AA+RESEARCHING+SITES

===Internet **Search Engines**===

**Recommendations -** **Only the Best!**
To make your searching more successful use the **Advanced Search** options of your chosen Search Engine.

LOGON mags PASSWORD 22mags [|Google] Our top choice for web searching. Becomes a NZ search engine when you click the "pages from New Zealand" button. Most still like this search engine but increasingly the first few pages have been bought by clever programmers. Often better quality results gained from meta-search engines. [|Google Images] The best image search engine for the web. [|Google Suggest] Worth a try! Suggests other key words as you type. [|Yippy] "A new way to search the web" - the clustering search engine. Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and shows these as clusters. Previously called Vivisimo. [|Quintura] A **Visual** search engine. Your search is shown as links **and** a "cloud tag", which can help you narrow your search to exactly what you want. Take the "Tour" shown on the site homepage. [|Yahoo] One of the first and still very strong. [|Ask] Search with keywords or questions to deliver "fast and relevant information". Search results can be further narrowed or expanded. [|AllTheWeb] The focus is on web searching, but news, pictures, video, & Audio searches are also offered.
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=Metasearch Engines=

These search with several search engines.
[|Dogpile] Searches "all the best search engines, all rolled into one, including Google, Yahoo! and Ask". [|Yippy] Not only lists organised responses from major search engines, but also automatically organize the pages into categories. [|Kartoo] If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta-search site is for you. [|Mamma] "The mother of all search engines", Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites. [|Metacrawler] Returns "the best results" from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, About, LookSmart. [|Sortfix] This gives you power words that help you to refine your searches

=**Subject Directories**=

Links and information selected by specialists and experts in their fields.
[|Yahoo Directory] A list of web sites that have been reviewed and approved by a human editor. The oldest, and still a good one. [|Librarians' Index to the Internet] An excellent directory of web sites reviewed and evaluated by professionals. Well worth a look. [|Infomine] A virtual library of scholarly Internet resources, librarian-built from the University of California. [|About.com] A powerful network of 475 Guides, "experts in their field" provide quality information through this directory. [|Internet Public Library] Library services to Internet users provided by the University of Michigan School of Information. [|Subject Finder] Designed to search only educational websites which contain tutorials, learning and teaching materials.

=**Other Search Tools**= [] Project Gutenburg is a site devoted to digitising textbooks. Their use is free of copyright. [|Infopeople - Best Search Tools Page] Search form with the best search tools on one page. You may like to Bookmark this page for easy and efficient searching. [|Infopeople - Best Search Tools Chart] Chart of "the best features of the best search tools." [|Ready Reference Collection] Excellent, annotated collection, from the Internet Public Library. [|RefDesk.com] Links to a multitude of ready reference sites, including encyclopedias, headline news and more. USA-based, but comprehensive. [|Information Literacy: Search Strategies] Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need - From NoodleTools.

These encyclopaedias are very useful: [|Biographical Dictionary] [|Britannica.com]  [|CIA – The World Factbook 2001]  [|E-Conflict World Enclopedia]  [|Encarta Encyclopedia] [|Encyclopedia.com] [|Fact Monster] (Columbia Encyclopedia)
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**PORTAL SITES**
====Portal sites save you time and energy because they are sites that have already done a lot of the work for you and have a search function as well as organising categories to help you out in your research.==== ====[|Sparticus History Websites] This is the best site to get you started with some authority. Intuitive==== ====[|Modern History Source Book] Very useful for primary resources==== ====[|TIME Magazine's archive] TIME have digitised their magazines back to 1923 which is very useful. Although an American view, it is very useful if you use a bit of caution and cross reference with other sources.==== ====[|BBC History] The charter of the BBC gives a hugely supportive boost to all things historical.==== ====[|Eyewitness to History] Excellent site that has commentary from participants in events as they happened.====

[|I Love History]Excellent for podcasts
====[|School History UK links] The SchoolHistory links provides 100 reviewed historical sites. The sites are selected by year, GSCE, and A levels and then by topic. Each site has a brief description of the content of the online resource==== ====[|New York Public Library digital gallery] The New York Public Library Digital Gallery site provides access to over 363,000 images digitized from primary sources and prints from the collections of The New York Public Library, including manuscripts, historical maps, posters and photographs. Each image is presented with a full description and the collection details. An easy to use search engine is provided.==== ==== [] PBS Teacher Source is an educational web site for educators and students from Year l to 12 The site uses PBS’s programming to help teachers learn effective ways to incorporate video and Web resources in the classroom==== ==== [] Project Gutenberg is a project to shre digitised books online.==== Austrlian History

 **USA HISTORY**
==== [|Prohibition] Links to other sites that deal with Prohibition ====

[|Imperial War Museum online collection] The Imperial War Museum has an unparalleled collection covering all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain and the Commonwealth. Forum Debates [|Second World War Discussions] [|Second World War: Questions for Historians] [|Interviews with Historians] [|Philosophy of History] [|History Debates] [|Controversial Issues in History] [|Who won the Second World War?] Second World War Websites [|War and Conflict: World War II] [|The Home Front] [|History Place: World War II] [|Second World War Books] [|HyperWar: Second World War] [|Codes and Ciphers] [|Second World War Experience] [|World War II Commemoration]
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 * NEW ZEALAND HISTORY LINKS **
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