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WEB RESEARCH STARTING POINTS

News --or-- Weather

 

Selected Search Engines*

All the Web
Alta Vista
AskJeeves
Ditto (searches for images; ask site for permission before downloading)
FindSounds.com (searches for sounds by category, e.g. elephant, drill, train, sneeze)
Google
INFOMINE, Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Lycos
Metacrawler
MSN Search
Scirus (for scientific information)
Teoma

WaybackMachine (Internet Archive)

*For a more complete list of search engines and a comparison of their features, try Search Engine Showdown.

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Deep Web Search Engines*

Complete Planet
Direct Search
InvisibleWeb

*(quality sites not found by search engines)

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Directories

Scholarly and Research Subject Directories

BUBL Information Service

Digital Librarian
InfoMine
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Scout Report Archives

 

Popular and Commercial Subject Directories

About.com
Yahoo.com

 

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Finding Addresses: For People; For Businesses; For Libraries; For Universities and Colleges; For Other

For People:

Carleton College
Internet Address Finder
QwestDex
Switchboard
Yahoo Peple Search

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For Businesses:

Airline Toll Free Numbers & Websites(maintained by Prineceton University)

Anywho (AT&T)
InfoUSA.com
QwestDex
SuperPages.com (Verizon)
Yahoo Yellow Pages

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For Libraries:

LibDex (Peter Scott)
LibrarySpot (StartSpot Network)
MNLibs.Org (Minnesotas' Multitype Library Cooperation Systems)

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For Universities and Colleges:

American Universities (Mike Conlon)
Educause Directory of Higher Education
College.Net

For Other:

Scholarly Societies Project (Jim Parrott, editor)

Genamics Journal Seek

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Copyright

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (from Univ. of Md. University College)
Copyright Clearance Center

Digital Milennium Copyright Act

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
Primer (online tutorial on copyright from U of Maryland)
U.S. Copyright Office

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News

Pioneer Planet (St. Paul)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

New York Times

Minnesota Newspapers (MNA Directory)

CNN

NPR (National Public Radio)

Google News and Resources

Poynter.org

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Weather

Northfield (Weather Underground)

Allergy Alert

Channel 4000

Carleton College Weather Database

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Maintained by Karen Fischer. Last updated 7/10/02

Contact: kfischer@carleton.edu