Full internet access is provided on the Library's Information Commons computers for UTD students, faculty, and staff by logging in to the campus domain with their UTD-ID. Library visitors may use the community workstations to access databases and full-text journals licensed by McDermott Library.

Search Engines

These tools are huge databases where you can search the full text of billions of web pages. They are compiled by digital robot programs called crawlers with no human evaluation for quality.

Help searching Ask.com

How to set your preferences to find McDermott Library resources

Subject Directories

These are smaller databases containing sites selected by human beings and arranged by subject or topic.

• About.com -- useful, practical, searchable subject directory
• CyberCemetery -- provides permanent public access to Web sites of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions
• Digital Librarian -- a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
• InfoMine -- searchable directory of scholarly Internet resource collections
• Internet Archive -- allows you to retrieve information from sites that are no longer available or published. Includes the popular WayBackMachine archive

Search Selection Tools

• Best Search Tools Chart -- by Infopeople
• Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need -- by NoodleTools
• Internet Detective -- learn and discern the good, the bad, and the ugly for your online research
• Pandia -- how to search the Web more efficiently
• Primary Sources on the Web -- what they are, how to find & cite them
• Search Engine Showdown -- compares features of various search engines
• Search Engine Watch -- compares features of search engines

• Dogpile
• Metacrawler