Suggested Search Engines and Directories
from El Dorado High School Library
Search engines :
Beaucoup!
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Búsqueda en Español | Dogpile
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Google | Google Deeper Web | Google Scholar
| Hotbot | GO.com
| Search.com | SearchEdu.com
| Teoma | Twingine | WebCrawler | Yahoo
|Yippy |
Sources for Images | Sources for Music
Directories:
Complete Planet |
Finding Dulcinea |
Internet Public Library
Catalogs:
El Dorado County Library|
Sacramento County Library |
California Libraries Catalog |
Open WorldCat |
Selecting a Search Tool
- Choose
the Best Search for Your Information Needs
- Find descriptions of various kinds of information needs along
with suggestions for the best search engine to use. Also includes
tips about how to get the most from each of the search engines.
- How
to Choose a Search Engine or directory
- Choose a search engine based on file types (like audio or
music), search logic or options, and you will get a list of
recommended search engines.
- Search Engine
Colossus
- International Directory of Search Engines. An international
Directory of search engines featuring links to search engines
from 232 countries around the world!
- Types
of Search Tools
- A tutorial from UC Berkeley on the features of the various
types of search tools. Links are included to the best search
engines, best subject directories, and even the "invisible
web" of searchable databases (these are pages which cannot
be found in search engines and rarely are in subject directories
-- it has been estimated that there are two to three times as
many of these pages as are found on the "visible"
web).
- The Best Search Engines
- A table of suggested search engines with details about features and search techniques.
- Best Subject Directories
- A table of suggested search engines with details about features and search techniques.
- Invisible Web
- "Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity."
Sources for Images
Here are som great places to start when you are looking for images and clip art. Most of the images you find on Google Images or Yahoo Images are owned by someone else and protected by copyright. By starting with the websites below, your search will be more likely to find images that are copyright free or licensed under Creative Commons (which means the owned give you permission to use them in creative, new ways).
Always give credit to your sources! Depending on your teacher's requirements, you can use a MLA-format citation or make a list with the artist's name and the URL of the Website where you found the image.
- Flickr: Creative Commo
- "Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license." Most of the licenses allow use by students.
- American Memory
- Library of Congress. Great historical images
- Picture History
- photos from American History
- Calisphere
- "A World of Primary Sources and more." From the University of California libraries.
- PD Photo
- most are copyright free, but take the time to double check the fine print
- Pics4Learning
- all images come with permission for students and teachers to use - just copy the citation info displayed with each picture!
- Behold
- select free images and images that you can legally modify.
- OpenClipArt
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- an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.
- Car Pictures
- a Creative Commons "pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law."
- Image
Collections and Online Art
- The University of Michigan School of Art and Design offers
this collection which includes: Africa & Diaspora, The Americas,
Asia, Europe, Islam, Classical World of the Mediterranean, Photography
Collections, Galleries, and Sources.
- New York Public Library
Picture Collection
- "The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for
those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials.
It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines
and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards,
mostly created before 1923."
- New
York Public Library Digital Gallery
- "NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images
digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections
of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts,
historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs,
illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
- JSC Digital Image Collection
- "This collection of more than 9000
NASA press release photos spans the American
manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79
Shuttle mission. "
- Historical
Picture Collections
- This directory includes pictures, movies, radio, music and
sounds. Browse by topic or type of media.
- USGS Photo
and Image Collections
- A comprehensive list of USGS photo and image collections.
Categories include biology, geology, ecosystems, geography,
hydrology, and national parks.
- NOAA
Photo Library
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is an
agency whose realm extends from the surface of the sun to the
bottom of the sea. Images here are as diverse as fish stocks,
ozone content of the atmosphere, sun spots, tornadoes, or coastlines.
The Websites listed below provide music that is either royalty free or offered under creative commons licensing (which means other people are allowed to use it in creative, new ways). You should always give credit to your sources, including music and pictures. Depending on what your teacher requires, this could either be a MLA-format citation or a list with the composer's name, song title, and the URL of the Website
- Jamendo - "You can listen, download and share it, it's free."
- Freeplay Music
- Musopen
- Public Domain 4U
- SoundJay - sound effects
- Soungle - for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples
- American Memory - autentic period music
- ArtistServer
- ccMixter
- Free-Loops
- Incompetech
- DanoSongs
- McFarland Beats
- JamStudio - similar to GarageBand for the Macs, this site lets you create your own music
- Space and Motion - a directory to more free music sites
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