- Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
- Basic Reference Sources
Resource Type: Book
- Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Building & Running a Successful Research Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A guide for entrepreneurs interested in launching, managing and building an independent research firm. Topics include how to get started, manage the business, marketing, and researching. Techniques on how to close the sale, managing clients, promoting services on the web, and tapping into powerful information sources beyond the web are also included.
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing?
Collected Reviews on the Organization of Information
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
In-depth reviews focusing on key considerations in the organization and retrieval of organization.
- Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Centre for Suicide Prevention
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Crescent School
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Cyberskeptic's Guide to Internet Research
Resource Type: Book
Monthly newsletter evaluating important Internet sites and strategies.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Resource Type: Book
- The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines
A Handbook for the Serious Searcher
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Finding Answers
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
- Finding Answers - Review
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The book that helps you find everything from scholarly research to finding out who put that dent in your fender. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- Finding Canadian Facts Fast
How to find and use information about almost anybody or anything quickly, cheaply and legally
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A guide to research skills.
- Finding Canadian Facts Fast - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
- Finding Facts Fast
How to Find Out What You Want and Need To Know
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Finding It on the Internet
The Essential Guide to archie, Veronica, Gopher, WAIS, WWW (Including Mosoai), and Other Search and
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Getting the Goods
Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
- Getting The Goods: Information in B.C. - Review
Resource Type: Article
Review of Getting the Goods: Information in B.C.: How to Find It, How to Use It, by Rick Ouston. A book valuable beyond the circle of writers and researchers. Many chapters contain pertinent information for the average person who needs a starting point for his or her research.
- Help for online researchers (review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
- How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.
- An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Interrogation
A Complete Manual
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Explains the art and science of investigative reporting: how to decide on a subject, how to find and evaluate sources, how to approach and interview the sources and the subject of the investigation, how to write the investigative story, how to insure that it gets published, and how to advance the aims of an investigation even after the publication of the first article. A major portion of the book is devoted to research in public documents.
- Invisible or Deep Web
Resource Type: Article
What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
- Look it up, Eh? (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
- Meeting the Media
Resource Type: Article
Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
- The Muckraker's Manual
How To Do Your Own Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
The skills of investigative reporting described for non-journalists.
- One of the better how- to books on magazine research and writing (book reveiw)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- The Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
- The Oxford Guide to Family History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Shows how to trace family origins through the basics of research: where to begin, where to find records, how to decipher early styles of handwriting.
- The Oxford Guide to Library Research
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
An overview of little-known but powerful strategies used by librarians and information specialists, with clear explanations of fundamental methods searching.
- The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Resource Type: Website
The PLOS mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
- Radical Reference
Resource Type: Organization
Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research support, education and access to information. We work in a collaborative virtual setting and are dedicated to information activism to foster a more egalitarian society.
- Research is Ceremony
Indigenous Research Methods
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wilson describes a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
- Research Practices in Need of Examination and Improvement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
Belief in the function of the scientific method as a tool for improving the quality of research implies that the more accurately, carefully and honestly, a hypothesis is generated, the experiments are done and results are more likely to arrive at more reliable hypothesis.
- Research Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to research in the Sources directory for the media.
- ResearchBuzz
Resource Type: Website
News about search engines, databases, and other information collections.
- Researcher's Guide to the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Researching Canadian Corporations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A resource for people and organizations who find themselves victims of some corporation's malice or indifference, and want to do something about it.
- Researching on the Internet - REVIEW
The Complete Guide to Finding, Evaluating, and Organizing Information Effectively
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
An intelligent guide to successful online research. The focus is on the goals of the researcher; the tools offered by the Internet are evaluated in that context, not for their technological glitter. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- Reviews and mini-reviews from the Sources directory, Parliamentary Names & Numbers, and The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
Alphabetical list(by title) of reviews.
- Secrets of the Super Searchers - Review
The Accumulated Wisdom of 23 of the World's Top Online Searchers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
- Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
- Sources Select Links & Resources: Finding Contacts, Experts, Spokespersons
Resource Type: Website
- Sources Select Links & Resources: Libraries & Other Reference Sites
Resource Type: Website
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Council on Animal Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Canadian Council on Animal Care oversees the ethical care and use of animals in science across Canada through the work of veterinarians, scientists and the public.
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article
- The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
Resource Type: Book
Medawar raises questions about the nature of scientific endeavour, and a common theme is his desire to communicate the importance of science.
- Super Searchers on Madison Avenue
New Book Has Top Advertising and Marketing Professionals Sharing Their Online Research Strategies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Provides advertising and marketing tips, techniques and resources from large firms specializing in online searches.
- Toronto Rehab
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Review of books about online research.
- Voices of Experience
Five Tales of Community Economic Development in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
- The Web Library
Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. For many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research is discussed.
- Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.
- The world at your fingertips (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
- Yahoo! to the Max
An Extreme Searchers Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A reader-friendly guide to online research, communications, investments, and e-commerce through the Yahoo portal.
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