The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher by Randolph Hock

Author:Randolph Hock [Hock, Randolph]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781937290351
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Published: 2013-01-31T14:00:00+00:00

5. Use crossposting (posting the same message to multiple groups or lists) advisedly. It clutters up people’s mail and time.

CHAPTER 6

AN INTERNET REFERENCE SHELF

All serious searchers have a collection of tools they use for quick answers—the web equivalent of a personal reference shelf. The challenge is to make sure that you have the right sites on your shelf. This chapter provides a selective collection of sites that should be on most researchers’ shelves. Different researchers have different quick-reference needs requiring different tools. For many of us, we may have found out about most sites through a friend or by simply stumbling across them but may not have systematically assembled a complete collection. Here we highlight reference tools that provide quick answers to some of the most frequently asked questions, from the mundane to the esoteric.

This chapter goes hand-in-hand with Chapter 2. For subject areas of interest to you, many of the resource guides of the types covered in Chapter 2 should be in your reference collection, much in the same way that the reference section of a library usually contains a good collection of resource guides. In addition to quick-answer sites, a number of resource guides for reference tools in particular areas, such as government information, and companies, are also included here.

Going from general to specific, we first look at some prime general tools, such as encyclopedias, and then move in the direction of tools that can provide specific bits of information. For many of the categories, as well as lists of specific sites, suggestions will be provided about using the resources effectively.

Remember that all of the links presented here, as well as links for all sites covered throughout this book, are available at www.extremesearcher.com. Also keep in mind, especially for this “quick answers” chapter, that many of these sites have a mobile version.

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