Library Collection Development

Google - the biggest web search engine with many specialized search features

Academic Search Engines, Directories, & 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

General Web Search Tools

All the Web - easy to use, large, general search engine
AltaVista - offers excellent advanced search features for the serious searcher
Ask uses the ExpertRank algorithm
Clusty - a metasearch engine that produces clustered results (similar results grouped together)
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
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Specialized Search Tools

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