Search Engines (Use computer programs to search the Web) Advanced Search screens allow more prescision in your searches! *OAIster (university archives) Guidebeam (for narrowing your search)
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Metasearch
Engines (Search across multiple search tools)
CONS: WHEN DO YOU USE METASEARCH ENGINES? BrainBoost (question answering/natural language)
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Subject Directories (Selected and organized by people) Librarian's Index to the Internet *Pinakes (subject launchpad) *Academic Info (scholarly) *Infomine (scholarly) BUBL LINK (scholarly *Best Information on the Internet Galaxy
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Special Search Engines: CiteSeer (who's citing whom in scientific publication) Scirus (science) SearchEric.org (education) SOSIG (Social Sciences) HUMBUL (Humanities) PSIGate (Physical Science Info) GESource (Geography Gateway) National Science Digital Library Daypop (news) |
Directories of Search Engines (for finding that special search engine Choose the Best Search Engine (Debbie Abilock) How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory |
Directories for searching the "Invisible Web" ***Librarian's Index to the Internet (look for "databases" in your results) Want to know more about the Invisible Web? Read this ERIC Digest http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-2001-02.shtm
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Database Directories FindArticles.com (for full-text magazine articles back to 1998) FreeFullText (full text scholarly magazines)
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Image and Media Searching (See also Clip Art)
(Remember: Be careful about copyright, especially when publishing on the Web!
Ask for permission to use and cite any image that is not public domain. Look here for links to Public Domain images for Web pages.)
See also our ClipArt page
MajorMedia Search Tools
AltaVista Image Finder http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Google Image Search http://images.google.com/
Corbis.com http://corbis.com/
Ditto.com: The Place for Pictures http://www.ditto.com/
Find Sounds http://www.findsounds.com/
Fossick.com Multimedia Fossick.com http://fossick.com/Multimedia.htm
Lycos Richmedia http://richmedia.lycos.com/
New York Times Multimedia http://www.nytimes.com/multimedia
Pics4Learning http://pics.tech4learning.com/
PicSearch http://picsearch.com
Proteus Image Search (combined search interface) http://www.thrall.org/proimage.html
Public Health Image Gallery http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/default.asp
WebSEEk: Content-based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web http://ww.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/
Yahoo Picture Gallery http://gallery.yahoo.com/
Yahoo News Image Gallery http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/g/ts/
Yahoo! News Photos Slide Gallery http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=ss
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Special Search Engines
Adobe PDF Search http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
AgriSurf! - The Farmers Search Engine http://www.agrisurf.com/agrisurfscripts/agrisurf.asp
Animal Search http://animalsearch.net/
Ask A+ Locator (for experts) http://www.vrd.org/locator/
American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Direct Search (for databases not covered by the search engines) http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
FindLaw http://findlaw.com/
Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com
Invisible Web (for finding information hidden in thousands of databases) http://www.invisibleweb.com
lexisONE (legal information) http://lexisone.com/html/index_home.html
Liszt (for finding a-email discussion group) http://www.liszt.com
LLEK Bookmarks http://www.scientific-search-engines.com/
Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular
NatureServe Explorer http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/
NARA Search http://www.archives.gov/search/index.html
RecipeSource http://www.recipesource.com/
Scirus (science search engine) http://scirus.com/
SciNet Science Search http://www.scinet.cc/
Search.edu (searches only academic sites) http://www.searchedu.com/
StartSpot http://startspot.com
Tile.net (listservs) http://tile.net/lists/
Traffick: The Guide to the Portals http://www.traffick.com/
Ultimate Band List (bands, musicians, lyrics) http://www.ubl.com
WebExhibits http://www.webexhibits.com/
xrefer (reference) http://www.xrefer.com