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- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I've always liked this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/ - firefox15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14What are these "books" you speak of?
- robbyjo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Free online journal "database":
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Citeseer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
JSTOR (mostly free for edu domains): http://www.jstor.org/
Pubmed (mainly for genetics, biology, and medicine): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
Nature (mostly free for edu domains): http://www.nature.com/index.html - azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'm a university lit prof in Japan, and my school doesn't subscribe to JSTOR. Every time I'm doing research, I keep coming across articles I really really need, but they're only on JSTOR. Finally, I got so desperate that I called a university library in America (via Skype) and asked the librarian if I could have temporary access. He let me join for 12 hours, during which I downloaded about 50 PDFs of articles I needed or thought I would eventually need. I was in heaven, and I'm still reading them.
- widoka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Didn't anyone ever teach you to cite your sources? http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1975939,00.html
- whisk3rs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Very useful link. If you're accessing the databases from a computer on campus, they should let you in automatically.
- azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Look it up on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database - azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Wikipedia is a good starting place--I use it every day for one thing or another--but I have had so many of my university students who use nothing *but* Wikipedia for their sources, that this semester I made a rule: no Wikipedia on their Works Cited list. Go to Wikipedia, read the entry for a quick overview, and then follow the listed sources and read *those*. Heck, maybe go to the library and open a *book*!
- webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you have a library close buy, you can stop by there and use some of the databases that they have. Also, many of the databases are available remotely as long as you have a library card and a pin number. But you'll have to check with your local library.
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http://www.icerocket.com/ - Onychophora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ azzageddi
You might be able to use their computer system as a proxy server. I had a university that let students access JSTOR and other databases from home that way. - visualimz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I do medical research.
For medical research I massively use the following sites:
THE journal search: http://www.pubmed.com
medical dictionary: http://www.kmle.com
For general stuff -
dictionaries: http://dictionary.com (easier to use) http://onelook.com (more results)
for encyclopedic stuff: http://www.answers.com - azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You know, I'm visiting America next week for the first time in 3 years, and I wonder if I could arrange something with my home city's public library system, so I can get remote access to their databases from Japan. That could be really useful... Thanks for sparking that idea!
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2guide to the Deep Web - loads of hints tips explanations etc
http://websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/a/invisible_web.htm
(new york times site) - infinium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uptodate.com for medical specifics is very good (true to it's name it is up to date on clinical issues).
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've spent a lot of time with proquest and can recommend it. University libraries almost always have subscriptions to services like these and, at least at my school, they offer it to anyone. If you need to access it from home, you can usually get the username/password.
- AdmJollyRoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No love for ERIC or JSTOR? These are great if you need to search for stuff before 1974--warm up the microfilm machine!
- webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's strange, despite all of these new-fangled digital Microfilm readers, everybody likes the old analog ones... go figure....
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Heck, maybe go to the library and open a *book*!"
Actually, my professors prefer recent and credible journal articles to outdated books. Unlike books, journal articles have a structure to them and are scientific, so they follow a standard. - ISurfTooMuch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In many cases, a university library's resources can be freely accessed anywhere on the university's network, so, if you live close to a school with wireless, take your laptop on campus and connect. Some databases are more restrictive, but many will be available.
Also, I found a page at the University of Dar es salaam with links to quite a few freely-accessible reference resources on the Web. Not everything on there is free, but many are.
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/library/ejournal.html - ionchannels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0JSTOR isn't even browsable unless you are a member of a university, so perhaps the author could not get access. JSTOR is great anyways.
- OrderSponge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When I do history research I've found that the best general databases are EBSCO and JSTOR...I'm surprised that the latter wasn't listed.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1oops
- azAZ09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What no JSTOR?
- ionchannels, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0If you want information organized by subject for biological subjects, go here:
http://www.ionchannelmedia.com/websites.php - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Wikipedia now dominates the reference side of the web, partly because its pages are ranked so highly in Google. User-written, it's not always reliable, but is usually a good place to start. It competes with the Encyclopedia Britannica, which isn't free. However, another traditional alternative is the HighBeam Encyclopedia, which searches more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. Otherwise Jim Martindale's Reference Desk, started in 1994, provides an astonishing collection of links to reference sources. For words, try Onelook, which indexes more than 7.5m words in 931 dictionaries. It also has a reverse lookup to find words from their meanings. Finally, Teldir (on the infobel site) has links to the world's online phone books.
http://www.encyclopedia.com
http://www.martindalecenter.com
http://www.onelook.com
http://www.infobel.com/teldir - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1i had saved that on my computer from a while back and didnt remember where i got it. just wanted to share it. sheesh
- Paperthin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1don't want to be a blowhard, but let me introduce you to the reply button
- webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Yes, Thanks. I know it's there, but I just noticed and didn't think about it...
- chrisinsocalif, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Sweet! Now I just need to know what a database does....
- webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1geez, I misspelled "by"....
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