Alpha Search: Indexes
"gateway sites" (sites that provide links on a specific subject such as
"bio medicine" or "Africa" or "trade").
Alt-HealthWatch
Database of information "focused on all areas of alternative, holistic,
complementary and integrated /" target="_blank">The
Internet Archive
Network Associates Internet Hoax Site
Symantec Computer Virus Site
Virus Encyclopedia
WhoIs Directory: Domain Names
AmosWorld Reading Room: Economic papers and treatises selected
by Oklahoma State Business Department.
B&E DataLinks Annotated economics, finance, macroeconomics
and labor statistics links published by the American Statistical Organization.
Cost of a Bad Hire Calculator
Cost of Employee Turnover Calculator
EconData (socio-economic data)
ECONlinks (Dr. Scott
Simkins): Absolutely amazing collection of links to economic information on the
Web.
Economic
Database
Economic
and Social Impacts of Electronic Commerce
Financial
Search Engine (world-wide)
Key U.S. Economic Data: Includes
Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, Economic Indicators (personal income,
international trade, interest rates, gross domestic product).
STAT-USA/Internet
A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Includes State of the Nation database providing current and historical economic and
financial releases and economic data (access to reports requires subscription) and GLOBUS
and NTDB databases providing current and historical trade-related releases, international
market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and trade library (access to
reports also requires subscription). Individual reports and releases may also be
purchased individually (through an on-line ordering process).
USDA
Economic Research Service
Wachowicz's
Web World Financial Analysis Links
Education Statistics in Brief: Statistical information about US
educational issues collected by the US Federal government. In PDF format.
Edinburgh
Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) Annotated links, browsable database of 2000+
engineering resources in 9 primary categories.
EELS
- Engineering Electronic Library Sweden Annotated links to 1200+ searchable
engineering resources.
Online
Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
AltaVista Canada: Index of Canadian pages, including in-depth
index of Canada governmental pages. Also includes a very good Canadian news article
search feature.
Asiaco Yahoo-like interface for search-directory devoted to
Asian subjects.
AsiaSource
By the Asia Society. News stories, articles, speeches, maps and statistics focusing
on Asian culture, business, politics, and history. Also includes a database of Asian
specialists.
Business Culture Briefings (fee based)
Canada
Newswire
Canadian CEO
Canadian business portal
Career Mosaic International Jobs Database
Comparison Data for Nations
Country Profiles by the Electronic Development and Environment Information System
Doing Business Abraod: Get Customs Webs
Escape from America International Job Bank
Federation
of International Stock Exchanges
Foreign
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members
Foreign and
International Law Resources by the University of Chicago
Foreign
and International Law Resources on the Web Published by Cornell University.
Geographica
Global Finder
Fee-based international stock exchange information.
Guide to
Foreign and International Legal Databases - Table of Contents Published by NYU.
International Country
Home Pages
The Microstate Network Links to information on small countries
such as Belize.
Nedsite Search Center:
Includes Website resources for international email addresses, phone numbers, fax
numbers, street addresses, missing persons, genealogy.
Official European
Government Information.
Pepperdine
University Guide to International Business Websites: Quality guide prepared by
Pepperdine University librarians.
PRO Catalogue Online
Produced by the UK Public Record Office (PRO). Database includes over eight
million document references "with descriptions of the documents and descriptions of
the classes in which they are categorized." Broseable and searchable court and
department records. Hyperlinked descriptions are available for each class and
subclass. Keyword searches can be further modified by lettercode and class/subclass.
Search results include lettercode title, class title, piece title, header title, and
closure status. Also includes over 100 full-text research information leaflets and
information on the Core Executive Project, which offers reference numbers to selected
policy records of 20th-century British Government departments.
Relocation Information (including international relocations)
Search Engine Colossus:
country- or region- specific search engines.
Alt-HealthWatch
Database of information "focused on all areas of alternative, holistic,
complementary and integrated approaches to health care and wellness." By
SoftLine Information. Full-text, fully indexed and searchable.
Centerwatch
Information on clinical drug and treatment trials.
CPG Infobase Published by the Canadian Medical
Association. Site includes Canadian clinic practice guidelines endorsed by a
national, provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society,
government agency or expert panel. browsable by title, category, developer, or new
additions.
DNA Patent
Database
DRUGINFO Database (also available through telnet: pubinfo.ais.umn.edu VT100 emulation:
select <pa> and <1> for Lumina Main Menu. Type <go>, menu selection
DRUG). References, with abstracts, ATOD literature: educational, psychological and
sociological comprehensively and medical/biological selectively.
EurekAlert!
Focus on breaking medical and scientific news. EurekAlert! is produced by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and features selected press releases by
institutions, science media, peer-reviewed research journals, and medical journalism
groups.
ETOH
Database of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The world's
key database for alcohol research from all disciplines.
Evaluating
healthcare information: Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the
Internet
Evaluating
Health Information on the Internet: Collection of links providing health care
information evaluation including How to Spot a Quacky Website. Site is a
good example of why careful assessment of information (and opinions)
provided on Websites is necessary.
Health
Finder Government sponsored site with a wealth of links to health-related sites.
HealthGrades
Doctor, hospital and healthcare ratings.
Internet
Grateful Med (IGM) searches MEDLINE® using the retrieval engine of NLM's PubMed system. User
can select searches from not only Medline, but also AidsLine, AidsDrugs, AidsTrials,
BioethicsLine, ChemID, DirLine, HealthSTAR, HistLine, HSRProj, Old MedLine, PopLine,
SDILine, SpaceLine and ToxLine. Site includes a brief description of each
database. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Mayo Clinic
Health information from the Mayo Clinic. Includes email feature in which clinic
doctors answer medical questions.
Medhunt
Searchable database of links to health information.
Medscape Medical News
Features medical news, government news, drug news, medical technology news,
epidemiology news, health policy news, health promotion news, medical conference
reporting.
Mental
Health Net Professional Resources Annotated links to Web resources on mental health
topics, psych journals, newsgroups, diagnostic criteria information, and mental health
organizations.
National
Institute of Health Links to health-related federal agencies and diseases being
studied by each agency.
NCADI
Database Ten searchable databases including IDA (Information About
Drugs and Alcohol), PMD (Prevention Materials Database), and National Treatment and
Prevention Program Database.
The OAM
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index Index includes over
90,000 bibliographic from the National Library Of Medicine Medline database.
On-line Dictionary of Street Drug Slang Street
drug slang terms from the Indiana Prevention Resource Center with additions from the
National Drug and Crime Clearinghouse slang term list.
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health
Information
Substance
Abuse Information Database (SAID) Produced by the U.S. Department of
Labor. Includes abstracts, summaries and selective full-text books, pamphlets and
training manuals.
Virus Databases Online Developed under the
auspices of the International Committee on
Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), Virology Division, International Union of Microbiology
Society.
AnyWho
People Finder
Biographies
Edgar OnLine People Information: Allow researchers to enter the
name of a person and retrieve information on recent proxies in which the person has
appeared (and the boards on which they sit), insider trades, IPO filings, mergers and
acquisitions participation, quarterly report references, etc.
EgoSurf generates daily email reports on names entered in tracking
service (1 name free)
Finding
People on the Net: address, phone numbers, email addresses Very
good article from About.com.
Harris On-Line: Locations of manufacturing facilities.
InfoSpace Reverse Phone Directory
InfoUSA
Phone Directory
Nedsite Search Center:
Includes Website resources for international email addresses, phone numbers, fax
numbers, street addresses, missing persons, genealogy.
PhoneFinder
ProCD
Phone Finder
Six in One Phone
Directory
Reverse Phone Directory
WhoIs Gateway: Allows
searches on domain names for domain name owners.
WhoWhere People Finder: One of the largest people finder indices
available on the Web.
News
AltaVista Canada: Index of Canadian pages, including in-depth
index of Canada governmental pages. Also includes a very good Canadian news article
search feature.
Canada Newswire
Ethnic NewsWatch
Database of over 500,000 articles from "ethnic, native and minority" media
sources. Archives date back to the 1980s. Published by SoftLine
Information. Full-text, fully indexed and searchable by keyword.
LookOut! News Registration Service
News Directory Guide to English language media online. Guide to
English language media on-line. Searchable and browseable. Also includes links to
city governments.
News Index News only search engine. Designed to provide news
articles from the previous seven days. Does not provide dates of articles or list of
sources. No archives.
Newspaper
Archives on the Web
PRESSLine Media release
database.
TotalNEWS Direct links to all the major breaking news sites and
to hundreds of in-depth coverage sites. Date given for articles is date article was found,
not the date of the story. Full content of all news stories in the database is not
indexed.
U.S.
Newspapers by State: Convenient and easy to use links to on-line US newspapers.
BBB
On-Line: Better Business Bureau privacy program (similar to TRUSTE.e).
Includes business and consumer privacy information and links.
Stanford
Law Review: Privacy and Encryption
TRUST.e
Business Privacy: Licensing of ecommerce sites that agree to the TRUST.e privacy
principles. Also provides a great deal of information about on-line privacy, both
for site owners and consumers.
Harris On-Line: Locations of U.S. manufacturing facilities.
Biotechnology
Information Resource (BIC) Maintained by the National Agricultural Library of
the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Information on biotechnology research and
regulation. Includes the full text of selected biotechnology patents (1994-96),
research news and newsletters, links to sites involved in biotech education, government
and NGO documents, bibliographies (all from 1996), and subject specific resources for
Bovine Somatotropin (bST/BGH), Bioremediation, and BT Toxin.
Explore Zone Earth, space and weather science news and
reference
Online
Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Science Daily Magazine Breaking science-related news.
Sheffield ChemDex Links to
chemical information on the Web, including companies, government agencies, government
labs, newsgroups, software, 19 substantive chemistry categories, and chemical meta-sites.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI): Current resources
on national and international standards activities.
Business
Basics for the Workplace (business concepts tutorial)
Find
your best place: Cost of Living Comparator Allows user to compare costs of
living between 2 US cities (amount of salary necessary to live in both cities in the same
standard of living). Also has basic statistical information on US cities.
County
Population Estimates: The Population Estimates Program produces for counties
each year: total population estimates and county estimates by age, sex, race, and Hispanic
origin. The release of total population estimates in winter also includes demographic
components of change. In the summer, the Program releases the estimates by age, sex, race,
and Hispanic origin. The reference date for county population estimates is July 1.
Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions.
Encyclopedia Brittanica (full verion now free online)
eHow
"How-To" information
InfoJump Electronic periodicals search engine
Internet Book
Information Center (IBIC) Links to books published on the Internet.
Internet Encyclopedia Incredibly useful resource covering
technical Internet topics such as Internet history, organization, concepts (ex.
application programming, datagrams and domain names), flow control, IP addresses, LANs and
WANs, protocols, file transfers, email formats, email transports (SMTP, POP, for example),
network management, routing, security, hardward (ethernet, ISDN, etc.), software (DNS)
hypertext, languages (ex., Java and Perl), testing (ex., pinging). Entire
encyclopedia is downloaded (but is close to 200 MB). Searchable and browseable.
Langenberg.com Good quick references for common questions.
Includes links to medical info such as drug information, hospital addresses, shipping
tracking and rates, dictionaries and encyclopedias.
LibrarySpot Good collection of links to libraries,
newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and and similar general reference materials.
Martindale's 'The
Reference Desk' Good collection of links for general reference materials such
as weights and measures charts, national and international shipping information, express
mail and package services, style books, etc.
Martindale's
'The Reference Desk Calculators On-Line' Amazing collection of specialized
calculators for almost every purpose - mortgage, shipping weights, chemical weights, etc.
Newsletter Editors'
Reference List Another good collection of general reference links - everything
a newspaper editor might need - media resources, graphics guides, shipping guides, color
specifications, fonts, dictionaries, thesauruses, style books, citation guidelines, etc.
New Testament Gateway
No
Wonder Free hardware and software technical support by volunteers.
OneLook
Dictionaries (Dictionary), The Faster Finder
Online
Business Plan Templates
Online World Appendix 6
Web glossary.
Phrase Finder
Meanings and origins of English phrases.
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
Specialty Books
Resources for finding specialty and out-of-print books. Very successful in locating
books not found by other book search services.
Unbound Bible Searchable
database of the Bible in many different versions.
Units of Measurement
Wordsmyth educational
dictionary-thesaurus
Bookmark Management
Links: Collection of links to software programs. Includes a rough rating
guide.
ABA Official
Citation Resolutions
Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
Beyond the MSA
Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet, Andrew Harnac and Gene
Kleppinger
Carnegie-Mellon
Style Guide
Citation Reference Collection
Coalition
of E-Journals Citation Recommendations
Emory
University Citation Formats
MLA
Style - Citing Sources from the World Wide Web
Style
Guide by The Economict
Yale
Style Manual
Duke University Web Page Evaluation Worksheet
Evaluating
Quality on the Internet An excellent article by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College, Babson Park, MA.
Internet
Detective Extremely good resource from the Institute for Learning and Research
Technology at the University of Bristol. Interactive quizzes and other tools to help
students learn to assess Internet information quality.
Web Evaluation: Widener
University
AltaVista
Search Engine One of the most sophisticated search engines, capable of complex
Boolean searches.
Ask Jeeves Natural language search directory. Question
and answer format to pre-formatted questions. Answers from database of
pre-formatted questions.
Best of BUSLIB-L
Monthly list of most valuable business research resources from the business
librarians research email list.
CARL Tables of content from journals
Cyberholics
Search Engine Searches AltaVista, HotBot, Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, InfoSeek,
Magellan and Yahoo, but also includes links to many lesser known search engines and search
directories including AliWeb, LinkStar, OKRA, Education Station Research, Biology Search
Palette, Event Search and Art Search.
DataGold©:
United Kingdom specific search engine.
Dogpile
MetaSearch Engine One of the better metasearch engines. Searches (1) Web:
Yahoo, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, GoTo.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek,
Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite & AltaVista. (2) Usenet: Reference,
Dejanews, AltaVista and Dejanews old database. (3) FTP: Filez and FAST FTP Search.
(Only the first word will be passed on to FTP Search.) Other search features include
business publications and news sources. Researchers may customize list of search
engines searched by Dogpile.
The Electric
Monk Natural language searching of AltaVista database. Best for questions
with specific answers (ex. , "Who was the 21st President of the United States?)
eTour
Changing list of Internet sites based on user interests Can be configured to present
new sites each day as a "home page" or can be used as a bookmark. Also includes
a feature that allows users to vote on sites. Categories are news/information,
arts/entertainment, personal finance, hobbies, sports, life interests (charity, college,
kids sites, maternity/new parents, etc.), shopping and miscellaneous. Requires users
to register. Registration requires picking interests out of interest lists,
providing name, email address, birthdate, gender, income level, marital status and home
ownership status. Sites presented are fairly useful ones. No legal interest sites
option. No information on site selection criteria. Sites are mixed commercial and
non-commercial.
Excite
Search Engine
Ex
Libris--an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies: Weekly ezine for
librarians that features information on library-quality research sites.
FAST Search Engine Claims to index more than 200 million unique
URLs. If this claim is valid, FAST has more indexed pages than any other search
engine (Northern Light claims iit has indexed 128 million pages).
Forum
One Search Engine/Guide to Online Discussion Forums/Message Boards.
Google Easy to search,
good relevancy criteria. Able to index robot-restricted pages.
HotBot
Search Engine. Now includes a "Search Within" feature which allows
researchers to search for new search terms within a list of returned links (simliar to the
"locate" features on WestLaw and Lexis).
Inference
Search Engine Searches AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek, Yahoo and Webcrawler. Merges
results, removes redundancies and clusters related sites together. Results from individual
search engines have been incomplete in test searches.
InfoJump Electronic periodicals search engine
Informant (Dartmouth
College) Registers queries, runs them on a regular basis and then emails the registrant
when a new or changed resources are returned by a search engine.
InfoSeek
Search Engine
Internet Scout Project Homepage
ISleuth Search
Engine Searches AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek, WebCrawler, Yahoo, Lycos and
Magellan. Also offers links to smaller search engines and search directories, a search of
newly reviewed sites by Lycos, Excite and Magellan and new listings for Yahoo and
Linkmonster. Includes fee-based databases and information resources.
Karl
Heinz Resch's Web Pages Good collection of more esoteric research links (many
not readily available from search engines).
Karnak Web research monitoring service
Librarians Guide to the
Internet: Very good quality sites on a large number of subjects. Sites
are selected by California State Library System librarians. Also includes a mailing
list for notice of new sites included in the Guide. To subscribe, send the message
<subscribe liiweek your Firstname your Lastname> to listproc@sunsite.berkeley.edu.
Librarians' Index to the
Internet
Librarians'
Resource Centre - SLA Toronto Chapter Toolbox Includes reviewed links to search
engines, directories, databases, dictionaries, company data, country reports, travel
information and general reference collections. Published by the Toronto chapter of
the Special Librarians Association.
LookOut! News Registration Service
LookSmart Directory of links reviewed by LookSmart editors. Also
includes the feature, LookSmart
Live. LookSmart Live allows searchers to pose questions to LookSmart editors and
receive an email of recommended links.
Lycos
Rich Media Multi-Media Search Engine
Lycos
Search Engine Now includes a research center that includes Funk & Wagnells
Multimedia Encyclopedia, Random House Webster's College Dictionary and Reuters news.
Sources may be searched individually or simultaneously. Also includes a media index
to for locating animations, photographs, audio, maps and flags.
Metafind Search
Engine Same as Dogpile except that Metafind only searches search engines (Yahoo,
Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, GoTo.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan,
Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite & AltaVista).
Needle in a Cyberstack
Info-Finder - 150+ pages of resources
Nettrain
Archives Files Archived quality Internet research resources from the Net
Training email mailing list. A list of available archived files can be obtained by
sending an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
with the command "index Nettrain" in the body of the email message.
News Index News only search engine. Designed to provide news
articles from the previous seven days. Does not provide dates of articles or list of
sources. No archives.
NonProfit
Gateway
NorthernLight Search Engine Incredible
range of features including Special Collection documents, Uncle Sam (government documents
database), Web-bot notification service, and organization of Web search results into
easy-to-use search categories.
Oingo Search Engine
Search engine that helps to define terms with multiple meanings to more precisely
focus search results.
Open Directory
Project Directory of resources compiled by volunteer subject-matter experts.
Pitsco's Ask an Expert Main Menu
Reference.com Archived newsgroup postings.
Research Buzz.com:
References to quality Web-based research sites. Includes articles such as quick tips
on Boolean searches and natural language searching.
Respool-Netguide
Resources collected from librarian questions. Some good lesser-known
resources.
Scout
Select Bookmarks -- Subject Based Meta-Sites
Snap On-line General search engine. Includes an
image-finder search function at Snap
Picture Finder.
Swetscan Tables of
contents from journals
TotalNEWS Direct links to all the major breaking news sites and
to hundreds of in-depth coverage sites. Date given for articles is date article was found,
not the date of the story. Full content of all news stories in the database is not
indexed.
TracerLock Search engine monitoring
WebCrawler Search Engine.
World
Wide Web Virtual Library: The oldest Web catalog, created by Tim Berners-Lee,
the "father" of the World Wide Web. Expert volunteers compile key links
for their areas of expertise.
Yahoo
Search Directory.
CNet's Help.com
The Extreme Searcher's Webpage:
A companion page to the book, The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines.
Good in-depth information on search engine news and innovations. Also
includes links to advanced research information, search engines and courses on Internet
searching.
Finding
It Online: Web Search Strategies
Forum One Search Engine/Guide to Online Discussion
Forums/Message Boards.
Guide to Network Resource Tools
Good general guide to Web search tools.
Law Library Resource
Xchange(LLRX): Very good free Webzine on legal resources and technology.
The June, 1999 issue features articles on Y2K legal issues for non-lawyers, Shepherd's vs.
KeyCite, law firm intranets, viruses, search engine comparisons, resources for on-line
rules of court and electronic discussion groups. LLRX is a promotional tool for
Current Legal Resources, publishers of on-line legal tools such as court rules and
statutes. The site is owned by Law Library Resource Xchange, L.L.C.
MetaSearch
Engine Comparison Chart
Research Buzz.com:
References to quality Web-based research sites. Includes articles such as quick tips
on Boolean searches and natural language searching.
Search Engine Comparison Chart
Search Engine Directory and Engine
Comparison (Berkeley)
Search Engine/Directory Features
Summary (University At Albany Libraries)
Search Enginge Showdown: Search Engine Features Chart
Search Engine Showdown: User's
Guide to Web Searching: Charts and articles on searching the Internet using
search engines. Charts compare search features, contents of search engine databases,
frequency of updates, coverage, etc. Includes search tips and lists of specialized
search engines such as those for email and street addresses, phone numbers, Usenet groups
and subject directories.
Search Engine Watch Review
Summaries Summaries of major search engine reviews by CNet, ZDNet, Kiplinger Online and other Internet and PC-related
organizations.
Search IQ
Search
Strategies, PC World: Very good article on general search engine/directory
searching. Includes comparison chart that highlights which search vehicles work best
for certain kinds of searches.
Scientific
American: Feature Article: Hypersearching the Web: June 1999
Search Tools
and Directories
The Spider's Apprentice In-depth
analysis of popular search engines. Explains how each major search engine collects its
information and how to formulate queries (includes information on the use of Boolean
operators for each search engine).
University
of Berkeley Internet Research Tutorial Outline Includes guides on analyzing your
search topic for an Internet search, features of major search engines and formulating
queries.
Undocumented Internet Secrets (from
ZDNet)
The Virtual Chase: A Research Site for Legal Professionals The
Virtual Chase offers strategies, subject guides, teaching webs, and similar information on
legal Internet research. Includes an annotated guide to legal resources, articles
about Internet research, tutorials about finding company information, people and
government information and resources on the Web, articles on assessment of Web
information, a litigator's research guide to rules of court and an Internet research tip
sheet.
Web
Search Tools
Berkeley
Digital Library Provides hyperlink access to over 2,000 libraries around the world.
Libweb - Library WWW Servers Links to on-line catalogs of
printed materials housed in academic and public libraries.
St. Louis University Library Catalog
St. Louis University Law
Library Webcat Resource information also includes the location of the resource, its
call number, status (checked out/not checked out/library use only), bibliographic
information and subject headings. Authorized SLU library users may also request materials
via the Website.
The St. Louis University Law Library is part of MERLIN (Missouri Education and
Research Libraries Information Network). In addition to the SLU law library catalog,
MERLIN provides card catalog access to the St. Louis University main library, the
University of Missouri - Columbia libraries (including the law library), the University of
Missouri - Kansas City libraries (including the law library), the University of Missouri
libraries and the University of Missouri archives.
UW-Madison
Electronic Library Catalogs
Washington University Library Catalog
WULLIS Web () is the Washington University School of Law Library Catalog Webcat. Resource
information includes the location of the resource, its call number, status (checked
out/not checked out) and subject headings.
Webcats
Library catalogues that have actually been posted on the Web in hypertext protocol
language. Some catalogues require the use of "telnet" software that allows
a user to log onto a remote computer from the user's local computer. The difference
between telnetting and using the Web is that when telnetting, the user is actually logged
on to the remote computer. With the Web, information is captured on the user's local
system.
Internet
Detective Extremely good resource from the Institute for Learning and Research
Technology at the University of Bristol. Interactive quizzes and other tools to help
students learn to assess Internet information quality.
Internet
Research for Legal Professionals
Internet Skills and Strategies for the Legal Researcher Index
Legal
Research on the Internet: Outline of on-line legal research techniques and Web
resources.
Researching
Companies on the Internet - A Tutorial |