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$10/month or $60/year (half price); 30-day free trial
Excellent source of full text reports and articles; Electric Library Magazines & Newspapers; Site evaluation.
Use many specific terms at once for searching; avoid including common words, articles adjectives among your search terms. Problem is generating too many vaguely related sources so keep search subject narrow until few or no sources are nominated.
Free, check it out. Improving all the time.
IPL The Internet Public Library (Alternate access)
WWW Virtual Library (Subject Catalog)
Exceptional idea well implemented. Organized by topic and sub-topic; other views available. Know what you want to search for when you come here. I can spend hours enjoying a good run round this site and its links. See also the virtual university library references below.
Libraries and Librarianship - The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Excellent UK references including a Business Library.
The Birmingham School of Business (UK)
California Academy of Sciences
Cambridge University Medical Library
The Center for Excellence for Sciences and Mathematics Education, U of TN - Martin
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Harvard's Cabot Science Library
Institute for Scientific Information: ISI for Educators
Your CASO Guide: The Internet University
KMi Home Page at The Open University, UK
School Libraries on the Web: A Directory
Smithsonian Institute Libraries
United Microfilms International
Repository for Ph.D. and Masters Theses / Disssertations. Pricey, but excellent source of hard to get information. Electronic copies via .pdf files; citation capable. Hard Copies also available. Cost example for representative Ph.D. Thesis is $45 downloaded electronically, $55 for hard copy.
The University of Essex Department of Computer Science
Univ. of Virginia Electronic Text Library
Extensive but busy
CEPS-NASM Smithsonian Institute
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
Exploration in Education: Electronic Picture Books
Geographic Name Server/Xerox Map Gateway
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Educational Outreach
K-12 Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications Project
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Library Resource List - New Web Sites & Search Engines
National Association of Space Simulating Educators
The National Center for Atmospheric Research
The National Geophysical Data Center
NIH Molecular Biology Modeling
National Library of Medicine (Medline)
Shell Centre for Mathematical Education
Solar House Under Construction
Whois / White Pages / Directory Services
Links to thousands of newsgroups (a type of forum for discussion and reporting)
Lesson Plans - Gopher Menu
Find both WWW locations and content therein. Use also the Net Browser Search Function; use many specific terms at once for searching; avoid including common words, articles adjectives among your search terms. Problem is generating too many vaguely related sources. Keep search subject narrow until few or no sources are nominated.
See Power or Advanced Search features or Help function if flooded with references or they are not so helpful
META-SEARCH ENGINES - these sites are often slower, but they search other search engines and report back combined results to you.
This a meta-search engine, which means it sends your search query to a number of other search engines at the same time, then compiles the results and presents them to you in one list. The nifty thing about Highway 61 is that you can click on an option that allows you to open a new browser window for each item on your results list. This option helps compensate for the normally slower speed of meta-searches. Reported by John McDonnell'sReally Useful Business Sites.
A Meta- search engine. It opens a floating window where you can select from a list of search engines on a pop-up menu and run your query. Expect a slower search. Reported by John McDonnell's Really Useful Business Sites.
Alta Vista - excellent - generates useful sources as well as WWW links. Or
Celestial Press - List of Web Sources
Deja News - The Source for Internet Newsgroups!
Excite - Valuable for NewsTracker (click here for more information)+ Web search engine
Open Text Index - excellent - full text articles
Other Search Engines
Specialized sources and Indices; e.g., bookmark aviation news -- go to business-transport-aviation and visit weekly; Excellect for current aviation events
AT+T Toll-Free Internet Directory
IdeaList - Non-Profits 10,000 links
ONVILLAGE Yellow Pages+ / 15,000,000 Listings At Your Fingertips!
Schools Libraries on the Web: A Directory
Web Guides - Netscape Destinations
ALIWEB (searchable participant-based catalog of web sources)
Evaluation of information sources
Library of Congress: Links to Other Services
The Library Resource List: New Search Engines
Research Methods and Statistics
Starting Points for Internet Exploration
Study Web - Research Encyclopedia
UK-based Networked Information Resources for Social Scientists
UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking
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