Sweet Search Ebooks search engine Wikisource Public Records Search Systems Bookmark These Five Great Deep Web Research Resources - The Helen Brown Group It’s really valuable to keep an eye on (and share!) the tools our colleagues in allied fields are using to do their research. This past week I stumbled upon these five great resources I wanted to share with you. First off, I’d like to mention two books, the Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting and the Verification Handbook; a Definitive Guide for Verifying Digital Content, both edited by Craig Silverman a leading expert on media errors, accuracy and verification, and (among other things), founder of Emergent and former fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Both books are available free to download in pdf format – scroll down the page here – or you can purchase them if you prefer hard copies. Private investigator Tamara Thompson’s PI Buzz weekly blogroll of her favorite (and usually free) web research links always has something worth looking into. What other resources have you found from allied professions?
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