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[|Dickson College Home] | Library | Search Tools media type="custom" key="432327" =Search Tools: Choosing the Best Search Engine for your Information Need=

url}?f=print|Print this page [|Google Australia] http://www.google.com.au/ [|Google Advanced] http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en [|Bing] http://www.bing.com/ (Microsoft, Beta version) [|Ipl2 : Information You Can Trust] http://ipl2.org/ [|Technorati] http://technorati.com/ (Blog index) || [|Dogpile] http://www.dogpile.com/ (includes Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask). ZapMeta http://www.zapmeta.com/search/meta/advanced/adv_web.pl?query= (Yahoo, Bing, Cuil, Gigablast, Altavista, Entireweb) || [|CiteSeerX] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ - Scientific literature, indexes articles published on publicly-accessible web sites. [|ScienceDirect] http://www.sciencedirect.com - Journal articles and book chapters. || [|Abyz News Links] http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ - links to international newspapers, news media, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. || NewsNow http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/ - searches thousands news sources. [|Yahoo News] http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ - 7000+ news sites. Reuters and AP stored for 2 weeks. For Australia click World, Australia. [|Google News] "http://news.google.com.au/ - Searches 4500+ news sources, stored for 30 days. Can limit search to news images. || [|Newspapers] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Select a newspaper. Full text newspaper articles from: The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, etc. [|Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. [|InfoTrac OneFile] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Click InfoTrack. News, magazine and journal articles on a wide range of topics including business, computers, education, environment, law, and politics. [|Informit Search] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Magazine and journal articles from Australia and the region on a range of topics. || [|BIOTIN] http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm - Links to topics. Catholic perspective. [|Public Agenda Online] http://www.publicagenda.com/issues/issuehome.cfm - background and analysis of social issues with public opinion studies. || [|Search.com: Reference] http://www.search.com/search?channel=19 - choose fact sites, then metasearch. [|Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Map and Fact Finder Links] http://www.schools.ash.org.au/dckc/Library/enc.html - Dickson College links. [|English Links: Quotations] http://www.schools.ash.org.au/dckc/Library/eng.html#quotations [|Reference Resources] http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resources/subject/onlineref.asp || [|Google News Archive Search] http://news.google.com/archivesearch ||
 * //Information Need// || //Search Engines// ||
 * I need a few good hits fast (e.g., organization's homepage, quality sites for a topic) || Goog-A-Who? http://www.googawho.com/searchawho.php (Google, Bing and others)
 * I need invisible web or deep web resources (databases not commonly indexed by search engines). || CompletePlanet http://aip.completeplanet.com/ (searches 70,000+ databases and speciality search engines) ||
 * I need the results to be grouped or clustered (folders to narrow large search sets). || [|Yippy] http://clusty.com/ (Bing, Ask, Open Directory, Yahoo!, news and blog sites)
 * I need scholarly literatur || [|Google Scholar] http://scholar.google.com.au/
 * I need to find a particular newspaper or news from a particular country. || [|Newspapersindex.com] http://www.newspaperindex.com/
 * I need to search many news sites to find current news about a topic. || [|Newspapers] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Select a newspaper. Full text newspaper articles from: The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, etc.
 * I need a news and/or magazine archive. || [|Google News Archive Search] http://news.google.com/archivesearch - Newspaper archives and timelines
 * I need current and/or controversial issues. || [|Homework Center: Social Issues] http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html - Links to topics. U.S. perspective.
 * I need simple reference information (basic facts, current statistics, name identification). || [|Ask.com] http://www.ask.com/
 * I need primary sources. || [|Ready, 'Net, Go] [] - metaindex to worldwide archives
 * I need a Creative Common image, sound, music, ...

See how to attribute a media item at http://dckclib.wikispaces.com/Acknowledging_Sources || Google Images Advanced In Firefox, click bottom right link - need "labeled for reuse with modification". See more on this search and how to acknowedge sources results. [|Creative Commons Australia] ([]) [|Creative Commons Search] ([]) - all media - check results (may have copyright) [|Flickr] ([]) - tick box for searching only CC licensed content [|Image*After] ([]) - photos [|ccmixter.com] ([]) - all music can be remixed [|Dmusic] ([]) - music [|opsound] ([]) - music [|SoundClick] ([]) - music [|FindSounds] (http://www.findsounds.com/) - sound effects and music samples [|Freesound] ([]) - sound effects and background noise Wikimedia Commons ||
 * Other sources (images, audio, video) content. || [|Picture Australia] (http://www.pictureaustralia.gov.au/) - some are CC licensed

Engagemedia (http://www.engagemedia.org) - Videos about social justice and environmental issues in Asia Pacific region, Australian made, all CC

Google Images (http://images.google.com/) - "Find similar images" tab and choices in left column such as "line drawing", "photo" and "color" are useful. Search Cube (http://search-cube.com/) - videos, images and web sites, results on a cube which can be rotated, need Flash Player 9+. ||
 * I need free ebooks. || Digital Book Index (http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm) ||

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