This document provides information from a survey of UK University search engines. The survey was originally carried out between 16 July and 24 August 1999. The survey was carried out using the list of Higher Education Universities and Colleges provided by HESA.
A report on the survey was published in Ariadne issue 21.
Please note that this page contains a simplified interface to the institution's searching service.
Also note that this page contains an interface to search engines as originally recorded in July/August 1999. The information will be updated periodically in order to monitor trends. If you do notice any errors or changes please contact Brian Kelly.
The following changes were made since the last version was announced. Note that CHANGE indicates a change on the institution's Web site, ERROR indicates an error made by the author and UPDATE indicates a minor modification (e.g. URL has changed but same search engine used).
Institution | Name | Search | Location |
Aberdeen | ht://Dig | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/search/ | |
Abertay | Verity | http://www.abertay-dundee.ac.uk/search/search1.cfm | |
Aberystwyth | Microsoft | http://www.aber.ac.uk/search.shtml | |
Anglia Polytechnic University | Thunderstone Webinator | http://www.anglia.ac.uk/search/ | |
Aston | ht://Dig | http://www.aston.ac.uk/search/ | |
Bangor | Netscape (Web Publisher) | http://www.bangor.ac.uk/search.html | |
UCL | Netscape (Compass) | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/search/compass/ | |
Bath Spa | Freefind | http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/search/ | |
Bath | ht://Dig | http://www.bath.ac.uk/htsearch/ | |
Belfast, The Queen's University of | Ultraseek | http://www.qub.ac.uk:8765/ | |
Birkbeck | ht://Dig | http://www.bbk.ac.uk/search.html | |
Birmingham | Inktomi | http://www.search.bham.ac.uk/ | |
Bolton Institute of Higher Education | None found | See home page | |
Bournemouth University | ht://Dig | http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/search/ | |
Bradford | ht://Dig | http://www.brad.ac.uk/search/ | |
Bretton College | None found | See home page | |
Brighton | ht://Dig | http://www.bton.ac.uk/ | |
Bristol | ht://Dig | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/search/ | |
Brunel | ht://Dig | http://www.brunel.ac.uk/search.html | |
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (BCUC) | Atomz | http://www.bcuc.ac.uk/page.asp#sos | |
Cambridge | Inktomi | http://www.cam.ac.uk/Searching/ | |
Canterbury Christ Church | Microsoft (Index Server) | http://www.cant.ac.uk/misc/search.htm | |
Cardiff | Ultraseek | http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/searching/ | |
Cardiff, University of Wales Institute (UWIC) | Microsoft (IIS) | http://www.uwic.ac.uk/search/ | |
Central England, University of (UCE) | SWISH | http://www.uce.ac.uk/search/search.htm | |
Central Lancashire | eXcite | http://www.uclan.ac.uk/excite/AT-sitequery.html | |
Central School of Speech and Drama | Atomz | http://www.cssd.ac.uk/search/searchframe9.html | |
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE | None found | See home page | |
Chester College | ht://Dig | http://www.chester.ac.uk/htdig/search.php3 | |
Chichester College | None found | See home page | |
City | ht://Dig | http://www.city.ac.uk/search/ | |
College of Guidance Studies | None found | See home page | |
Coventry | ht://Dig | http://www.coventry.ac.uk/htdig/search.html | |
Cranfield | ht://Dig | http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/search.htm | |
Dartington College of Arts | None found | See home page | |
De Montfort (DMU) | ht://Dig | http://www.dmu.ac.uk/Search/ | |
Derby | AltaVista | http://www.derby.ac.uk/search/ | |
Dundee | Maestro | http://somis.ais.dundee.ac.uk/search/www-gtw?server=Search+the+University | |
Durham | ht://Dig | http://www.dur.ac.uk/search/input.htm | |
East Anglia, University of (UEA) | Webinator | http://www.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uea/search/texis/webinator/search?db=uea_dbs/uea_public | |
East London | None available | See home page | |
Edge Hill | eXcite | http://www.ehche.ac.uk/Architext/index.htm | |
Edinburgh | Ultraseek | http://www.ed.ac.uk/search.html | |
Essex | Microsoft (SiteServer) | http://www2.essex.ac.uk/search/ | |
Exeter | ht://Dig | http://www.ex.ac.uk/public_html/search.html | |
Falmouth | Microsoft | http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/ | |
Glamorgan | None found | See home page | |
Glasgow Caledonian University | Inktomi | http://www.gcal.ac.uk/itsc/search.htm | |
Glasgow School of Art | http://www.gsa.ac.uk/contents.html | ||
Glasgow | ht://Dig | http://www.gla.ac.uk/search | |
Goldsmiths College | ht://Dig | http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/search/ | |
Greenwich | None found | See home page | |
Harper Adams | None found | See home page | |
Heriot-Watt | ht://Dig | http://www.hw.ac.uk/ | |
Hertfordshire | None found | See home page | |
Huddersfield | None found | See home page | |
Hull | wwwwais | http://www.hull.ac.uk/search.html | |
Imperial | ht://Dig | http://webindex.cc.ic.ac.uk/ | |
Institute of Education | None found | See home page | |
Keele | ht://Dig | http://www.keele.ac.uk/search.htm | |
Kent | ht://Dig | http://www.ukc.ac.uk/search/ | |
Kent Institute of Art and Design | None found | See home page | |
King Alfred's College, Winchester | Microsoft | http://www.wkac.ac.uk/09search/tbar.htm | |
King's College London (KCL) | SWISH-E | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/kclsearch | |
Kingston | ht://Dig | http://www.kingston.ac.uk/htdig/search.html | |
Lampeter | http://www.lamp.ac.uk/search.html | ||
Lancaster | SWISH | http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/swish-cgi.pl | |
Leeds | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/search/ | ||
Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) | Ultraseek | http://www.lmu.ac.uk/rightcol/search.htm | |
Leicester | ht://Dig | http://www.le.ac.uk/cwis/searchsite.html | |
Lincolnshire and Humberside | None found | See home page | |
Liverpool | Harvest | http://www.liv.ac.uk/Search/ | |
Liverpool John Moore | Microsoft | http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/ | |
Liverpool Hope | None found | See home page | |
London Business School | Unknown | http://search.london.edu/ | |
London Guildhall | ht://Dig | http://www.lgu.ac.uk/homepage.html | |
London Institute | None found | See home page | |
University of London (Institutes) | Atomz | http://www.lon.ac.uk/search.htm | |
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | ht://Dig | http://www.lse.ac.uk/search.html | |
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | ht://Dig | http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ | |
Loughborough | eXcite | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/ | |
Luton | ht://Dig | http://www.luton.ac.uk/ | |
Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) | Microsoft | http://www.umist.ac.uk/ | |
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) | AltaVista | http://wwwsearch.mmu.ac.uk/ | |
Manchester | ht://Dig | http://search.mcc.ac.uk/man/ | |
Manchester Business School | http://www.mbs.ac.uk/Search/ | ||
Medicine, University of Wales College of | None | See home page | |
Middlesex | Microsoft (Index Server) | http://www.mdx.ac.uk/ | |
Napier | Microsoft | http://www.napier.ac.uk/search/search.asp | |
Newcastle | Webinator | http://search.ncl.ac.uk/search.html | |
Newman | None found | See home page | |
Newport | Ultraseek | http://www.newport.ac.uk:8765/ | |
North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) | Webinator | http://www.newi.ac.uk/search.htm | |
North London (UNL) | Inktomi | http://www.unl.ac.uk/search/ | |
North Riding College Higher Education Corporation | None found | See home page | |
Northampton, University College | FreeFind | http://www.nene.ac.uk/websearch/search.html | |
Northern College of Education | eXcite | http://www.norcol.ac.uk/search/ | |
Northern School of Contemporary Dance | None found | See home page | |
University of Northumbria at Newcastle | ht://Dig | http://online.unn.ac.uk/ | |
Norwich School of Art and Design | None found | See home page | |
Nottingham Trent | Microsoft (SiteServer) | http://www.ntu.ac.uk/search.html | |
Nottingham | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/search.html | ||
Open University | In-house | http://www.open.ac.uk/search/ | |
Oxford | ht://Dig | http://wwwsearch.ox.ac.uk/ | |
Oxford Brookes | eXcite | http://www.brookes.ac.uk/search/search.html | |
Paisley | Microsoft | http://www.paisley.ac.uk/search.asp | |
Plymouth | None found | See home page | |
Portsmouth | ht://Dig | http://web-search.port.ac.uk/htdig/search.html | |
Queen Margaret University College | Lycos SiteSpider | http://www.qmced.ac.uk/ | |
Queen Mary and Westfield College | ht://Dig | http://www.qmw.ac.uk/search/ | |
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication | None found | See home page | |
Reading | ht://Dig | http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ | |
Ripon and York St John, College of | Microsoft | http://www.ucrysj.ac.uk/Search.htm | |
Robert Gordon University | None found (Internal search facility is not available). | See home page | |
Roehampton | Microsoft | http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/about/search/ | |
Royal Academy of Music | None found | See home page | |
Royal College of Art | None found | See home page | |
Royal College of Music | None found | See home page | |
Royal Holloway | Ultraseek | http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Search/ | |
Royal Northern College of Music | None found | See home page | |
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama | None found | See home page | |
Royal Veterinary College | None found | See home page | |
St Andrews | ht://Dig | http://www.st-and.ac.uk/ | |
St George's Hospital Medical School | ht://Dig | http://www.sghms.ac.uk/ | |
St Mark and St John, College of | http://www.marjon.ac.uk/search/ | ||
St Mary's College | FreeFind | http://www.smuc.ac.uk/search/ | |
Salford | ht://Dig | http://www.salford.ac.uk/search.html | |
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) | WebStar | http://www.soas.ac.uk/searchsimple.html | |
Scottish Agricultural College | Microsoft (FrontPage) | http://www.sac.ac.uk/search.htm | |
Sheffield Hallam University | ht://Dig | http://www.shu.ac.uk/ | |
Sheffield | Webinator | http://www.shef.ac.uk/search/ | |
South Bank University | SWISH | http://www.sbu.ac.uk/search_site/ | |
Southampton | ht://Dig | http://www.search.soton.ac.uk/soton/ | |
Southampton Institute | Microsoft (Index Server) | http://www.solent.ac.uk/search/searchsite.asp | |
Staffordshire | Search service unavailable at time of survey | See Search page | |
Stirling | ht://Dig | http://www.stir.ac.uk/search.html | |
Strathclyde | ht://Dig | http://www.strath.ac.uk/search/ | |
Sunderland | Microsoft (SiteServer) | http://search.sunderland.ac.uk/search.html | |
Surrey Institute of Art and Design | Not known | http://www.surrart.ac.uk/search | |
Surrey | Muscat | http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Search/ | |
Sussex | Inktomi | http://search.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/ | |
Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Not found | See home page | |
Swansea | ht://Dig | http://www.swan.ac.uk/uws/search/ | |
Teeside | None found | See home page | |
Thames Valley | Netscape | http://www.tvu.ac.uk/search | |
Trinity and All Saints | WebFind | http://www.tasc.ac.uk/index2/all.html | |
Trinity College of Music | None found | See home page | |
Trinity College, Carmarthen | None found | See home page | |
Ulster | Ultraseeek | http://search.ulst.ac.uk/ | |
University College London | Netscape (Compass) | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/search/compass/ | |
Warwick | ht://Dig | http://www.warwick.ac.uk/search/ | |
Welsh College of Music and Drama | SimpleSearch | http://www.wcmd.ac.uk/English/Search/search.html | |
West of England, University of (UWE) | eXcite | http://www.uwe.ac.uk/ | |
Westhill College | None found | See home page | |
Westminster College | Web site no longer available | ||
Westminster | Microsoft (Index Server) | http://www.westminster.ac.uk/advquery.asp | |
Wolverhampton | ht://Dig | http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/search.html | |
Worcester, University College | ht://Dig | http://www.worc.ac.uk/search.html | |
Writtle College | None found | See home page | |
Wye College | None found | See home page | |
York | ht://Dig | http://www.york.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search/ |
Summaries are given below.