Subject Directories and Search Engines
- Search Engine News
- Subject Directories
- Subject Search Engines
- Metasearch Engines
- Book Search
- Scholarly Article Search
Search Engine News
Search Engine Showdown: The User's Guide to Web Searching
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
This site "compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective." Find critical reviews of the major commercial search engines and subject directories, ranging from organized comparison charts, reviews, strategies for searching, statistical analyses, and much more.(LII)
Search Engine Watch Blog
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/
The purpose of this blog is to highlight news tidbits and other information not covered in regular Search Engine Watch features. (LII)
Subject Directories
Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net
"An
online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational
resources for high school and college students as well as a directory
of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources
(SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). We also offer timely news
and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan
Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, and the War on Terrorism."(AI)
BUBL UK
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
organized by Dewey Decimal numbers.Provided by the Centre for Digital
Library Research in Glasgow, Scotland.
Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
An excellent directory of online resources, organized by topic, and maintained by a librarian.
Although most of the many links are only briefly annotated, the "see"
and "see also" references assist searchers. The simplicity of the page
makes it load quickly, and this is a good starting place for new Web
searchers and librarians alike. (LII)
Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
"A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty,
students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful
Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books,
bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles,
directories of researchers, and many other types of information."(Infomine)
The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/
"the
oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of
HTML and of the web itself; widely recognised as being amongst the
highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web." (WWVL)
Subject Search Engines
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
"An
index to the online exhibits of thousands of artists, searchable by
artist's name and browsable by movement, medium, subject of art,
nationality of artist, or women artists. Entries include links to
museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. The focus is
primarily painting and sculpture, but a smattering of other media
(architecture and decorative arts, for example) are represented. The
site also has archived monthly articles on art, and a museum directory." (LII)
Artnet: Research Library
http://www.artnet.com/library/
Contains
thousands of concise versions of articles from the Grove Dictionary of
Art, including biographies of "painters, sculptors, photographers,
designers, architects, ceramicists, [and] graphic artists," and
information on art materials, techniques, styles, and movements. (LII)
Findlaw
http://www.findlaw.com/
Contains
"legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses,
students and individuals. These resources include Web search utilities,
cases and codes, legal news, an online career center," and more.
Searchable and browsable. (LII)
Inomics: The Internet Site for Economics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/show
"Inomics is an Internet service especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements, a human-edited directory as well as a database of research papers in economics".
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/rousseau.htm
Essay
about "one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in
eighteenth century Europe." Includes biographical material, overviews
of works such as his major work on political philosophy, "The Social Contract," and a brief evaluation of Rousseau's influence. Also includes a bibliography. (LII)
Political Information
http://www.politicalinformation.com/
"A search engine for politics, policy and political news".
PsychCrawler
http://www.psychcrawler.com/
"Indexing the web for the best in psychology".
Scirus - science
http://www.scirus.com/
"A
search engine designed to focus on Internet resources containing
research-oriented scientific content, such as university Web sites and
author home pages. Citations to journal articles are also provided,
although subscription is required for access to full text of journals.
" (LII)
SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/
A directory of sociological resources available on the Web., includes new books, a newsletter, and job links.
MetaSearch Engines
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
There are several special things about this
meta search engine. It includes simultaneous searches of subject
directories, usenet news, mailing lists, and FTP collections, as well
as Web pages. You can customize the search order AND it will
automatically use some of the advanced search operators if the database
searched has them.(LII)
Ixquick
http://ixquick.com/
Many Web searching databases are searched by
this meta search engine. Translates your search into each search
engine's syntax. Can perform natural language or complex Boolean
searches. Supports phrases, wildcards, parentheses, pluses (+), minuses
(-), capitalization, fields, and other modifiers such as NEAR. Also
does news, MP3, and pictures searches. Also available in German,
French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. (LII)
Search.com
http://www.search.com/
Good for finding specialized search engines,
more than 700 that find all kinds of information... from World Wide Web
sites to phone numbers to movies to stock quotes, and all points
between. You can search in customizable topic categories that include
business, computing, entertainment, gaming, government, health,
international, music, news (great for breaking news), people,reference,
reviews, shopping, and travel. (LII)
Book Search
Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/
A searchable archive of the full texts of books scanned from publishers and libraries. The site includes a discussion of what portions of materials are available for books that may still be under copyright protection: "you'll only see snippets of text directly around your search term. (LII)
Windows Live Search Books
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=books+live+search&scope=books&FORM=BCBB#q=books%20live%20search
The full texts of scanned books that are not under copyright.
Scholarly Article Search
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and
sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles,
from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. (Google)
Live Academic Search
http://academic.live.com/
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for
article titles, author names, article abstracts, and conference
proceedings. (Windows Live Academic)