Student Researchers have lots of support at RBHS
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NoodleTools
Citation support 24/7 Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Awesome resource for ALL your research questions. Librarians
Mrs. Legendre, Mrs. Bingham, and Mrs. Courtney are always happy to help |
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
Award-winning list of e-sources for specific research needs by the folks at NoodleTools Internet Public Library
An index of librarian-tested-for-usefulness websites |
RBHS Databases
Tops on the list of things college librarians and professors wish their students were more familiar with: databases RBHS Pathfinders
Electronic source lists that focus on your class research topic |
Think outside the google search box
Sweet Search
searches only the 35,000 Web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content. Sweet Search editors constantly evaluate search results and "fine-tune" them by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.
DuckDuckGo
protects your privacy and eliminates the search engine filtering that tracks your searches and gives you information based on past searches. Go to DuckDuckGo and click on the No Tracking link at the bottom of their page for more information on how your searches are tracked and filtered. Rated one of 50 Best Websites of 2011 in Time magazine. Rated one of 100 Best Websites in 2011 on PCmag.com.
Ixquick
also does not share personal information with 3rd party advertisers. Ixquick assigns a star to each result that is also in the first ten results in other search engines. A 5-star result means that five search engines have it in their top ten results.
Yippy
organizes your results into related "clusters" in the left column of the search page. Very helpful when you are trying to refine your results list and aren't sure which keywords to use.
Web Research Review PowerPoint - Reviews how to critically read and evaluate web resources and where to find citation information on a web site or page.
Scholarship Tools
Download a $.99 app, My Scholly, for an easy way to find scholarships. See the story about it on KSDK here.
searches only the 35,000 Web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content. Sweet Search editors constantly evaluate search results and "fine-tune" them by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.
DuckDuckGo
protects your privacy and eliminates the search engine filtering that tracks your searches and gives you information based on past searches. Go to DuckDuckGo and click on the No Tracking link at the bottom of their page for more information on how your searches are tracked and filtered. Rated one of 50 Best Websites of 2011 in Time magazine. Rated one of 100 Best Websites in 2011 on PCmag.com.
Ixquick
also does not share personal information with 3rd party advertisers. Ixquick assigns a star to each result that is also in the first ten results in other search engines. A 5-star result means that five search engines have it in their top ten results.
Yippy
organizes your results into related "clusters" in the left column of the search page. Very helpful when you are trying to refine your results list and aren't sure which keywords to use.
Web Research Review PowerPoint - Reviews how to critically read and evaluate web resources and where to find citation information on a web site or page.
Scholarship Tools
Download a $.99 app, My Scholly, for an easy way to find scholarships. See the story about it on KSDK here.
