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« June 2002 | Main | August 2002 » July 31, 2002ProQuest Digitizes Wall Street Journal Backfile
ProQuest has announced ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020731/nyw071_1.html ) the completion of their Wall Street Journal digitization project. The backfile goes from 1889-1985 and includes more than five million articles. As with other ProQuest digitization projects, the backfile includes not only the articles,...
Continue reading "ProQuest Digitizes Wall Street Journal Backfile" » Robin Hood Research
The Robin Hood Project ( http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm ) is a collection of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. There are seven sets of information on this site. First there's Robin Hood tales,...
July 30, 2002New Zealand Launches Poisons Database
There's now a poisons database for New Zealand available at http://www.toxinz.com/ . And though it does have a subscription option (two levels of subscriptions are available) its free option allows you to search for information on 60,000 toxic products. Choose...
July 29, 2002NoodleBib 3.0 Launches in Beta
NoodleBib 3.0 launched in Beta on July 22, and will be available free as a beta product until the end of August. NoodleBib is available at http://www.noodletools.com/members/noodlebib3 ; you'll need to use the name "guest" and the password "guest" for...
Games Kids Play
No, it's not an Alan Parsons Project song. It's a Web site about traditional kid's games, like Red Rover, Ghost in the Graveyard, and Freeze Tag, and it's at http://www.gameskidsplay.net/ . You can view the games in several ways. There...
July 25, 2002Digitized 18th Century Books
I'm a little late on this one. The Gale Group announced last month a project to digitize nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800. Called The Eighteenth Century, this project should make the titles online beginning in June...
Social Science Data Archives
Is there a particular word that means "useful resource that only takes up one page?" Anyway, there's yet another example at http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/Databases.html . This page contains a list of social science databases, broken down by country with a top listing...
July 24, 2002Food Reference
Hungry? Check out http://www.foodreference.com/ . The center column of the front page provides a Quote of the Day, a Culinary Quiz and other stuff like Todays Events (just in case you were wondering, today is National Tequila Day.) For the...
Search Engine Gigablast Enters Beta
Search engine Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) blasted into beta last weekend. And while they have a comparatively small index (73M pages), there are some good ideas here. Do a simple search on the front page or use the advanced search...
July 23, 2002New York Times Launches Multimedia Section
The New York Times has launched a multimedia section at http://www.nytimes.com/multimedia/ . Materials at the site include a "Photographer's Journal," a Flash feature that blends photos and narration, "Album Showcase," which features New York Times critics discussing audio clips from...
Continue reading "New York Times Launches Multimedia Section" » Old Geek Gadgets On Parade
Sure, it's easy to be cool NOW, with your Palm and your iPod and your amazingly-designed Mac. But back in the 70s you didn't have those options. You had digital watches and boom boxes and Walkmans. Dig the retro-cool at...
July 22, 2002Scottish Research In One Place
The Scottish Research Information System ( http://www.scottishresearch.com/ ) provides a hub for information on academic and industry research in Scotland. The site offers several sections, including funding (with a search), a list of inventions (from Improvements in wheelchairs to A...
Newswise Offers Directory of Experts
Newswise, an online clearinghouse for scientific, medical, liberal arts and business news, has created a searchable directory of experts at http://www.newswise.com/ncd/ . The site is searchable by several different variables, including institution name, state, institution category, and subject area. (Over...
July 20, 2002Site for CAD Articles
TenLinks has created a "reading room for computer aided design" at http://www.caddigest.com . In addition to containing original materials, this site also links to CAD-related material all over the Web. The front page contains links to the latest articles added...
July 17, 2002Nat. Lib. of Scotland Adds Map Images
The National Library of Scotland has added 500 high-resolution, zoomable images to its map collection. The current map collection cover 1560-1750, while these new maps cover 1750-1928. (This collection is one of three collections that I reviewed in May.) The...
Historical Photographs of Cuba
The Cuban Heritage Digital Collection of the Otto G. Richter Library of the University of Miami has put online over 600 photographs of Cuba from the Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection. The collection is available at http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/ chc5017_main.html . The...
July 16, 2002Google and Yahoo Extend Until SeptemberJuly 15, 2002Colorado State Answers Agricultural QuestionsMinerals Management Service Creates Well Logs ServiceJuly 10, 2002Really Early Journals
Looking for 18th and 19th century journals? Check out The Internet Library of Early Journals at http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ . This site is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. The goal is to digitize "substantial runs"...
MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards Online
MyFamily.com announced today a project to make more than 24 million WWI draft registration cards available online in indexed, digitized format. Currently 100,000 cards are available on the site; more will be added weekly. The cards will be searchable by...
Continue reading "MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards Online" » July 09, 2002Maine Launches New Web SiteJuly 08, 2002GooFresh QuestionsUS Naval History Sources in the US
The Naval Historical Center has updated their 1979 US Naval History Sources in the US with an online guide. The guide's available at http://www.history.navy.mil/sources/ . The front page of the site has a list of US states on the left....
African Environmental News Portal AvailableGet Your Child Seats Checked
Got a kidlet? Got a safety seat for them? Want to make sure your safety seat is properly installed? Go to http://www.seatcheck.org/ . This site will give you a list of places, searchable by state or zip code, where you...
July 04, 2002Search Engine Openfind Enters Beta TestAll Species Names Being CollectedJuly 03, 2002AltaFresh -- Query Recent Additions to AltaVistaYahoo Launches their New Home PageGooFresh -- Query Recent Additions to GoogleJuly 02, 2002New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the US
UC-Berkeley and the National Archives and Records Administration have teamed up to create EARS -- the Early Arrivals Records Search (EARS) database -- at http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/iber/casefiles . Several million people came through immigration stations in San Francisco and Honolulu between 1882...
Continue reading "New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the US" » AltaVista Launches New Search Engine FeaturesJuly 01, 2002MyFamily.com Announces Availability of 1920 Census
MyFamily.com has announced that the 1920 Census is available online. You can read the press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020627/sfth008_1.html . The census does have a price above the annual Ancestry subscription price -- $99.95 as an annual subscription or $39.95 as...
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