Find It Fast: How to Uncover Expert Information on Any Subject

Find It Fast provides step-by-step instructions for finding out anything a reader wants to know, including consumer advice, job information, facts for starting a new business and answers on obscure topics. In this 4th Edition, Berkman promises to help researchers untangle the Web and find the most authoritative, accurate data available. He provides guidance for the many researchers and writers who haven't yet sifted out the really valuable sources, and reveals the best way to use the Internet and CD-ROM databases to locate experts, and conduct a thorough and effective information search. Throughout are valuable tips on getting the most out of sources, plus dozens of firsthand examples demonstrating effective information-search strategies at work. This new edition also includes updated names, addresses and phone numbers.

Robert I. Berkman is founder and editor of the Information Advisory Newsletter. He has also taught "How to Be an Instant Expert" course at New York City's Learning Annex for several years. He is currently teaching a course for The New School on computer-based research and lives in Washington, D.C.