Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net/ Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections http://infomine.ucr.edu/ WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/ Digital Librarian http://www.digital-librarian.com/ Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/search

Google Web Directory http://directory.google.com/ Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Internet Public Library Reference Center http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ ref00.00.00 Library of Congress Virtual Reference Shelf http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html The Reference Shelf http://libraries.ucsd.edu/refshelf.html

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Search Engines

Google http://www.google.com/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Scirus - For Scientific Information http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/ toolkitforexpert/toolkitexpert.htm Find Spot (Links to major search engines and search tips) http://www.findspot.com/ Search Engine Watch (Links to major search engines, reviews, and search tips) http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Ask.com http://www.ask.com/ SearchAbility - Guides to Specialized Search Engines http://www.searchability.com NoodleTools (help in choosing the best search enging) http://www.noodletools.com Invisible Web Search Engines (How to find information from databases, archived material, etc. that traditional earch engines cannot access) http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/ toolkitforexpert/toolkitexpert.htm#invisible

How to Search the Web

Finding Information on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Web Searching (Internet Public Library)
http://www.ipl.org/div/websearching/

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Internet Research: Searching the World Wide Web
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/

Evaluating Web Sources

Assessing the Credibility of Online Sources
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/credibility1.html

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

The Validity Wizard
http://www.stylewizard.com/val/vwiz.html

Statistics

WebUse: Scientific Research about the Internet
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/

ClickZ Stats (Internet Trends and Statistics)
http://www.clickz.com/stats/

Living Internet - Statistics
http://livinginternet.com/i/im_stats.htm

E-Stats: Measuring the Electronic Economy
http://www.census.gov/eos/www/ebusiness614.htm

General Information

WebUse: Scientific Research about the Internet
http://www.webuse.umd.edu/

ClickZ Stats (Internet Trends and Statistics)
http://www.clickz.com/stats/

Living Internet
http://livinginternet.com

Web Page Construction

HTML Help http://www.htmlhelp.com/ Glossary of HTML Elements http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ html40/alist.html Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://www.w3.org/XML/

VisiBone Color Laboratory http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ Free Graphics.com http://www.freegraphics.com/