I am a university student and I have been given an assignment about
researching an incident.. I need to write a detailed report and I have
to use web sites, books and magazine/journals.. The problem is that
the assignment has been given to 300 people and they are all looking
for the same books in the library so there is no way I will get those
books until the deadline.. I need to find books other than the ones
that everybody know.. I need a way to find books and magazine/journals
related to the incident.! And I dont mean only that particular case, I
want to be able to find references for my researches later.. How can I
do that?! How can I find as many books and magazines(articles) as
possible?! And I mean their names, not the actual books or magazines..

Dear Ezgi, 

Webravi's suggestion is probably the first place I'd go to: 

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/ 

It incorporates mostly scientific articles (they sometimes have
glitches in some academic disciplines, including things that are not
scientific, but pertain to be).

However, there are several other good resources. 

- Google Index search, with the term "site:edu" or the term
"site:ac.uk" (see example below) would lead you to "academic" sites
(American and British). This means, that you'll either find course
syllabi containing books and articles on the subject, or article,
professors' resumes (CVs), etc.
Example: searching for "holocaust denial" with the term "site:edu OR site:ac.uk"
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22site%3Aedu+OR+site%3Aac.uk%22+%22holocaust+denial%22&btnG=Google+Search>

- Searching amazon.com or Google print for words that appear in texts.
You can read a few pages from the book (and learn more if you need
that book or not).

Example 1: "sustainable economy" in Google Print
<http://print.google.com/print?q=%22sustainable+economy%22&btnG=Search+Print&hl=en>

Example 2: [codeine adverse reactions] on Amazon.com (searches also inside books)
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dblended%26field-keywords%3Dcodeine%252520adverse%252520reactions%26store-name%3Dall-product-search/002-4908914-8904836>

- Check with the librarian at your college. It is more likely than not
that the college is subscribed on several academic databases, that
provide abstracts, titles, and sometimes full texts of articles (for
example, several known ones are ProQuest, Lexis Nexis).


Other options: 
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Scirus
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/> 

InfoMine
<http://infomine.ucr.edu/> 

A collection of special search engines
<http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm> 

Search Engine Colossus: Academic  
<http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Academic.html> 

Guides to Academic Search Engines 
<http://www.searchability.com/academic.htm> 

Oaister
<http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/> 

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
<http://www.doaj.org/> 

Academic Index
<http://www.academicindex.net/> 

RedLightGreen
<http://www.redlightgreen.com/ucwprod/web/workspace.jsp?lang=english> 

CollegeBot
<http://www.collegenet.com/cbot/basic/index_html> 

SearchEDU
<http://www.searchedu.com/> 

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.

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Request for Answer Clarification by ezgi-ga on 06 Nov 2005 05:47 PST

That's perfect.. You guys are really good at this.. When I first heard
about Google Answers I had not expected it to be that good..
One thing I wonder is, Google Scholar can be found in Google Services
page.. But how could I find "print" without asking you?! I happened to
find other Google services that are not in the services list.. Where
are they?!

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Clarification of Answer by politicalguru-ga on 06 Nov 2005 07:16 PST

Dear Ezgi, 

First of all, thank you for the rating and the tip! 

In addition, you can see a list of Google services here: 
Google Search: More, more, more
<://www.google.com/intl/en/options/> 

"Print" is there, and if you go to Google labs, you can see what's
cooking (e.g., Video search):
Google Labs
<http://labs.google.com/> 

Good luck at college!

Not much, but an international student's tip to show appreciation:)

scholar.google.com is a good start.