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Google tools:
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Google
Advanced Scholar Search is the advanced version of Google's little-known
scholar search which allows
you to hunt through academic journals and publications. The advanced
tool lets you search by author, by publication, by date or by subject
area. For more Google tools, see
JNet's Google Page.
- Google's
Updated Desktop Google has taken a marvelous tool and made it better.
Its free Desktop searches your
entire hard drive, including emails you sent and web sites you visited.
Now Google has added a sidebar that collects a list of recent headlines
from various sources and adapts to your tastes based on the articles
you select. For any headline you can right-click and select "Don't
show me items like this." Plus weather, Google Talk
and numerous other gadgets.
- Google
Print Still controversial because authors and publishers are worried
about copyright infringement, this latest assault from the Google behemoth
allows you to search the contents of books. You can often get excerpts
from pages and links to local libraries or online stores to borrow or
buy the book. In
advanced search you can search by author and date as well.
News searches:
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Lexis
Nexis News One of the most comprehensive news database services
on the web, Lexis Nexis, is often too expensive for many journalists
and freelancers. But this free
news service offers a wide range of recent headlines, background
stories, access to wire services and TV transcripts. For more ways to
find news, JNet's News Search
Page.
See also LexisNexis AlaCarte!
Need the latest news on your topic? Search more than 6,000 of the world's
leading news sources from the past 2 years. The Lexis database, one
of the largest in the world, is widely used in big newsrooms but usually
is far too expensive for individual journalists to enjoy. This slimmed-down
version offers a free search and charges only $3 per article. You can
also click the Search Additional Sources tab to select from more than
20,000 sources dating as far back as 1968. Plus, access to public records,
and government information, company and industry reports and criminal
and legal records. For more data tools. see JNet's
Data page.
- Librarians'
News Archives Newly-improved, this listing was always one of the
best web sources for newspaper archives, now with expanded and up-to-date
listings for US, Canada, European and Asian archives. It tells you what
paper has what and how much it is.. For more archives
tools, see JNet's Archives
Page
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Inter Press News Service A refreshing alternative look at world
events, with in-depth reporting from around the world. You can search
by country, region and language.IPS was set up was set up in 1964 as
a non-profit international cooperative of journalists. Be sure to check
out their excellent dossiers on everything from corruption to Pope John
Paul. For other alternative news services, see JNet's Alternate
News Page.
- OpenSecrets As political
scandal and controversy swirls around the White House, it's a good time
to consult a web page like Open
Secrets, which details the influence of money in Washington. You
can type in the name of any member of the Bush administration, the Senate
or the Congress and get good background information. The site is run
by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research
group that tracks money in politics. For more ways to cover American
politics, see JNet's
US Politics Page and JNet's
Main US Page.
- NationMaster.com A massive
central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations,
NationMaster pulls together data from such sources as the CIA World
Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, UNESCO,
UNICEF and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics
on anything and everything from military strengths to wall plug voltages.
Plus a full encyclopedia with over 200,000 articles. For similar tools,
see JNet's Countries
Page.
Blogs, RSS:
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Google Blog Search The
most powerful search engine on the web turns its strength to searching
blogs. The basic search page offers Google's usual simple and sleek
results. The advanced
page allows you to search by a word in the title, by date or by
blog author. For similar tools, see JNet's
Blog Page.
New Tools:
- Firefox
Why settle for Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer browser when
you can surf the web with a much more news-friendly tool called Firefox.
It's open source, which means people keep coming with neat extensions
to increase its functionality. Its main address bar is automatically
a Google search engine, so if you don't know the web URL, just type
in a name like "thailand tourism ministry" or "aids statistics"
and you get the appropriate website. You can also set up
live bookmarks with newsfeeds from sites like the BBC, New York
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