The following is a list of sites that we might use or refer to during class. If you find this list useful, you are welcome to come back to it later. Keep in mind however that the list may change from time to time as we discover new sites and/or revise the course. This list is not meant to be comprehensive or to imply recommendation of the companies or services.
Table of Contents
About search engines
Alternatives to search engines
Specific types of information
Extras
About search engines
Search engines Enhance your searching Visualizeyour search results
Comparisons
Compare results
Compare features
Combineresults (metasearch) Alternatives to searchengines
Directories:lists of links
Repositories:content lives in the site Specific types of information
Scholarly& scientific information Blogsearching
Discussions
News
Images
Image search Image repositories
Audio(Podcasts) & Video
People - Pipl
- Professional networking sites: LinkedIn and Naymz
- Spokeo searches social networking sites
- If you know the institution, try the school's directory (Google's University Search)
- Biomedexperts analyzes PubMed records to find people related by topic and by networks of co-authorship
- Authoratory database of contact information, professional interests, social connections and funding
- If you're looking for an expert on a topic, try searching for prolific or highly cited authors in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science,etc.
Extras
Mobile Search
Search sites that are customized for viewing on a phone or PDA:
Info about search engines you can use by text messaging:
Make your own custom search engine