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Search Tips & Tutorials

Promoting Information Literacy

  • Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
    Help with defining your topic, where to find quality results, do research in a specific discipline, where to go for facts or opinions & perspectives, finding specific types of media and other special search needs.
     
  • Intute: Virtual Training Suite
    Free, topic-specific Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education & research.
     
  • Barebones 101: A Basic Web Search Tutorial
    Short, succinct lessons that can each be read in a few minutes.
     
  • Search Strategies
    Analyze your topic & search with peripheral vision. From UC Berkeley.
     
  • Boolify
    Construct Boolean searches by dragging & labeling colored puzzle pieces. Developed as a teaching tool to help students build explicit mental models of their searches. Fun.
     
  • Search Engine Watch
    A guide, with reviews, to the major search engines
     
  • What are Meta-Search Engines?
    What they are & how they work, with tables comparing the features of the major one.
     
  • Preparing Your Search
    By spending a few minutes clarifying your search, you can increase your chances of finding what you need fast & effectively.