Middle & High School Library: Find Information

Newspaper Source via  ESBCO (password HERE)

Google News Archive: Search by Date

CNN Student News

News Map: Top Stories by category and location

Newspaper Map: Search for news by location, language

DOGO News: Good for Middle School and students learning English

Newsela: News at various reading levels

Talk to Books - type in a question, get quotations

​EasyBib Research: Search for resources other students have used

Sweet Search: Filtered searching

Duck Duck Go: Search without getting caught in a "filter bubble"

Google Scholar: Citations for academic journals. Be scholarly: click the arrow for "Advanced Search" You may get just the citation, but try searching the title in EBSCO, JSTOR, and Questia School.

   Search Tips:

• Identify Key Words: Write out questions, circle necessary words, anticipate words in the answer
• Use Booleans to narrow or broaden your search (And, Or, Not)
• Use truncation (*) to catch more results (for example: creat* will bring create, creation, creating...)
• Use quotation marks for exact phrase searching ("Florida Marlins")
• Use wildcards (?) to catch various spellings or meanings (wom?n brings woman and women)
• Use a minus sign to filter out irrelevant results (-fish)
• Filter results with "Search Tools" in Google
• Search for files and scans using " filetype:pdf" in a search
• Limit results by domain, such as .gov  .edu  .pe 
• Limit to terms in the title of a site or article with "intitle:"

Sample Search String:

• "amnesty international"    iran   intitle:execution*    site:http://.gov    "cultur* impact"    -oil

Using Google? Choose Advanced Search

Build a search string with Boolify - a puzzle-style google search

A Chrome extension to help access articles behind a paywall

Not a search engine, but a mega-site of open-source information

Open Access Button - another extension/service to unlock articles behind a paywall