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Internet Searching Tools

The following websites result from different attempts to organize the varied content of the World Wide Web. Some of these strive to make it easier to find a set of web pages with related information by creating a directory or listing of links for the user to browse graphically. Some are search engines that limit search results to a specialized category. For example, Google Scholar specializes in scholarly works.

• Librarian's Index to the Internet

  "Our motto: "Information You Can Trust." The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. lii.org is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources."

• Google's web directory

  "The web organized by topic into categories."

• Open Directory Project

  "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors."

• Infomine

  INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet 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, organized by subject area.

  INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.

• Google Scholar

  Google Scholar is not a directory, but a specialized search engine for finding scholarly literature on the Internet, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."