Searching the Web:

Information Literacy

Tips, Tricks, and

Strategies for

Educators -Melda Yildiz,

Global Scholar

Invisible Web- http://netforbeginners.about.com/library/diagrams/n4layers.htm

Language Tools Multilingual websites and resources

DictionariesTranslation ToolsTranslate a page to your

languageLook for the translation bar at

the top of the page whenever you come across a page written in a language that isn't one of your preferred webpage languages.

Web search Video-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8aYoVpdz8o

Noodle Tools

Online citation tool- http://citationmachine.net/

NoodleBib- http://www.noodletools.com/login.php

Choose the best search engine-

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

NoodleQuest- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/

Tips from http://www.loc.gov/help/help-lc-simple.html

Add Words to Improve Results: More words will increase the number of search results. But documents containing all of the words entered will be ranked highest.

Example: kid teacher history learn

Enclose Exact Phrases in Quotes: The results will include documents containing those words in that exact order.

Examples: "civil war maps" "jackie robinson" "declaration of independence"

Use a Plus Sign to Require and a Minus Sign to Exclude

Example: +washington +state -george

Retrieves documents containing the words "state" and "washington" but not "george."

Capitalize Proper Nouns

Example: Library Congress

Only finds documents containing "Library" and "Congress" (but not "library" and "congress").

Try Alternate Spellings: Some proper names and common words have variant spellings (British vs. American or because of transliteration differences). Include all known spellings for the broadest search results.

Examples: Mohammad Muhammad Mohammed labor labour

Library of Congress

Delicious

Image search

Google

Google Scholar- (within your institution- it may have a direct link)

Image Search

Video Search

Use Google's Advanced Search feature

http://www.google.com/advanced_search

WorldCat

Librarians

Collaborate

Share

Explore

Communicate

Present

Online Courses, Seminars, Talks

TED

Coursera.org

P2PU

Open Source Materials

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

EasyBib resources

http://easybib.com/public/list/key/d3f296