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Beyond the University of Michigan

This section provides pointers to information resources that are not provided by the University of Michigan itself, but which may be useful to people at the University who are looking for information from Internet sources.

UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN-BASED RESOURCES

Some of the resources in this section were developed and are maintained by University faculty, staff, and students in specific areas of expertise or interest. Others represent organizations and projects in which the U-M is a participant. They are not "official" University pages, but may be of interest to visitors to these pages nonetheless.

OTHER UNIVERSITIES

OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES

Please note: Most of the services listed in this section are not provided by the University of Michigan, and the University has no control over the content or quality of the information provided. If you use these services, you are leaving the University of Michigan information environment, and are subject to the rules and protections (or lack thereof) established by the external service providers.

Internet searching services
These services allow keyword searching for information on the Internet. They are provided independently by members of the Internet community. Their databases are updated regularly, but none are comprehensive.

The Lycos Home Page, for searching titles and content of the World Wide Web (keywords).
Webcrawler Searching, for searching titles and content of the World Wide Web (keywords).
Query Interface to the WWW Home Pages Broker, for searching titles and content of the World Wide Web (keywords).
The W3Catalog, for searching the World Wide Web (keywords).
The W3Catalog for Web Browsers without forms support, for searching the World Wide Web (keywords).
The JumpStation, for searching HTML (hypertext) documents (document titles or section headings).
The JumpStation II, for searching HTML (hypertext) documents (document titles or section headings). JumpStation II will eventually replace JumpStation.
Veronica, for searching information stored on Gopher servers (menu headings or full text).
Archie, for searching the contents of anonymous FTP sites (directory names and filenames only).

Finding aids
These services have been created by experts in specific subject areas, and they provide lists of information resources that are available on the Internet in various subject areas. These subject-oriented guides are collected in various repositories (listed below) for your use.

The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
The Whole Internet Catalog, from the Global Network Navigator (GNN)
The World Wide Web Virtual Library, from CERN
Yahoo, a "hierarchical hotlist for the World Wide Web," maintained by David Filo and Jerry Yang of Stanford University.
You can use the University of Illinois College of Engineering's "Go to a random link" feature to jump to some random location in the World Wide Web.

Internet help guides
These are a few tutorials that explain Internet information services, and how they fit together. They may help you to understand where all of this information is coming from, and how.

Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace, by Kevin Hughes
The Electronic Frontier Foundations's (Extended) Guide to the Internet, by Adam Gaffin.

"What's New" lists
A number of Information Providers on the Internet maintain lists of new World Wide Web Sites.

The NCSA What's New page, maintained at The National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Netscape Communications Corporation's What's New page.

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