Searching Strategies

Evaluating Internet

Search Engines

Research Engines

E-Journals

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Searching Strategies	Kathy Schrock's Guide to Internet for Educators Links to other resources as well as specific search engines.
	NoodleQuest NoodleQuest is a wizard that answers that question for you! Just answer a few questions about your research topic, and NoodleQuest will tell you some of the best search strategies you can use, and even explain why!
	Nueva Schools, CA Search Engine Guide. Well-organized by type of information or assistance you may be looking for.
	Recommended Search Engines and Subject Directories, Berkeley, CA. Tips and explanations of search engines by attributes.
	Search Engine Watch Ratings, guides, listings.... this is a comprehensive and up-to-date tools no matter what you do or how well you know your way around the Internet.
	The Spider's Apprentice: A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines E-chapters on the essentials to Web searching, including how a search engine works and ratings.
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Evaluating Internet Resources	Consolidated listing of Evaluation Criteria and Quality Indicators Based on research.
	Critical Evaluation Information Kathy's Shrock provides tools and strategies.
	Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-based Approach
	Evaluating Internet Resources Links to may guides and tools
	Library Selection for WWW Sites
	Seven Steps to Responsible Software Evaluation
	Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
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Search Engines	Search IQ - 50 States
Fast & Relevant	Google
Refines a keyword search	Altavista Excite Hotbot SuperSearch FAST Search Advance Search
Narrowing a Topic	Go Yahoo
Include not included words, e.g. a, not, to, etc.	Infoseek
Proper names	Altavista Infoseek Hotbot SuperSearch
Organizes searches	Northern Lights
Hard to find or recent information	Inference Find YahooNews Northern Lights Current News
Kids only	Cyber Sleuth Kids KidsClick Yahooligans
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Research Engines	Complete Planet The Invisible Web ProFusion Researchville
E-Journal Directories	Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists ARL Electronic Journals Loughborough University Library PubList, The Internet Directory of Publications JAKE Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide Serials in Cyberspace University of Vermont Open Directory Project ibiblio
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