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Internet links. Tools. Evaluating Websites. Research Methods and Tools. 25 unusual sites to help get rid of boredom. Sometimes you end up with just too much time on your hands. Maybe you’ve done all your work for the day and are at a loose end, maybe your work is just boring you senseless. You might have gotten sick of you’re favourite websites, you can’t find any interesting articles to read, and it’s the same old news on Facebook. Well, we’ve got some alternatives for you. Here’s a list of the best unusual and interesting websites you’ve probably never heard of. The Secret Door Every time you open the door you end up somewhere new and unexpected. Radiooooo Choose a date and a country and you’ll be able to listen to the music which was popular at that point and location in history.

Liveplasma Based on the preferences you provide, this site suggests new music, movies and TV shows which you should like. GeoGuessr This site uses Google Maps casts you into an unknown region of the world and you have to guess where you are. The Museum of Endangered Sounds 8-bit icon constructor The sound of rain A little alchemy. Ressources. Research Lab. Research sites. Search The Web. Core Facility | Division of Chemical Pathology. The Core Facility is an inter-departmental facility that performs chemical imaging, electronic autoradiography, isothermal titration calorimetry & UV/VIS spectrophotometry. We are situated in Room 6.47 on the 6th level of the Falmouth Building on the Health Sciences campus at UCT.

Tel: +27-21-4066104 Fax: +27-21-4488150 Email: dave.woolley@uct.ac.za The Core Facility is operated on a cost-recovery basis and the income generated is used for the purchase of reagents, maintenance, repairs and upgrading and expansion of the existing facilities to meet the demands of its users. Our Instruments » Chemi-Imager ~ Phosphor-Imager ~ ITC200 ~ UV/Vis Spectrophotometer Alpha-Innotech Chemi-Imager Digital imaging of visible, UV, fluorescent and chemiluminescent samples e.g. protein gels, autorads, film, plates, fluorescent gels, colorimetric blots and membranes, TLCs , etc. Request form & rates Click the Week or Agenda tab in the calendar for a more detailed view. Request form & rates Request form & rates. Owler | Track private & public companies for free. Onfido Background Checks | Products. 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About | Best Colleges Online. By Staff Writers Students, teachers and the public turn to their librarians for help researching everything from technology to genealogy to homework help and lesson plans.

Even if your library is equipped with subscriptions and memberships to top of the line databases and online journals, you’ve probably had to get creative during a patron’s requested search for something unfamiliar. Next time, though, you can turn to one of these 50 search engines, designed to pull from the Web only the information you really need. Meta Search and Multi Search Engines These meta search and multi search engines can search numerous engines and sites at once, maximizing the number of results you get each time you conduct a search. Ms. Multimedia and Interactive For help finding pictures, podcasts, music and shareware, use these search engines. Google Search Engines A Google search doesn’t just mean typing in a keyword on the homepage and seeing what pops up. Great Niche Sites for Librarians Custom Searches. Six People Search Engines You Can Use to Find Anyone. 100 Search Engines For Academic Research.

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ResearchGate Access over 135 million publication pages and stay up to date with what’s happening in most professional fields. RefSeek Digital Library of the Commons Repository Microsoft Academic Search Google Trends Jurn. List of academic databases and search engines. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles.

Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles. Operating services[edit] [edit] [edit] The WWW Virtual Library.

National Archives Experience. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine.