Karen does a great job in this chapter building “The Researcher’s Toolkit.” Here are some of the links from Chapter 5.
To view the latest version of these use http://www.delicious.com/ernestackermann/chapter5snr5
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This U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site provides up-to-date weather forecasts for all 50 states. You can search the area of interest by zip code or by clicking on a map. Also included are research articles that may be searched by subject.
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This site provides links to U.S. and foreign newspapers, college newspapers, radio stations, and magazines. Can also search for radio stations and newspapers by city and state.
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Kidon Media Link provides links to close to 20,000 news sources from around the world. Sources include newspapers, magazines, radio and other broadcast services, and more.
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Google News covers 4,500 news sources and arranges headlines by relevance, with articles from several newspapers and other sources grouped under each story. The database is updated every 10 to 15 minutes. International in scope, Google News uses mathematical algorithms to determine which stories will be listed on its main page.
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ABYZ News Links provides access to online news sources from around the world.
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Yellowpages.com has most of the same features as Anywho.com. You can find telephone numbers for individuals and businesses, maps, driving directions, and more. You can also find businesses by name or category with the distance calculated from the location you choose
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This site contains a currency converter for 164 currencies. Updated daily.
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This collection is a must-see for everyone who is interested in locating a map. The Perry-Castenada Library of the University of Texas has scanned over 4,000 non-copyrighted maps from its own collection, making them available to the public on the Web. While most of the maps in the collection are provided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, there are also maps from obscure agencies and institutions
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MapQuest provides maps and driving directions for individual addresses, airports, and
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This specialized database will assist you in finding a zip code by address or company name. It will also find all the zip codes of a city or town, and all the cities and towns that use a particular zip code.
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This dictionary describes the relationship between various English and metric units. Look here for measurement information covering almost everything from solar flare intensity to paper sheet sizes to wind-chill charts.
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Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help(tags:Â chapter5snr5)
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Bartleby.com is a mega-site consisting of full-text classic fiction and non-fiction,
reference works such as The Columbia Encyclopedia, The American Heritage Dictionary, Roget’s Thesaurus, Barlett’s Familiar Quotations, Strunk’s Elements of Style, Gray’s Anatomy, and more. A one-stop-shop for students and researchers, Bartleby.com is a fundamental resource to add to your favorites list. -
.. ongoing project between Google, several university libraries, both in the United States and abroad, and book publishers. What Google has done is scan thousands of books and make them searchable by keyword. If the book is not under copyright restriction, then a researcher can read the entire book online. If the book is still under copyright, a person can read parts of the book if the publisher agrees to it. We’ll show you some examples of how you can use Google Books for your research.
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help searching through Wikipedia
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Selected resources from the Web
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“Our in-depth directory is a round up of the best and most useful links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases they list both printed reference works and electronic resources.”
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These reports review a country’s record from the previous year on internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Press freedom, religious freedom, democratic trends, treatment of women and children, prison conditions, trafficking in persons, worker’s conditions, and arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile, are just some of the subjects covered in these reports.
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This site seeks to promote religious tolerance and scholarship by providing electronic texts about religion, mythology, legend, and folklore. Most documents have been translated into English.
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Perhaps the most useful site for statistics from a wide variety of sources. Resources are arranged in broad categories such as business and industry, foreign governments, housing, labor, politics, and so forth.
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This is the official source of social and economic data for the United States. Some examples of data included are national health expenditures, crime rates, households that have televisions, computers, Internet access, and much more. Statistics dealing with industry and trade, business, natural resources, transportation, agriculture, and some international statistics are also provided.
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Maintained by students at Indiana University’s Anthropology Department, this site provides resources in sociocultural anthropology. It looks at how the discipline is structured, how it’s changed over time, and provides different ways for scholars to think about the discipline.
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This guide contains links to high-quality resources and texts from all sociological fields relevant to social scientists and students. It is maintained by Dr Albert Benschop of the University of Amsterdam.
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Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Social Psychology Network is one of the largest collections of sites devoted to psychological research and teaching. There are more than 16 thousand selected links here. The site is maintained by Scott Plous of Wesleyan University.
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Geared toward psychology students, faculty, and professionals, this site provides information on psychology careers, conferences, ethics, selected articles from APA journals, links to information on AIDS, parenting, depression, aging, and more
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The NDSL provides access to high-quality resources that support advances in teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It contains science literacy maps, refresher courses for teachers, and includes lists of evaluated science Web sites.
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This is the place to go if you need anything related to physics. It contains homework help, links to journals, Web sites in all areas of physics, exhibitions and special events, and much more.
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This portal site from the American Chemical Society contains recent articles, grants information, and career development resources. Educational information is provided for teachers and students from the K–12 level all the way to graduate school.
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Provided by the University of Michigan Library, this is a directory to political science resources, arranged by broad subject areas such as reference tools, international relations, think tanks, dissertations, political theory, and more.
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This site provides the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions. Information comes from the Department of State, Presidential libraries, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and other sources. Coverage on the Web site goes back to the Truman administration.
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This site, provided by the publisher of Foreign Affairs, contains up-to-date information about U.S. foreign policy.
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Also provided by the National Institutes of Health, PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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This service provides a search interface to the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database, which includes over 14 million article citations from more than 4800 biomedical journals, with coverage back to the 1950s.
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An open-access collection of peer-reviewed journals in science and medicine.
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A comprehensive site that covers AIDS treatment, prevention, news services, legal information, and more. It also provides a bulletin board for people to communicate to each other about HIV/AIDS. Founded by the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, it is now a non-profit organization in the state of California.
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A major portal to legal resources, FindLaw serves several audiences, including legal professionals, students, businesses, and the public. Essentially a directory to a myriad of legal subject areas, its main value lies in its collection of full-text legal opinions.
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Part of the incomparable University of Michigan Documents Center at http://www. lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center, this directory focuses on the laws, treaties, and constitutions of foreign countries. It’s also one of the best places to start if you’ve got an international law question.(tags: chapter5snr5)
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Each entry in this encyclopedia is written, maintained, and updated by a qualified expert or group of experts in that particular field. Arranged in a simple alphabetical layout, each entry consists of a typical encyclopedic overview of the topic, plus a bibliography of print and Internet resources at the end of the article. The Encyclopedia may also be searched.
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This site is devoted to medieval English literature, the Renaissance period, and the early 17th century and is an excellent starting point for students and other interested researchers.
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Maintained by Ohio State University’s Department of History, eHistory is a portal to history divided by the following broad topics: Ancient, Middle Ages, Civil War, World War II, Vietnam War, Middle East, and World. For each section, there are articles and primary source documents, biographies, maps, timelines, and more.
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Created to be a companion Web site to the video series and telecourse of the same name, A Biography of America provides a text transcript of each of the 26 videos, maps, timelines, and Webliographies that enhance the content of the series. In-depth articles that complement the series’ content are also included.
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World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by college and university faculty around the world who deliver course materials on the Web in any language. The materials can be used by anyone interested in courseware—faculty, developers, and students.
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One of the best features of the Public Broadcasting System’s (PBS) TeacherSource is the collection of over 2,500 lesson plans and activities for classroom teachers.
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The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for teachers, parents, and students in elementary and secondary schools. Updated each weekday, it contains summaries of news stories from the current day’s New York Times.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has posted most of its undergraduate
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Use this site to find lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. You can browse by subject and grade level.
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This is the world’s largest source of education information, containing more than one million abstracts of education journal articles, documents, and other resources.
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Undoubtedly one of the most-cited business tutorials on the World Wide Web, Debbie Flanagan’s Researching Companies Online is the best place to start a business-related research project. All of the links provided in the tutorial are free and open to the public without subscription.
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Sponsored by the American Economic Association, this guide lists more than 2,000 carefully selected resources of interest to academic economics researchers and practicing economists.
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Prepared by the U.S. Commercial Service, this database is for U.S. business people who may want to invest in a country. Also includes links to Country Commercial Guides for each country. Political science and international business students can also benefit from the information found here.
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This is an excellent starting point for the person researching an industry. The author
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This is a useful site for the busy student or researcher who needs company information. You can find a brief overview of a company, including street address, telephone and fax numbers, location map, hyperlink to the company’s home page, top competitors, company type (whether private or public), key people in the company, links to news, and links to industry information. If the company you have looked up is private, you may get very brief financial information with links to business reports that you will have to pay for prepared by Dun & Bradstreet and other firms.
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This site provides U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial
statements that are required from all public U.S. companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders. Available free from the SEC, EDGAR is a well-designed and reliable resource, with over 1 million documents in its collection. -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a mega-site filled with some of the most useful economic, career, and other workplace-related information available on the Web. For example, you can find the last six months of various U.S. economic data, including the unemployment rate, consumer price index, average hourly earnings, and so forth, with links to historical information on all of these segments. The Employment Projections section develops information about trends in the labor market for ten years into the future. Several publications that are used in career guidance are provided here, including the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Monthly Labor Review.
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Developed by Charlotte & Mecklenburg Public Library in North Carolina, this portal is a great place to start researching economic conditions, marketing and demographics, international business, starting a business, and more.
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This site takes information from several public domain data sources, including the CIA World Factbook and several United Nations publications. It allows you to compare and contrast statistics between countries. Relevant articles from Wikipedia are embedded into the appropriate categories. All entries are cited so that you know from where the data was originally published.
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This site, sponsored by the United Nations, allows you to compare statistical data from different countries. Look here to find economic data such as GDP and unemployment rates, infant mortality rates, health statistics, and more.
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This is the online version of the CIA’s World Factbook. Published annually, it contains information on all the countries of the world, including a map of the country, brief historical information, geography overview, population data, description of current government, economic statistics, communications and transportation infrastructure, military conflicts, and more.
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This service lists over 11,000 libraries in the academic, government, national, public, and institutional sectors.
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LIBCAT gives lots of information on searching library catalogs. Look here to find a list of special collections and the names of libraries in which they are located.
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Babelfish allows you to translate a section of text or a Web page from English to several languages, and from some other languages to English. The translations aren’t always perfect, but the site can be a time saver.
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This site provides tips and guidelines for educators and students on the topic of identifying and avoiding plagiarism. It also has information about citing resources properly, with links to Web sites that explain how to use the major citation styles.
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This site covers virtually everything you’ll ever want to know about grammar and writing, including writer’s block and how to overcome it, paragraph development, parts of speech, tense consistency, and much, much more.
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