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Social Studies Gr. 12: Issues and Answers

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Beaucoup's Search Engines
http://www.beaucoup.com/1geneng.html
Here is a great list of general search engines and directories.

A Collection of Special Search Engines
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm#Par1
This is a collection of links to special search engines and searchable directories, which in a number of cases can be used as an alternative for the big search engines like Northern Light, Hotbot, AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek. Most of them are discipline- or subject-specific, others are collections of national or regional search engines.

AJR NewsLinks
http://newslink.org/
The resource for online newspapers around the world. Their newspapers section lists around 5,400 papers searchable by title or location and also indexed geographically. In addition the US papers are indexed by state, frequency of publication, and category of publication.

Britannica Online Guide to the Internet
http://www.britannica.com/

The Federal Web Locator
http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/
The Federal Web Locator is a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web.

State and Local Governments on the Net
http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
Links include state (agencies, legislative, judicial, executive, boards & commissions), regional, counties, cities, and other sites.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resources Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
This site is part of the University of California's Digital Library.  There are several large academic databases available here that can now be searched using a new multiple database search page plus there are links to many electronic journals.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
This site has links to over 40 major subject categories from arts to law to women. California librarians compile the links and it is one of the best sites of its kind on the Internet.

Scout Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
The Scout Report is an Internet Project from the Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The site maintains reports on Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.  A full-text search of these 7,050 resources may be done here.  A great site.

Ask an Expert Page
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
This site, maintained by Stevens Institute of Technology and part of the New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education, is a great source for links to pages with more links to experts who are willing to communicate with k-12 students on different subjects.

SIRS Web Guide
http://www.sirs.com/wrc/index.html
SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series), a well-respected database company, maintains a web guide at this site that contains links to sites on social issues and health issues.

SocioSite: Sociological Subject Areas
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/
The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.  The SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources, which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. It has been designed from a global point of view - it gives access to the worldwide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet.

BUBL LINK
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
This is a bulletin board for libraries from the University of Exeter (UK) with links that provide a more international favor to certain topics.

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