Web Searching

Dogpile With Web, Yellow page, White page & Classified searches, this meta-search engine searches four search engines at a time. If you do not get at least 10 documents matching your query, Dogpile will automatically search the next four engines, and so on until all are searched or 10 matches are found. Many additional search features. http://www.dogpile.com/index.gsp

Google - great for string searches & more

General Reference

UNC Library catalogues http://www.lib.unc.edu/

Quick Reference - links to book catalogues, almanacs, acronyms, etc. http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/quick/

Dictionary, thesaurus & more. http://www.dictionary.com/

Library of congress
http://catalog.loc.gov/

Health

UNCLE - UNC Health Sciences Library - Huge & well organized. http://www.uncle.unc.edu/

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=uncchlib

Alternative Medicine - Search both Alt-health watch &/or AMED databases.
AMED is a database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking for information regarding alternative treatments to conventional medicine. Alt-Health Watch; this database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
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Government

Government Information Resources
Statistics, Laws and Regulations, Federal Agency or Commission, Federal Judicial, Federal Legislative, Executive, State, Local & International information, UNC library. http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/govinfo/index.html

Thomas Legislative Information
http://thomas.loc.gov/