Ask-A: Question and Answer Sources

Sometimes the best way to get an answer is to ask someone.

This page:
Experts | Associations | Librarians | Others on the Internet | Archives of Questions and Answers

Ask Someone in the Business: Directories of Experts:

• All Experts - Experts in various categories offer to answer your questions
• Ask A+ Locator
• Ask an Expert Page - Experts in all subjects answer your questions
• Keen - Have an expert call you
• Pitsco's Ask an Expert - Links to expert sites

Ask a Group: Directories of Associations:

• Gateway to Associations (American Society of Association Executives)
• Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library)
• Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)
• Windows to Culture - International, national, and nonprofit cultural organizations (UNESCO)

Conferences:

• Atlas Conferences - Search for conferences by subject, date, or country
• Conference Alerts - Academic conferences worldwide
• MInd: The Meeting Index

Ask a Librarian:

• See Live Reference Librarians

Ask Others on the Internet:

Some of these sites have a searchable archive of past questions.

• Answers.com/WikiAnswers
• Ask Metafilter
• Google Answers - Users answer each other's questions — for a price agreed upon by questioner and answerer. However, you can browse the archive of answers for free.
• I Love Everything
• Quora - Collaborative site that aims "to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question"
• Yahoo Answers - Users answer each other's questions; browsable archive of answers

Archives of Questions and Answers:

If someone's asked your question before, you may find the answer at one of these sites.

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages
• Straight Dope - A syndicated newspaper columnist writing under the name of Cecil Adams answers questions from readers. Valuable archive of past questions.

Search Engine:

• QueryCAT - Search FAQ pages all over the Web