Research using the internet

The internet is a big old place and you can get very lost. When looking for factual information library sites and other tools which help control the search and make it more likely to be academic information are useful ways to do this.

Below are a list of links which will help you find more relevant information

A good starting place
http://www.libraryspot.com/ (it is an American site but has many good international resources)

Encyclopedias
1. http://www.libraryspot.com/encyclopedias.htm
2. http://www.wikipedia.org/
3. http://www.ipl.org/

General search engines
4. http://www.google.com/
5. http://www.google.co.vc/
6. http://www.yahoo.com/

7. Meta-search engines (searches search engines)
8. http://www.metacrawler.com/

Find subject directories for a specific field (academic)

9. http://www.lii.org/
10. http://infomine.ucr.edu/
11. http://www.academicinfo.net/

General directories
1.7. http://www.google.com/dirhp%208
13. http://dir.yahoo.com/

Other directories which might help
Google books and Google Scholar

14. Searches specialised data bases or the invisible web as not all websites are listed
15. http://www.searchability.com/

Finding journals and other publications
http://www.e-journals.org/ (some are pay services listed)
http://www.doaj.org/ (free journals)

General ideas for Caribbean
16. http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/
17. http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/info.htm