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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Online Databases
Phone Resources
Here are links to some interesting telephone number lookup services: Fone Finder Phone Validator World Telephone Numbering Guide from ResourceShelf
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged telephone number lookup services
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Google Scholar Citations
Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, WebSearch
Tagged citation management software, Google, librarian
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Universal Author Identifier System
The purpose of this proposal is to provide the means to differentiate between authors with the same or similar names. One thing I really like about it is that it would be able to be updated and maintained by authors, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals
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FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov
Time to change your links… the site formerly known as FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov. The search page is USASearch.gov. Easier for people to remember, once they get used to the change! from ResourceShelf
Posted in Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Governor, search page, United States
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Reference Librarian as Technology Mediator
This article’s abstract: The Arizona Health Sciences Library has collaborated with clinical faculty to develop a federated search engine that is useful for meeting real-time clinical information needs. This article proposes a technology mediation role for the reference librarian that … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Arizona Health Sciences Library, federated search engine, librarian, reference librarian, search engine, technology mediation role, Technology Mediator, technology-mediated services
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WikiLeaks
The existence of this web site has been leaked early, so there isn’t much to see (yet), but WikiLeaks is striving to combine the principles of WikiPedia and The Smoking Gun. Have a document, or other information, that you feel … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Politics
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Go FISH
As discussed on the Infomancy blog, FISH was their response to the problems inherent in the current state of the OPAC (Online Public-Access Catalog). And their response? FISH (Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler). What’s the difference? Read their … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software
Tagged access search tools, Online Public-Access Catalog, OPAC technology
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PLoS ONE launches
PLoS ONE, created by the Public Library of Science, has launched. Open Access takes a terrific step forward! from Open Access News
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged PLoS ONE;, Public Library of Science, the Public Library of Science
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Ye Gods!
Three interesting resources for information on deities and myths: Ye Largishe List ov Gods & Spirits (“…currently serving 4862 gods, godesses, deities, avatars, incarnations, angels, demons and various spirits….”) Encyclopedia Mythica (“…everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya….”) Godchecker.com (“…more Gods … Continue reading
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Stat Abs 2007
Yes, you are a library geek if you understand that the title does not refer to a quick workout plan, but to one of the best statistics resource for the U.S. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States: 2007 is … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Statistics
Tagged United States
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MARC records to be available with Creative Commons license???
This potential earthshaking announcement is buried in the awarding of a Mellon Grant to Maison Bisson for work on an innovative merging of blogging software and library catalogs (I’ll just say that it is detailed, and interesting, and could change … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Librarian.net
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Update on EPA library issue
As an update to this post, it seems that the situation with the EPA library is getting worse. Presumably in response to a congressional request to halt the closure of its libraries, the EPA is removing thousands of documents from … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, News, Online Databases, Open Access, Politics
Tagged Chicago, Chicago library, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA library, USD, web servers
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Intute: Virtual Training Suite
It is British, it is online, and it is free. It is Intute: Virtual Training Suite. What Intute is is a collection of web tutorials on a wide, wide range of subjects. Their aim is to give you an overview … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Tutorials, WebSearch
Tagged Britain, online educational offerings, Open University, United States, web tutorials, web-based resources
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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA
According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Archive, Internet Archive exempt, reasonable copyright applications
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Internet Archive times 3
All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Video, WebSearch
Tagged Archive, Internet Archive, Internet Archive times
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OttoBib
Another web-based option for automatic generation of bibliographic citations is OttoBib, in which you get a MLA, APA, or Chicago style citation by entering a book’s ISBN. from MetaFilter
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged APA, Chicago, MLA, web-based option
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Custom Search of DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a terrific resource containing, in their words, access to “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” If only they had a full-text search tool (they do have a “Find Article” … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Web Design
Tagged Open Access Journal, search tool
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Diet Television
An interesting site for comparing and contrasting the many various diet offerings exists on the site called Diet Television. Adjust the sliders along the left side of the screen to show the relative importance of various diet-related issues (speed of … Continue reading
Neighboroo
Neighboroo is one of the many mashups that exist using the Google Maps as the user interface. What Neighboroo does is give you a visual geographic layout of a variety of statistics, while doing a great job explaining those stats, … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Politics, Search, Statistics, Travel, Web Design
Tagged Google
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