Search Engines Beyond Google

While Google is the search engine we're most accustomed to using, there are others out there that are more likely to return scholarly results without having to do so much evaluation.

Google Scholar - Use Google Scholar to find only scholarly resources on Google. The search specializes in articles, patents, and legal documents, and even has a resource for gathering your citations.

SweetSearch has been the best place for students - and anyone else - to begin their research since 2009. It leverages Google to search only a fully vetted "whitelist" of websites. The original index was created by 50+ librarians, educators and researchers who collectively invested over 100,000 hours in finding the best resources. Note: Since SS uses Google, the first few results currently may still be "ads." Make sure you skip those. Click the menu bars on the landing page to access to access SweetSearch2Day which has contemporary and historical resources you will find interesting and useful, web guides, and "How tos" for research. CP students will find the "Changing the World" tab useful for service learning ideas.

iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers. You can stay within iSeek or extend your search to the web with most questionable results omitted.

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. It searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

JURN is a unique search tool which helps you find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. One of the coolest aspects of it is that when you click on "How to use Jurn" it also helps you learn to search Google on a deeper, more academic level too.

If these don't provide you enough resources on your topic, see Ms. McCall and she will give you additional credible search engines.