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Search Engines & Indexes
General Web Indexes
Indexes are catalogs or directories designed for browsing.
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Open Directory
The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Google's version of the same directory reverts to the Google search engine if nothing is found in your directory search.
- Yahoo! Directory
Meta-Search Engines
A meta-search engine queries several different search engines simultaneously. This is useful if your topic is highly specific, but you aren't sure which search engine to use. The disadvantage is that you are only able to do a simple search.
Back to topScholarly Web Directories
The pages found through these sites are not necessarily peer-reviewed, but they must meet some quality standard (as defined by that site's editors) to be included. Some of the indexes are annotated, providing helpful descriptions of the indexed sites.
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Infomine
Created by librarians, Infomine "contains useful Internet resources like databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."
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Librarians' Internet Index
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources.
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The WWW Virtual Library
Provides access to a vast assortment of academic resources.
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Voice of the Shuttle
Scholarly resources in the humanities.
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The Scout Report
"Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community."
Search Engines
Back to topSearch Engines and More
Try the following links:
Back to topSearch Tools and the Invisible Web
These sites give you "one stop shopping," providing one place from which many different search tools can be accessed.
Back to topSubject Searching
The easiest way to find what you want may be a site that indexes only info for one area.
- Yahoo or Google image search.
- Findlaw for legal information.
- Google Uncle Sam or USA.gov for U.S. Government.
- SPARC list of Institutional Repositories for the academic output of some universities.
- Scirus for scientific information.
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