About - http://www.about.com/ “Expert guidance from real people.” ACRL–Internet Resources - http://www.ala.org/acrl/resrces.html Every month since 1998 a new annotated subject guide is added. Examples include Grant Resources on the Web, Genealogy, Geography, Foreign Language, Literature and Culture, Fashion and Costume, etc. AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com/ Useful for searching locating “ information strings” found in web documents such as “our forefathers brought forth a new nation, conceive in liberty”. ARGUS Clearinghouse: The Internet’s Premiere Research Library - http://www.clearinghouse.net/ Divides subjects into 13 major categories with many sub-categories while also providing a site search engine. Sites are rated on a scale of five, but not annotated. Ask.com – http://www.ask.com/ User friendly engine. Allows user to ask questions. BUBL Link – http://bubl.ac.uk/link/index.html Formerly the BUlleton Board for Libraries. This British site covers all academic subject areas and is catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. With about 11,000 sites selected, BUBL is small but pithy. An unusual feature is the ability to search for sites by MANY categories including host country, official Government home pages, Dewey Decimal Classification, and web page type (bibliographies, biographies, maps, poems, sound collections, thesauri, etc. There is also a site search engine. Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com/ Searches Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and AskJeeves Excite - http://www.excite.com/ Similar to Yahoo! Combines a search engine with an index.
Probably the most popular search engine. Google also has secondary search engines for searching Images , Groups , News , Scholarly Information , and over 20 other subcatagories . INFOMINE:Scholarly Internet Resource Collection – http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals (0ver 2,400), electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many other types of information. Most subject terms are identifies by Library of Congress numbers. Librarian ’s Index to the Internet – http://lii.org/ Very similar to Yahoo, only made for librarians. Combines an on-site search engine with a subject directory. Metacrawler - http://www.metacrawler.com/ Searches Google. Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, and FindWhat. WWW Virtual Library - http://vlib.org/ A virtual library on the web created by librarians / subject experts. Yahoo! – http://www.yahoo.com/ Probably the most popular search engine. Yahoo! combines searching with a directory of useful, pre-selected sites allowing the user to drill down from a main category through layers of subcategories to specific topic.
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