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November
1997
1. I've added one rather long example of searching from writers Sal Towse and Marty Fouts, because I believe it demonstrates some interesting ways to use the Net (and your head at the same time!).
2. Those Encyclopaedia Britannica people have been busy.
First they've cut their Britannica
Online prices - from $14.95 to $8.50 a month
and from $150 to $85 a year, and added a large number of extra graphics,
multimedia features and web links, as well as mirror sites in California
and the UK.
3. And secondly, they've launched an excellent free value-added search
engine and directory, called (modestly) BIG.
It's actually quite good. It offers to give only good quality sites, but
if it can't find any in its own database it automatically searches Alta
Vista, so you should always find something.
4. All4one allows simultaneous searching of four major search engines with a single click. Results are displayed side by side in four re-sizable frames. Useful if you want to get a variety of material quickly.
Other New and Updated URLs
October
1997
1. In addition to using the search engines' own help pages, you can find a brisk and useful guide to the top search engines and how they work from the Web Search Cheat Sheet.
2. FYI is a useful page on the Writers Guild of America site which lists experts of all kinds who have agreed to make themselves open to questions from writers. Although most of the contacts are only phone numbers or snail-mail addresses, it nevertheless represents and invaluable resource of expert information. Sadly, no non-US information sources yet. Maybe some other Writers' Guilds will compile their own.
3. Science questions? Search the database at ScienceNet for essays on any science based topic or send questions to the scientists behind the site. Good solid educational resource.
4. Georgie's College and University Research & Reference Page is devoted to academic and similar links. Loads of links to institutions, libraries, and academic journals etc, as well as a facility for searching recent US legislation.
5. A good month for U.S. guilds and unions with lots of very useful research links at the site of the the National Writers Union, union for freelancers. Wide range of links, well-organised.
6. And from the other side of the pond (well ScienceNet was too, actually) the home page of the UK Government.
7. Media Finder is an Oxbridge Communications site which "is a transactional service center-offering the ability to request subscriptions, advertising and list rental rates-for over 90,000 magazines, catalogs, newsletters, newspapers, and more."
8. Finally, for the criminally minded (as it were) try Forensics/Police Website for Writers (but turn off the colours first!)
September
1997
1. I've finally got round to updating the CIA
World Factbook address, which up till now
pointed at the 1995 World Factbook. It now gives the index page for all
CIA publications, which includes 1995 and 1996 and some other
interesting-looking spook research. Hopefully this will remain the same,
even as the years pass...
2. StudyWEB
is an interesting educational Search Engine. It currently reviews and
categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites, with 1000+ new sites added
weekly by our 100+ researchers.
All sites are human selected and reviewed for academic content,
approximate grade level, and for visual content – where visual aids
are available for use in reports.
3. Freeality
is an all-purpose Internet Research & Search page that allows one
to search hundreds of resources directly from the one site. Try it out
and tell me what you think:
4. And I've added details about Research
It! which is also packed full of goodies,
including "a currency converter, a language translator, dictionary,
thesaurus, zip code retrieval, biography searcher, bible search, quotation
search and package tracking plus a lot of other stuff you might need now
and then" (as described by Pat Marcello <patm@sgi.net>)
Finally, I've rearranged the opening a little, for clarity, and to make
it easier to get back to the table of contents.
July
1997
1. For people who are interested in the Pacific Rim,
I've had details from Esanam,
a small Hong Kong company specializing in ad hoc research projects along
the Pacific Rim. They charge on a job by job basis.
2. ProfNet's new e-mail address is profnet@profnet.com.
Don't use the old one, as this is being phased out. If you'd also like a
user's guide, send e-mail to that address and they'll be happy to provide
one.
3. Write-On
Newsletter - writers' help, discussions and
resource links
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