Here you will find all kinds of maps, e.g., historical, political, sociological, local, international, etc. A very comprehensive website that I highly recommend.
Produced by Routledge for their textbook, Judaism: History, Belief and Practice, this site has every conceivable map for use with the study of historical and contemporary Judaism.
Behind Google's simple search box (http://www.google.com/) is a hidden world of supercharged research tools that should be on the fingertips of every researcher. Here's a quick listing of the various "hidden" tools that Google offers to power searchers and researchers:Heard of Google Trends? Google University Search? Google News Timeline? Google Fast Flip? Google City Tours? If none of these Google resources ring a bell, then head over to 6 Google Sites You May Not Know About for an explanation of what these sites do and how you can make use of them in your searches/research.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Google Book Search offers free downloads of more than 1 million public domain books in both PDF and EPUB formats. Search for the title you want, click on the Download button and select PDF or EPUB. Happy searching!
Google Similar Images Search allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the "Similar images" link under an image to find other images that look like it.
Google News Timeline organizes information chronologically by presenting results from Google News and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can navigate through time by dragging the timeline, setting the time scale to days, weeks, months, years, or decades, or just including a time period in your query (i.e., "1977"). This is a novel way to keep track of the news if you don't have time to browse individual newsmedia sites.
Google has launched feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain To enable this feature, go to Google Images' advanced image search page. Under the "Usage rights" section, you can select the type of license you'd like to search for, such as those marked for reuse or even for commercial reuse with modification. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC or other licenses. Once you confirm the license of the image and make sure that your use will comply with the terms of the license (such as proper attribution to the image's owner), you can reuse the image.
This site gives you instructions on how to: (1) carry out phrase searches, (2) searching within a specific website, (3) exclude specific term(s) and (4) using the "OR" operator. I find that the "search within a specific website" is especially useful since you can use it to limit searches (e.g., web pages, images, etc.) from a specific website, thereby increasing the relevancy of your search.
Did you know that the Google Search Engine allows you to search all kinds of data that you can ever think of? For example, you can search for weather, stock quotes, time, sports scores, maps or patents. You can even use the Google Search Box: (1) as a calculator, (2) to track your packages, (3) to do unit conversions, (4) as a dictionary, etc.
Ever wanted to be a power Google Search user but don't have time to plow through long instructions? You might want to head over to the Google's 15-seconds Search Tips on YouTube. Currently, there are 8 short videos teaching you how to use Google to search for:
- weather forecast
- local businesses
- unit conversions
- movie times
- sports scores
- flight tracker
- dictionary
- world time (any city in the world)
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