Langley Secondary School Library

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Bibliothèque de l'École Secondaire Langley

Online Searching

 

Search Engines

Google

Main Search Engine: http://www.google.ca

For Senior Students (grades 10-12): Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ca/

Vivisimo - Is a cluster search engine that can be helpful for high school students

  1. Vivisimo - http://vivisimo.com/
  2. Clusty - http://clusty.com/
  3. Clusty Labs - http://labs.clusty.com/

StartSpot Network - A useful starting point for online sources and resources

  1. BookSpot - http://www.bookspot.com/
  2. HeadlineSpot - http://www.headlinespot.com/
  3. HomeworkSpot - http://www.homeworkspot.com/
  4. LibrarySpot - http://www.libraryspot.com/
  5. MuseumSpot - http://www.museumspot.com/

Wikipedia Search Engine

Wikiwix - Searches for articles and Images - http://www.wikiwix.com/

Other Search Engines

Answers.com - Gives you free access to 4 million topics from over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and much more. http://www.answers.com/

ConvertPlus - Measurement Conversion - http://convertplus.com/en/

Dewey Browse - Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12 http://www.deweybrowse.org/

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web - http://www.digital-librarian.com/

Factbites - What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia - http://www.factbites.com/

Signing Fish - Audio Video Search Engine - http://video.aol.com/

FindSounds - Search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples - http://www.findsounds.com/

Intute (Social Sciences) - Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists - http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/

Librarian's Internet Index - 20,000 entries maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics - http://www.lii.org/

OJOSE (Online JOurnal Search Engine) - A free powerful scientific search engine enabling you to make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field - http://www.ojose.com/

Omgili - Find out what people are saying about anything and everything. - http://www.omgili.com/

SCIRUS - The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web - http://www.scirus.com/

SearchEdu.com - Useful Reference Links as well as Calculators, Constants and Conversions - http://www.searchedu.com/

StartPage.ca - The Canadian StartPage to the Internet - http://www.startpage.ca/

StumbleUpon - A community of people posting their search results - http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Technocrati - Finding Blogs - http://technorati.com/

ThinkQuest Library - Provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics. - http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

New Web 2.0 Search Engines

AskMeNow - A simple way to get info, designed specifically for the mobile phone - http://www.askmenow.com/index.aspx

Carrot - Clustering Search Engine - http://demo.carrot2.org/demo-stable/main

CUIL - Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance - http://www.cuil.com/info/

FundooWeb - A multi-mashup, incorporating results from Yahoo!, Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Answers, Amazon, and Yahoo! Maps images - http://fundooweb.com/

Kosmix - Kosmix scours the Web to automatically generate home pages for any topic - http://www.kosmix.com/

KwMap - ("a keyword map for the whole Internet") - http://www.kwmap.net/

Lexxe - A third generation Internet search engine with advanced Natural Language Processing technologies - http://www.lexxe.com/

NASA Search fo education materials - http://search.nasa.gov/search/edFilterSearch.jsp?empty=true#

Powerset - A search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008 - http://www.powerset.com/

Rollyo (Roll Your Own) - Search Engine - http://rollyo.com/

SearchMe - Let's you see what you are searching for - http://www.searchme.com/

Similicio.us - A mashup of Delicio.us - http://www.similicio.us/

Sproose - Find websites and videos that have been recommended by users - http://www.sproose.com/

Surchur - scans dynamic content--blogs, pictures, videos, news, social web entries, and products - http://surchur.com/

Topix - Topix is the leading news community on the Web - http://www.topix.net/

Trexy - Search engine that memorizes your searches that you can share with the Trexy Community - http://trexy.com/trailbar.html

Viewzi - A visual search engine - http://www.viewzi.com/

Whonu - One of the very first semantic Web search engines available - http://www.whonu.com/

Wikimindmap - To find information on different Wikipedia sources - http://www.wikimindmap.org/

WolframAlpha - Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone - http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

Wordnik - An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them - http://www.wordnik.com/

Search Magazine Databases - With Special thanks to Joyce Valenza, Phd, for the suggestions.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - The Directory of Open Access Journals is for more scholarly or more specific needs - students involved in senior projects and faculty involved in graduate work and research - http://www.doaj.org/

Life Magazine - From Google Books - nearly 1900 scanned issues of rich print and photographic content, ranging from 1936 to 1972 - http://books.google.com/books?id=ZUEEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s#all_issues_anchor

National Geographic - The National Geographic Publication index is not fulltext. It functions as an index to print archives in the stacks. - http://publicationsindex.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

Newsweek - Check out Newsweekopedia for content gathered by hot topics. http://topics.newsweek.com/search?&q=&nav=/topic&tabmap=11111

Time Magazine - Time Magazine Archive, searchable by keyword, date, cover categories, and top collections reaches way back to 1923 - http://www.time.com/time/archive/

 

Search Engine Query Language

 

A brief explanation of the query language for searching is available below.

User's Guide to the Search Engine Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses.

For example:

information retrieval - finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval -same as above

information and retrieval - finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval - finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS - finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web* - finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

 

Online Searching Tutorials

 

Internet Image Searching - Free, interactive tutorial to improve image searching skills - http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/

Internet Public Library - Teen Space - Skills for Online Searching - http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/skills.htm

Library Online Tutorials - Whether you are researching an essay, writing a report or just looking for an answer, the process of looking for information always follows the same steps

Library Online Tutorials - Monash University Library - http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/skillind.htm

Online Library Learning Center - http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/

QuickStudy: Library Research Guide - http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/

Virtual Information Inquiry - Models of Inquiry - http://virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/index.htm

 

Moteurs de Recherches Francophones

 

La Toile du Québec - Répertoire des Sites Québecois - http://www.toile.com/

Voila.fr - L'index de Voila.fr est limité aux sites francophones - http://www.voila.fr/

Francité - Portail Francophone - http://www.francite.com/

Acadie.Net - Ressources en Acadie - http://www.acadie.net/

Canada - Effectuer une recherche sur tous les sites Web du gouvernement du Canada

http://search-recherche.gc.ca/cgi-bin/query?mss=canada/fr/simple.html

Répertoire Québec - Le Répertoire des meilleurs sites internet du Québec

http://www.repertoire-quebec.com/

Les Signets de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France - http://signets.bnf.fr/

Couvrir.com - Le portail du Québec, de la France et la Francophonie - http://www.couvrir.com/

Merci France - 32000 sites inscrits - http://www.merci-france.com/

 

LSS Library 2010