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- Welcome to Wednesday Night the Lab. Today our presenters are Karen, Ulrike, and Betsy Vogel from the Steenbock Library and they'll be talking about BadgerLink: The Wisconsin's Connection to the World of Information. 
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- Hello, yes. Welcome and thank you for having us here this evening. Can everybody hear me all right? A little louder? Okay. We'll project a little bit more. 

And I'd also, while he's in the peanut gallery, we'll have Bucky come in because he certainly is linking you here, making sure you found your way to our session tonight which is about BadgerLink: Wisconsin's Connection to the World of Information. And here is our mascot tonight. We do have a lot -- a variety of resources. Ah yes, yes. We have to have a little bit of -- yes. No hands. Yes. Thank you Bucky. Thank you again. And we do have some commemorative posters from the libraries that do feature Bucky Badger tonight. 

Feel free to pick those up for family, friends, grandchildren, children, anybody that you would like to promote reading through Wisconsin's set of resources. Thank you. So now during the Wednesday night @ the Lab series, you've had many opportunities to experience and evaluate some of the research that's been happening in Wisconsin and on our campuses as well. As librarians, we're in the business of supporting a lot of that research by our collections. But as well we also preserve many of those collections for access for our entire Wisconsin community. Now as librarians, one thing that's very near and dear to our heart is public access to information. And that's where we're going to speak tonight about this particular project called BadgerLink. How many of you are familiar with BadgerLink at this point? A few people are. Have you used it? 

You have. Yes. Additionally we'll speak about some of the specialized resources you can access using BadgerLink. We'll speak about those. And as well we will also take questions later in this evening about any sort of pressing research or information needs you may have. We did leave some index cards for you in the back as well. I already have one right here that I'll hopefully be able to address with the group later. So on with our particular show this evening. Our speakers tonight include Ulrike Dieterle who is the Distance Services and Outreach Coordinator with Ebling Library which is our health sciences library at UW-Madison. I am Karen Dunn. 

I'm an information services librarian at Steenbock Memorial Library which supports the agricultural, life sciences, human ecology and research and veterinary medicine at UW-Madison. And then our third librarian tonight is Betsy Vogel who is the manager of Library and Information Resources for Rayovac Remington where she connects professionals to crucial information for decision support. So additionally, you should also have this one particular handout with you as well. This is the cover right here. It gives a little information about BadgerLink as well as information about us and then on the inside in BINGO fashion, you will see several icons right here that address and connect to some of the resources we're going to speak to more specifically this evening. As you see one of those icons or information resources, feel free to tick them off on your particular passport or BINGO page and when you have three connected in a row, do shout out BadgerLink, and we will have some prizes for you as well. So this will keep you paying attention this evening to all that we're going to cover. Keep you on your toes so to speak. Does anybody need one? Betsy and Ulrike will come around as I'm speaking to make sure you have one of those so you can all participate in that part of the activities this evening. 

Okay. So to review or to introduce some of you to this particular product called BadgerLink, I will call your attention to some descriptive information on our screen. BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning. It did begin its service back in 1998 and is funded by the Universal Service Fund. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources -- not otherwise available through open Web resources such as your popular Web search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. Its resources are made available to all Wisconsin residents and include databases to periodical literature in including journal, magazine and newspaper literature databases, specialized reference tools, text and image collections. Now this is the important weblink you'll need to memorize or bookmark or commit to memory this evening. Badgerlink. net will connect you to BadgerLink, and I'm just going to visit that link real quickly to show you the interface and just point out a few items on the sidebar. In detail we'll cover some of the very specialized resources you can access through here. 

But as well let me call you attention to what's on the margin as well in terms of accessing some of these particular resources. There is a link here to how to use BadgerLink. Which at this link you'll find various videos and instructional training and other sorts of materials that will help you use some of the products for your own self help and training as well. Additionally there is information here about how to actually log in and connect to these particular resources. You'll see that there are some registered internet service providers at this particular link, and if you actually receive your off campus internet access through any of these particular providers that appear on this list, you'll be able to access the full body of BadgerLink resources seamlessly at home. If not, there's also the library card access field right here if you click on this link. And this is what I need to do from my home computer. I do select my public library system from the pull down menu and then I enter in my library card number from this link right here. And then I'm able to connect to the full complement of BadgerLink resources. Now if you have any difficulty connecting, there's certainly ways to actually get support and we actually have a representative today in our audience here from BadgerLink, but there's a support request form that allows you to indicate how you are connecting to the service and how you need to connect. 

And additionally there is -- do I have an email link? I think that was our email. So that's how you would actually get some additional support for connecting to BadgerLink if you're not automatically connected through your internet service provider or your library card. So at this point I'm just going to toggle back to our power point presentation and turn it over to my next colleague here, Betsy who will start addressing some of the resources you can obtain that are business and corporate specific. 
- Thank you. BadgerLink is a rich source of business information as well. And before we dive into the resources available, I'd like to suggest a concept of the rule -- the rules of three. And that is when you get three navigation points, you can get a good reading of where you're at. So whether it's three good websites, three publications, three points of references, you can get a good determination. So rather than getting -- than drowning in Google or overwhelming yourself, just stick with the rule of three. 

Three librarians, the three rule concept. So with that in mind, let's look at what's available on Badgerlink. Specifically on the first page, the business and corporate link which you click on, and it opens up the EBSCO Host which is a magazine and journal database. You can enter a search term like here I entered "second career" although it's kind of small, but I entered it there. And I'll show you that -- we'll go live with this, but you can see the results in a visual pattern instead of just text, very helpful. It categorizes the subjects so you can drill into the proper subject heading and really narrow your results and you can also collect articles into this visual little cage that puts it into your folder that you can email to yourself later. Also worth exploring is this navigation bar at any point when you're inside BadgerLink. This is an amazing list of keywords and publications to narrow your search and refine your results. So with that being said. Let's go live and try some of these out. 

So we're going to select the business and corporate link. And it pops right into EBSCO Host. We're just going to take all four of these collections and continue. And instead of -- we can do a search about your money, "$", money on your BINGO card, that's a clue. We're going to search for investing in tough or soft economic times. So I'm just going to type the term invest. Truncate with an asterisk. You really can't see that too well can you. Oops. Invest and economic and -- we're going to Boolean this -- tough or soft. 

And a search right off the bat will yield a fair amount of articles here. There we go. Okay. So you can see right of the bat we get 946 articles which too much, lets just go back and do a further sweep and take full-text only. So you can go back and limit your search. Whoops. Forward, there we go. I want full-text articles only. And you can also do date restrictions, but even that one swoop is going to narrow your search results and improve them because you'll get the full text articles. Okay. 

Now we're down to a mere 563, but we can refine it using these subject headings on the side. So if we wish to look in the thesaurus and see what other terms help us refine the concept of investing in tough or soft economic times, we're trying to find subjects that will help us, probably more about portfolio management is a better search term. So you can see that that adds it to the search there. Double click. Okay. Let's see. This brought us down to one. Let me back out and. .. But the point is to use these subjects to navigate and zero in on your search and I encourage you to explore these either by the Boolean search method which we did up here. 

In fact we'll take a couple of these into -- we'll add these to our folder. There we go. Tough Love for the US Economy. So we've added those into our folder and on the top now you can see our folder has a little guy in there. You can also refine it by dragging this date bar over and just say you want the last 10 years. You could do that. And update the results. So there's a lot of ways to navigate this and use the tips that they already provide. It's a great resource. Another helpful search tip when you're going to peruse a bunch of articles you can look at you know up to 40 or 50 articles on the page at a time. 

So on the bottom you can play with these settings as well. But let's try another search and this time use the full visual tools here. And say you wish to read articles about second career choices. We're going to start a new search, but this time we're going to click "visual search" and this time, it's a visual interface and it organizes the articles in columns. It takes a little while to load it up, but it's worth the wait, because you can power through a lot of information this way. Now you can see it loading the articles down here, and I can narrow my search results by selecting the subject heading. And you can see right there, it took it from 250 results down to 22 when I selected just "career development. " And this one here from July 1 looks pretty interesting, about reinventing your career. So I want to read that one in full text, and when you click on it, the abstract appears in the right column, but I know I'm going to email that full article to myself, so I drag and drop the article. And this one looks pretty darn good, too. 

So these two articles are in my collection page, and now I'm going to add them to my folder. Try that again. So now I can go up and view the contents of my folder

- oh, before I do that, I want to just show you how you can dig in deeper based on the subject headings. It's easy to backwards navigate as well. So this is a really helpful tool to navigate large results. So let's go view the several articles we put in our folder before. Now we can select them all. And you can email them to yourself by clicking the email icon. It's great because you're also able to see the live link, and you should be able to click it and open the full text as well. 

But it's in citation format, the full text, you can determine what kind of format you like. I really encourage to go and explore these features in the business collection here. In fact, if you click to go back to the beginning of this EBSCO page, you'll notice these pull-down menus allow you to view an alphabetic list of publications, for example. There we go. And if you're searching for a specific subject, or title rather, you can browse the headings and see the publications that it covers. It's a really rich resource for business information. So please when you're in Badgerlink, be sure to have a look here. One final list are these company profiles, and there's an amazing source of company information if you are an investor or if you'd like to read an analyst's report on many companies, you'll see that these data-monitor reports are at your fingertips. Say, for example, you wanted to see if they had a report about Boston Scientific, you see here. Click on this link and it opens up an abstract, and even a full report. 

In the business world you'd have to pay a full sum for these, so these are right at your fingertips. I encourage you to use that navigation bar across the top, here. And that's all I have for the business resources. I'd like to hand it over to Ulrike now, and let me go back to "Where's Bucky?" 
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- Can you hear me now? Okay? Very good, okay, great. All right. 

So! Health. We're all concerned with our health, and Badgerlink has plenty of information for you. In fact, one of the great things that we didn't stress enough possibly is that Badgerlink has so much full text. That's one of the big complaints is that we find information about information but you often can't get to the full resource. And Badgerlink does a great job of filling that gap. Now, not everything is full text, it has a surprising amount of full text there for you. So, back to the familiar screen of Badgerlink. And what I'd like to do is look at health for all ages. For the little ones, for the medium ones, and for all of us. 

So we will look at the "Searchasaurus," the "kid's search," and down at the bottom there's a section that will focus you and shoot you right into the health and medical databases. If we look at the searchasaurus, this has many topics, this is for the little ones, and may as well get them used to good health right away. And, they can search using simple terms, simple words, and come up with short articles or graphics or pictures that will give them more information. For instance, the kids' search for more of the teenage level, a great tool for teachers as is the previous one, and there's a health component in this, and if I were a teenager doing a research report for school, I might choose something like this. We'll look at it live in a moment and see what it looks like a little deeper. And to look at the other level, that takes you right into six different databases concerned with consumer health and medical information. You might choose to search something a little more serious, such as chronic wasting disease and combine it with Wisconsin, so that it zeroes in on our population. So let's have a look at the live resource, and if we go to the searchasaurus, it'll take you to an interim page, and let's go to the health dinosaur here, and that will take us into the screen that we saw before. So if I were concerned with hand-washing, Mom says, "go look up hand washing," and see what you can find in that database. It comes with language-appropriate resources, not too many, but some good things that kids can look at and boil down, and if they choose to go to the full-text, you'll see that we have some very interesting posters and fliers that you can hang up right there in the bathroom for them. 

Or, if I go into kid's search, and then look at my interim page, and it routes me to this, where I have a whole array of subject headings that will again tune into the health. If I look at the lyme disease topic, and let's end it with "Wisconsin," and see what that brings us, we might find a whole array of things that we can look at to tell us about those nasty little ticks that we want to avoid. There's all sorts of quality information, for instance, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other resources that can be found. You see all of these that are shown in the full text, so it's a great way to provide information to different levels of needs and intensity. Now, if we go back and look at the bottom here, we will go right into those six databases, the newest of which is the bottom one, with is--. So here you can find, if you want to search one, you can search one at a time, or you can search multiple databases at a time and do a broader swath of coverage. But to just give you a quick view of what it might look like if you look for information on a certain drug, you can put a drug name in here, or you can put a condition in here and then find the drugs that apply to that condition. For instance, if I were to look for a cholesterol drug, I would find a long list of medications that are related to controlling your levels of cholesterol. Then you find imbedded here different types of information. Again, if you look at the full text, it's very informative, it tells you what the medicine is for, how it's best taken, lots of information, what to look out for, and so on. 

Let me march back to where we were, and let me show you here if we do another search

- and let me, many of you may be aware of medline or clubmed, that's the National Library of Medicine, a database that's very large, it's the largest biomedical database used by our researchers, and by our students here on campus. You could do a search using that, but let's just pick, we'll pick four of these, we'll leave out the drug this time and we'll look for the topic of "ear wax." Ear wax is always a problem. So this gives you a chance to demonstrate one thing that you can do, you can of course spell ear wax as two words, or the system allows you to "or" it, and then I would spell "ear wax" as one word. And this is just a quick simple tip, that you want to search all the possible spellings and connotations of the word. Let's see what we find. And of course I could add another word if I wanted to, say, "remove ear wax," that might be something I would be interested in. But for instance you'll find out the best way of irrigating the ear, the best solutions to use, what's been proven effective, ear wax drops, and so on and so forth. There's ample information in full text here for you to browse. 

Or we might, let me clear this search. If we clear this search, sort of

- if we have a problem it's just a little slow here, but that's nothing to do with Badgerlink, it could well have to do with our connection. Another tip with searching, you can search phrases by putting them within quotation marks. If we're looking for information on that sandwich generation, you all know what that means, right? Caught in the middle. Or, on either end of the sandwich, I suppose. We can find information that's broad, not necessarily that medical, but it's related to health and wellness. You can find lots of different health-related information, and the wonderful thing is that much of it will be in full text. Ah! 

Okay! Well good! I think I heard this first. That is lyme disease isn't it, yes indeed. Okay, and we had another one. Is that okay? LED flashlights, courtesy of Rayovac. Oh, there you go. 
(Laughs)

- So I am here to actually review with you some of the rich resources Badgerlink has available for perusing a variety of news resources. Now for me, I start my day going through a lot of online news resources. How many other people do that, too? You have a newspaper you subscribe to. Check that every day? Well, Badgerlink has access to a variety of these resources, as I just mentioned, one being a particularly deep archive called the newspaper archive, where you can actually look at historical collections of newspaper literature. As well

- and I'm also going to focus on another resource called Ethnic News Watch, which will access a lot of the indigenous and native presses, as well as other publications throughout the country, which you might find very interesting for a diverse perspective on the news. Yes? Yes, we have another one right here. 

Let's see, what else do we have in our kitty? Well, at this point, we have some limited edition posters from our library collection, too. And speaking also of our collections here, as I go back to the Badgerlink resources, there's one link at the bottom here, which is a menu of all the various resources that you can use within Badgerlink for researching news and finding current newspaper literature as well. I would rely on this menu entirely. It could do well to mention also that what you're seeing on the page, there are these direct links into the resources, but we've also reviewed resources that come from EBSCO and ProQuest. If these are not familiar to you, I will just qualify that EBSCO and ProQuest are vendors, companies that create these particular databases, and we set up libraries as well as the Badgerlink project

- has a contractual agreement with these companies for full text article access, and that particular searchable database for this particular content. I just want to qualify that if you haven't heard those names before. But moving right along, and I'm going to feature ethnic news watch, newspaper archives, and the menu. Now newspaper archive as I mentioned is a very deep archive, you can search newspaper content and are able to view those in a PDF form, which captures the original look and feel of the publication. 

I find this resource particularly useful for researching historical events at time of the occasion or the occurrence of that particular event, and also I know many people who use it for researching family history as well. Very nice resource for finding names of family members, etc. The other resource that I'll demonstrate with you is ethnic news watch, it is one of the ProQuest family of databases, it allows you to search more than 250 newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic and indigenous press, from 1990 to the present day. So it's a little more contemporary. You will be able to retrieve full text article content from that resource, and I find it particularly useful for researching different perspectives on contemporary issues. Okay, additionally through these resources you'll have access to alerting services where you'll be able to have search results in there too as new results matching your search strategy are added to the database. And I'll show you how that works in just a moment. Why don't we toggle over, and let's go back into

- I want to go back to just our Badgerlink page. Oh, do we have somebody else? 

Oh, I'm sorry, did we miss you? We'll catch up with everybody on those extra prizes that we have here as well. Okay, newspaper archive, I'm just going to go ahead and launch this particular resource, to give you a little taste of what this looks like. Has anybody used this at this point? I thought I saw a few nods earlier. Right. One tip I would certainly recommend to everybody: while you can begin your search with the one search line at the very top of the screen, I always recommend looking for an advanced tab. Advanced tab certainly gives you more options, it's not more difficult. Additionally within this resource, you can browse the variable newspapers that are available through newspaper archive, and see how far back the treatment is for those particular resources. At some instances the coverage might not be the entire publication for any one publication, you may find you want to consult with the Wisconsin Historical Society, and any area resources for a particular publication if you need more content than what newspaper archive provides. 

I'm going to go into the advanced search, and I'm going to put a little piece of Wisconsin trivia on here for you, too while this loads up. Does anybody know where Wisconsin's deadliest tornado actually occurred? New Richmond, awesome, somebody knows this! And how did you know that? Done some research in this area? Well, what I can do is treat New Richmond, two-word name of location, as an exact phrase, and at the top line I'm going to put in "tornado." As you'll see in the advanced interface you do have options for setting and clarifying particular dates. Do you know when that tornado actually occurred? Yes, 1890s. With newspaper archive we can get that far back. 

I just want to say I want to look at US newspapers and newspapers from the state of Wisconsin. I'm just gonna scroll down and select Wisconsin, so I have my search set up right here, and I'll click search and pull up some of these publications. And I see here a variety of Wisconsin newspapers including the Daily Northwestern, the Eau Claire Leader Telegram, Racine Daily Journal. So if I click on one of these, I'll just arbitrarily pick, the Eau Claire Leader Telegram, we immediately see this beautiful headline here, "New Richmond's Tornado, hundreds of lives reported lost and hundreds reported injured. Appeals for aid." And here you can see June 14, 1899. So this particular article, this particular subject has been treated. I find it really nice for historical research, I like the full page scans where you can also pick up some of the additional content as well. I find advertisements very interesting, and it's also interesting what other kinds of issues you can tease out of a story such as this. In one of the articles I looked at it talked about a carnival or circus being in town and how the animals were behaving very strangely before the advent of this actual tornado. 

So you can find all sorts of other treatment and coverage. One of the other articles within this search also lists the names of all the individuals who were injured and/or killed in that particular tornado event. So if that also involved a family, artifact of family history you might also be able to find and document that within one of these articles. So I'm just going to toggle this back to where we were. Let me go out of this particular resource. I'm just going to take you back into Badgerlink. Let me show you quickly the look and feel of ethnic news watch. We'll launch that particular resource here. Once again, I always look for that advanced tab, gives me more options for how I can require that my search terms appear. And let's see, a topical issue of late might be voter registration. 

So what I'm going to type in is "voter," and I'm going to put a wild card in, which is an asterisk, and I'm sorry if you can't see real closely here, but it's going to look for related words of that particular term: voter, voters, etc. And then I can do here "voter" and "registration," and let's see I might just do "regist," also add the wild card there. On the second line we're interested in the whole issue of presidential. I might just do "president" right there, also with a wild card character. I'm looking for that relevant citations or the document text itself. And do you notice, because we are in ethnic news watch at this point, I can require and limit this to particular publications within particular publications we have

- the Arab and Middle Eastern Press, Asian Pacific Islander, European, Hispanic, Jewish, multi-ethnic, or Native American as well. So if there's a particular area or group that I feel might be particularly affected by this I could limit my search accordingly. Or I can search all ethnic groups at this point, and I'm just going to do a particular search right now, click on my search tab, and I have to click it again. That doesn't work. 

There we go. You can always, by default, rely on your return tab as well, but the mouse doesn't always connect. So we'll see here at this point I have retrieved 2,580 documents by my search looking at voter registration and presidential elections, and you can see here, there's a list of citations. I can rank them by the most relevant first, but I can sort them to show me the most recent first. This is a pretty large set for it to sort, but we can do that. It might be as well that it also finds different publications. Oh here's Obama's strategy to maximize the black vote in elections, but you can see here it's finding all sources right now. But I can clarify for scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, or reference reports. And if I select one of those particular headings, I can focus it in to a particular body of literature I want to look at. And you can see here that these are coming from such publications as Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Middle East Policy, Journal of Palestine Studies, etc. 

So it's a whole different body of resource literature that I've been able to find, and it is indeed full text. Many times there are full text, PDF or full text in html, so you have a couple of different format options. Okay. And then, just going to go back and I did mention before that many of these databases do allow you to set up a particular alert so that you actually receive an email when new content on your search has been added to your database. To do that with this particular database, you'll see "set up an alert" right here. If you click on this, a thing will pop up which will review for you what your strategy, your search actually was. And then you clarify how frequently you want to be reminded that there might be something out there. Monthly, weekly, daily, as new articles are added, and you can actually set a time frame for how often and how long you want to retain this particular search. I could say, "Well, I can do this up to a year, but maybe I just want to track this particular issue for the next four months," or when is the election, November. I might want to actually track that just six months because I might grow tired of that particular issue. 

You would be putting in your email address here, and set this into place and save it, and then in your email, depending on what you qualified and how often you want to receive that information, you will receive an email as your articles have been added to the database. So a good way of keeping current, most of these periodical databases for newspapers, journals, and magazines will allow you to set up this particular kind of search. Kind of a way of maximizing it that you don't have to always go into the database and run the search afresh. You could actually have the system provide it for you. So, at this point let me go back and I'll leave this and go back to my slides here just to review a few other things with you. As well as Badgerlink we do have some other general resources available which you'll find at the bottom of the Badgerlink page. This is just a screen shot of those right here. I can go back into this and go back to Badgerlink, I can show you where those are actually at. As we scroll to the bottom of the page in a live search, these appear at the bottom right here, including links to WiscCat which will search Wisconsin library catalogs as well as Worldcat which will search libraries in Wisconsin as well as national and some international library holdings. What's really nice about WorldCat, if you're here in this immediate area or if you're anywhere in the state, it actually allows you to enter in a zip code, and you can see which libraries are actually closest to you that have a particular publication, book source or even a journal that you're looking for. 

It will tell you how many miles away from you each library you'll be able to find that resource. Additionally, you'll see that there are several items available here, Wisconsin Heritage online, some digital resources useful for family history or Wisconsin history. Oops, didn't mean to do that. Okay, close a couple of windows there and go back to where I was. As well as an interesting resource called the Badgerlink Songbook Database, so if you're looking for Songbook collections, this will show you library holdings that have them. Also Wisconsin digital library collections. Through Badgerlink, you can actually search for those by name, either with simple search or advanced search. The folks with the University of Wisconsin digital collections did provide us with a handout today for you that many of you probably already picked up. That will look a little bit like this. I try this as well, because in addition to the Badgerlink search you can also go directly to their website which appears on my screen right here. 

You can browse those collections, full text products, digital, video, some video, mostly image collections as well that might be useful for your research as well. And then, of course, because we are representing our libraries here in Madison, not only through Badgerlink can you access a lot of resources remotely, but you can also visit our libraries throughout the state, including our academic libraries and Ulrike and I are actually from the University libraries here on campus, but I will say that here for the university libraries there is this visitor's link as well that lists all the information about visiting and using campus libraries. Including what your borrowing privileges are if you're from the state of Wisconsin. There are options for annual fee cards, courtesy cards. I will mention that if you're not from the Madison area, many of the other UW-system schools have cards and public borrowing privileges as well. Steenbock Library, which is the library I work at, also does have a courtesy card available for Wisconsin residents who are not affiliated with the UW system, it does allow you just to borrow library from the Steenbock collections. Additionally, Ebling, which is the health sciences library here at Madison also has a free Patron card for community users to use the Ebling library's collections. And additionally, if you are an alum of the University of Wisconsin, you also have some resources linked her from the UW Alumni Association. And I regret it is such a long link, but if you go to its main view, you can go and find the list of resources that are available from the Alumni Association. And of course, while you can use these resources independently, we are the original search engine, so if you have questions for us tonight, as librarians, we're happy to entertain those right now. 

And thank you for attention to our presentation, we hope it was informative and useful, and certainly at any time, come visit us or use the Badgerlink resource, which certainly is your access, Wisconsin's free access to the world of information. 
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 peanut gallery, we'll have Bucky