal articles from the entire twentieth century, through the Century of Science initiative
    * Use the Analyze tool to view an analysis of search results
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“BENEFITS
    * Discover who is citing your research and the impact your work is having on the global research community
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