Subject-specific search engines - Using the harvest system to gather and maintain information on the Internet

The increasing expansion of the Internet has made resources available to users in great and sometimes unmanageable abundance. To help users manage this proliferation of information, librarians have begun to add Uniform Resource Locators to their home pages. As well, specialized search engines are being used to retrieve information from selected sources in an effort to return pertinent results. The Harvest system has been used to develop Index Antiquus, a specialized engine, for the classics and medieval studies, it is hoped that these efforts will assist users in finding and retrieving information relevant to their disciplines.