Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek
[Est. 1 Aug 1997. Page last updated: 5 Sep 2006.]
This document keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Please mail tmciolek@ciolek.com if you know of relevant WWW server not in this list.
[Aliweb is the Web's oldest Search Engine. It was established in April 1994. In Jan 2005 it covered over 600 search engines and databases dealing with: *Computing, *Entertainment, *Living, *Money, *Newstand , *Recreation, *Research, *Shopping]
[Arts and Humanities, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News and Media, Recreation and Sports, Reference, Regional, Science, Social Science, Society and Culture]
[SEARCHING: Which search service to start with? WWW, Indexes for individual types of Web resources, Gopher, Library catalogs (OPACs), Search for OPACs and connect, Search records from OPACS through HTML Forms
BROWSING Internet resources: by type, location, subject, date, at random (serendipity)]
[Introduction: Word and Image; Image Copyright; Downloading; Search Engines; Image Search Engines; Image Archives/Image Collections/Imagebases; References
The original site appears to have disappeared from the Net. However,
it is archived by the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) ]
[An article by Gary Price of Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting
Ten Things to Know about Google; Ten Things to Know about AllTheWeb; Ten Things to Know about Altavista;Ten Things to Know about MSN Search; Ten Things to Know about Northern Light; Ontologies, Controlled Vocabularies, XML, and Web Search Engines; The Future: New Tools on the Way (www.wiwsenut.com; www.teoma.com; www.guidebeam.com; www.picsearch.com; www.netcurrents.com; www.iphrase.com); Essential Reading]
[General Resource Searchers, Aggressive Pattern Searchers, Content to Browse, Social Science Data Archives, Miscellaneous Information Sources, Site Information and comments]
[Accountancy, Anthropology, Business and Industrial Management, Demography, Development Studies, Disability Issues, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, Ethnology, Feminism, Geography, Government and Public Administration, International Relations, Law, Military Science, Philosophy, Politics, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Science - General (including Datasets and Data Archives), Social Science - Methodology, Social Welfare and Relief (including Insurance), Sociology,
Statistics]