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Doing Research
February 20th, 2008 by Garrett in Classical Argument,Resources ||

I’ve found a few interesting sources that talk about research. As usual, I’ve also linked to these on the Resources page.

Here they are, in no particular order:

  • Pew Study on Information-Finding Behavior – This blog talks about an interesting study on how and where people get information. You may be surprised by the results!

  • Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do Without – Want to start doing research? Start it online with these great resources. After all, Wikipedia only takes you so far, and with a certain stance.

  • Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources – Excellent article on how to really use the internet to do research, and how to avoid lots of the junk.

    • Of the 20 references beyond Wikipedia, here are some that I really liked:

  • Citizendium -  “The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on the Wikipedia model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. We have over 4500 articles and hundreds of contributors.”

  • Answers – “Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world’s leading publishers.”

  • Bartleby – “Publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant.”

  • Encyclopedia Britannica – The old classic.

  • Oxford English Dictionary – Can tell you the origins of every word in the English language. Quite fascinating, really.

  • Scholarpedia – “The free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.”

  • Wikiseek – Use it to really search Wikipedia. “Wikiseek utilizes a category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines.”

  • WikiMindMap – “WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki’s, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.”

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