Search Engines & Other Useful Links

Search Engines

Excite - A property of AskJeeves Incorporated, features comprehensive search tools, a Webmail platform and content and resources from over 100 providers.

Google - Provides access to more than 8 billion web pages.

Google Scholar - Allows for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research, links to full text and libraries that hold the materials.

Teoma - Delivers three responses to one search: results, relevant web pages, and suggestions to narrow your search.

Meta Search Engines

(Services that search several search engines at once and bring back compiled results.)

Ask Jeeves - Allows users to ask questions in natural language.

Clusty - Vivisimo powered clustering tool that includes a section on government.

Dogpile - “Fetches” results from About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart, Google,. Teoma , Yahoo! and other popular search engines.

Ixquick - Finds sites internationally ranked as the top ten.

Vivisimo - Automatically categorizes search results into hierarchical clusters.

Other Useful Sites

Bartleby.com - Literature, reference and great books online.

Citation Machine - Builds citations in MLA and APA formats.

Florida Memory Project - Provides educational resources and makes available collections for historical research .from the collections of the State Archives of Florida.

InfoPlease - World’s largest free reference site.

Internet Public Library - a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's School of Library & Information Studies Science & Technology.

LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library - Homepage of Tallahassee public library.

Refworks - Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create personal databases by importing references from text files or online databases.

State Library & Archives of Florida - central repository for the archives of Florida’s state history.

Last updated: March 6, 2010 by Naya-Darice Ramos
Content Provider: Leila Gibradze