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Got to see it to believe it!   This video even features Big 6’s Michael Eisenberg and Nancy Pearl (author of ‘Book Lust’)
Bib 2.0: Mental Health Break…

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Google and the USPTO are making patents and trademarks available at no charge:

Patents
Trademarks

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Want to see what someone’s (maybe your own) ’social networking profile’ is? You may want to try Flowtown.com. That’s what private investigator’s use.
Turn an Email Address into a Social Profile. / Flowtown / Flowtown

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Good50.com is an interesting search engine that may be of value to those who eye sight is not 20/20.  In its own words,
‘Good50.com : A search engine for older adults, seniors, and young children. Powered by Google.’    I would add, ‘and for the visually impaired’.    When you arrive at the sight you’ll see a large [...]

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OnlineUniversities.com offered a useful list of Search Engines.   The site says that:
‘ Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only [...]

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I learned about the ‘The Google Public Data Explorer‘ from ResearchBuzz.org.   Very interesting!  Might be of use in the classroom or for doing a research project or paper.
In Google’s own words, the resource subtitled,’Data visualizations for a changing world’:
‘makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate [...]

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The About.com article, ‘47 Alternatives to Wikipedia: 47 Websites You Can Use Instead of Wikipedia‘, indeed offers some great research Websites.  The article says:
‘Wikipedia is perhaps the most popular reference site online, with millions of high quality articles available on virtually any topic. However, there are limits to what Wikipedia can offer. Here are 47 [...]

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KimKomando.com does it again!  Kim introduced me to this invaluable resource for job hunters, people who are working and want to improve their salaries or careers AND students who are studying writing for businesses purposes.
We ALL know persons who are without jobs during this recession so let’s share this great tool with them.
http://www.net-temps.com/careerdev/career-tools/career-advice.html

Here is the [...]

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Phototakeusa.com is offers a large resource for scientific, medical, and technological photographs
and illustrations. It offers on-line search. You may also request a catalog or acquire a CD-ROM.
In your search you can select ‘Royalty-Free’. You can search by keyword, alphabetical, numerical, and by categories.
Includes photos, clipart, illustrations, and graphics.

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I learned about Quintura for Kids from ResearchBuzz.com.    Check out their review of it.  My success was mixed.  I was satisfied with results from ‘ukulele’, ‘football’, and a couple of other keywords.  I was not satisfied with the results from ‘drawing’ - the first result was about ‘Drew Barrymore’.
I see a lot of potential in [...]

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