Searching the Web

General Search Engines, Directories, and Online Collections (other than Google)

Tools for Evaluating Information on the Web

General Search Engines, Directories, and Online Collections (other than Google)

"A curated search engine focused exclusively on credible, diverse, expert, and original sources." Log in using your school email.

Bing

Carrot2

"An Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize small collections of documents (search results but not only) into thematic categories."

DuckDuckGo

"Our privacy policy is simple: we don’t collect or share any of your personal information."

Tundra Search

"With Tundra Environmental, you can narrow your search results to show more environmentally related information from the most relevant sources. With filters like EPA, News, Social, Legal, and more, you can quickly find the best information for your nature needs... Every time you search using Tundra, we offset a kilogram of carbon dioxide."

StartPage

"The world's most private search engine." Google results without tracking your searches.

Digital Public Library of America

"Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world."

Creative Commons

Find "photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon ."

Event Registry

"The world's leading media intelligence platform, empowering companies to analyze current and past news content"

OASIS

"Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 61 different sources and contains 160,727 records."

Encyclopedia.com

"More than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, abbreviations, and more." Excellent and authoritative. From Gale.

WolframAlpha

"Computational knowledge engine."

Ask a Librarian

An online reference service from the Library of Congress.

WayBackMachine: Internet Archive

"A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form."

Snopes

Is it true? Or is it a hoax or an urban legend? Snopes will check out the facts.

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Scholarly Search Options

Google Scholar

"Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."

Google Dataset Search

"Enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful."

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

"A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."

Open Library

"Over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books." From the Internet Archive.

Internet Archive Scholar

"This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web. " From the Internet Archive.

Open Access Button

"Before we create a request to the author we check that an article is not already legally available somewhere else ... When an article or dataset isn’t available we ask the authors to share it."

CORE

"CORE provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. "

JournalTOCs

"The largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 35,837 journals including 17,691 selected Open Access journals and 12,201 Hybrid journals, from 3726 publishers." From Heriot-Watt University.

Dimensions

Search millions of scientific journal articles -- many open access.

Merlot

"A curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community."

Voice of the Shuttle

"A structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines ... as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media."

National Science Digital Library

"The comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation."

PLoS One

"An international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS)."

Global Go To Think Tank Index

"The result of an international survey of over 1,950 scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who helped rank more than 6,500 think tanks using a set of 18 criteria developed by the TTCSP."
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