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Internet Searching Techniques & Helpful Hints Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web University of South Carolina Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL University of California, Berkeley Dudley Knox Library Internet Guides Searching the Web Searching the Deep Web
Search Engine Colossus Metacrawler Specialized Search Sites Government & Military Google Patent Search Search the United States Patent and Trademark Office Google US Government Search Searches only government sites GovEngine.com Directory of official federal, state, and local government information sites. SearchMil.com Over 1 million military pages indexed SearchGov.com Special Forces Search Engine USA.gov One-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources FindSounds
Search the full-text of books. Google Scholar Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Political Information.com Searches the political web -- think tanks, public policy, lobby groups and politician web sites Regional Search Engines Organized by world region, these are search engines and directories that are devoted to various countries and regions of the world. Science.gov Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Scirus Internet search tool developed specifically for finding scientific information. scitopia.org Federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies. The Virtual Chase : Legal Research on the Internet Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP WorldWideScience.org Federated searching of national and international scientific databases Other Google Blog Search Search for blogs on topics of interest Google Groups Google Groups Help Searches Usenet news groups International Search Engines iTools SearchEdu.com Over 20 million university and education pages indexed SearcheBooks.com The Invisible Web CompletePlanet Locate search engines and databases on the web FedStats FedStats provides access to official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use FedStats to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them. All of the statistical information available through FedStats is maintained and updated solely by Federal agencies on their own web servers. Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity U.C. Berkeley OAIster [Oyster] is a union catalog of digital resources ResourceShelf Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed Robert Lackie WorldWideScience.org WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. It was developed and is maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Users get the most current findings in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic sciences, published by contributing nations.
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