I decided to create a new category today: “Research Tools”
I wanted to create a place where I could find interesting places to find things. Here’s the first entry, describing seven such places for high quality research: “7 Great Educational Search Engines for Students” It briefly describes the following:
1) Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
[M]aintained by the U.S. Department of Education. You’ll find more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of articles and online materials . . .”
2) Lexis Web Searches validated legal sites.
3) Google Scholar From Wikipedia: “Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.”
4) Microsoft Academic From MA: “Microsoft Academic understands the meaning of words, it doesn’t just match keywords to content.”
5) Wolfram Alpha. From the website, “he introduction of Wolfram|Alpha defined a fundamentally new paradigm for getting knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms and methods.”
From the website: “iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers.”
7) ResearchGate
From the website: “ResearchGate is built by scientists, for scientists.It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task.”
