Internet Sources

Useful sites for business, humanities, law, science & general reference

Search Engines
A few of the more popular search engines		 Reference
UK national information, government, travel information,
etc.		 Business
A selection of web sites for business and economics
Humanities
Includes UK eLib projects 		Law
A selection of useful sites 		Science
Websites for Applied Computing, Medicine and Psychology
Libraries
Links to other libraries and eLib		 Universities
Gateway to other universities		 Open Access
Links to open access resources
Sound
Sound recordings

SEARCH ENGINES  
A9 Search engine with related websites to your search, plus history and bookmark function.
AllSearchEngines Simultaneous searching of the six best UK specific search engines.
Alltheweb Norwegian based fast search engine.
AltaVista Alta Vista has advanced search facility. Searches the Web and Usenet.
Ask Jeeves Ask a question and Ask Jeeves will try and answer it.
Dogpile Meta search engine.
Google Fast & effective search engine, using PageRank as a relevance ranking method. See the site for further details.
Google Book Search Google book search from publishers and libraries.
Google Scholar Full text indexing of academic materials.
Ixquick Meta search engine. Searches several search engines at once. Also searches news, MP3 or pictures only.
Metacrawler Meta search engine. Fast & powerful, searching several search engines at once.
Has quick link to worldwide search sites, e.g. Canada, France, Germany, UK & US.
Offers a range of search and directory services.
Overture Easy to use. Type in keyword(s) or click on one of the subject categories.
RefDesk A whole host of different reference resources on one site.
A website on effective use of search engines.
Webcrawler Rates and reviews websites. Subject search.
Yahoo Subject search or search across all of the categories together. Worldwide.
Yahoo – UK & Ireland Subject search – UK & Ireland.
Zanran Search engine for data and statistics. Finds semi-structured data such as numerical data presented as graphs, tables and charts on the Web.
GENERAL REFERENCE
Bartleby.com “Great books online” under categories: Reference, Verse, Fiction & Nonfiction.
Online learning, support and advice.
BBC sites, including news, weather, World Service and education.
Big Foot An email and telephone directory.
Biographical Dictionary Contains over 28,000 entries.
Bopcris British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service – full text government publications 1688-1995.
BritishInformation.com A UK Internet directory
British Library Net Easy access to a wide range of information resources, including online catalgues, libraries, museums, art collections, global news, journals, etc. Registration is required but it is free.
BT telephone directory (follow links to Phone Book).
A national information service for the higher education community, funded by JISC.
Buckinghamshire Online Library Online information and subscription services for members of Buckinghamshire public libraries.
Bucks County Council Local community information and links. Travel information.
Enter a word to find its meaning in five dictionaries.
Links from Yahoo.
The UK‘s reproduction rights organisation.
Currency Converter Dollars to Pounds, Euros to Yen – it’s all here!
Dictionary of Difficult Words (Hutchinson) Search the dictionary to increase your vocabulary or find out what those words really mean.
Directgov Straight through to public services
Economist Country Briefings Source of country information.
ESRC Society Today (formerly Regard) Information on research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Europa The European Union web site.
Electronic yellow pages.
Free Pint Rankings of Business Schools, etc.
Hobsons Guide to information on careers and courses.
How far is it? Distance calculator between cities, worldwide coverage.
Lists over 25,000 chartered accountant firms worldwide.
Infoplease Web based encyclopedia.
Intute A major academic gateway to high quality web sites, evolved from RDN (Research Discovery Network).
Librarian’s Index to the Internet A guide to described and evaluated internet resources.
The official website for Milton Keynes and North Bucks.
National Rail Enquiries Rail travel information.
National Statistics Online
UKofficial statistics reflecting Britain’s economy, population & society.
Palgrave Study Skills Resources from Palgrave with practical advice to help you study effectively.
Pinakes Subject Launchpad The gateway to subject gateways.
Plagiarism -
test your understanding		 Short online test from the University of Essex showing what is meant by plagiarism.
Postcodes Online You can make 20 searches in a 24-hour period but you need to register first. Registration is free.
Rail information See National Rail Enquiries.
Resource Discovery Network Access to Internet resources for the UK learning and research communities.
Roget’s Thesaurus Roget’s II: the new thesaurus. 3rd ed. Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references.
Royal Mail The website for information on Royal Mail services, including postal rates, postcodes, etc.
Successful research on the Web Training courses available both within the University and externally run with PResS.
Website of The Stationery Office.
A trade show and exhibition resource.
Wayback Machine An internet archive of more than a billion pages.
Web Archive British Library UK web archive
World Clock Displays local time in key locations world-wide.
World Factbook A country information reference source supplied by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
World InfoZone An international educational resource providing referenced information on country studies, business, history, religion, literature, music, art, sport and news.
WWW Virtual Library Good quality guide to sections of the web with key links.
Zibb Business-to-business content
HUMANITIES
ADAM Art, architecture, Design And Media information gateway.
A directory of online research resources in the humanities and social sciences.
CAIN Conflict Archive on the INternet: the Northern Ireland conflict.
Education-line Conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
ERIC The Education Resources Information Center, the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
Famous Quotes and Authors Online quotation dictionary.
Historical Association Website of the Historical Association, with a ‘Members Only’ section.
HISTORY Institute of Historical Research information gateway.
In the First Person An index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and oral histories.
Intute Intute: social sciences pages
Intute: Humanities Web resources for humanities, arranged by subject (replaces HUMBUL)
Free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century.
Website of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
Gateway to significant sources relevant to political science, maintained by Richard Kimber.
Resource The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries website.
RUDI
Resource for Urban Design Information.
ViewFinder An image resource for England’s history by English Heritage.
LAW
AccessToLaw Legal Resources selected and annotated by Inner Temple Library.
AIRE Centre A database that monitors, reports and comments on developments at the ECHR and domestically in Family Law cases.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute website.
Butterworths Direct Legal links by subject.
Casetrack Source of full text judgments. Please ask at the Library for the passwords.
Citing the law How to cite primary and secondary sources of law
Electronic Information System for International Law.
Europa External Trade.
EU Justis daily bulletins Daily bulletins on EU legislation.
Eur-Lex Portal to European Union law.
European Law Monitor Information about proposed EU legislation.
FLAG – Foreign Law Guide Gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities / national libraries.
Flare Index to Treaties Web index to 1500 multilateral treaties.
HUDOC European Court of Human Rights database of ECHR case law.
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting Free daily source of reportable case summaries.
Infolaw Gateway to UK legal information.
Intellectual Property
UK intellectual property website.
International Court of Justice Useful for International Law.
Law Commission Law Commission recent publications, and law under review.
Lawbore Covers legal subjects and gives the top Web links, articles and cases, some of which need Athens authentication.
Lawcrawler Legal search engine.
Lawdictionaries.com Law and general dictionary link site by a former Buckingham student.
Lawlinks Legal information on the Internet.
Lawmaps Law in mind-maps from 2 of our alumni.
Legal abbreviations online Cardiff index to legal abbreviations online.
Legalease Access to the Legal 500 series, Courts & agency directory, Legal experts directory, International legal news, Student law centre, etc.
Legislation (Official UK site) UK legislation in original and revised versions.
Monitoring the decision making process in the EU A site that monitors the process of decisions between European Commission and other institutions.
MootingNet A Web resource for mooters in England and Wales.
Parliament Includes recent House of Lords judgments.
Solicitors Online Information about law firms and solicitors in England and Wales.
Sweet & Maxwell Publisher website with useful links and academic section.
UN Useful for International Law.
UN Rule of Law Website and Document Repository The first centralised information tool for rule of law
activities and documents of the United Nations.
UN Treaty Collections Includes the UN Treaty Series, etc. (Free to students and academic researchers. Request a username and password from treaty@un.org )
United States Trade US trade representative.
World Trade Law site A database of all GATT and WTO cases.
World Trade Organization Dispute settlement rulings by country.
World Trade Organization Dept UK DTI (Department of Trade).
Yahoo – Law Legal search engine.
SCIENCE:
WorldWideScience Worldwide Science gateway
APPLIED COMPUTING
Computer Abstracts Computer Abstracts searching more than 200 computer science journals.
Data Mining Useful website for data mining.
FOLDOC Free online dictionary of computing and miscellaneous links which includes useful reference section.
Gamelan Java technology, including Java tutorial and discussion groups.
Java The source for Java technology.
MEDICINE
BioMed Central Open access journals
Global Library of Women’s Medicine Comprehensive reference to current clinical practice for clinicians and medical professionals.
Mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary A dictionary of terms relating to science and medicine.
Pubmed and MeSH US National Library of Medicine
Royal Society of Medicine Library Library for postgraduate students
PSYCHOLOGY
Association for Psychological Science Association for Psychological Science with psychology links.
British Psychological Society British Psychological Society.
DOAJ: Psychology Open Access psychology journals
Perception journal Perception journal online.
PORTAL The British Academy’s directory of online resources.
PsychExperiments Psychology experiments on the Internet
PsychNet- UK Website for mental health professionals.
Virtual Training Suite Internet psychology tutorial to practise your skills (select Psychology)

LIBRARIES

  • British Library. Website of UK’s national library.
  • British Library Public Catalogue. Free online access to over 10 million records of items in the British Library. Also available through COPAC.
  • COPAC. A national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Includes access to the British Library Public Catalogue.
  • eLib. The Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.
  • ETHOS. Electronic Theses Online Service  opening access to UK theses.
  • find it! A guide to Library collections in England.
  • Google Book Search. Google book search from publishers and libraries.
  • ICAEW Library and Information Service. Website of the library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
  • Index to theses database from 1970 onwards, contains titles and abstracts of theses accepted by universities of GB and Ireland.
  • Library of Congress Online Catalog – and other specialised catalogues.
  • London Library. A subscription library with an extensive collection of books and periodicals in the arts and humanities.
  • Sherpa. Electronic access to academic research held in institutional repositories.
  • Unesco Libraries Portal . An international information gateway forlibrarians and library users.

GATEWAY TO UK UNIVERSITIES

  • UK sensititive maps. University of Wolverhampton – gateway to UK universities, colleges and research sites.

OPEN ACCESS

  • CORE. COnnecting REpositories tool to search the full text of items held in all 142 approved Open Access repositories.
  • Creative Commons. Useful resource for open access images and other works.
  • DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals – covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Open J-Gate. A portal to over 3500 freely available peer-reviewed and professional / industry journals.
  • OpenDOAR. An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
  • OAIster. A collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-orientated digital resources, a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.

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