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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Online Databases
BibMe
BibMe is a great site for locating and generating bibliographic citations in MLA, APA and Chicago styles, which you can then download to your computer, or store on their server (if you sign up for a free account). In their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search
Tagged Amazon, Amazon DVD & VHS from BiblioTech Web, Chicago, Web page parser, Web page parser Journal, Yahoo
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It’s a Wiki… It’s a Skymap…
It’s WikiSky! Ideal for answering the question “was that object in the western sky a star or planet?”, as well as many other star / constellation type questions. It also includes photographs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Space, Wiki
Tagged Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious new project aimed at creating an online reference for all 1.8 million species of life. The encylopedia would have multiple user levels (from “novice” to “expert”), multimedia, and interactive means of exploring related species. from … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search
Tagged online reference
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LibraryThing for Libraries
LibraryThing for Libraries has launched! Without needing to alter your existing ILS software beyond a few lines of javascript in your OPAC’s page footer, you can add the following functionality to your book catalog: Links to other editions and translations. Links to “similar books”. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Connecticut, Danbury Library
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WorldCat Local
OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Librarian.net, social networking features, University of Washington
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Musical Sites
A couple music-related web sites of interest: LyricWiki is run using MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. They describe themselves as “a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Online Databases, Search
Tagged artist, musician, the Beatles
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Copyright Discussion
On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the topic of copyright, libraries and digitization. These meetings are happening … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, digitization/internet, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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ALA Library Salary Database
The Library Salary Database (press release) from the American Library Association is an online database where you can find out what people earn in various library positions at various places in the country. It seems like a good resource, but … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics
Tagged American Library Association, online database, USD
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Two Library Videos
The first, Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries, is an example of what can be very wrong with how our patrons must use our online resources. The second, Mr. Bean: The Library, is an example of what can be very right … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Video
Tagged Bean, Chuck Lockwood
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Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
This article from Linux.com is a great overview of what it takes to run a digitization project with fragile material and across great distance, as the Library of Congress and Archive.org work together on a project to preserve some of … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Software
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
T, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
T, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project This, Linux, Linux.com;
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Citizendium is now Beta
The Citizendium project has officially gone into beta (leaving alpha). This means that they are officially open for business, but still working the kinks out of the project. For a good overview of the project’s purpose, this USA Today article … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged USA Today
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Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
In the Citizendium Blog, there is a very good, concise post detailing how Wikipedia and Citizendium compare and contrast. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Databases, Open Access
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USGS Land Cover Database
It’s not at the “web-based, jump in – the water’s fine” stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Online Databases, Space
Tagged United States Geologic Service
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ERIC links to libraries via WorldCat
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) search tool has added a “Find in a library” link to many of their search results, which will open WorldCat in a new browser window with detail on which libraries in your area subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
Tagged Education Resources Information Center, search results, search tool
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FreeBase
Freebase is (or will be, if you are like me and waiting for an invite) an online behemoth of a database. Imagine taking Wikipedia and having users create links to related information, so that you can tap into the information … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged New York Times, online behemoth
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Nines
On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Search, Software, Web Design
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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Bartleby
This has been around for quite a while, but is such a good place to find online resources (Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction) that it is worth posting: Bartleby.com.
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services
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WorldCat Citations
WorldCat has now incorporated my favorite RedLightGreen (also this post) feature: Citations! Click the “cite this item” link in the results page and you now have MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and Harvard citation styles for that specific item. Couple this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged Chicago, Harvard
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WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don’t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged beta site, search tool
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