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This subject is dealt with in much more detail in Job Hunting on the Internet, but here are a few ideas to get you started:
DataBases
There is a huge amount of information available in databases on the Web. Once you find them, their information is usually easily accessible. Most have a human-oriented interface that allows you to find the data they contain. But how do you find the databases? Here are a few techniques:
Try adding the words database or archive to your search engine inquiry. (An example might be professional association AND database.) Even when the search engines haven't mined the information they contain, the engines usually know where the databases themselves are located.
Other sites on the Net often know where good databases are, and link to them: but rarely to just one. When you find a database, put the "link" command before its address, and plug that into a search engine. Although syntax varies from one engine to another, it will usually be something like "link: http://www.jobhuntersbible.com". This will return the Web addresses of all the sites that the search engine knows have links to that address. Go to those places and see where else those sites link to.
When Teoma returns search results, there will be a "Resources" group of addresses; though these are rarely databases themselves, they often point the way to them.
Use subject directories listed earlier, like the Librarians Index to the Internet, the Open Directory Project, etc. These will often point you to databases you can access.
FTP
Before HTML --- meaning before the World Wide Web --- most data on the Internet was moved using File Transfer Protocol, or FTP. It's still around; if you have ever downloaded a file or a piece of shareware, it was transferred to your computer using FTP. The protocol is built into your browser, and you can get FTP files the same way you access html pages.
FTP can be valuable to your research because there is a huge number of files available on the Net that are not accessible through the Web per se. Many are at libraries, universities, and government archives. There are a number of tricks you can use to find them, but the easiest is to go to:
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