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Search Engines
Newspapers Online
Recommended Internet Sites
Online Reference Bookshelf
Libraries on the Web
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Search Engines

When using search engines to do research on the Internet, keep in mind that most of them have no quality control guidelines. Look for ways to limit your search to academic (.edu), government (.gov), or organization (.org) websites. More information about evaluating Internet resources.

Instead of heading first to Google or Yahoo! or AltaVista, try the following search engines which offer a little something extra:

InfoMine Scholarly internet resource collections, organized by subject
MetaCrawler Searches several major search engines at once (including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, FindWhat).
Scirus Scirus combines a targeted crawler from FAST that focuses only on web sites with scientific content, with Elsevier’s massive scientific information resources drawn from thousands of journals and books.
SciSeek SciSeek is a focused web directory created by human editors. It’s a useful tool for browsing for information in a specific scientific area.
Teoma A major search engine which “ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not j ust general popularity”

Recommended Internet Sites

BUBL LINK Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
CataList The official catalog of LISTSERV lists
CyberStacks “a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme”
Librarians’ Index to the Internet “...a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians”
News & Periodical Resources on the Web

Libraries on the Web

Keene State College/Keene Public Library (Keene-Link)
University of New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
New Hampshire State Library
Library of Congress
Libdex: a worldwide directory of library webpages

Newspapers Online

Searchable databases
†Indicates restricted access

† ABI/Inform: contains the full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present
Chronicling America This free-access site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
† LexisNexis Full text of national and regional newspapers, including the New York Times from 1980 to the present
† Newsbank Newspapers (OhioLINK) Online full-text newspapers
† Newspaper Source (OhioLINK) Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns.

Specific newspapers online. Please note that availability of archived news varies widely by particular newspaper, and that some newspapers require free registration to access content.

Last Updated: 4/21/08