research_databasesandwebsites

**Other online sources:**

** Internet Public Library ** Use this one search engine to find all the best sites on the web!

 http://portal.getty.edu/portal/landing

Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related

literature.

 @http://americanhistory.si.edu/ The Smithsonian's National Museum of American history.

**Search Engines:**  [|TheSearchEngineList] (comprehensive list of engines by subject or medium) [|LibGuidesCommunity]


 *  [|Google]
 *  [|Google (Advanced)]
 *  [|Google Books]
 *  [|Google Scholar]
 *  [|AllPlus] (metasearch, cluster)
 *  [|DuckDuckGo] (anonymous)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Mashpedia] (real-time encyclopedia)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Blekko] (search with //slashtags//)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|DeweyDigger] (a DDC browse)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|DocJax] (search for documents)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Kngine] (semantic search for web and images)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Secret Search Engine Labs] (alternative search results and open algorithm)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Bing]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Bing Visual Search] refine queries through selecting images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Deeper Web]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Wolfram|Alpha] (computational knowledge engine)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Surchur] (for searching social networks & more)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Goofram] (search Google & Wolfram|Alpha together)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Browsys] (search across the search tools)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Search Cube] (visual page search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yebol] (semantic search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yahoo!]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Wiki.com] (for searching wikispace)
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Buttonall] (the Internet's universal remote meta-search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Ask.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Clusty] (clustered search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Duck Duck Go]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Leapfish] (combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN results)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|AllMyFaves] (choose you search tools among a bunch of categorized icons)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Rollyo]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Kartoo] (visual search)
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Kosmix] (Results organized by types of Web results--reference, media, conversations, news & blogs)
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|AltaVista] (Advanced),
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|HotBot] ,
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Boolify Project] (an educational boolean search tool, currently in beta)
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Pipl] (for searching people)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|SocialWhoIs]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Surchur] (what's hot on the social web--blogs, twitter, images, video, more)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Semantic search tools (structured, intelligent results)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Twine]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Hakia]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|TrueKnowledge]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|SemantiFind]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Directories** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Search Tool Ideas**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|OpenDirectory]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Google Directory]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yahoo! Directory]
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Databases: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**What sources do I use?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** World Book Online ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Just like the encyclopedia you know and love - but now made easier online! If you are accessing from school or home, the username is //avon// and the password //worth//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**** American History Online **** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Password - worth

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**** [|Bloom’s Literature] **** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**** [|Ferguson's Career Guidance Center] **** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**** Issues & Controversies **** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Password - worth

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**** Modern World History Online **** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** EBSCO Research Databases ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Select from several reference, education, news and business databases.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avon

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Password - worth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Oxford Reference ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Great Humanities (art, literature, music, social studies - even science) database! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - avonworth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Password - worth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Proquest ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Access to Elibrary and SIRS Discoverer - great basic reference resources! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Username - 18-7455 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Password - bigchalk <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Power Library ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Free resources from the PA Department of Education. For a great reference source, use MasterFile Main Edition under the Newspapers/Magazines heading. Also try EBSCOHost for general reference.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Digital Public Library** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic; save items to customized lists; and share their lists with others.

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