INTERNET: RESOURCES : DATABASES : RESEARCH: RESOURCES: Free Information for the Taking
David P. Dillard
INTERNET: RESOURCES :
DATABASES :
RESEARCH: RESOURCES:
Free Information for the Taking
Free Information for the Taking
By Candace Lombardi
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 23, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT
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Quoting
"There's a wealth of free resources out there--online databases,
audiobooks, museum passes, and help so that you can find even more
resources. You just need to know where to look"
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Databases
Intute
Associations Unlimited
ReferenceUSA
The Historical New York Times Project
Heritage Quest Online
JStor
Business Source
E-books
Ebrary
Audiobooks
Free passes to museums
Some libraries, such as the Boston Public Library offer free passes to
museums or discounts to local area attractions. Keep in mind, however,
that you do need to reserve these ahead of time and pick them up at the
library branch in person.
Your own personal librarian
Still too overwhelmed by choice on your library's Web site? You could
simply ask for help. Most libraries offer personal librarian service with
a two- or three-day e-mail response time. They will either answer your
question, or offer suggestions on how to find what you need.
Massachusetts, for example, is part of a librarian service that offers
real-time assistance with a librarian 24 hours a day, seven days a week
via instant messaging.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
While a related article in CNET does mention ResourceShelf, this one does
not and also does not mention Librarians Index to the Internet, LLRX, The
Virtual Chase, The Internet Scout Report and so forth so this article is
just scratching the surface.
I recently posted a collection of Subject Guides that provide extensive
access through extensive website listings of such resources in these
guides. This collection of subject guides may be found at this Net-Gold
URL:
INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDES:
General Internet and Print Resources:
Subject Guides Resource Guides and Content Type Specific Guides
on the Internet
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There are links in this guide for most if not all of the General Internet
Resource Guide s cited above, namely Librarians Index to the Internet,
LLRX, The Virtual Chase, The Internet Scout Report and Resourceshelf in
this post.
Amongst other places, I discussed the importance in value of sources found
and in sophisticated search capabilities of databases in a recent Net-Gold
post.
INFORMATION LITERACY :
DATABASE SEARCH TECHNIQUES:
The Why and How of Using Databases
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At various points in conducting such searches I may turn to clients and
say try this using an internet search engine, a comment that could be made
every step along the way.
Many people have no clue any of this exists including many K-12 teachers
that I have come in contact with and these folks are preparing students to
get ready for learning in higher education including teaching them
research skills.
Something major needs to happen with this picture.
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Gary Price and I are planning a phone conference sometime this week to
discuss some of the advanced search features of ASK.com and this should
lead to some posting this week or soon regarding some of the ASK.com
search capabilities.
Gary Price is the owner of Resourceshelf
ResourceShelf
<http://www.resourceshelf.com/>
There is no limit to what one should learn about search tools such as
databases, databanks and internet search engines.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
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