Researching the Web

These links are to various sites and search engines that should help you as you search for information about educational topics on the World Wide Web.  I am always eager to get new sites, so please email me with any that you think I should add here.



Alta Vista main page
    a very powerful search engine
American Journalism Review NewsLink
    links to newspapers and other media sources worldwide
American Memory
    the Library of Congress digital collection
AskERIC
    a good interface to the ERIC system
The Big Hub
    a topical seach engine
BotSpot
    the future of web searching is here
Canadian Education on the Web
    links to many, many resources
CEO Express
    a considerable set of links on many subjects
CIA--The World Factbook
    good stuff on geography, but remember they didn't know where the Chinese Embassy was
Copyright Law and Graduate Research
    what you need to know
Dogpile
    a multi-search engine (very powerful)
Education Week on the Web
eBlast
    Encyclopedia Britannica's Internet Guide
E-journals
    links to many journals published on the WWW
Education Review: A journal of book reviews
Electronic Journal Access
    from the Colorado alliance of research libraries


Emory University School of Law
    resources for investigating legal topics
ERIC
    Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
    Eventually everything we will want to read will be online
FastFacts 2000
    Sort of a super set of almanacs
Federal Depository Library Program
    Federal documents online
The Front Page
    links to numerous search engines
Google
    a search engine

Government Accounting Office
    reports on numerous education and policy issues


Hotbot Research Service
    I'm not a member, but you may want to be
IDEAnet
    the Indiana Department of Education
INSPIRE
    INdiana SPectrum of Information REsources (Indiana's virtual library on the Internet)
Internet Jumpstation
    links to various search engines
IPL
    the Internet Public Library

Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
    just what it says
Metacrawler
    another multi-search engine (very powerful)
National Academy Press
    publisher (much online) for National Research Council, others
NewJour
    new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
Noesis
    philosophical research online
Northern Light
    a powerful search engine
Oingo
    meaning-based searching


Online Educational Resources
    at the Federal DOE, but I didn't want you to miss this one
OVID
    resources from the Purdue University Libraries
Purdue University Human Subjects Research page
    every study goes through Human Subjects approval
Purdue University Libraries
    Thor: the online resource
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
SeachEDU.com
    millions of indexed education pages
SchoolMatters
    Wow!  What an interesting place to get data.  And it's free!
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Starting-Point
    a comprehensive search engine
THOMAS
    the United States Congress on the Internet
United States Department of Education
    a very rich source
Untangling the Web
    guidelines for researching on the World Wide Web
US DOE Cross-Site Indexing Project
    a useful entry to the US DOE
US DOE Other On-line Educational Resources
    a rich list
The World Wide Web Virtual Library



Note that there are additional research sources in my other sets of links


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