Virtual Reference Desk - Searching the Web

Google.com - The world's best search engine, it even helps you find full text journal articles!

Google Advance Search Tips - Hints to use Google more effectively.
Google Help Central - Google's Main Information Page
Google Services - Tools and Services offered by Google
Google Scholar - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

HighBeam Web Research - Search the best of the Web all from one place — search, news, discussion, business information and research Web sites. Find your answers faster by customizing your search and searching only the sites that best fit your research. Save your search preferences and your best searches for your next research project.

Mooter - A beta site with a nonlinear searching engine using intelligent algorithms to understand the meanings of bodies of information. It clusters the themes within them, and aims to help the searcher effectively navigate through the information.

Searching Skills

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.

Internet Tutorials - University Libraries, SUNY-Albany. Includes guides on basic internet use, research skills, search tools, search engines, capturing graphics, etc.

Navigating the Web: Using Search Tools and Evaluating Resources - Health Sciences LIbraries, University of Washington.

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