100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library. Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Intute: Use this website’s search tools to find the best and most reliable sites to start your research. Meta Search Want to search it all at once? Dogpile: Search Google, Yahoo, Bing and more at once with this great search engine. Databases and Archives Books and Journals Science Math and Technology Social Science
The Matrix Reloaded: Examine’s new HEM and how it works Over at Examine.com last week, we released the second rendition of our table of human trials for supplements and have since called it the ‘Human Effect Matrix’ (HEM for short). This was a work in progress for about 6 months with a ton of behind the scenes work, and due to the overwhelming focus of visitors to Examine on the rubric (relative to the summary or full summary) an upgrade was needed. Overall, the HEM looks like (part of the sodium bicarbonate rubric pictured as that is what I was working on this week): Now, working from left to right on this table… What does the A-D rating mean? The A-D rating are a grading scale to reference both the quality of the information as well as the quantity of the information. An A rating is the highest level of evidence, and can be achieved with either 10 double blind studies or at least two independent meta-analyses. A C rating is a deadzone where at least a single double blind study was conducted. What exactly is the ‘effect’? Consensus? Overall
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Carrot2 - Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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