Web Cheat Sheet: Where should I start my search?
Broad topics or browsing through lists of subject sites
Cool School Tools http://www.bham.lib.al.us/cooltools/
HotSheet http://www.hotsheet.com/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/
Librarian's Index to the Internet (Berkeley Public Library) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
LookSmart http://www.looksmart.com
Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/
Study Web http://www.studyweb.com/
WWW Virtual Library http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com

High-quality, evaluated sites
Lycos Top 5% from Point http://point.lycos.com/categories/index.html
Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/

Sites by date
AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com

Command-free strategies
Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com

Recognizes capital and lowercase letters
AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com
Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/
Ultraseek http://www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=ultra_home.html
Excite People Finder http://www.excite.com/Reference/people.html?a-k-t

Search by Internet domain (.edu, .gov):
Alta Vista http://altavista.digital.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com

Expert-recommended sites
Argus Clearinghouse http://www.clearinghouse.net/

Graphics, sounds and quicktime videos
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Lycos Media http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Multimedia/Pictures
Ultraseek Imageseek http://www.infoseek.com/Facts?pg=image.html

Usenet news groups
AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com
Excite Usenet Newsgroups http://www.excite.com/Reference/usenet.html?a-un-t
Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

Hard to find term or phrase
Alta Vista http://altavista.digital.com
Opentext http://index.opentext.net/
Ultraseek http://www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=ultra_home.html

Field searching
Alta Vista http://altavista.digital.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Open Text http://index.opentext.net/
Ultraseek http://www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=ultra_home.html

Reference questions
HotSheet: Web Quick Reference http://www.hotsheet.com/
Internet Public Library Ready Reference http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/
Martindale's Reference Desk http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/Ref.html
My Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/
Yahoo Reference http://www.yahoo.com/Reference
Research-It! http://www.iTools.com/
Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk http://scholes.alfred.edu/Ref.html

Biography
Biography.com (A&ampE) http://www.biography.com/
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth http://www.tiac.net/users/parallax/
POTUS (Presidents of the United States) http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

E-mail to experts
New Jersey Networking Infrastructure's Ask An Expert Page http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
Pitsco's Ask an Expert http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/

Lesson plans
AskEric http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
GEM http://geminfo.org/
MCREL http://www.mcrel.org/connect/lesson.html
Pitsco's Launch to Lesson Plans http://www.pitsco.com/p/lesson.html

Maps/Travel
city.net http://www.city.net
Color Landform Atlas of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Lycos Roadmaps http://www.lycos.com/roadmap.html
MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com
Microsoft's Expedia http://expedia.msn.com/
Tiger Map Server http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
World City Guide http://cityguide.lycos.com/
Yahoo Maps http://www.proximus.com/yahoo

Current events
CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com
Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/
Lycos News http://www.lycos.com/news/
Open Text http://index.opentext.net/main/current_events.html
USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/
Washington Post.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Quote or long strings of words
OpenText http://index.opentext.net/

Phone numbers and addresses
AT&ampT Toll Free Directory http://www.tollfree.att.net
Big Yellow E-mail Search http://bigyellow.four11.com/cgi-bin/Four11?byemail
Big Foot http://www.bigfoot.com/
Excite People Finder http://www.excite.com/Reference/people.html?a-k-t
Four11 Telephone Directory http://www.four11.com
Lycos People Find http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html
Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com
WhoWhere? http://www.whowhere.com/

Listservs
Ed Web-E-mail Discussion Lists http://edweb.gsn.org/lists.html
Liszt http://www.liszt.com
Tile.Net/Lists http://tile.net/lists/

Shareware
Download.com http://www.download.com
Excite http://www.excite.com/Reference/shareware.html?a-u-t Jumbo http://www.jumbo.com
Shareware.com http://www.shareware.com

Children sites
A2Z Just for Kids http://a2z.lycos.com/Just_For_Kids/
Lycos Kids http://www.lycos.com/kids/
Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com

Magazine articles (pay services)
Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com
Proquest Direct http://www.umi.com
IAC SearchBank http://iacnet.com

Primary Source Documents
American Memory Collection (Library of Congress) http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Historical Text Archive http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/
Speeches of United States' Presidents http://www.ocean.ic.net/rafiles/pres/thelist.html
U.S. Founding Documents http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/
U.S. Historical Documents http://www.law.uoknor.edu/ushist.html

From Power Tools: 100+ Forms and Presentations for Your School Library Information Program, by Joyce Kasman Valenza. To be published in December 1997.
Permission granted to reproduce for nonprofit educational purposes.

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