Research:

My Newspaper Article on How to Find What You're Looking For on the Net

Ask the Experts

Ask Jeeves--ask questions and get answers!

Awesome Lists -- Lists "Truly Awesome" and "Awesome" sites on the Net

Beyond the Black Stump -- a fantastic listing of over 10,000 reference sites!

Brittannica Online

Curt's Corner in Cyberspace -- wonderful resources!

Desktop Reference Tools (general reference and subject resources)

Electric Library (can subscribe to free trial offer)

Encyberpedia is the living encyclopedia from cyberspace.

Funk & Wagnalls-- complete unabridged text of America's most popular encyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls.

General Interest MultiLink Site -- sites for EVERYTHING. Great resource.

History Buff's Home Page is devoted to newspaper printing and publishing history and American history in general.

Hot Sheetcontains search engines, reference guides, and information about health, food, family, kids, and more.

InfoJunkies Virtual Library--contains links to writers' sites and much more.

Information Please--one-stop fact finding, research information, current news.

The Info Service -- HUGE reference desk -- fantastic

Internet Encyclopedia -- wonderful resource!

Internet Public Library

Internet Research for Writers outlines how you can find information on the Internet--and how you can find it faster.

The Journalist Resource Site (research info for reporters, writers, etc.)

Learning@Web.Sites (David Levin's wonderful site--loaded with information)

LibrarySpot-- for online research

List of Lists (science, government, research, web, publication, education, and more)

Local Eyes(find websites near your locale)

John McDonnell's Researcher's Toolkit is an excellent starting point for your Net research.

Measure 4 Measure is a collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, and translate.

Needle in a CyberStack--informational/search/research tool

The Noble Internet Directories offers access to a database of thousands of listings which contain information about experts, spokespersons, and consultants in all fields. Need an expert on something? Check out this site.

Ready Reference Using the Internet--research tool--fantastic!

Reference Desk (Wow! Medical/health centers, airlines, college info., entertainment, YOU NAME IT!)

Reference Sites that Demand a Closer Look -- My article published in InfoAlert.

Research Central, a good collection of well-organized research links that cover a wide variety of categories.

Research It (your one-stop reference desk--fabulous)

ResearchPaper.Com--study aid/research tool

Scout Toolkit Homepage -- resources for research and education and information on search engines

Study Web--over 15,000 research-quality links, categorized and reviewed

My Virtual Reference Desk (encyclopedias, newspapers, search engines, facts, etc.)

The Virtual Reference Desk from the Libraries of Purdue University.

Virtual Reference Sites (over 2500 information references and tools--such as calculators, calendars, directories, and facts)

Web Resources for Librarians

Wired Source--research tool for writers

Writers Free References are reference sites that are useful to writers.

WWW Virtual Library

Yahooligans Homework References (wonderful reference materials)

Search Engines and Directories:

The Angle--displays Web sites based on your preferences

Awesome List of Search Engines and Online Directories

Beaucoup Search Engines

Demon Internet NL -- contains numerous search engines with an explanation of each

Dr. Webster's Big Page of Search Engines -- contains several categories for you to search under

Dog Pile, a search engine

Exhaustive Search Engine Page -- 800 search engines in 45 categories

EXTReMe Search Companion -- over 120 engines

FastSearch.com, a special interest search engine

FeMiNa, Search Engine for Women

Forum One(search engine for online discussion forums)

Freelance Writers at the Mining Company

Inference Find, the intelligent and fast parallel web search engine

Info Service has 14,226 direct links, 233 subjects, 249 pages, and averages over 200 new links every week. Whoa!

Internet Rail--choose a train on a certain topic, and take a tour of rotating sites pertaining to that subject

Internet Searching -- Wonderful search engine resource.

Internet Sleuth, a search engine with over 1500 searchable databases

Internet Sleuth's Information Research Forum -- forum devoted to finding resources on the Net!

i-Search, a service of the Student Affairs Virtual Compass

LinkAway2 lists many categories for searching the Web

Mamma--The mother of all search engines

Meta Links--resource lists, subject trees, and virtual libraries

Meta Plus--excellent starting place on the Web with an index of directories and links to Websites in numerous categories. This listing is *huge* and very comprehensive

Northern Light Search

Ready Reference page is an excellent guide to searching the Internet.

Reference.com(search newsgroups, mailing lists, and forums)

The Re:Search Centre--search engine that looks you decide what you're looking for, whether it's web pages, pictures, sounds, etc.

Search Beat-- Search by categories

Search Broker -- Search by topic.

Search Engine Secrets

Search Engine Watch -- Learn how search engines work and fine points about each.

The Search Page--search for books, magazines, people, newspapers, news, etc.

Specialty Search Engines

37.com -- 37 Search Engines!

Tips for Better Searching -- My article published in InfoAlert.

Ultimate Search Page (wonderful resource)

Understanding and Comparing Search Engines

Virtual Search Engines

Virtual Sites is "a Web Surfer's Guide of over 250 helpful pages pointing towards 6,000 Selected sites.

W3 Search Engines (a collection).

Web 500 (categories such as education, government, finance, literature, magazines, etc.)

Webgator ... Investigative Resources on the Web

Websitz -- If you can only remember part of a website address, this search engine can help.

ZenSearch, a Search Engine by the People and FOR the People!