Sign up for Google and Yahoo email alerts using your desired keywords
(http://alerts.yahoo.com/ and www.google.com/alerts).

http://www.citeulike.org/

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.

The website for this commission, established by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin following Hurricane Katrina, provides final reports (from early 2006) on topics such as urban planning, education, public health, social services, government effectiveness, culture, and infrastructure (levees, criminal justice, and public transit).

http://www.bringneworleansback.org/

Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails

http://www.rssfwd.com/

Enter the blog URL address, then enter your own email address. A confirmation email will be sent to you. That’s it!

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In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives

This website provides an excellent portal to primary resources available on the Web. It indexes more than 2,500 international oral history collections in English. The title accurately indicates the content, and a quick review of the collections gives the scope. Best of all, it is free!

The home page is well organized, with links to a table of contents that includes sections titled Repositories, Collections, Interviews, Interview Date, Places, Historical Events, and All Subjects. The quick search feature allows searching by keyword; results show the search term as it appears in the context of the transcript. Links take users to the interview’s host institution.

Indexed collections include the Hollywood Film Industry Project, Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, and Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: Oral Histories. [Choice Reviewed 2006 January]

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FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation.

A more detailed description of this site is available in the FAQ list.

RLG has a search engine called redlightgreen (www.redlightgreen.com) which claims to have access to 120 million books.

RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library.

You can log in with your e-mail address (password is optional), conduct a search, look for holdings at a library and also have your citation instantly formatted into one of the popular formats (APA, MLA, etc.) and it’s all free and available directly on the internet.

More information about this is available at: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3560121

If you need to send a file larger than 10 megabytes obviously you can’t send it via email. This website lets you send large files up to 1000MB (1 gigabyte) to other people.

How does it work?