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April 30, 2006Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Plus Two
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography chuggeth on, now up to version 62. And there are a couple of additional resources you might find useful as well. The Bibliography itself is up to 2,680 articles, books, and other materials related to...
Continue reading "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Plus Two" » December 14, 2005Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits 60
It's the big 60! The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit sixty. The list of articles, books, and other items related to scholarly electronic publishing online now has over 2500 items. There are two versions, HTML and PDF. The HTML...
Continue reading "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits 60" » November 04, 2005Books For Understanding Launches Site Redesign and RSS Feed
Books for Understanding is an online current events bibliography service from the Association of American University Presses. Four to six times a year, on average, they look at topics or events that are in the news, consult their member presses...
Continue reading "Books For Understanding Launches Site Redesign and RSS Feed" » October 08, 2005AskSam Adds Hamlet, Da Vinci to Databases
Database software maker AskSam has added a couple new free databases to its Web site. You can browse these online or download and read them on your computer with the free AskSam reader. They're available at http://www.asksam.com/default.asp. New offerings include...
Continue reading "AskSam Adds Hamlet, Da Vinci to Databases" » Getcher Books in Wiki Format
Looking for something to read online? You might want to try Wikibooks, a Wiki structure that's been built to hold books. It's over two years old, so there's a lot to see here. It's at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page If you use Wikipedia...
September 12, 2005Version 59 -- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is here! This version contains over 2450 articles, books, and other resources relevant to scholarly electronic publishing online. You can get the HTML version at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html and the PDF version at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf...
Continue reading "Version 59 -- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" » June 08, 2005Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit the scene. This new version contains over 2,400 articles, books, and other resources related to scholarly electronic publishing on the Internet. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html, while the PDF version's...
Continue reading "Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available" » May 23, 2005Facster Goes Away
Facster, last mentioned in ResearchBuzz in February, has apparently gone away. I got a brief note saying, "As of June 1, 2005, www.Facster.com will no longer be on the internet. Hopefully this will be a temporary situation, but we have...
January 18, 2005HighBeam Goes Free For A Week
HighBeam Research has announced that their online research service will be free for a week -- from January 24 to January 28 -- to celebrate the first anniversary of the service. It's available at http://www.highbeam.com . The HighBeam service is...
January 05, 2005GuruNet Launches New Service, Answers.com
GuruNet corporation, heretofore known for software that allowed one-click reference information from the desktop, is now offering Answers.com, which will provide instant reference information. Answers.com strangely enough is available at http://www.answers.com . Answers.com provides information on "over a million topics,"...
Continue reading "GuruNet Launches New Service, Answers.com" » December 14, 2004Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
It's up to version 56! It's the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography and it now contains information on over 2,275 articles, books, and other sources related to scholarly electronic publishing efforts online. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html and the PDF version's...
Continue reading "Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available" » July 27, 2004Passing Notes Offers Weblog and Site Directory
I'm seeing more of these hybrid sites. It used to be that I could review a directory OR search engine OR database OR whatever, but now they're more blending together more often; usually it's editorial outlet AND information collection. Which...
Continue reading "Passing Notes Offers Weblog and Site Directory" » July 15, 2004Version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Charles Bailey has rolled out version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, featuring over 2150 articles, books, and other items related to scholarly electronic publishing online. In lovely HTML ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html ) or PDF ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf ) format....
Continue reading "Version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" » July 13, 2004Updated Copyright Chart
Peter Hirtle has a copyright chart available at http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm. Not only does it cover US copyright but also copyright information for the US about books published in other countries. Also has a PDF version....
May 13, 2004The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits Version 53
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is up to version 53 and now features over 2100 articles, books, and other resources related to scholarly electronic publishing on the Internet. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html and the PDF version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf ....
Continue reading "The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits Version 53" » April 19, 2004Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week
xrefer has announced that they're offering free access tot heir xreferplus ready reference service during National Library Week (April 18-24.) This is access for libraries only; you can get more details at http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=2 . And just as a reminder, there...
Continue reading "Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week" » April 14, 2004Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next Week
Next week is National Library Week and Thomson Gale is ready to GET DOWN AND PARTY! Well, they're ready to get down and offer access to over two dozen reference databases for free. You can get more information at http://www.gale.com/nlw/...
Continue reading "Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next Week" » December 29, 2003A Free ISBN Database
This is still in development, but I think it's an awesome idea. The Free ISBN database has some information in it, though it's still in development. You can browse what's already available at http://isbndb.com/ . There are already over 401,000...
November 21, 2003GIGA for Quotes and Folks
If you're looking for over 50,000 quotes, biographical information on over 8,000 people, and a reading list of over 3,000 books, than you're looking for GIGA at http://www.giga-usa.com/ . There's a lot to see here but let's concentrate on the...
November 20, 2003Bartleby Adds The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Bartleby.com has added "The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy," featuring over 6,900 entries, to its site at http://www.bartleby.com/59/ . You can search through the dictionary by category (from The Bible to Technology) or search by keyword. A search for "mercury"...
Continue reading "Bartleby Adds The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" » November 06, 2003Events Listings
Gary Price, he of the awesome ResourceShelf, has a list of upcoming event lists available at his Web log: http://tinyurl.com/prvn . Categories of events include news planning, government and politics, academic events, and science. Note that these are lists of...
November 03, 2003Stored Data Doubles in Three Years
You might have seen this story making its way around the Internet last week. On one hand, it's kind of hard to believe but on the other hand, considering the growth of the Web, not difficult at all: according to...
March 05, 2003Etymology Dictionary
One of the interesting things I learned at http://www.etymonline.com/ is that when the word "access" first turned up in the 1300s it meant "an attack of fever." Seven centuries later it is hard to talk about the Internet without...
February 03, 2003Resources for the Columbia Disaster
I normally don't provide events-based information/coverage, but with Columbia I feel compelled to make an exception. Some places you can get information/background on the Columbia disaster: NASA Human Spaceflight Site -- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ Yahoo's Coverage -- http://tinyurl.com/58lv Google News Search...
January 07, 2003Net-Happenings Is Back! (Again!)
SACK-MANN! Nananananananana SACK-MANN! Yup, Gleason Sackmann is back with Net-Happenings, the mailing list that keeps you up to date with new resources around the Web. This time the mailing list has landed at http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html . Messages are posted weekdays...
November 13, 2002Who's Who And What's What
The Marquis Who's Who is now available online at http://search.marquiswhoswho.com . This database contains over a million profiles, with more added daily. It's a paid service. Once you've logged in, you'll have the option to search the database by last...
August 14, 2002Who's Who Coming to Cyberspace
Marquis Who's Who announced yesterday has announced its intention to make its database of over a million biographies available online at http://www.marquiswhoswho.com . (Currently that site contains information about the various Marquis titles.) There will be two ways to search...
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...
July 22, 2002Newswise 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...
June 27, 2002What's in a Name?
The next time you are asked what's in a name, just refer the asker to this site at http://www.behindthename.com/ . It includes English, Spanish, African, Italian names and more. There are also Mythology and Biblical names. Browse the alphabetical index...
June 24, 2002New Version of The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 43 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This source includes information on over 1,600 articles, books, and other sources that deal with scholarly electronic publishing efforts online. It's available in HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions: HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf...
Continue reading "New Version of The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" » April 03, 2002iTools for Ready Reference
If you liked Research-It! you might want to check out its replacement, iTools, at http://www.itools.com/ . iTools is a ready-reference site with several search forms. The front page has several general Web forms, including Web search, dictionary search, and encyclopedia....
March 19, 2002Merriam-Webster Launches Reference Service
Merriam-Webster has announced a paid reference service at http://www.merriam-websterunabridged.com/ . The centerpiece of this service, as you might expect, is Webster's Third New International Dictionary with over 470,000 entries. Also available on the site are reference works, including Merriam- Webster's...
Continue reading "Merriam-Webster Launches Reference Service" » April 17, 2001ebrary Makes Agreement With Yale
Research/reference site ebrary ( http://www.ebrary.com/ ; it's not available yet) has announced an agreement with Yale University Press. Yale University Press will make its collections available through ebrary.com. ebrary's concept is interesting; users can browse and search its collection without...
March 29, 2001Infonautics to Merge With Tucows
Infonautics ( http://www.infonautics.com/ ), known to searchers for their Company Sleuth, Job Sleuth, and Entertainment Sleuth web sites, announced yesterday a merger with Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com/ ), best known (to me, anyway) for their excellent downloads of Internet software. The...
March 26, 2001Reference Book Database
The Bloomsbury Research Centre (http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp ) is a free online database of reference books (that Bloomsbury publishes) with over 17,000 entries. Resources include the Dictionary of English Literature, Biographical Quotations, Bloomsbury Thematic Quotations, and the Guide To Human Thought. Searching...
March 12, 2001Carole Leita Educates ResearchBuzz
After last week's ResearchBuzz came out, I got not-one-but-two e-mails from Carole Leita, maintainer of the most excellent and recommended Librarian's Index to the Internet: http://www.lii.org/ . She had a couple of responses to the newsletter. First, for government information...
January 31, 2001Xrefer.com Gets Jazzy With It
Reference engine xrefer.com has added The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz to its search resources at http://www.xrefer.com/ . The new resource has over 4,500 articles covering composers, bands, arrangers, instruments, terms, styles, record labels, and more....
December 18, 2000Scout Report Launches New Archives
The Scout Report, long enjoyed as one of my favorite resources for Web sites (especially academically-oriented and scientific ones) has launched the Scout Report Archives. The archives are accessible at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ archives/index.html ; currently they contain over 10,200 summaries from...
More Fun Than a Barrel of Boolean Expressions
... okay, that wasn't a cliché. But you can get a huge pile of cliches at the Cliché Site ( http://www.clichesite.com/index.as p ). The site allows you to search and browse what appears to be hundreds and hundreds of clichés....
Continue reading "More Fun Than a Barrel of Boolean Expressions" » December 11, 2000xrefer to add Houghton Mifflin Content in January
Reference engine xrefer ( http://www.xrefer.com ) has entered a content partnership with Houghton Mifflin. January will see several new items added to the xrefer engine, including the American Heritage Concise Dictionary; The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms; the Compact American...
Continue reading "xrefer to add Houghton Mifflin Content in January" » November 29, 2000FactMonster Launched
The Learning Network has launched FactMonster, a new reference engine for kids at http://www.factmonster.com . The service has a bright design and several cross-searchable resources, including an encyclopedia, almanac, and dictionary. The site also includes several sections, including a homework...
November 16, 2000Britannica.com Cutting Staff, Developing New Resource
A story from CNET reports ( href="http://news.cn et.com/news/0-1005-200-3708457.html ) that Britannica.com is cutting its staff by 16 percent. The interesting part of this story, though, is the news that Britannica is developing a new resource, Britannicaschool.com . The site will...
Continue reading "Britannica.com Cutting Staff, Developing New Resource" » August 29, 2000New Spot Available for Homework Help
The folks behind LibrarySpot have now launched HomeworkSpot ( http://homeworkspot.com/ ) for kids needing online help with their homework. There doesn't appear to be a search engine for this site, but there is a front page full of ready-reference useful...
June 02, 2000Spell Check Your Searches Before You Submit Them
SearchSpell ( http://www.searchspell.com/) will spell-check your queries before you submit them to an engine. Once checked, it'll provide you with possible spellings and also provide you with filled in search forms for several different engines. This is a smart...
Continue reading "Spell Check Your Searches Before You Submit Them" » May 11, 2000Bartleby Gets Shakin'
Bartleby ( http://www.bartleby.com) announced yesterday that they'd placed the 1350-page Oxford Shakespeare on their site. The searchable material, which you can find at http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html, includes 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous documents. From this same page you can get to...
March 21, 2000Bartleby Adds Reference Works
Bartleby.com ( http://www.bartleby.com ) announced yesterday the addition of several online reference works to their Web site (which has brought to you the Fanny Farmer Cookbook among other things.) They have added the following items: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
December 29, 1999shhhhhh, Cliff Notes Available Online
Oh boy. The English teachers who read ResearchBuzz may get a little mad at me for this. Cliffs Notes are now available online at http://www.cliffsnotes.com . Yup, you can now download the Cliffs Notes for The Scarlet Letter instead of...
December 05, 1999Bartleby Publishes Emily Post's "Etiquette"
Bartleby.com has published the 627-page first edition of Emily Post's "Etiquette." It's at http://www.bartleby.com/95/ . This is the 1922 edition. I can't remember if this is the version that Dorothy Parker reviewed in "Constant Reader" or not....
Continue reading "Bartleby Publishes Emily Post's "Etiquette"" » August 20, 1998Switchboard Introduces Neighborhood Services
Switchboard ( http://www.switchboard.com ) has announced its neighborhood service. When you look up a person in Switchboard, you're presented with their name and address (of course), but also with information about the place where they live, including maps, government offices,...
Continue reading "Switchboard Introduces Neighborhood Services" » August 19, 1998Web Site You Should Know About
Web Site You Should Know About: There's an excellent library-oriented ready reference Web page available at http://www.ithaca.edu/library/htmls/readyref.html ....
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