online sources

Every year there are more and more online services that are useful to scholars, students and researchers.

Connectivity may be slow at your home campus, or restrictions on the Internet may be in place at certain locations.

But when you have unlimited Internet speed and access to sites, then it is worth collecting materials electronically to work with later offline.

Major sources to consult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The articles change as more people edit and add content.

At the left side is "create eBook" (in PDF or ePub) to gather multiple Wikipedia articles into a single document to download.

The wikipedia languages with the most articles are English, Dutch, French and German. But there are more than 100 wikipedias to consult. Sometimes they are translated from one of the biggest wikipedias, but other times they are created independently and offer very different perspectives and supporting pictures, links and so on.

Search your Keywords on these Web Services and then make a PDF of websites such as these; or make a "screen shot" (JPG).

www.google.com | maps.google.com | www.youtube.com | http://www.archive.org includes audio, video, photo, and documents to take home.

More about images and video clips

One of the photo and video services to use with a free Yahoo account is Flickr.com Each yahoo user received 1000 GB free to save photos and short video.

There you can search your Keywords to find photos & video.

One tool at flickr is EXPLORE >World Map. Just zoom-in to see the pictures that are placed on your location(s):

look for your research site; your home country or hometown; your current computer location, for example.

Discovering new books and classic titles, too, in eBook format for easy transport and searching

Besides looking up your subjects at Library of Congress, www.loc.gov, at scholar.google.com and books.google.com there is also free software to download from amazon.com for eBook reading to use eBooks. Often you can download a free sample chapter. Or press the "look inside this book" link on the book cover to see the Table of Contents and a few of the pages.There is also a link for iPhone, Mac, and PC to use the eBook reading software on these platforms instead of the Kindle devices.

You can also browse the books, music and video from the stores outside USA amazon.co.jp or .uk or .de or .fr or .es or .ca

So maybe you will like to get the eBook reading free software and start getting some eBooks. If the price is 0.00 that means no cost.

Just search for your Keywords.

Here is one search example by using 'tuva' that I told my Urumqi colleague about.

Then I clicked one audio title: the attached screenshot JPG shows "customers also bought" some related keyword book titles.

January 2014 I wrote an article for Anthropology News (the newsletter for the American Anthropological Association).

There you can see lots of free Web-based services to experiment with and to tell your colleagues about. The extended essay is at http://bit.ly/reachoutye

On a related note, here is my slideshow to tell about making recording wide context in panorama photos (November 2013 conference presentation), http://bit.ly/aaa2013witteveen