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Library Research Resources

Other external links that might prove helpful are found  here.

InfoTrac - Infopowering the Commonwealth
Access to online resources accessible through the Library of Virginia and the Gale Group. Access is granted to the following databases:
Business and Company Resource Center
Expanded Academic ASAP
General Reference Center GOLD
Health & Wellness Resource Center
InfoTrac K12 Databases - Junior, Kid's and Student Editions
InfoTrac OneFile

NOTE: You will need to enter the password "schools" to gain access.

Citation Machine
Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.

LookSmart's FindArticles
LookSmart's FindArticles — search and read 5.5 million articles from over 900 publications.

www.finditva.com
Find It Virginia is library service 24 hours a day at home, at work, or anywhere you connect to the internet. You can find magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedias and other reference works, TV and radio transcripts, company information and investment reports, health and wellness information, literary criticism, and homework help, plus photos, charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations.

ez2Find.com
Ez2Find is a metasearch engine that gather results from AlltheWeb, Teoma, Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Wisenut, ODP, and MSN, parse the results, remove the duplicates, include links to relevant directory categories (directory results from the Open Directory) and to clustered results.

www.kartoo.com
Kartoo analyses search requests, questions the most relevant engines, selects the best sites and places them on a map.

www.vivisimo.com
The Vivísimo Clustering Engine automatically clusters search results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained in the search results themselves.

www.wisenut.com
Wisenut is a LookSmart search engine that organizes results into clusters for enable the user to find information quicker.

www.guidebeam.com
Guidebeam is designed specifically to help the user formulate a precise description of their information need. It is particularly suited for non-technical users and the results will help to reduce information overload by presenting a structured summary of the search result.

www.picsearch.com
Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images and has many features which make it unique. It has a relevancy unrivalled on the web due to it's patent-pending indexing algorithms. Also, Picsearch has a family friendliness that allows children to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out by our advanced filtering systems. The site is also very user friendly as it's designed to be both simple, fast and accurate. Due to all of these features, Picsearch is perfect for fun, school, business and family!

www.firstgov.gov
The United States government's official web portal.

www.daypop.com
Search 59000 news sites, and weblogs for current events and breaking news.

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs
The University of Michigan's Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.

www.lii.org
Librarians index to the Internet - information that you can trust.

www.refdesk.com
"The single best source for facts."

www.vlib.org
The WWW virtual library.

 

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