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- PublicPolicy
Library seeks to "place public policy knowledge in the public
domain."
- NelsonSearch Searches news
databases
- News
of the week The Poynter Institute's David Shedden gives
journalists useful links for a top story of the week.
- Behind
the headlines A UK academic site that provides good resources
and web pages for top stories in the news. Operated by the Resource
Discovery Network.
- UK librarians - BUBL
UK academic site with wide selection by topic or country
- US librarians'
Index to the Internet Excellent resource, mainly
American
- RefDesk One
stop shopping for everything from Finding Experts to Finding News
- Brittanica
Encylopedia Brittanica editors find the best sites for you
- DocuTicker DocuTicker
a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGOs and think
tanks compiled by US librarians. Though mainly American, the resources
can be as varied as the effect of globalisation on children’s mental
health, road fatalities in the UK and money-laundering worldwide.
International:
US:
- US librarians'
Index to the Internet Excellent resource, mainly
American
- Internet Public Library
-Subjects An annotated collection of high quality Internet resources,
selected by the Internet Public Library that guarantees you accurate,
factual information on topics from blogs to science to news.
- Nueva
School: Choose the best search engine Excellent guide
to the best ways to use each search engine
- Nora Paul's Great
Scout Poynter Institute expert's list of the best
web sites
- News
of the week The Poynter Institute's David Shedden gives
journalists useful links for a top story of the week. While usually
an American story, the issues are frequently of world importance.An
excellent way to find the best news sources for a current story.
- Harvard
Research Tap into the wealth of research at Harvard
University with this well-organized site. You can search by topic, researcher
or keyword. The results give you abstracts, links to articles and contact
names for interviews. The main subject areas are Mind, Body, Society,Space,
Earth,and Technology.
- PublicPolicy
Library. For journalists who want deep background on a major issue,
you'll find policy papers and resources for free from think tanks,governments,
and universities -- over 700 policy and research papers, You can search
by subject, author, country,institution, or title or browsed by topic
under four categories: social policy, economic policy, international
issues, and political thought.
-
Digital Librarian
Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in New York offers her "Choice
of the Best of the Web." There is no search box, but you'll find
nuggets buried in the subject categories that vary from Islam to Science.
- US PoliSci.com
Excellent political background
- US - Gary Price's
Search List
- Cornell Gateway
- AlphaSearch
-
LibrarySpot
UK:
- UK librarians - BUBL
UK academic site with wide selection by topic or country
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Behind the
headlines The RDN's 30,000 resources are selected, catalogued
and described by subject and information professionals drawn from over 60 UK education
institutions.
- Spire Project
Lessons for getting the most out of search engines and a guide on how to find
anything useful in the black-hole that is the UN online.
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