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Academic Search Engines

Google Scholar
 
Index of educational literature and published works, from multiple formats and disciplines.
Sweet Search
 
Sweet Search has multiple search engines for different topics like science, social studies, biographies and history.
Wolfram Alpha
 
Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine. Think of it as Google for Math. Check out these examples of what it can do.
Infotopia
 
Infotopia uses multiple search engines, with results edited by educators, to create a deep search system for documents, images, or presentations.
Library of Congress
 
If it’s been published, you’ll find it here. The official United States Library of Congress catalog portal.
http://www.jstor.org/
 
Check out up to 3 eBooks at a time, for a 15 day period (for FREE) with the full archives of over 2000 academic publications.
http://www.ipl.org/
 
Indexed by educators, IPL2 has searchable information by subject, with a large catalog of magazines and newspaper archives.
http://www.studynavigator.com/
 
Encyclopedias, quotations, university archives, dictionaries, thesauruses, mathematics conversion tables and calculators.

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