How to use and cite Internet resources, with special attention to radiation protection and health physics WWW sites

This paper describes an Internet search for the phrases radiation protection and health physics using major search engines and discusses the search procedure and the related problems. Depending on the search engine used, the number of hits ranged from 10,000 to only 17. The author presents some of the most relevant Web sites for radiation protection and health physics, and gives their URLs. As expected, these are mainly the sites of major national and international organizations. The author discusses a model for citation of WWW resources and refers to Internet links where this issue has been elaborated in more detail. Numerous links to various institutions and Web resources are given as well.