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FIND THE MATERIAL YOU NEED FROM AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES
Don't Search -- Browse
When doing research the notion of "search" is all wrong -- you want to find "good" stuff that you do not necessarily already know about. That finding process is what browsing (yes that old 1990's concept of using the Internet) is all about. Just like poking around in a book store or in a library's stacks, enter some information to locate your query and then look around. Our natural language "find more like this" search engine processes your query into a list of "likely suspects." We show you just what caught our search engine's eye. If you think the "likely suspect" is relevant click the "Feed to Google" button and you are on your way.
Even better -- browse your way through a whole paper or article. If you want to do research on a lengthy text (say an article or a draft of a paper) go to the research assistant. The research assistant takes your whole text and browses the ideas in it. You'll quickly find the "extra" material you should have been looking for -- if only you knew.
Welcome to the world of browsing. Browse for Research.
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The Virtual Research Assistant

Ever wished you could just drop a whole paper or outline into a search engine - and have great results?

With the new Virtual Research Assistant now you can. Search from the full text of any indexed content respository. Searches can be up to 10000 words in length. Finally there is a research engine built it around the user. Research can begin with a few clicks -- which gives you more time to read, to think, or to write. As you write you can use the tools to find more great stuff - to quote, to cite, or to read. Let the tool do the drudge work. You do the reading, writing, and thinking. Begin by opening the document you wish to use as the basis of your research. It could be an assignment, a set of notes, a syllabus, an article or a part of a book. Cut and paste the text from this document into the VRA’s query box. When your query is processed, you will be sent an email letting you know that results are available on a custom web page built just for you and your query. Or feel free to check bage after a half hour or so. Your results should be ready.

The VRA gives you powerful searching capabilities. With one submittal you receive not only search results for your entire text but also separate results for each piece of that text.

When you go to the search results web page (making sure you are logged in) you will be presented not only with the top results for your query as a whole (shown via a hyperlink at the top) but also with the full text of your query itself split into meaningful "chunks" (usually sentences, paragraphs, or phrases - but note the software still has its quirks). Each chunk shown is itself a hyperlink to a separate search based on the text in just that chunk. Clicking through will reveal search results at a more detailed scale (chunk by chunk) from your query.

Now with one submittal you can browse your way through all the research you need.

Happy Browsing. At http://www.browse4research.com