Online resources: search engines & gateways
Internet Search Engines
| Google Scholar, Google's search engine for scholarly works. When you connect from off–campus, you will need to set your preferences in Google Scholar to make sure it includes links to holdings at the Library. | |
| Google's biggest competitor. | |
| MetaCrawler uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more. |
Subject Gateways
General
| Intute | Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. |
| PINAKES | A subject launchpad to major gateways |
| Subject list of resources | |
Humanities
| Intute Creative and Performing Arts and Humanities |
guides to quality Internet resources in the Arts and Creative Industries, including Music, and the Humanities |
| Voice of the Shuttle | web page for Humanities Research |
| Labyrinth | a World Wide Web server for mediaeval Studies |
| Manchester Medieval Portal | a portal for mediaeval history material |
| Arts & Humanties Data Service | comprising the Archaeology Data Service, the History Data Service, the Oxford Text Archive, the Performing Arts Data Service and the Visual Arts Data Service |
| Archives Hub | information about the archives available in the UK's universities and colleges. |
Social Sciences
| Intute Social Sciences | the Social Sciences Information Gateway |
| for information on development and the environment |
Sciences
| Intute Biological Sciences and Intute Medicine | a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering biological sciences and medicine. |
| Intute Engineering and Intute Physical Sciences |
The key resource for finding web resources in engineering and physical sciences. This hub is maintained for UK higher education, for access to resources in engineering and the physical sciences, including astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, science history and policy, and aspects of the material sciences. |
| psci-com | a guide to resources on public engagement with science and technology |
| SciCentral | a gateway to 50,000 selected sites for science and engineering |
| Scirus | a scientific search engine |
| Bioethics Web | BioethicsWeb offers access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering biomedical ethics. |