Beyond Google
  • Dimensions AI Tip – use the limiters on the left and right, starting with the “Open Access” option

  • DuckDuckGo “the search engine that doesn’t track you”

  • Google Scholar an index of published research, including court opinions and patent records

  • Instagrok creates an interactive concept map that helps in selecting research topics, identifying keywords, and exploring connections to related ideas. The results page lists key facts, videos, images, and related websites.

  • Mashpedia view search results by source type: news post, books, videos, images, Twitter feeds and Facebook posts

  • Mendeley University academics share their work here. Find their scholarly research to support your own.

  • Ref Seek “aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone” – tip: search beyond the first page of results

  • Twiplomacy World Leaders are tweeting. See what they tweet and who they follow.
  • Wolphram Alpha a “computational knowledge engine”

 

Search Engines & Directories
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