GH 302
Current Issues in Psychology (updated 1-26-98)

Search Engines That May Prove Useful (if you have trouble with any link or if you know of a link that should be added, please email me with the address!)

World Wide Web searches (tools for general searches of the WWW):

• Yahoo!
• Alta Vista
• Excite
• Hotbot
• Infoseek
• Looksmart
• Lycos
• Northern Lights
• Open Text Index
• PlanetSearch
• Search.com
• WebCrawler

Don't know which to use?  Read PC Magazine's online reviews of each search site.

For the truly adventurous, you might want to try a metasearch!  Click here to learn about metasearches and find some cool links to these unique resources.

Searches of Articles/Abstracts/Book Titles

• FirstSearch 1 - FirstSearch offers user-friendly access to 17 major databases of books, periodical articles, documents and conference proceedings, as well as 2 national telephone directories.
• Carl Uncover - Uncover indexes nearly 17,000 magazine and journal titles. Search by names and key words, browse by journal titles and display tables of contents for individual issues.
• ProQuest Direct - ProQuest Direct offers indexing to leading national newspapers including: The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and Los Angeles Times. (NOTE: I don't know why, but ProQuest Direct does not seem to allow you to return to this page by using the Back button.  If want to return to this page after using a ProQuest Direct service, try the Go menu item, in Netscape and select the link marked Searching Resources to return to this page.)
• IBIS - IBIS (Illinois Bibliographic Information Service) is a collection of online databases available to the 45 ILCSO libraries only. The University Library currently provides access to eleven indexes covering a wide variety of resources. Enter your social security number, without dashes, when requested for a   patron ID. Only available to WIU faculty, staff and students.
• ILLINET Library Search - Use this link to search the online catalog of holdings at WIU's library or of any library in the entire ILLINET system (whose books are available to you through InterLibrary Loan).
• Electronic Full-Text Journals - This page provides access to selected e-journals and to the WIU library's collection of online databases which provide the full text of journal articles. Check the title lists to determine each database's full-text coverage. Consult the Periodicals Holding's List or ILLINET Online (help) for information on all the library's periodical subscriptions.
• ERIC - The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 850,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. You can access the ERIC database via the internet through World Wide Web, via Gopher, or   via commercial vendors and public networks. You can also access printed ERIC abstracts in Resources in Education and Current Index To Journals in Education. The database is updated monthly (quarterly on CD-ROM), ensuring that the information you receive is timely and accurate.
• PsychCrawler - This is a site maintained by the American Psychological Association that allows you to search WWW sites for psychological terms.

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