Popular Search Engines:
- Google - A comprehensive search engine for the entire world wide web, with more relevant sites listed first.
- Other Web Search Tools - A list of some of the more popular search engines today
Subject Specific Search Engines:
- Google Scholar - Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
- Google -- US GOVERNMENT SEARCH - Search government documents on the web, from Google.
- Images - Search for graphic images on the web using Google Image search. Or use Alta Vista Image Search. Or see a fuller list of image search tools on the Art & Graphics page.
- Scirus - Comprehensive science-specific search engine, searching not only websites but full-text articles and abstracts from Medline, ScienceDirect, and BioMed Central.
MetaSearch Websites:
- Best Information on the Net - Selective directory of Internet resources, from St. Ambrose University.
- Complete Planet - Index to web sites not accessible using conventional search engines.
- Infomine - Major scholarly categories help searchers focus topics. Abstracts included: librarians created and added web sites.
- Librarians Internet Index - Librarian-selected Internet resources.
- Internet Public Library - Subject guide to internet resources.
Web Evaluation Tools: