Searching the Web

Library Databases-- 39 databases of reliable, in-depth, and current information. Always the best place to start for quality resources. You will need to log in with your regular user name and password.  Add " @qsbyin " to your user name.

Bing -- So-called "decision engine" from Microsoft.
Altavista-- Good image search.
Encyclopedia.com -- "More than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, abbreviations, and more." Excellent and authoritative. From Gale.
World Wide Web Virtual Library-- A good first stop.
BUBL Link-- "Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas."  Very good.
Google Scholar  -- "Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."
Academic Info -- "An online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students."
Infomine-- "Scholarly Internet Resource Collections."  From the University of California.
Infography -- "Integrates citations to books, Internet sites, journal articles, and other sources that provide excellent information."
Internet Public Library  Not a search engine, but a wealth of information and resources brought together and intelligently organized.
Voice of the Shuttle-- "A structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines ... as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media."
About.com -- A collection of Internet "guides" of varying quality compiled by people of varying expertise.  Very handy and often excellent, but be aware of the author's bias when researching controversial topics.
WolframAlpha -- "Computational knowledge engine."
Ask a Librarian -- An online reference service from the Library of Congress.
Internet Archive -- "A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form."
Alexa.com -- Type in a url to find out more about a web site.

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Find Articles -- "A vast archive of published articles that you can search for free."  Excellent.
MagPortal.com -- "Find individual articles from many free magazines."

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NoodleTools -- A guide to searching the Internet.
Searchability -- Guides to specialized search engines.
Finding Information on the Internet:  A Tutorial -- From the University of California at Berkeley.

 

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