| eLECTRONIC Resources - Information gateways & search engines |
INFORMATION GATEWAYS
ADAM
Art, Design,
Architecture & Media - a searchable catalogue of internet
resources
BUBL
National
information service for the higher education community,
selected internet resources covering a wide range of academic
subject areas
INTUTE
An internet
search tool aimed at the higher education community, where the internet sites included have been pre-assessed by subject
specialists.
Also look out for:
INTUTE
Repository Search
Search across
92 UK academic eprints repositories containing academic,
educational and research material from these institutions
INTUTE Virtual Training Suite Online tutorials on INTUTE, an information gateway. Excellent
for subject approaches to information on the internet
Scitopia
Federated
search portal, providing references to articles in the
digital libraries of science and technology societies,
covering maths, physics and engineering, etc.
SEARCH ENGINES
Carrot2
Metasearch engine with excellent sorting options
DeepDyve
Search engine aimed at revealing hard to find research in the "Deep web"
Gigablast
Clusters results and suggests alternative search terms
Quintura
Visual search engine
SearchCloud
Search engine which allows weighting of words
Snap
Using the "web enhanced" view you can preview the results web pages in the right hand pane
WebFetch
Search engine comparison tool
WolframAlpha
Search engine - particularly good for mathematical
and computational searches, dates and calculations