Internet Guides

MetaCrawler

MetaCrawler is a search engine of search engines -- it searches the largest directories on the Net and produces a list of links based on the keywords or phrases you enter below. This is especially helpful if you are looking for a specific group or individual or specific information on a subject.

Political Indexes

The following are links to a variety of other indexes of political science resources. This is a good place to get a feel for the variety of information available. The categories of these indexes tend to fairly broad. If you need specific information on a given topic, we recommend that you use Metacrawler first.

• Librarians "Politics" Index to the Internet
  -- 6200 Internet resources evaluated and selected by librarians.
   
• Political Science Resources (Rutgers) -- a very plain but frequently updated list of links. plain but frequently updated list of links.
   
• Political Science Departments and Research Institutes (U.Conn)
   
• Political Science Resources (Keele)
   
• Political Science Resources on the Web (Michigan)
   
• Research in Political Science (LSU)
   
• Ultimate Political Science Web Page
   
• National Political Index
   
• Political Psychology Online
   
• Women in Politics Links
   
• PoliSci.Com

Search Engines
The following are a variety of links to major search engines on the Internet.

Keyword Search:

• MetaCrawler -- searches up to 10 search engines at once and lists results.
• Alta Vista -- over 10 million documents to search from.
• Deja News -- searches newsgroups.

Indexed:

• Lycos Internet Directory: Government
• Yahoo: Government

Legislative Searchers:

• THOMAS -- search the Congressional Record, legislation and Members' floor statements.