Searching for Information
Search Skills
- Be specific. You do not want 75,231 random hits. You want 75 accurate hits.
- Using "quotation marks" keeps words together. If you search for death penalty you will get hits with both words NOT related to each other. For instance you may get a hit for some one who recently died and you may get a hit for a soccer player who got a penalty. Using quotation marks in "death penalty" will look for the two words together.
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Looking for information on a specific topic? Try one of the following to locate the information you need.
Databases & Collections
Utah's Online Library
Utah’s Online Library of electronic resources. It provides statewide access to newspaper articles, magazines, professional journals, encyclopedias, video, photographs, maps, charts, and graphics. World Book Web
World Book Encyclopedia and databases online. |
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Search Engines (beyond Google) & Other Online Reference Collections
SweetSearch
A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts. |
instaGrok
Search a topic and instantly get lists of facts on it, links to further information, videos, images, and even quizzes. |
DogPile
Dogpile fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines, letting you search for key words, pictures, audio, video, news, or even phone numbers. |
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Answers.com
Answers.com is your best source of information on everything — offering entries from the world's leading reference publications along with Q&A from our community. |
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Encyclopedia of Life
Global access to knowledge about life on Earth... This site provides information and pictures of all species known to science |