Internet Resources and Tools

Best Bets for Starting Your Internet Search

These sites provide very comprehensive subject hierarchies and search facilities.

Yahoo     Lycos     Alta Vista     Excite     Netscape Net Search

Other Internet Search Engines

The services listed below allow you to perform keyword searches to help you find specific Internet resources.

• Archie Search Internet FTP Archives
  
• Finger Get Information About Other's Accounts
  
• Image Finder Search Washington University's Image Database
  
• InfoSeek Fast Commercial Web Search Service
  
• PC Harvest Broker Customized Search for PC Software
  
• Veronica Keyword Search of Gopher Menus
  
• W3 Search Engines Access Numerous World Wide Web Search Engines
  
• WAIS.com Search WAIS Directory of Servers
  

Internet Catalogs and Subject Hierarchies

The services listed below have catagorized and organized listings of thousands of Internet information providers, and provide valuable starting points for finding specific information or randomly 'surfing' the Internet. Some of them concentrate their listings on particular subject or fields.

World Wide Web Sites

• Academic and Scholarly Resources from Oberlin College
  
• American Universities Hook up to their information sources
  
• Best of the Web Contest Most interesting, useful pages
  
• Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides At U. of Mich.
  
• Comp.Infosystems.WWW.Announce Newsgroup Announcing New Resources
  
• Computer and Communications Index of Companies
  
• The EINet Galaxy Web sites organized by topic
  
• Global Network Navigator O'Reilly's Whole Internet Guide
  
• Harvest Information Discovery and Access
  
• Heliocentric Information Map At U. of N.C.
  
• Infomine Biological, Agricultural, & Medical Resources
  
• Internet MetaIndex Top-level index of Web sites
  
• Internet Services List (Scott Yanoff's List) "Classic" guide to the Internet
  
• Internet Town Hall Hear ye, hear ye!
  
• Internet Web Text Your one-stop guide to the Internet
  
• Internic Directory and Database Services AT&T's Info Clearinghouse
  
• Netsurfer Digest "More Signal, Less Noise..."
  
• Nexor Public Services Popular British site
  
• Open Market Index of Commercial Sites
  
• PC Index Sites of Interest to PC Users
  
• Telephone Directories on the Internet 800 Numbers, Yellow Pages, etc.
  
• Virtual Town At U. Cal. Davis
  
• What's New With NCSA Mosaic New sites on the world wide web
  
• The White House Gateway to Government Information
  
• World Wide Web Sites, sorted by country Be a world traveler!
  
• The WWW Virtual Library: Subject Catalog Web sites by topic
  
• Yellow Pages Yet Another Index of Sites
  

Gopher Sites

• Gopher "Headquarters" U of MN Gateway to all the world's gophers
  
• Gopher Sites, by Subject Topical hierarchy
  
• U.S. Government Gopher Servers Ask Uncle Sam
  
• Virtual Reference Desk Mostly gopher sites
  

WAIS Sites

• WAIS.COM Search Directory of Servers
  
• WAIS Databases via Gopher Menus List of All WAIS Sources
  
• WAIS Databases via Gopher Menus Organized by Subjects
  

Miscellaneous Internet References

This list contains references to several services of general interest to Internet users.

Internet Resources related to Electronic Mail

• Four-11: a global email registry
  
• Finding people on the internet
  
• How to find email addresses
  
• Various Mail-Related Frequently Asked Questions Lists
  
• LISTSERVs Info about thousands of mailing lists
  

Internet Resources Related to Usenet News

Internet Library Resources

• Library of Congress
  
• National Library of Medicine
  
• Newsletters & journals off campus
  
• Online library information
  
• Internet-Accessible Library Catalogs
  
• CARL Uncover System
  Go here for important information about the CARL service.

Internet Bulletin Board Systems

• Iowa Student Computer Association BBS
  
• Tallahassee Free-Net
  
• Washington University, St. Louis: SERVICES
  (use "services" as login name)
  

Items of Interest to Faculty

• Academic Position Network

• American Physiological Society

• ISAAC - Educational Information System

• National Institute of Health

• National Science Foundation

Introductions to the Internet

The services listed below provide valuable Internet-related instructional and reference material, and are a good place to start if you want more information about what the Internet is.

• Entering the Web A guide to Cyberspace
  
• FAQs From Usenet Newsgroups (via web) Frequently Asked Questions
  
• FAQs From Usenet Newsgroups (via ftp) Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Internet Standards, RFCs, FYIs, etc. All the gory details for tech-heads
  
• Internet Standards, RFCs, FYIs, etc. via ftp interface
  
• World Wide Web FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
  
• How to Announce your Web Site Making your web pages known