Online resources for Years 7 - 12: Search Engines

This in-depth directory is a round up of the best and most useful links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases they list both printed reference works and electronic resources.

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. BASE provides more than 50 million documents from more than 2,700 sources.

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

A Google alternative safe search engine for students offering information and reference sites: art, social sciences,social issues,social problems, history.

Search for primary source documents, including photos, maps, manuscripts, historic newspapers and much more.

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

The Virtual Learning Resources Center indexes thousands of the best academic information websites,selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects.