Beyond Google: Research Resource Guides for the Expert Searcher, Librarian, and Teacher

Take your research skills to the limit:

1) Read “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet: Conducting Effective Investigative & Legal Research on the Internet” 12th edition (as of 8/12)

2) Read: “Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012,” by Sabrina I. Pacifici, Published on July 14, 2012:

Selected Contents:

• Selected Engines, Web Archives, Open Data Repositories – facilitate searching Web, Blogs, News, Video and obtaining alerts
• Open Source Research Archives and Portals
• Federated Search
• Blog Search and Social Media
• News Search
• News Search Alerts
• Fee Based Sites and Databases
• Free Sites – some with registration and/or fee components
• Selected Financial Blogs
• Selected Online People Tracking Sources
• Television and Radio News Transcripts – including streaming audio/video
• Legislative Monitoring and Tracking
• E-Newsletters, Online Newspapers, Journals and News Sources
• Monitoring Trends, Companies and Products – Selected News Aggregators, RSS Feeds, Blog Search Engines
• Identification of Company Legal Representation
• Selected Online Tools for Competitor Monitoring
• Website Trackers
• Westlaw Watch and LexisNexis Trackers
• Benchmarking – Law, Corporate, Government, Market Data
• Country Profiles
• NGO Portals
• Research Directories and Portals