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National Focal Points(NFPs)
Maintained by: European Environment Agency
European Topic Centres(ETCs)
Maintained by: European Environment Agency
EUROPA.WWWserver offering information on the European Union's goals and policies.
Maintained by: European Commission
The DirectoratesGeneral and Services list all the DGs. Not all of them have their own home page.
Maintained by: European Commission
The Statistical Office of the European Communities
Maintained by:European Commission
CEDAR - Central European Environmental Data Request. Computer Network for Exchanging Environmental Information
Maintained by: International Society for Environmental Protection (ISEP), Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR), Austria
Natural Environment Research Council, NERC, UK
Maintained by: NERC
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INFOTERRA. World-wide directory to institutions, contact persons, addresses etc.
Maintained by: International Society for Environmental Protection (ISEP), Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR), Austria
GENIE - Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange in the U.K.
Maintained by:GENIE
GreenNet is part of the only global computer network specifically designed for environment, peace, human rights and development groups.
Maintained by: GreenNet, London
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Maintained by: EPA
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Maintained by: UNEP Telecommunications & Electronic Services
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) via gopher
Maintained by: UNEP Telecommunications & Electronic Services
OECD online(English or Frech version)
Maintained by: OECD
IUCN. The World Conservation Union
Maintained by: The World Conservation Union
Australian Environment arranged by category.
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
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The translation index is maintained as much as possible and is a useful tool despite periodical technical problems.
Translation between eight different European languages.
Maintained by: ECHO
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There are many environmental directories, and some of them are listed below. They supplement each other, so you probably have to search more than one resource.
Whole Internet Catalogue describing resources on the Internet
Maintained by: Global Network Navigator (GNN), Inc.
Worldwide Internet Resources
Maintained by: Indiana University
Best environmental directories
Maintained by: Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, Belgium
List of environmental resources by topic
Maintained by:University of Virginia
The Directory of Environmental Resources on the Internet
Maintained by: Scott Johnson
Internet Environmental resources
Maintained by: Dr. James T. Oris and Dr. Jay W. Gooch
Natural Resources. Institutes and Organizations Worldwide
Maintained by: Virginia Tech. USA
Environmental OrganizationsOnLine.
Maintained by: EnviroLink network
Environmental Sites on the Internet, e.g. Internet tools and engines, subject devided, etc.
Maintained by: Royal Institute of Technology Library, Stockholm
Environmental Web Directory of Organizations by subject
Maintained by: EnviroLink network
Directory reviewing and rating WWW sites according to a four-star system. They are graded by specialists
Maintained by: The McKinley Group, Inc.
The Internet Sleuth® is a collection of over 900 searchable databases on the Internet on a wide variety of subjects. Different search tools can be used.
Maintained by: Internet Business Connection®
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List of whois servers
Maintained by: Matt Power, M.I.T.
Environmental servers by region
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
Other Environmental Information Servers sorted by world region or category
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
Environmental Information Servers by Category, e.g. Environmental protection, library, modelling, etc.
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
Global Environmental Information Servers
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
European Servers sorted by country
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
Environmental Gophers(European and global)
Maintained by: International Society for Environmental Protection (ISEP), Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR), Austria
Servers that search the Internet for you, e.g. www, Gopher, ftp, WAIS
Maintained by: Australian Department of the Environment and associated agencies.
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Virtual Libraries by subject, BBS (Bulletin Boards), good places to start when looking for information, etc.
Maintained by: CERN
Environment library, a project of the EnviroLink Network. The library is meant to be a clearing-house for all environmental information available on the Internet. It is a grassroots community that has been expanding for over five years.
Maintained by: EnviroLink network
WWW Virtual Library Environment, Law etc.
Maintained by: University of Virginia
WWW Virtual Library : Law : International & Environmental Law
Maintained by: Indiana University
World Wide Web Library
Maintained by: W3
Lists of network services that others have made exist in a few places
Maintained by: CERN, Switzerland
Europe online. Europe Online is going to remain only a service provider for the Internet and not a freestanding online service. Europe Online will be much more like a private online service with its own network and its own security system, using the technology and standards of the World Wide Web. It will provide European citizens with information and communication tailored to their needs.
Maintained by: Europe Online, 15th of December 1995
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A favourite search tool could be found among these.
New version of Netscape Navigator 2.01 for windows is found here
TheAlta Vista is found here
Maintained by: Digital Equipment Corporation
The Lycos home page
Maintained by: Lycos Inc.
YAHOO - Internet navigating search tool
Maintained by:YAHOO
To obtain Harvest which is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet.
Maintained by: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTFRD).
Web Crawler
Maintained by:America Online
WWWW - World Wide Web Worm
Maintained by: Oliver A. McBryan, Colorado
W3 Search engines. Some of the most important search tools are selected.
Maintained by: CUI
Experimental meta index
Maintained by: NCSA
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When citing electronic resources one should be aware of the different information that is used compared to the citing of published references in books, journals or other paper printed publications. The hints below are suggestions on how to cite from www, telnet sites, ftp, e-mail, etc.
Guides to Citing Electronic Resources
Maintained by: University of South Carolina, Thomas Cooper Science Library
Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
Citation formats suggested here are based on the forthcoming book by Li & Crane, Electronic Styles: An Expanded Guide to Citing Electronic Information (1996). The book follows two common citation conventions, APA (American Psychological Association Embellished Style) & MLA( Modern Language Association Embellished Style) , and adds embellishments to represent the unique features of electronic information. (February 27, 1996).