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Pathfinders

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(Acknowledgement is given to this Pathfinder for some of the ideas on these pages)

What is a Pathfinder?

A pathfinder can lead you through the information jungle. They provide a starting point for your research.

On these pathfinders, you will find:

a list of keywords or search terms that will help you when searching the Library Catalogue or the Internet
some tips on more effective ways of searching the Internet
a list of books that may be useful from our Library
a list of websites, videos and other online resources that we have found, which will help you

Search Engines

What would you do if you couldn’t use Google? Did you realise that Google is just one of thousands of different search engines available? Did you know that Google is not always the best choice, particularly for your school work?

The following are some others that you might like to try.
Boolify is a visual search engine, in which you can access great, student-friendly websites. Boolify works on Boolean searching, which means that you build up the search by using the words ‘and’, ‘not’, ‘or’. There are some help videos on the Boolify site, which help you understand the Boolean process.

Yippy is good because it assists you in narrowing down your search terms. When you put in a search term, it then offers a list of other search terms on the left hand side that might be more appropriate for you.

Glean is very exciting, as it offers a comparison service. If you need to get the ‘pros and cons’ for a topic, you could put in two searches, one for pros and one for cons. You would then receive two lists of results.

Twurdy is an effective search engine as it categorises the results into different reading levels. You can then choose something for your own age and reading ability.

Sputtr is a multi-search engine. It separates all of your results into the following categories: web, images, video, social, news, Wikipedia, music and games. It is then easy to access if you are looking for a particular type of information.