Internet Research Resources
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Great videos about a program to help kids use 21st century research skills.
Your school's Kan-Ed Desktop offers great searches that are topic and grade-level specific: ProQuest, SIRS, Thomson Gale, WorldBook Kan Ed among others.
Great hands-on tutorials for teachers and students.
Preparing today’s youth to succeed in the digital economy requires a new kind of teaching and learning. Skills such as global literacy, computer literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation have become critical in today’s increasingly interconnected workforce and society--and technology is the catalyst for bringing these changes into the classroom.
21st Century Skills
Resources for students divided by grade levels.
Digital Collections from the University of Washington Libraries.
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.h... Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Brainstorm topic ideas using result clusters.
The National Archives virtual exhibits and primary sources.
National Science Digital Library
Search the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Helping teachers use the Internet effectively.
Virtual Learning Resources Center - access to quality Internet Reference and Information Sources
www.virtuallrc.com/ The Virtual LRC is
both a dedicated index of over 10,000 web pages maintained by a real
human being, as well as a meta-search engine that includes in its
results information gleaned from many of the best research portals and
university and public library Internet subject guides recommended by
teachers and librarians.
Specialty search for blogs
Welcome to ResourceShelf, where dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their directed (and occasionally quirky) web searches for resources and information.
Official United States Government search site.
Another popular search engine.
Part of Yahoo Kids; formerly Yahooligans.
Web search for kids by librarians.
Association for Library Service to Children sponsors this directory search for kids.
Websites you can trust.
This service is an archival "meta index," or index of
archival indexes. That is, from here we refer you to the major indexes,
lists, and databases of archival resources. From them you can link to
almost every archival resource in the metaverse.
Searches 20+ engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, Ask, and retrieves results by relevance or separate
source engine; also presents concept clusters for viewing results
organized by keywords or topics
offers searches organized by topic, and searching of single or multiple
search services; find people and companies.
Most popular search engine. (Try creating an iGoogle account and making your own notebooks while you're there!)
Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.
Search engine (also very good). Has a translation service, Babel Fish.
search engine enhanced by a number of specialty searches including a
dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia, maps, news and
more.
offers the full text, abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly
materials including books, journal articles, documents in academic
repositories and the free Web.
limits results to the .edu, domain;
also offers to search well-known dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.
Searches US Military sites.
search Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, and retrive a collated results list
with an option to view results from each engine separately.
Checklist of Internet Research Tips
By Laura Cohen; this resource is well rearched and consistently updated - use it for your own learning and for your students!
The best subject directory of scholarly internet resource materials; published by the University of California.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very
best Web resources for education and research.
One search returns results from many sources.
The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School
of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated
its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service.
A school district's page with appropriate sites for information on Social Issues.
Invisible Web Search
A librarian's choice of the Best of the Web.
the invisible web revealed.
How to tame, mine or harvest the "Invisible Web"
CompletePlanet - Discover over 70,000+ databases and specially search engines
aip.completeplanet.com/aip-engines/browse?thisPage... The Deep Web Directory - over 70,000+searchable databases and specialty search engines.
Quality Resources, Found for YouWelcome to ResourceShelf, where dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their directed (and occasionally quirky) web searches for resources and information. Neat New Stuff on the Net - Weekly Reviews of Useful Sites by Marylaine Block
www.marylaine.com/neatnew.html The sites I include are usually free sites of substantial reference value, authoritative, browsable, searchable, and packed with information, whether educational or aimed at answering everday questions. I'll also include one or two sites that are just fun.
a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily.
a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily.
NCBI PubMed
A service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine
and the
National Institutes of Health. |