Milton Public Library
476 Canton Avenue
Milton, Massachusets 02186
617-698-5757 | miref@ocln.org
 
Search the Web Site
Research

Search OCLN For: 

Internet Research

Sifting through the vast information on the internet for the most useful and authoritative information is a daunting task. Librarians and others have trod these paths before you, and some of the best approaches are listed below:

Librarians Picks
These subject guides to the internet have been developed by librarians across the country.

Boston Public Library Electronic Resources
http://www.bpl.org/electronic/indexinternet.htm

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Internet Public Library Kidspace
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

Minuteman Library Network Internet Resources
http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/uir/

NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
http://www.noblenet.org/index2.htm

Springfield City Library: Directory of the Web
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/directory.html

 

Other Directories
Some of the best commercial subject guides to the internet

Altavista
http://www.altavista.com/

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Yahoo Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/

Search Engines

Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com/

Google
http://www.google.com

Teoma
http://www.teoma.com/

Yahoo Search

MetaSearch Sites
The following sites search multiple search engines at the same time:

Dogpile | Metacrawler | Search.com

More on Search Engines