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![]() ![]() ![]() A good search is also a search with money. Not buckets of money but enough to open the door to commercial databases, research services and document delivery. Such research comes to depend more on the quality of information desired than what you can find free. Comparable information can be found in print but the Spire Project interlinks content with the immediacy of further internet information, like links to commercial database descriptions and forms to government book databases. By making the complete website available to take home, we can help you search faster too.
Prepared by an information professional, released in html, shareware, mirror sites and FAQs, the Spire Project is the most detailed source for information research delivered on the internet. It is content rich, cohesive and frequently verified. We think you will be pleasantly surprised.
![]() ![]() What is the information quality? (Promotional) This information is the best on the net! Actually, there is very little information of this kind anywhere online though some can be found in books and trade articles. Some articles like National Statistical Bureau and News & News Databases simply don't exist elsewhere. (Legal) The content of this website is simply a collection of information gathered from many sources with limited editorial checking ... (Serious) Some articles do attract peer review. Most information comes from internet webpages, a selection of books on research, interviews with specialist researchers, trade articles and personal experience.
Laptop computer in hand, I spend many a day speaking to people who add to this project. The rest of my time I spend writing for the Spire Project, programming, public speaking and researching the further development of this technology.
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![]() July 1997, David launched the Information Research FAQ. In 1998, we launched our website, free shareware, a mirror/host effort, a webring and a second FAQ. 1999 saw two more FAQs, more mirrors and a newsgroup. This year we launched two new websites, a syndicated newspaper column, and likely the first of our commercial services. We assist more than 18,000 people (visits) a month. Let us consider this project in context. The future of internet research rests with the power of content-rich resource-linked sites like the Spire Project. Complaints about the poor value of internet research and the difficulty of information research originate in the paucity of relevant factual guidance. The information revolution is also about making you expert at working with information. It is about a dramatic fall in costs of getting information and a more open sharing environment. Over the past few years I have worked hard to liberate information; both from the dusty shelves of government agencies and from the disorganized corners of the internet. We are still at the early stages of this global movement. Much work remains. ![]() Permission is granted for attributed use of statements in this website, provided such quotations are not longer than 400 words. An email to david @spireproject.com is optional. Requests for longer quotations, or requests to include an article in a larger presentation handout are almost always fine (and free) but contact David first. As an opinionated internet visionary, I also welcome pointed questions (best by email). ![]() We are particularly starved of research notes and peer review. Writing these articles involves considerable research into resources and method, so should you have expertise you are willing to share, please tell us and we will call on you for advice. This would be most helpful.
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