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Scholarly Search Engines
Library book collections, peer-reviewed journals and online databases provide quality
access to scholarly information, but the Internet also offers some reliable
resources for academic research, including search engines tailored to scholars,
as well as searchable directories of digital collections. Check out the
following sites to supplement the scholarly material you have found in the
library. See Website Evaluation 101 below for more help on using information from the
web.
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
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A good starting point for citations, abstracts
and some full text, including journal articles, theses and dissertations,
books and meeting abstracts. Includes linked citation statistics for some
works and preferences can be set to show items that may be available in the
UR collection. Advanced search
function retrieves by author, publication source, date or specific subject
areas.
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Google Books
http://books.google.com |
Search previews of books and some full text of
out-of-copyright titles. Search terms are highlighted in results.
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INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu
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Over 35,000 Internet resources suitable for
scholarly research, compiled by librarians.
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Librarians' Internet
Index
http://lii.org
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A searchable, annotated subject directory to more
than 20,000 web resources selected and evaluated by librarians.
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A Guide to Digital
Collections
http://digitalcollections.wordpress.com
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University of New Hampshire searchable directory
to over 500 collections, annotated and organized by subject.
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OAIster
http://www.oaister.org
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Catalog created by the University of Michigan
with links to full text, image, audio, video and dataset digital collections.
Sorts results by data contributor.
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Digital Collections
Online
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/DigitalCollections
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Links to digital collections worldwide from the
University of Connecticut.
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UNESCO/IFLA Directory
of Digitized Collections
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol
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Guide to ongoing worldwide digitization projects
and over 200 digital collections on subjects from art to World War II.
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Digital Collections
Registry
http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry
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Includes the option to browse by a variety of
groupings, from the Digital Library Federation and the University of
Illinois.
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Million Book
Collection, Universal Digital Library
http://www.ulib.org
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Ongoing global book-digitization project from
Carnegie Mellon University, with advanced search options.
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Website Evaluation
On the World Wide
Web, scholarly researchers face the challenge of navigating and extracting
useable information from over 100 million indexed sites and over 46 billion
pages. Here are some signs of a good scholarly web resource:
Trusted URLs |
.edu, .gov, .mil contain the most reliable and
unbiased info
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Authority |
Look for the author's name, credentials and
affiliation to give clues to the contents' quality and objectivity. You
should expect the same information quality from a web page as you would from
a scholarly print or database source. For pages authored by organizations,
look for the site's "About Us" section.
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Currency |
When was the page created or last updated?
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Bibliography |
Sources used for the page should be cited and working
links provided for more information on the topic.
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Accuracy |
Trustworthy sites should not have spelling,
grammatical or factual errors.
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For more information, see:
Wake Forest University - http://zsr.wfu.edu/research/guides/web/eval.html
UC Berkeley - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
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