Internet Resources
Electronic Databases
Image Links
Alta Vista Image Search -
Allows user to limit searches by color, size and source. This site contains thousands of images.
Classroom Clipart - A site with over
30,000 copyright free clip art images including clip art, illustrations, and photographs.
Clip Art Connection - A site with
over 5 million choices with thousands of animations with an emphasis on characterizations.
Clip-art
- A site with links to many great clip art sites and forums that talk about
everything form Adobe Photoshop to web page design.
Digital Librarian
(Images) - A site that links to literally thousands of images in museums, collections, and
great web sites. Audio, video and mutlimedia links assembled by librarians.
Digital Librarian (Audio)
- A site that links to literally thousands of images in museums, collections, and great web sites.
Audio, video and mutlimedia links assembled by librarians.
Ditto - A searchable site that also places
images in clusters to allow searches by topic.
Google - A site that takes you
right to the image search page with links to thousands of pictures. This is the most used image
search site on the web.
Pics for Learning - A site where images
are searchable and in categories. This is a copyright friendly image site for educators. Use of
these images for educational use is encouraged.
Meta Search Engines
Dogpile - A Meta Search Engine that allows
you to search multiple search engines at once. It allows for Boolean/proximity operators.
IMSA - A regional Illinois site that
includes tools for searching, spelling, evaluation and citation.
Kartoo - A Meta Search Engine that uses
graphically organized links.
Killer Info - A Meta Search Engine that presents
clustered web search results. It includes a list of related keywords that are useful for narrowing
or expanding a search.
Metacrawler - A Meta Search Engine that
returns the best results from a combined pool of the leading search engines.
Momma - For those times when Mom isn't
around to help you be a mother, Momma.com will do her best to take over where your mom left off.
Vivismo - A Meta Search Engine that yields
clustered results displayed in an index on the left side of the screen.
Search Engines
Alta Vista - A search engine for
multimedia, human category listings and news results.
Ask Jeeves - A "natural language" search engine
that allows questions. It provides an easier, more intuitive way to search.
Google - A search engine that provides
comprehensive coverage with great relevancy.
Google Scholar - A search engine that
enables searches for scholarly articles that are available on the web.
MSN - A search engine that allows you to search
by domain, country, language and customized search terms.
Teoma - A search engine that uses subject
specific popularity which ranks a site based on the number of same subject pages that reference it.
Yahoo - One of the most comprehensive search
engines. It provides good people and directory searches.
Subject Directories
FirstGov - This is the official web portal
for the United States Government.
Internet Public Library - This is a searchable,
annotated subject directory of close to 3,000 Internet resources chosen for their usefulness to the
public library user's information needs.
Internet Scout Project - The project's
acclaimed reports and resource archive provide educators and students with fast, convenient ways of
staying informed about the most valuable online resources. The sites are selected and examined for
validity by students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Web Indexes
Hotsheet - A Web index that is organized
into easy to use categories.
Virtual Library - A Web index of search engines
sorted into categories.
Librarian's Index - This index is a searchable,
annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by
librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.