Chapter 4 Beyond Search Engines Hyperlinks to the URLs mentioned in this chapter
Note: Long URLs are sometimes omitted to control width of the display.

This material has been prepared to accompany the book "Learning to Use the Internet and the World Wide Web" (ISBN 1-887902-78-3) by Ernest Ackermann and Karen Hartman, and published by Franklin, Beedle and Associates, Incorporated, Wilsonville, OR. © 2002. No part of this may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed without permission of the publisher.

• "The Environmental Ethics Subject Guide" http://www.cep.unt.edu
• "The World Factbook"
• PubMed: The National Library of Medicine's search service for the MEDLINE database, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
  

FYI Major Directories on the Web

• Galaxy http://galaxy.com
  
• HotBot Directory http://hotbot.lycos.com
  
• LookSmart http://www.looksmart.com
  
• Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org
  
• Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com
  

FYI: Information on the Web About Directories

• "Searching by Means of Subject Directories" http://www.monash.com/spidap1.html#directories
  
• "Comparing Internet Subject Directories"
  http://www.notess.com/search/dir
  
• "Using Subject Directories: A Tutorial"
  http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan
  

FYI Virtual Libraries

• Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources http://www.academicinfo.net
  
• The Argus Clearinghouse http://www.clearinghouse.net
  
• Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu
  
• The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
  
• Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org
  
• Library Spot http://libraryspot.com
  
• World Wide Web Virtual Library http://vlib.org
  

FYI Tools that List Specialized Databases

• Beaucoup http://www.beaucoup.com
  
• Digital Librarian: a Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web http://www.digital-librarian.com
  
• Direct Search http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
  
• Internet Public Library (IPL) Reference Center http://www.ipl.org/ref
  
• Fossick.com http://www.fossick.com
  
• The InvisibleWeb http://invisibleweb.com
  
• LibrarySpot http://libraryspot.com/
  
• Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org
  
• The Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
  

This material has been prepared to accompany the book "Learning to Use the Internet and the World Wide Web" (ISBN 1-887902-78-3) by Ernest Ackermann and Karen Hartman, and published by Franklin, Beedle and Associates, Incorporated, Wilsonville, OR. © 2002. No part of this may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed without permission of the publisher.

You can help support this site by buying books, CDs, and other items after clicking on this link.