The Best Reference Sites
Whether you're looking for the average rainfall in the Amazon rainforest, researching Roman history, or just having fun learning to find information, you'll get some great help using my list of the best research and reference sites on the Web. About.com: I've found many answers to some pretty obscure questions right here at About.Reference.com.Extremely simple to use, very basically laid out.Refdesk.com.Includes in-depth research links to breaking news, Word of the Day,and Daily Pictures. A fun site with a ton of information.Encyclopedia.com. As stated on their site, Encyclopedia.com provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.Encyclopedia Brittanica. One of the world's oldest encyclopedias online.Encarta.Put together by Microsoft.
List of academic databases and search engines
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles. Operating services[edit] [edit] [edit]
Invisible Web
What is the "Invisible Web", a.k.a. the "Deep Web"? The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories. The "invisible web" is what you cannot find using these types of tools. The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. These types of pages used to be invisible but can now be found in most search engine results: Pages in non-HTML formats (pdf, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), now converted into HTML. Why isn't everything visible? There are still some hurdles search engine crawlers cannot leap. The Contents of Searchable Databases. How to Find the Invisible Web Simply think "databases" and keep your eyes open. Use Google and other search engines to locate searchable databases by searching a subject term and the word "database". Examples: plane crash database languages database toxic chemicals database Remember that the Invisible Web exists.
Electronic cigarettes: What we know so far
Database search engine
There are several categories of search engine software: Web search or full-text search (example: Lucene), database or structured data search (example: Dieselpoint), and mixed or enterprise search (example: Google Search Appliance). The largest web search engines such as Google and Yahoo! utilize tens or hundreds of thousands of computers to process billions of web pages and return results for thousands of searches per second. High volume of queries and text processing requires the software to run in highly distributed environment with high degree of redundancy. Searching for text-based content in databases or other structured data formats (XML, CSV, etc.) presents some special challenges and opportunities which a number of specialized search engines resolve. Database search engines were initially (and still usually are) included with major database software products. See also[edit] External links[edit] Searching for Text Information in Databases
UK Economy: The Bank of England, UK Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Bank of England (BoE) The Bank of England or BoE is one of the oldest central banks in the world. It was established in 1694 under the Bank of England, and became known as the ‘Old Lady’, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, where it is located in London. It designed to help maintain price stability, support the policies of Her Majesty’s government, issue banks notes, control the money supply and circulation, act as banker for the government, act as lender of last resort for banks, and manage banking regulation and oversight. UK Monetary Policy is set by the Bank of England. UK Monetary Policy, 2009 - 2010 As of Q1 2009, the Bank of England has already cut Interest Rates to a historic low of 1.0 per cent, with the consensus believing this will drop to 0.5 per cent. Further measures are probably needed, and this will include quantative easing, in other words printing more money. UK Fiscal Policy, 2009 - 2010
Deep Web Research 2009
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years, and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed into the “invisible” or what I like to call the “deep” web. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the World Wide Web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. Search engines find about 20 billion pages at the time of this publication. In the last several years, some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to search the deeper portions of the world wide web by attempting to find files such as .pdf, .doc, .xls, ppt, .ps, and others. These files are predominately used by businesses to communicate information within their organization, or to disseminate information to external communities. Bot Research
Habits of Mind
In 2008 zijn directie en bestuur op studiereis naar Amerika geweest om inspiratie en ideeën op te doen. Ze hebben verschillende scholen bezocht, waaronder de Mission Hill K-8 School in Boston. Daar hebben zij voor het eerst kennis gemaakt met een onderdeel van de habits of mind. Het onderzoeken van problemen door het stellen van goede vragen is slechts 1 van de 16 habits die er beschreven zijn. “Jarenlang is er onderzoek gedaan naar wat mensen succesvol maakt. De 16 Habits staan uitgebreid beschreven in het boek "Learning and leading with Habits of Mind" door Art Costa en Bena Kallick. 1. Bijdrage:Tekst: Rinke HuismanIllustraties: Nina Hazenoot Bijdrage: Tekst: Rinke Huisman, Debby van der Putten Illustraties: Nina Hazenoot
