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Check OPAC for books and eBooks at TMS.

There are also several different types of search utilities which can be used to locate information:

Directory:
Directory-style programs search the Web by category. The results are indexed and grouped by humans.

Beaucoup
Yahoo

Search Engine:
A robot or "spider" conducts an automatic search that scans every word on every page.

AltaVista
Google

MetaSearch:
The program searches several search engines and reports the results.

Dogpile
MetaCrawler
Mamma

Natural Language searching:
Submit actual questions for the program to research.

Ask.com

Scholarly Searches:

Teoma
Google Scholar
Infomine

Portals to Lots of Sites (Indexed by Subject):

About.com
HotSheet

Search Tips:

• Use "around phrases"
• Use AND, NOT, OR to limit or expand searches.
• Use + to show the next word is needed.
• Use – to show the next word cannot be included in the search.
• Use wildcard keys, *, ! and ? to expand searches.

Check the "Help" file of the search engine for more specific help tips.