The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Update Week 27
New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the
Info Professional.
9/6/01
Hello from Washington D.C.
We've received a great response during the first week of sign-ups for the new
opt-in list. Thank you very much! Will Hann and I plan to move the weblog and
weekly update to the Free Pint site around the 12th of October. Until then, I
will continue to post the weekly reminder to the various listservs and
discussion groups. After the move to Free Pint, the reminder post, what you
are now reading, will be sent directly to you.
If you haven't subscribed yet, please take a moment and fill out the form at,
http://www.freepint.com/resourceshelf/. It's simple and it’s free!
Note: The weblog is NOT going away.
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk will continue to be updated DAILY.
----------------
This email update is *ONLY A SAMPLE* of what you’ll find on the site.
The weblog page has about 50 entries this week.
----------------
Cheers,
gary
gprice@gwu.edu
----------------
P.s. If you know of other (individuals, listservs, etc.) that would find the
weblog, please let them know about us. Thank you.
Weekly Highlights #27
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
----Thursday, September 6, 2001 Web Search--Images Source: NY Times "Do Search Engines Expedite the Theft of Digital Images?"
AV Materials--Glossary UNESCO Publishes Glossary of Terms Related to the Archiving of AV Materials >From the site, "... the Glossary aims to provide definitions of audiovisual and audiovisual-related terms. Terms are defined in English with their equivalent in French, German and Spanish when known."
Exports--United States Source: Small Business Administration Benefits from Exports - State Reports Individual reports for all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. All reports are .pdf files. ----
Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Research--Global Invisible Web New Database: ISI Launches HighlyCited.Com “This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.” ----
Tuesday, September 4, 2001 Drug Trials--United States--Database Invisible Web New Database: Drug Trials Info from Acurian
Stamps--Database--Canada Invisible Web New Database: Philatis, Canadian Postage Stamps
Business--Books The Full-Text of Business Books, Search/Browse/Read Online for Free >From Ebrary.Inc. You will need to download a small app. To print, you'll be charged a small fee. Content from Random House, McGraw-Hill, Pearson plc, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, Yale University Press, and others. ----
Monday, September 3, 2001 Internet Usage--Students Research Skills--Students "Internet Replacing Libraries for Homework"
---- The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ----
Sunday, September 2, 2001 Fee vs. Free Source: Knowledge@Wharton via News.Com "Net Ads: The Buck Starts Here" >From the article, David Croson, Wharton professor of operations and information management, predicts that clever consumers will surf around until they find ways to slip past information tollbooths. "They’re going to find another way to get the information that is almost as good and still free," says Croson. "It’s the uninformed who are paying." ----
Saturday, September 1, 2001 Business--Searchable Databases Invisible Web No More Free Content: 10K Wizard Becomes A Fee-Based Service Today, 10K Wizard, a robust database providing SEC EDGAR filings, announced that it's moving to a fee-based model as of September 1st. ----
Friday, August 31, 2001 Web Search--Meta Search Engines Meta Search and Google Especially important for those of you who do search training! You probably already know that a majority of meta search engines do not provide results from Google. Why? According to a Google spokesperson, "Google's terms of service clearly states that meta engines cannot automatically grab results from Google. We're happy to let any metasearcher use us, under exactly the same terms that we're happy to sell results to other people, too. O.K., easy enough to understand. However, a few meta search engines claim to include Google results. This is not entirely accurate. I ran several searches (common terms) and limited the meta engine to only return Google material. What happened? Empty result sets.
Intellectual Freedom "First World Report on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom Launched" ----
Thursday, August 30, 2001 Full-Text Document Shelf (3 Items) Labor--United States Source: BLS Report on the American Workforce Overview ||| Direct to Full-Text 205 pages .pdf ---- Home Schooling--United States Source: NCES Home Schooling in the United States--1999 ---- The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 14 2007 - 20:36:19 PST