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 Google Book Search. Find full-text, copyright-free books online! In beta (experimental stage), but already a winner!
HUGE TIP: To find ONLY copyright-free (usually historical) books, go to Advanced Book Search, and click on "Full view". (Click here to go directly to Full View.) Google is digitizing these historical books, which are from the collections of the New York Public Library, and the universities of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, and Oxford.
Any publisher can upload full-view books online as well.
Add one or more of these Google Modifiers (aka "surgeon's tools") to your search queries, to maximize your results.
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site:edu
(key in as is) |
Add to your search
to find only edu sites
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site:gov
(key in as is) |
Add to your search to find only .gov sites
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site:nih.gov
(sample) |
Add to your search,
in this example, to find sites with the National Institute of Health URL
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inurl:doe.k12.hi
(sample) |
Add to your search,
in this example, to find only sites w/ Hawaii Dept. of Education in the URL
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intitle:reading
(sample) |
Add to your search, in this example, to find only sites with reading in the title
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info:theatlantic.com
(sample) |
Use alone, in this example, to get a brief description of The Atlantic magazine
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seaburyhall.org:link
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Use alone, in this example, to learn about Seabury Hall.
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| Tip #1: "Phrase searching" (putting quotes around your query) is your friend.
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| Tip #2: Nouns are better than adjectives and verbs, for searching.
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Remember that some of these operators can be combined, and that they also work in some of the other search engines, most notably YAHOO and Webcrawler.
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