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Results on these resources are brought to you by human editors not algorithmic programs (spiders).
====When you have broad topics to research, e.g., Galileo, Civil War, Nile River, etc., it's more efficient to use directories (Librarian's Internet Index-LII) over search engines (Google). Directories offer students categories to search ( **assistive navigation **) and all the websites/resources/links in a directory have been examined by a editor (a human) before being committed to the directory. ====

Includes Blog directory.
====**[|IPL Ready Reference (direct link to reference sources--encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, etc.)] **====

**[|Intute]**
====Subject specialists review and evaluate thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject. Intute is a collaborative effort between 7 major UK universities including the University of Oxford, Nottingham, and Manchester Metropolitan University. This directory is geared towards high school and college level students. ====

**Visual Search Engines **
====Search results are displayed in a visual and contextual format, e.g., hubs with spokes and thumbnails of relevant website pages with brief descriptions of website content.  ====

** Mugurdy **
====Displays search results as a grid of thumbnails of each page in the search results. Place your cursor over one of the thumbnails to see an enlarged image. ====

**Google Search Options**
====Google is always improving their assistive navigation features. Wonder Wheel, Related Searches, and Timeline, are powerful tools that can help students narrow their search results and locate relevant resources. To locate these tools just type in your search term into Google and when you get your results click on the **+**  **Show Options** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> link at the top of the results page. Scroll down to access the following features: ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wonder Wheel** ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wonder Wheel provides search results in a visual format.
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wonder Wheel] this will link you to a step-by-step video on how to access and use Wonder Wheel. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google will offer additional search terms based on your original search term to help narrow your results. For example, type in the search term " <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**medieval architecture** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">" and click on Related Searches and Google will respond with: ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Related Searches** ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">medieval gothic architecture, medieval romanesque architecture, medieval cathedral architecture, medieval castle architecture
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> history of medieval architecture, notre dame medieval, medieval buildings, baroque architecture, middle ages architecture, renaissance architecture, british medieval architecture, medieval art and architecture, etc. ==== <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//From Google:// ====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Timeline** ====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Squared] (beta version) **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search Google and get results in a table that can be saved. Hard to describe, easier to see. Tables can be saved for quick retrieval and review.You have to see this to understand it. ====

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Country-based Search Engines] **
====<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Country search engines and regional search engines - currently a total of 4,017 search engines and 222 countries, territories, islands and regions. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">FREE websites that will create MLA (Modern Language Association) citations for research papers.
====**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whether you are quoting a source directly or paraphrasing from a source you <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">MUST <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> cite your source. **====