Search Engines
by Jan Jungk
December 12, 2006
- IMSA Search Engine- excellent tool for student researchers to locate information
- Yahoo
- HotBot
- Excite
- Jump City best of the Web keyword-searchable and listable in a variety of ways.
- Lycos Easy to use, especially when refining searches, allows selecting pictures, sounds, etc.
- Reference.com- Advanced search capabilities of archive of publicly-accessible mailing lists, news-groups, etc.
- Snap
Other Scholarly Sites-
- Databases available for the school district. See the librarian for authorization and password before using these resources located at Online Books using Online Card Catalog.
Metasearch Engines
- All4one -allows simultaneous searching of 4 search engines
- Dogpile
- Metacrawler
- WebCrawler - huge, well-organized and easy to use but lacks site details
Subject Directories
- About.com
- Profusion
- Open Directory
- Qango
- Yahoo or Yahooligans Huge, easy to use web directory without a detailed description of the sites.
Arts and Art History
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- Artcyclopedia
- Art History Network
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Getty Research Library
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Collection: Music, Theatre and Dance
- Mother of All Art History Links Pages
- National Archives (NARA)
- SIRIS (Smithonian Institution Research Info System)
- Women Artist's of the American West
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For K-1 kids who don't read. |
For schools and libraries- an excellent site. |
Homework Help |
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- Search Engine
Watch Tutorials - good site to learn all about search search
engines.
- Boolean Search strategies
Overview of Searching the Web with Search Engines, Subject Indexes, directories, meta-search tools.- How to Critically Evaluate Web Information
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing- Online Writing Lab
Plagiarism Self Test and Plagiarism Review
Copyright self test and Copyright Review- Citation Wizard or Citation Maker or Citation Machine
- Boolean Search strategies
