Finding things on the Web
There is no starting point to the Web, but there are many resources
to assist you in finding what you want.
Within UEA
Newsgroups;
Main campus web server;
Internal phone numbers and e-mail addresses;
Students' Union;
MAG-NET magazine;
What's On in Norwich;
General Interest Pages held at UEA;
Schools/departments:
BIO;
CHE;
CRU;
CCE;
CTI-AFM;
DEV;
SOC;
EDU
(CARE);
EAS;
ENV;
HSW
(HPP,
OPT,
SWK);
HIST
(CEAS);
SYS;
LAW;
MGT;
MTH;
EUR;
MUS;
NAM;
PHY;
ART;
AVC;
CPC;
LIB;
Major databases
JISC list of major databases;
By location
Virtual Tourist (web sites by location worldwide);
Virtual Tourist II (information about places worldwide);
Europe map;
Alternate Europe maps (faster, as it's in Europe);
UK map;
List of UK servers;
City.Net (information about cities worldwide);
Perry-Casta±eda Library Map Collection;
A useful hint: if you know the general internet address of a
place (eg. uea.ac.uk) there is often a Web server called www,
so use the Open URL function (try the File menu) or
Goto function of your browser to select it (eg. http://www.uea.ac.uk/ )
By subject
The WWW Virtual Library;
UK Web pages Classified Listing;
Joel's Hierarchical subject index;
NCSA's list of starting points;
University of Michigan's Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides;
Yahoo WWW guide;
LISTSERV index;
FAQs for all Usenet newsgroups;
The English Server;
Gopher Jewels;
By keyword
Alta Vista;
CUI W3 catalogue;
Lycos;
Web Crawler;
EINet Galaxy;
WWW Worm;
Jumpstation;
ALIWEB;
Harvest;
Global Network Academy;
RBSE URL;
WWW Wanderer;
Nikos;
FTPsearch (previously Archie);
The Media
Electronic Newsstand;
BBC;
Guardian OnLine;
Telegraph;
UK teletext;
Press Association;
The Observer Life magazine;
Reference books
Webster's dictionary;
Bible (King James);
searchable Bible (multiple versions and languages);
Qur'an;
Shakespeare;
ditto;
the Classics (ancient world);
miscellaneous reference books;
various classic literature (mainly C19);
Miscellaneous
WWW announcements newsgroup;
archive for ditto;
What's New;
"Best of the Web" awards;
Internet size (MIDS);
ditto (GNN);
Digital Cash;
WebMuseum;
Creating your own web pages;
Zen approach
Jump to a
random location in the Web (find out more about
URouLette)
Mike Salmon, m.salmon@uea.ac.uk