Social Sciences Search Engines

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• Economics Search Engine (ESE) - Can search 323,000 pages on 11,000 Web sites worldwide.



• Google U.S. Government Search - Can search the Web for U.S. government sites. Ranks results by popularity or links from other sites. Doesn't support Boolean syntax. Has advanced features, preferences, language tools.



• HuriSearch - Search engine. Can search over 3,o00 human rights NGO [non-governmental organization] sites in 58 languages.



• Political Information - Search engine. Can search over 5,000 selected policy & political sites, for news.



• Scirus - Search engine. Can search over 135 million science-related Web pages, including citations & abstracts of peer-reviewed journals, conferences, preprints, etc. Covers economics, business, management; medicine; neuroscience; psychology; social & behaviorial sciences; etc.



• SearchGov.com - Search engine & directory. Trawls Federal sites, executive & independent agencies, state & local governments; indexes them; ranks by popularity.



• SearchMil.com - Search engine. Trawls over 1 million military pages, indexes them, ranks by popularity.