INTERNET RESOURCES

INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS
The following search tools are summarized from:  Supercharge your web searches. Netguide.  May 1997

AltaVista - live topics for branching or narrowing;  widest range of power search functions

DejaNews - searches newsgroup discussions

Excite - balance between freshness and completeness

HotBot - wide rangee of power search options;  Boolean

Forum One - conferences and forums

InfoSeek - on-the-fly topic generation;   range of functions

Lycos - not for obscure topics;  uses abstracts not entire web page text, therefore relevancy different than others

Magellan - directory

MetaCrawler - sends searches to different engines

NetGuide Live - directory

SavvySearch - similar to metacrawler

WebCrawler - small, fresh udates for "key" sites on web;  Boolean;  owned by Excite

Yahoo - directory

Search Tool References:
Search Engine Watch
Search Resources
 

SURFING

OT Internet Resources: http://www.rsisu.edu/depts/OT/otlink/otlink.html#studentlist

Examples of Research on the Web
Journals
Abstracts
Papers & Articles
SMEs:  (see Listserves)
Funding Opportunities
Statistics
References

Examples of Products on the Web
Catalogues - Anthro Furniture
Companies - Intellitools
Reviews - MacWorld
Magazines - TeamRehab Report
Newsletters - Caregiving
Software

Examples of Databases on the Web
Medline
ERIC:  (Mugar - Telnet)
Nexus/Lexus:  (Mugar - Telnet)
Hyper-AbleData

Examples of Services on the Web
Info. & Referral - State Tech. Program
Local Organizations - MDA
National Organizations - RESNA
National Organizations - Family Caregiver Alliance

Other Information on the Web
OT Newsgroups & Listserves
Chat Rooms
 

INTERNET ACCESSIBILITY

Bobby - accessibility check
Linx Viewer - text browser

Accessibility Reference:
W3C Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content
Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines
Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?
Applying the ADA to the Internet