Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens)

In search of images that will add visual interest to your work?
Interested in visual researching?
Cooliris can help.
This Firefox add-on is easy (and fun) to use. Once installed,
images are presented as a 3D wall that you can effortlessly zip along.
Just click on the image to bring it to the fore and zoom in.
Each picture has a small globe icon which you can click on to
jump to its corresponding website.You can easily share the images by clicking the envelope icon which allows you to email them to others. Cooliris is a great time saver as it taps into the image resources of many popular websites and search engines including Google, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, deviantArt, Photobucket, and Yahoo.

Firefox can be downloaded free from: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
The Cooliris add-on can then be installed from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=cooliris&cat=all .

Visual Searching in Ebsco Host

Visual searching can be fun! Ebsco Host offers a search option that visualizes your results.
For example, searching on the term spirituality, the results formed several clusters including Spiritual Wellness, African American, and Meaning of Spirituality. Clicking on clusters and subclusters leads you to results like articles and book chapters.
It is an interesting alternative to traditional database searching. Try it out and let us know what you think.
Ebsco Host is located on the Access Online Databases page. To access visual searching, click on Research Databases. Checkbox the databases you want to search, then click on Continue. Click on the Visual Search Tab at the top.