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Worldcat.org

From the website: 'WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos...'You may also find article citations with links to their full text...'

ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), is a database of journal and non-journal education literature.

Internet Search Tools
A web page of some of the more popular search engines, web guides and mega search engines. The page also includes some instructions for use of search engines and tips on advanced searching.

Center for Teaching and Learning, MNSCU

Minnesota College and University System supports the Center for Teaching and Learning. The CTL Office has professional resources available for instructors in the MNSCU system.

Google Maps
Google map tool that rivals Mapquest.

Medline
National Library of Medicine.

Scout Report
From the Scout Report webpage, "The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 16,969 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists."

Picsearch
Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images and has many features which make it unique.

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is for anyone who wants to write better. It's intended mainly for college students, but it has also helped lots of other people around the world learn how to write more clearly, gracefully, and effectively.

Minnesota Issues

These guides to information resources are compiled by staff at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library on topics of interest to Minnesota legislators. They are designed to provide an introduction to a topic, directing the user to a variety of sources, and are not intended to be exhaustive.

Google Scholar (Beta)
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Google Calculator
Another product from Google.

Google Book Search

When Google book search finds a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, it links to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context.

Google Literacy Project

A web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping, and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.

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