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**jo ellen meyers sharp h*@sbcglobal.net**

Actually, it's my city/county library system. You go to the Web site, 
type in your member ID number from your library card, click on 
databases and find the pub you are looking for. You can read and/or 
download the articles because the library subscribes to the services.

To find out which database the pub is in, you can visit:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/index.jsp

This site has not been updated for five years, but most of the 
publications have not switched databases.

Also, there are special purpose databases, such as ERIC for 
education-related research, some of which is agricultural.

jems

>I had an idea on my way back from the GWA meeting in Philly.  There 
>were a number of really good professional writing tips offered in 
>some of the seminars; tips not available to members not able to 
>attend the meeting or a particular seminar.  I was wondering, first, 
>has Lagasse allowed someone to send a description of GWL and how to 
>join to the entire membership?  If not, he should.  The message 
>should go out every year to cover new members.
>
>As an example of a great tip - Alva Salmon from High Country Gardens 
>gave an outstanding power point presentation in the Google seminar on 
>how to use RSS feeds and the blog reader Bloglines to research 
>specific topics for a column or article.
>
>To use this technique you need to belong to www.bloglines.com or some 
>other blog reader.    It is free and easy to join.  I use Bloglines 
>to keep track of what has been published since my last visit in ten 
>gardening blogs, six comic strips my newspaper does not print, and 
>new articles coming out each day from Wired Magazine.  Instead of 
>going to 17 different sites each day to check on updates, I go to one 
>site - Bloglines.
>
>Here is an example - I am going to write a column about the new CCA 
>(arsenic) problem in mulch for consumers, described so well in 
>another seminar by Steve Jarahian, from Fafard and president of the 
>Mulch & Soil Council.
>
>First I go into the News section of Google (I have it included on my 
>bookmark tool box)  In the search window of Google's news section, I 
>type "CCA in Mulch" and I hit the news search button (not the entire 
>web button).  I get two hits.  I then select and save the web address 
>up in the address window.
>
>I go to Bloglines.  I hit the tab "My Feeds" and I hit "add" so I can 
>add my Google news search for CCA in Mulch to my bloglines list of 
>feeds.  It asks for the URL of the new feed I want to add and I paste 
>in the address I had saved.  Now every day, I can automatically check 
>to see if there have been any additional news items, from over 4000 
>sources,  about CCA in Mulch.  If there have been any new items, they 
>are available to me with one click.  When I finish writing the 
>column, I go into Blogllines and cancel the feed on CCA in Mulch.
>
>This approach needs to have a topic that is fairly specific.  
>"Raising Perennials" would get too many hits to be of much value.  
>"New Perennials for 2006" would work very well.
>
>There are 800 members of GWA who should have access to this tip.  It 
>seems to me that GWL is the best way at the moment.  We just have to 
>alert the membership each year about the availability of GWL.
>
>Another tip I have yet to pursue:  Someone asked if there was any way 
>to bypass  the fees required to use the archives of the New York 
>Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.  A member said that 
>in her state, the state library system had free access so she worked 
>her searches through her state library system.
>
>  From the old man needing lots of naps
>
>Jeff Ball
>jeffball@usol.com
>810-724-8581
>Check out my daily blog at www.gardeneryardener.blogspot.com
>Check out my extensive web site at www.yardener.com
>
>
>
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-- 
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
Fax: (317) 251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net
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