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How to find information on the Internet
Some services allow to find general information (is there a newsgroup on a given subjec ? is there a web server for a research center ? etc.). This search can be made :
- on directories,
- with search engines,
- on geographical servers,
- with libraries catalogs,
- searching for periodicals,
- searching for E-mail addresses,
- searching for software
- searching for terminology and acronyms. .
Directories
- Yahoo
- W3 Virtual Library
- Thematic bookmarks of the French National Library
Search engines
All the Web and Google are (in my opinion) far superior to the other search engines. Nevertheless don't forget that serach engines don't index more than 16% of the existing web sites...- All the Web
Advanced search with special fields (title, URL, etc.), linguistic search - Alta Vista search in 25 different languages
- Northern Light
- Search engines by countries (SearchEngineWatch)
- Search engines by specialty (SearchEngineWatch)
Yahoo gives the possibility to search via a keyword, and to access the results of this search on the major search engines (AltaVista, Lycos, WebCrawler, etc.).
A document on search engines, their use and the way to express the questions, from the University of Albany Library.
Geographical servers
Servers throughout the world on Yahoo
Bibliographic search in libraries catalogues
Generally via Telnet, though more and more library catalogs have web-based interfaces
- French National Library OPALE catalogue
- Library of Congress Washington
- BPI Centre Georges Pompidou (France)
- Libweb Web-accessed catalogues
- HYTELNET Web-accessed catalogues
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Web-accessed catalogues
- integrated access to well over one million research resources held by the Smithsonian Institution's libraries, archives, and associated research units. The SIRIS gateway features six large combined catalogs: Libraries, Archives & Manuscripts, Art Inventories, Juley Photographic Collection, Research Bibliographies, and Smithsonian Chronology.
- Online French libraries and documentation centers
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- FYI France electronic libraries, in France and in Europe
Searching for periodicals
- INIST-CNRS : articles and monographies on ArticleINIST.
5M papers from periodicals, 140,000 monographies, 400,000 summaries, 10,000 titles of international periodicals. - FermiVista Database of more than 150,000 documents in mathematics, physics and computer science.
Searching for E-mail addresses
Searching for software
Alternative to FTP
Searching for terminology and acronyms
Terminology
- ISTI (Institute of Traanslators and Interpreters, Belgium) offers several multilingual glossaries in various fields
- Dictionary page at the french Ministry of Culture gives several multilingual glossaries for cars, Internet, etc.
- Semiconductor Terms Dictionary définitions et acronymes
- Braking systems French-English vocabulary
- Suspension French-English vocabulary
- Glossary of logistic vocabulary
Acronyms
- WWW Acronyms server
- Yahoo! Acronyms
- Acronym Finder database of 60.000 acronyms
- CART Collection of Acronyms Relating to Transport, Southampton University (UK)
- Computer Acronyms
Ircam mediatheque offers a very good presentation of Internet search.
The best entry point for french-speaking resources is Le Coin des francophones et autres grenouilles, created by Laurent Moccozet now maintained by Andrée Levy at Cornell University.
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