FactFinding on the Internet

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Fact-Finding on the Internet

• Some Favorites
• Aris Woodham

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Evaluating Information Sources

• Who Owns What
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Domain Registries
• WhoIs.net
• BetterWhoIs.com
• Allwhois.com (International)
• Frequently linked
• Search on Link field in search engines

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http//www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
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HYPOTHETICAL

• There was a school bus accident. A child was
  injured in the accident. It appears that her
  injuries were caused from the seat belt that she
  was wearing on the school bus. What research and
  literature in the field of transportation would
  support a claim for liability?

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General Information Sources

• AskOxford and Oxford Reference
• http//www.askoxford.com
• http//www.oxfordreference.com/
• Librarians Index to the Internet
• http//www.lii.org
• Internet Public Library
• http//www.ipl.org/ref
• Infomine (Scholarly)
• http//www.infomine.ucr.edu

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General Information Sources

• SeekZ (Metasearch)
• http//www.seekz.com/
• Brainboost.com

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Governmental/Public Policy Research Sources

• Congressional Research Service
• NonPartisan
• Library of Congress
• Highly Objective
• Brookings Institution
• Center/Left
• Rand Corporation
• Center/Right
• Zfacts.com
• Left

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Congressional Research Service

• The Congressional Research Service is the public
  policy research arm of the United States
  Congress. As a legislative branch agency within
  the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively
  and directly for Members of Congress, their
  Committees and staff on a confidential,
  nonpartisan basis.

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http//www.rand.org/
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zFacts.com

• Focused on Controversial Issues
• Critical of Status Quo - Politicized
• Good source of factual information in spite of
  political bias

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Geographic and Statistical Information Sources

• NationMaster
• Country Reports
• DeLoitte Country Snapshots
• American FactFinder (Census-based)
• Zillow American Real Estate Information
• http//zillow.com

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Health/Medical Information

• Center for Disease Control (American)
• http//www.cdc.gov
• WebMD
• http//webmd.com
• Social Science Electronic Data Library
• Thomson-Gale (West owners)
• National Electronic Library of Health
• British NHS Service
• Combination Free/Subscription-based

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Health and Medical Information

• National Institute of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• PubMed
• Household Products Database
• Scirus
• Scientific Information

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Standards

• National Resource for Global Standards

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Monitoring/Tracking Services

• Watch That Page
• http//www.watchthatpage.com
• Track Engine
• http//www.trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.tr
  ackengine.ui.Login
• Infominder
• http//infominder.com/webminder/learnMore.do
• Subscription ONly

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Watch That Page

• http//www.watchthatpage.com
• Monitoring/Alert Service
• Automatically collects new information from
  selected pages on the Internet
• Delivered via e-mail or a personalized web page

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