General - Magazine and Journals

• General Search Engines

  • alltheweb | Alta Vista | Excite | Google | HotBot | iLOR | Lycos | Webbrain

  • International Search Engines

    Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines

  • Meta-Search Engines

    (These submit search to multiple other search engines.)
    ixquick | Ask Jeeves | Dogpile | Metacrawler | Starting Point | Vivisimo

  • Special-Format Tools

    Google Groups (search engine for discussion groups)

  • Google Scholars (search engine for discussion groups)

  • Google Books (search engine for discussion groups)

  • topica (search engine for newsletters and discussions)
    BoardReader (search engine for message boards)

  SUBJECT DIRECTORIES - "Browsing" versus "Searching": Directories are generally organized so that you can browse through them in search of information. That means that you click through their hierarchy of subjects until you find what you want. Most also have search programs that let you enter terms and will then search through the subject hierarchy for you. These search programs vary in quality. If a search in a subject directory fails, try browsing.

  • Academic Info: A user-supported gateway to education resources.
  • Best Information on the Net: Check "Hot Paper Topics" for many links to subjects popular for student research. For a more detailed list, see the "Alphabetical Index."
  • BUBL Link: Based in Scotland, this provides a European perspective, though it contains many U.S. links.
  • Digital Librarian: "A librarian's choice of the best of the Web".
  • Infomine: A mine of information from the University of California, Riverside.
  • Internet Public Library Reference Center: Excellent site, winner of many awards.
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet
  • MeL Internet: "Best of the Internet" Selected by Librarians: From Michigan eLibrary
  • Open Directory Project: Like Yahoo but better: more sites, chosen by knowledgeable volunteers, and no advertising.
  • The Scout Report: Weekly Reports on Internet sites in various subject areas.
  • WWW Virtual Library: From the creators of the World Wide Web.
  • Yahoo: The most popular but the least scholarly of subject directories in this list.

Internet Introduction and Guides

Evaluating Sources

Footnotes & Bibliography for Internet Sources - Ask your instructor whether he or she has a preferred style.

The Invisible Web

There is a portion of the Web, a very high-quality portion, which is "invisible" to the spiders that supply the databases of most search engines. The sites that comprise the invisible Web are generally of a far higher quality than the average Web site.