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Academic Search Engines

General Academic Searches
  • Academic Index — includes results from information databases that index only research-quality reference and information
  • All Academic — The Guide to Free Academic Resources On-Line: scholarly journal articles, convention procedures, and working papers.
  • Bubl-Link — Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
  • Digital Librarian — a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
  • Electronic Journal Miner — Search engine for electronic journals
  • FindArticles.com — vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 350 magazines and journals...
  • InfoMine — Search 100,904 Academically Valuable Resources
  • Libraries — A lising of a number of search engines forpublic and university libraries.
  • Scholar's Resources on the Web — Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History, U of Illinois-Chicago, excellent and vast list of academic resources.
  • SearchEdu.com — Searches over 20 million university and education pages.
  • Statistical Resources — University of Michigan's Statistical Resources on the Web with topical links

Disciplinary Searches
Specialized Searches

Web Directories

  • Scout Report Archives — Searchable and browsable archive of the best Internet resources chosen by the Scout Report.
  • WWW Virtual Library — The oldest directory of the web, the VL is run by volunteers who compile links for their area of expertise.
  • Open Directory Project — A comprehensive directory of the web, developed by volunteer editors.
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet — A searchable, annotated subject directory of thousands of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.

©2005 Katherine Heenan

updated: August 13, 2009