Research Resources: Recommended Web Sites
Subject Directories:
Subject directories provide a smaller number of higher-quality websites, evaluated by "experts" and arranged by subject.
| Academic Info: Educational Subject Directory | Directory of about 25,000 education resources for high school and college students. Brief annotations are included. |
| Canadian Information by Subject | An information service developed by the Library and Archives Canada to provide links to information about Canada from Internet resources around the world. |
| Google Web Directory | About 4 million web pages selected by volunteer editors of the Open Directory Project and enhanced by Google searching and ranking. |
| Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections | Over 120,000 internet resources annotated and selected by librarians. These resources are relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. |
| Internet Public Library | The first public library accessible only via the internet. It was built and maintained by a series of professionals, many of whom are librarians, to serve the internet community. |
| The Library of Congress Main Reading Room | A list of reference websites selected and annotated by Humanities and Social Sciences Division subject specialists. |
Search Engines:
Automated searching of vast numbers of websites, little or no analysis of quality. Each search-engine may retrieve different sites; none of these searches the entire web.
| Ask.com | Ask.com clusters sites according to topic communities, using unique technology which Ask.com now calls ExpertRank. Thumbnails of the web pages are also provided. |
| Google Search | Google has become for many the pre-eminent Web search engine. Google is known for its comprehensive coverage of the web, searching several billion sites and ranking web pages by PageRank relevancy ranking. |
| Google Scholar | A subset of Google with an academic focus. |
| Scirus | The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. |
Meta-Search Engines:
Search multiple search engines all at once.
| Dogpile | Searches the Ask.com, Google, MSN & Yahoo search engines. Dogpile is a widely known and well recognized meta-search engine. |
| Jux2 | Searches Ask, Google, MSN & Yahoo and provides a tool with which to compare the results given by the four engines. |
Patrick Power Library Guides:
| Subject Guides | The Library's Subject Guides provide a list of selected resources relating to the various disciplines taught at Saint Mary's, including Internet sites that have been selected for their usefulness for research in each subject. |
| Google Guide | A pdf guide to making the most of the popular search engine. |
| Evaluating Internet Resources | The Library's guide to website evaluation, containing criteria to consider when looking at websites for information, and links to other web page evaluation tutorials. |
How can a librarian help?
Librarians at the Patrick Power Library can…
a) help you find good information (searching the world wide web for sources)
b) help you with your research (planning search strategies to use with search engines or databases)
c) help you use library resources (searching databases for journal articles, or using the library catalogue)
Take advantage of the instruction available at the library!
Stop by the Patrick Power Library Information desk, call us (420-5544), e-mail us, book a reference appointment for more in-depth one-on-one assistance, or come to an instruction session!
Last Modified: March 26, 2009
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