Successful Writers Share Their Internet Research Secrets
By Loraine Page
Edited by Reva Basch
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1. 411.com
www.411.com
2. 555-1212.com
www.555-1212.com
3. About.com
www.about.com
4. About.com’s
Urban Legends Page
www.urbanlegends.about.com
5. About.com’s
Web Search
www.websearch.about.com
6. Academy of
American Poets
www.poets.org/index.cfm
7. Access to
Insight
www.accesstoinsight.org
8. Ackerman’s
Costume Plates
www.costumes.org/pages/ackerman.htm
9. Advanced
Book Exchange
www.abebooks.com
10. Advanced
Imaging Magazine
www.advancedimagingmag.com
11. Agent
www.forteinc.com/agent/tw.htm
12. AHA! Poetry
Site
Jane Reichold’s
AHA! Poetry Site
13. Alexey Andreyev’s
Haiku Page
sharat.co.il/teneta/andreyev/haiku/html
14. Alibris
www.alibris.com
15. All-in-One
Search Page
www.allonesearch.com
16. AltaVista
www.altavista.com
17. Amazing
Bargains
www.amazing-bargains.com
18. Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
19. American
Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
20. American
Journalism Review
www.newslink.org
21. American
Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
www.asja.org
ASJA how-to-join
page: www.asja.org/join01.php
22. American
Wind Energy Association
www.awea.org
23. AnyWho
www.anywho.com
24. AOL
www.aol.com
25. Arachnophilia
www.arachnoid.com
26. Arts &
Letters Daily
www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/
27. Ask Jeeves
www.askjeeves.com
or www.ask.com
28. AskSam SurfSaver
www.asksam.com
29. Association
for Cancer Online Resources
www.acor.org
30. Association
for Progressive Communicators
www.apc.org/
31. Australian
Slang
www.Koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
32. Authors
Guild
www.authorsguild.org
33. Barnes &
Noble
www.barnesandnoble.com
34. Berinstein
Research
www.berinsteinresearch.com
35. Bibliofind
www.bibliofind.com
36. Big Zoo
www.bigzoo.com
37. BioMedNet
www.bmn.com
38. Blue Ear
Forum
www.blueear.com
39. Bookfinders
www.hpbookfinders.co.uk
40. BookMarket.com
www.bookmarket.com
41. Books and
Writers
www.booksandwriters.com
42. Bookwire
www.bookwire.com
43. Boston.com
www.boston.com
44. Botanical.com
www.botanical.com
45. Buddha-L
paml.net/groupsB/buddha-l.html
To subscribe,
send email to listserv@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU
In the body of
the message, enter: subscribe buddha-l
46. Buddhist
Peace Fellowship
Email bpf@yahoogroups.com
47. Budget Traveller’s
Guide to Sleeping in Airports
www3.sympatico.ca/donna.mcsherry/airports.htm
48. Business
Wire
www.businesswire.com/expertsource
49. CancerBACUP
www.cancerbacup.org.uk
Cancer Guide — see Steve Dunn’s Cancer Guide
50. CARR-L (Computer
Assisted Reporting & Research)
To subscribe,
email listserv@LISTSERV.louisville.edu
Leave the subject
line blank. In the body of the message enter: subscribe CARR-L
51. Chicago
Sun-Times
www.suntimes.com/index/
52. Chicago
Tribune
www.chicagotribune.com
53. China News
Digest
www.cnd.org
54. Clariti
www.clariti.com
55. Cliché
Finder
www.westegg.com/cliche/
56. ClicheSite.com
www.clichesite.com/index.asp
57. CNET
www.cnet.com
58. CNET News
www.news.com
59. CNN
www.cnn.com
60. Concierge.com
www.concierge.com
61. Connected
www.connected.com
62. Consumer
World
www.consumerworld.org
63. Contentious
www.contentious.com
64. Contentville
www.contentville.com
65. Copernic
2001
www.copernic.com
66. Corbis Stock
Market
www.corbisstockmarket.com
67. Cordon Bleu
www.cordonbleu.net
68. Cyndi’s
List
www.CyndisList.com
69. Danny Sullivan’s
Search Engine Watch
www.searchenginewatch.com
70. DejaNews
www.deja.com
71. Delorme
www.delorme.com
72. Dialog
www.dialog.com
73. Direct-PR
www.direct-pr.com
74. Discount
Magazines
www.discountmagazines.com
75. Ditto.com
www.ditto.com
76. Dogpile
www.dogpile.com
77. Dow Jones
Interactive
www.djinteractive.com
78. drkoop.com
www.drkoop.com
79. Drugtext
www.drugtext.org
80. DSL Reports
www.DSLreports.com
81. E-Fax
www.efax.com
82. Electric
Library
www.elibrary.com
83. Electronic
Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo
wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
ELibrary — see Electric Library
84. Encarta
encarta.msn.com
85. Encyclopaedia
Britannica
www.britannica.com
86. Environmental
Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
87. Eudora
www.eudora.com
88. Excite
www.excite.com
89. Expedia.com
www.expedia.com
90. FacsNet
www.facsnet.org
91. Family Tree
Magazine
www.familytreemagazine.com
92. FAQ Index
www.faqs.org/faqs
93. FASTsearch
www.alltheweb.com
94. Faxaway
www.faxaway.com
95. Federal
Bureau of Investigation
www.fbi.gov/homepage.htm
96. Federal
Communications Commission
www.fcc.gov/
97. Find a Quotation
www.btinternet.com/~alexandergrant/quotes/finquoteframes.htm
98. Find Articles
www.findarticles.com
99. Findsame.com
www.findsame.com
100. Florida
Department of Corrections
www.dc.state.fl.us/index.html
101. "Freudian
Send" article on Salon.com
www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/06/19feature.html
102. Frommer’s
www.frommers.com
103. Go!zilla
www.gozilla.com
104. Google
www.google.com
105. Gopher
gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/
106. Grateful
Med
igm.nim.nih.gov
107. Greg R.
Notess’s Search Engine Showdown
www.searchengineshowdown.com
108. Guide to
Literary Agents
literaryagents.org
109. Ha’aretz
Online
new.haaretz.co.il
English edition:
www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/1_1.htm
110. Halfbakery
www.halfbakery.com
111. Half.com
www.half.com
112. Hal Higdon
www.halhigdon.com
113. HeadlineSpot.com
www.headlinespot.com
114. Hollywood
Reporter
www.hollywoodreporter.com
115. HotBot
www.hotbot.com
116. Hotel Discounts
www.hoteldiscounts.com
117. Hotmail
www.hotmail.com
118. Illinois
Department of Corrections
www.idoc.state.il.us/
119. Infoplease
Almanac
www.infoplease.com
120. Infoselect
www.miclog.com
Infotrieve — see Medline via Infotrieve
121. Institute
for Global Communications
www.igc.org
122. InteliHealth
www.intelihealth.com
123. Internet
Bookshop
www.bookshop.co.uk
124. Internet
Movie Database
www.imdb.com
125. Internet
Scout
www.trentu.ca/library/internet/gennet.shtml
126. Interpol
Cultural Property Program
www.usdoj.gov/usncb/cultprop/about/culturehome.htm
127. Intranet
Journal
idm.internet.com
128. IRE-L (Investigative
Reporters and Editors)
Email listproc@lists.missouri.edu
In the message
body, enter: subscribe IRE-L your-name (insert your name)
129. Itools
www.itools.com/research-it/
130. iVillage
www.ivillage.com
131. ixquick.com
www.ixquick.om
132. Jane Reichold’s
AHA! Poetry Site
ahapoetry.com
Jim Romenesko’s MediaNews — see MediaNews (Jim Romenesko’s)
Jim Romenesko’s
Obscure Store and Reading Room — see Obscure
Store and Reading Room (Jim Romenesko’s)
133. Jindagi’s
Wordsmith Page
www.jindagi.com/wordsmith
134. Joe deRouen’s
The Reference Desk
www.sparkynet.com/jderouen/refdesk.html
135. Journalism
Section of the WWW Virtual Library
www.trainer.com/vlj.html
136. JOURNET-L
(Discussion List for Journalism Education)
Email listserv@listserv.american.edu
In the message
body, enter: subscribe journet-l
137. Journey
Woman
www.journeywoman.com
138. Kirsch
Foundation
www.kirschfoundation.org/
139. KMWorld
www.kmworld.com
140. Knopf Publishing
www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry
141. LaughNet
(vomit jokes)
www.laughnet.net/archive/crude/rbp_vomi.htm
142. Leiden
University
www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm
143. LexisNexis
www.lexisnexis.com
144. Library
of Congress
www.lcweb.loc.gov/
145. Library
of Congress catalog site
catalog.loc.gov
146. LinkUp
www.infotoday.com/lu/lunew.htm
147. List of
Lists
www.catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
148. Liszt
www.liszt.com
149. Lockergnome
www.lockergnome.com
150. Los
Angeles Times
www.latimes.com
151. Lung Cancer
Online
www.lungcanceronline.org
152. Lycos
www.lycos.com
153. Mail-list.com
www.mail-list.com
154. Mapblast
www.mapblast.com
155. MapQuest
www.mapquest.com
156. Maps On
Us
www.mapsonus.com
157. Martindale’s
The Reference Desk
www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html
158. MayoClinic.com
www.mayoclinic.com
159. Media Central
www.mediacentral.com
160. MediaNews
(Jim Romenesko’s)
www.poynter.org/medianews
161. Medline
via Infotrieve
www3.infotrieve.com
—
see
alsoMedscape
162. Medscape
www.medscape.com
163. Merck Manual
Home Edition
www.merck.com
164. Merriam-Webster
Online
www.m-w.com
165. Michael
Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
166. Microsoft
www.microsoft.com
167. Money,
Meaning & Choices Institute
www.mmcinstitute.com
168. Moreover
www.moreover.com
169. National
Association for Poetry Therapy
www.poetrytherapy.org
170. National
Cancer Institute
www.cancernet.gov
171. National
Clearinghouse of Plastic Surgery Statistics
www.plasticsurgery.org/mediactr/stats.htm
172. National
Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov
173. National
Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov
174. Net-happenings
listserv.classroom.com/archives/net-happenings.html
175. NewsGuy
www.newsguy.com
176. NewsPage
www.individual.com
177. Newswise
www.newswise.com
178. New York
Public Library Reference Desk
www.nypl.org
179. New
York Times
www.nytimes.com
180. New
York Times Book Site
www.nytimes.com/books
181. New
York Times List of Links
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html
182. New
York Times Travel Section
www.nytimes.com/travel
183. Nexis
www.nexis.com
184. Nolo Press
www.nolo.com
185. Northern
Light
www.northernlight.com
186. NUA Internet
Surveys
www.nua.ie/surveys
187. Obscure
Store and Reading Room (Jim Romenesko’s)
www.obscurestore.com
188. Oncolink
www.oncolink.com
189. Onelook
www.onelook.com
190. Onion
www.theonion.com
191. Online
Book Initiative
ftp.std.com/obi/
192. Online
Dictionary Net
www.online-dictionary.net/
193. Oprah.com
www.oprah.com
194. Owsley
Stanley
www.thebear.org/
195. Padraic
Cassidy’s Web Page
home.earthlink.net/~cassidyny/jourlinks.htm
196. Paris Hotels
by Metro Stop
www.paris.org/Hotels/Metro
197. PayPal
www.paypal.com
198. PCWorld.com
News
www.pcworld.com/news/index.asp
199. Photonica
www.photonica.com
200. Poetry
and the Enneagram
www.breakoutofthebox.com/table6.htm
201. Powell’s
Books
www.powells.com
202. ProfNet
www.profnet.com
203. ProFusion
www.profusion.com
204. Project
Gutenberg
www.promo.net/pg
205. Publisher’s
Lunch
www.publisherslunch.com
206. Publishers
Weekly
www.publishersweekly.com
207. Publist
www.publist.com
208. Qpass
www.qpass.com
209. Quack Watch
www.quackwatch.com
210. Quikbook
www.quikbook.com
211. Quoteland.com
www.quoteland.com
212. Rageboy
www.rageboy.com
213. Random
House Author Links
www.randomhouse.com/author/links.html
214. Random
House Modern Library
www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary
215. Random
House Resources
www.randomhouse.com/resources
216. Rectal
Foreign Bodies
www.well.com/user/cynsa/newbutt.html
217. Reference
Desk
www.refdesk.com
—
see
also Joe deRouen’s The Reference Desk
and Martindale’s The Reference Desk
218. Regency
Costume
heyerlist.org/ghcost1.htm
219. Research
Central
word.to/rc.html
or www.levity.com/interbeing/rc.html
220. Research
Central Updates
word.to/updates.html
or www.levity.com/interbeing/updates.html
221. Reuters
www.reuters.com
222. Rich Remsberg
www.remsbergphoto.com
223. Ridley
Pearson
www.ridleypearson.com
224. Roller
Coaster FAQ
www.faqs.org/faqs/roller-coaster-faq
225. Romance
Writers’ List (RW-L)
To subscribe,
send email to listserv@MAELSTROM.ST.JOHNS.EDU
In the body of
the message, enter: subscribe rw-l
Romenesko, Jim — see MediaNews, Obscure Store and Reading Room
226. Salem,
Oregon Online
www.oregonlink.com
Salon.com — see "Freudian Send" article on Salon.com
227. Science
magazine
www.scienceonline.org
228. Scientific
American
www.sciam.com
Search Engine Showdown — see Greg R. Notess’s Search Engine Showdown
229. Search
Engine Watch
www.searchenginewatch.com
230. Search
IQ
www.zdnet.com/searchiq/
231. Shiki Internet
Haiku Salon
cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/
232. Sinusitis
Support Newsgroup
alt.support.sinusitis
233. Slate
www.slate.com
234. SourceNet
www.mediamap.com
235. Space News
space.com/spacenews
236. SPJ-L (Society
for Professional Journalists List)
To subscribe,
send email to listserv@LISTS.PSU.EDU
In the body of
the message, enter subscribe spj-1
237. Spot.com
www.spot.com
"Stalking Law"
—
see United States Department of Justice
"Stalking Law"
238. Steve Dunn’s
Cancer Guide
www.cancerguide.org
239. StrongWomen
www.strongwomen.com
240. Style.com
www.style.com
241. Syllabus
magazine
www.syllabus.com
242. Symbols.com
www.symbols.com
243. Tasty Bits
from the Technology Front
tbtf.com
244. Tellme
www.tellme.com
245. Literary
Times
www.tlt.com
246. New
Republic
www.thenewrepublic.com
247. The WELL
www.well.com
248. Thrive
Online Health and Medical Section
thriveonline.oxygen.com/health/
249. Time
magazine
www.time.com/time
250. Topica
www.topica.com
251. Tourism
Offices Worldwide Directory
www.towd.com
252. Travelite
FAQ
www.travelite.org
253. Union of
Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org
254. United
States Census Bureau
www.census.gov
255. United
States Department of Energy. Energy Information Administration
www.eia.doe.gov
256. United
States Department of Justice "Stalking Law"
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/grants/stalk98/chapter2.htm
257. University
of California at Berkeley Internet Tutorial
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Urban legends — see About.com’s Urban Legends Page
258. USA
Today
www.usatoday.com
259. Usenet
groups.google.com
260. Usenet
Archive
groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.html
261. Vermont
Eugenics: A Documentary History
www.uvm.edu/~eugenics
262. Vivisimo
www.vivisimo.com
263. Wall
Street Journal "Personal Technology" column
ptech.wsj.com
264. Washington
Post
www.washingtonpost.com
265. Washington
Post Travel Section
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel
266. Washington
State Government
access.wa.gov
267. WebMD
www.webmd.com
268. Web Pages
That Suck
www.webpagesthatsuck.com
WELL — see The WELL
269. WhatWeb!?
word.to/whatweb.html
or www.levity.com/interbeing/whatweb.html
270. Wired News
www.wired.com/news
Wordsmith Page — see Jindagi’s Wordsmith Page
271. WorldCast
www.fairlogic.com/worldcast/
272. Worldwatch
Institute
www.worldwatch.org
273. WriterL
mailing list
For fees and
signup information, see users.deltacomm.com/writerl/writerl/wlhome.htm
274. Writer’s
Digest
www.writersdigest.com
275. WWW Virtual
Library
www.vlib.org
276. WWW Virtual
Library Hyper-Index of Buddhist Studies Resources
www.uncwil.edu/iabs/vl
277. Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
278. Yahoo!
Groups
groups.yahoo.com
279. Yahoo!
Maps
maps.yahoo.com
280. Yahoo!
Start Page
my.yahoo.com
281. Your Dictionary
www.yourdictionary.com
282. Zagat
www.zagat.com
283. ZDNet News
www.zdnet.com/zdnn
ZDNet’s Search
IQ — see Search IQ
BOOKS
284. Competitor
Intelligence: How to Get It, How to Use It, by Leonard M. Fuld.
John Wiley &
Sons, 1985; out of print. (New edition: The New Competitor Intelligence:
The Complete Resource for Finding, Analyzing, and Using Information about
Your Competitors. Wiley, 1994.)
285. Finding Images Online, by Paula Berinstein. Pemberton Press, 1996. Distributed by Information Today, Inc. www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
286. Finding
Statistics Online, by Paula Berinstein. Information Today, Inc., 1998.
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
287. The WELL: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community, by Katie Hafner. Carroll & Graf, 2001.
For author Loraine Page, the writing of this book was a perfect marriage (if there is such a thing!) of her love of reading and her knowledge of the Internet. Since childhood, Loraine has been a voracious reader of fiction and nonfiction; since the mid-eighties, she has served as editor of Link-Up, a print publication that focuses on all the wonderful things that are available online. She started with Link-Up before anyone knew about the Internet and before you could get connected at lightning speed.
Loraine works from her home office on the East End of Long Island, New York. She is surrounded by heartachingly gorgeous vistas of sea, farmland, and orchards. And she’s not too far from the incredible mansions of the Hamptons. It has been a lifelong ambition of hers to live in that region—and in the two and a half years she’s been a resident, Long Island hasn’t let her down.
From her office, spruced up with new lighting fixtures, sturdy shelving, and a meticulous paint job by supportive boyfriend Ed Herman, Loraine enjoys working on many editing and writing jobs. She takes special delight in announcing the arrival of a new book called Mamma, Si Mangia? A Florentine Son Shares His Feisty Mother’s Recipes (Bright Sky Press, Spring 2002). This is an amusing narrative cookbook she co-wrote with her neighbor; his talented wife supplied the hilarious drawings.
Writing and editing are only half the story. Loraine is a serious amateur photographer who exhibits and wins awards for her color photography, an endeavor she’s been passionate about for eleven years. Lately her focus has been seascapes and landscapes. She’s inspired almost every time she takes a drive on the lovely island she calls home.
Reva Basch, executive editor of the Super Searcher book series, has written four books of her own: Researching Online For Dummies (Hungry Minds, 2nd edition with Mary Ellen Bates), Secrets of the Super Net Searchers (Information Today, 1996), Secrets of the Super Searchers (Information Today, 1993), and Electronic Information Delivery: Evaluating Quality and Value(Gower, 1995). She has edited and contributed chapters, introductions, and interviews to several books about the Internet and online information retrieval. She was the subject of a profile in WIRED magazine, which called her "the ultimate intelligent agent."
Prior to starting her own business in 1986, Reva was Vice President and Director of Research at Information on Demand, a pioneering independent research company. She has designed front-end search software for major online services; written and consulted on technical, marketing, and training issues for both online services and database producers; and published extensively in information industry journals. She has keynoted at international conferences in Australia, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom, as well as North America.
Reva is a Past-President (19911992) of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and a member of the Special Libraries Association. She has a degree in English literature, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her career as a corporate librarian, ran her own independent research business for ten years, and has been online since the mid-1970s.
Reva lives on the remote northern California coast with her husband, cats, and satellite access to the Internet.
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