Search engines for journals

Looking for a search engine that focuses on scientific and professional journals instead of mixing in all those hits from commercial Web sites. Try http://www.academicindex.net/. Another search engine that cuts away commercial Web sites is http://www.searchedu.com/. (It's actually a shortcut for instructing google.com to look only in .edu domains.)

The search engine http://info.alexa.com/ has an interesting feature. When it produces a list of hits in response to keyword searches, each listing on the hit-list has a link for "Site info" as well as a link that takes you to the Web page itself. In addition to a wealth of interesting information about the Web site, the "site info" link is also a great way to get a mailing address or phone number if that's your goal.

Try http://www.teoma.com/ the next time you find yourself at a loss for a keyword or the right phrase for a Web search. This search engine provides an extensive list for refining or narrowing the search along with a hit-list.

The AltaVista search engine (http://www.altavista.com/) has a handy tool at http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr. Test it out by copying the SAES URL (http://www.ag.ncat.edu/) and pasting it into the "Translate A Web page" blank. Select "English to Spanish" or maybe "English to Korean" before you hit the "translate" button.

A guide to search engines at the Purdue Web site recommends Go.com (http://go.com/) for veterinary medicine, because of its "high return rate for topics of interest to veterinary students." Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) is recommended for Consumer and Family Sciences, TheBigHub.com (http://www.thebighub.com/) for agriculture, About (http://about.com/) for education, and Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/) for health and nutrition.

Posted May 16, 2007 03:38 PM

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