INTERNET RESOURCES FOR THE ACADEMIC CYBERSURFER

AT BYU-HAWAII by Riley Moffat, November, 1997



1. Directories of Internet websites most likely to contain academic information include:



a. University of California's Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collection: http://lib-www.ucr.edu



b. Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com



c. Internet Public Library Reference Center: http://www.ipl.org/ref/



d. Utah Library Network Website: http://www.state.lib.ut.us/



e. Encyclopedia Britannica's Internet Guide: http://www.ebig.com/



f. The Hawaii State Public Library's Reference Shelf: http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/refshelf.html



g. Savvy Search scans many web browzers: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html



2. Uncover is a free, so far, index to articles in 17,000 journals: http://uncweb.carl.org/



3. Amazon.com Books is a 2.5 million title searchable on-line bookstore: http://www.amazon.com/



4. Access other universities around the world and their library's catalogs via Christina DeMello's College and University Home Pages: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html



5. Access government information at Infomine, Yahoo, or:



a. FedWorld Information Network: http:www.fedworld.gov/



b. University of Michigan's Documents Center: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/index.html

c. Villanova University's The Federal Web Locator: http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html



6. To access newspapers worldwide try the Flying Inkpot: http://webvisions.com.sg/inkpot/news/



7. Directories of LDS websites include:



a. LDS Resources on the Internet: http://www.ldsworld.com/links/ and http://www.erols.com/jdstone/



b. Pearls: the Best LDS Web Sites: http://drzeus.cache.net/lds/



8. Indexes to Pacific Islands information can be found at:



a. Michael Ogden's Pacific Islands Internet Resources: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~odgen/piir/index.html



b. Pacific Studies from Australian National University: http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/spin/wwwvl-pacific/index.html



c. The Microstate Network's Pacific Regional Resources: http://microstate.com/cgi-win/mstatead.exe/listregioncats,3



9. For just Hawaii try:



a. For an index to Hawaii's websites go to Hawaii Catalogue of Web Pages at: http://www.connect.hawaii.com/connect-bin/index



b. The Hawaii State Public Library's Hawaii Reference Shelf: http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/ hrefshelf.html



c. UH Library's list of Hawaii Internet resources: http://nic2.hawaii.edu/uhlib2/external/resources_hawaii.html