Search+Tools

Where to go for information? Check out the links below. =Don't forget to evaluate the resources you find against our 5 criteria!=

Need a book? Search the [|KHS OPAC] by author, title, subject, or keyword.

**Databases**
ABC-Clio Databases media type="custom" key="10263115" media type="custom" key="10263127" media type="custom" key="10263131" media type="custom" key="10263145" media type="custom" key="10263187" media type="custom" key="10263153"

EBSCO//Host//

[|Gale Virtual Reference Library]
 * Arts and Humanities through the Eras
 * Encyclopedia of World Biography
 * Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
 * History Behind the Headline: The Origins of World Conflict
 * The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Local Sites
[|Hawaii State Public Library System] [|Honolulu Star-Advertiser]

‍Search Engines
[|Boolify] (graphical boolean search tool that shows results as you select key words) [|Google] (general search) [|Browsys] (search multiple search services and online content providers) [|Duck Duck Go] (Looks like Google but with less ad spam. Clean simple search engine) [|Internet Archive] (digital library of internet sites) [|Noodle Tools](directs you to search engines basd on your needs) [|Sort Fix] (search engine with graphic interface to narrow your results by focusing on keyword selection) [|Yahoo!] (general search)

Academic Search [|Google Scholar] [|Informine] (scholarly search engine) [|Scirus] (science search engine)

‍News- Current Events
[|CNN] [|Goggle News Timeline] [|Internet Public Library] - IPL2 (links to periodicals by regions) [|Newseum]- Today's Front Pages [|Time Magazine Archive]

‍Directories
[|Best of the Web] [|Open Directory] [|Yahoo! Directory]

‍Images
[|Google Images] [|GRIN](Great images in NASA) [|Metropolitan Museum of Art] (Please read for copyright info) [|Picture Collection from the New York Public Library] [|Picdrome] (Public domain pictures)

‍Other
[|Access Excellence] (Resource Center from the National Health Museum) [|American Memory](from the Library of Congress) [|DocJax] (searches for documents and e-books) [|Mashpedia] (dynamic encyclopedia) [|NARA](National Archives and Records Administration) [|National Library of Medicine]: Images from the History of Medicine [|NOAA](National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) [|Surchur] (Hot topics on the social web --blogs, twitter, images, videos, etc.) [|Webopedia](encyclopedia resource to search techno terminology and computer definitions) [|Wolfram/Alpha](engine for computing answers and getting knowledge)