Useful Links for Students

Evaluating Information Tutorial

Comprehensive Tutorial from the University of Leeds. Why do you need to evaluate the information you find? How to do it?

Links designed for students by librarians:

Awesome Library: Organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Results include further keywords and suggestions.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org

Kids Click: Age appropriate results.
http://www.kidsclick.org/

Librarians Internet Index: Merges the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. Hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science.
http://lii.org/

Specialized search engines:

Science Search Engine
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

Ten search engines that explore the invisible web
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/

Grab all: Compare results instantly between search engines
http://www.graball.com

Skreemr: MP3 searches
http://www.skreemr.com/

Leapfish: Sorts a Google search into media categories
http://www.leapfish.com/

Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge engine
http://www97.wolframalpha.com/

PubMed - PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

The Book Seer: What should I read next
http://bookseer.com/

Free E-Books

World Maps and Navigation Maps

Map collection from University of Texas: A large number of maps of all countries - historic maps also included
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Atlopedia: Maps and information on many countries.
http://www.atlapedia.com

Google Maps: Find your way with Google.
http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=ml

National Geographic - Map Machine: Satellite, street maps and more in this online atlas.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

Historic Maps and Data

Hypercities
http://linuxdev.ats.ucla.edu/

Broer Map Library: Online Historic Maps from all over the world.
http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/

Historial Atlas of the 20th Century: Historical Atlas of the 20th Century - last updated in 2003, but the data included is worth having here.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

Historic Maps for students and teachers
http://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm

Bodleian Library: (Oxford - Many historical maps)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/