The Online World resources handbook

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The Galaxy service offers: Search Galaxy Pages, Find Galaxy Entries, Search the World
Wide Web, Search Gopher Space, Search Hytelnet Services (includes traditional ``top
down'' interface), and has pointers to searchable indexes and databases at many other
sites.
Free vs. commercial sources: On commercial online services, the profit
motive provides continuous pressure to keep data plentiful and
approachable. On the Internet, the information you'll find is there often
because of someone's good will. So, unless the resource is sponsored or
commercial in another another way, beware of outdated information.
The Northern Light Search Engine's "Special Collection" is a database of million
books, magazines, journals, newswires and databases that aren't generally available via
the Web . Searching the database is free, but there is a modest fee for documents
actually retrieved.
The Electric Library has more than 1,000 publications in its archive (1996). Users
can enter a plain English question to search over 900 full text magazines, over 150
full text newspapers, over 2,000 complete works of literature (Shakespeare, Monarch
Notes), 20,000 photographs, news wires, television and radio transcripts, book, movie
and software reviews, and Compton's Encyclopedia. They also have a dictionary,
thesaurus, almanac, fact books, and more.
Talking about Shakespeare. There is also a site offering the Complete Works of
William Shakespeare's plays and poetry.
Getting more out of your magazine subscriptions
To garner new subscribers and keep current readers, magazine publishers turn to online
services to create an ancillary electronic version of their print product. Their readers are
being transformed from passive recipients of information into active participants in
publishing.
You can "talk" with PC Magazine's writers through ZiffNet on CompuServe. Their
forums function as expert sources. Here, you will often learn about products and trends
sometimes before the magazines hit the newsstand. Time magazine has a forum on
America Online. There, readers can discuss with magazine reporters and editors, and
even read the text of entire issues of Time electronically before it is available on
newsstands.
Stanford University's HighWire Press lets you search in the full text of hundreds of
thousands of science articles.
Time Warner's Pathfinder provides the full text of Time magazine, including a
feature called Time Daily, updated with the latest stories each evening around 8 p.m.
ET.
PC Magazine (U.S.A.) is one of those magazines that arrives here by mail. We
butcher them, whenever we find something of interest. The "corpses" are dumped in a
high pile on the floor. To retrieve a story in this pile is difficult and time consuming,
unless the title is printed on the cover. Luckily, there are shortcuts. Connect to ZD Net
Search. Here, you can search for stories. Once you have a list with title references,
turning the pages gets much easier. However, as the articles are in full text, you may not
want to hit for the floor at all.
FindArticles.com offers free access to the full text of articles published in over
300 magazines and journals dating from 1998. Users can search the database by
keyword and subject categories (Arts & Entertainment, Computers & Technology,
Reference & Education, Sports, and more).
On CompuServe, ZiffNet offers Computer Database Plus. It lets you search through
more than 250,000 articles from over 200 popular newspapers and magazines. The
oldest articles are from early 1987. Their database is also available on CD ROM, but the
discs cover only one year at a time.
CDP contains full text from around 50 magazines, like Personal Computing,
Electronic News, MacWeek and Electronic Business. Stories from the other magazines
are available in abstracted form only. To search, you pay extra per hour. In addition, you
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