Super Searchers in the News
Super Searchers in the News:
The Online Secrets of Journalists & News Researchers
By Paula J. Hane

Edited by Reva Basch


Internet Sites, Search Engines, and Online Databases

1. 10-K Wizard • http://www.10kwizard.com
2. 192.com (U.K. directory) • http://www.192.com
3. 1stHeadlines • http://www.1stheadlines.com
4. ABC News • http://www.abcnews.com
5. Achoo! • http://www.achoo.com
6. Alexa • http://www.alexa.com
7. AltaVista • http://www.altavista.com
8. AltaVista Advanced • http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq
9. Amazon.com • http://www.amazon.com
10. America Online (AOL) • http://www.aol.com
11. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants • http://www.aicpa.org/
12. American Medical Association • http://www.ama-assn.org
13. AnyWho (AT&T) • http://www.anywho.com
14. APBnews.com • http://www.apbnews.com
15. Art Museum.Net • http://www.artmuseum.net
16. Artnet.com • http://www.artnet.com
17. Ask Jeeves • http://www.ask.com
18. Associated Press • http://www.ap.org
19. Association of UK Media Librarians • http://www.aukml.org.uk
20. AutoTrack • http://www.autotrackxp.com
21. Barbara Gellis Shapiro’s News Researcher Site • http://www.gate.net/~barbara/indext.htm
22. BBC • http://www.bbc.co.uk
23. BBC Panorama • http://www.bbc.co.uk/Panorama
24. The BigHub • http://www.thebighub.com
25. Bloomberg • http://www.bloomberg.com
26. Bloomberg Business Video • http://www.bloomberg.com/videos
27. Bureau of National Affairs • http://www.bna.com
28. Business 2.0 • http://business2.com
29. Cameo—U.K. Electoral Roll On-Line •  http://bvduk.bvdep.com/products/cameo/overview.htm
30. CBS MarketWatch • http://www.cbsmarketwatch.com
--  CDB Infotek see ChoicePoint [31]
31. ChoicePoint (formerly CDB Infotek) • http://www.choicepointonline.com
32. CIA World Factbook • http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
33. CNET • http://www.cnet.com
34. CNN—Cable News Network • http://www.cnn.com
35. CompuServe • http://www.compuserve.com
36. Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (U.S. Supreme Court Opinions) • http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
37. CyberClipping.com • http://www.cyberclipping.com
38. Cyber Paperboy • http://www.cyberpaperboy.com
39. The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) • http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk
40. DataStar Web • http://www.datastarweb.com
41. DBT Online • http://www.dbtonline.com
42. Deja.com (formerly DejaNews) • http://www.deja.com
43. Demos • http://www.demos.org.uk
44. DialogClassic • http://www.dialogclassic.com
45. DialogSelect • http://www.dialogselect.com
46. Dialog Intranet Toolkit • http://products.dialog.com/products/toolkit/
47. Dogpile • http://www.dogpile.com
48. Dow Jones Interactive • http://djinteractive.com
49. dowjones.com (now Work.com) • http://dowjones.wsj.com
50. Dun & Bradstreet • http://www.dnb.com
51. EBSCOhost • http://www.epnet.com
52. EDGAR (Securities and Exchange Commission) • http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
53. Encyclopaedia Britannica • http://www.britannica.com
54. Encyclopedia of Associations • http://www.gale.com
55. Environmental Working Group • http://www.ewg.org
56. Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marcia Ann Tate (Widener University, Wolfgram Memorial Library) • http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
57. Evaluating Web Resources – Checklist for a News Web Page • http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/news.htm
58. Excite • http://excite.com
59. Excite NewsTracker • http://nt.excite.com
60. ExpertNet • http://www.cvcp.ac.uk/WhatWeDo/ExpertNet/expertnet.html
61. Facts on File • http://www.facts.com
62. Fast Company • http://www.fastcompany.com
63. FAST Search • http://www.fast.no or http://www.alltheweb.com
64. FedStats • http://www.fedstats.gov
65. FedWorld • http://www.fedworld.gov
66. Financial Times • http://www.ft.com
67. FindLaw • http://www.findlaw.com
68. Florida Department of Corrections • http://www.dc.state.fl.us
69. Forrester Research • http://www.forrester.com
70. Fox News • http://www.foxnews.com/video
71. FreeEDGAR • http://www.freeedgar.com
72. Free Pint • http://www.freepint.co.uk
73. FT Profile (now part of Lexis-Nexis Europe) • http://www.info.ft.com
74. Gale Biography Resource Center • http://www.gale.com
75. GaleNet • http://galenet.gale.com/
76. Gary Price’s Direct Search • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
77. Gary Price’s List of Lists • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
78. Global NewsBank • http://www.newsbank.com
79. Go.com • http://www.go.com
80. Google • http://www.google.com
81. Google—Uncle Sam • http://www.google.com/unclesam
82. GovSearch (Northern Light) • http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess/
83. Handspring • http://www.handspring.com
84. HMSO (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office) • http://www.hmso.gov.uk
85. Hoover’s Online • http://www.hoovers.com
86. HotBot • http://www.hotbot.com
87. Humanities Index • http://www.hwwilson.com
88. Human Rights Watch • http://www.hrw.org
89. IDG.net • http://www.idg.net
90. The Industry Standard • http://www.thestandard.com
91. InferenceFind • http://www.inferencefind.com
92. Informant • http://informant.dartmouth.edu
93. Information Today Inc. NewsBreaks • http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks
94. InfoSpace • http://www.infospace.com
95. InfoUSA • http://www.infousa.com
96. Institute for War and Peace Reporting • http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?home_index.html
97. The Internet Newsroom • http://www.editors-service.com
98. Investext • http://www.investext.com
99. Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) • http://www.ire.org
100. Ireland, Government of—Good Friday Agreement • http://www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/angloirish/goodfriday/default.htm
---  IRS—Form 990: see National Center for Charitable Statistics [128]
101. Jupiter Communications • http://www.jup.com
102. Keesing’s Online Database • http://www.keesings.com
103. Knight Ridder • http://www.kri.com
104. KRT Business News • http://www.krtdirect.com
105. LawCrawler • http://www.lawcrawler.com
106. Lexis-Nexis • http://www.lexis-nexis.com
107. Lexis-Nexis Universe • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/ln.universe
108. Librarian’s Index to the Internet—Keeping up with New Internet Resources • http://lii.org/search/file/newsites
109. Librarian’s Index to the Internet—New this Week • http://lii.org
110. The London Times • http://www.thetimes.co.uk
111. Liszt • http://www.liszt.com
112. The Louvre • http://www.louvre.fr
113. Lycos • http://www.lycos.com
114. Mailbase • http://www.mailbase.ac.uk
115. Mamma • http://www.mamma.com
116. MapBlast • http://www.mapblast.com
117. MapQuest • http://www.mapquest.com
118. Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator • http://www.martindale.com
119. MEDLINE • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
120. MetaCrawler • http://www.metacrawler.com
121. MetaFind • http://www.metafind.com
122. Metropolitan Museum (NY) • http://www.metmuseum.org
123. The Miami Herald • http://www.herald.com
124. The Miami Herald (archive on NewsLibrary) • http://www.herald.com/newslibrary/
125. MSNBC • http://www.msnbc.com
126. Multex.com • http://www.multex.com
127. My Simon • http://www.mysimon.com
128. National Center for Charitable Statistics (IRS—Form 990) http://www.urban.org/990
129. National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) • http://www.nicar.org
130. National Public Radio (NPR) • http://www.npr.org
131. NATO • http://www.nato.org
132. Needle in a CyberStack • http://members.home.net/albeej/
133. New York Times Online • http://www.nytimes.com
134. NewsBank NewsFile • http://www.newsbank.com
135. NewsBot • http://www.newsbot.com
136. NewsHub • http://www.newshub.com
137. News Index • http://www.newsindex.com
138. NewsTrawler • http://www.newstrawler.com
139. Nobel Prize • http://www.nobel.se/prize/
140. Northern Light • http://www.nlsearch.com
141. NRA (National Rifle Association) • http://www.nra.org
142. PCMike.com • http://www.pcmike.com
143. Penal Lexicon • http://www.penlex.org.uk
144. PINAKES, a Subject Launchpad • http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
145. Power Reporting Alerts by Email • http://PowerReporting.com/category/Alerts_by_E-mail
146. Poynter Institute for Media Studies • http://www.poynter.org
147. PR Newswire • http://www.prnewswire.com
148. ProfNet • http://www.profnet.com
149. ProFusion • http://www.profusion.com
150. Project Gutenberg • http://www.gutenberg.net
151. ProQuest • http://www.proquest.com/proquest
152. Public Records Online, A ChoicePoint Company • http://www.flpro.com
153. Radio and Television News Directors Association • http://www.rtnda.org
154. Real Cities Network • http://www.realcities.com
155. Red Herring • http://www.redherring.com
156. RemarQ • http://www.remarq.com
157. Reporter’s Desktop • http://www.reporter.org/desktop
158. Resource Discovery Network • http://www.rdn.ac.uk
159. Reuters • http://www.reuters.com
160. The Right-to-Know Network • http://www.rtk.net
161. San Jose Mercury News • http://www.mercurycenter.com
(News Hound is no longer available. Sign up for E-Mail Dispatches from the home page shown above.)
162. Seattle Times, Special Project series by Duff Wilson, "Fear in the Fields" • http://www.seattletimes.com/news/special/#fields
163. SiliconValley.com • http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/
164. SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) • http://www.sirs.com
165. SLA News Division • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/
166. SLA News Division—Newspapers Online • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/papersal.html
167. SLA News Division—U.S. News Archives on the Web • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
168. SOSIG—Social Science Information Gateway • http://www.sosig.ac.uk
169. Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University School of Law) • http://securities.stanford.edu
170. Sun-Sentinel • http://www.sun-sentinel.com
171. Switchboard • http://www.switchboard.com
172. Tate Gallery • http://www.tate.org.uk
173. TheStreet.com • http://www.thestreet.com
174. Thomas (U.S. Library of Congress) • http://thomas.loc.gov/
175. Time, Inc. • http://www.time-inc.com
176. Tony Awards • http://www.tonys.org
177. TotalNEWS • http://www.totalnews.com
178. UCLA College Library Instruction - Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources, by Esther Grassian • http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm
179. U.K. Central Office of Information • http://www.coi.gov.uk
180. U.K. Ministry of Defence • http://www.mod.uk
181. U.K. Online User Group • http://www.ukolug.org.uk
182. U.K. Plus • http://www.ukplus.co.uk
183. Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List • http://www.prolifeinfo.org
184. Uniform Crime Reports (FBI) • http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm
185. U.S. Department of Agriculture • http://www.usda.gov
186. U.S. Department of Commerce • http://www.doc.gov
187. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • http://www.eeoc.gov
188. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA Civil Aviation Registry • http://registry.faa.gov
189. U.S. Federal Election Commission • http://www.fec.gov
190. U.S. Food and Drug Administration • http://www.usda.gov
191. U.S. Government Printing Office • http://www.gpo.gov
192. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) • http://www.noaa.gov
193. U.S. National Weather Service • http://www.nws.noaa.gov
194. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission • http://sec.gov
195. U.S. State Department • http://www.state.gov
196. U.S. Supreme Court • http://www.supremecourtus.gov
197. Wall Street Journal Interactive • http://wsj.com
198. Washington Document Service • http://wdsdocs.com
199. The Washington Post • http://www.washingtonpost.com
200. The Weather Channel • http://www.weather.com
201. WebFeat • http://www.webfeat.org
202. Westlaw • http://www.westlaw.com
203. Whois (from Network Solutions) • http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
204. Wilson Biographies • http://www.hwwilson.com
205. Wired • http://www.wired.com
[01/23/02] - WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources • http://www.etown.edu/vl/
206. Yahoo! • http://www.yahoo.com
207. Yahoo! Alerts • http://alerts.yahoo.com
208. Yahoo! GeoCities • http://geocities.yahoo.com
209. Yahoo! News • http://dailynews.yahoo.com
210. Yahoo! What’s New • http://www.yahoo.com/new/
211. ZDNet • http://www.zdnet.com
 

Electronic Discussion Groups, Mailing Lists and Newsletters

212. CARR-L (Computer Assisted Research and Reporting): To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU
In message body type: SUBscribe CARR-L Your-real-name Organization
213. China News Digest • http://www.cnd.org
214. IDG.net • http://www.idg.net
215. The Internet TOURBUS • http://www.tourbus.com
216. IRE-L (Investigative Reporters and Editors): To subscribe, send email to listproc@lists.missouri.edu
[In message body type: SUB IRE-L Firstname Lastname]
217. Net-happenings (Gleason Sackmann) • http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/caservices/net-hap/index.html
       • http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/net-happenings.html (archive)
218. NICAR-L (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting): To subscribe, send email to listproc@lists.missouri.edu
[In message body type: SUB NICAR-L Firstname Lastname]
219. ResearchBuzz (From Tara Calishain) • http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/index.html
220. The Scout Report • scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html, http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/subscribe.html
221. Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan) • http://www.searchenginewatch.com
222. SLA News Division: To subscribe, send email to listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu
[In message body type: subscribe NEWSLIB firstname lastname]
223. The Sports Business Daily • http://www.sportsbizdaily.com
224. Stumpers-L: To subscribe, send email to: mailserv@cuis.edu
[In message body type: subscribe STUMPERS-L YourEmailAddress]
225. Wired News Daily: To subscribe, visit http://hotwired.lycos.com
 

Other Resources

226. Computer Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information (4th Edition) By Nora M. Paul • Bonus Books Inc. and Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, 1999 • http://www.poynter.org/pub/car.htm
227. EContent (formerly Database) • Online Inc., Wilton, CT, bimonthly • http://www.ecmag.net • http://www.onlineinc.com/database (archives)
228. Encyclopedia of Associations • Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000 • http://www.gale.com
229. Facts on File Weekly World News Digest • Facts on File News Service, New York, NY, weekly • http://www.facts.com
230. Fulltext Sources Online • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 2x year • http://www.infotoday.com/fso
231. Great Scouts! CyberGuides for Subject Searching on the Web, By Nora Paul & Margot Williams • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 1999 • http://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#10
232. Information Sources for the Press and Broadcast Media • Edited by Sarah Adair • Bowker-Saur, 1999 •  http://www.bowker-saur.co.uk/products/catalog/lis/is_press.htm
233. Information Today • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, monthly • http://www.infotoday.com/it/itnew.htm
234. Internet World • Penton Media, Westport, CT, weekly • http://www.iw.com
235. Online • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, bimonthly • http://www.onlinemag.net
236. PC World • http://www.pcworld.com
237. Searcher • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 10x/year. • http://www.infotoday.com/searcher
238. Secrets of the Super Searchers, By Reva Basch • CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1993 • http://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#13
239. Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, By Reva Basch • CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1996 • http://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#12
240. Who’s Who in America • Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ, annual • http://www.marquiswhoswho.com
241. The Wired Journalist: Newsroom Guide to the Internet (revised third edition), By Mike Wendland • http://www.rtndf.org/rtndf/wiredweb
242. The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Edited by Robert Famighetti • http://www.worldalmanac.com
243. Yahoo! Internet Life • ZDNet, monthly • http://www.zdnet.com/yil/
 

Software

244. Associated Press Broadcast Technology (ENPS) • http://www.enps.com
245. Autonomy • http://www.autonomy.com
246. Cold Fusion (Allaire Corp.) • http://www.allaire.com/Products/index.cfm
247. Copernic • http://www.copernic.com
248. Enfish Tracker Pro • http://www.enfish.com
249. Homesite (Allaire Corp.) • http://www.allaire.com/Products/index.cfm
250. Intelliseek BullsEye • http://www.intelliseek.com
251. Internet FastFind (Symantec Corp.) • http://www.symantec.com
252. Microsoft Access • http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/
253. Microsoft Excel • http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel/
254. SII (System Integrators, Inc.) • http://www.sii.com
255. WebRecord Research Pro (Canon Computer Systems, Inc.) • http://www.software.canon.com

Super Searchers in the News
Super Searchers in the News:
The Online Secrets of Journalists & News Researchers
By Paula J. Hane

Edited by Reva Basch
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