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iCONN's Advantages Relative to Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc.
A service of the Connecticut State Library and your local library in partnership with the Department of Higher Education.

  • Quality / Trustworthy Content
    • Licensed Databases
      • Provides access to full-text articles not accessible through free web search engines (more than 5,000 full-text magazines & journals)
      • All search results are derived from published sources
      • Produces a more manageable number of search results with duplicates removed
      • You can limit search results to professional, peer-reviewed, scholarly literature
      • You can limit search results by subject, document type, publication date, publication title
      • It is easy to e-mail, print (formatted) and share articles via social media
      • You can export citations to citation management systems
      • It is easier to cite an article from a database than from the Web
      • You can have articles read to you
      • You can limit search results by a specific or a range of Lexile (reading) levels
    • Statewide Library Catalog (reQuest)
      • A unified, searchable catalog of more than 400 Connecticut libraries
      • Patrons from over 210 participating libraries can place interlibrary loan requests for items of interest and track their status
      • Physical delivery system (C-car)

  • Privacy Assurance
    • iCONN does not retain search history (for any length of time)
    • iCONN does not use your interactions with the service to develop a profile of you (e.g., to share with advertisers)

  • Ad-Free

  • Safe Searching
    • No Filtering Needed
    • Virus-Free!

  • Filter bubble-free
    • Search results are not distorted by the “filter bubble” effect

  • E-Journal Finder
    • Quickly find full-text magazine and journal titles available through iCONN

  • Customer Service

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