Via James R. Jacobs – “There have been several new subscription databases popping up in the last couple of years which scrape freely available public domain govt information (inc Congressional member & committee sites, members’ social media, news etc) index it and then sell (IMHO exorbitant) subscriptions to libraries and others. [James R. Jacobs] created a google custom search engine that does *almost* the same thing (google doesn’t — or isn’t allowed to — index Facebook so he has not included). Check out the spreadsheet of urls being indexed and let me know if there are any you’d like to add. Also, if you’d like to embed the search in a web page or lib guide, email James off list and he will send you the javascript.”
LiberGov search: https://cse.google.com/cse/
Spreadsheet of urls: https://docs.google.com/
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