Libaries

QUESTIA

The Questia library contains books, magazines, journal  and newspaper articles on subjects such as history, philosophy, economics, political science, English and literature, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

UC3M LIBRARY

Its powerfull point is that you can consult literacy online and has all the information sources yuo migth need in your reseachs.

THE FREE LIBRARY

Contains a mix of academic topics and non academics ones. It has free access.

GUTENBERG PROJECT

Fromm this library you can read ebooks or donwload them .

THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE

Although its appearance is not very appealing you will be able to read the books online.

OPEN J GATE

You can search and download papers from 8571 open access journals but now it is under construction.

GOOGLE BOOKS

Google is every where and in every format. You can access to a preview of the book you are looking for or to the book itself if it is not copyrighted.

HOW STUFF WORKS

 A video library online just in case we need to present our work in another formats such a power point presentation.


CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

It is one of the largest digital research libraries.

Patents

Patents are another good infomation sources. Here is a list of patents searchers:

FREE PATENTS ONLINE

In this searcher you can not only look for patents also you will find non-patent literature, blogs and law cases.

EPO

In European Patents Office you could not only find pantents but also all the information about how to create your own patent.

DELPHION

Subscription is needed but in their home page they said you can search 54 million patents worldwide.

GOOGLE PATENTS

Google Patents indexes patents and patent applications from the USA.

Databases

INDEX COPERNICUS

Scientif journals database with more than 8.000 journals from all over the world. Rigorous information.

SCIENCE CITATION INDEX

It is a documental database where we can find all the contributions to the Thompson Reuters web.

BioOne

 Useful if we are looking for research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

COMPENDEX

We can find more than 7 million of bibliografical reference online to suport engineering research but you need to be subcribed.

INFORMATION BRIGDGE

The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information  offers public access to many full documents and bibliographic citations.

JOURNALSEEK

Free database of journals information it includes de description and the aims of the journal but we will not find the full text.

USPTO

United States Patents and Trademark Office has a wonderfull database of patents and it is a public domain.

UNIDI

Udini store 150 million articles about every topic you need to find information.

JSTOR

Another good database with primary sources, journals and books.

Portals

LYCOS

Develops and provides online guides to locate.

YAHOO!

Provider of comprehensive online products.

MSN

Portal wich offers news, shopping, messenger, email, games, etc

MY WAY

Internet portal without banners or pop-ups

TERRA

We can find information about news, sports, entertaiment and so on.

Web Index

RANKING WEB OF REPOSITORIES

It index de best repositories by countries.

WORLD SITE INDEX

In its home page  we will find a directory categories with many topics including arts, sciencies, travel, entertaiment.

UNIX HELP

This is an indexed web site where we can find all we need to know about Unix.

WEB INDEX

The aim of this site is to measure the webs gobal impact.

ALEXA

Compares your popularity against other pages and also give you hints to improve your traficc.

LIBDEX

Directory of libraries and you also can search for books.

SEARCH ENGINE INDEX

 It not only list them but also described and rated the engines.

Searching Engines

 Searching engines are very useful tools to search for information. The most famous is Google but here is a list of  other searching engines and a breif description about them.

DUCK DUCK GO

Its appearence is very similar to Google. It has a search suggestion list wich can help us with our searching. There are few ad spam and that will reduce de noise. This searching engine displays all the results in one page.

ASK

This  searching engine compile answers about education, health and travels. It is complete and easy to use and the results groups seem to be more relevant, but its appearence is a bit messy.

DOGPILE

As we can read on the about section of this searching engine Dogpile will be useful because:

"Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, and Yandex, so you find what you’re looking for faster.

Each search engine has its own method of searching and each will return different results. Dogpile looks at all of them, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you. In the end, you get a list of results more complete than anywhere else on the Web."

 

BING 

 

Bing offers suggestions in the leftmost column, you can find also various search options across on the top of the screen. Things like 'wiki' suggestions, 'visual search', and 'related searches' might be come in handy.

 

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE

 

It is a mix between a searching engine and an archive. You can look for old news or see how a web page looked before. The name of the web could not be more explicit. The Archive has been taking pictures of the entire World Wide Web.

 

CLUSTY

 

At the begining was named Yippy. It is a search engine which cares about our privacy but for understanding better Its aim we should visit this link to their institutional viedo. Institutional video

 

MAHALO

 

Mahalo has employed editors to evaluate the quality of the contens they offer. If we are looking for quality and not for quantity this migth be our best choice.

WEBOPEDIA

Its a searching engine but for technological topics. It is a good  resource for non-technical people.

WEELP

 

This is a solidary searching engine which donate /70% of their incomes to NGO's and it is as powerfull as Google. The onlything you have to do to colaborate is search with it.

MICROSOFT ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Searching engine focus on academic research. We will be able to find academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources.

GOOGLE

we could not create this entry without talking about the number one searching engine. If you can not find here what you are looking for it will not apear anywhere.

ALTAVISTA

Once you make a search you will feel like using Google , it has allmost the same appearance.

AOL SEARCH

Its is associated with Google. It is fast and efecctive.

GIGABLAST

It it said to be the green search engine  because  90% of its power usage comes from wind energy.

OPEN DIRECTORY

It is a human-edited directory. Their aim is to provide quality information.

WEB CRAWLER

This engine make a compilation search using the top results from other searching engines such as Google and Yahoo!