Category Archives: Search

Flu Clinic Locator

Posted on 12 October 2007 by Rick Mason

This online Flu Clinic Locator, provided by the American Lung Association, is an excellent way to find out where and when flu shots will be available in your area.  A great health resource for your ready-reference information or even your library … Continue reading →

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isbndb.com

Posted on 21 September 2007 by Rick Mason

isbndb.com is one of several websites that allow you to search for books by isbn, as well as the usual title/author/keyword searching.  Give it a try:  grab a nearby book (if you are like me, there are quite a few … Continue reading →

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GRDDL

Posted on 18 September 2007 by Rick Mason

GRDDL, a new recommendation from the W3C, is short for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, a means by which software can extract semantic information from a variety of web pages. In other words, rather than having to rely … Continue reading →

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LibWorm

Posted on 9 September 2007 by Rick Mason

LibWorm is a fantastic resource for those who are interested in libraries and blogs.  It is a search engine for library-related blog content, drawn from 1400 RSS feeds.

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BASE Lab search

Posted on 8 August 2007 by Rick Mason

BASE Lab is a search site/tool from the Bielenfeld University Library in Germany that has a couple of very interesting features. One feature is that it can translate your search terms into different languages using the Eurovoc thesaurus, and retrieve … Continue reading →

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Photosynth demonstration

Posted on 25 July 2007 by Rick Mason

This demonstration of Photosynth, software from Microsoft that creates links among pictures based on elements within the picture, is fascinating to watch. The most fascinating thing about this demo is you can start to sense the potential for this technology, … Continue reading →

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Footnote

Posted on 14 July 2007 by Rick Mason

Footnote describes itself as “History for the People”, and it’s collection of online historical resources is very good.  The free section of the site makes it worth the visit (and this blog focuses on resources that are free and relatively … Continue reading →

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PLoS ONE goes 2.0

Posted on 11 July 2007 by Rick Mason

PLoS ONE, an open access publishing site created by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has instituted a ratings system for articles published through them. By asking readers to rate every article they read for insight, reliability, and style, they … Continue reading →

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Free Science Search Tools

Posted on 11 July 2007 by Rick Mason

A Quick Look of a Few Free Science Search Tools is a post on ResourceShelf (if you only have time to follow two blogs, they should be the other one!) that provides a good starting point for finding free and/or … Continue reading →

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Google Custom Search Engine

Posted on 27 June 2007 by Rick Mason

The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has just been made easier to set up and use. The brief summary: create a page of links to web resources you feel are useful and appropriate for a given topic. Via Google, you … Continue reading →

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Bowker buys AquaBrowser

Posted on 27 June 2007 by Rick Mason

Specifically, Bowker has bought the company that owns AquaBrowser. Bowker, best known for publishing Books In Print, as well as assigning ISBNs, has bought Medialab Solutions, the Amsterdam company that developed the search interface. If you haven’t used AquaBrowser lately, … Continue reading →

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Melissa DATA

Posted on 19 June 2007 by Rick Mason

They’ve been around for a while, but I haven’t blogged about them yet, and they keep adding great features, so here is another great site for finding info related to location: Melissa DATA has links to resources that give you … Continue reading →

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LOUISdb

Posted on 19 June 2007 by Rick Mason

It is called the Library Of Unified Information Sources, a.k.a. LOUIS.  It’s purpose is to make it easier for people to learn about what is happening in the federal government, and is sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. It currently contains … Continue reading →

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FOB : Firms Out of Business

Posted on 5 June 2007 by Rick Mason

FOB : Firms Out of Business is a database of publishing companies that are no longer in business.  Why this type of database?  The results screen provides information in tracking down copyright holders, useful for when you are attempting to … Continue reading →

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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest

Posted on 3 June 2007 by Rick Mason

Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading →

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Pipl

Posted on 29 May 2007 by Rick Mason

Pipl is a search engine geared towards finding people, but it casts a wider net than other people search tools. It searches social networking sites, job sites, and blogs. As you might guess, there are usually a lot of results … Continue reading →

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Geonames

Posted on 26 May 2007 by Rick Mason

Geonames is an online database of places.  Type in the name of a place, be it a town, city, geographic feature, or landmark, and you get a list of places with that name. Want to know how many places in … Continue reading →

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Plantfacts

Posted on 25 May 2007 by Rick Mason

PlantFacts is a resource from the Ohio State University which provides a wealth of information about plants and horticulture through a plant web search, an image database, how-to videos, a collection of over 800 FAQs, and an illustrated glossary. from … Continue reading →

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Cross Language Web Search

Posted on 24 May 2007 by Rick Mason

Google Translate has a new feature:  it will allow you to search foreign language pages using your language’s search terms, and translates the results on the fly. As with all machine translation, the results will vary; the interface is well … Continue reading →

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BibMe

Posted on 24 May 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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