INTERNET TOOLS
An ad hoc collection:
BIOME An annotated guide to Internet resources in the health and life sciences (including many free online publications).
Cool Web Design of Denmark is a site promoting examples and methods of good website design.
Creative Commons, nonprofit organization that offers forms for flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
Digital Commons - open access to university research through an archiving system provided by Proquest, a descendant of University Microfilms (later UMI); this page shows links to institutions using the system.
Dogpile.com Metasearch service that pulls together the results of Google and other search engines.
Internet Archive An online archive of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Forumjam.co.uk offers extensive directories on conferences, journals, language centers, research centers, societies and associations, universities, and trade shows.
Google in English Check the "More..." button and Google Lab for more services and new services being offered in "beta" trials.
Open Directory Project, a comprehensive edited directory of the Web, made and updated by a global community of volunteer editors.
PLONE, a widely-used and user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System (CMS), with strong multilingual support; can be used to build websites and publish information collaboratively from many different locations; runs on diverse computer systems.
Research Development Network (RDN) - a collaboration of more than 70 educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library.
Searchengineguide.com reviews search engines and methods for making information visible on the internet
Searchengines.com reviews search engines and methods for making information visible on the internet.
Search Engine Watch reviews search engines and methods for making information visible on the internet.
Science Commons, a project of the nonprofit corporation Creative Commons; encourages stakeholders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and voluntary private agreements.
Usability Guidelines - use this site to plan and design your Web site, with reference to the principles suggested in a selection of 50 online guides.
Vivisimo - reports search results under useful headings; avoids duplication.
Wikipedia - a free encyclopedia of anything and everything that anyone can edit; universal knowledge with local origins, local knowledge for the universe.
Domain name studies
The invention and study of domain names can be very absorbing as a linguistic and social research topic. Statistical data on the use of domain name extensions (.com, .org. .net) is provided by www.netfactual.com
Here are some specialist and generalist domain-name research sites: