As we continue exploring
the Digital Marketplace and the 80 billion web pages of “free information”
available to us today, a proper index of the online databases, references and
search engines is an important starting point. Most of us stumble across new
information each and every day, without any real concept of how much
information is really available to us.
For this week’s blog, I
wanted to provide a high-level snapshot of the (free & subscription-based) contents,
the reference database and engine “table-of-contents” of our massive and
universal online library. Obviously, my list is a partial listing (very much so), and will
grow substantially in numbers before the end of the day. Each of the following eight categories
provides a link to the listing, with individual links from the listings to over
15,000 specific reference databases and engines:
General Directory – 13,678 online reference
databases:
Academic Databases & Search Engines - 100s of
online academic databases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
Encyclopedias – 100s of online encyclopedias:
Dictionaries – 30+ online dictionaries:
Digital Library Projects – 100s of online digital
libraries:
Magazines – 100s of online magazine archives:
Newspapers – 1,000s of online newspaper archives:
Search Engines – 100s of search engines
“Data is a precious thing and will last
longer than the systems themselves.” – Tim Berners-Lee
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