South Shore Skeptics' Link Library
Reference Desk and Power Search
Tools
link hunter's tips
( last updated 3-3-05 )
- ALEX
Archive: of Electronic Fullttext ( thousands of downloadable books )
- Aphorisms Galore
- Australia, National
Libraries Of
- Bartlett's Quotations
( click for look-up )
- Bible search engine
/ compare versions )
- Book
Index (Taner Edis)
- Books by James Randi
- Books On-Line:
(author index to fulltext)
- Books Out Of
Print (Bowker's Catalog search)
- Books Through the
Internet ( CWRU link list )
- Campus
Newspapers on the Web
- Cleveland Index (CSU)
- Cleveland Local Resources
(Cleve. Public Lib.)
- Cleveland News Index
(search)
- Cleveland Organizations
Online
- Cleveland Public Library
Online ( some areas require Clevenet library card # )
- Click Here
To Search the Internet
- Consumer
World's Big List of Internet Resources
- Conspiracy Dictionary
( Arc-Hive )
- CPL Electronic
Resources (requires Clevenet library card #)
- Dictionaries and Glossaries
( links specialized dictionaries, e.g. medical )
- Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable
- EFF's
Extended Guide to the Internet
- e-zine-list
Georgia Skeptic
- Electronic Magazines
( topical index by John Labovitz)
- Electronic Newsstand
- Files
By Mail ( over 17.000 topics from the Skeptic Tank )
- Find Broadcasters (AJR)
- Find Magazines / Publishers
By Category (AJR)
- Find Newspapers / Publishers
(AJR)
- Free-Nets & Community
Networks
- Genealogy Links
to over 10,000 Sites
- Great Books Online
(Bartleby Library)
- Great
Quotes from Great Skeptics
Government -- Federal, Agency Locator ( via Library
of Congress online )
Legislative
Executive
Judicial Branch
- Gumshoe's
Guide to Web Searching ( _PC World_ )
- Health Encyclopedia
( AllRefer.com ) added 3-05
- Healthopedia.com
( nedical encyclopedia ) added 3-05
- History
Net
- Information Please Almanac -- also Culumbia Encyclopedia and Webster's Thesaurus
- Index By Topic
( to Skep Inquirer, Skep Briefs, Skep UK and Fortean Times )
- Internet Providers
In Your Area Code
- Internet Public Library
- Law -- Findlaw
- Light Reading
Links
- List of Lists
(1,000+ email news/discussion lists, textfile .
- Magazine Links
(Secular Web Library)
- Microsoft
Browser Add-On Site ( if you use Explorer )
- Netscape
Browser Add-Ons
- Newspaper Links
(CPL)
- Newspaper and
Cartoon Links (CWRU)
- Occult
Dictionary
- Ohio Govt. Links
- Ohio Library Links
- On-Line Books Page
- Online Journal Publishing
Service --assorted science
journal abstracts and indexes
- Online
journals
- PC
World Magazine -- Product Reviews, How-To Articles Etc.)
- Publically
Accessible Mailing Lists ( subject menu )
- Project
Gutenberg ( out-of-copyright classic books
available for download by the thousands )
- Randi's Psychic Challenge
( $1,000,000.00 reward ).
- Re:
QUEST dot Net
- Refdesk.Com
- Research It! Thesaurus,
Language Translator, zipcodes etc, etc.
- Research
Links -- ICR
- sci.skeptic
FAQ
- Science and Education Resources
- Search All of Usenet News within
the past 12 months
- Search Cleveland Public
Library Catalog
- Search for an attorney
with West's Legal Directory (Basic Searc
- Search
Libraries In Ohio (OCLC)
- Shareware
/ Freeware Archive / Reviews ( _PC World Magazine_ )
- Shareware Archive ( shareware.com)
- SKEPTIC
Annotated Bibliography Taner Edis)
- Skeptic
Tank Archive ( and 17,000 files by mail )
- Skeptic's
Dictionary Download
- Skeptics'
Dictionary ( click for look-up )
- Statistical Abstract
-- U.S. Census Bur. -- social and economic stats by tear
- Switchboarrd (
locates people )
- SyllabusWeb
-
- Usenet Search ( last few years ) / tips
- Alta Vista
- Deja News
- Infoseek
-
- U.S. Senators'
and Reps' email addresses ( look up )
- UFO
Dictionary ( Arc-Hive )
- Virtual
Computer Library Journals
- Virtual
Reference Desk -- find almost anything.
- Web
Servers - Magazines Newspapers
- Weird
Science Dictionary (Arc-Hive)
- Which
Search Engine (Is Best? depends, _PC World_ )
- Yahoo
Business and Economy Newspapers
-
- Search Tips
-
- The most powerful search features on free sites are often well hidden
by design, behind a slew of ads. Look for buttons that say "advanced
search" or "power search". If you've been to that site before,
look for different-colored links your browser remembers ( and set it to
remember infefinitely ). Always bookmark power-search pages when you come
across them. If a site is badly cluttered, but you know it has power-search
features, do an edit / find for the word "search".
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- Some sites WILL link to many popular-topic sites and search engines
not in direct competition with them ( e.g. a bookstore site may link heavily
to "automotive" ). A hobby-supply site may link heavily to non-profit
hobby sites, and vice versa. Good links bring viewers back, and more hits
mean more advertisers. Such link collections tend to be stable, and hand-picked
links are often better than automated search results.
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- Link-intensive sites generally put their links in plain view on
the front page, under the heading "related sites", "other
sites" or "links". Grab any you find useful, either by bookmarking
or by dragging them onto a blank page you create. Browsers such as Netscape
and Internet Explorer have a Web page editor that can create Web-type pages
on your hard disk. This lets you organize your finds, without having them
held hostage by a browser.
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- If a link page no longer exists, shorten the address to find the
home page menu.
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- Example: If you can't find
- www.some.site.com/hotstuff/links/
- try just:
- www.some.site.com
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- Your browser keeps an automatic history list of sites you've misplaced.
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- Use your "back" button to return.
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