Over 2M citations from 200K CS articles are included in the demo version of ResearchIndex (formerly CiteSeer). It provides automatic citation indexing for a digital library of Postscript and PDF scientific papers, with active links for browsing the archive. (When papers aren't in the archive, it will search for them on the Web.) Users can do similar-document full-text searches and can be notified of new documents of interest. Citation graph analysis identifies authoritative and review articles. The source code is free for non-commercial use, and could be adapted for digital libraries of scientific literature such as the LANL e-Print archive, ACM DL, IEEE DL, UCSTRI, CORR, ML Papers, NCSTRL, LTRS, HP Bib, CS Bibliographies, and NZDL. . [Steve Lawrence , IRLIST, 21Jun99.]

The Library and Information Science Catalogue of Internet Resources lists information tools for librarians. Topics include knowledge organization, information retrieval, digital libraries, book publishing, and library reference services. Good coverage of British resources. . For even broader scholarly resource coverage -- in Creative Arts, Humanities, Language Literature and Culture, Social Sciences, Health Studies, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Computing -- see the parent page at . [David P. Dillard , DUC, 10Dec99. net-hap.]

Encyberpedia lists, museums, libraries, glossaries, dictionaries, search engines, live news, antiques sites, Web site design tutorials, images, and other reference sources. . [Curt Davis , DUC, 06Dec99. net-hap.]

Newslibrary is a US newspaper article retrieval service. . [Ibid., 23Mar99. net-hap.]

"Finding Data on The Internet -- A Journalist's Guide" can help writers find information they need. . See also "Statistics Every Writer Should Know," at . [Ibid., 04Apr99. net-hap.]

The Reporter's Desktop is another link site for news stories, search engines, and reference sites. . [Jack McGrath, Dig_Ref, 01Dec99. net-hap.]

Useless Knowledge is "the net's largest database" of possibly interesting quotations, trivia, and facts from sports, entertainment, history, science, and other topics. . [WebSiteDaily, 03Dec99. net-hap.]

Needle in a Cyberstack lists trustworthy directories and guides, search engines, people finders, business and career tools, investment resources, and other reference sites in many topic areas. . [David P. Dillard, DUC, 04Nov99. net-hap.]

Infomine is a guide to scholarly Internet resources, created by university librarians in California. Very detailed subject indexing. . [Ibid., 05Jun00. net-hap.]

Research Central is a good collection of well-organized links for scholars and journalists. . [Curt Davis, DUC, 21Mar99. net-hap.]

Encyclopedias on the net can be found through and . [Amnon Till , net-hap, 22Mar99.]

UNebraska's Library Research webpage is a good one, at . All about library catalogs, indexes, search tools, and e-journals. [Curt Davis, WebandStuff, 09May99. net-hap.]

Berkeley Digital Library includes a comprehensive Librarian's Index to the Internet -- a searchable, annotated directory of more than 6K Internet resources. . [Wayne Fisher , netsites, 04Apr00. net-hap.]

The WWW Virtual Library includes an expert-run directory of Web sites. . [BC , netsites, 20Apr00. net-hap.]

Library Spot is another tremendous resource for information researchers, with too much good content to describe: dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, genealogy tools, library links, etc. . [Frank Bohan , netsites, 13Apr00. net-hap.]

Almanacs are a way of finding interesting -- though not comprehensive -- information without being swamped by search engine hits. Try Information Please, ; The CIA World Factbook, ; or StudyWeb, (with links to 118K Web sites, rated by grade level and usefulness). [Network Nuggets, net-hap, 12Apr00.]

Refdesk.com offers news, weather, sports, reference sources, FAQs, tutorials, search engines, airline fares, acronym finders, etc. . [BC , WebSiteDaily, 29Dec99. net-hap.]

"What is?" is a place to go for definitions and explanations. . [Linda De Vore , EDTECH, 01Feb00. net-hap.]

Research-It offers "a whole reference desk on a Web page": dictionaries, thesauri, translators; biography and quotation servers, geographical tools,, telephone number, postal and mailing aids, etc. . [Alan S. Harrell , netsites, 16Jun00. net-hap.]

"xrefer" is another searchable reference source, with 250K entries. . Or see the Info Desk and oddities at The MAD Scientist Network, . [, netsites, 08Jun00. net-hap.]

The Virtual Reference Library indexes and describes about 10K quality Web sites, especially those in Canada. (For instance, "Bob's Your Uncle, eh!" is a Canadian genealogy search engine.) The Career Bookmarks gateway may help job seekers. . [Kathy Scardellato . Wayne Daniels , net-hap, 20Jan00.]

Library Computing (formerly Library Software Review) is a journal of computer technology for libraries. . [, newjour, 27Feb00.]

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