Academic Search Engines, Directories and Virtual Libraries
- Academic Index metasearch engine accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine multi-disciplinary search engine which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library
- Directory of Open Access Journals directory of free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
- Google Scholar - locates more scholarly sources on the web
- Infomine - sites selected and annotated by academic librarians
- Intute free online service providing you with access to web resources for education and research
- Live Search Academic search for scholarly journals, conference proceedings, dissertations and academic books
- MCC Sites by Subject - our very own list of quality sites related to our curriculum
- Project Gutenberg the original, and oldest, etext project on the Internet
- ChemRefer full text search engine which indexes chemical and pharmaceutical literature
- FindLaw LawCrawler comprehensive source for legal information
- Google Uncle Sam - locates only government web sites
- Northern Light Search for business and industry
- Scirus: For Scientific Information Only most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet
Sites for Keeping Up-to-Date on Web Search Tools
- Ask uses the ExpertRank algorithm
- Bing - Microsoft's new search engine. Organizes search results into categories.
- Clusty - a metasearch engine that produces clustered results (similar results grouped together)
- Google - the biggest web search engine with many specialized search features
- ibiblio: the public's library and digital archive - conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies
- Jux2 compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with one search
- Librarians' Index to the Internet - sites selected and annotated by public librarians
- Yahoo!