• Reliable Results Search Engines

     
    Sweetsearch: Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts.

    Google Scholar:   Enables specific searches of scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, and technical reports.

     ipl2:  A merger of the Internet Public Library and the Librarians’ Internet Index.  Good for generating topic ideas.  It provides pathways (clustering) for broad topics. 

     Reliable Websites

     African American Registry: A calendar-based series of accomplishments achieved by Black Americans in history. This registry includes audio and video clips, links to poetry and lyrics of Black culture.

    American Memory: An internet-based archive for public domain images, as well as audio, video and archived Web content, it is an excellent website for primary sources and is published by the Library of Congress.

    Answers.com: Search by asking a question.  Using a variety of reference sources it generates an organized page of relevant information about your search query without requiring you to click on any further Web links.  Caution: Answers.com uses Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia which accepts information from anyone, so search results must be carefully evaluated.

    Bartleby.com:  The leading internet publisher of literature, quotations, reference and verse. Search by subject or select individual resources.

    Best of History Websites: (EdTech Teacher) Features links to authorative web sites on historical topics.

    CIA World Factbook:  An annual publication by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. It gives a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, location, government, industry, military capa-    bility, etc, of all US-recognized countries and territories in the world. 

    CNN Student News:  Contains several topical articles on a variety of subjects.

    Fedstats.sites.usa.gov: Provides statistics for states and U.S. government agencies.

    Findarticles.com:  Free online source for many magazine and newspaper articles.

    Google News:  Available in many languages, Google News provides up-to-the-minute as well as historical news articles from over 4,500 websites.  Once a topic is entered in the search bar, several sorting options are provided in the left column.

    Google Scholar:  Enables specific searches of scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, and technical reports.

    Infoplease.com: Information Please Almanac.  Provides information on many topics including history, statistics, holidays, biographies, timelines, careers, college information, perpetual calendar, Day in History,

    conversion tables, periodic table and others.

    ipl2:  A merger of the Internet Public Library and the Librarians’ Internet Index.  Good for generating topic ideas.  It provides pathways (clustering) for broad topics. 

    Life Magazine Archives :  Google e-Books has scanned nearly 1,900 issues of Life Magazines from 1936 to 1972.

    MagPortal.com:  Free online source for many magazine articles.

    National Geographic Magazine:

    ProCon.org:   Pros and Cons of Cotroversial Issues.

    Primary Sources LibGuide By Joyce Valenza:  An exhaustive list of primary source materials as well as other helpful research resources.

    Statistical Abstract.com:  Provides statistics for states and U.S. departments. 

    Wolfram/Alpha.com :  Provides a variety of data on a multitude of topics. Set up in a question/answer format, it provides answers to such questions as:  How many calories in a slice of Swiss cheese?  What is the longitude of St. Paul?  How far is it from Rome, Italy to St. Paul, Minnesota?  What are the basic facts about China?