Rockford University Presentation - 7/30/2013

Researching Outside the Box

An introduction to freely available resources

Presented by Anthony DeMinico

Photo courtesy of Blake Patterson (blakespot). http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/4691074131/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Image by Zachary Johnson, http://www.zachstronaut.com/posts/2009/01/27/canvas-404.html

So. . .

Where do we go now?

But first, a commercial break!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I

Sift Through The CRAAPCurrencyRelevanceAuthorityAccuracyPurpose

Some Places To Start The Internet Public Library

ipl2.org Infomine

infomine.ucr.edu FirstGov

usa.gov Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

doaj.org Google

google.com

But Wait, There's MORE!

Google Books books.google.com

Google Scholar scholar.google.com

Wikipedia wikipedia.org

Remember, watch for CRAAP!

Now for Something Completely Different

Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online teaching (MERLOT)

merlot.org data.gov

Yes, it is simply called data.gov, and is available at data.gov

Is Science Scary?

Scientific Research: Open Access scirp.org

Wiley Open Access wileyopenaccess.com

Elsevier's “Scirus” scirus.com

Worldwide Science.org, The Global Science Gateway

worldwidescience.org

A Nod to Nurses

The National Library of Medicine nlm.nih.gov Bringing you PubMed and PubChem!

PubChem pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

OMICS Publishing Group Open Access Journals

omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php

Want Some Government Support?

The Federal Digital System gpo.gov/fdsys Courtesy of the Government Printing Office

THOMAS – from the Library of Congress thomas.loc.gov

What About Social Sciences?

The World Bank Group worldbank.org

Historical Statistics of the United States hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb/

HSUSEntryServlet U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

usgs.gov

Bridge to Business and Economics

Palgrave Macmillan Open Access Journals palgravejournals.com/palgraveopen/index

The American Economic Association vanderbilt.edu/AEA/

Econpapers

econpapers.repec.org

Extending Education

Connexions cnx.org

Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)

amser.org MERLOT

Worth mentioning again!

Oh, the Humanities (and Arts!)

JURN jurn.org

Hathi Trust hathitrust.org

Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org

Cite Your Sites!Always remember:

when in doubt, cite your sources!Don't know how?

Check the (Perdue) OWL!

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl

Or

The Norton Field Guide to Writing

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/fieldguide/index.asp

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