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Databases
Opposing Viewpoints
A
complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access
viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents,
links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
MasterFILE Premier
This database provides access to over 1,750 periodicals and over 400
reference books, as well as a large number of biographies, primary
source documents, and images. Find articles on current news and
events, popular culture, business, health, education, history,
sports and much more!
Newspaper Source
This database provides full-text, cover to cover, access to 28
national and international newspapers, as well as selected full-text
articles from over 260 regional United States newspapers. Also find
full-text television and radio news transcripts from a variety of
sources including ABC, CNN, and NPR.
World History - The Modern Era
This database contains a wealth of resources including
bibliographies, chronologies, images, events, a glossary, maps,
quotes, statistics and more! Explore topics within various time
periods. Utilize the Cybrarian, browse e-books, or use the
dictionary pop-up window.
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Internet Resource Lists
Johnson & Wales University
Library
This site provides links to organizations and universities. A
description of who maintains each site and its purpose is given.
Multnomah
County Library
This site is specifically
targeted toward middle schoolers and high schoolers conducting
research on social issues. Links are broken down by topic.
San
Diego Mesa College Library
This site
provides links to a wide variety of resources. Statistics and
research information are available.
Santa Ana College
This site offers
resources broken down by topic. Additional websites are available
for both the pro and con side of each issue.
Richland
College
This site
provides information on current events and controversial issues. A
full description of each link is given.
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Library Catalog
Access the
SWAN Catalog
here or through the link on the sidebar. Search by subject and
location to find materials located at the River Forest Public
Library.
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Search Engines
Google
The largest search engine with a huge number of hits. Unique
features are Google News and Google Maps. Searchers can us double
quotes " " for phrases, +(pluses before words to make sure they are
seached especially common words) and -(minuses to get rid of
annoying words)
Ask. Com
Largest competitor to Google. Unique feature is its Popularity
Ranking. Searchers can use double quotes, minuses and pluses.
MSN.Com
Microsoft's search engine with a useful Related Search feature.
Yahoo!Search
Extensive search tool. Uses quotes, pluses and minuses. Also uses
AND, OR, NOT (must be capitalized)
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Metacrawlers
Dogpile
Searches Google, Yahoo, Looksmart, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search
simultaneously.
Clusty
Takes the results of several well known search engines and clusters
the sites for more effective results. (Formerly Vivisimo)
Surfwax
Searches several search engines and news sites and puts them in a
handy list that can be sorted in several ways.
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Subject Directories
About.com
One million sites selected by expert "guides."
Academic
Info: Educational Subject Directory
25,000 handpicked resources for high school and college
students.
Infomine Scholarly
Internet Resource Collections
125,000 well annotated sites for academic research.
Librarians' Internet Index
Sites chosen by librarians on all topics.
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