Monday, April 16, 2012

New Deep Web book archive found

The Archaeological Survey of India has quite the index of indian and asian history books. Quite a deep web resource. Some books listed have scanned pdf copies. If not, at least you have identified new sources.

http://deep-web.org/asian-book-archive-found/

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Deep Web Newspaper Archives

Newspaper Archives Online

Some deep web research requires digging in the past for events. One good source for that is newspapers, here are some resources that provide lists of online newspaper archives.

US newspaper coverage - ResearchGuides lists links to many newspapers

Library of Congress Newspaper Resource List - LOC does a great job getting the list together of wonderful newspaper archives.

NewspaperArchive.com - (commercial) - Known for a large collection. I haven't used it, so I can't confirm this.

xooxleanswers.com - Great list of newspaper archives from Xooxle. Good list and a funky name. Two thumbs up.

University of Penn Newspaper Archive - List of US newspaper archives and dates. Looked like a deeper list of Texas newspapers, so this effort my be a deep comprehensive list.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

The Quandry of Judging Author Authrority

Ever found a really interesting article or book on a subject, but not sure how much you should trust the author as an authority?  This is a common problem researchers have over and over and over.

There are several quantatative methods to figure out how much credibility or authority rank to give that author. Take a peek at the methods over at Deep Web

http://deep-web.org/how-to-assign-authors-authority-rank/