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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Sharpen your skills with our featured Internet Search Challenges. Test your strategies and tactics as you attempt to solve puzzling Internet research problems efficiently and effectively.

Persistent Links to Articles Several GALILEO vendors offer the ability to create persistent links to GALILEO articles, including the EBSCO suite of databases, the ProQuest suite of databases, Chadwyk Healey's LION, SIRS Researcher, and SIRS Discoverer.

The 21st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF) began in 2001 when the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy received funds from the US Department of Education to research and develop training in the largely unexplored field of online information literacy. It immediately became clear that the largest needs in this area were for professional development and resources to help educators and students improve their ability to locate, evaluate and use digital information more effectively, efficiently and ethically. That has always been, and remains today, the mission of 21CIF

Search the full text of Books Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you. Search Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Browse books online If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. Learn more -- fast We've created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more. Buy the book ... or borrow it from the library If you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow it.

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Some of our most popular features are listed

I love these action zone games that reinforce finding and identifying information. These are great activities that would engage students while helping them gain research skills in a "real world" setting. Great activity!

I think these games are great. We could use the games we played yesterday to formulate a search--somewhere we'd have to talk about boolean operators. And then the next step would be to actually find the answer. From this page there are times to beat--how long did it take to find the answer with your search?

I think the games would be particularly helpful to illustrate to students which words they can leave out of their searches. It might help the more astute students think about word substitutions too.

GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. A World Wide Web-based virtual library, GALILEO provides access to multiple information resources, including secured access to licensed products. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications. The community of more than 2000 GALILEO institutions includes the University System of Georgia, K-12 schools, public libraries, the adult technical institutes and colleges, and a group of private academic colleges and universities. At this time, only educational institutions are eligible to participate in GALILEO.