ResearchBuzz:
Last Five Entries: |
« February 2004 | Main | April 2004 » March 31, 2004Five Thousand Links for Marketers
... and they're not just links for online marketers, either. The Marketer's Portal, at http://www.marketersportal.com/ , provides link sets and news feeds from Moreover. The links are divided into four broad categories: DailySites, UsefulSites, CategorySites, and MediaSites. There are a...
FindLaw Launches New FindLaw for the Public
FindLaw has announced a new "FindLaw for the Public" Web site with lots of new content including a variety of state-specific legal content and expanded general legal content. It's available at http://public.findlaw.com/. From the front page you'll find a subject...
Continue reading "FindLaw Launches New FindLaw for the Public" » Topix Up to 6,000 News Sources
Holy-Cow-When-You-Said-Local-You-Weren't-Kiddin' news site Topix (http://www.topix.net) is now up to 6,000 news sources, up from 3,600. Almost a quarter of the sources they're crawling are daily newspapers, and only 1% of what they're crawling are Weblogs. Topix allows you to get...
March 30, 2004Google Rolls Out A New Look
It's apparently spring cleaning time over at the GooglePlex, and they have a lovely new front page and search results to show for it. As you'll see on their front page, they now list Froogle as one of their search...
This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll get an article, too. This week's article: online graphics tools. Get more information on ResearchBuzz Extra at http://www.researchbuzz.com/buzzex.shtml ....
New Database on Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television
If you're all about the clues and the mysteries and the detectives, you'll enjoy Crime Fiction Canada, which despite its name covers crime fiction, film, and television from all over the world. It's available at http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada . There are actually...
Continue reading "New Database on Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television" » March 29, 2004New Google Syntax for Number Range
Yes, yes, I know Google's offering some new search services, I'll talk about those tomorrow. Today I want to talk about a new syntax Google's offering: number range. The number range syntax works by inputting two numbers, with a double...
Directory of Photo-Related Sites
With a searchable subject index of photo sites, an index of photo-related Web sites (powered by MagPortal) and a stack of cameras on the left side of the page, there's plenty to see on even the unbusy front page of...
Online Scottish Dictionary Launched
Dundee University has launched a Scottish dictionary that incorporates both the twelve-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the ten-volume Scottish National Dictionary. It's available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/ . The dictionary is searchable by full-entry and "headword" ("searches for Scots...
March 26, 2004Word of the Day -- Searchgunk
SEARCHGUNK: Material found in search engine results that's irrelevant to the topic for which you're searching. Not necessarily useless, bad, or the result of search engine spamming -- just not relevant to what you're actually trying to find. Ex: "Amongst...
March 25, 2004Google Alert Now Offers New Features, Case/Punctuation Filtering
Sometimes I realize just how much of a search nerd I am. When I got the announcement that Google Alert is now offering new features, including the ability to filter for precise capitalization or punctuation, I thought, "Oh wow. Oh...
Continue reading "Google Alert Now Offers New Features, Case/Punctuation Filtering" » Feedster Now Offering E-Mail Alerts
RSS search engine Feedster is now offering e-mail alerts for search results. You can get the form for the alerts at http://www.feedster.com/alerts.php . This form looks like Google's News Alert form -- query box, e-mail address -- with the difference...
Historical ODP Data Available
The Open Directory Project is now archiving its old data. While the previous data is not complete (there are some materials from 2000 available) an ODP rep tells me that the archive will be updated regularly from now on. It's...
March 24, 2004LII Offers Special Tax Time Section
The good folks at Librarians Index to the Internet are offering Tax Time 2004, a theme collection on, um, tax collection. It's available at http://lii.org/taxes/ . Categories here include forms and instructions, audits, and the weirdly-named "Just for Fun" which...
Tucows Launches Library of Online Services
Tucows, that software download library that I've been using since I don't even know when, now has an Online Services Library available at http://onlineservices.tucows.com/ . Online Services just means programs and services that you access through the Web (though the...
Continue reading "Tucows Launches Library of Online Services" » Terra Lycos Launches Software for Searching, RSS Reading
Terra Lycos -- LYCOS, for crying out loud -- has released a new client-side software package that sounds quite innovative. The new HotBot Desktop, according to its announcement, will allow users to search the Web as well as the local...
Continue reading "Terra Lycos Launches Software for Searching, RSS Reading" » March 23, 2004Tracking Names for Genealogy Research
If you're doing genealogy research on a somewhat unusual last name, you'll enjoy this site. Current event researchers will find that it may not be updated often enough to be useful. NameTraq ( http://www.nametraq.com/ ) tracks news occurrences of over...
This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: public domain images. Get more information on ResearchBuzz Extra at http://www.researchbuzz.com/buzzex.shtml ....
Web Site Tracks Procedures in California Hospitals
Wondering how many thyroidectomies are done in Sacramento? Curious about how many babies are delivered at hospitals in Los Angeles? California Choice Outcomes allows you to specify a procedure and a town or zip code, then see how many of...
Continue reading "Web Site Tracks Procedures in California Hospitals" » March 22, 2004Yahoo Ups Their News Search
Yahoo last week announced an upgraded news search, with more sources and more frequently-updated content. You can search Yahoo News at http://news.yahoo.com . First, the cool stuff. Yahoo News now searches 7,000 news sources. Content is refreshed three times more...
New at LLRX
Lots new at LLRX. Among the new articles you'll see there now are a A Selected Bibliography on the Freedom of Information Act, 1980-2004 ( http://www.llrx.com/features/foiabiblio.htm ), a Cost Effective Research column from Cindy Carlson ( http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes68.htm ), and Metaforix@Health:...
Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google Forms
This site doesn't offer its own search engine but some specialized genealogy search help for ancestor hunting folks. Genealogy Search Help ( http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/ ) provides a search form that'll look familiar to those who do a lot of genealogy searching...
Continue reading "Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google Forms" » March 19, 2004All Different Kindsa Monopoly Games
If you've ever been to a college bookstore you've seen that there are different versions of Monopoly for different campuses -- Dukeopoly or whatever. But the Monopoly variants go beyond that, as you'll discover at http://kasoft.freeyellow.com/Central/PlayK/Monopoly/Database/index.html . And there aren't...
A Museum Devoted to Microcars
No, not Mini Coopers. Even smaller. The The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum contains examples of the mini cars that were built in Europe after WWII. The museum has a large collection of them, available for viewing at http://www.microcarmuseum.com/ . I...
March 18, 2004Yahoo Launches Sports Shortcuts
Yahoo's got a new shortcut -- giving you sports scores from some leagues. Leagues listed include NCAA (baseball and football), NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB. But I can't get the NCAA part to work. It works like this: type in...
RSS Roundup -- AWAD, 2004 Elections, More Yahoo RSS
Hey kids, it's Old Time Billy Slater's RSS roundup. Up first we have one of my personal fave-rave newsletters, AWAD. No, not Meatwad. AWAD, A Word A Day. It's now available in RSS flavor (either one word a day or...
Continue reading "RSS Roundup -- AWAD, 2004 Elections, More Yahoo RSS" » Virginia Launches License Lookup for Health Professionals
The state of Virginia has just launched a license lookup for the state's 260,000 licensed, certified, and registered health care professionals. The new search is available from http://www.vipnet.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi . You may search by license number, social security number (??!!) or...
Continue reading "Virginia Launches License Lookup for Health Professionals" » March 17, 2004Google Now Offering a Local Search
It's another upgrade-on-a-holiday for Google (and my, what a striking St. Pat's day logo.) Google has rolled out a local search option from its testing bed at Google Labs. You can try it for yourself at http://local.google.com/ . The first...
Florida Launches Ask-A-Librarian Service
The state of Florida has launched a virtual reference service called Ask a Librarian ( http://www.askalibrarian.org/ ). It is apparently available for anyone, though a representative tells me "While anyone with a legitimate question can ask a question this service's...
Continue reading "Florida Launches Ask-A-Librarian Service" » March 16, 2004Cookin' With Google Updated
In light of recent coverage in Wired and New York Times, and some requests, I've added new categories to Cookin' with Google. They're in the pull-down menu under the query box. New categories are: seafood, diabetics, Atkins, and crockpot recipes....
Valley Forge Muster Roll
(I'm getting all historical today.) Genealogists who had family in the American Revolution, you'll enjoy this. The Valley Forge Muster Roll (pick "Muster Roll" from the left side of http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/ ) contains information on those soldiers who served at the...
Shakespeare's, Other Famous Wills Available Online
(Get it? Shakespeare? Will? Prithee? Whee!) The UK National Archives have released a series of Famous Wills -- including William Shakespeare's -- at their DocumentsOnline Web site. The direct link is at http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/PROB1wills.asp . In addition to Shakespeare other wills...
Continue reading "Shakespeare's, Other Famous Wills Available Online" » March 15, 2004Database of Children's Literature Scholarship
ABC-Lit is an index to children's literature scholarship. It looks like it focuses on eleven periodicals, which doesn't sound like much but bear in mind that a) this is pretty specialized and b) most of the holdings go back to...
Continue reading "Database of Children's Literature Scholarship" » PubSub Monitors Weblogs and Creates Custom RSS Feeds
When I went to Computers in Libraries, I went to lots of sessions, including a panel discussion featuring Steven Cohen, Gary Price, and Rita Vine. Steven mentioned a Weblog monitoring service called PubSub at http://www.pubsub.com/ . It monitors Weblog results...
Continue reading "PubSub Monitors Weblogs and Creates Custom RSS Feeds" » March 12, 2004Three Centuries of Seed Catalogs
Burpee. Even the name says, "Beg pardon!" No it doesn't. It says SEEDS. And in this cool online gallery it says seed catalogs spanning three centuries, from 1884 to 2003. The gallery is available at http://www.burpee.com/jump.jsp?itemID=609&itemType=CONTENT_ARTICLE&apage=1 From the front page...
March 11, 2004Getty Images Teams Up with Major League Baseball
Getty Images has reached an agreement wih Major League Baseball to create a Major League Baseball photo archive containing over one million images. Two separate Web sites will be developed. One will be for commercial sites and one will be...
Continue reading "Getty Images Teams Up with Major League Baseball" » Britannica Debuts New Primary Documents Collection
Britannica has announced a new collection of primary documents, called, strangely enough, Encyclopaedia Britannica's Original Sources. According to the press release this new collection contains over 350,000 documents, including over 5,500 books. It's available for licensing to universities, libraries, and...
Continue reading "Britannica Debuts New Primary Documents Collection" » National Image Library for the US Fish and Wildlife Service
No, it's not just fish and trees. The US Fish and Wildlife service has a collection of public domain still images relating to nature and forestry. The collection is searchable by keyword, with an advanced search allowing you to search...
Continue reading "National Image Library for the US Fish and Wildlife Service" » March 10, 2004Digital Archive of Art From Boston College
Professor Jeffery Howe and a couple of contributors have made a wide variety of art available at The Digital Archive of Art, at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/ . This site has over 20,000 scanned images divided into several categories, including painting, architecture, and...
Continue reading "Digital Archive of Art From Boston College" » Yahoo Adds Several Tech RSS Feeds
Yahoo's added several RSS feeds to their news offerings at http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ . Check out all the new technology RSS feeds at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/static/hf2k_rss_index_tech/static . Oh goody, the topic of spam gets its own feed. Pfui!...
March 09, 2004Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on Tap
Government Computer News is reporting ( http://gcn.com/23_5/tech-report/25133-1.html ) that the Library of Congress has plans for a portal pointing to audio and video collections worldwide. From the article: "The Moving Image Collections will serve as a metadatabase of ?what?s out...
Continue reading "Library of Congress has Audio/Video Portal on Tap" » This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: pointers to international resources. Get more information on subscribing to ResearchBuzz Extra at http://www.researchbuzz.com/buzzex.shtml...
Findory News Site Adapts to Your Interests
There are plenty of news sites that will find what you're looking for, but Findory promises to find what you're interested in. It's available at http://www.findory.com . The site advertises "Click on articles that interest you. Then come back to...
Continue reading "Findory News Site Adapts to Your Interests" » March 08, 2004Free SF/F Books Online From Baen
Last year I was complaining about the fact that I didn't have any fiction to read and a friend of mine recommended the Belisarius series by David Drake and Eric Flint. This started me off on an entire alternative history...
Three Cool RSS Feed Resources -- Whitehouse.gov, Amazon, and Utah
No no no. The White House hasn't started doing RSS that I know of. But Varchars.com has set up their own scraped Whitehouse.gov feed at http://varchars.com/rss/whitehouse.rdf . He also did some RSS feeds for EurekAlert, and then found out they...
Continue reading "Three Cool RSS Feed Resources -- Whitehouse.gov, Amazon, and Utah" » Yahoo IS Offering Free Feed Submission
Remember how last week I was having a cow about Yahoo's new paid submission services? Well, I still think they're pretty awful/ But Yahoo DOES have a free URL submit service available now at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request . You will have to...
March 05, 2004G4TV Cheat Database
I don't watch much TV, but I do watch G4TV's Cheat (and Judgement Day, and Icons...) Didja know they have an online cheat database? Yup, you don't even have to have cable to take advantage of all the cheat-y goodness,...
What Are the Most Popular Games?
Are you still playing Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom while everyone else is playing Everquest? Stuck on Alpha Centauri while everybody else is grooving to the latest sports game? I feel your pain. You need pointers to new games...
March 04, 2004Yahoo Announces Content Acquisition Program
Yahoo has announced a new Content Acquisition Program which they'll be rolling out this week. From the announcement: "CAP enables non-commercial and commercial content providers to better interact with Yahoo! Search Technology by directly providing their Web pages, which are...
Continue reading "Yahoo Announces Content Acquisition Program" » Nice One-Pager -- News Search Portal
If you like news sources and you don't mind yellow text on blue background, you'll like this one-pager of news resources at http://www.newssearchportal.com/ . This site doesn't list individual news searches; instead it lists search sources. Here you'll find major...
March 03, 2004Shipwrecks in California
Yo ho ho and a really plain lookup page. The California Shipwreck Database search page, at http://shipwrecks.slc.ca.gov/ShipwrecksDatabase/Shipwrecks_Database.asp , is extremely plain. To get more shipwreck information and a nicer design, back up to http://shipwrecks.slc.ca.gov . But right now we're here...
More Details Emerge About BBC Archive
The BBC is reporting ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3525455.stm ) on the first stage of getting the BBC's archives online. According to the BBC article, clips of up to three minutes, including natural history footage, will be available on the site starting this...
| ||
