The concept for this site was drawn from the travel website Kayak, which allows you to input the locations from which you will be traveling, the dates of your arrival and departure, and a price range that is in your budget. Once all of these search criteria are selected Kayak then searches the web for other travel sites and opens the result in individual tabs. Our idea is for a site is a one stop shop for all your research paper need. For a moment, imagine not having to roam the web for the information you seek. There are many different sources of information on the internet and in print, having a place to streamline the process is the goal of our site. User will able to choose from a list of scholarly database, news sources, popular sources, magazines, journals, books, videos and images
The website Teachtought has an article showing a comprehensive list of search engines for academic research, one hundred to be exact. These search engines are broken down into different categories, which make it easier to narrow down based on the subject being researched. The categories used are: general, databases and archives, books and journal, science, math and technology, social science, history, business and economics, and references. This website is extremely helpful and provides a vast amount of sites that can potentially fulfill any research need.
ISeek is a research tool that allows people to find relevant answers and results faster using the “web” tab or the “education” tab for educational resources that have been reviewed and categorized. When the results are displayed, you can further categorize and organize those results into topics, authors, places, organizations, date, abbreviations, and web source. The organization on this site is helpful in narrowing down search results, but could use additional categories such as articles, journals, and books.
Infomine allows searches to be done by looking through scholarly internet resource collections. When a topic is input in the search bar, a list of suggestions pops up relating to what was typed, which can be helpful to discovering topics or subtopics relating to your search. This site also has subject categories displayed in the homepage, which allows the search to be specific, such as cultural diversity, e-journals, government info, and more. The website’s design also helps the subject categories be apparent and avoids having to look all over the homepage to find where the subject you’re looking for is.
Metacrawler is a is a website that allows you to search multiple search engines simultaneously. Currently not all search engines produce the same result, even if the subject is typed the same in the search-bar. It gives the user result from Yahoo, Google, and Yandex information database. Metacrawler also allow the user to search for images, videos, and news sources.
EasyBib is a website that allows the users to generate citations of sources in MLA 6, MLA 7, APA and also the Chicago/Turabian format. On the website there are many categories to choose from that fits the the criteria of your source; Websites, newspapers, books , journals and database are some of the options given to be cited. There is also a option for annotation, which is a key element when reviewing a source. Overall this website is essential tool for for those looking to save time when preparing a work cited list for a research paper.
On our website there will be a multitude of option available to the user. The main objective will be to streamline the process of obtaining quality information and documenting them for research assignments. No longer will there be a need to search the gauntlet of information aimlessly only to realize that more searching is necessary. We intend to combine all the tools necessary that the user will need. Here is an example of how the process will work. User will log on to the website and and type in the topic which they wish to research. There will be menu where the desired result can be checked or unchecked; The user will be able to select video, scholarly, journals, books, e-books, magazines and much more. The option will also be given to automatically provide citations for each search result. Once the user progresses further by engaging the search button, multiple windows will then open, organized by the category.
