Search Strategies

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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Today I have to share another great Website introduced to me by KimKomando.com.   This Website is especially designed for the mobile Internet user (ie: iPhone and Blackberry).  TidyRead.com strips all of the graphics and ads providing the articles and posts only.    You can either

type in the entire url of the Website you want to [...]

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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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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 GoogleLab’s ‘Living Stories’ collaboration project with the New York Times and the Washington Post via ResearchBuzz.  I see great potential in this application.  Is this the new RSS Reader?  The new Wikipedia?   To understand ‘Living Stories’ watch the brief video on the page.
Currently, the following TIMELY stories are included:

Health Care Reform

Afghanistan War

Global [...]

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‘AASL is promoting two resource lists, each honoring Internet web sites that enhance learning and curriculum development. Developed by an AASL task force, the sites are all free and user friendly.
The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning focuses on websites that foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboratin.            [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org shares how to go about ‘turning Google into a near real-time search engine’.  Near real-time are the key words here!  Want to know what was indexed mere ’seconds ago’ about ‘libraries’ find out:
http://www.google.com/search?q=libraries&tbs=qdr:n
Other options such as a ‘day’, an ‘hour’, or a ‘minute’ can be found in the post on Research Buzz.  Check it [...]

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