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Finding Information Online: When It Come To Rehabilitation and Disabilities, Try NARIC By Dan Wendling Media and Electronic Publications Coordinator National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) When you have a question, do you go onto the Internet and leave a few minutes later with all the answers you need? Your job requires that you stay current on new methods and best practices. Are you mystified and frustrated as to how to go about it? Can you find all you need free of charge? In the field of rehabilitation and disabilities, try NARIC -- as an example of the kinds of information resources and services available online for free. What NARIC Offers For 20 years, NARIC has collected and disseminated the results of Federally-funded research projects in disability and rehabilitation. The rate of new acquisitions in NARIC's literature collection is around 200 new documents per month, including commercially published books, journal articles and audiovisuals. NARIC also maintains Internet-accessible databases of organization listings and upcoming events in the field. Our Web site (www.naric.com) has two new tools that can help connect you to disability resources free of charge -- referral sheets online, and a current literature awareness service. Referral Sheets Online NARIC's Web site allows users to browse listings of organizations and documents in approximately 50 disability information categories (see www.naric.com/search/index.html#browse). For example, someone looking for spinal cord injury resources would currently find 30 government research projects, 732 documents published since 1993, 13 magazines and journals, 45 self-help, national membership or service organizations, 26 Internet sites, three printed resource directories and 2 upcoming national conferences -- all on that specific topic. NARIC librarians have recently added quick picks for six of the most requested categories: Each referral sheet lists seven to ten organizations that specialize in the dissemination of information, with links to Web sites. Current Literature Awareness Service For power users who need continuing information, there's the REHABDATA-Connection Internet mailing list -- created to help its members evaluate new methodologies, find new collaborative research partnerships, monitor trends, identify research opportunities, and stay on top of the important literature in their field. This once-per-month e-mail service delivers short bibliography of new documents by the 300 Federally funded projects, as well as other books and journal articles in the field. Subscribers can choose from among the approximately 50 specific topics. About NARIC The above services are free to anyone through NARIC's Web site. Other services, including delivery of documents and custom database searching, are available on the Web site, or ask for NARIC's brochure of services. NARIC is funded by the US Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Contact Dan Wendling at NARIC, 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 800, Silver Spring MD 20910, telephone (800) 346-2742 or (301) 562-2400, TTY (301) 495-5626, fax (301) 562-2401. |
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