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The Invisible Web also known as The Hidden Net
Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround.
ASK A LIBRARIAN
L.A. Unified's librarians on trial The school district appears determined to cut teacher-librarians. Instead they should be cutting administrative positions. 2011
KIDS
ASK AN ipl2 LIBRARIAN QUESTION FORM
Use this form if you are under 13 years of age.
2007 Saint Mary's College of California, did a report on students' research habits says the worry over students' overreliance on Google and Wikipedia to complete assignments found that most students started their research by turning to course readings or the library Web site, not Web search engines or Wikipedia. Many students are overwhelmed by research assignments, "especially selecting and evaluating information and figuring out professors' expectations for quality research." --
Kidtopia.info http://www.kidtopia.info for elementary students
ADULTS
ASK AN ipl2 LIBRARIAN QUESTION FORM
ASK AN ANNONYMOUS QUESTION
Undergraduates are often reluctant to approach a librarian - and often they might have a question where they want to remain anonymous. It used to be an actual bulletin board at one time. There was an article on QB in College & Research Libraries News a few years back. Apparently the service is fondly remembered by alumni. It also serves to give UIUC library school students experience with reference.
TEACHERS, ACADEMICS
find SCIENTIFIC
SEARCH ENGINES
- The Virtual LRC High school/college level sites which has been in existence since 1998
- Academic Index which is constantly updated to include more special collections.
- BullsEye, meta search engine
- Ask a Librarian - Directories Information You Can Trust
- FedSpending.org Government Spending on Contracts and Grants.
- From the New York Times: a new database of hazardous building materials
- GOOGLE Public Data available
- GovPulse is a Federal Register browser. The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States. In it, you find any kind of notice, notification and solicitation that a federal agency puts out. GovPulse parses it and gives you a way to browse the tens-of-thousands-of-pages-log register by agency, category or date. What's also compelling about it is the visualizations and analysis the software does on top of the register. For instance, check out the agency page to see sparklines of the notices from each agency, or the map of places mentioned by an agency.
- Wolfram Alpha
- TeacherTopia.info teacher resources designed especially for K-12 teachers and students. All subject areas and grades are included.
- "National Archives and Records Administration" AND (collection:FedFlix)
- Department of Defense Videos produced by the Armed Forces and the Pentagon.
- This we know is probably best described as the EveryBlock for federal data. Type in your zip code or city and state, and ThisWeKnow will provide you with details that the federal government has about your community. The depth of information in the site is incredible.
- Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California's community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone trying to find learning materials in the public domain.
- OPEN SOURCE FREE CLASSROOM COURSEWARE TOOLS
- Datamasher allows you to take two different public data sources and mash them up with an operator (+ - * /). Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others. Mashups include: High School Graduation vs. Guns in Household, % Total Population in Prison, and People per US Representative.
- Full video courses from leading universities. Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.
- Encyclopedia of Life this site takes forever to load you have to patient.
"Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world." Learn how this got started. A Web Page For Every Species - Paper of Record Conceived by electronic publishing and web pioneer, R.J. (Bob) Huggins in a local Ottawa, Mexican restaurant in 1999, PaperofRecord.com® is a Global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. The Toronto Star, (circulation 650,000) became the first newspaper in the world to have its entire history from 1892 to present, digitized for the world to see and search. This revolutionary process changed forever how large metropolitan newspapers conduct their research and became the genesis for PaperofRecord.com®
- File WAtcher - FTP Search Engine very interesting!.
- "Bare Bones 101
A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web," created by Ellen Chamberlain, head librarian at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, for professors and students who just want a quick overview to get them started. - SciCentral Gateway to 50,000 Science Sites http://www.scicentral.com/ : Gateway to the best science and engineering online resources. This site is maintained by professional scientists whose mission is to identify and centralize access to the most valuable scientific resources online. SciCentral currently constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science and engineering.
- CiteSeer focuses on computer science material, info tech content
- Scirus - latest scientific news
- City Data - just plug in your zip code and learn everything about it.
- National Sex Offender Registry
- Infomine A database that includes a broad range of educational collections. Governemnt, science, social science, maps, regional resources and visual and performing arts are all covered here.
- The Virtual Technical Reports Center The Center provides links to either full-text or searchable, extended abstracts of technical reports and other types of research publications (preprints, reprints, dissertations, and theses). The site, which is updated weekly, is organized alphabetically. Links consist mainly of governmental and university-based research institutions from around the world.
- Internet Archive
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- FEE based database publishers are specialized database tools that are no longer necessary!!!
- Who Is Everyone @ the LOC FEDERAL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER
- EVERY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY in the US is available for free
- Paratext "A single search through 28000+ authoritative printed and online reference works--linked to each library's local reference collection."
- NYPL Science, Industry, Business Research Guides <here>
- Grey Literature, Grey Water
A podcast from George C. Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about grey literature. One of a series, found here. - Read How Google Books is Changing Academic History
- EDUREF The Educators Reference Desk and Resource Guide
- Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia the free encyclopedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
- Scribd.com - Upload and share books and papers.
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