Bridge to the Net

Bridge to The Net

Resources for Access to Information Tools,
Website Design & Production, and
Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Edited T.S. Minton

Access to Information Tools:

General Research, Writer's Toolshop, & Consumer Goodies


General Research

Search engines, directories, & subject guides

  • The University of Arizona's Sabio Web Search
    My favorite launching pad to access Yahoo, Alta Vista, and many other useful search and meta-search engines (especially Dogpile) and web instructional guides -- all in one elegantly simple location. An essential bookmarker.
  • Dogpile
    The most important research tool on the Internet for me, since it searches over a dozen engines simultaneously, and it can search Usenet postings as well as the web. For optimum results, try the term you seek in lowercase, with parentheses around the exact phrase and an "AND" between terms for boolean searches, i.e. "mark twain" AND "a connecticut yankee" helps you zoom in on exactly what you need.
  • Resources From the Internet
    My former instructor Prof. Tom Goldpaugh of Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, offers these terrific navigation guides for search machines, meta-indexes, literature indexes, and humanities gateways.

    Megasites and Mega-Research Resources

  • Argus Clearinghouse
  • Infomine
  • www.cais.com/makulow/awesome.html The Awesome List
  • www.december.com/net/tools/index.html Internet Tools Summary
  • library.usask.ca/hytelnet/ Hytelnet
  • Gary Gach's research central It's hard to beat Gach's colossal efforts, the electronic companion to the pithy brilliance of his dandy little book The Pocket Guide to the Internet.
  • The WWW Virtual Library
  • Yahoo Reference
  • EMOL Internet Resources

    Libraries

  • www.ipl.org The Internet Public Library
  • www.loc.gov Library of Congress www.lights.com/webcats WebCATS: Library Catalogs on the World Wide Web sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet

    Databases

    www.isleuth.com Internet Sleuth eric.syr.edu ERIC database for educational research www.Webtaxi.com Webtaxi

    General Reference

    General Reference www.bigbooks.com Big Books U.S. addresses with street maps www.mapquest.com (see yahoo, u of a)

    Internet Portals


    These big dogs wants their home pages to be the starting point for our Internet experience. The purpose of Bridge to the Net is to help people become self-empowered cyber-navigators, so if these "portals" help in that endeavor, great. If not, forget 'em and learn to chart your own course.
  • MSN
  • microsoft.net
  • Yahoo
  • AOL.com

    Dictionaries

  • WWWebster Dictionary
  • Dictionaries Merriam webster

    Online Publications

    Magazines www.enews.com/monster online searches for magazines by name, subject, and category www.ecola.com Ecola Newstand bio02.uthscsa.edu/journal/journal.html On-Line Journals List
  • Nerdworld
  • Magazine-rack

    Newspapers & News www.thedrudgereport.com Drudge Report www.mediainfo.com/emedia Editor & Publisher Online Media DIrectory pppp.net/links/news Ultimate Collection of Newslinks www.newsindex.com News Index (news only search engine) www.refdesk.com/paper.html My Virtual Newspaper www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/news.html Newsroom way.net/omnivore/index.html Omnivore (world sources for news)

    Internet history and terminologies


  • Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
  • "How Web Servers and the Internet Work"

    Writer's Resources

    (inter-link w/ Literary Enclave) (writing) www.writers.com www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk Elements of Style richard morris wm safire batleby (publishing) www.pma-online.org Publishers Marketing Association www.pw.com Publishers Weekly (freelance work) www.the-efa.com Editorial Freelancers Association (distance education and home schooling) www.athena.edu/ Virtual Online University www.caso.com/iuhome.html Internet University directory yahoo

    Consumer Goodies

    www.4free.net www.alladvantage.com www.tradewinz.com www.allpaidfor.com www.jumbo.com massive shareware archive pioneer.pointcast.com PoinCast internet broadcast (headlines across your screen) www.geocities.com www.cybertown.com www.angelfire.com (free websites) www.hotmail.com www.yahoo.com (free e-mail) www.netzero.com www.1stup.com www.altavista.com (free ISP) www??????? (free DSL) www.callwave.com Free answering machine www.faxwave.com Free faxes to e-mail www.dialpad.com Free long distance Kid's Stuff www.cyberkids.com www.scholastic.com/sn Scholastic News etc. Newgroups

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