Here are a few academic resources to help you take your online research beyond Google and Wikipedia:
The Directory of Open Access Journals, http://www.doaj.org, is a searchable collection of full text, peer-reviewed journals on a wide variety of subjects.
A similar Web site, http://www.openj-gate.com, searches both peer-reviewed and industry journals.
The directories at http://www.intute.ac.uk and http://infomine.ucr.edu contain thousands of articles and Web sites, all reviewed for academic quality by university experts.
Librarians' Internet Index is a useful directory of sites edited by a team of librarians. Might find something useful there.
Find Articles is another useful site for general research. Just make sure to select "free articles only" next to the search box. Otherwise, your results will be filled with paywalled content you won't be able to access.
For medical research, consider Hardin MD: Medical Information & Pictures. As the name suggests, this site contains medical pictures. Meaning, if you look for "cancer" you will see pictures of cancer. Be careful if you don't want to see something icky.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a lot of resources for anyone reseaching electronic privacy and rights issues.
FindLaw is, of course, for legal information. You can find case histories, legal records, and more. (Use "legal professionals" tab.)
FedStats is a government site for statistical information.
CJR has a neat page where you can look up which media companies own what subsidiaries.
Measuring Worth is a site that offers several methods to compare the value of money over time. Thanks to the fraud called the Federal Reserve, our currency has had massive inflation over the last hundred years. If you want to know how much twenty 1926 dollars would be worth in 2008 dollars, this is your site.
Look up the meaning of graphic symbols at Symbols.com.
Political research:
Use OpenCongress to track bills and voting records. Similar sites include GovTrack, Washington Watch, and the Washington Post's Vote Database. Finally, FactCheck.org will help you keep track of who is honest and who isn't.
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Anonymous said
at 9:02 pm on Apr 16, 2008
I also made the pages "Online writing tools" and "self-publishing Web sites."
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