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Specialised search engines and
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Technology
Worldwide newspapers on-line
Where to find
more specialised SEs
Agriculture
Architecture
Books
Computer
- Zdnet
(English) (Browse through more than 300,000 articles and abstracts from over 200 of the
most influential computer-related magazines, journals and newspapers.)
- Zdnet
(Italian) (Go down to bottom left of page)
- Zdnet
(German)
- Zdnet
(French)
- Computer code
(source code: Javascript, Java, C, ASP, Fortran, PHP, VB etc.)
Films
Law
- Lawsearch (Swiss law, German, French,
Italian, English)
Literature
Magazines
Manufacturing
Medicine
- PubMed
(a service of the US National Library of Medicine providing access to over 11 million
citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals, including links to many sites
providing full text articles and other related resources) (English)
- Salus -
Medicina in rete: It
News
in English
in Italian
in German
in French
Products
Science & Technology
- sciBASE searchable
database of the world's scientific, technical and medical research literature dating back
to 1965; Abstracts are viewable FREE of charge; full articles may be
purchased. Over 30 million articles published in more than 30,000 journals; updated daily
with approximately 10,000 new article records. sciBASE content is derived from databases
created by the National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE®), the British Library, and
INIST-CRNS (PASCAL), as well as CABI Publishing (CAB ABSTRACTS®). Publishers include
Blackwell Science, Taylor & Francis, IOS Press, IUPAC and Mary Ann Liebert. (search tips)
- Scirus Developed by Elsevier
Science, Scirus skips websites with no scientific content and concentrates only on sites
containing scientific content, such as university web sites and author homepages. It uses
FAST Search and Transfer, the folks behind AlltheWeb.com. The search is divided into three
tabs: All results (default), Membership results and Web
results. There's a list of keywords at the bottom of the page that you can use to
narrow down your search.
Worldwide newspapers on-line
Where to find more specialised SEs
Usenet search engines:
(Liszt's usenet newsgroup & mailing
list search engine/directory: Select Liszt or Topica
Topica's mailing list
search engine/directory)
Master
List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
Access to the Invisible web (or
"Deep Web") About the Invisible Web
Swiss
search engines
These
cut out interference and may have more pages indexed than the standard international
search engines.
Swiss SEs
(-> specialise in Swiss websites)
Ticinese
search engines
Other:
French
Swiss search engines
German
Swiss search engines
Italian
search engines
Italian SEs
(-> specialise in Italian websites)
- more (Motori di Ricerca) (incl. specialised)
- more
(Motori e Portali) (incl. specialised)
German
search engines
German SEs
(-> specialise in German websites)
- more (Search Engine Watch)
- more
(UNI Konstanz)
French
search engines
French SEs
(-> specialise in French websites)
Belgian
search engines
Austrian
search engines
Canadian
search engines
British
search engines
Irish
search engines
Greek
search engines
Information on search engines
Which features work on which search engine
Search Engine
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Books
on searching the internet
Ricerche On Line (ISBN 88-483-0096-0, 190 pages, Fr.16.90) M. Bianchini, A.
Galimberti; Alpha Test/Hoepli
Sections: Avviso ai naviganti, Accendere i motori, Le tecniche del cercatore, I
fantastici quattro, Motori in breve, Sherlock Holmes e Mr. Watson, Internet: Tutto quello
che avreste voluto sapere..., Glossario
Also available at Locarno library
Ricercare su Internet (ISBN 88-8331-157-4, 150 pages, Fr.15.-) Gilles
Fouchard, Mondadori Informatica
Sections: Capacità di base, Motori di ricerca, Motori di ricerca
internazionali, Motori di metaricerca, Directory di persone e società, Cercare con Usenet
e FTP, Ricerche multimediali, Ricerche pratiche, Guide per l'esplorazione, Cercare nei
media, Tecnologies "push", Active Channel,
Also available at Locarno library
WWW. Addressbook Tutto su Internet La prima superguida per
navigare nella rete: borsa, giochi, musica, salute, shopping, viaggi (ISBN
88-04-48070-X, 387 pages, Fr.15.-) Panorama web, Mondadori
Sections: Ambiente, Animali, Assicurazioni, Aste, Autmobili, Bambini,
Banche, Browser, Casa, Chat, Cinema, Città, Computer, Finanza, Fitness, Gastronomia,
Giochi, Gratis, Hobby, Informazione, Internet etc.
Also available at Locarno library
Internet Explorer 4 - Imparare in 6 ore (ISBN 88-481-0613-7, 182 pages,
Fr.16.-) A. L. Benasi, Tecniche Nuove
Sections: L'Active Desktop, La vista web: navigare, Il browser di rete,
Richerche e acquisti sui Internet, La posta elettronica, I newsgroup, Conversare e
collaborare online, Progettare e pubblicare una pagina web
Also available at Locarno library
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