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To locate texts in the archive, use this simple search:
If you're using a search engine to locate words or phrases in English, search for both American and British spellings. For example, a search for "labor OR labour" returns more thorough results then a search for one or the other.
AlphaSearch is a new web library of subject-related gateway sites designed for serious, academic pursuit of Web information.
Nearly all the sites in AlphaSearch are large, high-quality gateway sites. We define a gateway site as a site that organizes a large number of other sites all focused on an idea, subject or discipline. Gateway sites have also been called "webliographies," "meta-indexes," and in the paper world "subject bibliographies." The assumption behind AlphaSearch is simple -- if a high-quality, current gateway site can be located, then nearly all the important web sites focusing on that subject are probably contained in that site.
The AlphaSearch staff collects only the largest and finest gateway sites and then supplies controlled descriptors, keywords, and discipline and resource type keys to each record. A site must be academically oriented, large, and actively maintained. There is an easy to use search engine that allows for exact searching and browsing.
From A: to Zip, thousands of terms are here for the searching in this illustrated on-line technology encyclopedia from CMPnet.
Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional
Content Area: Technology (General/Other) [Dewey #600]
Application type: Reference/Tool,
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Looking for all sorts of images, these search engines will help.
Even more noteworthy, however, are the features that let you refine your search according to a handful of other criteria--the most useful of which is probably Media Type. When you click on this option, you're presented with a list of items from image files to Shockwave files, to Acrobat files.
Lycos Pro users can narrow the focus of their searches by indicating the relative placement of search words within the target document. Lycos Pro offers four operators to help define those relationships: ADJ (adjacent), NEAR, FAR, and BEFORE. Here's how they work:
- ADJ: You use the ADJ operator to locate documents in which the terms appear right next to each other, in any order. For example, racing fans might search for the following: car ADJ race. In this search, Lycos Pro returns documents containing both "car race" and "race car."
- NEAR: You use the NEAR operator to locate documents in which the terms appear within 25 words of each other. For example, you can search for the following: speech NEAR writing. This search finds references to "speech writing" (obviously), as well as statements like "The next time you're writing an important speech...."
- FAR: You use the FAR operator to locate documents in which the terms appear 25 words or more apart in at least one instance. (This last part is important, because it doesn't preclude the possibility that the search words also appear closer together in the same document.) Lycos says that the FAR operator is best used in conjunction with other expressions. For example, to find pages containing the words "stick" and "man" but not "stick man," you can search for the following: stick FAR man NOT "stick man."
- BEFORE: You use the BEFORE operator as you do the more familiar AND, except you can specify that the search words must appear in a specific order. (The search words can, however, be any distance apart in the document.)
When using the aforementioned operators with Lycos Pro, choose the "all the words" option--Lycos will know which words are the search terms and which are the placement operators.
There are currently 74 interlinked pages including 24 alphabetized Business and Career Tools Pages, the Best of Curriculum, 24 alphabetized Medical and Scholarly Research Pages, Reference, Law & Justice, Cybrarians' Favorites, Intelligence & Security, Law Enforcement, Exploring, What's Cool, Fun, News Sources, etc.
I've tried to keep it simple, powerful, quick-loading (Table Format), and useful - with links to all the best Search and Info Tools in the world. Comments and suggestions are much appreciated. If you know of a link that should be there please tell me!.
My hope is that this will become a frequent and useful tool for your research, study, writing and teaching. However, your staff, students and their parents should find it to be useful too. I also participate in several webrings (at the bottom of my main page) which may be useful to you or your family members: The History Ring, The Research Webring, Homeschoolers, Journalism and Research Resources Webring and the Homework Ring.
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