Internet Resources and Search Links
- Getting Started: How to search the Internet
- Search Engines
- Citing Digital and Print Sources
- Copyright and Plagiarism
- Federal Resouces Online
- Louisiana Resources Online
- Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Thesauri
- Demographics and Statistics
- Career and Employment
- Newspapers in Louisiana
- Quick Reference
Getting Started: How to search the Internet
- Internet Searching Guide, a printable guide. (PDF)
- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial, from UC Berkeley.
- Searching the Internet, search engine guide and searching tips.
- Internet Searching Tools, search engine guides, search tutorials, and other useful internet searching resources (from Southern Oregon University).
Search Engines & Directories
There's more to searching the Internet than Google (#1 in popularity), Yahoo, or Bing.
- About.com "is a valuable resource for content that helps you to solve the large and small needs of everyday life."
- AltaVista, a Yahoo! search engine.
- Answers.com lets you type in a complete question, such as "Why is the sky blue?".
- Ask.com has search tools that let you search specific types of web pages, such as news, people, weather, stocks, etc..
- Blinkx searches over 18 million hours of video on the web.
- Dogpile searches popular search engines and compiles the top results.
- FindSounds searches for sounds available on the internet.
- IncyWincy searches "the invisible web" (indexed directories and search engines).
- Infospace is a meta-search engine that searches Google, Yahoo!, bing, Ask & Twitter.
- ipl2, the merger of the Internet Public Library and Librarians' Internet Index, is a human-indexed collection of web pages that cover a variety of topics.
- Northern Light Search is excellent for business-related searches.
- SearchBooks can search for a string of text from a book, authors, and titles.
- SearchBug finds people and companies, including reverse lookup phone directories.
- SearchEdu searches education sites, but also searches dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference sources.
- SearchGov finds almost any government-related information.
- SearchMil searches over one million indexed military pages.
- USA.gov the U. S. Government Information Portal.
- WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge search engine for math, chemistry, demographics, geography, and any other statistical, numerical, or quantitative information.
Citing Digital and Print Sources
- APA Style Help
- MLA Style FAQs
- How to Cite Electronic Sources (MLA and Chicago Style from the Library of Congress).
- Online Guides to Citing Electronic Sources (presented by the OWL at Purdue).
Copyright and Plagiarism
- Avoid Illegal Downloading (list of legal download sites for music, movies, etc.).
- Quick Links to the Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance from Copyright.com.
- Avoiding Plagiarism (presented by the OWL at Purdue).
- For Students, links to plagiarism guides and articles on the web.
- What is Plagiarism and how to avoid it (Georgetown University).