Resourceshelf Unshelved

Notes taken from lecture by Gary Price and Laura Gordon-Murname on September 15, 2009.

Resourceshelf.com is a blog run by Gary Price which strives to provide "high-quality web-based resources, including databases, lists and rankings, real-time sources, and multimedia."  Subscription to the Resourceshelf newsletter is available free of charge.

DocuTicker, also by Gary Price, is designed to "guide users to full-text reports published by government agencies, nonprofits and NGOs, and other public interest organizations".

Business Research

Alacra Street Pulse  "Alacra Street Pulse identifies and organizes comments from more than 20,000 sell-side analysts, industry and credit analysts as well as key influencers in the news and alternative media. 

Int'l Business Market Research and Country Commercial Reports"

GlobalEDGE (Int'l Business portal)  "A rich collection of thousands of international business resources selected based on content and usability. This section also includes our proprietary Market Potential Indicators and the Database of International Business Statistics." 

Government Oversight

OpenCRS.comhttp://opencrs.com/  "provides citizens access to Congressional Research Service Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports."

GovTrack - track any piece of legislation in the U.S. Congress

OpenSecrets - Campaign Finance Data

Sunlight Foundation - Apps for Ameridca 2: Data.gov Challenge Finalists

News (Global) direct from Governments

ProPublica.org "ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.”

Foreign Lobbying Database"

OpenRegs.com  "The goal of OpenRegs.com is to make the proposed and final regulations published in the Federal Register easy to find and discuss, so that citizens can become better informed and more involved in the regulatory process."

Legal Research

Justia  Find Legal Information, Lawyer Blogs (Blawgs), Laws, Cases, Lawyers, Attorneys, Legal News, And More.

Jurist: Legal News and Research -Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developer.

Statistics

International Database - U.S. Census Bureau

Older Web Materials

Internet Archive / Way Back Machine  "type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available."

California Digital Library   "Provides access to scholarly materials, databases of journal article abstracts and citations, electronic journals, publishing tools, and reference databases"

Finding People

ISearch  "iSearch provides data from different aspects of a person's life, some information you may find from different sources include Public Record Data, Professional Data, Social Networking Data, White Pages, Email, News & Blogs

WhitePages.com (note the additional info it provides other than phone number!)

Pipl  "Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep web, our robots are set to interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources."

Spock  "Spock is the world's leading people search engine. Find people you know by name, location, email or tag."

Intelius ($) But it provides some useful data for free

PeopleFinders  "PeopleFinders.com is the most reliable source for locating family members, friends, classmates, military buddies or anyone you want to get in touch with."

ZoomInfo  "ZoomInfo gathers publicly-available business information from the web, 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, then intelligently sifts and compiles it into easy-to-search and easy-to-read profiles – updating over 70,000 profiles on an average day!"

HighlyCited.com  "an expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide.

This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades."

ProfNet  "An online community of nearly 14,000 professional communicators, ProfNet was created in 1992 to connect reporters easily and quickly with expert sources at no charge."

AScribe  ($) "The Public Interest Newswire" "AScribe Newswire provides real-time wire service feeds to the majority of the nation's premier daily newspapers, as well as national news magazines and specialty publications. " 

Community of Science Expertise Database (free, but password required) "COS Expertise is a richly featured knowledge management system for individuals and institutions, containing more than 480,000 first-person profiles of researchers from over 1,600 institutions worldwide."

Social Security Death Index - Available through Ancestry.com, which is a database FCPL subscribes to. The SSA does not provide direct access to the database.

Aerial Imagery

TerraFly   "TerraFly is a new Internet-based technology that makes it possible for users to "fly over" vast land areas using only an ordinary Web browser. By using high-resolution imagery collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other sources, users can experience an overhead view of almost any location in the United States at a one-meter resolution-without the expense of standard GIS application software."

Historic Aerials  "HistoricAerials.com provides free online access to historic and current aerial photography. You can view aerial photography from the 1930s through today. Use our multi-year comparison tools to detect changes in property."

Presentations on the Web

TVEyes:  ($) What's on Television. "TVEyes makes TV and radio broadcasts searchable by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would use a search engine for text."