General Research Sites

  • Power Reporting Resources for Journalists with thousands of free research resources for journalists, annotated and updated daily: find people and companies, check facts, find data for your beat, try new search tools, subscribe to news alerts.
  • 1stNews Headlines: News From 104 Newspaper, Broadcast & Online News Sources
  • Electric Library Search newspapers (including AJC), magazines, etc. all at once. Includes more than 7 million full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, newswires, journals, reference books, company information, plus television, radio & government transcripts. Documents you retrieve can be printed or saved.
  • Junk Science: Debunks faulty scientific data and analysis used to used to further a special agenda.
  • Story Ideas for Environmental, Science and Health Journalists  (Society of Environmental Journalists)
  • Historical Text Archive
  • Internet Translator: can translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire web pages.
  • Direct Search "is a growing compilation of DIRECT LINKS to the search interfaces of resources  that are not easily searchable from general search tools such as Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general search tools are essential for information retrieval of Internet materials many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not searchable via these tools."
  • Percent Change Calculator Easy way to make sure you get this correct in your stories. Enter the starting and ending numbers, it tells you the percent change.
  • Speech and Transcript Center has transcripts and audio of speeches from government (US and International) and business leaders, television and Radio programs, professional organizations, and historical speeches.
  • What Is?: Find out what technical terms mean.
  • Consumer Links
  • World News Forecast: Foreign News for the next month
  • allexperts.com: Allexperts has volunteer experts in nearly every category ready, willing, and able to answer your questions
  • National Academy Press Reading Room:You can cruise the web for books and read sample chapters plenty of places. But we're doing something a lot different: full books, free for the reading, first page to last, and lots of them. More than a thousand, actually.
  • ResoucePool: Collection of Internet Resources categorized by subject areas.
  • NHTSA Automotive Recall Database
  • Online Almanacs
  • World History On the Web
  • CityLink: The Internet's most comprehensive listing of U.S. States and Cities offering information on travel, tourism and relocation.
  • The Reference Desk: Lots and lots of links.
  • The Internet Newsroom
  • Using Metasearch Engines (Dogpile, etc.)
  • Northern Lights Search
  • Phone Numbers and Addresses Look up by name, address, or phone number!
  • Business and Individual Phone Directory
  • Journalist's Compass
  • Searchable Databases  Research almost anything!
  • Alta Vista, free-text searching of the Web
  • Excite's concept searching is highly effective
  • Northern Light categorizes search results to help you focus
  • Hotbot, from Hotwired and Inktomi, scored high in a recent study of completeness
  • search.com
  • Infoseek
  • Ask Jeeves searching with a human touch
  • Ultimate Bulletin Board actual humans answering questions from each other
  • Wired Cybrarian Selected links, with descriptions, in two dozen categories
  • ProFusion combines major search engines and filters the results
  • Magellan describes and rates Web resources
  • Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans
  • The Mining Company has humans who scour the Net and assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
  • Britannica adds human judgment to searching
  • Reference.com searches and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups
  • ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
  • Dejanews lets you search for Usenet postings or posters
  • C|Net combines computer news, reviews, software and services.
  • Achoo and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related sites
  • Gopher Jewels an index of gopher sites (yes, they still exist)
  • Liszt and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists

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