Explorit Now! - BusinessResearch

BusinessResearch - allows a single simultaneous search of 25 business databases. The databases range from market research to blogs and include collections from Forrester and Gartner (the market research aggregator MarketResearch.com), blog and feed search engines BlogPulse and Feedster, and business news sites like BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Fortune Magazine .

Still in beta, recommended by The Information Advisor.

Beyond the Byline

American Journalism Review August/September 2006 Preview

"Newsroom researchers are beginning to get the credit they deserve."

Taking a break from the usual postings to toot our own horn a bit. This is a good overview of what a good news research team does... what our news researcher team routinely does.

Thanks to Amy Starke for pointing it out.

U.S.Congress Votes database

Created by the Washington Post, this site lets you "browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991)." Browse by aggregate or for individual members of Congress.

"This site publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of the most recent votes in both chambers. See the RSS page for full details.

This site is generally updated every day, although there is a delay between a vote in Congress and its appearance on the official Congress Web sites."

ResourceShelf - Calendars

Calendars, calendars, calendars and some schedules

Want to know when Angola's presidential election is? When the Kick'n Up Kountrey Music Festival in Hallock, Minnesota runs? When Hair Loss Awareness Month is slated? Check out ResourceShelf's new Calendars offering.

Wonderground.com - Historic Weather

Actually this site includes current weather, too, but
scroll down a screen page to where it says History & Almanac, enter the date you want in the dropdown boxes and click on Go. The detail is fantastic... an hour by hour temp history... plus all the other weather conditions.

State of Oregon Voter Database

Now you can verify who votes... and who doesn't.

The new State of Oregon Voter Database has just been posted to the Newsroom Homepage and to your Start menu - News Tools - Research.

Included are:
Name
Address
Date of Birth
Precinct
Party affiliation
and Voting record (just click on "voterid")

The database works just like the DMV database. We'll update it after each primary and general election. It will also be a good place to quickly verify a current address.

ClicheSite.com

The largest collection of cliches, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations.

Search by cliche, alphabetically, or by category.

Gleaned from the NewsLib listserv.

Childstats.gov - America's Children in Brief 2006 :

Published anually since 1997 by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum).

The Forum updates all data annually on its website http://childstats.gov

From Gary Price's ResourceShelf

CNS - North Korea Special Collection

Center for Non-Proliferation - North Korea Special Collection

"Articles, analyses of issues, background information, fact sheets, maps and other images, and selected links to related resources on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in North Korea. Includes discussions of relations and talks between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) concerning nuclear arms in the DPRK. From the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California."

From Gary Price's ResourceShelf

OPENOnline

Search Tip


"Forgot Your OPENonline Password?
It's very easy to reset your OPENonline password in the event you forget your original. At the Log In screen, click the Forgot Your Password link. This link will immediately take you to the Password Reset Request form. Once you have supplied the required information and submitted the form, the OPENonline Customer Support team will email a confirmation for the reset password.

Your new password must begin with a letter and be five to 10 characters in length."

Wildland Fires

Lynne Palombo has just finished updating the News Research wildfires resource web site.

It includes:
* Fire Phone Contacts & Web Resources
* Fire Statistics
* General Information: maps, facts, Morning Report
* Experts & Other Links

For additional news research resources see our Research Web.

saja.org: Mumbai Blasts 2006

South Asian Journalists Association has put this resource together to help journalists with covering the Mumbai(Bombay) blasts. Included are:

* Names of US-based experts who can talk about various aspects of this story.
* Names of journalists in Mumbai who can help.
* Blogs and other web resources covering this story.

Recruiting and Retention Numbers for June 2006

This monthly DoD announcement includes active duty and reserve forces recruiting and retention statistics.

View a fact sheet on who is volunteering for the military.