Resources for research work (Part 1)

A researcher looking for information sources related to a subject, however good he is with search engines, may not be able to collect all the relevant links with a single query. We occasionally face some difficulties like broken links, outdated pages, inaccurate information etc.These limitations of search engines have led to the creation of alternative search tools and `subject guides' .

What are ‘Subject guides’ ?

These are the web portals that guide the users to appropriate web locations by subjects and there is little chance of the presence of dead or irrelevant links. The significance of subject guide is that, specialists create it and its content will be more authentic and relevant compared to the search engine results.

Certain subject guides on various topics…….

A list of subject guides on various topics

Alphabetical list of subject guides

Economics

Physics

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Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently it has around eight billion web pages indexed. Its services like google scholar deserves special mention.If you want to gather much more, that is invisible part of the web, then you have to go for specialty search engines. Here I mention some of that kind.

Deep Search engines

Try using a search engine that specializes in scouring the invisible web for results. None of these can search the entire invisible web.

Clusty,Intute,Infomine,Librarians' Internet Index
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Certain other resources.

General Research

The subscription-based databases will help intensify any research by scouring
Numerous journals.

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) ,

Encyclopedia Britannica ,

Factiva,

Forrester Research ,

GPO's Catalog of US Government Publications,

High Wire Press ,

Internet Public Library ,

san Francisco Public Library,

Smithsonian Institution Libraries ,

The National Archives,

Topix.net

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Xrefer .

Books Online

There are tens of thousands of classic books with full text available online for free. Even some authors books are available in full text form.

The Online Books Page,

Bibliomania ,

Project Gutenberg ,

The National Academies Press,

ebrary

To be continued........