Let these websites and tutorials help you search the web like a pro!
Subject Guides & Directories
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Alphabetical listing of links to scholarly and popular resources in 90+ topic areas, with brief annotations..
Great Sites for Kids
Directory of annotated links from the American Library Association, with categories that include Animals, The Arts, History & Biography, Literature & Language, Mathematics & Computers, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Offers search by intended audience (pre-K, elementary, middle school, parents/teachers/caregivers).
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Built by librarians, Infomine features "well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet." Collections include Business and Economics, Cultural Diversity, Visual & Performing Arts, E-Journals – and more.
Internet Public Library
Award winning "library" with access to Subject Collections, Ready Reference, Reading Room, Kidspace, Teenspace, and Special Collections. Begun in 1995 at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan, IPL is now supported by a consortium of colleges and universities.
Internet Resources
Resource guides published monthly in College & Research Libraries News and listed by topic or date of release. Recent guides include Sports Research, Copyright, and Technology in Teaching and Learning.
Internet Scout Archives
Searchable and browseable database for the weekly Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports, with critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.
Intute
Service created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites and offer detailed descriptions of resources for social sciences, science and technology, arts and humanities, and health and life sciences.
Librarians' Internet Index
Subject directory of more than 20,000 websites described and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. Features "New This Week" and "Hot News." LII has a long history, beginning in the early 1990s on Gopher!
Voice of the Shuttle
Provides access to scholarly websites for research in the humanities. The site offers browsing by subject area categories or search by topic.
WWW Virtual Library
Described as the oldest catalog of the web, started in 1991 by the creator of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee. The WWW Virtual Library is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who provide collections of links in areas of expertise.
Search Engines - Top Picks
Google!
"Voted four times Most Outstanding Search Engine by Search Engine Watch readers, Google has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web." Search Engine Watch
"Our verdict? Google is indeed the best search engine…" PC World April 15, 2007
Googling to the Max
User guide from UC-Berkeley answers the question "Why Google?"
Google Scholar
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Google Scholar is often considered a good companion research tool to library databases.
For information helpful to Bluffton users, see OhioLINK's news article, Using Google Scholar? Look for OLinks!
More Options
Search Engines: Search Engine Watch
Guide to major search engines & directories, meta-search engines, and multimedia search engines
Best Search Tools Chart
Comparison chart for selected search engines, meta-search engine, and subject directories.
How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
Offers options based on how you want to search, what you want to search for, and more.
Specialized Search Tools
Telephone and Address
Directories on the Web listing telephone, fax numbers, street addresses and e-mail addresses for people and businesses. From IPL, the Internet Public Library.
Specialty Search Engines
Guide to specialized search tools, from SearchEngineWatch.
Updated August 2007
