Web Sites

Use the recommended resources below to find information on the world wide web. Remember to use caution when evaluating information on the free web.

General Search Engines
Scholarly Search Engines
Subject Directories
Selected Web Sites
Searching Tips

General Search Engines

exalead

Offers options to narrow your search: related terms, site type, content format, geographic location, etc.

Bing

Microsoft's latest search engine, it provides search suggestions and the ability to save and share searches.

Clusty

Searches several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking

Google.com

Widely-used search engine that ranks sites by popularity (i.e. how many other sites link to each page).

Metacrawler

Searches Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search, and Ask all at once.

Yahoo! Search

Ranks results according to their relevance by analyzing the web page text, title, description, source, and other document characteristics.

Scholarly Search Engines

arXiv.org

Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.

Citeseer

Searchable scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

E-print Network

A vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information communicating the results of research activities. A product of the Office of Scientific & Technical Information.

Google Scholar

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Set Preferences to link to full text available through Bobst Library.

A virtual library of university level Internet resources. It contains useful 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.

PubMed

More than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.

SciCentral

A gateway to scientific research news resources. Includes links to sites in the fields of Biosciences, Health Sciences, Physics/Chemistry, Earth & Space, and Engineering.

Science.gov

Search over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Scirus

A comprehensive science-specific search engine that includes journal content, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and websites.

Scitopia

Search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies includes peer-reviewed journal content, technical conference papers, and more.

Social Science Research Network

Search over 258,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers in a variety of social science subject areas.

TechXtra

Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, and thesis in engineering, mathematics and computing.

WorldWideScience

Allows you to search multiple national and international scientific databases at once. Developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Subject Directories

DMOZ Open Directory Project

The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.

Intute

Millions of web resources selected and organized by a network of subject specialists.

ipL2

Thousands of links organized by library volunteers.

The Scout Report Archives

Searchable and browseable database containing over 25,000 annotations of carefully selected Internet sites.

Library of Congress - Science Reference Services

A host of science subject guides and bibliographies.

Selected Web Sites

For quality web sites in your field of interest, select a Subject Guide and click on the "web resources" tab.

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