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Reference Materials and Search Engines

World Wide Web Resources: Reference Material
Contains resources for the wide variety of manuals, dictionaries; directories; encyclopedias, handbooks, etc. Source: University of Kentucky

Ready Reference Collection
Contains basic research tools organized by category. Source: Internet Public Library

Reference Resources
Provides links to reference Internet resources. Source: North Hall Library, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

Quick Reference
Provides fast access to a selective set of online and Internet resources. Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Martindale's the Reference Desk
Indexes general reference Web resources for education, science, politics, and literature. Source: Jim Martindale

Ecola Newsstand
Provides a list of links to newspapers and magazines. Source: NewsDirectory.com

Newslink
Offers lists of newspapers, magazines, television and radio sites by region and subject. Source: NewsLink Association

Hotsheet
Hotsheet has numerous sources for non-academic topics frequently asked at a reference desk.

Search Engines

Search engines are computer programs that search documents for specified keywords and return a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google and Alta Vista that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups.

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Kentucky.gov
Kentucky.gov is the official state government web site for Kentucky. Every web page has a Search Box located in the upper-right corner.

 

General Information

Google
Ranks records in it large database primarily based on their popularity, or the degree to which other pages refer to a page. This results in a reputation for producing high-relevance results.

Yahoo
Yahoo is a web directory more than a search engine. It should be considered whenever browsing—as opposed to searching—is the aim.

AltaVista
Combines a broad range of searching capabilities in one of the larger web databases. Additionally, it provides access to databases such as images and audio and has a collection of other internet tools, such as phone directories, news searchers, and a translation feature.

Ask Jeeves
Allows searching in conversational sentences. It seeks to provide quick answers to the most common searches such as measure conversions, weather, time and zip codes.

Profusion
Profusion has one of the more sophisticated interfaces and allows fairly extensive user control over results.

Information Updated:04/19/2005