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How to keep up to date
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
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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
Send an e-mail to mailto: jaymack@ix.netcom.com
with the word
"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?
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