The Internet offers access to unimaginably large amount of information useful to research and teaching. More and more key information providers including universities, governments and research organizations are using the Internet as a means of disseminating or publishing information.
Faculty can benefit from the use of the Internet resources in many ways.
It also can be used to acquire large data sets from national and international agencies. The Internet has become an invaluable tool for supporting academic research and teaching. Internet resources can be categorized into Electronic Journals, Databases, Digital Books, Reports and Papers, Educational Software, Electronic Newsletters, Scholarly Mailing Lists, Bibliographies and Electronic Libraries. The Internet resources for research are commonly arranged by disciplines. The Toolsets to access and search the Internet resources include the World Wide Web, gopher, FTP, telnet, e-mail, listservs and Newsgroups.