7/12/99

Here's a summary of the contributions to date on the Keeping Up to Date thread.

Joan Hurley, Corning

BUSLIB-L - Valuable resource for keeping in touch with others whose areas of expertise expand the breadth of my ability to provide quality information and service.   Great source for finding appropriate resources.

The Scout Report - http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html

Free Pint http://www.freepint.co.uk  [2]
Free Pint is a free e-mail newsletter giving tips, tricks and articles on how and where to find reliable Web sites and search more effectively. It is written by information professionals in the UK and is sent to more than 23,000 subscribers around the world every two weeks.

Research Buzz
Daily updates and a searchable archive:
http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/

Info To Go!: Navigating the Internet-- A subscription publication out of Garden Grove, CA.   Information at http://www.infotogo.com/   A nice site digest.  Covers many disciplines, **truly excellent** source!

The Information Advisor Monthly Newsletter (subscription) out of New York. Info at: http://www.findsvp.com/publications/infoadvisor/index.shtm. Primarily business information, all formats, but always includes blurbs on new Internet sites of interest.

Access Internet Magazine (an insert 1x per month in our Sunday paper). Info at: http://www.accessmagazine.com Yes, you read it right--the Sunday paper.  They do give good coverage of various sites under a wide range of topics.  Free access to online version over Internet, nicely arranged with ratings.

Here is the list of links that the folks at CISTI use for current awareness: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti_links/select_e.shtml. It can't be that private since it's accessible via the internet. CISTI, btw is one of the best sci-tech libraries in the world.

Setting up a free keyword profile with Newstracker
http://nt.excite.com
While far from perfect, I have caught several useful resources via the service.

Newspage.com
http://www.newspage.com
Specifically, the New Web Sites, Search Engines, Audio/Video on the WWW, categories.

Running "free searches" for specific keywords in the News search engine from Northern Light. Remember, news from a huge list of sites is free for 2 weeks. Note: You can sort results by day & time.

Newslinx
Web/Internet news culled from a variety of sources throughout the day
http://www.newslinx.com

New Journal Annoucements
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/

Internet Research Newsletter (from Roddy MacLeod in the U.K.)
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.htm


Tracerlock
"TracerLock can monitor search engines for you and notify you by e-mail when a new instance of a search term is found."

Doing a search in Yahoo by limiting to sites added in the last week.
http://search.yahoo.com/search/options

Angela Elkordy's EXCELLENT compilation, "Web-Savvy: Keeping Current with Web-based Resources"
http://www.angelfire.com/in/virtuallibrarian/cybecurr.html

Search Engine Watch:  THE SEARCH ENGINE REPORT
http://searchenginewatch.com/

Tourbus - a free, semi-weekly tour of the best of cyberspace via e-mail
http://www.tourbus.com/

Research Pool:
ResPool - http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess/respool.htm

Researcher's Toolkit http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/6100

Internet Wire   http://www.internetwire.com/contact/

Really Useful Business Sites
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"Subscribe" in the subject header.

Newspapers & Journals

Wall Street Journal * Smart Computing * The CyberSkeptic * Forbes * Fortune * Business Week * Money * Kiplingers * Smart Money * Worth * Time * Newsweek *US News

Determining what to bookmark/keep

1.  Will the information help me retrieve documents in the future?
2.  Might the information be used by a specialty within the company?
3.  Will the information be of use to me personally?
4.  Is it of general interest?