A Brief History of the Internet, version 3.1 http://www.isoc.org/internet-history Internet History and Growth http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/2002_..._and_Growth.ppt Hobbes’ Internet Timeline http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline Evaluating quality ofinformation found on the Internet The Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet http://www.virtualchase.com/quality Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources http://www.valpo.edu/library/evaluation.html Locating earlier pages and their content Wayback Machine—Internet Archive http://www.archive.org Directories of Invisible Web sites Direct Search http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm invisible-web.net http://www.invisible-web.net CompletePlanet http://completeplanet.com More information on copyright and the Internet United States Copyright Office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright Copyright Web Site http://www.benedict.com Copyright and the Internet http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm Sites that provide links to popular style guides online Karla’s Guide to Citation Style Guides http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Gu...rnet/Style.html Sites that provide free e-mail alerting services and also provide archives of past content The Resource Shelf http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com FreePint http://www.freepint.com ResearchBuzz http://www.researchbuzz.com Internet Resources Newsletter http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn The Scout Report http://scout.wisc.edu Web Directories Yahoo! http://yahoo.com Open Directory http://dmoz.org LookSmart http://looksmart.com Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org Search Engine Colossus http://www.searchenginecolossus.com Web portals Excite http://excite.com Lycos http://lycos.com AOL http://www.aol.com MSN http://msn.com Netscape http://netscape.com FAQ about portals http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=9#what Finding Specialized Directories Teoma seach engine http://teoma.com Finding Specialized Directories in Professional Publications http://freepint.com Collections of specialized directories The WWW Virtual Library http://www.vlib.org Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com Sites that provide an extensive collection of links toreference tools such as encyclopedias,dictionaries, and so forth Internet Public Library Reference Ready Reference http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR refdesk.com http://refdesk.com InfoMine http://infomine.ucr.edu BUBL LINK http://bubl.ac.uk/link Project Gutenberg http://www.promo.net/pg Library of Congress Gateway to Library Catalogs http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html Social Sciences and Humanities Social Science Information Gateway http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk Tennessee Tech History Web Site http://www2.tntech.edu/history Virtual Religion Index http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri Physical and Life Sciences ChemDex http://www.chemdex.org HealthFinder http://www.healthfinder.gov MEDLINE Plus Health Topics http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html Engineering EEVL:The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing http://www.eevl.ac.uk Business and Economics New York Times Cybertimes—A Selective Guide to Internet Business, Financial, and Investing Resources http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html CEOExpress http://ceoexpress.com Virtual International Business and Economic Sources http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm Resources for Economists on the Internet http://rfe.wustl.edu WebEc http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc I3—Internet Intelligence Index http://www.fuld.com/i3 Government and Governments Governments on the WWW http://www.gksoft.com/govt Foreign Government Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html FirstGov http://firstgov.gov UK Online http://www.open.gov.uk Political Resources on the Net http://www.politicalresources.net Legal FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com Education Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide Education World http://education-world.com Education Index http://www.educationindex.com News Kidon Media-Link http://www.kidon.com/media-link Genealogy Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet http://www.cyndislist.com Most popular search engines: ALLTHEWEB http://alltheweb.com Title searching: title: someword URL Searching: url: someword Link Searching: link: someword NOT: someword –someword OR: someword (someotherword somequiteothereword) CONVERT: convert: 27miles ALTAVISTA http://www.altavista.com Title searching: title: someword Url searching:“windows xp” url: microsoft.com Domain: domain: net Link searching: link: microsoft.com Like: like:somewordsimulartotheword Text: text:sometext Near: oneword NEAR anotherword Wildcart: “metal*” will return: metals, metalic and so on. – can be used with prefixes. Ex: title: russia* GOOGLE http://www.google.com title searching: intitle: someword allintitle: someword In URL: inurl:somesite allinurl: somesite site: somesite Link searching: link: somesite File types: filetype: somefiletype Related pages: related: somesite Cache: cache: somesite Info: info: somesite HOTBOT http://www.hotbot.com Title searhing: title: someword TEOMA http://teoma.com Title searching: intitle: someword URL searching: inurl: somesite Site search: site: somesite Language searching: lang: somelanguage Geographical location: geoloc: somelocation Other general search engines: Lycos http://lycos.com WiseNut http://www.wisenut.com MSN Search http://search.msn.com Be updated with the latest search engines on those sites: Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com Resources for Locating and Using Groups: • Google’s Groups Search. For searching Usenet groups and postings • Google’s Web Search. For locating some non-Usenet groups • Yahoo! Groups. Only for groups on the Yahoo! site, but there are hundreds of thousands of them • Delphi Forums. Over 100,000 active forums on the Delphi Forums site (http://www.delphiforums.com) • Ezboard. Can be found at http://www.ezboard.com Web sites for location mailing lists: Topica.com Topica.com L-Soft CataList, the Official Catalog of LISTSERV_ Lists http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html Encyclopedias Encyclopedia.com http://encyclopedia.com Encarta http://encarta.msn.com Voila Encyclopédie avec Hachette http://encyclo.voila.fr Encyclopedia Britannica http://britannica.com Dictonaries YourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com Merriam-Webster Online http://www.m-w.com Dictionnaire Universel Francophone En Ligne http://www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr diccionarios.com http://www.diccionarios.com LEO—Link Everything Online http://dict.leo.org Almanacs InfoPlease http://www.infoplease.com Addresses and Phone Numbers Wayp International White and Yellow Pages http://www.wayp.com Yahoo! People Search http://people.yahoo.com AnyWho http://www.anywho.com Quotations Quote Links http://www.quotationspage.com Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com Foreign Exchange Rates/Currency Converter Yahoo! Finance—Currency Conversion http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u Weather Weather Underground http://wunderground.com Maps The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps Gazetteer Global Gazetteer http://www.world-gazetteer.com ZIP Codes U.S. Postal Service http://www.usps.com/zip4 STOCK QUOTES CNNMoney http://money.cnn.com STATISTICS Statistical Resources on the Web—Comprehensive Subjects http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stcomp.html Statistics.com http://www.statistics.com The Directory of Online Statistics Sources http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/stats.htm U.S. Statistics USA Statistics in Brief http://www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov BOOKS Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com Finding Information About Books—Bibliographic Databases Library of Congress http://catalog.loc.gov British Library http://blpc.bl.uk Full-Text Books Online The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books Project Gutenberg http://www.promo.net/pg Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents http://www.law.ou.edu/hist University of Virginia Hypertext Collection http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html GOVERNMENTS AND COUNTRY GUIDES Governments on the WWW http://www.gksoft.com/govt Foreign Government Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook CountryWatch.com http://www.countrywatch.com U.S. GOVERNMENT FirstGov http://firstgov.gov GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov U.S. STATE INFORMATION Library of Congress—State and Local Governments http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html U.K. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION UK Online http://www.open.gov.uk BASIC RESOURCES FOR COMPANY INFORMATION CorporateInformation http://www.corporateinformation.com Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com D&B Small Business Solutions http://sbs.dnb.com Thomas Register http://www2.thomasregister.com ASSOCIATIONS American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORIES AMA Physician Select—Online Doctor Finder http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm Lawyers.com http://lawyers.com LITERATURE DATABASES Direct Search http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm A grab bag of (mainly) free bibliographies and bibliographic databases on the Web http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/freebase.htm Ingenta http://www.ingenta.com COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Peterson’s http://petersons.com College Search http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch TRAVEL Fodors.com http://www.fodors.com Lonely Planet Online http://www.lonelyplanet.com Reservation Sites Travelocity http://travelocity.com Expedia http://expedia.com Orbitz http://orbitz.com FILM Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com Directories of Image Resources on the Internet Finding Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/fiolinks.htm Digital Librarian: A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: Images http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html BUBL LINK: Image Collections http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm Search Engine Image Collections Google’s Images Search http://google.com AltaVista http://altavista.com AllTheWeb http://alltheweb.com Commercial Collections Corbis http://corbis.com Exemplary Individual Collections American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov WebMuseum, Paris http://ibiblio.org/wm ClipArt Barry’s Clipart http://barrysclipart.com Yahoo Directory > Graphics > Clipart http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Interne...aphics/Clip_Art Audio World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio http://archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/audio Audio Resources: Radio Stations Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet) http://www.radio-locator.com Other Audio Resources The History Channel: Speeches http://www.historychannel.com/speeches The Movie Sounds Page http://www.moviesounds.com Directory of Video Resources on the Internet BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Video http://bubl.ac.uk/link/v/video.htm NEWS RESOURCE GUIDES Kidon Media-Link http://www.kidon.com/media-link NewsLink http://newslink.org Metagrid http://www.metagrid.com MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS AND NEWSWIRES BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk CNN http://www.cnn.com MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com Reuters http://reuters.com RADIO AND TV Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet) http://www.radio-locator.com NPR http://www.npr.org AGGREGATION SITES World News Network http://www.wn.com Moreover.com http://moreover.com Newsnow.co.uk http://newsnow.co.uk Aggregation Sites—Major Web Search Engines AllTheWeb News Search http://alltheweb.com AltaVista News Search http://altavista.com Google News Search http://news.google.com Weblogs Open Directory: Computers: Internet: On the Web:Weblogs http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs ALERTING SERVICES NewsAlert http://www.newsalert.com Google News Alerts http://www.google.com/newsalerts Online Shopping Resource Guide ShoppingSpot http://shoppingspot.com COMPANY CATALOGS ThomasRegister http://www.thomasregister.com SHOPPING MALLS Yahoo! Shopping http://shopping.yahoo.com Amazon.com http://amazon.com eBay http://ebay.com Froogle http://froogle.com Directory of Price Comparison Sites Open Directory: Consumer Information: Price Comparisons http://dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Price_Comparisons MySimon http://www.mysimon.com PRODUCT AND MERCHANT EVALUATIONS Epinions http://epinions.com BizRate.com http://bizrate.com Consumer Reports http://consumerreports.org ConsumerReview.com http://consumerreview.com Consumer Search http://consumersearch.com SITES TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR WEB SITES Webmonkey http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey Reallybig.com: The Complete Resource for All Web Builders http://Reallybig.com About.com:Web Design http://webdesign.about.com ALTERNATIVES TO YOUR OWN WEB SITE Blogger http://Blogger.com