Internet Search Tools

Specialized Web Search Tools

This guide lists a select group of recommended search tools for quicker and more precise access to what you are looking for on the Web.

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Looking for credible information for your research paper? Use the tools listed under “Academic and Scholarly Information on the Web” or “Government Information on the Web.” Need a visual to spice up your essay? Use the tools listed under “Images on the Web.” Interested in using multimedia during your class presentation? Use the tools listed under “Audio, Video, and Multimedia on the Web.”

Academic and Scholarly Information on the Web

http://scholar.google.com - A good starting point for citations, abstracts and some full text of peer-reviewed papers, journal articles, books, and theses. Typically, materials are from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations. Sometimes, statistics on the number of other papers that have cited the publication are provided. While Google Scholar may quickly point you to relevant material, you may have to use the PC Library to read the entire text of the publications. The PC Library article databases often contain the full-text of articles located through Google Scholar.

http://infomine.ucr.edu – A virtual library of over 35,000 Internet resources, compiled by librarians, suitable for scholarly research.

http://www.scirus.com/srsapp – A science-specific search engine to over 450 million scientific reports, journal articles, and governmental and university research websites. Many of the articles can be read in full-text using the PC Library article database, ScienceDirect.

www.doaj.org – A directory of free open access journals that meet quality control standards of scientific and scholarly journals. Over 600 journals are searchable by topic.

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Government Information on the Web

http://usasearch.gov - Search engine to federal and state government...