Indonesia Publications General Links

Google's Headline News (daily news from the top search engine, use side panels, for custom results sort by date after using search box, highly recommended)

Topix (popular vast easy-to-use news site)

Fagan Finder (search news aggregator sites of your choice)

Gary Price's Newscenter (incredible resource)

eLibrary (reasonably priced subscription service to large print media database)

AllTheWeb News (very flexible, constantly updated)

Altavista Headline News (news from a leading search engine but powered by Moreover feeds)

Agence France Presse (AFP Asia English feed to Yahoo Asia in Singapore, includes archive at bottom of page)

AFX Press (business news wire)

Agriculture News (news sources and databases)

Anthropology in the News (multiple sources, worldwide coverage)

Asia News Network (ANN, selected stories from participating established newspapers)

Asia-Pacific Newsfeeds (Moreover feeds to WWW VL project, English only)

Associated Press (international news wire, 'latest news' feed to Washington Post)

Associated Press Wire Homepage (click on the map to find your own favorite AP news feed)

Bloomberg (current world news, part of commercial service, limited free feed)

CrimeBlog (crime news)

Daily Rotation (aggregated tech news)

Daily Whirl (aggregated legal news)

DayPop (searches 5,500 sites for breaking news, use dropdown menu and 'advanced search')

Dow Jones (international news wire, limited free feed to Yahoo Australia, better to subscribe to WSJ online for all DJ stories)

Environment News Service (international orientation)

Environment News Network (mainly US focus)

FindArticles (doesn't have great breadth or depth but it is free)

Find News (type keyword, hit 'Get News')

FirstHeadlines (lots of news headlines in broad categories)

Global Security (world security issues)

Indymedia (controversial worldwide progressive news network)

Intellnet (worldwide intelligence news)

Journal Search (registration and one-time payment required)

Lycos News (one of many feeds, not so grand as Yahoo or AllTheWeb, but easy-to-use and always worth a try, use search box for best results)

MagPortal (searches magazines for news and other articles, fairly limited)

Maps in the News (University of Minnesota Map Library project)

Moreover (current news search, follow the instructions on site)

News for the Soul (what's right with the world)

News Is Free (novel current news site, free and fee)

Newsblaster (artificial intelligence applied to gathering of news from the Internet, better-executed by Google)

NewsIsFree (search selected news sources and weblogs)

NewsTrove (extraordinary news site, many predefined searches)

NorthernLight (current news search, now much restricted)

Pandia Newsfinder (easy-to-use Web news guide)

Planet Ark (world environment news from Reuters)

Political Information (great politics search engine)

Political Wire (political news blog)

Political Web (tracked US campaigns in 2002 electoral season)

Profusion (current news, go to 'News')

Researchville (vast news directory, navigate with left panel)

Reuters (main free access newspage)

Reuters AlertNet (online newsbrief project, use search box)

Reuters Newsfeed (international news wire, New York Times' feed)

RocketNews (finds news on any subject, customizable range of 0 to 5 days old)

Scripps Howard News Service (current world news, direct access to multiple feeds)

Snewp (searches many online news sources)

Students.com (news about students)

Terrorism News (courtesy of Terrorism Research Center)

United Press International (UPI public feed)

UN Wire (independent UN news wire)

World Headlines Today (current news from various sources, customizable by country)

World News Network (ambitious site, links to major online news sites in many categories)

Worldwide Faith News (selected religious news, multilingual)

Yahoo Full Coverage (vast worldwide current news directory, current only in some news categories)

Yahoo Headlines (main Yahoo news gateway)

Search Engines and Directories

Traffick (extensive guide to search engines, directories, portals and browsers, includes timely articles)

Internet Search Engine Database (nice site, helps in keeping up with world of search engines)

NoodleTools (automated guide to best net search strategies,also see 'free trial')

SearchEngineGuide (allows access to 3,689 different search engines, includes searching news)

Fossick (links to over 3,000 subject-specific search engines, incredibly convenient)

Mother-of-All-Search-Engines (encyclopedia of search engines)

SearchEngineColossus (world's search engines arranged by country)

All Search Engines (selection of available foreign-language search engines, may require downloading of relevant fonts)

Netmasters (European search engines, directories and lists, quite powerful)

Search-22 (combines multiple search engines and references in simple interface, does not work with all browsers)

Azoos (search engine-cum-directory which tries to 'keep it simple')

Google (best Web search engine, also includes images, Usenet, and directory tabs, new features often added)

Google Help Central (one-page guide to using Google's features)

Google Services and Tools (another one-page guide to Google's growing list of goodies)

Google Viewer (searching the Web as a continuous scrolling slide show, neat with broadband connection)

Google Sets (searching the Web when you only have a glimmer of what you want to find, lets Google databases do your thinking)

Google Toolbar (quick, safe download gives easy access to many unique Google features and enables more intelligent use, works with Microsoft Internet Explorer)

Google's Advanced Operators (all the search secrets Google wants you to know)

Google Keyboard Shortcuts (navigate search results without using your mouse)

Google Search Uncle Sam (Google tool which searches US government Web sites at national, state, and local levels)

Google Zeitgeist 2002 (Google exposes what people search for on the Web)

Froogle (Google's new search tool for finding products sold online)

Google's Online Catalogs (shopping around for anything)

Alexa Web Search (powered by Google, search results integrated with Amazon.com, Wayback Machine and Alexa Toolbar user traffic ratings, not definitive but very useful)

Google's Reference Collection (encyclopedias and so much more)

OneLook (looks up words in many online dictionaries all at once)

Google Glossary (Google gathers definitions from the Web)

Britannica (old venerable, basic info on many things, but really useful only if you subscribe)

Encyclopedia.com (neat, simple encyclopedia powered by eLibrary)

Xrefer (searches 50 reference databases at once)

AltaVista (major competitor of Google, includes search assistance and Babelfish Web page translator)

AllTheWeb (another innovative major competitor, searches for news, images, video, MP3 and ftp files in numerous languages, consider using 'Customize' option, try 'Advanced Search')

WiseNut (searches like Google, ranks results by keyword appearance in links, 'set preference' option)

Metor (metasearch engine, very easy-to-use, try 'specific search,' includes 'news' and 'newspapers')

qbSearch (another fascinating meta-search engine, a logical start page for researchers needing difficult-to-find materials)

Teoma (search engine, groups results in 3 alternative ways at once)

Gigablast (new search engine, beta, very fast, yields relevant results)

Look (separate search engines for commercial and non-commercial Web sites in main keyword box)

OpenFind (promising new search engine, beta version)

Web Search (great site, searches 6 multi-category engines at once)

Info.com (great site, searches 12 multi-category engines at once)

SingingFish (pioneer site, search Web for multimedia content, try typing 'indonesia,' mainly uses RealPlayer, use 'tools' to download all needed players)

SpeechBot (pioneer site, searches 6,500 hours of radio show transcripts, full audio, preview function)

ixquick (metasearch of 14 search engines at once, ranks results by 'relevance')

Ask Jeeves (quirky Web search, news, and shopping site, very popular)

QueryServer (metasearch of 10 search engines at once, arranges results in 'clusters,' choice of search pages, requires javascript)

Wayback Machine (Web archive search engine, type in the URL)

All Conferences (search for conferences of all types worldwide)

Digital Asia (impressive and easy-to-use specialized search site by three US university libraries)

Librarians' Index to the Internet (excellent general net research guide, advanced search engine, offers weekly email newsletter)

Digital Librarian (excellent librarians' guide to research on everything)

AcademicInfo (quality educational resources selected by an academic)

AltaVista Education Search (finds edu domain sites, just type your searchword)

WebBound (large commercial Web directory, also available as a print periodical)

Almanac of Policy Issues (simply categorized links directory, mainly for researchers)

SearchMil (searches for links in mil domain)

Med411 (specialized search engine, finds medical sites)

Geoexplorer (one-stop guide to geography on the Web)

Hot Topics (citations, abstracts and links, focuses on biomedical, environmental and social sciences)

Internet Public Library (favorite of many, but lots of clicks)

WWW Virtual Library (hardly exhaustive, but turns up relevant links)

Yahoo Internet Directory (oldest proprietary Web directory, hand-crafted)

Siam-Search (vast worldwide Web directory and search engine)

Open Directory (widely respected Web directory)

Insider (very well-edited directory, includes search engine)

EduSeek (nice, simple Web directory with search engine, hit 'Subjects' to experience the convenience)

Get Favourites (easy-to-use selective British Web directory)

Yakeo (search engines and directories by country)

Asia Observer (All-Asia Web directory, news focus)

Personal and Group Homepages

Geocities (Yahoo's homepage builder, includes search box for current homepages on system)

Tripod (one of many mostly free places to put your homepage)

Angelfire (another crazy place to put your homepage)

Homestead (not a free host for your homepage but offers intuitive SiteBuilder software)

Namezero (how to get your own domain on the net)

Cheap Domain Registration (inexpensive service)

RegSelect (unbiased guide to domain registration)

Search Tools (put a search tool on your Web site)

Discussion Groups, Chat, Conferencing and Blogs

Yahoo Groups (largest list site, formerly egroups)

Topica (major list site)

CataList (L-Soft's catalog of listserv lists)

Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences (discussion lists mainly of interest to researchers)

Usenet (Google's easy-to-use and search near comprehensive collection of Usenet newsgroups, includes current postings)

Electronic Journal Miner (very wide subject coverage, but you do have to dig)

BoardReader (searches 732,456 online forums and message boards, requires javascript)

ChatMag (chat -- how to do it)

ICQ (most international of online chat systems)

Ultimate Chatlist (a big bunch of places to chat)

Trillian (free downloadable program lets yoo communicate with almost every instant-messaging program)

Paralink (lets you translate messages to and from a variety of languages)

Unofficial Smiley Dictionary (brighten up your email and chat)

Internet Conferencing (videoconferencing)

Blogger (if you prefer monologues, start your own Weblog)

Eatonweb Portal (orderly blog directory)

Bloghop ('your friendly neighborhood' blog portal, over 9,000 blogs)

Complete Guide to Web Logs (explore forever)

BlogBib Carl 2002 (comprehensive blog on blogs)

Portals, Blogs and RSS (get up to speed, designed for librarians but useful for all)

Blogdex (quirky MIT Meida Lab blog)

Google Weblog (Aaron Swartz's unofficial Google blog, a must-read)

Shifted Librarian (blog by tech-savvy librarian)

Possible Resources (blog by librarians who recommend Web sites)

Talking Points Memo (a learned politics blog)

Radio Weblogs (superblogs)

Databases

Invisible-Web (exceptionally valuable site by information professionals Chris Sherman and Gary Price, buy their book)

Invisible Web Catalog (over 10,000 databases and searchable sources)

Gary Price's Direct Search (classic invisible Web site, check out all 'Separate Pages')

Gary Price's News and Information via Streaming Audio & Video (new project)

Gary Price's Speech and Transcript Center (revival of elapsed project) (revival of elapsed project)

Gary Price's Lists (tops of this, tops of that)

Complete Planet (highly ambitious effort to map the invisible Web)

BUBL (colossal research site, covers all academic subject areas)

WorldConnect (free worldwide genealogy database, combines Ancestry.com and Rootsweb)

Ancestry (venerable family history site)

RootsWeb (oldest free net genealogy site)

WorldGenWeb (vast worldwide genealogy project, includes search assistance)

USGenWeb (pages for each country and state in US)

Cyndi's List (card catalog for genealogy research)

CensusFinder (directory of free census records)

All Surnames (links to 1900 surname sites on Web)

ProGenealogists (links to ancestry databases, focused on US)

SearchSystems (over 5,500 free public record sources from US and abroad)

DismalScientist (world economy research site, free and fee, databases)

Cutting Edge Science and Technology Resources (diverse sites for exploration)

Asia and the Pacific in Figures (valuable UN demographic database)

InfoPlease (almanac-style research, very handy, databases)

Alternatime (time-line style research, unbelievable site by George Emery)

Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century (glorious site, atlas-type research)

Statistical Resources on the Web (whopping selection)

Documents Center (central reference and referral center for government info worldwide, databases)

US Historical Census Browser (US census data from 1790 to 1960, databases)

Columbia International Affairs Online (excellent specialized database, high fees)

Oxford Collection Online (new fee service for Oxfordcore collection of reference books)

NTIS (endless US government databases and books, high fees, some free links more easily accessed directly)

OCLC (endless databases, high fees)

ISI (endless databases, high fees)

DialogClassic (endless databases, high fees)

LexisNexis (endless databases, high fees)

LexisOne (a selection of _free_ Lexis products)

Gale (major online content provider, high fees)

jSTOR (puts journals online for publishers' subscribers)

Catchword (puts journals online for publishers' subscribers)

Ingenta (puts journals online for publishers' subscribers, useful free search facility)

Ebsco (subscription agent plus)

SwetsBlackwell (subscription agent plus)

Taylor and Francis (subscription agent plus)

Elsevier (subscription agent)

Scirus (science information, fee for journals, free for Web)

Sage (journal and book publisher, basic info on each product)

Developing Nations Initiative (journals at no or low cost for libraries in poor countries)

Libraries, Dissertations, Books, Book Reviews, Bookstores and Thrifty Shopping

LibrarySpot (library for everyone, right at your fingertips)

Association of Research Libaries (major professional association, links to members and publications)

Special Libraries Association (major professional association, mainly for members but have a look around)

American Library Association (major professional association, mainly for members but lots of wonderful free links such as 'ALA's Library')

LibWeb (online libraries throughout the world)

LibDex (online libraries throughout the world)

Gabriel (gateway to Europe's national libraries)

Most Frequently Asked Reference Questions (no longer a need to ask)

Library of Congress (vast resources)

Services for Researchers at the Library of Congress (especially valuable for on-site researchers)

(what a very modern hi-tech state university library looks like nowadays, instructive and sobering)

PANEL 1 - BASIC NEWS & RESEARCH LINKS

TYPES OF INTERNET RESOURCES

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC LINKS