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Library Databases to search for journal articles

Hidden Web - the hidden web is a great place to search to for scholarly information.

Google

GoogleScholar - search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Some new search engines to watch:

Kartoo - search engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps.

Ujiko - offers five unique and novel functions. The first search engine which evolves with your expertise, Regroup search results by thematic on an intuitive circular map, Offer an innovative and advance information management system, Offer personalization of results according to thematic and previous searches,. Propose different visual skins to change the way your UJIKO applet looks

Mooter- Clusters search results. Presents a diagram of themes within the results, from which the user can select one or all results

Clusty - groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on exactly what you’re looking for.

Multimedia Search Engines: Image, Audio & Video

AltaVista video search

Google Images (images only) - Find images from across the web.

NPR Archive - Search for words spoken during NPR radio programs and interviews

SingingFish - search for music, movies, radio, TV, news, sports and finance by format mp3, Real, Windows, QuickTime.

FirstGov Search - FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information, is the catalyst for a growing electronic government. GovTrack.us - follow the status of federal legislation and the activities of your senators and representatives.

CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists - From this page, you can browse any of the 38,597 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites. Search for a mailing list of interest.

Feedster - search news, blog and podcast sources.

BlogPlus - a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.

PODZINGER - When you type in a word or terms, PODZINGER not only finds the relevant podcasts, but also highlights the segment of the audio in which they occurred. By clicking anywhere on the results, the audio will begin to play just where you clicked.

Some guides and help on searching the internet.

Evaluating Internet Materials - A guide prepared by the Canisius Librarians.

Searching the Internet About Searching, Evaluation of Materials, Image Searching, Metadata, Periodicals, Surfing the Internet, Web Portals, Web Search Engines

IPL Web Searching - Some of the Internet Public Library's favorite general Internet search engines and catalogs.

Search Engine Watch - Tips, reviews and comparisons.