Designed
by Kan Li
Winner 2000/01
LHS Library
Bookmark Contest
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Lawrence
High School Library
Lawrence, Kansas
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Fast
Search
http://www.alltheweb.com/
This search engine claims to be the world's biggest search engine.
This is the product of Dell Computer and FAST. FAST is a Norwegian
company that has announced its intention to catalog the entire Internet.
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Google.com
http://www.google.com/
High quality search and not a lot of junk. |
InFoPeople's
Best Search Tools
http://www.infopeople.org/search/tools.html
InFoPeople's Best Search Tools gives you quick access to ten search
engines, directories, and meta-search services. |
Kartoo:
Visual Web Search
http://www.kartoo.com/
A very cool site!!!!! Place your topic in the search box. The best
sites are selected and placed on a map. From this map move your
pointer over a 'ball,' and the description of the site is displayed. |
OAIster
http://www.oaister.org/
University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS).
Reviewed 5 March 2003.
OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic
books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided
by the research library community. Users can search by keyword,
title, creator, subject or resource type, and searches yield a detailed
and well-organized description of the resource and a link to the
resource itself. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress'
American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers,
and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster
contains over a 1.26 million records harvested from over 185 institutions.
OAIster increases the visibility and accessibility of these unique
resources by providing a "broad, generic, information retrieval
resource for information about publicly available digital library
resources" via a single point of entry.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003
Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the reference and User
Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association |
Resource
Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk
RDNC, coordinated by staff from UKOLN (University of Bath) and Kings
College London.~ Reviewed 25 Feb. 2002.
The Resource Directory Network (RDN) is a searchable web directory
that links to over 35,000 Invisible Web sites and other excellent
Internet resources that are not captured by conventional search
engines. Material is identified and cataloged by subject and information
experts in colleges, universities, and other organizations. The
"hubs" of RDN, including BIOME (Health and Life Sciences),
EEVL (Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), Humbul (Humanities),
PSIgate (Physical Sciences) and SOSIG (Social Sciences, Business
and Law), allow RDN users to browse with a single interface and
conduct cross-disciplinary searching. RDN also offers "Behind
the Headlines," a news service and "Virtual Training Suite,"
a comprehensive set of online interactive tutorials. RDN is "aimed
at Internet users in further and higher education."
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002
Fourth Annual List
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
American Library Association |
Search
Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman. Reviewed 13 Feb. 2002.
Search Engine Watch seeks to arm the Internet searcher with "tips
and information about searching the web, analysis of the search
engine industry, and [to] help ... site owners trying to improve
their ability to be found in search engines." This searchable
site provides a comprehensive listing of search engines including
metacrawlers, kids search engines, and multimedia, with reviews
and ratings plus statistics regarding engine usage. Links to "Recent
Articles" on the home page provide background and helpful information
about what is happening on the web. This site could help many of
us use the Internet more efficiently.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002
Fourth Annual List
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
American Library Association |
Think
Differently
http://www.danielc.com/thingy.html
Are you ready for another search site? This site gives you access
to Metacrawler, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Northernlight, Google, USPS
Priority Mail Tracking, People Search, City Maps, and Hotmail Login. |
WorldCom
Marcopolo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet
content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's
content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to
top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans,
classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning,
and powerful search engines. This site was suggested by Art Sloan. |
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