April 3, 2006
The
IRC JAKARTA
Web Alert
is an annotated list of resources freely available through the
internet.
Compiled
by The
Information Resource Center,
Public Affairs Section,
US Embassy Jakarta
FOCUS OF THE WEEK : FREE DATABASES
Core
Documents of U.S. Democracy
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
To provide American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal
Government documents that define U.S. democratic society, a core group
of current and historical Government publications is being made
available for free, permanent, public access via GPO Access. These
titles contain information which is vital to the democratic process
and critical to an informed electorate.
The Education
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of
Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and
non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the
public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC
bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back
to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued
1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are
now available for free.
GPO
Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html
Comprehensive list of official Federal resources available on GPO
Access
The
Electronic Research Collection (ERC)
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/
The Electronic Research Collection (ERC) is a partnership between the
United States Department of State and the Federal Depository Library
at the Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
ERC has two purposes. First, it is responsible for electronically
archived information products produced by State Department from 1990
to 1997. Second, the UIC depository librarians work with the State
Department public affairs staff to answer email questions from the
public, and help users find other information sources about U.S.
foreign policies and programs.
Economic
Indicators: Main Page
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html
Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is
prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic
Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages,
production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and
Federal finance.
HighWire
Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts
the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with
936 journals and 1,332,701 free, full-text articles online.
The
SearchSystems.net Public Records Directory
http://www.searchsystems.net/
Online since 1997, Search Systems continues to be a reliable resource
of business information, corporate filings, offenders, inmates,
criminal and civil court filings, vital records, property records,
unclaimed property, professional licenses, and much more.
Access to this site is free, but there is a delay on the links.
Magportal.com
http://www.magportal.com/
MagPortal.com® is a search engine and directory for finding online
magazine articles. The site was officially launched on March 28, 2000.
MagPortal.com is owned and operated by Hot Neuron LLC, a company that
specializes in applying novel research and ideas to software and
internet services development. Find individual articles from many
freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the
search engine.
FINDARTICLES.COM
www.findarticles.com/
Searchable online article archive of back issues from hundreds of
newspapers, journals and magazines. FindArticles has articles from
thousands of resources, with archives dating back to 1984.
WEB
ALERT, Apr3, 2006 
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INDEX
The
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
GPO
Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List
The Electronic Research Collection (ERC)
Economic
Indicators: Main Page
The
SearchSystems.net Public Records Directory
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