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Search the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library's card catalog. Since it is now on line, the card part is a metaphor. The database is not updated every day so it's a better indication of the contents of the collection rather than what is checked in or out right now.
Search Engines Some of the better ones with a brief description of their features, tips, deep search engines and a link to a site with 2500 search engines. Try a search engine with a different look.
Searchme returns results in a flip book style. Not as comprehensive as Google but it looks really cool.
Visuwords an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. It doesn't look anything like a printed dictionary. Move the words around. Hold the curser over a word for its definition. NEW It does require that Flash is installed on your computer.
Answers.com gives answers to questions as opposed to links to sites as in other search engines. This is an excellent site for quickly getting answers to common questions.
Libraryspot An incredible metalist of Libraries, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Maps, Phone Books, Reference Desks, Newspapers, Quotations, etc. This site is loaded with useful and interesting information, definitely worth seeing. Contains an excellent image section if you need a picture. Google Scholar allows you to search for scholarly literature. Google says, "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
The Owl at Perdue University covers almost every aspect of research and writing. Clear, computer-friendly pages of both APA and MLA citation styles may be copied as well as tutorials, how to develop a thesis statement, outlining, note-taking, components of the research paper and more.
Wikipedia Free semi-authoritative user-contributed encyclopedia. Good for an overview if you don't know much about a particular subject. Since anyone can add or delete material from this site it would be wise to check another site as well for verification. Some colleges do not allow citations from this site to be used in research papers.
Internet Public Library has good material in the subject collections but I wouldn't use it to start searching for a term. It includes the Online Literary Criticism Collection and the Ready Reference Collection. It also lists sites that offer homework help.
MapLight.org "brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics.
MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.
This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable."
Newspapers and Magazines Online links to local papers, important national papers, current news searchers, lists of newspapers world wide and magazine databases.
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are generally available only in the MVRHS, however some allow Home Access to public library patrons in Massachusetts.
A wide variety of magazines, journals and newspapers are available.
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