Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of large-scale retrieval applications.
Terrier is open source, and is a comprehensive, flexible and transparent platform for research and experimentation in text retrieval. Research can easily be carried out on standard TREC and CLEF test collections.
Terrier is written in Java, and is developed at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
The BUFVC federated search environment - an 'all-in-one' search engine - is the result of a collaborative project between the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) who led a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact programme.
The Federal Resources for Academic Excellence (FREE) website is jam packed with resources from over 1,500 resources that get a thumbs up from the federal government. Topics available and ready to search include: health, math, history and art.
"The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas - focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions."