Recommended Databases and Search Tools

DATABASES

Look for these in your library. They may be listed in a menu of choices on your library's home page, or they may be installed in designated computers. Some are also available in print, but the electronic versions are much faster to use. Use the searching techniques described in Searching on the Internet: Search Engines, Searching By Subject, and Advanced Searches: Using a search string.
Indexes Business Index ERIC (educational resources) Humanites Citation Index Infoline Magazine Index Medline Science Citation Index Social Science Citation Index Westlaw

Statistical Sources

1990 Census of Population and Housing
The County and City Databook
USA Counties

Directories

Dun's Business Locator
Dun's Small Business Sourcing File
Net Phone
Standard and Poor's Corporations


Search Engines

Internet browsers provide lists with links to search engines (so you don't have to type the addresses), or try the pages in the first list here. Alternatively, you can type the URL address given below for individual search engines.
Lists of search engines (including most of those listed individually on Searching on the Internet: Search Engines), with links to each

All in One Search Page http:www.albany.net.allinone/
c|net http://www.search.com
Configurable Unified Search Index http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/susi
Internet Searching (most
comprehensive; includes other
resources, with descriptions)		 http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/search.html
mirrored (offered in identical form) at http://www.mnsfld.edu/depts/lib/search.html
Internet Sleuth (includes direct
links to databases not on the Web)		 http://www.isleuth.com
Net Locator http://nln.com

Meta-searchers, which simultaneously check for
your terms among several search engines

CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries)
You don't have to register; the search is free,
with copies of articles available for a fee). 		http://www.carl.org/uncover
Metacrawler http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080
NLightN (also searches databases
not on the Web, with full-text available
for a small fee)		 http://www.nlightn.com
SavvySearch http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/
USE IT! (A Unified Search Engine
for InTernet--in Italy, includes
international sites)		 http:///www.he.net/~kamus/useen.htm
W3 Search Engine http://www.cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html

Other Powerful Search Engines

Alta Vista
(one of the most comprehensive)		 http://altavista.digital.com
Clearinghouse http://www.clearinghouse.net
Excite (includes summaries,
sorted by relevance to the topic)		 http://www.excite.com
InfoSeek http://www.info.seek.com
Inktomi http://inktomi.berkeley.edu
Internet Public Library http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
Magellan http://mckinley
The Mother of all Gophers gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu
Virtual Library http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
WebCrawler(one of the fastest) http://www.webcrawler.com/
Yahoo (very fast subject search) http://www.yahoo.com/

Search Tools for Discussion Groups and Newsgroups

To retrieve threads of conversation from previous discussions (recommended for research purposes)
Dejanews   http://www.dejanews.com

To find groups to join (and to search their archives)

Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
http://n2h2.com.KOVACS/

FAQs for Newsgroups
http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-lIST.HTML

Indiana University's List of Mailing Lists
http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/mlarchive/

Listserv Home Page http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html

Liszt Directories http://www.liszt.com

Reference.com http://www.reference.com