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It's a little bit after Halloween, but it's still close enough for me to mention the Farber Gravestone Collection, over 13,500 images showing the sculpture of over 9,000 gravestones. Most of the gravestones were made before 1800. The collection is...
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The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has done a study of Internet references cites in medical journals, and has discovered what many of us know much to our chagrin; Internet references can disappear very quicky. " Internet references accounted...
Railroad Pictures
Okay, where are the train nuts? I know you're out there. This one's for you. RailPictures ( http://www.railpictures.net/ ) is an online database of over 28,000 railroad-related pictures browsable in many different ways. Look for the search options in the...
South African Genealogy Helper
I've done a lot of pointers to genealogy resources in America, but I don't remember doing one for South Africa. Well, I'm doing one now. Heather's South African Genealogy Help List ( http://www.genealogy.co.za/ ) is an extensive list of resources...
October 30, 2003Historic Fashion Collection from Cornell Online
Woo, you GO Cornell. The Cornell University Costume and Textile Collection now has an online database of over 5,000 records online at http://costume.cornell.edu:8080/ . Before you search the collection, you can also browse their online galleries, featuring many samples of...
Continue reading "Historic Fashion Collection from Cornell Online" » Google and Microsoft and Halloween Stuff
Yes, the rumors are flying: is Microsoft going to buy Google? If there's any more buzz on this my mailbox is going to explode. There are already 500 stories matching the words Google and Microsoft; see 'em for yourself at...
Continue reading "Google and Microsoft and Halloween Stuff" » October 29, 2003Autism Resource Links
If you're looking for information on several facets of autism, you can get it at the Autism Resources links page ( http://www.autism-resources.com/links.html ). Here you'll find resources divided into categories including sites with definitions of autism, news, accounts, treatments, bibliography,...
Extreme Pumpkins and Others
Okay, it's almost Halloween so naturally I have to tell you about a pumpkin site or two. Remember when carved pumpkins were just a couple of triangle eyes, a nose (maybe) and a jagged mouth? The carved pumpkins of Extreme...
October 28, 2003Postcards From Delaware
The University of Delaware now has a Web site available with you guessed it -- a collection of Delaware postcards. Over 2,000 of 'em. The site is available at http://www.lib.udel.edu/digital/dpc/ . There are a couple different ways you can review...
All But Forgotten Oldies
If you listened to popular music in the 60s and 70s and occasionally need to identify that scrap of song that's pingponging around in your mind, this is the site for you. AllButForgottenOldies.net ( http://www.allbutforgottenoldies.net/ ) lists over 4000 songs...
October 27, 2003CAMEO Upgrades Its Materials Enclycopedia
CAMEO, the Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online, has announced the release of a new upgraded version available at http://www.mfa.org/cameo . CAMEO contains information on over 10,000 historical and contemporary materials used in the conservation, preservation, and production of artistic,...
Continue reading "CAMEO Upgrades Its Materials Enclycopedia" » Identify that Font
Trying to figure out what a font is? Identifont ( http://www.identifont.com/index.html ) allows you to either try to look up a font by keyword or identify a font by answering a series of questions. The questions concern the way the...
Dept of Labor and Dept of Education Launch Career Voyages
Career Voyages ( http://www.careervoyages.gov ) is an effort by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education to link the educational community with the world of work. Several interesting resources here. You can "Chart Your Course," choose an industry...
Continue reading "Dept of Labor and Dept of Education Launch Career Voyages" » October 24, 2003RSS Feeds for Weather Information
Looking out the window to get the weather is SO 1901. Getting the weather from a Web site is SO 2001. It's 2003, get with the program, get your weather from an RSS feed. Try RSSWeather ( http://www.rssweather.com ). The...
Public Announcements for the State of Connecticut
The Connecticut Daily Newspaper Association announced last week that it now has a single site that houses all the public notices from the state of Connecticut's 17 daily and over 50 weekly newspapers. It's available at http://www.ctpublicnotices.org . The front...
Continue reading "Public Announcements for the State of Connecticut" » Sports Agent Index Offers Agent Information
Sports Agent Index ( http://www.sportsagentindex.com ) is a freely-searchable index of sports agents divided up into several categories. From the front page you can go to a search form that allows you to search for agents by keyword and sport....
Continue reading "Sports Agent Index Offers Agent Information" » October 23, 2003Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The English version of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online is available at http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html . I'm not providing the main URL because it's a) pretty much all Flash and b) you have to click in the EXACT right spot to...
Continue reading "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online" » Blogrunner Launches "Portal" Of Weblog Resources
I hate the word portal; that's why I put it in quotes. It reminds me of the bad old days when you couldn't visit a search engine without getting the latest baseball scores and the weather in Frying Pan Landing....
Continue reading "Blogrunner Launches "Portal" Of Weblog Resources" » Amazon Offers Thinking Inside the Book
Wow! That almost looks like a legit headline! Online book seller Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com ) is now offering the ability to search the entire contents of 120,000 books -- or 33 million pages. Cripes. Okay, let's get started....
October 22, 2003URL Shorteners, The Resource List
The Weblog Compendium has a new resource list of URL shorteners at http://www.lights.com/weblogs/shorterurls.html . Each listing has a link and a description. Some listings here I'd never heard of (BabyURL?) but I seem to remember other services not listed here...
LA Times Gets PR Newswire Content
Press release junkies, if you're looking for a new place to read the wires you can find it at the LA Times. If you go to http://www.latimes.com/business/ and then look under Business Tools/Press Releases on the left, you'll find PR...
October 21, 2003Database of Nuclear Explosions
Geoscience Australia has an available database of Nuclear Explosions at http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_query.html . This site was last updated in May and contains information on nuclear explosions all over the world. You have two search choices. You need to choose an area...
Google Adds Define Syntax
Google ( http://www.google.com ) has added a new special syntax to find definitions. It's define, and unlike many search syntaxes which work just with a colon (site:google.com), define works in two different ways....
October 20, 2003Deep Web Research Link Listing
Marcus Zillman's put together another Subject Tracer Blog, this one called DeepWebResearch.info ( http://www.DeepWebResearch.info ). This one-page link list provides information about the "invisible Web" in a variety of categories, including articles and papers, cross-database search tools, and presentations. Be...
PubMed Central Starts Major Scanning Project
PubMed Central has started a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several different publishers. The National Library of Medicine will scan cover-to-cover images of participating journal issues, back through volume one. You can read about the scanning project at...
Continue reading "PubMed Central Starts Major Scanning Project" » A New Way to Look at Open Directory Project Content
Clustered Hits ( http://www.clusteredhits.com/ ) offers a new way to view Open Directory Project content through "clusters" of results. Visit this site with IE if you want to avoid the error "At this time, this application works with Internet Explorer...
Continue reading "A New Way to Look at Open Directory Project Content" » October 18, 2003Economists on the Internet
Interested in the dismal science? You'll be interested in Resources for Economists on the Internet, at http://www.rfe.org . This site contains over 1,000 items of interest to those interested in economics. The site is laid out like a subject index,...
LOC Announces American Notes: Travels In America
The Library of Congress recently announced a new exhibit, American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml . There are two sections to the exhibit. There's a set of over 250 narratives by Americans and foreign visitors about their travels...
Continue reading "LOC Announces American Notes: Travels In America" » Blogs In Canada
Blogging north of the border? BlogsCanada ( http://www.blogscanada.ca/ ) is a directory of over 6700 Canadian blogs arranged by category. The site looks a bit strange in Opera but fine in IE. From the front page choose "Directory." You'll get...
October 17, 2003Contest Hound
If you like answering questions to enter drawings, entering sweepstakes, or even making up jingles, you'll like Contest Hound at http://www.contesthound.com/ . This site lists several different types of contests in several different countries. On the front page you'll see...
Museums and Galleries in the UK and Ireland
Museums, Galleries, and Historic Houses in the UK and Ireland is available at http://www.mghh.co.uk/ . This site allows you to search over 1600 listings by keyword or by classification (from agricultural to watercolors and drawings.) From the front page you...
Continue reading "Museums and Galleries in the UK and Ireland" » October 16, 2003New Browser Roundup -- Mozilla, Opera, Firebird
There are some new browsers out there. Opera this week announced the release of Opera 7.21 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It's available from http://www.opera.com . There's a new "Undo" feature that will allow you to recall browsing windows...
Continue reading "New Browser Roundup -- Mozilla, Opera, Firebird" » Google Alert Adds Features
Google Alert ( http://www.googlealert.com ) is not affiliated with Google. What it is is a free service that runs daily searches on Google and sends out e-mail alerts when new results related to a given keyword appear. It's added a...
October 13, 2003Maine Memory Network Launches New Browser Feature
The Maine Memory Network ( http://www.mainememory.net ) has launched a browse-by-topic search feature at http://www.mainememory.net/home.shtml . The browse-by-topic index is set up like a searchable subject index with categories from Arts & Entertainment to Transportation. Plenty of subcategories are available....
Continue reading "Maine Memory Network Launches New Browser Feature" » British Pathe Launches Photo Archive
Remember that British Pathe newsreel archive that was covered in ResearchBuzz not too long ago? Now from the same source comes a database of over 12 million historic photographs. The database was actually generated by scanning all of the newsreel...
eBay Offers a Free Level of their API
I haven't used eBay's API too much, and part of the reason was because their API levels all cost money. But I see that now they're offering a free version of their API; you can get all the details at...
October 10, 2003It's a New Blog Search Engine: Bloogz
If you can't get enough of searching Weblogs, check out Bloogz at http://www.bloogz.com/ . The front page allows you to search Weblogs in five languages (Italian, English, German, Spanish, or French.) I can't find any indication of how many 'blogs...
October 08, 2003Hospitals In the US
HealthCareHiring.com actually has several health care related resources available, but I'm going to concentrate on the listing of US hospitals at http://www.healthcarehiring.com/hospitals_us.html . This page is a list of states. Click on a state and you'll get a list of...
October 05, 2003Ghostbusters Props
Ghostbusters fan? Apparently you're not the only one. Get the skinny on how to equip for some 'bustin' at http://www.gbprops.com/ . There are over 250 props on this site (nice design, by the way.) Categories for props are on the...
October 02, 2003Yahoo News Offers Customizable RSS Files
You can now get Yahoo News search via RSS! Jeremy Zawodny explains in his 'blog ( http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001.html ) how to set up RSS feeds for Yahoo searches (instead of categories.) He's got a search form that allows you to enter...
Continue reading "Yahoo News Offers Customizable RSS Files" » The Quilt Index!
Looking for information on quilts? Sure you are. Check out the Quilt Index at http://www.quiltindex.org/ . The Quilt Index aggregates resources from four separate archives: the Michigan State University Museum, the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center, the Illinois...
Dogpile Adds a Couple Features to Its Toolbar
Metasearch engine Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ) announced yesterday a couple of additions to its Dogpile Search Toolbar (available for download at http://www.dogpile.com/toolbar.htm .) The toolbar, like most toolbars, is IE only. The new enhancements include a scrolling news ticker that...
Continue reading "Dogpile Adds a Couple Features to Its Toolbar" » October 01, 2003Sallie Mae Launches New Scholarship Database
Sallie Mae has launched a new scholarship tool at Wirescholar.com ( http://www.wiredscholar.com ) which contains 2.4 million scholarships worth $14 billion. Students will be required to register to access the scholarship database. Registration includes name, address, home phone number, and...
Continue reading "Sallie Mae Launches New Scholarship Database" » Alerts for Academic Conferences Worldwide
Wondering what's going on in academia around the world? Check out Conference Alerts at http://www.conferencealerts.com . This site provides both information on academic conferences around the world and e-mailed updates about the conferences themselves. The front page contains links to...
Continue reading "Alerts for Academic Conferences Worldwide" » Living History and Outdoor Museum Sites
If you're the type who likes a little fresh air with your history, check out Step Into History at http://www.stepintohistory.com/ . The site contains over 550 places across the United States which present living history or outdoor museums. The state...
Continue reading "Living History and Outdoor Museum Sites" » USPTO Puts Trademark Dispute Documents Online
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office has put up a Web site containing images of documents available in trademark disputes. It's available at http://ttabvue.uspto.gov . There are not many search options here; the...
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