Organizations and Websites: Research Tools 
Recommended
Creating Your Path to a Policy Career
As summer arrives, many students and recent grads are looking for how to find the perfect job. This serves as a great time to check out the Institute for Human Studies' handbook on creating one's path to a public policy career. The guide collects articles from many of the major players in the think tank and public policy world on topics like 'What Skills Do I Need in the Policy World?,' 'Roles Within a Think Tank,' and 'Changing Policy in the For-Profit Sector.' The guide is an excellent resource that complements IHS's series of career guides, like their 'Scaling the Ivory Tower' and 'Law School and Beyond.'
Those and other resources are available here.
New Search Engine: Liberty Finder
According to the new liberty-finder.com website, "Liberty-Finder is an online search engine powered by Google with a database restricted to websites that display resources on individual liberty, free market and limited government." The goal of the site's creators is, "to make the world’s classical liberal and libertarian resources more accessible and useful." Created by two libertarian entrepreneurs in August 2009, Liberty-Finder.com offers a unique approach to liberty by employing strategic technology to advance the message.
100 Useful Research Tools for Amateur Economists
"You don’t have to be a professional economist to do some really great research on the web. Whether you’re looking into historical trends, modern buying patterns or the latest stats on the global financial market you won’t find any shortage of information to keep you interested. Here are 100 great resources to utilize that can help you find, organize and understand your economic research."
Five Tips to Win Any Debate
By Justin Hartfield & M. Harrison: Don't Debate the Player, Debate the Claim. Five tips to verbally own your opponent with respect, grace and heavily veiled contempt.
Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating Congress
This interactive web site allows users to examine how Congress and its individual members have voted over the years on bills and amendments affecting the freedom of Americans to trade and invest in the global economy.
Public Choice
"Public Choice studies the intersection between economics and political science. The journal plays a central role in fostering exchange between economists and political scientists, enabling both communities to explain and learn from each other’s perspectives." Now available online.
Econ Journal Watch
"The electronic triannual Econ Journal Watch publishes Comments on articles appearing in economics journals and serves as a forum about economics research and the economics profession. EJW watches the journals for inappropriate assumptions, weak chains of argument, phony claims of relevance, and omissions of pertinent truths."
StateMaster
StateMaster is "a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states."
PolicyBot
"PolicyBot is the Internet's most extensive clearing- house for the work of free-market think tanks, with more than 17,000 studies and commentaries from over 350 think tanks and advocacy groups."