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Book-Specific Resources / Links / Resources for Conducting Electronic Searches Use this page to locate Web sites that support electronic searches for information. WEB SEARCH ENGINES When you use a Web search engine, you obtain information about Web pages and other forms of information on the Internet, including PDF files, PowerPoint files, Word files, newsgroup posts, Blogs, and chat rooms. Web search engines keep track of these sources by locating documents on Web sites and entering them in a searchable database. Leading Web search engines include: http://www.google.com AllTheWeb http://alltheweb.com AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com Excite http://www.excite.com Gigablast http://www.gigablast.com MSN Search http://search.msn.com Teoma http://www.teoma.com WiseNut http://www.wisenut.com Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com back to top WEB DIRECTORIES Web directories employ human editors to organize information about Web pages into categories and subcategories. Directories allow you to browse lists of Web sites by clicking on general topics, such as Health or Education, and then successively narrow your search by clicking on subtopics. Many directories also permit you to conduct keyword searches within specific categories. This enables you to search within a collection of Web sites that have already been judged by the editors to be relevant to a given topic. Leading Web directories include: About.com http://www.about.com Google Directory http://www.google.com/dirhp Hoppa http://www.hoppa.com InfoMine http://infomine.ucr.edu Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org LookSmart http://search.looksmart.com Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org Web World http://www.webworldindex.com Yahoo! Directory http://dir.yahoo.com back to top META SEARCH SITES Meta search sites allow you to conduct a search on several Web search engines or Web directories at the same time. These sites typically search the major search engines and directories and then present a limited number of results on a single page. Leading meta search sites include: Dogpile http://dogpile.com Ixquick http://ixquick.com Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com Mamma.com http://www.mamma.com MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com ProFusion http://www.profusion.com Search.com http://www.search.com SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com Vivisimo http://www.vivisimo.com back to top NEWS SEARCH SITES Most major Web search sites and directories, such as Google, MSN Search, and Yahoo!, allow you to search for news. In addition, specialized news search sites allow you to conduct focused searches for current and archived news reports. Leading news search sites include: AltaVista News http://www.altavista.com/news/ AllTheWeb News http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news Ask Jeeves News http://news.ask.com Daypop http://www.daypop.com Google News http://news.google.com MSN Search http://search.msn.com NewsTrove.com http://www.newstrove.com RocketInfo.com http://www.rocketnews.com World News Network http://www.wn.com Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com back to top BLOG SEARCH SITES Blogs - short for weblogs - consist of chronologically ordered entries on a Web site. Blog entries typically include a title and a text message, and can also include images, audio, video, and other types of media. Many entries include links to other pages on the Web. Research writers can use Blogs as sources of information and commentary on an issue and as sources of first-hand accounts by individuals involved in or affected by an issue. To search for relevant Blogs, you can use the following Blog search sites and directories: Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com Blogwise http://www.blogwise.com Bloogz http://www.bloogz.com Daypop http://www.daypop.com Fagan Finder Blogs http://www.faganfinder.com/blogs/ Feedster http://www.feedster.com Globe of Blogs http://www.globeofblogs.com Google Blog Search http://google.com/blogsearch back to top REFERENCE SEARCH SITES Reference search sites allow you to search for information that has been collected in encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, and other reference resources. Some reference sites, such as MSN Encarta and Encyclopedia Britannica Online, offer limited access to information from their encyclopedias for no charge and complete access for a fee. Other sites, such as Information Please and Bartleby.com allow unrestricted access to recently published reference works, including the Columbia Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of World History, and The World Factbook. Leading reference search sites include: Bartleby.com Reference http://www.bartleby.com/reference/ Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www.britannica.com Information Please http://www.infoplease.com MSN Encarta http://encarta.msn.com Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org back to top DEEP WEB SEARCH SITES & DIRECTORIES Many specialized topics are addressed through databases or database-supported Web sites that, although accessible through the Web, are not indexed by conventional Web search sites. These sites are referred to collectively as the Deep Web or the Invisible Web because they are not easily found by the search technologies used by leading search sites. To search the Deep Web, use the following search sites and directories: Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net Complete Planet http://aip.completeplanet.com Direct Search http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm Invisible-web.net http://www.invisible-web.net Profusion http://www.profusion.com Turbo10.com http://turbo10.com back to top GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SEARCH SITES & DIRECTORIES Many government agencies and institutions have turned to the Web as their primary means of distributing their publications. Leading government documents search sites include: About.com's U.S. Government Info Directory http://usgovinfo.about.com Canadian Government Search Engines http://canada.gc.ca/search/srcind_e.html FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov FedWorld http://www.fedworld.gov FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov Google Uncle Sam http://www.google.com/unclesam Government Printing Office Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov GovSpot.com http://www.govspot.com SearchGov.com http://www.searchgov.com State and Local Government Directory http://www.statelocalgov.net back to top NEWSGROUPS & ELECTRONIC MAILING LIST SEARCH SITES Newsgroups, electronic mail lists, and Web discussion forums support discussions among individuals who share an interest in an issue or belong to a particular community. You can read a message sent to a mailing list, sometimes referred to as a listserv, in the same way that you read other email messages. You can read messages posted to newsgroups and Web discussion forums using most Web browsers. The following search engines and directories allow you to locate mailing lists, newsgroups, and discussion forums: CataList http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html Forum Zilla http://www.forumzilla.com Google Groups http://groups.google.com Newzbot http://www.newzbot.com Tile.net http://tile.net/lists/ back to top ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGS Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog http://www.libdex.com Provides listings of more than 75 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide. LibDex http://www.mla.org Displays over 17,000 library catalogs from around the world by topic, region, or keyword. LibWeb http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb A database listing over 6,100 pages from libraries in over 100 countries accessed by keyword or region. lib-web-cats http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/Breeding/libwebcats.html Provides a directory of over 5,000 libraries worldwide with library Web pages, online catalogs, and profiles. Open Directory Library Listings http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries Provides a list of links to library catalogs and related resources by region, topic, or language. Yahoo's Library Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries Provides links to library catalogs and related resources arranged by category or site. back to top |
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