Web Searching: More than Google?

Is there more to web searching than Google? There sure is!

iLibrarian lists these 8 supurb alternative search engines to uncover the web. I'd like to add one more to this list:

• GU/MSB Library's Recommended Websites - search sites that have been specifically selected by our librarians for your courses and programs.

Try out these search engines:

1. Addict-o-matic - lays out results from many search engines on one screen (excellent metasearching!)
2. Redzee - displays results as mini screenshots - great for visual learners
3. Omgili - search for "what people are saying." This engine searches forums, discussion lists, answer boards, and more.
4. Dogpile - another metasearch engine. It searches 6 engines at once
5. Truveo - find videos
6. Blinkx - find videos with this engine too
7. QnA search - search questions and answers
8. ZabaSearch - search for people and personal information

Happy searching!

Please let us know if you have any searching questions.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Advertising Website

The library has added another website to the Recommended Websites collection. The recommended websites collection is searchable or browsable by topic.

The newly added website is called Ad*Access. Ad*Access provides images and information for over 7,000 American and Canadian ads from between 1911 and 1955. These ads are from the categories of radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene, and World War II.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

SBA offers free online webinars

The U. S. Small Business Administration has a lot of great features on their website. One of them is FREE online courses.

They offer courses in the categories of: Business Planning, starting a business, management, accounting, marketing, e-commerce, computer security, and more!

Find links to great websites like this one on the library's recommended websites page.

Website Added

The library's added another link to the recommended websites collection!

In Motion AAME: African American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org/
This site "presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps."

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Websites Added!

We've added websites to our collection of Recommended Websites! You can search or browse by topic!


Here are the new additions:

• CineFiles
  http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/
  "CineFiles is a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library's collection. The collection contains documents from a broad range of sources covering world cinema, past and present."


• EPA's Climate Change Site
  http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
  "EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments."


• Climate Change: Discovery of Global Warming
  http://www.aip.org/history/climate/
  This site explores the history of climate change science. Find links to summaries, essays, and other climate change resources.


• Chem 1 Virtual Textbook
  http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html
  A reference text for general chemistry.


• PsychScholar
  http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/
  "A Collection of Web Resources for Psychological Scholars and Budding Psychological Scholars."


• MetaVid
  http://metavid.ucsc.edu/
  MetaVid offers video clips from congressional sessions and legislative proceedings.


• Economic Indicators
  http://www.economicindicators.gov/
  This website is a service of the U.S. federal government. "Economic Indicators.gov is brought to you by the Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Our mission is to provide timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau."


• Chronicling America
  http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
  Historic American newspapers sponsored by the Library of Congress. "This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."

Happy researching!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Website Added!

We've added a new link to the Library's Recommended Websites.

Gutenberg-E
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/
Columbia University Press has teamed up with the Amercian Historical Society to offer free hisotorical e-books! Search or browse through titles like:

• Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
• Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• "I Saw a Nightmare..." Doing Violence to Memory
• ... and many more!

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Websites Added!

We've added more websites to the Library's Recommended Websites section!

Audio of the Declaration of Independence http://www.debrajeandean.com/constitution/Declaration.htm
Debra Jean Dean reads the Declaration of Independence. There is also a link to her reading of the U.S. Constitution. You can download it for free!

Financial Calculators http://www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/
MortgageLoan.com offers over 100 financial calculators for many situations: mortgage, auto, debt, home equity, investment, student, personal, retirement, and tax.

Business.gov http://www.business.gov/
Business.gov is the official business link to the U.S. government. There are Small business guides, state and local info, forms, and other business topics.

USA.gov for Business and Non Profits http://www.usa.gov/Business/Business_Gateway.shtml
Find official, government information about financial assistance, how to launch a business, managing and growing a business, data and statistics, laws and regulations, taxes, and more!

Historical Photos from the Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
The Library of Congress now has a Flickr site! The sets of photos are The 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s.

Census Scope www.censusscope.org
Find U.S. Census 2000 data in a snap. CensusScope is provided by the Social Science Data Analysis Network.

Please ask your librarian, if you have questions!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Websites added

We've added new websites to the Recommended Websites portion of the library website. These are some great resources!!! The Recommended Websites are SEARCHABLE! :)

Music
· AllMusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/

Maps (See the Natural Science section for all map resources)
· US Maps: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/about.html
· World Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
· TerraServer: http://terraserver-usa.com/

Economics
· 2007 Economic Report of the Presendent: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html

Occupations
· Occupational Outlook: http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Law
· Public and Private Federal Laws: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/

Government
· USA government info for citizens: http://www.usa.gov/
· USA government info for business: http://www.usa.gov/Business/

Business
· Labor Statisticshttp://stats.bls.gov/
· NAICS (Industry) codes: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
· NAPCS (Product) codes: http://www.census.gov/eos/www/napcs/

Happy researching!
-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Find Historical Images!

There are two exciting developments in online historical images I'd like to share with you.

1. The Library of Congress now has a Flickr site! They've started uploading some of their amazing historical photos. So far, they have two sets: The 1930s-40s in color and News in the 1910s. Don't forget you can also access other historical images and documents from the American Memory project which is also a part of the Library of Congress.


2. Did you know Minnepolis had streetcars? Search "steetcar" in Minnesota Reflections. Here's what's new: the images in the Minnesota Reflections project now includes comment functionality. You can leave a comment about any of the images or documents you find. Minnesota Reflections contains about 20,000 images and documents from and about Minnesota. Topics include: animals, business & industry, health & medicine, communication, arts, labor, sports & recreation, social issues, and more!

These sites are fascinating to browse through. I think you'll enjoy them. Also, both of these sites are also available in the GU/MSB Library's Recommended Websites.

What do you think of these sites? Aren't they fun to look at?

-Elaine Settergren