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iCentre | Search Tools =Search Tools: Choosing the Best Search Engine for your Information Need= [|Google Australia] [] [|Google Advanced] [] [|Bing] [] (Microsoft, Beta version) [|Ipl2 : Information You Can Trust] || @http://www.deeperweb.com/ - Google's beta search engine that enables you to search the 'tag cloud' to get better information || [|Dogpile] [] (includes Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask). ZapMeta [] (Yahoo, Bing, Cuil, Gigablast, Altavista, Entireweb) || [|Newspapersindex.com] [] [|Abyz News Links] [] - links to international newspapers, news media, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. || NewsNow [] - searches thousands news sources. [|Google News] "[] - Searches 4500+ news sources, stored for 30 days. Can limit search to news images. || Australia New Zealand Newsstand Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Select a newspaper. Full text newspaper articles from: The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, etc. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. [|Informit Search] Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Magazine and journal articles from Australia and the region on a range of topics. || [|Homework Center: Social Issues] [] - Links to topics. U.S. perspective. [|BIOTIN] [] - Links to topics. Catholic perspective. [|Public Agenda Online] [] - background and analysis of social issues with public opinion studies. || [|Search.com: Reference] [] - choose fact sites, then metasearch. [|Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Map and Fact Finder Links] [] - Dickson College links. [|English Links: Quotations] [|http://www.schools.ash.org.au/dckc/Library/eng.html#quotations] [|Reference Resources] [] || [|Google News Archive Search] [] || [|Creative Commons Australia] ([]) [|Creative Commons Search] ([]) - all media - check results (may have copyright) [|Flickr] ([]) - tick box for searching only CC licensed content [|Image*After] ([]) - photos [|ccmixter.com] ([]) - all music can be remixed [|Dmusic] ([]) - music [|opsound] ([]) - music [|SoundClick] ([]) - music [|FindSounds] ([]) - sound effects and music samples [|Freesound] ([]) - sound effects and background noise Wikimedia Commons (More links to images at: Find free images online! || Pool ([]) - ABC multimedia site, lots of CC licensed material Engagemedia ([|http://www.engagemedia.org]) - Videos about social justice and environmental issues in Asia Pacific region, Australian made, all CC Nachofoto ([]) - news images as they appear on the web Google Images ([]) - "Find similar images" tab and choices in left column such as "line drawing", "photo" and "color" are useful. Search Cube ([]) - videos, images and web sites, results on a cube which can be rotated, need Flash Player 9+. || Google Books : Advanced Search click "full view", look for free ones or can get parts (@http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search) Internet Archive (@http://www.archive.org/) The Online Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/) eBooks@Adelaide (@http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/themes/lit.html) Project Gutenberg (@http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/) Classic Bookshelf (@http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/) 391 Places for Free Books Online (@http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm) ||
 * //Information Need// || //Search Engines// ||
 * I need a few good hits fast (e.g., organization's homepage, quality sites for a topic) || [|Goog-A-Who?] [] (Google, Bing and others)
 * I need invisible web or deep web resources (databases not commonly indexed by search engines). || CompletePlanet [] (searches 70,000+ databases and speciality search engines)
 * I need the results to be grouped or clustered (folders to narrow large search sets). || [|Yippy] [] (Bing, Ask, Open Directory, Yahoo!, news and blog sites)
 * I need to find a particular newspaper or news from a particular country. || Newspaper Map http://newspapermap.com/ (World map with balloons representing newspapers. Filter by language)
 * I need to see what is happening in the world right now || 10x10 http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html - hourly analyses words used in leading news sources and displays them in a linkable picture grid. ||
 * I need to search many news sites to find current news about a topic. || Australia New Zealand Newsstand Have your ACT Public Library card number ready. Select a newspaper. Full text newspaper articles from: The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, etc.
 * I need a news and/or magazine archive. || [|Google News Archive Search] [] - Newspaper archives and timelines
 * I need current and/or controversial issues. || Australia New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre Have your ACT Public Library card number ready.
 * I need simple reference information (basic facts, current statistics, name identification). || [|Ask.com] []
 * I need primary sources. || [|Ready, 'Net, Go] [] - metaindex to worldwide archives
 * I need a Creative Common image, sound, music, ... || Google Images Advanced In Firefox, click bottom right link - need "labeled for reuse with modification". See more on this search and how to acknowedge sources results.
 * Other sources (images, audio, video) content. || [|Picture Australia] ([]) - some are CC licensed
 * I need to search social bookmarking sites || FuzzFind (@http://www.fuzzfind.com/v2/index.html) - looks at major search engines too. ||
 * I need free ebooks. || Digital Book Index ([]) - Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, Google
 * Searching Tips and Tricks || Web Search Strategies in Plain English (@http://www.commoncraft.com/video/web-search-strategies) ||

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