Advice
Here's a Henderson Library guide to help you:
These links also offer advice on searching the web and evaluating the information that you find.
- How To Search The Web
- Has a basic description and usage instructions on ten of the more popular search engines.
- The Web as a Research Tool
- Shows how five traditional methods of evaluation of print sources: Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage, can be used to evaluate Web Sources. It also explains various methods of coping with some of the unique features of electronically published materials.
- Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
- This is a comprehensive tutorial with something for the beginner and the expert alike. With a glossary of Internet and Netscape Jargon, you will never be confused by the technobabble that is so ever present on the Internet. This tutorial has everything from basic instruction on what the Internet and World Wide are and how they work to recommended search strategies to specific instruction on constructing and refining searches in several of the more popular search engines. They also include links to a wide variety of web guides, virtual libraries, full- text resources (newspapers, journals, books), encyclopedias and catalogs of the Internet, listservs and Usenet groups and other ways of finding information in Cyber Space.
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These sites offer access to a selection of Internet sites including reviews or descriptions of those sites to assist the searcher in selecting those sites that will be most useful.
- Africa in the Digital World
- This site contains link to information and web pages about african countries.
- Cool Sites for Kids
- A collection of sites for children selected by librarians and presented by the ALA.
- Foreign World
- This site is full of free tools and services for anyone interested in languages and translation.
- IPL: The Internet Public Library
- The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. The library maintains a collection of online ready reference works; responds to reference questions; creates web resources; evalutes and categorizes resources on the Internet; and provides a space for exhibitions.
- Netfirst (on GALILEO in General Indexes)
- This database contains bibliographic citations (complete with summary descriptions and subject headings) describing Internet-accessible resources, including World Wide Web pages, interest groups, library catalogs, FTP sites, Internet services, Gopher servers, electronic journals, and newsletters. Records contain location information that can be used to connect users to resources of interest.
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- My Virtual Reference Desk is a reference collection on the web. It contains links to hundreds of sites from newspapers and encyclopedias to cook books and sports scores. It is continually updated with new sited added weekly.
- Scout Report
- This site provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. A team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.
- Trivia (Interesting Facts)
- This is a trivia page containing interesting information.
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Internet search engines attempt to offer access to most of the Internet via keyword and other searches. Studies have shown that the most complete search will be achieved by using several of the search engines rather than relying on just one.
- 411.com
- Find a person or business using White and Yellow pages.
- Accufind
- This site will help you search the Internet for any topic of interest.
- Altavista
- One of the newer fastest search engines available to college students.
- AOLNetFind
- Find information on topics ranging from arts, culture, and sports.
- Colossus
- This is an international directory of search engines.
- Excite
- Here you can do research, check e-mail, chat internationally, get all the latest news and much more.
- Finding Information: Search Engines
- Cescribes the many search engines available, and tell what you can search and find on each one.
- Free Email Providers
- Find free email sites, look up friends, create accounts, and find tutorials to the vast collection of free email sites online.
- Google
- Research all your all your information pertaining to education, recreation etc..: You can you can search other web links.
- Hotbot
- Complete resource guide to providing the answers you need to any questions.
- Lycos
- Complete resource guide to providing all the answers being asked.
- Netscape Netcenter
- Search engine for surfing the web for all the latest news, sporting, health, and several other events.
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Web directories attempt to organize the Internet into subject categories. These are especially helpful if there is lots of information on your topic available on the Internet.
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These pages will allow you to search the Internet using many Internet search engines at once so that you may see which engines bring the best results for your particular search.
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- Argus Clearinghouse
- The Argus Clearinghouse provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources. The guides are evaluated in five levels of criteria for levels of resource description, resource evaluation, design, organizational schemes and meta-information.
- AnyWho Toll Free Directory
- A toll-free directory with over 150,000 businesses and organizations. It is updated twice monthly to keeps its information as current as possible.
- Georgia Library PINES: Public Information Network for Electronic Services
- PINES is a unique initiative from the Georgia Public Library Service, Georgia Board of Regents, to bring the vision of a statewide library card for Georgia to reality. Any citizen of the state of Georgia may receive a PINES card that is valid at any PINES library across the state for borrowing materials. The PINES database lists all items owned by the 249 participanting libraries, and all PINES library patrons can see and borrow books and other materials from any PINES libraries.
- Legal Research (400+ legal search engines)
- Do extensive legal research directly from our site through access to well over 400+ legal search engines, tools and databases right from our Legal Research Meta search page. The Multiple Resource Research Tool allows you to search different legal resources from one interface and search box. Many of the resources can also be searched at the same time with the "parallel searching" capability.
- Librarian's Resource Center
- This site provides links to library catalogues, current awareness issues, information on how to cite information, as well as information on how to conduct searches.
- Library of Congress Catalogs
- This site allows you to search the Library of Congresses catalogs as well as access a variety of other government resources.
- OnLine Dictionaries
- This site provides access to language dictionaries to aid English speakers in learning and using foreign languages. With over 130 languages from the more common (German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese) to the rare (Urdu, Maori, Gaelic, Basque, Seneca) to the dead (Sumerian, Latin, Sanskrit) to the artificial (Esperanto, Quenya, Vulcan, Klingon) just about all possibilities are covered.
- Online Helpsheets
- Links to online help sheets for html, sgml, scanning, software, and CD-ROM. Some help sheets may not be applicable for Georgia Southern University students.
- ShelveIt!
- A portal designed for librarians to locate Internet Resources relate to the library profession.
- Switchboard
- This is a directory with over 106 million residential listings and 11 million business listings from published sources around the country with postal and e-mail addresses and phone numbers. It is one of the most comprehensive online directories available.
- The Universal Black Pages
- The main purpose of the UBP is to have a complete and comprehensive listing of African diaspora related Web pages at a central site.
- World Email Directory
- WED has an estimated access to more than 18,000,000 email addresses and more than 40,000,000 business and phone addresses worldwide!
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Last updated on 11/06/2007
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