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Meta and all-in-one
search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Copernic |
Science: information on specialized
websites - scientists, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, etc. |
| Science Publications:
advanced scientific information |
| EEVL's E-Journal |
Searches the content of over 250 freely available full-text
e-journals, selected for relevance and quality |
www.eevl.ac.uk/eese
/eese-eevl.html |
| Profusion |
Archaeology:
Archaeology Magazine; Art; Agriculture; Astronomy; Biology; Expert
Directories |
Link no longer active, but you can still consider
the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Article: "A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems" |
Dec. 20, 2005 |
| Article: "Finding Articles Online" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3584851 |
| Academic
Info |
Directory of digital library collections |
www.academicinfo.
net/index.html |
| American Memory |
Historical maps, movies, photos and prints, audio recording |
memory.loc.gov/
ammem/collections/
finder.html |
| Big Search Engine Index |
Search tool guide, "academic" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk
/Academic_search |
| Search tool guide, "literature" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/
Reference/Literature |
| Search tool guide, "science" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Reference
/Science_Search |
| BUBL LINK / 5:15 |
European-oriented academic catalog, organized by subject terms
and Dewey numbers |
bubl.ac.uk/link/
index.html |
| CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) |
CAS SciFinder |
www.cas.org/
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| CiteSeer |
Provides access to
summaries of scientific literature |
citeseer.ist.psu.edu |
| Conference Proceedings |
Audio recordings of spoken-word speeches and lectures from
(often tech-oriented) conferences |
www.archive.org/audio/
collection.php?collection=
conference_proceedings |
| Fine arts search tools |
Search Tool Guide:
File format |
| Google Scholar |
Based on Google deep web data from academic libraries |
scholar.google.com |
| Infomine |
Librarian-selected directory |
infomine.ucr.edu/
Main.html |
| Internet Archive |
Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts
in digital form |
www.archive.org |
| Libdex |
Index to 18,000 libraries |
www.libdex.com |
| Librarians Index to the Internet |
U.S.-centric librarian index |
lii.org |
| Library Spot |
Provides information on library types. |
www.libraryspot.com |
| OAISter |
Provides an index to
academically-oriented "digital resources" available for free from
close to 600 libraries and other organizations |
oaister.umdl.umich.edu |
| Pinakes |
Links to major academic subject gateways |
www.hw.ac.uk/
libWWW/irn/
pinakes/pinakes.html |
| Project Gutenberg |
Provides the full
text of over 12,000 public domain books |
www.gutenberg.org |
| RedLightGreen |
"helps you locate the most important
books and other research materials in your area of interest, and
find out whether what you need is available at your favorite
library" |
www.redlightgreen.com/
ucwprod/servlet/ucw.
servlets.UCWController?USERID=anonymous
&PASSWORD=------&ACTION=logon&
SRCHPATH=3&referrer= |
| RefDesk |
Provides links to all kinds of web resources classified by
subject and online libraries categorized by library type |
www.refdesk.com |
| ReferenceDesk |
Provides links to all kinds of web resources classified by
subject and online libraries categorized by library type |
www.referencedesk.org |
| Resource Discovery Network |
Offers a subject directory of academic databases |
www.rdn.ac.uk |
| Scirus |
Offers both summaries of scientific/technical journal articles
and selected science-oriented web pages |
www.scirus.com/srsapp |
| Scoles Library Electronic Reference Desk |
Electronic academic journals |
scholes.alfred.edu/ref_
desk/ref.html |
Searchebooks.
com |
E-books |
www.searchebooks
.com |
| SearchEdu.com |
Educational resources |
www.searchedu.com |
SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Directory of science search tools |
www.searchengine
watch.com/links/
article.php/2156301 |
| STN On The Web |
200 databases in science and technology |
stnweb.cas.org |
| SMEALSearch |
Provides access to
summaries of business literature |
smealsearch2.psu.edu |
| WWW Virtual Library |
Oldest academic catalog of links to full-text, databases and
gateways, organized by subject and maintained by volunteers from
around the world |
vlib.org/Overview.html |
| Book interior text search |
SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Article: "Searching for Digital Books" |
blog.searchenginewatch
.com/blog/041019-153730 |
| Article "A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3553086 |
| Article: "World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed By
Library Of Congress & Google" |
Nov. 22, 2005 |
| Article: "A (Non-controversial) Alternative to Google Print" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3565566 |
| Article: "Going Under the Cover with Book Search Tools" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php/
3502416 |
| Amazon.com |
Searches the text inside the book covers |
www.amazon.com |
| Digital Book Index |
Provides an index of online or electronic books |
digitalbookindex.com |
| eBookLocator |
Provides an index of online or electronic books |
www.ebooklocator.com |
| ebrary |
Searches the text inside the book covers of public library books |
www.ebrary.com/corp |
| Google book search |
Searches the text inside the book covers |
books.google.com |
| NetLibrary |
Searches the text inside the book covers of public library books |
legacy.netlibrary.com
/about_us/company
_info |
| Project Guttenberg |
Searches the text inside the book covers |
gutenberg.us |
| Public Library of Science |
For a fee, provides
six peer-reviewed journals on the Web |
www.plos.org |
| The Million Books Project |
"... will create a free-to-read, searchable digital library the
approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon
University, and one much bigger than the holdings of any high school
library" |
www.archive.org
/details/millionbooks |
| University of Pennsylvania |
Has an "online books" page that provides access to thousands of
full text books online |
digital.library.upenn
.edu/books |
| Yahoo Creative Commons Search |
Searches the text inside the book covers |
search.yahoo.com/cc |
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More Individual
directories & other search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Copernic |
Science: information on specialized websites - scientists, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, etc. |
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Science Publications:
advanced scientific information |
| Profusion |
Archaeology:
Archaeology Magazine; Art; Agriculture; Astronomy; Biology; Expert
Directories |
Link no
longer active, but you can still consider the listed search tools.
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Also see Search Tool Guide: Search
tool abilities:
For health sciences, see:
Search
Tool Guide: Health, nutrition, and physical fitness |
Atlases, encyclopedias, inventories of quotations, library
catalogs
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Meta and all-in-one
search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
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Big Search Engine Index |
Search tool guide, "words" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Reference/
Word_Reference |
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Bartlett (1901) |
Familiar quotations |
www.columbia.edu
/acis/bartleby/bartlett |
| Copernic |
Atlas:
geographic and demographic information about a country or region |
| Book Reviews:
Search Tool
Guide: Shopping: other |
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Encyclopedias: definitions,
biographical and thematic notices, articles, data, etc. on all
subjects found in online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs |
| Movie Reviews:
Search Tool Guide: Entertainment, transportation, travel |
| Music Reviews:
Search Tool Guide: Entertainment, transportation, travel |
| Langenberg |
Encyclopedia all-in-one search page |
encyclopedia.
langenberg.com |
| OneLook |
Provides a meta-dictionary that encompasses words in over 950
other dictionaries; has reverse lookup ability |
www.onelook.com |
| Profusion |
Acronyms; Almanacs;
Biographies; Book reviews; Computer Terms; Dictionaries; Domains;
Encylopedias; Expert Dictionaries; FAQ; Find a College or University;
Library Catalogs by Author; Library Catalogs by Keyword; Library
Catalogs by Title; Medical Terms; Music Reviews; Online Books; Online
Literature; PDF; Patents; Quotations; Thesauri |
Link no longer active, but you can still
consider the listed search tools. |
| Quotations Page |
Quotations search |
www.quotationspage.
com/search.php3 |
| Xrefer |
Obtains library reference books, and cross-searches encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations |
www.xrefer.com |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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Dictionaries/thesauri/bibliographies/almanacs/quotations/etc. |
| Answers.com (previously known as GuruNet) |
"...brings you instant information about any word on your screen,
whether you're working in Word, reading your e-mail, or browsing the
web" |
www.answers.com
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| Information Please |
Cross-searches almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, biographies, and
encyclopedias |
www.infoplease.com |
| Scoles Library |
Provides dictionaries, thesauri, academic journals |
scholes.alfred.edu
/ref_desk/ref.html |
| SearchEdu.com |
Provides dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, biographies, calculators,
etc. |
www.searchedu.com |
| Just dictionaries or
thesauri |
| AskOxford.com |
Provides many helpful
resources for writers and students, including access to the Compact
Oxford English Dictionary |
www.askoxford.com |
| Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names |
Allows you to search for names, viewing the hierarchies of
names either by political entities or physical features |
www.getty.edu/research
/conducting_research
/vocabularies/tgn |
| Voycabulary |
Provides definitions of all the words on a webpage, allowing
you to click the ones you want defined |
www.voycabulary.com |
| Your Dictionary |
Indexes over 280 language dictionaries |
www.yourdictionary.com |
| Just encyclopedias or
explanations |
| Britannica |
Allows access to encyclopedia Britannica, not all for free |
www.britannica.com |
Encyclopedia.
com |
Allows access to encyclopedia, not all for free |
www.encyclopedia.com |
| How Stuff Works |
Gives explanations on how things work for the layman, across a wide
variety of subjects |
www.howstuffworks.com
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| Wikipedia |
Provides a collaborative, multi-lingual encyclopedia |
www.wikipedia.org |
| Just almanacs |
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InfoPlease Almanac |
Provides almanac information divided into categories |
www.infoplease.com
/almanacs.html |
|
The Old Farmer's Almanac |
Provides Information about days in history |
www.almanac/com/
index.php |
| Just
bibliographies |
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Biographical Dictionary |
Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women; can be searched
numerous ways |
www.s9.com/biography |
| Biography.com |
Provides paragraph-length biographies |
www.biography.com/
search |
| Just quotations
and recordings |
| Presidential Recordings |
Provides public speeches made by U.S. Presidents and the secret
recordings made in the White House between 1940 and 1973 |
www.archive.org/
audio/collection.php?collection=presidential
_recordings |
| Quoteland |
Quotes by topic; also resources and user discussion groups |
www.quoteland.com |
| Quotations Archive |
Quotes by subject, author, links, etc. |
www.aphids.com/
quotes/index.shtml |
| The Quotations Page |
Quotes by subject, author, etc. |
quotationspage.com |
