Super Searchers in the News: The Online Secrets of Journalists & News Researchers By Paula J. Hane Edited by Reva Basch

Internet Sites, Search Engines, and Online Databases

1. 1. 10-K Wizard • http://www.10kwizard.com 
2. 192.com (U.K. directory) • http://www.192.com 
3. 1stHeadlines • http://www.1stheadlines.com 
4. ABC News • http://www.abcnews.com 
5. Achoo! • http://www.achoo.com 
6. Alexa • http://www.alexa.com 
7. AltaVista • http://www.altavista.com 
8. AltaVista Advanced • http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq 
9. Amazon.com • http://www.amazon.com 
10. America Online (AOL) • http://www.aol.com 
11. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants • http://www.aicpa.org/ 
12. American Medical Association • http://www.ama-assn.org 
13. AnyWho (AT&T) • http://www.anywho.com 
14. APBnews.com • http://www.apbnews.com 
15. Art Museum.Net • http://www.artmuseum.net 
16. Artnet.com • http://www.artnet.com 
17. Ask Jeeves • http://www.ask.com 
18. Associated Press • http://www.ap.org 
19. Association of UK Media Librarians • http://www.aukml.org.uk 
20. AutoTrack • http://www.autotrackxp.com 
21. Barbara Gellis Shapiro’s News Researcher Site • http://www.gate.net/~barbara/indext.htm 
22. BBC • http://www.bbc.co.uk 
23. BBC Panorama • http://www.bbc.co.uk/Panorama 
24. The BigHub • http://www.thebighub.com 
25. Bloomberg • http://www.bloomberg.com 
26. Bloomberg Business Video • http://www.bloomberg.com/videos 
27. Bureau of National Affairs • http://www.bna.com 
28. Business 2.0 • http://business2.com 
29. Cameo—U.K. Electoral Roll On-Line •  http://bvduk.bvdep.com/products/cameo/overview.htm 
30. CBS MarketWatch • http://www.cbsmarketwatch.com 
31. ChoicePoint (formerly CDB Infotek) • http://www.choicepointonline.com 
32. CIA World Factbook • http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ 
33. CNET • http://www.cnet.com 
34. CNN—Cable News Network • http://www.cnn.com 
35. CompuServe • http://www.compuserve.com 
36. Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (U.S. Supreme Court Opinions) • http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/ 
37. CyberClipping.com • http://www.cyberclipping.com 
38. Cyber Paperboy • http://www.cyberpaperboy.com 
39. The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) • http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk 
40. DataStar Web • http://www.datastarweb.com 
41. DBT Online • http://www.dbtonline.com 
42. Deja.com (formerly DejaNews) • http://www.deja.com 
43. Demos • http://www.demos.org.uk 
44. DialogClassic • http://www.dialogclassic.com 
45. DialogSelect • http://www.dialogselect.com 
46. Dialog Intranet Toolkit • http://products.dialog.com/products/toolkit/ 
47. Dogpile • http://www.dogpile.com 
48. Dow Jones Interactive • http://djinteractive.com 
49. dowjones.com (now Work.com) • http://dowjones.wsj.com 
50. Dun & Bradstreet • http://www.dnb.com 
51. EBSCOhost • http://www.epnet.com 
52. EDGAR (Securities and Exchange Commission) • http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm 
53. Encyclopaedia Britannica • http://www.britannica.com 
54. Encyclopedia of Associations • http://www.gale.com 
55. Environmental Working Group • http://www.ewg.org 
56. Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marcia Ann Tate (Widener University, Wolfgram Memorial Library) • http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm 
57. Evaluating Web Resources – Checklist for a News Web Page • http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/news.htm 
58. Excite • http://excite.com 
59. Excite NewsTracker • http://nt.excite.com 
60. ExpertNet • http://www.cvcp.ac.uk/WhatWeDo/ExpertNet/expertnet.html 
61. Facts on File • http://www.facts.com 
62. Fast Company • http://www.fastcompany.com 
63. FAST Search • http://www.fast.no or http://www.alltheweb.com 
64. FedStats • http://www.fedstats.gov 
65. FedWorld • http://www.fedworld.gov 
66. Financial Times • http://www.ft.com 
67. FindLaw • http://www.findlaw.com 
68. Florida Department of Corrections • http://www.dc.state.fl.us 
69. Forrester Research • http://www.forrester.com 
70. Fox News • http://www.foxnews.com/video 
71. FreeEDGAR • http://www.freeedgar.com 
72. Free Pint • http://www.freepint.co.uk 
73. FT Profile (now part of Lexis-Nexis Europe) • http://www.info.ft.com 
74. Gale Biography Resource Center • http://www.gale.com 
75. GaleNet • http://galenet.gale.com 
76. Gary Price’s Direct Search • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm 
77. Gary Price’s List of Lists • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm 
78. Global NewsBank • http://www.newsbank.com 
79. Go.com • http://www.go.com 
80. Google • http://www.google.com 
81. Google—Uncle Sam • http://www.google.com/unclesam 
82. GovSearch (Northern Light) • http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess/ 
83. Handspring • http://www.handspring.com 
84. HMSO (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office) • http://www.hmso.gov.uk 
85. Hoover’s Online • http://www.hoovers.com 
86. HotBot • http://www.hotbot.com 
87. Humanities Index • http://www.hwwilson.com 
88. Human Rights Watch • http://www.hrw.org 
89. IDG.net • http://www.idg.net 
90. The Industry Standard • http://www.thestandard.com 
91. InferenceFind • http://www.inferencefind.com 
92. Informant • http://informant.dartmouth.edu 
93. Information Today Inc. NewsBreaks • https://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks 
94. InfoSpace • http://www.infospace.com 
95. InfoUSA • http://www.infousa.com 
96. Institute for War and Peace Reporting • http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?home_index.html 
97. The Internet Newsroom • http://www.editors-service.com 
98. Investext • http://www.investext.com 
99. Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) • http://www.ire.org 
100. Ireland, Government of—Good Friday Agreement • http://www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/angloirish/goodfriday/default.htm 
101. IRS—Form 990: see National Center for Charitable Statistics 
102. Jupiter Communications • http://www.jup.com 
103. Keesing’s Online Database • http://www.keesings.com 
104. Knight Ridder • http://www.kri.com 
105. KRT Business News • http://www.krtdirect.com 
106. LawCrawler • http://www.lawcrawler.com 
107. Legal Research from LexisNexis • http://law.lexisnexis.com/full-service-law-firms/research-solutions-legal-research
108. Legal Solutions from LexisNexis • http://law.lexisnexis.com/specialized-law-firms/research-solutions
109. Lexis-Nexis • http://www.lexis-nexis.com 
110. Lexis-Nexis Universe • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/ln.universe 
111. Librarian’s Index to the Internet—Keeping up with New Internet Resources • http://lii.org/search/file/newsites 
112. Librarian’s Index to the Internet—New this Week • http://lii.org 
113. The London Times • http://www.thetimes.co.uk 
114. Liszt • http://www.liszt.com 
115. The Louvre • http://www.louvre.fr 
116. Lycos • http://www.lycos.com 
117. Mailbase • http://www.mailbase.ac.uk 
118. Mamma • http://www.mamma.com 
119. MapBlast • http://www.mapblast.com 
120. MapQuest • http://www.mapquest.com 
121. Attorneys in the Martindale Directory
122. MEDLINE • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ 
123. MetaCrawler • http://www.metacrawler.com 
124. MetaFind • http://www.metafind.com 
125. Metropolitan Museum (NY) • http://www.metmuseum.org 
126. The Miami Herald • http://www.herald.com 
127. The Miami Herald (archive on NewsLibrary) • http://www.herald.com/newslibrary/ 
128. MSNBC • http://www.msnbc.com 
129. Multex.com • http://www.multex.com 
130. My Simon • http://www.mysimon.com 
131. National Center for Charitable Statistics (IRS—Form 990) http://www.urban.org/990 
132. National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) • http://www.nicar.org 
133. National Public Radio (NPR) • http://www.npr.org 
134. NATO • http://www.nato.org 
135. Needle in a CyberStack • http://members.home.net/albeej/ 
136. New York Times Online • http://www.nytimes.com 
137. NewsBank NewsFile • http://www.newsbank.com 
138. NewsBot • http://www.newsbot.com 
139. NewsHub • http://www.newshub.com 
140. News Index • http://www.newsindex.com 
141. NewsTrawler • http://www.newstrawler.com 
142. Nobel Prize • http://www.nobel.se/prize/ 
143. Northern Light • http://www.nlsearch.com 
144. NRA (National Rifle Association) • http://www.nra.org 
145. PCMike.com • http://www.pcmike.com 
146. Penal Lexicon • http://www.penlex.org.uk 
147. PINAKES, a Subject Launchpad • http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html 
148. Power Reporting Alerts by Email • http://PowerReporting.com/category/Alerts_by_E-mail 
149. Poynter Institute for Media Studies • http://www.poynter.org 
150. PR Newswire • http://www.prnewswire.com 
151. ProfNet • http://www.profnet.com 
152. ProFusion • http://www.profusion.com 
153. Project Gutenberg • http://www.gutenberg.net 
154. ProQuest • http://www.proquest.com/proquest 
155. Public Records Online, A ChoicePoint Company • http://www.flpro.com 
156. Radio and Television News Directors Association • http://www.rtnda.org 
157. Real Cities Network • http://www.realcities.com 
158. Red Herring • http://www.redherring.com 
159. RemarQ • http://www.remarq.com 
160. Reporter’s Desktop • http://www.reporter.org/desktop 
161. Resource Discovery Network • http://www.rdn.ac.uk 
162. Reuters • http://www.reuters.com 
163. The Right-to-Know Network • http://www.rtk.net 
164. San Jose Mercury News • http://www.mercurycenter.com 
165. Seattle Times, Special Project series by Duff Wilson, "Fear in the Fields" • http://www.seattletimes.com/news/special/#fields 
166. SiliconValley.com • http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/ 
167. SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) • http://www.sirs.com 
168. SLA News Division • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/ 
169. SLA News Division—Newspapers Online • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/papersal.html 
170. SLA News Division—U.S. News Archives on the Web • http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html 
171. SOSIG—Social Science Information Gateway • http://www.sosig.ac.uk 
172. Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University School of Law) • http://securities.stanford.edu 
173. Sun-Sentinel • http://www.sun-sentinel.com 
174. Switchboard • http://www.switchboard.com 
175. Tate Gallery • http://www.tate.org.uk 
176. TheStreet.com • http://www.thestreet.com 
177. Thomas (U.S. Library of Congress) • http://thomas.loc.gov/ 
178. Time, Inc. • http://www.time-inc.com 
179. Tony Awards • http://www.tonys.org 
180. TotalNEWS • http://www.totalnews.com 
181. UCLA College Library Instruction - Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources, by Esther Grassian • http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm 
182. U.K. Central Office of Information • http://www.coi.gov.uk 
183. U.K. Ministry of Defence • http://www.mod.uk 
184. U.K. Online User Group • http://www.ukolug.org.uk 
185. U.K. Plus • http://www.ukplus.co.uk 
186. Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List • http://www.prolifeinfo.org 
187. Uniform Crime Reports (FBI) • http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm 
188. U.S. Department of Agriculture • http://www.usda.gov 
189. U.S. Department of Commerce • http://www.doc.gov 
190. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • http://www.eeoc.gov 
191. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA Civil Aviation Registry • http://registry.faa.gov 
192. U.S. Federal Election Commission • http://www.fec.gov 
193. U.S. Food and Drug Administration • http://www.usda.gov 
194. U.S. Government Printing Office • http://www.gpo.gov 
195. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) • http://www.noaa.gov 
196. U.S. National Weather Service • http://www.nws.noaa.gov 
197. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission • http://sec.gov 
198. U.S. State Department • http://www.state.gov 
199. U.S. Supreme Court • http://www.supremecourtus.gov 
200. Wall Street Journal Interactive • http://wsj.com 
201. Washington Document Service • http://wdsdocs.com 
202. The Washington Post • http://www.washingtonpost.com 
203. The Weather Channel • http://www.weather.com 
204. WebFeat • http://www.webfeat.org 
205. Westlaw • http://www.westlaw.com 
206. Whois (from Network Solutions) • http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois 
207. Wilson Biographies • http://www.hwwilson.com 
208. Wired • http://www.wired.com 
209. WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources • http://www.etown.edu/vl/ 
210. Yahoo! • http://www.yahoo.com 
211. Yahoo! Alerts • http://alerts.yahoo.com 
212. Yahoo! GeoCities • http://geocities.yahoo.com 
213. Yahoo! News • http://dailynews.yahoo.com 
214. Yahoo! What’s New • http://www.yahoo.com/new/ 
215. ZDNet • http://www.zdnet.com 

Electronic Discussion Groups, Mailing Lists and Newsletters

216. CARR-L (Computer Assisted Research and Reporting): To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU
     In message body type: SUBscribe CARR-L Your-real-name Organization
217. China News Digest • http://www.cnd.org
218. IDG.net • http://www.idg.net
219. The Internet TOURBUS • http://www.tourbus.com
220. IRE-L (Investigative Reporters and Editors): To subscribe, send email to listproc@lists.missouri.edu
     In message body type: SUB IRE-L Firstname Lastname
221. Net-happenings (Gleason Sackmann) • http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/caservices/net-hap/index.html / http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/net-happenings.html (archive) 
     NICAR-L (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting): To subscribe, send email to listproc@lists.missouri.edu
     In message body type: SUB NICAR-L Firstname Lastname
222. ResearchBuzz (From Tara Calishain) • http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/index.html
223. The Scout Report • scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html, http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/subscribe.html
224. Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan) • http://www.searchenginewatch.com
225. SLA News Division: To subscribe, send email to listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu
     [In message body type: subscribe NEWSLIB firstname lastname
226. The Sports Business Daily • http://www.sportsbizdaily.com
227. Stumpers-L: To subscribe, send email to: mailserv@cuis.edu
     In message body type: subscribe STUMPERS-L YourEmailAddress
228. Wired News Daily: To subscribe, visit http://hotwired.lycos.com
     

Other Resources

229. Computer Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information (4th Edition) By Nora M. Paul • Bonus Books Inc. and Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, 1999 • http://www.poynter.org/pub/car.htm
230. EContent (formerly Database) • Online Inc., Wilton, CT, bimonthly • http://www.ecmag.net • http://www.onlineinc.com/database (archives)
231. Encyclopedia of Associations • Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000 • http://www.gale.com
232. Facts on File Weekly World News Digest • Facts on File News Service, New York, NY, weekly • http://www.facts.com
233. Fulltext Sources Online • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 2x year • https://www.infotoday.com/fso
234. Great Scouts! CyberGuides for Subject Searching on the Web, By Nora Paul & Margot Williams • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 1999 • https://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#10
235. Information Sources for the Press and Broadcast Media • Edited by Sarah Adair • Bowker-Saur, 1999 •  http://www.bowker-saur.co.uk/products/catalog/lis/is_press.htm
236. Information Today • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, monthly • https://www.infotoday.com/it/itnew.htm
237. Internet World • Penton Media, Westport, CT, weekly • http://www.iw.com
238. Online • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, bimonthly • http://www.onlinemag.net
239. PC World • http://www.pcworld.com
240. Searcher • Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 10x/year. • https://www.infotoday.com/searcher
241. Secrets of the Super Searchers, By Reva Basch • CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1993 • https://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#13
242. Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, By Reva Basch • CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1996 • https://www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm#12
243. Who’s Who in America • Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ, annual • http://www.marquiswhoswho.com
244. The Wired Journalist: Newsroom Guide to the Internet (revised third edition), By Mike Wendland • http://www.rtndf.org/rtndf/wiredweb
245. The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Edited by Robert Famighetti • http://www.worldalmanac.com
246. Yahoo! Internet Life • ZDNet, monthly • http://www.zdnet.com/yil/
     

Software

247. Associated Press Broadcast Technology (ENPS) • http://www.enps.comAutonomy • http://www.autonomy.com
248. Cold Fusion (Allaire Corp.) • http://www.allaire.com/Products/index.cfm
249. Copernic • http://www.copernic.com
250. Enfish Tracker Pro • http://www.enfish.com
251. Homesite (Allaire Corp.) • http://www.allaire.com/Products/index.cfm
252. Intelliseek BullsEye • http://www.intelliseek.com
253. Internet FastFind (Symantec Corp.) • http://www.symantec.com
254. Microsoft Access • http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/
255. Microsoft Excel • http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel/
256. SII (System Integrators, Inc.) • http://www.sii.com
257. WebRecord Research Pro (Canon Computer Systems, Inc.) • http://www.software.canon.com

Super Searchers in the News: The Online Secrets of Journalists & News Researchers By Paula J. Hane Edited by Reva Basch