SEARCH ENGINES AND GENERAL SUBJECT DIRECTORIES Search Engines
Subject Directories
Metasearch Engines
Comparing and Evaluating Search Engines and Web Pages
ACADEMIC SUBJECT DIRECTORIES DICTIONARIES AND REFERENCE RESOURCES Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Biographical References
Quotations
Statistics
Atlases and Maps
Images and Art
CITATION GUIDES PERIODICALS AND BROADCAST MEDIA News Directories
Newspapers
Magazines
TV and Radio
Film
BOOKS Online Books
Online Bookstores
WRITING RESOURCES OWLs and Online Writing Center
Guides to Grammar and Style
Guides to Writing Papers
Guides to Writing Online Documents
Words and Phrases
Writing Links
ESL RESOURCES
SEARCH ENGINES AND GENERAL SUBJECT DIRECTORIES • Search Engines Alta Vista Large full-text search
engine. Use to search for narrow, specific topics on the Web. Use Advanced Search to limit
hits by date and relevance of key terms. Google Ranks web sites by link popularity,
quality, and content. Use to locate good sites in response to broad, general searches. HotBot Easy-to-use advanced search feature,
Search Smarter, allows you to search by date, by type of file (such as gif or jpeg), and
by domain and to specify number of results and the size of descriptions. Infoseek Large full-text search engine.
Ranks hits by relevance and searches for similar pages. Northern Light Searches not
only the Web but also its collection of over 5,000 newswires and periodicals (full-text
articles cost $1-$4 to access; article summaries are free). Search results are ranked by
relevance and divided into Custom Search Folders. • Subject Directories Yahoo! A hierarchical subject directory with
search capabilities. Yahoo! is the tool to use when you know what you're looking for. About.com (formerly The Mining Company). Subject
sites created by experts rather than a webcrawler. Britannica A subject directory
of Web sites recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica staff members. Not
comprehensive enough for searches but can help you create a bookmark file with excellent
links. • Metasearch Engines Dogpile A metasearch engine
that can search with over two dozen engines, three at a time. You can customize the order
and the engines used. InferenceFind A metasearch engine that does
parallel searches with half a dozen search engines and the clusters the results by source. Ask Jeeves If Jeeves can't answer your
question, scroll to the lower half of the page to see the results from several search
engines. • Comparing and Evaluating Search Engines and Web Pages For links to and a comparison of seven of the most popular search engines, see The Spider's Apprentice. For quick advice (with links) about choosing the right engine for a particular job, see
Nueva
School's Library Help page. For links to several search and metasearch engines, subject indexes, newsgroups, and
white and yellow pages, see Infomine's
Recommended Search Engines and Finding Tools. For Web page
evaluation, see Michigan State University Writing Center's handy checklist. For in-depth search tool analysis and updates, see Search Engine Watch. [Back to Top]
ACADEMIC SUBJECT DIRECTORIES If you are seeking a specific piece of information, a search engine is more likely to
get results, but these subject directories will lead you to a wealth of intriguing
resources on the Internet. World Wide Web Virtual Library Specialized
indexes on almost 300 topics maintained by specialists around the world. General subject
areas are agriculture, business and economics, computer science, communications and media,
education, engineering, humanities, information management, international affairs, law,
recreation, regional studies, science, and society. Searchable from the Library's
home page. Voice of the Shuttle Two dozen searchable
humanities collections from the University of California at Santa Barbara, including
anthropology, area studies, history, literature, philosophy, political & government,
and women's studies. The English Server Searchable collections
in the arts and humanities, ranging from new media design to 18th-century cultural
history. Academic Info A
well-organized directory of Internet resources for students in almost 100 academic
disciplines, from American Literature to World History. WebGEMS Small,
selective lists of links to guides, databases, and other resources in the humanities,
social sciences, society and culture, science, and technology and applied sciences.
Includes a connection to AltaVista or InfoSeek to search WebGEM pages. Argus Clearinghouse Small, selective
lists of links to academic and general-interest resources in 13 categories, from Arts
& Humanities to Social Sciences & Social Issues. Links are rated, and a full-word
search is available. Infomine: Scholarly Internet
Resource Collections. A virtual library of 14,000 links in 10 areas (from Biological,
Agricultural, and Medical Sciences to Visual and Performing Arts) from the University of
California library system. The Digital Librarian
Selected links for about 90 topics, ranging from Africana to children's literature to
Web page design. [Back to Top]
DICTIONARIES AND REFERENCE RESOURCES The links here are to resources that are free; your campus network may subscribe to
other reference resources, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and the Encyclopedia
Britannica. • Dictionaries Merriam-Webster Online Searchable
Webster's Dictionary and Webster's Thesaurus. Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Searchable dictionary that allows an Approximate Search if you're not sure of a
word's spelling. A Web of Online
Dictionaries Searchable Webster's Dictionary plus links to dictionaries and
grammars in other languages, from Albanian to Yiddish. OneLook Dictionaries Metasearch of and links
to specialized dictionaries on diverse topics, from forest pathology to Italian cooking or
Eastern philosophy. Oxford English Dictionary The
definitive dictionary of the English language. An online version is supposed to be
available to the public in October 1999; it may currently be available on your campus
network, however. • Encyclopedias Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
14,000 brief entries for fast fact-checking. Encarta Online Concise, free, searchable
version of the Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM by Microsoft. • Biographical References Biographical Dictionary Brief entries
about some 27,000 notable men and women. See also the Links to biography-related sites
from Astronauts to Obituaries to Science Fiction writers. Lives, The Biography Resource Links
to thousands of biographical sites, memoirs, and oral histories of individuals and groups
(from African American soldiers to women in aviation). • Quotations quoteland.com Quotations searchable by
topic, literary quotations, humorous quotations, and a handful of audio quotations from
TV, movies, and music. • Statistics FedStats Links to statistics from some 70
Federal agencies. Statistical
Resources on the Web Collection of links from the University of Michigan. • Atlases and Maps CIA World Factbook Background information and maps for every country in the world. National
Geographic's Map Machine Atlas Point-and-click maps with brief information
about each country. Digital Librarian's Maps and
Geography Links Historical maps, maps of space, road maps--links to a wide
variety of maps and geographical societies. • Images and Art Finding Images Online:
Links to Image Resources. A subject directory of image sites, from Aboriginal cultures to
whales. The Amazing Picture Machine Searchable
graphics database. WebMuseum, Paris Links to artwork and
museums around the world. National Museum of American
Art Over 3,000 images in its browsable collection. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Large,
searchable database of over half the the holdings of the De Young Museum and the Palace of
the Legion of Honor. Art History Resources on the Web Links
organized by era. From Sweet Briar College. [Back to Top]
CITATION GUIDES MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
MLA-style citations for WWW documents. These are the only MLA-authorized guidelines on the
Internet. APA (American Psychological
Association) Style APA-style citations for WWW documents. Bibliography
Styles Handbook Online version of MLA and APA citation styles from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chicago Style Examples
of Chicago Manual of Style citations from the University of Madison-Wisconsin Writing
Center. International Federation
of Library Associations (IFLA) Citation Guides for Electronic Documents A variety
of online-citation styles derived from MLA and APA styles. Columbia Guide to Online
Style (by Janice Walker). Highlights from a new guidebook for online styles in the
humanities and the sciences. [Back to Top]
PERIODICALS AND BROADCAST MEDIA • News Directories American Journalism Review (AJR) Newslink
Newspapers (including campus newspapers), magazines, and radio/TV links around the world. NewsCentral 3,500 links to
newspapers around the world. News Directory.com Over 10,000 links to
national and international newspapers and magazines as well as television. News Resource News sources around the
world--some mainstream (Time World Wide) and some less familiar (such as
Hispanic/Latino News Service or Tabloid News Services). U-Wire Student-written, college-focused
newswire with daily feeds from 400 U.S. campuses. • Newspapers Most large newspapers have an archive of back issues, but many of them charge a nominal
fee for access to the full text of archived articles. Boston Globe Christian Science Monitor Los Angeles Times New York Times Washington Post trib.com the Internet newspaper
from Associated Press. Wall Street Journal Two
weeks of free access.
• Magazines Usually, the current issue of an online magazine is available for free but a fee is
charged to access archived articles. Atlantic Unbound Online
version of Atlantic Monthly. Discover Magazine The Economist Newsweek Salon Magazine Scientific American Smithsonian Time
• TV and Radio ABC News CBS News CNN MSNBC A joint venture of
Microsoft and NBC. National Public Radio Online PBS Online BBC News Online CBC (Canada)
• Film Internet Movie Database Information about
180,000 films. MovieWEB Previews of current films from 10
studios.
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BOOKS • Online Books On-Line Books Page From
Carnegie-Mellon University, links to over 9,000 books that can be read for free on the
Internet. Mainly out-of-copyright classics in English but also foreign language archives
and specialty archives (from children's literature to science fiction). (Beware: some
of these files are huge.) Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Classics
in English and American literature and Western philosophy online and downloadable as PDF
files. Many books are searchable. Project Gutenberg Public-domain
books--light literature, heavy literature, and reference books in "plain vanilla
ASCII." Books in Chains English
resources on the Web, including links to indexes, electronic texts, specific
canons/disciplines, libraries and institutions, booksellers, author pages, and literary
magazines on the Web. First Chapters (New
York Times Books). First chapters of some of the new books reviewed in The New York
Times. BookwirePublishers Weekly Web page,
including links to online book review magazines. • Online Bookstores amazon.com Borders.com Barnes & Noble The Independent Reader Recommendations
by leading independent bookstores. [Back to Top]
WRITING RESOURCES • OWLs and Online Writing Centers Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue.
Excellent resources for writers, including instructional handouts on writing concerns and
points of grammar. Includes links to dozens of other OWLs. The Writing Center at Colorado State
University. In its Reference Materials are handouts about writing, research, oral
presentations, and graphics. The Writing Center at Hunter
College. Online handouts about the writing process, grammar and mechanics, writing
research papers, and business and technical writing. The Writing Center at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. See especially the links for Online Help for Common
Writing Assignments and Problems and the links for HTML and Web Page Design Resources. • Guides to Grammar and Style Guide to Grammar and
Writing Concise hypertext guide from Capital Community-Technical College in
Hartford, CT.. Includes 150 Interactive Quizzes, an excellent list of Online Resources for
Writing, and Grammar FAQs. Elements of Style by William
Strunk, 1918 edition. The first edition of the concise classic guide to style and usage. • Guides to Writing Papers Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Interactive
online writer's guide from Boise State University. Contains practical exercises and
activities for each part of the writing process. Research QuickStudy from the University
of Minnesota. Online guide to the research process in the library and online. Proofreading Symbols A
quick review of proofreading symbols and abbreviations. • Guides to Writing Online Documents Web Style Guide From
Yale University, guidelines for the design and editorial content of Web pages. Good Documents Guidelines
for creating online business documents. Core Rules of Netiquette 10 key points for appropriate online communication. • Words and Phrases Commonly Confused Words
Definitions and examples of commonly confused words from the Author's Guide of the
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Use the Find command on your browser to locate the
word that's confusing you. Deadwood Phrases Lists of
wordy phrases and ways to tighten them (from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). The Word Detective by Evan
Morris. Word and phrase origins from Morris's newspaper column. • Writing Links Garbl's Writing Resources Online A comprehensive listing of links by a professional writer about grammar, style and
usage, plain language, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play, and a
writing bookshelf. Indispensable Writing
Resources Links to reference materials on the Internet. [Back to Top]
ESL RESOURCES ESL Web Guide Over 2,000 links for ESL
students and teachers. On-Line English Grammar
Searchable hypertext of grammar basics. Sound files are available too. Lists of Grammar Lists
Links for irregular verbs, spelling rules, verb-preposition combinations, linking verbs,
count and noncount nouns, and conjunctions from Georgia State University. Activities for ESL Students Self-study
quizzes, crossword puzzles, and links created by ESL teachers from around the world for The
Internet TESL Journal. [Back to Top] | 
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