AddAll - Book search and price comparison. Search and compare among 40+ sites, 20,000 sellers, millions of books.
Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks.com) - The world's largest web-based network of independent booksellers. The network includes over 6,300 booksellers from around the globe with 20 million items listed.
Alibris - Shop the inventory of thousands of booksellers around the world.
Google Books Search - Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When a book with content that contains a match for your search terms is found, you'll be linked to it in your search results.
Law Book Network (LBN) - Online information and communication system for buying, selling and trading law publications electronically via the World Wide Web.
Law Books Online - Search a database of more than 20,000 lawbooks and purchase direct from the site.
Melvyl - The University of California Library catalog.
National Law Resource, Inc. - The world's largest used law book dealer, National Law Resource is the source for buying and selling books.
Powell's Books - Used, new, hard-to-find, and out of print books.
Small Press Distribution (SPD) - A literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California, providing wholesaling services to independent presses. SPD gives the public access to a broad spectrum of literature by distributing books to bookstores, libraries, and readers.
CQ Roll Call - Provides real-time legislative information and innovative tools that empower organizations to achieve their legislative goals. Also provides USCongress.com.
Medical Images and Illustrations - This page contains links to other pages and sites on the Internet offering biomedically related multimedia material, mostly images (photos, illustrations, etc.).
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - MoMA's online collection represents over 1900 artists and 7000 objects from the Museum's departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, Film, and Media.
TinEye - A reverse image search engine. You give an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
YouTube - considered by many students and researchers as a new search engine alternative - offering access to a plethora of videos, music, speeches (private sector, government personnel), corporate presentations, and a new site specifically for lectures by university professors
All Academic - Journals and other free academic content.
AgeSource/AgeStats Worldwide - Clearinghouses, databases, libraries, directories, statistical resources, bibliographies and reading lists, texts, and Web metasites focusing on aging or closely allied subjects. Topics range from Alzheimer's disease to wills and estate planning. Presented by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
All Academic - Indexes and archived publications of interest to the academic community including journals, magazines, convention papers, working papers, scholarly projects, etc.
AMICUS Web - Search over 26 million full records from 1,300 Canadian libraries. Access the entire database including National Library records. Check library holdings, loan policies, homepages, etc.
AnyWho - Directories of people, businesses, toll-free, more.
Business.com - Business information search engine.
CenSEARCHip - This is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics to allow you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries' versions of the major search engines.
Churnalism.com - Churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism.
CineFiles - A database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive's collection.
Citeline.com - Search sources, including Medline, for information on diseases and conditions, related organizations, current news and articles, and research and trials.
CiteSeer - A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on computer and information science.
E-print Network - A meta-search for scientific e-print resources and enables federated searching of more than 30 major databases and servers.
EcoEarth.Info - Environmental portal and search engine.
Educator's Reference Desk - Provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.
Exalead - Search the entire Web for information in different formats (web sites, video, images, Wikipedia, Word documents, pdf files.
Factiva -
Specialized business search engine provided by Wall Street Journal.
Search 17,000 global news sources and leverage unique filtering technology to craft a reusable search that meets your specific needs.
Fagan Finder - Internet tools organized into topics. Search engines, reference, news, multimedia. Quality resources, search help, and tools such as translation and bookmarklets.
Geniusfind - Categorizes thousands of topic-specific search engines and databases.
Gigablast - This flexible, robust, customizable search engine.
Gnook - A self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.
Google Alerts - Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Google Book Search - Search the full text of books and discover new ones. Click a book title and you'll see basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given Google permission through its Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book.
Google Scholar - Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Google Squared - A search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify.
Google U.S. Government - Offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web -- from the same search box.
GoogleFight - Search two keyword sets. Find number of Google results for both.
Grammy Winners Search - Find Grammy winners by name of the award recipient, by categories within a genre, by year, by title of work and/or by the artist performing the work.
H-BOT - Automated historical fact finder search engine.
Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System (JAANUS) - This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868).
Justia - Reliable, tinely, comprehensive directory of legal resources, searchable/browsable by practice areas, topics and subject specific sources, cases in the news, legal blogs and podcasts.
Justicia - Find legal information, lawyer blogs (blawgs), laws, cases, lawyers, legal news, and more.
Law.com Quest - A legal search engine from Incisive Media, owner of leading legal newspapers and guides, including American Lawyer and National Law Journal.
Law Periscope! - Find profiles of the 300 largest law firms in the U.S.
LibWorm - Search the biblioblogosphere and beyond. Librarian RSS engine.
Linktionary -
Search the "Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunicatons."
Maritime Answers - Dedicated search engine for the shipping industry. Brought to you by Informa Maritime - publishers of Lloyd's List and Convera.
Martindale.com - Find a lawyer by name. Or search by location/area of practice, by firm, or for lawyers in corporations, agencies of the U.S. government, or law school faculty.
Martindale.com Lawyer Locator: UK - Comprehensive search directory of law firms to help you locate the law firm or lawyer with the skills you need in the United Kingdom.
Martindale.com Lawyer Locator: U.S. and Canada - A fundamental resource in law libraries, law firm offices and corporate legal departments. Provides more than 900,000 lawyer and law firm listings.
Microsoft Academic Search - Computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, physics with more disciplines to come. Search across millions of publications.
MyOptumHealth - Directory and search for health and medicine.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - A comprehensive resource for federally funded scientific, engineering, and business-related information. Search the NTIS Library for documents published since 1990.
NewsMeat - Politics, headlines, federal campaign contribution search.
News Search Portal - All-in-one page portal site with a list of news search engines, newsfeeds, rss aggregators, rss feed readers, toolbars, desktop readers, providing the headlines, current affairs, the latest news articles, stories and features from news sources worldwide.
OJOSE (Online Journal Search Engine) - A powerful free scientific search engine enabling you to make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field. With OJOSE you can find, download or buy scientific publications (journals, articles, research reports, books, etc.) in up to 40 different databases.
Péter's PolySearch Engines - Allow you to run simple queries across several open access ready reference databases or publishers' abstract archives in one fell swoop:
Biographies - Access biographical information, sketches, and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures, politicians, scientists, authors, artists and athletes.
Energy - Access citations, abstracts and/or full-text documents related to energy science and technology.
Pianopedia - Search engine designed for piano teachers and students, as well as performing pianists. It can be used to explore the repertoire in search for new works to learn and perform. It also serves as a detailed reference source for the classical piano repertoire.
playdatabase.com - Largest database of plays and monologues on the internet that can be searched by title or author and by such parameters as cast size, length, synopsis, and more.
Polysearch - Find citations, abstracts and/or full text documents related to energy science and technology.
Recipe Power Search - Recipe searches by category, region, occasion, technique, and meal type.
Scientific Commons - The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public.
SEC Info - Securities Information from the SEC EDGAR database: Search by Name, Industry, Business, SIC Code, Area Code,Topic, CIK, Accession Number, File Number, Date, ZIP.
SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) -
Allows users to search across 1.8 million of the Institution’s library, archive, and research holdings. Using the latest indexing technology, the new SIRIS Cross Catalog Searching Center provides easy "one-stop searching" of these records. Within the more than 1.8 million records, the SIRIS Cross Catalog Searching Center also provides access to over 190,000 online media assets including digitized photographs and art works, oral history sound files, electronic journals, online exhibitions, digitized manuscripts, language recordings, and online finding aids.
Spires High-Energy Physics (HEP) Database - Indexes over 500,000 articles, papers, preprints, and technical reports. Most of the materials are available in full text, with coverage extending back to 1974.
Superpages.com - Find businesses, get maps and directions.
Syllabus Finder - Find and compare syllabi from thousands of universities and colleges on any topic.
The Scannery - An investor focused search engine that covers the websites of more than 20,000 public companies in over 65 countries.
StumbleUpon -
Discover photos, videos, and web pages recommended by friends and people sharing your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like, so you only see what's interesting to you from across the web. StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you.
TechXtra -
A free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.
Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS Online) - Search nearly 500,000 records in transportation-related fields. Sources include books and articles as well as some full-text research studies, technical reports, and conference papers.
Trackle - Allows you to check on pages in intervals ranging from once a day to every hour of the day. Excerpts, consolidates and emails you the content portions that have changed.
U.S. Patent Database - Provides full image access to all U.S.-granted patents back to 1790, with full-text searching back to 1976 and the full-text of published applications. The database also enables searching for references, which can include articles, reports, and proceedings.
Uncle Sam - Google search limited to .gov and .mil sites.
URLinfo - A tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, and more.
USA.gov - U.S. Government's official web portal for all government transactions, services, and information.
Webopedia - Enter a term like Wi-Fi and get a good, quick description of the technology's history, purpose, and details, plus links.
WhittleBit - Search engine that helps you refine your searches by allowing you to give positive or negative feedback on each search result.
Yahoo! Music Search - Search for many types of audio files from across the Web including popular music, podcasts, interviews, speeches and newscasts, stand-up comedy, and sound effects.
KWSnet is a human-edited subject directory of the web with special attention paid to U.S. national and international news, the arts, culture, media, politics, law, science and technology. It is based in San Francisco, California. KWSnet's Twitter and RSS Feed direct you to some of the best writing and reporting on the web. KWSnet also provides additional Twitter List Feeds, including News, Cultural and Interesting People Feeds; City Feeds; and Topical Feeds. KWSnet's Video Gallery presents embedded video from artists, journalists, and political activists worldwide.
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