Chapter 4 The Distance Learner's Library: The Indispensable Guide to Finding Quality Resources

Helpful Searching Tools

Internet and Web Search Guides (University of California, Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/

Internet Searching Tools (Southern Oregon University)
http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/index.html

Best Search Tools Chart (InfoPeople Project)
http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html

Searching and Researching on the Internet and the WWW (Hartman and Ackermann)
http://www.webliminal.com/search-web.html

The Best Search Engines (University of California, Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html

Library and Related Resources (University of Exeter)
http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/internet/wwwlibs.html

Search Sites

Academic Info – Educational Subject Directory
http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/

Ask.Com
http://www.ask.com/

Best Information on the Net (St. Ambrose University)
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/

BUBL LINK Catalogue: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (University of Strathclyde)

Clusty (formerly Vivisimo)
http://clusty.com/

DogPile
http://www.dogpile.com/

Entrez-PubMed – BioMedical Citations (National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

Google
http://www.google.com/

InfoMine – Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (University of California)
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Internet Public Library (University of Michigan, Drexel University, Florida State University)
http://www.ipl.org/

John Mullens’ Subject Area Links (Marshall University)
http://206.212.0.47/~jmullens/edlinks.html

Librarians’ Index to the Internet (Librarians’ Internet Index)
http://lii.org/

Martindale’s The Reference Desk
http://www.martindalecenter.com/

Refdesk – Free, family-friendly reference site
http://refdesk.com/welcome.html

Scirus – Scientific information
http://www.scirus.com/

WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/

Yahoo! Search
http://search.yahoo.com/

Digital Collections

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Digital Collections (University of Washington)
http://content.lib.washington.edu/

Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)

European Literature Electronic Texts (Association of College and Research Libraries)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Library of Congress Exhibitions
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

Making of America (University of Michigan, Cornell University)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/index.html

Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/aboutolbp.html

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Digitized Collection (Duke University)
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/index.html

Academic Libraries and Consortia

Boston Library Consortium
http://www.blc.org/

Libweb – List of Library Servers in 145 Countries
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

Ohio Library and Information Network
http://www.ohiolink.edu/

Orbis Cascade Academic Union Catalog
http://summit.orbiscascade.org/

Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium
http://www.palci.org/

Fee-Based Resources

Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

IngentaConnect
http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/libraries/academic/

JSTOR – for individuals
http://www.jstor.org/about/individual.html

LexisNexis by Credit Card
http://web.lexis.com/xchange/ccsubs/cc_prods.asp

Ovid
http://www.ovid.com/site/index.jsp

ProQuest
http://www.proquest.com/

Women Writers Project
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/index.html