Search the Web

• All the Web /
• Australia Only /
• How to cite electronic reference sources
• Search Sites For Kids / Search Help for Kids
• Teens /
• Seniors

All the Web

• Search - Tips and Reviews (1 and 2)
• Features and Commands
• List of All Search Engines
• FTP Search Engines / Searching for People
• Forgotten a URL ? or search for a domain name

Comprehensive Lists of Search Engines

Below are thorough listings of general and specialist search engines to browse in addition to the engines above.

Australian Search Engines

Subject Gateways to Internet Resources

• All the Web
• Australian
• Evaluating Web information sources

All the Web

Below are broad subject listings of evaluated Internet resources that contain topics likely to assist in your research. The Library's Indexes and Databases page provides integrated subject access to Internet resources as well as to journal indexes, newspapers etc.

• About.com / hundreds of Internet Guides by subject -
• Academic Info / Internet resources tailored to a college or advanced high school audience
• AlphaSearch / access Internet "gateway" sites
• Argus Clearinghouse / a selective collection of topical guides
• Awesome List / organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources,
• Blue Web'N / A library of learning sites on the web
• Britannica Internet Guide / 65,000 web sites reviewed by their editors
• BUBL Link / A national (UK) information service for the higher education community
• CYBERSTACKS / collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources
• EARLweb / a ready reference to information on the Internet
• Education Index / topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections / 10,000+ academically valuable resources
• Librarian's Index to the Internet / easy subject listing of popular resources
• List of World-Wide Web Servers / search web resources by country
• Mining Company / See About.com
• The New Athenaeum / Internet Resource Guides Developed by Libraries
• NISS: Directory of Networked Resources
• PINAKES: links to the major UK created subject gateways
• Scout Toolkit / links to the best guides, catalogues and directories
• StudyWeb /50,000+ research quality sites
• Top of the Web / selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories
• Topical Guides and Subject Meta Lists / Topical Guides and Subject Meta Lists
• Webliography / excellent listing of web subject guides
• WebRing / organized by related interests into easy-to-travel rings.
• WWW Virtual Library (by Subject) / broad listing of major sites
• WWWomen / Search Directory of Women's subject resources Online

Australian Subject Gateways to Internet Resources

See also Pathways to Australian Information from the Australian Libraries Gateway.

• Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library
• ABREN: Australian Biological Research Network
• Agrigate / Australian Agriculture Research
• Australian Cartographic Resources on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Digital Theses Project
• Australian Family History and Genealogy Sites / National Library
• Australian History on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Law on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Legal Resources (Foundation Law)
• Australian Literature on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Museums and Galleries OnLine (AMOL)
• Australian Newspapers on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Religion and Beliefs on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Science and Technology on the Internet / National Library
• Australian Science at Work
• Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)
• Australian Sport WWW / Australian Sports Commission
• Australian Statistical Internet Sites / National Library
• Australian Studies - WWW Virtual Library
• Australia's Cultural Network
• AVEL: Australian Virtual Engineering Library
• Bright Sparcs / A register of people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia with references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources.
• Business Entry Point
• EdNA: Education Network Australia
• Environment Australia Online
• HealthInsite
• MetaChem / access to chemistry information resources
• Tasmania Online

The Invisible Web

There is a substantial amount of useful information available in searchable web databases that can't be indexed by search engines. Below are sites listing thousands of databases, catalogues etc. on a wide range of subjects.

• Searchability / The complete list of guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering hundreds of subjects.

• Beaucoup
• Direct Search / catalogues, databases etc.
• Internets
• The BigHub
• Internet Oracle /
• Invisible Web on Lycos
• SearchPower / links to over 1,700 different specialized search engines in 60 categories
• Virtual Search Engines /collection of over 1,000 search engines organized into 50 subject categories
• WebData

Government Information

Library Catalogues

• Australian
• Overseas

Discussion Lists

Below are subject lists of email discussion groups that can be subscribed to - a valuable means of keeping up to date in field of interest. Some search engines ( HotBot, Infoseek, AltaVista) also search the archives of Usenet newsgroups

• Australian library-related discussion lists
• CataList / catalog of 27,861 public LISTSERV lists
• Deja News / keyword searches of Usenet email discussion lists
• Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
• Forum One / search 310,00+ Web forums
• Lizst / subject directory of over 70,000 mailing lists
• Metalist.net / search more than 200,000 mailing lists and newsletters
• National Library Discussion Lists
• Ozlists: A List of Australian Electronic Mailing Lists
• RemarQ / search and browse discussion archives
• Tile.net / Comprehensive Internet Reference to Discussion Lists, Newsgroups etc.
• USENET FAQ's / Frequently asked questions from Usenet discussion groups on hundreds of topics

Popular Sites

• Finance and Investment
• Classifieds
• Employment
• Entertainment
• Images, pictures, sounds
• News and Newspapers
• Reference
• Software
• Sport
• Telephone Directories
• Travel
• Weather

Finance and Investment

• Australian Financial Services Directory

Banks and Financial Institutions

• ANZ Bank
• Citibank
• Colonial Bank
• Commonwealth Bank
• Macquarie Bank
• National Australia Bank
• St. George Bank
• Westpac Bank

OzSearch - Banking / LookSmart Australia - Banking

Real Estate and Property (See also Classifieds)

• Domain.com.au
• L J Hooker Australia
• www.property.com.au
• www.propertguide.com.au / listings are sourced from over 160 regional Australian newspapers
• Ray White Real Estate
• realestate.com.au

Stock Market

• Australian Stockbroker Directory
• Your Broker

• ASX: Australian Stock Exchange
• Bloomberg.com
• BT Funds
• Commonwealth Securities Limited
• Egoli home (Shaw Stockbroking)
• E-Trade Australia
• Hot Copper
• InvestorWeb
• Money Manager
• Netquote Information Services
• NineMSN Investor
• Quicken
• Sanford Securities
• SFE - Sydney Futures Exchange
• SharesLive
• ShareTrade
• Stock Rocket
• Stockhouse.com.au
• Stockwatch
• Todd Partners
• Trade Tech
• Trading Room
• J.B. Were and Son Online
• Weblink: ASX Quotes and News
• Your Prosperity

Classifieds

• CarPoint (Cars)
• drive.com.au (Cars)
• Fairfax Market / Fairfax Classified Service
• Newsclassifieds / News Limited's classifieds database
• CheckOut Classifieds - APN Newspapers. North NSW and regional Queensland
• Trading Post Online / access to nine Australian 'Trading Post' publications
• Melbourne Trading Post
• Canberra Time Classifieds
• Newcastle Herald and Post Classifieds
• NetClassifieds

Employment

• Australian Employment Agencies
• AUSTRALIAN JOB SEARCH
• CareerOne / News Limited
• Employment National
• employment.news.com.au
• Fairfax IT Jobs
• Hotjobs.com
• Ignite / resource portal featuring information about IT&T careers etc.
• JobNet (IT Jobs)
• JOB NETWORK
• LGNet (Local Government jobs in Western Australia)
• Monster Board (Morgan and Banks)
• mycareer.com.au (Fairfax)
• Positions Vacant (Recruitment and Consulting Services Association)
• REM Consulting Job Search
• Salvation Army Employment Plus
• Seek
• Top Jobs on the Net (Management, Professional and Technical positions)
• www.employment.com.au
• ZDNet IT Jobs

Entertainment

• Australian Movie Guide and Sessions
  
• Television Schedules
• Whatson.at / comprehensive online events and entertainment database.

- Overseas

Images, Pictures, Sounds

• Alta Vista Photo Find
• Amazing Picture Machine / Images and sites selected by their staff
• Arriba vista / Search over 1 million photographs, images and other graphics
• Clipart Search Engines and Directories / About.com
• Digital Librarian: Audio and Visual Resources
• ditto.com / a major visual search engine
• HotBot / Select from menu to limit search to image
• Corel Galleria Images / Search for images from a catalog of more than 80,000
• IconBazaar / alphabets, signs, logos, symbols, cartoons etc.
• Image Search Engines & Directories / About.com
• Image Surfer / search by subject from Yahoo
• Lycos - Rich Media/ search for photos, art, designs, videos, music
• Scour.net / Search engine for multimedia -- images, music, sounds, video, etc.
• Web Clip Art Searcher / searches several databases for images
• WebSEEk / Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web
• XOOM / 75,000 Web objects: animated GIFs, photos, sounds, music etc.

News and Newspapers

• ABC Online
• Australian Newspapers on the Internet
• BBC Online
• CNN Interactive
• Fairfax Interactive Network
• 1stHeadlines / headline news stories each day from over 300 hundred newspapers, broadcast, and online sources
• Metagrid: Newspapers and Magazines
• News.com.au (News Limited)
• NewsDirectory.com - A Guide to English-Language Media Online
• NineMSN News
• Online newspapers by country

Reference Shelf - dictionaries, guides etc for quick reference

Software Sites

• Allin One Software / Search over 50 software sites from one page

• CNet
• ComputingSite
• Davecentral
• Download.Com
• FileMine
• FilePile
• Filez
• Ganggang: the guide to Australian shareware
• The JUMBO Download Network
• MacUpdate
• Nerd's Heaven: The Software Directory
• Shareware.com
• Shareware Junkies.Com
• Stroud's / applications for using the Internet with Windows 3.x/95/NT
• Tucows
• The Virtual Shareware Library
• Yahoo Software
• ZDNet Software Library

Sport

• Australian Sport
• Australian Sport Mega Links
• Sportal.com.au

• AFL.com
• Ausgolf
• Australian Rugby Online
• Cricket Links
• Cricket News / Fairfax
• Olympic Games / information about the IOC and past and future Olympic games information
• OzLeague
• OzSoccer
• Rugby Heaven: The Home of World Rugby
• Rugby League News / Fairfax
• Sport.news.com.au
• Sport Central
• Sydney Olympic Games Official Site
• Tennis Australia
• Wide World of Sports

- Overseas Sport

Telephone Directories on the Web

Travel and Guides

• Ansett Australia
• Australian Travel Directory
• Canberra (citysearch.com.au)
• Lonely Planet
• Melbourne (citysearch.com.au)
• NineMSN Getaway
• Perisher Blue Ski Resort
• Qantas
• ski.com.au (Sno-info)
• Sydney (citysearch.com.au)
• Sydney Sidewalk
• Sydney Tribe
• Thredbo Winter 99
• travel.com.au
• Travelshop.com.au
• whereIS Street Atlas

Last updated Tuesday 07-Nov-2000
http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/pthw_global.html