Gary Price, the ultimate web miner, thrilled 100 people on last week’s SLACanada‘s chatinar. Gary knows the web, and he’s so adept at explaining it in ways that respect what and how librarians need of that web. He also knows the media flows that influence the news, publications, sources, sites and apps that info pros need to be their organization’s intelligence officers. It is his deep knowledge of how media works and how the web works that allow him to dig up the nuggets he reports on daily in Infodocket in Library Journal.
Here’s the video of the chatinar, and, below is his listing of sources – updated daily!
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Thoughts
- Finding: “Authoritative” and “Credible” Sources and People (Especially When You’re New to a Topic)
- Business/Niche Press and Websites
- Academic Articles and Organizations
- Center For …
- Trade Associations, Professional Societies, etc.
- Using Web-Only Specialty Databases and Exploiting Non-Obvious Databases
- Example: PubMed for Internet Usage Research
- Example: Industry Trends in SEC Filings
- Pick Up the Phone or Send an E-Mail
- Finding Contacts vs. Sending to an info@… Address
- Use Search Terms/Descriptors
- “Literature Review”
- “Systematic Review”
- Handbook
- Guidebook
- So Many Others
- Using Social Media
- Finding More Experts
- What are People Saying (Of Course, Be Careful)
- Using Non-Textual Materials
- For Example: Video and Podcasts
- Lectures, Interviews, Conference Sessions
- Here Today, Gone (or Changed) Tomorrow: Saving What You Find
- Don’t Count on it Being Accessible Tomorrow
- Heavy Duty Saving/Archiving
- Being in the Loop: Learning Early in the Cycle, Keeping Current
- Learning/Knowing “Early” Allows You to Share with Colleagues
- Adds Value to Your Job
- Newsletters and Alerts
Resources and Tools
- Finding: “Authoritative”
- New Resource I’m Developing
- Penn Think Tanks Report
- ORCID
- GRID (Global Researcher Identifier Database)
- High Quality Research Reports From Legislative Research Organizations
- com
- Official CRS Portal
- UK House of Parliament Research Library Briefings
- European Parliament Research Service Report
- Canadian Parliament Library Reports
- COVID-19-Related Reports
- Databases…
- Expert Curation: ReliefWeb
- Expert Curation: DisasterLit
- Semantic Scholar
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access Books
- CORE
- Microsoft Academic
- Figshare
- Unpaywall
- Using Social Media
- Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tool||| Additional Info
- Hoaxy
- Using Non-Textual Materials
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- PBS NewsHour Collection
- CPAC Video Archive||| C-SPAN Video Archive
- Downie (Save Multimedia Files)
- Here Today, Gone (or Changed) Tomorrow…
- Zotero (Research Manager)
- ZoteroBib
- Wayback Machine Toolbar or Bookmarklet (Archive on Demand)
- Wayback-Save Page Now
- Save Page Now (via E-Mail; SPN@archive.orgSubj: “Capture outlinks”)
- io
- pt
- UK Web Archive
- Time Travel (Search Multiple Web Archives)
- In the Loop
- Inoreader
- YouTube Alerts (New Videos)
- EventRegistry
- GDELT Global Database of Events, Language and Tone) Summary
|||GDELT Homepage - com
- World Media Directory
- Website Watcher
- Odds and Ends
- Total Number of Google Search Results (Now Between 300-400)
- Owler
- Windy
- Scholia (BETA: Data Visualization Tool for Citation Data)