Internet+Libraries

=These are search tools that are monitored for quality content. They evaluate sites so you don't have to. You can rely on them and they usually provide you with information on how to cite them. =

media type="custom" key="8730946" align="left" ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals are involved in answering reference questions for the **//Ask an ipl2 Librarian//** service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. In January 2010, the website "ipl2: information you can trust" was launched, merging the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites.

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—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials media type="custom" key="8731240"

media type="custom" key="8731012" width="140" height="140" align="right" **Features of Google Scholar**
 * Google Scholar** provides a simple way to broadly search for **//scholarly literature//**. From one place, via **WorldCat** you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of **//scholarly research//**. **Google Scholar** aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.
 * **Search** diverse sources from one convenient place
 * **Find** articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
 * **Locate** the complete document through your library or on the web
 * **Learn** about key scholarly literature in any area of research