Research+and+Bibliography+Tools

**How To Do Research**
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 * Cute little flowchart on the How-to of Research.**

**Traditional Library Resources (and Encyclopedias) Online**
Michigan Electronic Library (MeL) []

Library of Congress []

Internet Public Library []

LibrarySpot []

RefDesk.com (digital fact checker) []

Wikipedia (yes, I know a lot of your teachers ban this one, but see an explanation about how accurate it is and why from CommonCraft @ []) []

Scholarpedia (like wikipedia, but fact checked by scholars) []

Encyclopedia.com []

Amercian FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau) []

Digital News Archives
The New York Times []

Rag Linen - Museum of Historical Newspapers (Colonial and Revolutionary War, Civil War Era) []

Chronicling America, at the Library of Congress website. []

Wikipedia's List of Online Newspaper Archives []

**Search Engine Searches**
Sweet Search [] Google [] Ask.com [] Bing [] Yahoo! []

//Boolean Language//, the syntax of search engines, though not all engines use exactly the same. (i.e. Google uses a modified Boolean syntax)

//Page Rankings// You should know a little bit about how search engines decide what you should see first. It's a mystical science, even amongst techies, but take a look at this article on Google Rankings for just a hint of how complicated it is. [] The engines can be manipulated, even as complex as they appear. For some fun, see "Google Bombs" on Wikipedia []

Metasearches
(search several engines at once)

Dogpile [] MetaCrawler []

Social Bookmarking Sources (and archiving of research)
(search for useful information already "filtered" by human beings by tag searching in social bookmarking sites)

( see Social Bookmarking and Annotation page)

Bibliography Building
( see Social Bookmarking and Annotation page)


 * Citation Machines**

KnightCite [| http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/]

Son of Citation Machine []

NoodleBib []

Other Research Tools Online
Noodle Tools []

iTools []

Library of Congress Research Desk Tools []

LexisNexis Academic - News, Legal, and Business Research Powerhouse []