The "visible Web" is what you retrieve from general Web search engines (like Google, AltaVista, and NorthernLight.) The results are based on the words or phrases that match the terms you searched with. The "invisible Web" refers to information stored in online databases which are not available via search engines. Whether free or fee-based, the content is not accessible when you search using general search engines. One cannot use a search engine to search through the databases that NYU subscribes to. To access information from these databases, one goes to the individual database entry page and types in search terms using the databases search box.
Search for many years of information from many sources.Some links to full text.
SciFinder Scholar Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases--the world's largest and most current source of chemical information. CAS databases contain more than 20 million substance records, nearly 14 million journal articles, patents and other documents.
Wilson Omni Eleven subject indexes searchable together, including Applied Science and Technology, General Science, Biological and Agricultural, Education.
ERIC Two files : Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals.
ProQuest Newspapers, peer-reviewed and other journals and magazines.
All NYU Physical Sciences Databases
All NYU Health and Life Sciences Databases
Journal of Chemical Education Logon User name:new york university Password: 10680
All Science-Technology-Medicine E-Journals (3500 titles) Alphabetical order list. Not possible to search contents of all journals simultaneously.
Chemistry Information Resources
Links for Chemists Select "Educational" under TOPICS for list of teaching sites.
Page created by Suzanne Fedunok, New York University Bobst Library, October 4, 2002. Revised October 9, 2002.