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Research tips and suggestions

Using Wikipedia in an Academic Setting Infographic
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Search Engines: Google may be the most famous, but it is definitely not the only search engine around. Different search engines give different results, so if you are doing serious web-based searching, trying a variety of search engines makes sense.

Here is an explanation of meta-search engines

Some search engine options:

Ask - can search using questions
Ask For Kids - a kid friendly search engine

Bing

Dogpile - a metasearch engine that searches Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo

RefSeek - specifically designed to find academic and scholarly resources

Webcrawler - a metasearch enging that searches Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo

Yahoo Canada

Multimedia Sites for Research

TED: ideas worth spreading


National Film Board of Canada - an amazing site for finding documentaries and more

The CBC Archives - search for radio, tv and other multimedia clips

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Media Smarts - Digital and Media Literacy

Excellent Canadian website with educational games, online tutorials, and tons of information for students, teachers and parents on a variety of media and digital issues from violence, gender representation and marketing in the media to cyberbullying and privacy issues online.



Portals - websites that will give you links to lots of other sites!

The Digital Public Library of America.  The DPLA portal allows you to search hundreds of American library and museum collections for digital objects such as images, sound and video files, texts, etc. all from one search environment. This is a great place to start your search for primary sources about any American topic from baseball to the Civil Rights Movement

Internet Archive - a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form

IPL2 (Internet Public Library, version 2) - this site is a portal, or gateway, to a wealth of resources for both  research topics and general interest topics.  If you are looking for high quality internet sites, this is a great place to start

IPL2 Pathfinders - a list of some of the most common research topics with links to some of the best resources

IPL2 Museum page - search for art, history, science and technology, or natural science museums around the world

Google Scholar

Library of Congress Virtual Reference Shelf - a portal to many quality online reference resources (stats, encyclopedias, etc.) created by the United States national library

Library of Congress Digital Collection

Searching the web and Evaluating what you find

Web searching in plain English - short video tutorial with tips for effectively searching on the web

World Wide Web in plain English - short video explaining how the web works

Protecting Reputations Online in plain English

Phishing Scams in plain English - explain what a phishing scam is and how you can avoid being a victim of one

A short video that gives you some great tips on how to easily and effectively find resources in a database.


Google Search Tricks Infographic
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