Virtual Reader

ONLINE RESEARCH TOOLS &
WEBSITE ASSESSMENT

Categories: Search Engines - Collection Methods - Custom Made Engines
A collection of web resources for the English Literature student

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Search Engines: General

Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, Invisible Web, People & Organisations

Exeter University Library

http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/internet/search.html

Search Engines: Targeted scope of search

Google Book Search

http://books.google.com/

Search on pages of specific languages or countries

Google Language Tools

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Google University Search

http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

Google Directory: Reference - Machine indexed directory

Includes: Biography, Museums, Style Guides

Home Page: http://directory.google.com/

Reference: http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/

Google Advanced Search

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Google Advanced Search Tutorial

http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Google Advanced Operators –Search Engine Syntax

http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

The Open Directory Project - Human-edited directory

Home Page: http://dmoz.org/

Search Engines: Results Refiners

Results classified in categories

http://search.ask.com

http://vivisimo.com/

Results shown as a map

http://www.kartoo.com

Manual Rating of Results

http://www.ujiko.com

Search Engines: Custom Made

http://rollyo.com (create a list of 25 sites maximum/shared with other users)

http://lushe.net (add a button in your browser)

Search Engines Assessment

Primary Data Collection Methods

-Web Crawling

-Human Indexing

Brian Kelly reviews the search engines provided on UK University web sites.

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/webwatch/

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Website Assessment

Evaluating Website Content

Trash or Treasure? How to Evaluate Internet Resources

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/eval.html

Evaluating Website content

http://www.studygs.net/evaluate.htm

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

How does google rank webpages? A Link popularity checker

http://www.mypagerank.net/service_linkpopularity_index

Checking for dead links in a website

http://www.dead-links.com/

Finding the sites that link to a page (Alternative way to access the Invisible Web)

http://wholinkstome.com/

http://www.mypagerank.net/service_link_check_index

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The Invisible Web or Deep Web

Definition:

Newspaper article. Guardian, Search for the Invisible Web by Chris Sherman , Sep 6 2001

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,547140,00.html

A tutorial

UC Berkeley Library

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

A list of Invisible Web search engines

Search Engine Watch (A Search Engines Portal)

http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156181

Major Invisible Web Search Engines (including Pdf format)

The University of Wales - Aberystwyth

http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/academicliaison/internet/invisible.asp

Recommended Search Strategies

UC Berkeley Library

Analyze your topic & Search with peripheral vision

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html

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