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Three hundred years ago, Jonathan Swift foresaw the cultural danger of relying on indexes to organise knowledge. He believed index learning led to superficial thinking . Swift was right and a growing of teachers and public intellectuals are coming to the realisation that search engines encourage skimming, light reading and trifling thoughts. Whereas subject classification creates harmony and encourages serendipity; indexes fracture knowledge into snippets making us stupid . Thanks to Google, the superficiality of index learning is infecting our culture, our society, and our civilisation.
Google did not invent the index. That honour goes to the 500 monks led by Hugh of St Cher who compiled the first concordance of the bible in 1230. Nor was Google the first to dream of indexing all of human knowledge. Henry Wheately had the idea in 1902 for a "universal index". And Google was not the first to cynically dump advertisements into the search-engine index. What makes Google unique is the extent to which it has, oblivious to the consequences, made a business out of commercialising the organisation of knowledge.

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  • Google Books gets inside books to some spot that has your topics in books one would never think of to find a useful piece. type " whatever" and "whatever" to get a good result. Some of the results one finds in Google Scholar are book sources that provide similar citations to those in Google Books. However, in Google Scholar, one finds a hyperlinked numerical link to the articles or other sources that cite the work found in the entry observed.
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When To Use Invisible Web Resources

The InvisibleWeb consists of searchable information resources whose contents cannot be indexed by traditional search engines . These include databases, archived material, and interactive tools such as calculators and dictionaries. Since these resources are embedded within thousands of individual Web sites, they are not “visible” to the search engines of today. Even if a site containing a database is retrieved, the search engine is unlikely to take you to the database itself, requiring you to surf the site to find it. Beyond the scope of even the most popular search engines, this incredible wealth of information has been largely unexplored, until now.

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DATABASES: Elsevier Science Direct Indexed by Google and Google Scholar: GOOGLE: Science Directly into Google

The Cell journal and the other being from within the database Science Direct . The other being The Cell These may be the same link in reality, but they are listed seperately. This will open up a tremendous body of literature to the public, depending upon how extensive the content from Elsevier from Science Direct constitutes that is available as full text journal articles.

Dissertations / ThesEs Sites

  • Cybertheses allows access to citations of French dissertations from 1972 to the present.
  • Center for Research Libraries doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site. Items can be ordered through ILL by students, faculty, and staff.
  • Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations.Free full-text access
  • Directory of Dissertations in Progress contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S." This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.
  • Dissertation.com has just a few hundred
    dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.
  • NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.
  • PhdData : The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various
    parts of the world.
  • Proquest Digital Dissertations provides the past two years of citations and abstracts in their Digital Dissertations database at no cost.
  • Theses Canada Portal provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available

FREE DATABASES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

These databases are provided by your public library. Many state and / or local governments provide commercial databases to public or school or both public and school libraries within their jurisdiction that are free to members of those libraries to use in some cases in the library and in others at remote or home computers with proper logon and password often involving the borrower card number of the library user.

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ERIC, Scirus, Google Scholar, PUBMED, Agricola, Ageline, BioMed Central, Book History Online, Cancerlit, Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption, EDGAR, Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics, Energy Citations Database, GPO Access, ingenta, NCJRS Database, New York Times Article Archive (1851-1995)[ NOTE: Searching is free; fulltext for a fee ], NTIS Electronic Catalog, Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases (US Patent & Trademark Office), PhilSci Archive, POPLINE, Population Index(1986 - 2000), PubList.com, RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, Science.gov, Social Science Research Network, THOMAS, and FindArticles.

OVID for writers and individuals doing research. Coverage of research resource media on this web page includes web searching and resources, electronic resourcres, instructional media resources and library online public access catalogs. Criteria are provided for assessing the value for research of various types of web pages.Both Aidsline and Toxline are databases that are provided by the National Library of Medicine, as is Medline. Aidsline is available from the fee based searching service.

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In addition, Dialog Information Services does have Toxline in its lineup of databases in the "Classic Dialog" searching service. It is Dialog File 156 and the fee based Classic Dialog

Medical Information and Research Resources Made Available by the National Institutes of Health in the United States

The Federal Government is a copious resource for medical information and one major part of that resource is the National Institutes of Health. Through the National Institutes of Health in the United States, these outstanding resources are available to the public:
ClinicalTrials.gov, a consumer-friendly database, has information on federal and private medical studies involving patients and others at thousands of locations nationwide.
ClinicalTrials.gov , a consumer-friendly database, has information on federal and private medical studies involving patients and others at thousands of locations nationwide. NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories (archive)
Bioethics Resources
Dietary Supplements
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Rare Diseases
Women's Health
Behavioral and Social Sciences

LOCKSS PROGRAM
"...let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." Jefferson, Thomas. [1791] 1984. Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. In Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America

CLOCKSS PROJECT- Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

CLOCKSS Project (1/23/06) A group of publishers, librarians, and learned societies have launched a community initiative employing the LOCKSS technology to support a large dark archive that serves as a failsafe repository for published scholarly content. Controlled LOCKSS ( CLOCKSS ), aims to provide assurance to the research community that a disaster, which would prevent the delivery of content, will not obstruct access to journal content. CLOCKSS content or the orphaned content would only become available after a trigger event, such as the material was no longer available from the publisher. In these situations, a joint advisory board, representing societies, publishers and libraries, will begin the process to determine if the content is orphaned and whether it should be made publicly available.

The Dewey Decimal system , is used by many public libraries. The college library uses the Library of Congress classification system.

Students at the K-12 level need to cope with research library collections at colleges, online databases, the core bibliographic research tools in academic libraries, and online journal aggregation tools that contain collections of full text journals and are also searchable like Journals @ OVID , JSTOR , MUSE , Lexis-Nexis ,

EBSCO , one database provider even has an elementary level, middle school level and high school level database set for student use that many public libraries subscribe to.

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The Collection of Special Search Engines (and some databases) especially discipline-specific, subject-specific and topic-specific search engines and collections of national, regional and local search engines.

What is MeL? An anywhere, anytime library for Michigan http://mel.org

Reed Elsevier the world's biggest multinational medical publisher owns databases organizes some of the world's largest arms exhibition.
Lancet calls for publisher to cut ties with international arms trade Richard Norton-Taylor September 9, 2005 The Guardian
Editors of the Lancet, one of the world's foremost medical journals, have demanded that its corporate owner stop promoting the international arms trade.
The journal's publisher is Reed Elsevier, the multinational behind an arms fair opening in London next week. The company is one of the world's biggest medical publishers and the owner of Spearhead, which organises some of the world's biggest arms exhibitions.
Opposition to Reed Elsevier's involvement in the arms trade is voiced inan editorial and in a letter from doctors and public health professionals in the Lancet published today.<snip>