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researchers says that 0pen-source software projects need to improve vulnerability-handling practices,

Even though Prof. French gave a rather in detail tutorial of Zotero in class, here's a visual guide in case you get lost!

You can download Wikipedia and only have it take up about 9 GB of space on your computer. It would definitely come in handy if you need to do research but don't have Internet access.

Michael S. Hart was one of the founding members of The Gutenberg Project. He recently passed away and this is the link to his obituary.

Thanks, Erin! He'd be a good guy to do research on for the presentation and final project.

Just in case you lose Internet connection while doing research for an essay, here's how you can download all of Wikipedia's content

A list of some of some important people in the history of the Internet, just to give some ideas to anyone still thinking!

You can use Google to search for magazines and magazine articles that date all the way back to the 1960's.

Hey, that's super-useful, Talia, thanks! When Google scanned things from research libraries, that included a lot of magazines. Or maybe Google made deals with the publishers directly for these. There are some weird titles in there, though -- no Time, no Newsweek, but you can search through _Torque_, "Singapore's best homegrown car magazine" :)

Open access ( OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. It is most commonly applied to scholarly journal articles, but it is also increasingly being provided to theses, book chapters, and scholarly monographs.

I thought this would help with the "how to be interesting" section of our presentations, which of course is 10% of the grade! I've always had problems with making presentations that are boring.