1. Search in search engine's directory
   • Google: Directory
   • Yahoo: Use the tab above the search box
   • Search in the DMOZ Open Directory:
     • [topic] site:dmoz.org
   • MeL (Michigan eLibrary)
   • Librarian's Internet Index
   
   
2. Locate a selected directory on the topic, such as HealthWeb for health and medicine or StatLibfor statistics. DMOZ Directory (a.k.a. Google directory) sometimes lists these under specific topics, and is itself a collection of selected links. Other similare resources include:
   • AllMyFavorites
   • LookMarks
   
   
3. Try searching for phrases like portal, "web directory", "web links", "web tools", "web sources", "internet sources", and similar phrases, limiting to the type of institution most likely to have created a useful directory on your topic. Be wary of terms than can carry multiple meanings, such as "library". For example:
   • Google: statistics (tutorial OR sources OR "data sets") site:.edu
   • Google: (global OR international) history (portal OR "web sources" OR "internet resources" OR "link collection" OR bookmarks) site:.edu
   
   
4. Try searching for general reference terms, like encyclopedia, dictionary, database, glossary, and such. Be wary of terms than can carry multiple meanings, such as "library". For example:
   • Google: drug interactions (encyclopedia OR database OR glossary OR dictionary)
   • Google: ((japan OR japanese) (culture OR history)) (encyclopedia OR database OR glossary OR dictionary OR reference OR library OR archive) -wikipedia
   
   
5. Try searching for Web 2.0 communities devoted to your topic. For example:
   • Google: pathology (wiki OR wikis OR del.icio.us OR furl OR blogs OR flickr OR vimeo OR digg OR connotea OR citeulike) -wikipedia
   • Google: shakespeare (wiki OR wikis OR del.icio.us OR furl OR youtube OR blogs OR flickr OR vimeo OR digg OR connotea OR citeulike) -wikipedia
   
   
6. Folksonomy tools, bookmark and link favorite searches, searching personal history tools:
   • A9
   • del.icio.us
   • Eurekster
   • Furl
   • Google
   • Jookster
   • Shadows
   • Technorati Tag: Folksonomy
   • Yahoo
   • MORE: Peter Scott: Free Bookmark Managers: http://www.feedbus.com/bookmarks/
7. Reference search engines that link or point to other tools on topics, and web 2.0 general discovery tools, such as:
   • Factbites
   • StumbleUpon
   • Wikipedia

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