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Need to get started with a more broad search? These academic search engines are great resources.
- iSEEKEducation: iSeek is an excellent targeted search engine, designed especially for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers. Find authoritative, intelligent, and time-saving resources in a safe, editor-reviewed environment with iSEEK.
- RefSeek: With more than 1 billion documents, web pages, books, journals, newspapers, and more, RefSeek offers authoritative resources in just about any subject, without all of the mess of sponsored links and commercial results.
- Virtual LRC: The Virtual Learning Resources Center has created a custom Google search, featuring only the best of academic information websites. This search is curated by teachers and library professionals around the world to share great resources for academic projects.
- Academic Index: This scholarly search engine and web directory was created just for college students. The websites in this index are selected by librarians, teachers, and educational consortia. Be sure to check out their research guides for history, health, criminal justice, and more.
- BUBL LINK: If you love the Dewey Decimal system, this Internet resource catalog is a great resource. Search using your own keywords, or browse subject areas with Dewey subject menus.
- Digital Library of the Commons Repository: Check out the DLC to find international literature including free and open access full-text articles, papers, and dissertations.
- OAIster: Search the OAIster database to find millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors, especially open access resources.
- Internet Public Library: Find resources by subject through the Internet Public Library’s database.
- Infomine: TheInfomine is an incredible tool for finding scholarly Internet resource collections, especially in the sciences.
- Microsoft Academic Search: Microsoft’s academic search engine offers access to more than 38 million different publications, with features including maps, graphing, trends, and paths that show how authors are connected.
- Google Correlate: Google’s super cool search tool will allow you to find searches that correlate with real-world data.
- Wolfram|Alpha: Using expert-level knowledge, this search engine doesn’t just find links; it answers questions, does analysis, and generates reports.