Libraries have been among the most aggressive institutions to
move into the electronic identification and distribution of
information. What is accessible electronically, though, are
bibliographic citations to books or citations and abstracts to
various publications, but only rarely to full text files.
These
are extremely valuable resources in identifying material but
there is most often a next-step required to gain access to the
full contents of what has been identified. With the growth of
Internet resources, a great number of search engines have been
developed. Some of the selections below are actually collections
of collections, or clusters of search engines.
Many Internet
provider companies provide search engines on their home pages.
The following listing contains only a selection of some of the
more prominent sites.
ALIWEB
ALIWEB works as follows:
1. People write descriptions of their services in a standard
format into a file on the Web, by hand or using automatic
tools.
2. They then tell ALIWEB about this file.
3. ALIWEB regularly retrieves all these files, and combines
them into a searchable database.
4. Anybody can come and search this database from the Web.
ALIWEB is currently updated once per day.
All-In-One
Internet Search
This page is a compilation of various forms-based search
tools found on the Internet. They have been combined here to
form a consistent interface and convenient All-In-One search
point. Categories are available for specialized searches.
CARL Corporation
The CARL System is a turnkey library management system
designed to serve large, networked libraries in county, regional
or cooperative settings. Over 450 libraries are currently
supported on the CARL System, which is comprised of 32
interconnected CPU locations that link over 14,000 dedicated
terminals. Character-based
access is available at telnet://pac.carl.org. There are over
40 selections available under the selection open access
databases.
The CARL Corporation also manages
UnCover, an online article
delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keyword
index to nearly 17,000 periodicals.
CICNet
CICNet provides access to information resources and
management of information resources in a wide- area network
(WAN) environment. Current partners in information service
projects include the libraries of the twelve CIC member
universities, the North Central Regional Educational laboratory,
GTE, Inc. the Great Lakes Council of Governors, West Virginia
University, and the Great Lakes Commission.
Clearinghouse for
Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource
Guides provides a central access point for topical guides which
identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information
resources. Our mission is to facilitate intellectual access to
information resources on the Internet. In order to avoid
duplication of effort, our focus is intentionally narrow. For
this reason, the Clearinghouse does not accept guides to
resources that are not Internet-based (e.g., annotated
bibliographies), nor does the Clearinghouse accept guides to a
single site's Internet-based resources.
CUSI
This engine is actually a device by which to search a large
number of Internet search engines.
David Rezachek's
Home Page
David Rezachek is interested in exchanging information and
ideas relating to renewable energy; efficient energy use;
electric and hybrid vehicles (including solar cars); the
environment; energy and environmental education; personal
rights; and whistleblowing. This homepage provides detailed list
of links to sites in the energy area. Also listed are several
interest group mail lists which are another source of
information.
The links are divided into following areas:
Energy - General,
Energy
Conservation and Efficiency,
Renewable Energy,
Energy Incentive Programs/Financing Alternatives,
Energy Facility Siting and Permitting,
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles,
Energy and Environmental Education, and
Environmental Issues.
Electronic
Development and Environment
Information System (EDIS)
Eldis serves as a gateway to information sources on
development or the environment. Most of these sources are either
electronic or institutional. Where the source is available on
the Internet, a direct link is provided. Where there is no
Internet link, other information on availability is given. Users
can browse the database based on a number of classifications
including by subject.
Energy
related links are provided.
EInet Galaxy
Galaxy is a searchable guide to worldwide information and
services provided as free of charge by EINet. Look in the
engineering and technology section
for topics of interest. Galaxy also organizes information by
type of resources and category of institution (government,
corporate, academic, etc.).
Energy Ideas
Send an e-mail message to
ei@igc.apc.org
The emphasis is on articles, including case studies, on the
use of energy-efficient and renewable- energy technologies in
public sector facilities. Back issues are posted on EcoNet's
conference climate.news. Contact Jonathan Kleinman at the e-mail
address for subscription information and access to EcoNet for
which there is a fee. See the discussion of
EcoNet in the
non-profit
section.
ENEWS
The International Newsletter on Energy Efficiency Issues in
the Developing Countries includes project information and
analysis, funding information, and publication announcements. To
receive an electronic subscription to the newsletter send mail
to
LISTSERV@FEM.UNICAMP.BR typing on the first line of the body
of the message:
- subscribe L-ENEWS (if you also wish to participate on
the discussion list)
- subscribe X-ENEWS (if you only wish to receive the
Newsletter).
ENEWS is published by the
State University of Campinas, Mechanical Engineering Institute,
Brazil. See description in section
on
Universities.
Global On-Line
Directory
Global On-Line offers you your own page on the Internet to
advertise your company, organization or even yourself, your
services, news releases, archives, or W3 pages.
Globe wide
Network Academy
The Globe wide Network Academy (GNA) is a global non-profit
consortium of educational and research organizations intended to
improve education by creating a central marketplace for courses
as well as to offer administrative and technical services in
support of online courses.
Harvest Resource
Directory
Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract,
organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information
across the Internet. With modest effort users can tailor Harvest
to digest information in many different formats, and offer
custom search services on the Internet.
HYTELNET
HYTELNET is the utility which gives a user instant-access to
all telnet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, BBSs,
Gophers, WAIS, etc..
HYTELNET is also available on the Web in a variety of
locations (see this page for details) through sponsoring
institutions and on a
gopher site. A mailing
list provides updates on new versions of HYTELNET. To subscribe,
send a message to:
listserv@library.berkeley.edu, with the following in the
body of the message: subscribe hytelnet First Name Last Name.
InfoSeek Search
InfoSeek is a fee-based search service. Free trial
subscriptions are available.
Journal of Energy and
Development
This is an academic journal published by the International
Research Center for Energy and Economic Development at the
University of Colorado. Access to the journal's current and
archived book reviews is available on line.
Library of Congress
Files available on the Library of Congress Gopher, LOCIS
(Library of Congress Information System) include the Library's
complete collection of sampled material as well as legislative
history and current affairs files prepared by the Library's
Congressional Research Service at the Library.
Lycos
A search engine housed at Carnegie Mellon University
comprised of two catalogues of URL addresses: the large
containing 4.49 million URLs, the small 434,000. A search of the
small catalogue on "energy efficiency" produced 3073 hits on
"energy" and "720" hits on "efficiency."
New Riders' Official World
Wide Web Yellow Pages
The Yellow Pages include a wide variety of listings and are
searchable by key words or categories. You can also add a link
to your site from here.
Planet Earth Home Page Energy Information
The Planet Earth Home Page is a virtual library structured
around a suite of facilities: reference, starting points,
science, world regions, government, multimedia, education, and
search engines. The energy information available is divided into
the following categories: servers, general topics, and research
laboratories.
RBSE Spider
This index is a collection of URL references built up and
indexed with a hacked version of WAIS. The index is constructed
by a spider that walks the web, building a graph in an Oracle
database, and WAIS indexing the full text of the document. There
are currently 36,195 documents in the index. This service
offered as part of the experimental prototype under construction
by the Repository Based Software Engineering project.
The Virtual
Tourist
The Virtual Tourist is a geographic directory of WWW servers
worldwide operating in close association with CERN's Master Web
Server Directory. This service does not contain information
about countries, states, and regions (i.e. tourist information).
URL Square
The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
provides URL Square, a directory of
directories, to the Internet community. A
Japanese
version is also
available.
W3 Virtual Libraries
This page contains links to collections of information by
subject matter, searchable libraries, and other hypertext and
non-hypertext catalogues.
WebCrawler
The WebCrawler is operated by America Online as a service to
the Internet. A search on "energy efficiency" returned 365
documents. The WebCrawler offers that there are 59,511 servers
on the World Wide Web, an eightfold increase in the last year.
The majority of these are HTTP servers, but also considerable
amounts of gopher and ftp sites.
Web Sites
Organized by Dewey Decimal System
The section on engineering (620) contains links to a variety
of information resources pertaining to energy efficiency.
Whole
Internet Catalogue
This is an up-to-date edition of the appendix found in Ed
Krol's Whole Internet Guide.
The World Guide to Energy
This page is a service of The World and is located within the
reference library. For other topics see the
Interlist
category page.
World Wide Web Virtual Library
The World Wide Web
Consortium provides the overall
structure for this virtual library. Individual sections are
located at host institutions.
The
Energy section
is maintained by CREST.
(See section on non-profit organizations for details.) The
Power
Engineering section
resides at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
World Wide
Web Wanderer Index
Wandex is a WWW index generated by the WWW Wanderer and the
net.Index prototype (an autonomous content analysis-based search
engine). To date, Wandex has indexed over 29,000 web documents
from more than 12,000 sites and more than 6,000 homepages.
World Wide Web
Worm (WWWW)
The WWWW provides four types of search databases: citation
hypertext, citation addresses (URL), HTML titles and HTML
addresses. The latter two are much smaller databases, which can
therefore be searched faster.
Yahoo
Yahoo also maintains an index to Internet resources that may
be browsed or searched by key words. There is also a section on
various Internet search vehicles
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