Internet Searching Tools

Altavista (Web searcher)
A search engine from Digital Equipment Corp, which claims to be the most comprehensive.

'Best on the Net'
One librarian's subject guide to the best information on the Internet, organized by category.

Bigfoot
An e-mail and address/telephone directory "white pages" for the United States.

Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists
From the Association of Research Libraries, a searchable directory of newsletters and e-journals, and Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences.

Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
A searchable database of electronic discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's Mushes, mailing lists, interactive Web chat groups etc. (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagogical and professional activities.

Google
Search for web sites as well as Usenet groups.

Internet Address Finder
Try this site if you're looking to find someone's e-mail address (over 4 million listings).

Lycos
A search engine for resources on the Internet. Type in some words you'd like to search on, and Lycos will come up with a bunch of possibly relevant sites.

Mailing List Archive: Liszt
A searchable index to LISTSERV lists and other electronic discussion lists.

OIAster
This website allows users to search across users to search the digital library collections of hundreds of institutions. The database can be searched by keyword, author, title, subject or by institution. Searches can be limited by type of file (text, audio, image) as well.

Scout Report
Guides (published weekly) which highlight important new resources on the Internet.

Yahoo
A catalog of Internet resources, organized by subject, updated regularly.

Last Modified: May 19, 2008