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Search Engines & Subject Directories | For Kids | Guides

Search Engines & Subject Directories -- arranged alphabetically
The majority of these sites are education-specific.


• Australian Government Education Portal
  Links to authoritative online resources, news and events about education and training in Australia
• BUBL Link
  British-based list of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas including Education
• Education World
  A large and well-organised site which supports K-12 school teachers and administrators by providing information on lesson plans, curricula, books in education, school administration, special themes, and educational Web site reviews. Browse or search, and join up to ten mailing lists.
• HERO: The official online gateway to Higher Education and Research in the UK
  • Reference & Subject Resources
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Intute: Social Sciences: Education
  The Intute Education Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.
• Open Directory: Education Selected sites on areas of education
• Search Engine Colossus International directory of search engines
• WWW Virtual Library: Education Compiled at Charles Sturt University
• Yahoo! Education

Search Engines and Subject Directories for Children
• AOL Kids Only Search
• Ask Jeeves for Kids
• Berit's Best Sites for Children Browse or search this basic database
• KidsClick! Searchable subject index for kids, developed and implemented by librarians.
• Kids Learn Basics of Research on the Web Computing With Kids.com newsletter
• Savvy Searching Article from Children's Software Revue discusses the different search engines
• Search Engine Watch: Kids Search Engines
• Yahoo! Kids

Guides to searching and search engines
• Searching the Internet - JCU Library Guide
• Guides To Specialized Search Engines SearchAbility's list of guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering hundreds of subjects.
• Overview of Search Engines by Gillian Westera, Curtin University Library
• Pandia Goalgetter A short and easy search engine tutorial
• Internet Tutorials from University at Albany Libraries
• Search Engine Showdown
  Comparisons, statistics, reviews and search strategies - an excellent site.
• Search Engine Watch
  Everything you want to know about searching and search engines, including: ratings, reviews, resources, tips, tests and tutorials.
  • Major Search Engines and Directories as listed by SearchEngineWatch.com staff
• Search IQ
  Ranks and reviews popular search engines and gives directions, tips and tutorials for better results
• Search Engines Quick Guide Useful chart, links also to Subject Directories chart

Education Resources

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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

Links checked February 2002; Page updated November 2002 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.