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Use Search Engines if you don't have an exact World Wide
Web address (URL). For best results, read the helpful search
tips at each site, and use more than one search engine for
each search. Questions about which search engine to use? Try
Searchenginewatch
or Search Engine
Showdown, sites that review and evaluate all the search
engines, tell how they work and how to use them, and offer
tips on creating web pages and submitting URLs.
Search Engines offer a variety of options. Try several to
see which works best for you. Take advantage of limiting your
search to "Web," "News," "Images,"
etc.
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Sometimes web pages are not accessible, or easily accessible,
through a search engine. Here are some paths to finding that
type of information:
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- Google Scholar
"enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of
research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide
variety of academic publishers, professional societies,
preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly
articles available across the web".
- Windows Live Academic
...now in beta. We currently index content related to computer
science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject
areas
- Scirus:for
scientific information only. Check scholarly journals and
web sites
- The Infography "The
Infography (in-fóg-ra-phy) serves as the antidote
to information overload and qualitatively suspect sources.
It integrates citations to books, Internet sites, journal
articles, and other sources that provide excellent information.
Each subject entry in The Infography refers the learner
to six highly recommended sources of information, and most
subject specialists also include a longer list of other
worthwhile sources for further research"
- Science.gov searches
"Deep Web" sources from 12 government agencies;
subjects include health, environment, biology, energy, etc.
- SearchGov.com
search by publication, branch of government, state,
department, and more
- SearchEdu.com
- Social Science Information
Gateway a directory with subject areas including environmental
studies, geography, politics, psychology, women's studies,
plus lots more
- InfoMine Scholarly
Internet Resource Collections from the University of
California Libraries, with over 22,000 links to significant,
well-organized and well-described Internet accessible databases,
journals, textbooks, guides to the Internet for most disciplines,
reference resources, conference proceedings, and more.
- Easy Searcher
2 categorizes a wide variety of search engines via drop
down menus.
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Use Directories to find listservs, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses, and mailing addresses for people, businesses, and
organizations. Some of these sites also include reverse look-ups
and maps:
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This page is created and maintained by Linda
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