On searching

March 15th, 2006

Thank you, Debbie Abilock, for updating and sprucing up one of my favorite tools for learners, “Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need.” http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html. Debbie’s organized the search engines, directories, portals, etc. around learners’ authentic needs and includes major subject tools, media search tools, primary sources, and such emerging search strategies as tagging. A similar tool for selecting search strategies is U. Albany’s Laura Cohen’s How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html. This resource was also recently updated and now includes blogs and RSS feeds.

Gary Price (http://www.resourceshelf.com) announced some cool new tools this week from NewspaperARCHIVE.com, with “tens of thousands of full text and full image ‘historical articles (free).”  The resources include timelimes, historical background, and a helpful advanced search.

Titanic Newspaper Archive is a free searchable archive containing more than 15,000 full text and full image articles from hundreds of newspapers about the
CollegeBasketballArchive.com offers searchable access to more than 50,000 historical full text newspaper pages about the college basketball.
ProBaseballArchive.com offers more than 50,000 articles about professional baseball.

Other NewspaperARCHIVE.com free archives include:

MartinLutherKingJuniorArchive.com 

AbrahamLincolnArchive.com
WinterGamesArchive.com
AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits) 

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