Search Tools Course.

Computing & Information Services Department.
instructor: jim.cerny@unh.edu

The course outline and the hands-on examples, comprise the materials for the November, 1999, incarnation of the course. The links on this page are periodically updated.

Search engines list.

We maintain on UNHINFO a separate list of links to search engines and related usage information, including how to publicize your Web pages to search engines and how to exclude your Web pages from search engine robots. See also the UNH Intranet search FAQ.

Some useful references.

• Achoo healthcare directory.
• Ask Jeeves to find answers on the Web.
• Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web by Ellen Chamberlain at U. South Carolina.
• Dictionaries, Glossaries, Style Sheets, and Citation Practices.
   UNHINFO document.
• Evaluating Web information sources:
  • Bibliography: by Alastair Smith in the WWW Virtual Library.
  • Bibliography: by Nicole Auer at Virginia Polytech.
  • Specific: Evaluating Reliability of Web Resources by Paula Hammett at Sonoma State.
  • Tutorial: Finding Information on the Internet UC Berkeley.
• Internet Information Resources
   UNHINFO document.
• Karin Rex's List of Search Tools. *
• Martindale's Reference Desk. *
• Metasearch engines comparison at Snoozinf. *
• Needle in a CyberStack by John Albee. *
• Newspapers:
  • About Newspapers: U.S. and NewsIndex and TotalNews and Newspaper Association of America and NeWo for news resources.
• Search Engine Tales and My Favorites - by Jim Cerny.
• SearchIQ collection of links, tips, and reviews. *
• Tile.net a comprehensive reference. *
• UNH Library (Reference) Indexes:
  • Online Indexes and Periodicals. EBSCO periodicals, Lexis-Nexis, Wilson indexes, Newsbank, and more. Many license-limited to UNH usage.
• US Census Bureau's Gazetteer.
• Virtual Reference Desk at UNC Chapel Hill Libraries. *
• Your Dictionary formerly the Web of On-line Dictionaries by Robert Beard.