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Internet Search Tools
Librarian-approved Internet Search |
Instead of just going to Google, try a Google Advanced Search or use some of the resources below to improve your search results.
Librarian-approved Internet Search
Need...
... a quick employment statistic for your sociology paper?
... the e-mail of your state senator or address of a government agency?
... a reminder of how to cite your sources in a bibliography?
Find reliable Internet information by searching from our list of approved websites in the following subject areas:
Biographies
Dictionaries
General Information and Encyclopedias
United States Government Resources
Worldwide Government Resources
Health, Nursing, and Medicine
Images
Legal Information
Maps and Atlases
Greenfield Area Information
Massachusetts Information
Statistics
Today's Headlines
Evaluated Directories
Evaluated directories include links to websites that have been evaluated and selected for quality by librarians or other scholars.
Best Information
on the Net (BIOTN)
A directory created by librarians at St. Ambrose University. The directory is not searchable by keyword, but is browseable by categories such as Hot Paper Topics, Resouces by Major, and Faculty Resources.
BUBL Link
A searchable directory of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas, created by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
Infomine
A searchable directory of scholarly Internet resources in all academic subject areas, created by the Library of the University of California, Riverside.
Internet Public
Library Subject Collections
A browseable (but not searchable) collection of high quality Internet resources, selected for their usefulness in providing accurate, factual information on a range of topics.
Intute
A searchable directory of over 100,000 Internet resources for education and research, created by a network of universities and partners in the United Kingdom.
Librarians' Index to the
Internet
Includes links to over 20,000 Internet resources organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics, publicly funded and maintained by California librarians.
Scout
Report Archives
A searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the weekly Scout Report of high quality websites in various subject areas, created by librarians at the University of Wisconisin-Madison.
"Invisible Web" Directories
The "Invisible Web" or "Deep Web" refers to information on websites that must be searched directly and won't show up in the results from search engines such as Google. Try this directory, or one of the Evaluated Directories above, to locate Deep Web information in a variety of subject areas:
Metasearch Engines
Meta search engines search the Internet using multiple other search engines (such as Google and Yahoo) simultaneously. Some include blog searches and/or customization features. For brief reviews of many more metasearch engines, see this article from SearchEngineWatch.com.
Visual Searching
Are you a visual thinker? Some resources, including the EBSCOhost subscription databases, are beginning to offer visual displays of results. For visual searching of the Internet, try: