Gumshoe Librarian 2006
By Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici, Published on June 6, 2006
Academic
Live Research - Beta (
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NationMaster - compare graphical data on nations from reliable government and institutional sources |
Ask the Brain - the world's first computer generated encyclopedia |
News Directory - links to thousands of newspapers and magazines, and hundreds of TV stations |
BBC--OUCH (NEW!) - UK blog on disability news and views |
Newspaper Circulation - Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation http://www.accessabc.com/reader/top150.htm |
Better: Whois - Search across domain registrars |
Portal to News Search Engines, Search Applications and Tools, From Around the World |
Blink TV - Search and view over 1M hours of videos and TV from sources around the world |
New York Times Article Archive, 1851 to Present http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html |
BookListOnline (
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NOAA's National Weather Service - News, Observations, Forecast Models, Safety and Educational Info. |
CenSearchIP (
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NUVVO - free, e-learning web service |
Craigslist - Local community classified and forums |
Online Conversion Tools for Adobe PDF documents http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html |
CyberJournalist.net - news and commentary about online journalism |
Pandora - Helps you discover music online |
Online Searchable Death Indexes - by state and county |
Pimp My Snack - Wild, wacky snack preparations presented online |
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DOT Library Search - OPAC contains more than 80,000 records |
Podzinger - Search for content in audio and video on the web |
Downloads - Free and fee based software, music, games and videos, and reviews too. |
Pultizer Prize Winners, 2006 |
EU
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Home (
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State & County Quick Facts |
EURES - The European Job Mobility Portal...for job seekers and employers |
Research Papers in Economics from around the world |
Exalead - Desktop, Web and Enterprise Search |
ScrubtheWeb Search Engine |
Factbites - Small search engine that provides relevant references from within the text of search results |
SEDI - System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (directors, senior officers and significant shareholders) |
Federal Reserve Routing Search http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search.cfm |
SenderBase - Global email traffic monitoring network |
Findforms - thousands of free legal forms |
SSRN - Social Science Research Network |
FirstGov - Portal to Federal Government Info and Resources http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Facts.shtml |
Subway Navigator - Maps and directions to locations to and from subways in cities around the world in throughout the U.S. |
Free Dictionary - Topics include Medical, Legal, Financial, Computers, Literature |
Thomasnet - Comprehensive resource for industrial info, drawings, products, services |
Free Full-Text Journals - content from over 7,000 scholarly journals |
TinyURL- Quickly makes a URL of any length into a short format that is easier to share, post and use |
Free Lunch - Economic, Financial and Demographic Data |
ToxNet (
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GasBuddy - Find Cheap Gas Prices By Zip Code/City/State |
British Library Treasures - William Shakespeare in Quarto http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html |
GetHuman - Database of phone numbers to connect with real people, for customer service, from a range of consumer companies. |
TV
Guide Community Blogs - Reviews and discussion (
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globalEDGE Country Insights - business resources on 197 countries http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp |
Twingine - view side by side search results for Yahoo and Google |
Google
Calendar - share your schedule of events online (
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WayBackMachine - locate and read archived versions of websites |
Google Scholar - Search for multi-disciplinary scholarly literature from global sources |
WhoOwnsWhat - Guide to Companies Owned by major media organizations |
HealthNews
Review - evaluates the accuracy of news on health related issues (
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Wi-Fi HotSpot - directory of public hot spots for locating WiFi access |
HighWire Press, from Stanford University - free, full-text database of over 1 million articles from over 900 journals. |
Yahoo
FareChase (
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Katrina Legal Aid |
Yahoo Finance - quotes, charts, portfolios, financial news, mutual funds, press releases, SEC filings |
Libx - Foxfire extension that offers direct access to your library's resources |
You Tube - Watch and share original videos on the web |
Melissa Data - free lookups portal for zip codes, addresses, maps, people finders, statistics, demographics http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm |
ZabaSearch - People search and public information search |
National Library of Australia - Search the combined catalogs of Australian libraries |
Zillow - Online real estate service providing satellite images of properties, comparables, maps, and other data points |
National Archives - Access to Archival Database - Includes Electronic Military Database (Civil War - Cold War), Genealogy databases, Indexes to photos, Government spending data |
ZipInfo - free zip code lookup |
National Contact Center - Federal Telephone directories, directories for Congress, agencies, commissions |
ZoomInfo - Search for people, company, industry data |
