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This page is to offer you many research databases and other links which may be helpful to you in your quest for information . . . ENJOY!
LINKS TO LIBRARIES I LIKE TO USE:
Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/
South County Library (Roanoke) http://roanokecountyva.gov/Facilities.aspx?Page=detail&RID=84
Gallaudet University Library http://www.gallaudet.edu/library.html
RHEC Library http://www.education.edu/library/
Radford University McConnell Library http://library.radford.edu/
Washington & Lee University Library http://library.wlu.edu/
REFERENCE RESOURCES
Bartleby.com
http://bartleby.com
DMOZ
www.dmoz.org
Encyclopaedia Britannica
www.britannica.com
Google Books
http;//books.google.com
Google Maps
http:///maps.google.com
Infoplease
www.infoplease.com
ipl2
www.ipl.org
Library of Congress's Virtual Reference Shelf
www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.htlm
Math.com
www.math.com
Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Quotations Page
http://quotationspage.com
RefDesk
www.refdesk.com
ThomasNet
www.thomasnet.com
U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
The World Almanac
www.worldalmanac.com
YourDictionary
www.yourdictionary.com
POPULAR EDUCATIONAL DATABASES:
ERIC
eric.ed.gov
Education Research Complete
www.ebscohost.com
Academic Research Complete
http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete
10 SEARCH ENGINES FOR THE HIDDEN WEB: Just like general web search, searching the Invisible Web is also about looking for the needle in the haystack. Only here, the haystack is much bigger. The Invisible Web is definitely not for the casual searcher. It is a deep but not dark because if you know what you are searching for, enlightenment is a few keywords away.
1. Infomine
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Infomine has been built by a pool of libraries in the United States. Some of them are University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, and the University of Detroit. Infomine ‘mines’ information from databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other resources.
You can search by subject category and further tweak your search using the search options. Infomine is not only a standalone search engine for the Deep Web but also a staging point for a lot of other reference information. Check out its Other Search Tools and General Reference links at the bottom.
2. The WWW Virtual Library
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This is considered to be the oldest catalog on the web and was started by started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web. So, isn’t it strange that it finds a place in the list of Invisible Web resources? Maybe, but the WWW Virtual Library lists quite a lot of relevant resources on quite a lot of subjects. You can go vertically into the categories or use the search bar. The screenshot shows the alphabetical arrangement of subjects covered at the site.
3. Intute
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Intute is UK centric, but it has some of the most esteemed universities of the region providing the resources for study and research. You can browse by subject or do a keyword search for academic topics like agriculture to veterinary medicine. The online service has subject specialists who review and index other websites that cater to the topics for study and research.
Intute also provides free of cost over 60 free online tutorials to learn effective internet research skills. Tutorials are step by step guides and are arranged around specific subjects.
4. Complete Planet
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Complete Planet calls itself the ‘front door to the Deep Web’. This free and well designed directory resource makes it easy to access the mass of dynamic databases that are cloaked from a general purpose search. The databases indexed by Complete Planet number around 70,000 and range from Agriculture to Weather. Also thrown in are databases like Food & Drink and Military.
For a really effective Deep Web search, try out the Advanced Search options where among other things, you can set a date range.
5. Infoplease
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Infoplease is an information portal with a host of features. Using the site, you can tap into a good number of encyclopedias, almanacs, an atlas, and biographies. Infoplease also has a few nice offshoots like Factmonster.com for kids and Biosearch, a search engine just for biographies.
6. DeepPeep
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DeepPeep aims to enter the Invisible Web through forms that query databases and web services for information. Typed queries open up dynamic but short lived results which cannot be indexed by normal search engines. By indexing databases, DeepPeep hopes to track 45,000 forms across 7 domains.
The domains covered by DeepPeep (Beta) are Auto, Airfare, Biology, Book, Hotel, Job, and Rental. Being a beta service, there are occasional glitches as some results don’t load in the browser.
7. IncyWincy
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IncyWincy is an Invisible Web search engine and it behaves as a meta-search engine by tapping into other search engines and filtering the results. It searches the web, directory, forms, and images. With a free registration, you can track search results with alerts.
8. DeepWebTech
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DeepWebTech gives you five search engines (and browser plugins) for specific topics. The search engines cover science, medicine, and business. Using these topic specific search engines, you can query the underlying databases in the Deep Web.
9. Scirus
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Scirus has a pure scientific focus. It is a far reaching research engine that can scour journals, scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional intranets.
10. TechXtra
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TechXtra concentrates on engineering, mathematics and computing. It gives you industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, teaching and learning resources along with articles and relevant website information.
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STANDARD DATABASES:
America's Historical Newspapers (1690-11922):
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of over 1,000 historic newspapers from every state in the U.S., fully text-searchable. The collection is based on two important works, Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820," and Winifred Gregory's "American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada." www.lib.jmu.edu/resources/more.aspx?id.
Credo Reference: A one-stop reference service that pulls information from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and other works with a single search http://public.credoreference.com
EBSCO Research Database: A database containing the searchable full texts of newspapers and magazines.
http://www.ebscohost.com
ProQuest: Commercial database that serves up doctoral dissertations, academic journals, and genealogy information as well as abstracts for the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and technology. http://www.proquest.com
Dictionary Tools (Suggested by professor James)
Collins Advanced American English Learner’s Dictionary http://www.collinsdictionary.com/
Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Groiler Online Dictionary Subscription
Merriam Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kid
www.LearnersDictionary.com
On Music Dictionary dictionary.onmusic.org
Photographic Dictionary photographicdictionary.com
Rhyme Zone rhymezone.com
Signing Savvy Features http://www.signingsavvy.com/features
Thesaurus.com www.thesaurus.com
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
VisuWords(online graphical dictionary) http://www.visuwords.com/
Wild http://kids.wordsmyth.net/wild/
Word Central http://www.wordcentral.com
Wordsmyth www.wordsmyth.net
Your Dictionary: The Dictionary you can Understand www.thesauraus.yourdictionary.com
Biographical Links (Suggested by professor James)
Academy of Achievement http://www.achievement.org/
Academy of Achievement: A Museum of Living History http://www.achievement.org/galleryachieve.html
American Presidents: Life Portraits www.americanpresidents.org
America's Story from America's Library http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/index.php
Biography.com www.biography.com
Distinguished Women of the Past and Present http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/index
Ducksters http://www.ducksters.com/biography/
Garden of Praise http://gardenofpraise.com/leaders.htm
Peeble Go Biographies http://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/
Sweet Search http://www.sweetsearch.com/biographies
The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington
Encyclopedia/Almanac Tools (Suggested by professor James)
American Almanac App for iPhone and iPad Paid App
Encyclopedia Britannica Kids http://kids.britannica.com/ (Subscription)
Encyclopedia of Virginia http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/
Factmonster http://www.factmonster.com/
Grolier Online http://go.grolier.com/freetrial (Subscription)
Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com/
National Geographic Kids Almanac
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/content/kids/en_US/explore/ng-kids-almanac/
The Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com/
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for kids http://www.almanac4kids.com/index.php
Refdesk.com a Kid’s Facts Encyclopedia http://www.refdesk.com/kids.html#n-p
Wonderopolis Wonderopolis.org
World Book Online http://worldbookonline.com/ (Subscription)
ACCESS OTHER LIBRARIES:
Public Library of Science THe world's scientific and medical literature resource. The range of PLOS titles is expanding and now includes a number of new websites. http://www.plos.org
Libdex
Discover our directory of library across the world as well as an extensive collection of books.
Read, write & reviews your favourite readings on Libdex! http://www.libdex.com
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
www.loc.gov
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. Founded in 1895, NYPL is the nation’s largest public library system, featuring a unique combination of 88 neighborhood branches and four scholarly research centers, bringing together an extraordinary richness of resources and opportunities available to all. http://www.nypl.org
SEARCHABLE COLLECTION OF CLASSIC LITERATURE
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. https://www.gutenberg.org
Bartleby.com
Another major reference source for classic literature and poetry is Bartleby.com, named for Herman Melville's recalcitrant law copyist. Formerly known as the Bartleby Project, this collection of classics was one of the earliest web projects to turn books into electronically searchable and readable formats on a large scale. http://bartleby.com
Google Books
Google Books is a major souce for reference books
http://books.google.com