Yet another way to make research (or other helpful information) come to you. Check out Yahoo! Alerts, which will send you an e-mail based upon your preferences. Sign up to receive alerts with news, weather, stock quotes, best fares, missing children, and horoscopes.
Useful Web Sites
Find scoop on international businesses
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If you’re looking for a new way to look for information from public companies, check out The Scannery, which covers 12,000 companies including the S&P 500, Euro 400, and the Global 1000. Gary Price has a review over at SearchDay.
80 years of Time, all online
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Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Time Magazine to digitize its complete 80-year archive. When the collection goes live in May, you’ll have access to every issue of the publication.
News and commentary
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Check out Memeorandum, a site that aggregates two different things: news headlines, and right below them, weblog entries discussing those particular news stories. Nifty.
News Topix of your choice
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Topix is a news site that searches 3,500 sources to organize news into an eye-popping 150,000 topics. What I like about it is its Local News feature — just select a town, and Topix will display a page that aggregates headlines from various sources in your area. Best of all, you can then subscribe to…
New EEVL service is actually good
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EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing, has launched two new free services: OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs News. Both sites allow you to scan the latest industry news and job announcements from these scientific fields.
Brush up your Google
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Need a refresher on using Google? Check out the Google Guide, which is maintained by Nancy Blachman, who is not affiliated with Google (but she’s a fan!). The guide offers tutorials on just about any feature of Google you’d care to use.
Highbeam sheds light on Internet research
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Internet research site Highbeam launched this week, providing customizable access to Internet resources, both free and subscription online services. The old reference services eLibrary and Researchville are incorporated into the new Highbeam site, with more than 28 million articles from 2,600 sources. You can use the basic service for free, and the subscription service will…
Pay access to medical journals
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Speaking of old news, online medical information services provider Ovid recently announced it would begin to offer a PayPerView service for the full text of medical journals. This new plan is designed to give non-subscribers access to previously restricted databases.
Help for Wikipedia
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A few weeks ago, I read a notice that the terrific open source encyclopedia Wikipedia was having some financial problems, and I resolved to encourage readers of this weblog to help out in some way. By the time I got around to mentioning it (today), I notice that the site has already raised $31,326.38, way…