Table Of ContentTHE HIDDEN WEB
THE HIDDEN WEB
A Sourcebook
William O. Scheeren
Copyright2012byWilliamO.Scheeren
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ISBN978–1–59884–627–0(pbk.)—ISBN978–1–59884–628–7(ebook) 1. InvisibleWeb.
2. Internetaddresses—Directories.3. Internetsearching.4. Databasesearching.5. Internetinschool
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Contents
1 WhatIs theInvisible Web and WhyIs It Importantto Librarians? 1
2 How Search EnginesWork (orDo NotWork) with the Invisible Web 5
Retrieval Limits 7
Search Strategy Problems 7
Evaluation Issues 8
3 WhatIs in theInvisible Web, Canthe Invisible Web BeSearched,
andWhy Usethe Invisible Web? 11
4 Artand Architecture 15
Art 15
The Guggenheim 15
LouvreMuseumOfficialWebsite 16
National Galleryof Art, Washington,DC 16
SmithsonianAmerican ArtMuseumand theRenwick Gallery 16
Artcyclopedia:The Fine Art Search Engine 17
Collage 17
The Getty: TheGetty Research Institute 18
KyotoNational MuseumsOnlineDatabase 18
SmithsonianNational Portrait Gallery 18
MetropolitanMuseumof Art,NewYork 19
National Gallery,London 19
StateHermitage MuseumDigital Collection 19
V&AImages: The Victoria and Albert Museum 19
Van GoghMuseum 20
Axis:The OnlineResource for ContemporaryArt 20
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Architecture 20
Cities andBuildingDatabase 20
Councilon Tall Buildings andUrban Habitat(CTBUH) 21
ArchinformIndex of Persons 21
SPIROArchitectureSlides Library 21
5 MagazineArticlesand Books 23
MagazineArticles 23
Directoryof Open Access Journals 23
FindArticles atBNet 24
HighWire: StanfordUniversity 24
MagPortal 24
Books 25
New YorkTimes Books 25
GoogleBooks 25
Bibliomania 25
Free eBooksbyProject Gutenberg 25
6 Business andEconomics 27
Commerce Business Daily 27
EconomicIndicators MainPage 28
GuideStar 28
Hoover’s Business Information 28
KompassWorldwideCompany Search Engine 29
MorningstarDocument Research 29
PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Report 29
ThomasNet.com 30
Filingsand Forms fromtheU.S.Securitiesand Exchange
Commission 30
Better Business Bureau 30
Dow Jones HistoricalStockMarket Prices 30
HistoricalQuotes 31
CalculatingStocks’Value fromtheDismal Scientist 31
Economagic.com: EconomicTime SeriesPage 31
FDICRegionalEconomic Conditions 31
Free Economic, Demographic, andFinancial Data 32
PennWorld Table, Center forInternational Comparisons
atthe University of Pennsylvania 32
Salary.com 32
UnitedStates Bureauof Labor Statistics(BLS) 33
USAJobs:Workingfor America 33
FlipDog 33
O*Net OnLine 33
Contents vii
7 Education 35
CurrentAwareness Program:The LandmarkP 35
Distance EducationLearningTechnologies 36
EducationFinance Statistics Center 36
The Gateway to 21st CenturySkills: National Education
Association 36
National Center forEducationalStatistics 37
PBSTeachers’Resources forthe Classroom 37
Search forPublic Schools 37
The Educator’sReference Desk 37
Ericae.net 38
College Navigator 38
Peterson’sGraduate Schools 38
ScholarshipSearch 39
Scholarships.com 39
AcademicInfo 39
Writer’s Complex 40
8 Gateways 41
About.com 41
AlphaSearch Metasearch Engine 42
AnimalSearch 42
CompletePlanet: A Deep Web Directory 42
InternetArchive 42
Intute 43
Ipl2:InformationYouCan Trust 43
Libdex 43
National Archives 44
New Zealand Digital Library 44
Resource Shelf 44
SmithsonianInstitution Libraries and theSmithsonian 44
Super SearchersWeb Page 45
InfoMine 45
DeepPeep 45
OAIster Database 45
WWWVirtualLibrary 46
9 Government and ConsumerResources 47
GovernmentResources 47
AmericanFact Finder (US CensusBureau) 47
CongressionalBiographical Directory 48
CapitolHill, the White Houseand National Politics 48
FedStats 48
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GPOAccess Home Page 48
Grants.Gov 49
HistoricalCensusBrowser 49
1040.com 50
Office of theClerk, USHouse of Representatives 50
POW-MIA Databases 50
Social SecurityOnline 50
Libraryof CongressThomas Home 51
U.S.CopyrightOffice Search Copyright Records 51
U.S.Patent andTrademarkOffice 51
CIAWorld Factbook 51
U.S.GovernmentPrinting Office 51
Country IndicatorsforForeign Policy 52
Historyand PoliticsOut Loud(HPOL) 52
InternationalDatabase of theU.S.CensusBureau 52
PopulationReferenceBureau 52
Property AssessmentDirectory 53
ConsumerResources 53
ConsumerProductsSafety Commission (CPSC) 53
Bankrate.com 54
NADAVehiclePricingGuides 54
Kelley Blue Book 54
Edmunds.com 55
NAT Tools forGoodHealth 55
10 Medicine 57
PubMedCentral 57
PubMedHome 58
CDCWonder 58
CHSI: CommunityHealth Status Indicators 58
CombinedHealth Information Database 59
Alcoholand Alcohol ProblemsScienceDatabase 59
FamilyDoctor.org: Health Informationforthe Whole Family 59
Mayo Clinic 60
11 Reference 61
College Sports:Statistics and Records 61
Abbreviationsand Acronym Dictionary 62
Database of Award-WinningChildren’sLiterature (DAWCL) 62
databaseSports.com 62
BritannicaOnline Encyclopedia 62
OnlineEncyclopedias 63
CambridgeDictionariesOnline 63
Martindale’sReference Desk 63
RhymeZone 63
Contents ix
PulitzerPrizes 64
Universal CurrencyConverter 64
Biography.com 64
Academyof MotionPicture Arts andSciences 65
Cyndi’sList of Genealogy Sitesonthe Internet 65
FamilySearch.org 65
Social SecurityDeath Index 65
Phone Book 66
12 Scienceand Mathematics 67
Mathematics 67
OnlineEncyclopediaof IntegerSequences (OEIS) 67
The MathForum:Ask Dr. Math 68
ScienceGeneral 68
EnergyFiles: EnergyScienceand TechnologyVirtualLibrary 68
E-printNetwork:Energy, Science,and Technologyfor the
Research Community! 68
Query NuclearExplosionsDatabase 69
ScienceCentral.com 69
InformationBridge 69
lanl.arXiv.org 69
MonthlyEnergyReview 70
Nuclear PowerPlant Databases 70
Scirus forScientificInformation 70
Sun or MoonRise/Set Table forOne Year:U.S.Cities and Towns 70
GalileoProject 71
ScientificWorld Journal 71
UFOSeek: The UFOParanormal Search Engine,News, Forums 71
Nature 72
AfricanElephant Database 72
Biological Inventoriesof the World’sProtectedAreas 72
ENature.com FieldGuides 72
FishBase 73
NatureServe: Explorer:AnOnlineEncyclopediaof Life 73
The IUCN RedList of Threatened Species 73
Biology 74
GeneCards Version3 74
IntegratedTaxonomicInformationSystem (ITIS) Biological
InformaticsProgram 74
PLANTSDatabase 75
Chemistry 75
NISTChemistry Web Book 75
ChemWeb 76
ComputerScience 76
ACM Digital Library 76
