Some useful links

UIADR (Version 1.0): LINKS

 

 

Browsing

Firefox Extensions

Extension room: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

Bookmarklet Repositories

1.                  http://www.bookmarklets.com/

2.                   

2.            http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets

3.            http://www.m-w.com/button/ (Dictionary bookmarklet)

4.            http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

5.            http://4umi.com/web/bookmarklet/formulas.htm (unit conversion)

6.            http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/special-geek-to-live-129141.php

Google toolbar: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html

 

Search

Search Directory

Open directory Project:             http://dmoz.org/

Yahoo directory:                      http://www.yahoo.com/

Librarian’ Index:               http://lii.org/

Google directory:                      http://directory.google.com/

 

Subject Gateways

SOSIG: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

BIOME: http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html

SOSIG: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

 

A Subject Gateway Portal

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

 

Other Resources

Research Methods in Social Science: http://www.library.miami.edu/netguides/psymeth.html#survey

Directory of electronic journals: http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/journals.html

On-line Economics text books http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm

 

Answer Search Engines

Brain Boost: http://brainboost.com/

Lexxe: http://lexxe.com/

Ehow: http://www.ehow.com

 

Special Search Engines

Acronyma: http://www.acronyma.com (to get expansion for acronyms and abbreviations)

Eeconomic terms: http://econterms.com/

For subject-specific materials: http://www.subjectfinder.com/

Open J-gate: http://www.openj-gate.com/ (For Open Source Journals)

RFE: http://rfe.org/  (Resource for Economist)

 

Special Search Services

Nation master: http://www.nationmaster.com/  (For country-wise statistics on various parameters such as agriculture, economy, health and the like)

Jux2: http://www.jux2.com/ (A search engine comparison tool)

 

Clustered Search Engines

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Mooter: http://www.mooter.com/moot

Clush http://www.clush.com

 

Search Portals

Mr. Sapo: http://www.mrsapo.com/

Turboscout: http://www.turboscout.com/index.php

 

Learning Object Repository

Merlot: http://www.merlot.org

COL: http://www.col.org/lor/

 

On-line storage

Gmail Drive: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Web-based solution for Gmail: https://www.xmailharddrive.com

 

On-line Storage service

E-Snips:http://esnips.com

 

E-mail based file sending service

You sendit: http://www.yousendit.com/

Rapid share: http://www.rapidshare.de/

RapidUpload: http://www.rapidupload.com/

 

Live Web

Free Blogging-hosts

Blogger:http://www.blogger.com/start

WordPress: http://wordpress.com/

 

Wiki

Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Sakshi (Kerala based content creation): http://sakshi.in

For a free personal Wiki: http://pbwiki.com/

 

On-line Bookmark service: http://www.mybookmarks.com

 

Social Bookmark services

Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us 

Furl: http://furl.net

Spurl: http://www.spurl.net/

CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/  (created for sharing academic papers stored on-line)

Yummy: http://yummy.printfu.org/ (on-line service meant only to store/share links to PDF files)

Grass-roots: http://grass-roots.in/ (kerala based news stories)

Tracking content

RSS reader

Blogbridge (Desktop based): http://www.blogbridge.com/

Bloglines (Web based): http://bloglines.com/

 

Indian Express group’s feeds: http://www.expressindia.com/syndications/

Feeds for Times Group: http://info.indiatimes.com/rss/

 

Blog aggregation services

Memeorandum: http://www.memeorandum.com/

Newsvine: http://www.newsvine.com/

Tail Rank: http://tailrank.com/ 

Chuquet: http://chuquet.com/