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[lizzybennet]

This weeks researching class is on how to search deep on the Internet. I've pasted our handout behind the cut, if any of you are interested in seeing which websites Librarians turn to for research help.

And a special thanks to alifeinfocus for making me such a rad icon. I love random acts of kindness!






Use the Advanced Search features of search engines or use specialty search engines to improve your precision. Use more than one to help ensure you are covering a larger fraction of the Web than you can with only one engine.


General Search Engines

• Google http://www.google.com
• AlltheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com
• AltaVista http://www.altavista.com
• Ask.com http://www.ask.com/

Search Engines with Enhanced Results Management Features

• Clusty http://clusty.com/
• SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com

Specialty Search Engines

• Ditto.com (for images) http://www.ditto.com
• Scirus (for science) http://scirus.com

Meta-Search Engines

• Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
• Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com/
• Mamma http://www.mamma.com/
• Kartoo (visual) http://www.kartoo.com/


Directories

• About.com http://www.about.com/
• BUBL http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
• Digital Librarian http://www.digital-librarian.com/
• FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov/
• INFOMINE (may not be up) http://infomine.ucr.edu/
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org

Deep Web Resources

General Finding Tools

• CompletePlanet
http://www.completeplanet.com/
• INFOMINE (some Deep Web sources are included)
http://infomine.ucr.edu (not accessible Sunday 2 Nov 2008)
• Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
• Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/; Scout Report Archives at http://scout.wisc.edu/archives/
• Librarians Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
• PINAKES
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
• Turbo10 (quite slow to open)
http://turbo10.com/


Newspapers and Articles

• NewsDirectory
http://www.newsdirectory.com
• NewsLibrary
http://www.newslibrary.com/nlsite/
• FindArticles
http://www.findarticles.com/
• Google Scholar (searches for scholarly literature in broad areas of research)
http://scholar.google.com/
• IngentaConnect
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/


Business

• Better Business Bureau Mid-Atlantic
http://dc-easternpa.bbb.org/
• BizJournals
http://www.bizjournals.com/search.html
• Salary.com
http://www.ecomponline.com/
• Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/
• GuideStar (database of non-profits)
http://www.guidestar.org

Education

• Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net/
• ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Government

• Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
• FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
• Fuel Economy
http://www.fueleconomy.gov
• GPOAccess (government publications)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
• U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

Humanities

• American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
• Intute: Arts and Humanities
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Science

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH)
http://clinicaltrials.gov/
• DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center)
http://stinet.dtic.mil/
• Envirofacts Data Warehouse (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/
• FishBase
http://www.fishbase.org/search.html
• ICTVdB Virus Databases (Columbia University)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/
• NASA STI (scientific and technical information)
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/STI-public-homepage.html
• NTIS (government-funded scientific and technical research)
http://www.ntis.gov/
• OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
http://www.osti.gov/
• PhRMA (new medicines in development)
http://www.phrma.org/medicines_in_development/
• Plants Database
http://plants.usda.gov
• Redlist of Threatened Species
http://www.redlist.org/
• Science.gov (explore science information available from government sites)
http://science.gov
• USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
http://www.uspto.gov
• World Wide Science
http://www.worldwidescience.org


Other Interesting Tools

• Gary Price’s List of Lists
http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
• HowStuffWorks
http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm
• Internet Public Library
http://ipl.org
• Project Gutenberg (full-text literature)
http://promo.net/pg/index.html
• The Virtual Chase (teaching legal professionals how to do research)
http://www.virtualchase.com/
• Voice of the Shuttle (humanities and social science information)
http://vos.ucsb.edu
• WWW Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org/
• Veropedia (worth watching) What is Veropedia? http://veropedia.com/docs/faq.php
http://veropedia.com/

Comments

[alifeinfocus.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's a lot of links! And I'm glad you are enjoying the icon! I saw the slogan and immediately thought of you.

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, look at all the shiny research links... B already calls me his "network nymph" because I love to research stuff on the 'net.

[themenow.livejournal.com]

I have the two education ones opened up. I'm having a rough day and I need something to distract me. *hugs* Hope you're having a better day.