1000 Search Engines & The Invisible Web,
The Hidden Net
SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES
Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround.
2007 Saint Mary's College of California, did a report on students' research habits says the worry over students' overreliance on Google and Wikipedia to complete assignments found that most students started their research by turning to course readings or the library Web site, not Web search engines or Wikipedia. Many students are overwhelmed by research assignments, "especially selecting and evaluating information and figuring out professors' expectations for quality research." --
TEACHERS - ACADEMIC OR SCIENTIFIC SEARCH ENGINES
- Encyclopedia of Life this site takes forever to load you have to patient.
"Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world."
Learn how this got started. A Web Page For Every Species - Invisibleweb.com "Invisible Web sources are critical because they provide users with specific, targeted information, not just static text or HTML pages," says Sundar Kadayam, CTO and Co-Founder, Intelliseek. "InvisibleWeb.com is a Yahoo-like directory. It is a high quality, human edited and indexed, collection of highly targeted databases that contain specific answers to specific questions," says Kadayam.
- BullsEye, meta search engine that can also access many of the sites included in InvisibleWeb.com.
- AlphaSearch directory of "gateway" sites that collect and organize Web sites that focus on a particular subject.
- Big Hub over 1,500 subject specific searchable databases in over 300 categories.
- Infomine Multiple Database Search scholarly resource collections, electronic journals and books, online library card catalogs, and directories of researchers.
- "Bare Bones 101
A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web," created by Ellen Chamberlain, head librarian at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, for professors and students who just want a quick overview to get them started. - SciCentral Gateway to 50,000 Science Sites http://www.scicentral.com/ : Gateway to the best science and engineering online resources. This site is maintained by professional scientists whose mission is to identify and centralize access to the most valuable scientific resources online. SciCentral currently constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science and engineering.
- CiteSeer focuses on computer science material, info tech content
- Scirus - latest scientific news
- SmealSearch business focus
- City Data - just plug in your zip code and learn everything about it.
- National Sex Offender Registry
- Infomine A database that includes a broad range of educational collections. Governemnt, science, social science, maps, regional resources and visual and performing arts are all covered here.
- The Virtual Technical Reports Center The Center provides links to either full-text or searchable, extended abstracts of technical reports and other types of research publications (preprints, reprints, dissertations, and theses). The site, which is updated weekly, is organized alphabetically. Links consist mainly of governmental and university-based research institutions from around the world.
- News Trawler
NewsTrawler is a Parallel Search Engine for news archives. Search for articles from the archives of hundreds of online information sources from around the world. Students can research news items for projects; teachers can use it as a research aid for teaching. - SMEAL SEARCH - Search for business documents on a specific subject or by a specific author
- Internet Archive
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NEED HELP? ASK AN ANNONYMOUS QUESTION
FROM YOUR TRUSTED LIBRARIAN AT THE QUESTION BOARD ONLINE. The main thought behind QB is that undergraduates are often reluctant to approach a librarian - and often they might have a question where they want to remain anonymous. There was an article on QB in College & Research Libraries News a few years back. Apparently the service is fondly remembered by alumni. It also serves to give UIUC library school students experience with reference. It used to be an actual bulletin board at one time.
- CLUE: fee-based database publishers are specialized database tools that are no longer necessary!!!
- Who Is Everyone @ the LOC FEDERAL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER
- Nownow.com Amazon’s answers-like service that allows you to ask questions via your phone [or other web enabled device] and they’ll email you back three answers, fast.
- Email the question and they will find real people to answer it and send 3 answers back to you. http://www.librarian.net/stax/1940.
- Every public library in the US is available for free
- Paratext "A single search through 28000+ authoritative printed and online reference works--linked to each library's local reference collection."
- NYPL Science, Industry, Business Research Guides
- Bibliocasting listserv
- Grey Literature, Grey Water
A podcast from George C. Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about grey literature. One of a series, found here. - Read How Google Books is Changing Academic History "...] Time for a professional dialogue about the new kinds of research these texts have opened up. For a very vast vista has erupted before us, and with it, a more serious set of comparative questions as a standard for social history, and new levels of rigor to be expected from the individual researcher. No longer can historians afford to stay in the empty, lonely world of the weary scholar, pouring of close readings of dialogue. Time for all those structural analysis skills to come back in full force. Quantitative and open databases of word-count and thematic analyses. Open databases of pictures, tagged by keywords and available for classroom use.
What this signals, by the way, is the opportunity for a new age of scholarship. Cultural and image analysis used to be painfully time-consuming, heavy lifting, involving rare kinds of access, full fellowships, immense travel, and long waits for delicate books. Comparison between different cultural sources was even harder, placing absurd demands on the cultural historian's personal memory and note-taking skills. Cultural historians, despite their many skills, stood second in depth of research on any particular topic to political historians, for whom one visit to a Parliamentary archive and one visit to a personal residence outfitted them with every last detail of historical change. Now all that is changing. Comparing a hundred images is no longer a problem for a year's labor in an out-of-the-way museum reading room. Comparing a hundred personal accounts from working men is no longer a task to eat up a social historian's entire year." - The Educators Reference Desk and Resource Guide
- Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia the free encyclopedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
- Infomotions The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
- Scribd.com - Upload and share books and papers.
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