Category Archives: Amazing Resources

Continued from the OEDB’s List of 119 resources of research sources beyond Google:

Finance and Investing

A variety of web-based investment analysis tools and financial statistics can only be found in the deep web.

1. Bankrate.com — A directory of interest rates for different types of loans, mortgages, and savings accounts.
2. InvestIQ — A database of market data from different world regions.
3. BigCharts — A searchable database of quotes and performance charts for different stocks and mutual funds.
4. SmartMoney.com Tools — A portal of different stock analysis tools.
5. EDGAR Online — A database of EDGAR SEC filings searchable by ticker or company name.

General Research

These are good places to start researching for background knowledge on any topic. The subscription-based databases will help intensify any research by scouring numerous scholarly journals.

1. GPO’s Catalog of US Government Publications — A searchable database of federal publications, with links to those available online.
2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries — A collection of 20 libraries from the world’s largest museum complex.
3. The National Archives — A list of all of the National Archives’ research tools and databases.
4. Encyclopædia Britannica — The authoritative encyclopedia searchable with full text online.
5. Topix.net — A news search engine.
6. Internet Public Library — The Internet’s public library. Fully searchable.
7. San Francisco Public Library – A list of all of the databases offered to SFPL library card holders. Not a California resident? This is just one example of many such local public libraries that offer similar services.
8. LexisNexis $ — The world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information. Over 35,000 individual sources are searchable with full-text available online.
9. Forrester Research $ — An independent technology and market research company, publishing in-depth research reports on a variety of subjects.
10. Factiva $ — A searchable collection of over 10,000 individual sources.

Government Data

The United States government publishes data on a variety of subjects, some of which is derived from census data or CIA findings.

1. Copyright Records (LOCIS) — A database of copyright records, searchable by documents, serials, and multimedia (including books, music, films, sound recordings, maps, software, photos, and art).
2. American FactFinder — A repository of aggregate census bureau data searchable by city, county, or ZIP code.
3. FedStats — A gateway to statistics from over 100 US federal agencies.
4. United States Patent and Trademark Office — A database of patent full-text and full-page images.
5. Geospatial One Stop — A searchable database of geographic data, displayable on maps.
6. United States Government Printing Office (GPO) — A search engine for mutliple government databases, including US budgets, campaign reform hearings, code of federal regulations, congressional bills, unified agendas, and more
7. POW/MIA Databases and Documents — A database of POWs and MIAs information.
8. ZIP+4 Lookup — A database of US ZIP codes and ZIP+4 codes, searchable by city or address.

Online Education Database (OEDB) is the center for information about online education. In the 1980s, I worked for the US Navy in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and helped the military members to obtain external degrees for the New York Regents. So I have been a longtime supporter of off campus education. Although I got a degree in 1962, I am basically self-taught in most areas of my life education.

Resources for choosing online learning, choosing degrees, choosing schools, college basics,military assistance degrees, financial aid information, online class assignments, as well as several featured online colleges. One of the great resources on this amazing resources is an article entitled: “Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better.”

This article has these 77 tips:

Health: Shake a leg–Food for thought-at breakfast–Eat a light lunch–Cognitive enhancers (ginkgo biboba)–Reduce stress and depression.

Balance: Sleep on it–Take a break–Take a hike–Change your focus.

Perspective and Focus: Change your focus, part 2–Do walking meditation–Focus and immerse yourself–Turn out the lights–Take a bath or shower.

Recall Techniques: Listen to music–Speedread–Use acronyms and other mnemonic devices.

Visual Aids: Every picture tells a story–Brainmap it–Learn symbolism and semiotics–Use information design–Use visual learning techniques–Map your task flow.

Verbal and Auditory Techniques: Stimulate ideas–Brainstorm–Learn by osmosis–Cognitive enhancers (binaural beats)–Laugh.

Kinesthetic Techniques: Write, don’t type–Carry a quality notebook at all times–Keep a journal–Organize–Use post-it notes.

Self-motivation Techniques: Give yourself credit–Motivate yourself–Set a goal–Think positive–Organize, part 2–Every skill is learned–Prepare yourself for learning–Prepare yourself, part 2–Constrain yourself.

Supplemental Techniques: Read as much as you can–Cross-pollinate your interests–Learn another language–Learn how to learn—Learn what you know and what you don’t–Multitask through background processes–Think holistically–Use the right type of repetition–Apply the Quantum Learning (QL) model–Get necessary tools–Get necessary tools, part 2–Learn critical thinking–Learn complex problem solving.

For Teachers, Tutors, and Parents: Be engaging–Use information pyramids–Use video games–Role play–Apply the 80/20 rules–Tell stories–Go beyond the public school curriculum–Use applied learning.

For Students and Self-Studiers: Be engaged–Teach yourself–Collaborate–Do unto others: teach something–Write about it–Learn by experience–Quiz yourself–Learn the right things first–Plan your learning.

Parting Advice: Persist–Defy the experts–Challenge yourself–Party before an exam–Don’t worry:learn happy.

April, 2008, we will be shifting from blogware to wordpress.org. For this month, Changemaker will be focusing on providing amazing resources on the Internet.

The Open Directory Project is an amazing resource. According to Wikipedia: “The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Under society, the link for Religion and Spirituality contains 36 religion categories including atheism.

• Advaita Vedanta (220)
• African (166)
• Agnosticism (45)
• Atheism (223)
• Baha’ism (274)
• Buddhism (3,276)
• Cao Dai (13)
• Christianity (78,358)
• Confucianism@ (48)
• Deism (60)
• Esoteric and Occult (2,636)
• Ethical Culture (26)
• Falun Dafa (27)
• Fourth Way (123)
• Gnosticism (136)
• Hinduism (1,403)
• Humanism (112)
• Islam (1,852)
• Jainism (37)
• Judaism (2,473)
• Modern Movements (77)
• Native American (55)
• New Age (1,704)
• New Thought (116)
• Pagan (2,259)
• Pantheism (48)
• Scientology (634)
• Shamanism (126)
• Shintoism (17)
• Sikhism (186)
• Spiritualism (330)
• Taoism (418)
• Unitarianism and Universalism (1,168)
• Universal Life Church (21)
• Zoroastrianism (45)