How to Benefit From Sharp Advantages of Virtual Libraries

Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Ashwin in Internet

I have been writing for eons now and the frustrating part of the writing process is the lack of research material to base your writing on. It so happens that I can write pretty quick on articles or blog posts based on topics I am pretty familirar with but the issue pops its ugly head up when I have to write on subjects like pets, weddings and wood-working that I have no idea about.

Just to give you a perspective, I can write about 5 articles on business — marketing, finance and general business technology topics — in an hour flat and about 3 articles on technology in an hour. That translates to 12 minutes per article for the former case and 20 minutes for the latter.

However, for topics like wood-working, pets and health I tend to take a whopping hour or more per article. This is an insane amount of time and my hourly worthy drops considerably due to that (not to mention the drop in money earned per hour and productivity).

So, how do we write on niches that we may not know much about but you do know you are being asked to (guest blogging) or when you operate on such a niche yourself?

The key to do that is a virtual library that facilitates your research and helps you achieve a lot more with much less time expended. One of the best libraries I’ve found is Questia which is aa huge repository of journal, articles, thousands of books scanned and presented for you to read, etc. Yet another place you could think of is highbeam which houses thosands and thousands of magazine articles and archives of some of the prominent magazines like the Wall Street, The Economist, and many more.

A cool place I did find for a sort of a dashboard for expedited research across topics of popular interest is CEOexpress – it houses a simple layout which resembles a portal and provides you some quick links to resources categoried into different topics.

Needless to say, there is an endless list of options available for you to do research from. Pick your niche and find the best virtual library you can find. It’s amazing how much time you could save ( and hence more money you could earn and more productive you could get) just by making this decision today.

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