Alert services (See also Page monitors) Google Alert; Pubsub (for weblogs & info. streams)     30 April 2004
topikality alert system does searching for you, filters out clutter, sends you a daily email; Each time you click, topikality’s Statistical Machine Learning technology analyses 200 of the article’s features, draws comparisons against previous articles you liked (& didn’t like) – looking for trends; Real uses of t; Twilert web app for checking Twitter tweets by keyword(s); Internet alerts; AtHoc emergency mass notification systems; GigaAlert monitoring professional interests online;

AltSearchEngines                                                                                                                      6 June 2007
blog focused on 'alternative' search engines that compete with big guns like Google & Yahoo; edited by Charles Knight, author of Top 100 Alt Search Engines List; Job Board tab; Search Race ( monthly Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2008-); Archives; 

Annual Reviews Archive                                                                                                            23 September 2006
high impact publication series in 30 disciplines; excellent literature reviews on current issues; fulltext of 20000+ reviews freely searchable & reasonably priced for instant download; Péter's Digital Reference Shelf review;

Ariadne's Home Page                                                                                                                2 December 2001
geographic focus is UK, but widely read worldwide; UKOLN quarterly for librarians & information science professionals in academic libraries, & interested lay people in UK Higher Education community; evaluates sources & services of possible use to librarians & information professionals; regular column on search engines by Phil Bradley, articles on web resources & Internet-related research programs; some articles which do not appear in print copy;

Awareness tools                                                                                                                        8 March 2010
automated awareness tools like Google News or Technorati automatically grab content from other places on the web; Social awareness tools like Digg & reddit rely on users to provide links to content they find interesting;

Best Free Reference Web Sites Combined Index, 1999-2006.
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)                                                               28 February 2007

Beyond Search (Stephen E. Arnold, specialist in online search & related disciplines)                    11 March 2008
free blog for technically oriented search technology enthusiasts; main topics are knowledge management, enterprise search, search & retrieval, text mining, & content processing; see his expensive consultancy reports at ArnoldIT;

Biogate gateway to evaluated resources in biological sciences                                                     2 May 2002

BIOME News                                                                                                                           6 February 2002
gateways to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health & life sciences for students, researchers, academics & practitioners.

Booklist Center(Dr. David Wilson Taylor) for literary scholars, researchers, & avid book readers  6 July 2002
extensive collection of booklists with complete year by year lists of award-winning books; updated often, currently 253 books/62 categories; 

BUBL(Bulletin Board for Libraries) News                                                                                 13 January 2002
subject-based service to academic & research community more generally via BUBL LINK Subject Tree

BUBL LINK Updates latest updates to BUBL LINK/5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources       13 January 2002

Collections of expert-reviewed resources initiative of Digital Universe Foundation                       2 September 2006

Consumer WebWatch Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports                                30 April 2002
rate Web sites; guidelines & point system for rating compliance; plans to develop specific guidelines for different online sectors; information to help consumers 

Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop: Web Savvy: Keeping Current with Web-based Resources                 25 July 2001
invaluable tools for anyone with an interest in keeping up with new & great web-based resources

Distributed National Electronic Resource(DNER)                                                                       13 January 2002
managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on Internet.

DocuTicker (Twitter feed)                                                                                                       16 July 2006
free fulltext reports & research from US government agencies, think tanks, commercial & non-profit organisations, trade associations; high interest topics such as education, health care, social & cultural issues; feed shows postings in particular categories; some international material useful to global readership; The Rise of DocuTicker: So Many Reports, So Little Time;

eReference Resources(Marcus Zillmann)                                                                                  31 July 2010
latest resources, sites & happenings concerning ereference resources on the Internet;

E-STREAMS                                                                                                                            30 October 2004
Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine & Science.

Etamp.net                                                                                                                                 14 May 2005
tracks & collates what's new on web sites & blogs; supports most content syndication formats including XMS, Atom, RSS, RDF

Ex Libris: A Weekly E-zine for Librarians                                                                                   9 September 2005
free weekly column by reference librarian Marylaine Block addresses Internet, computers, databases, people, & current events;

Free Pint                                                                                                                                   24 April 2002
free email newsletter written by & for information professionals; biweekly from Willco Ltd. provider of Internet consultancy, training & publishing services.26000+ subscribers worldwide; tips, tricks & articles on how & where to find reliable web sites & search more effectively; access issues from past 3 years ; discussion forum; FreePint Newsletter Archive; FreePint Newsletter index (1997-2007) (Subject-Related Articles To view article, replace XXX with issue number: http://www.freepint.com/go/nXXX; FUMSI(Find, Use, Manage Information) subscription newsletter for individuals, teams, organisations - tips, tools and insight directly from experts; articles, reports & tool kits available for purchase; 8 Mar 2012: introduced Categories for FreePint Family articles provide solution-oriented (Industry Topics) & job-related (Functional Areas);

FUMSI(Find, Use, Manage Information) from Free Pint                                                             27 February 2008
subscription newsletter for individuals, teams, organisations - tips, tools and insight directly from experts; articles, reports & tool kits available for purchase;

Gale Reference Reviews Archive                                                                                                 16 October 2003

Gary Price's Resource Shelf                                                                                                         4 September 2003
dedicated librarians & researchers share results of their directed web searches for resources & information; updated daily by editorial team headed by Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy; weekly newsletter; RSS feeds;

Giga Alert                                                                                                                                 August 2009
Google Alerts switching over to Yahoo search index, as Google will discontinue providing an API with sufficient search depth to run the service; choose between up-to-date alerts on entire web, or alerts focused specifically on news sources; maximum search depth for Premium, Professional & Platinum services increasing to 250, 600 & 1000 respectively; free service allows 5 search statements & daily search capacity of 150 records; Personal(10 statements), Premium(20), Professional(50) & Platinuum(100) - starting at US$4.95/m.

Google Alerts renaming to Giga Alert  in August 2009 (see above)
Google Alerts slowing down? Stay informed with these 7 information trapping tips;

Google Reader lets you monitor page changes without RSS                                                          11 September 2010

Health News Review (Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making)                                   8 July 2008
rates health & medical articles in US media - network programming, popular US newspapers & magazines; Healthcare professionals or medical researchers in US hospitals & universities review against 10 criteria for accuracy, balance, & completeness; Email alerts &  RSS feeds are available; funded by Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making  non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that patients understand choices, & have information to make sound decisions affecting their health & well being;

H-Net Reviews in Humanities & Social Sciences                                                                         26 May 2007
reviews posted to H-Net electronic mailing lists which disseminate information about upcoming conferences, seminars, workshops, funding opportunities; some recent fulltext scholarly reviews, their review guidelines; search for reviews since 1993; See also H-Human-Rights, H-Memory, & H-Material Culture

Index of Reviews(Windows Secrets Newsletter feature)                                                            5 August 2004
paid version offers quick links to latest competitive ratings of new Windows-compatible hardware

INFOdocket (Gary Price & Shirl Kennedy formerly of ResourceShelf & DocuTicker                    19 February 2011
new or newly-discovered web resources; reference material we find interesting(lists, rankings, infographics, factbooks etc); web search tips; relevant news items from information industry & library community; occasional commentary; Twitter; RSS; FullTextReports  hand- picked selection of new fulltext reports on topics & sources including government agencies, think tanks, non-profits, academia, & industry analysts, via Twitter & via RSS; 

Infography(The Fields of Knowledge)                                                                                          2 April 2004
superlative sources of information selected by expert opinion; commercial venture supported by ad revenues; royalties for subject specialists who contribute

Information research BOOK & SOFTWARE REVIEWS                                                   15 September 2010
open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines; Author index; Subject index; SEARCH Information Research with WebSideStory Search;

Information trapping                                                                                                                    22 June 2010
Google Alerts slowing down? Stay informed with these 7 information trapping tips;

Intute’s Virtual Training Suite                                                                                                      9 December 2006

Internet alerts(Marcus Zilmann)                                                                                                   28 February 2006

Internet Resources Newsletter Archive  (IRN, Oct 1994 - Dec 2009)                                          December 2009
5000+ resources featured in New/Recent Internet Resources section of Newsletter; some  no longer active; See Freepint family for some alternatives; 

JumpCity signed review of each item, link to any Usenet newsgroup related to topic                     17 November 2003

Librarians Internet Index(LII) New This Week Mailing List                                                          24 April 2002
Sign up to receive email listing of sites newly added to LII database complete with annotations

Library Clips Web 2.0 oriented search blog                                                                                 22 October 2006

Lingua Franca | Breakthrough Books                                                                                           25 July 2001
experts recommend breakthrough books that have defined a particular area of thought. Currently in process of making entire archive available on line.

LinkPopularity.com runs linking search of sites querying results of Google, AltaVista & Hotbot      25 November 2003.

MasterNew Media (Robbin Good)  See Professional Online Publishing: New media trends, communication skills, online marketing

MIMAS News JISC-supported national data centre(Manchester Computing, U of Manchester)    6 February 2002
services academic community: Flexible on-line access to strategic research & teaching datasets. Access to key bibliographic information. Access to specialist support & training. Access to software packages & computing resources.

Netcraft                                                                                                                                       3 May 2002
examines specified Web site, database of 38m sites reports about host's operating system, server, date last change made, IP address; provides uptime data & plots graph; or, if no data available, will begin to monitor site & provide statistics in a few days

News Now search engine news(UK) press cuttings and real-time news                                         25 June 2007
monitors breaking news in 22 languages from Internet's most important online publications, including international, national & regional titles, newswires, magazines, press releases & exclusively online news sources spanning 139 countries; no RSS feed

New This Week(Librarians' Index to the Internet)                                                                 5  July 2002

Next Web Search blog devoted to all things search related                                                            14 February 2010

NISS News                                                                                                                                13 January 2002
weekly listing of new information resources on NISS(National Information Services & Systems) Information Gateway

NSDL Scout Reports(Internet Scout Project)                                                                             6 February 2002
part of NSDL project (National Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics Education Digital Library), professional librarians & content experts locate, research, annotate quality resources for academics, researchers, librarians, K-12 community; Sites covered in all 3 reports cataloged & accessible through Scout Archives; searchable database of critical summaries of Internet resources for academic & research community included in Scout Reports Browse by Library of Congress Subject Headings; 16969 cataloged Scout Report summaries assigned subject headings; (25/6/2005) NSDL Reports for Physical Sciences& Life Sciences end after 4 years of publication; replaced by Applied Mathematics & Science Education Repository: AMSER

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer weekly updates                                                          24 April 2002
Blue Web'n library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites by subject, grade level, format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, tools); search by grade level, broad subject area, or specific sub-categories. Each week 5 new sites are added; free weekly updates!

PACmeter - Popularity, Authority, Credibility Online: How To Measure Them?                            11 August 2004

Page monitors                                                                                                                        2 April 2004
Watchthatpage & Wisdomchange monitor unlimited pages free; more sophisticated options include Copernic Tracker & Website Watcher; see also summary of a selection of page monitors, ChangeDetect above & Trackle See also Alert services(above); Giga Alert;  

Pew Internet & American Life Project                                                                                          19 May 2005
reports explore impact of Internet on families, communities, work & home, daily life, education, health care, civic & political life; authoritative source on evolution of Internet through collection of data & analysis of real-world developments as they affect virtual world;  nation- wide random digit dial telephone surveys & online surveys supplemented with research from government agencies, academia, & other expert venues; observations of what people do & how they behave when they are online; in-depth interviews with Internet users & Internet experts alike; efforts to examine individual & group behavior.

Phil Bradley's weblog                                                                                                                    22 October 2006
Internet searching, web design, search engine developments & anything that will interest librarians!

Professional Online Publishing: New media trends, communication skills, online marketing               15 May 2008
Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies & Web Services; Visual Communication & Video Publishing - Selected Tools & Web Services; How-To Guides; Visual Presentations - MasterViews News; New Media Tools & Services;

Public domain review: Guide to finding interesting public domain works online                                27 January 2012
Films, Images, Texts, Audio; Public Domain Calculators project to put together simple tools to help residents in Europe determine if a work is in public domain in their particular jurisdiction. Stanford also have a good site to help determine public domain status of works in US (cf legal section in Guide);

Read/WriteWeb Web 2.0 weblog ranked among Technorati’s Top 20 blogs in world                    24 June 2007
web technology news, reviews & analysis; ReadWriteWeb Turns 5; New York Times Syndicates ReadWriteWeb(24 September 2008);

Recommendation engines See Web inSuggest and StumbleUpon

Refdesk                                                                                                                                        8 March 2008
free, family-friendly web site that indexes & reviews quality, credible, & current web-based resources.

ResearchBuzz.com                                                                                                                       24 April 2002
April 1998 companion site to 2nd edition of Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research;  free e-mail weekly newsletter of Internet research news & information. Back issues accessible; most recent(18 February 2000) being Issue 30 of 14 June 1999.

Resource Discovery Network(RDN to become Intute in late 2006)                                            25 July 2001
co-operative network of Internet Resource Catalogues providing access to descriptions of resources selected for quality & accuracy by subject specialists throughout UK academic community; 3 new hubs considerably increase subject areas covered by RDN:Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Arts; Creative Industries; Geography & Environment

Resource Shelf(Gary Price)   See also ResourceShelf(Twitter feed)                                                   17 November 2003
4 September 2010: Resource Shelf is now ResourceBlog

ResPool Internet Guide 8/1/2001:Last updated on 7/31/2001                                                    1 August 2001

Reviews in Australian Studies                                                                                                    18 July 2007
multi-disciplinary focus, with an interest in reviewing all publications concerning aspects of Australian experience and endeavour.

RSSMicro dedicated RSS feed search engine                                                                           20 January 2009

Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Awards 2002                                                                       2 July 2002

Search Engine Roundtable                                                                                                         25 June 2007
covering blogs, search engine news, SEM (Search Engine Marketing) discussion forums & search engine conferences.

SiteReleases - Newest website: New Sites FREE Mp3 News Business websites                        5 October 2001

Standardcatalogs.com(H.W. Wilson)                                                                                         7 July 2006
free clearinghouse for collection development tools: Best lists, Editors’ picks, hot topics, periodicals lists, best professional books, librarian home pages & blogs, profiles of editors & others who shape Wilson Standard Catalogs;

State of Search blog covering the search engine scene(started 1 March 2010)                            1 March 2010

StumbleUpon                                                                                                                            13 September 2005
free community-oriented, personalized browser add-on automates "word of mouth" of quality web sites; combines human recommendations with machine learning of personal preferences & interests to filter the web & direct users to relevant, high-quality web sites;

SuggestRSS feed recommendations                                                                                           24 January 2009

Tales from the Terminal Room     in hiatus Feb 2009 - Jan 2010                                                8 July 2006
reviews & comparison of information sources; updates to RBA Web site Business Sources & other useful resources; dealing with technical & access problems on Net; news of RBA's training courses & publications;

Techmeme                                                                                                                                25 June 2007
covers more than the search engine world; gets latest news fast; Coverage driven by industry insiders, passionate independents, & established journalists;

Technologizer reviews, news & opinion about personal technology                                                20 September 2010

TenLinks.com: Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals                                               23 March 2002
target audiences - professionals in technology-related fields; key industry categories such as computer-aided design(CAD) & global information systems(GIS); top 10 list of recommended sites for broader classifications like civil engineering & architecture; primary source for professionals through extensive lists of general information sources for areas like mathematics & computer programming; online 24/7; makes top 10 lists available via email & archives material.

Top 10 List of Search Engine Lists                                                                                             3 November 2007

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines                                                                                               1 April 2007

Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, March 2007; Feb 2007; Jan 2007; .                                 1 April 2007

Tourbus archives                                                                                                                       14 July 2005

UK eInformation Group(UKeiG, formerly UKOLUG)                                                                    3 April 2010
professional body for users & developers of electronic information resources; Blog; e-journal eLucidate focuses on popular and emerging topics in electronic information; free Factsheets regularly updated by experts; LIS-UKEIG Discussion List members forum to exchange information on developments in information resources online, CD-ROM or Internet; 

UniGuide academic guide to the Internet                                                                                     1 July 2001
April 1,1998, InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet became UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet by Aldea Communications

URLFAN ranks websites according to popularity in RSS feeds                                                30 August 2009
Unlike Alexa which only measures websites visited by Internet Explorer & surfers using Windows, overcounts websites like Amazon; parses blog posts counting mentions of websites, filtering out spam, broken links,etc;

URLwire                                                                                                                                   6 February 2002
news service for site reviewers, portal guide editors, writers, reporters helps Web content attract site reviewers

US Bureau of National Affairs(BNA) Web Watch Reading Room                                              31 December 2006

Virtual Chase(TVC)                                                                                                                  25 July 2008 
will be completely offline no later than May 2009 except in the event of a new owner                                                                                                                                               

Web inSuggest recommendation service for finding relevant web sites                                         3 March 2008

WebQuotes what people are saying about a particular site                                                          17 February 2004 

Web Search - tools, strategies, news including email-update; WS Alert Articles: 1999 -2005       8 November 2009

WebSite-Watcher  subscription; Firefox extension  & portable version                                        1 February 2008 

What's New on NISS Services - 24/8/2001                                                                               October 2001
weekly listing of new information resources on NISS selected by experts; description of each item; archive of previous issues

Wikio news section for search engines                                                                                        25 June 2007
covering many essential news sites & blogs; adds a tag cloud & allows users to vote for stories;

World Wide Web Virtual Library(WWW-VL)                                                                          17 November 2003
VL is oldest catalog of web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of html & web; loose confederation of volunteers compile key links for particular areas in which they are expert; recognised as highest-quality guides; Individual indexes live on servers worldwide; catalog linking these pages is maintained at<http://vlib.org>. Mirrors of catalog are kept at East Anglia(UK), Geneva(Switzerland) & Argentina .