Washington and Lee University
American Social History Online
"Provides access to distributed digital library collections pertaining to 19th- and 20th-century U.S. social history. The 175 collections represent such institutions as the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and the California Digital Library and contain 514,708 photographs and cultural materials, books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, short music videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories."
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
A very specialized resource, providing access to the Web sites of over 70 think tanks and other research organizations specializing in international affairs.
CIAO provides high-quality research material on issues relating to international affairs from highly respected organizations.
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Google Search -- Think Tanks And Public Policy Groups
This is a Google-based search engine for accessing the contents of the 145+ sites listed here.
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Government Search Engines
Links to search engines which specialize in finding U.S. government information on the Web.
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Infomine
Listing over 21,000 "academic" Web resources, this is not a tool for finding "everything" on the Web. InfoMine lists only high-quality resources which are "academic" in nature -- intended for college- or university-level research. Citations include descriptive summaries and links.
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Internet Archive -- Wayback Machine
Specialized in storing and accessing "old" Web pages, with coverage extending back to 1995. Includes over 30 billion pages.
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Internet Scout Project Archives
Searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains about 17,000 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.
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Journalism Resources -- Google Search
This Google-based search engine enables you to search through the contents of over 150 sites in the W&L University Library's Journalism Resources Issues and Research and Professional Associations collections.
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MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource For Learning And Online Teaching)
Links to selected "peer reviewed online learning materials," managed by a consortium of higher education institutions. Each entry is described and rated.
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OAIster
OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) "harvests" collections of digital resources from nearly 300 academic and research-related institutions, now totaling over 3 million items.
It focuses on materials (reports, studies, other documents) created at respected academic and research institutions. Much of this material is not retrieved by more "general" search engines.
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Oberlin Group Search Engine
The Oberlin Group is a group of U.S. private colleges, associated mostly for the benefit of their libraries.
This Google-based search engine is designed to search institutional Web pages at each of these colleges.
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OpenDOAR
A Google-based search service which taps into the contents of about 250 freely-accessible online repositories which are "of academic value."
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Policy Archive
Free digital archive of non-partisan public policy research, collecting and disseminating summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
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PolicyFile
A very specialized resource, providing access to the Web sites of important public policy think tanks, university research programs, and other research organizations.
PolicyFile provides high-quality research material on issues relating to aspects of public policy from highly respected organizations. All citations include extensive abstracts, and most contain links leading to the full text of documents.
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PubHub
Index, with annotations, to "electronic versions of reports created by or with foundation resources." Mostly arts-related materials.
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SMEALSearch
A specialized search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts.
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Scirus
Specialized search engine which focuses on over 450 million science-related Web pages. Also searches for publicly-accessible science journal article citations and PDF documents that Google misses, including documents from institutional repositories. Focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content.
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Wikimedia Commons
Contains about 5 million "public domain and freely-licensed educational media" (image, sound, and video) files.
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WorldWideScience
"Global science gateway" allowing one-stop searching of 15 national and international science databases and portals, maintained by government agencies and national libraries of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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