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"ProQuest Hospital Collection centralizes access to discovery and advisory tools essential to the practice and business of health care and is the first collection to address the expanse of hospital information needs with a single resource. ProQuest Hospital Collection assembles five top health and medicine databases, and includes full text articles from 2,100 seminal medical journals, including full text of The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. It also includes over 19,000 doctoral dissertations, providing cutting edge research, as well as resources in the burgeoning field of evidence-based medicine"
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PubChemSR (Search and Retrieve) is a freely available desktop application written for Windows using Microsoft .NET that is designed to assist scientists in search, retrieval and organization of chemical and biological data from the PubChem database. It employs SOAP web services made available by NCBI for extraction of information from PubChem
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"The Open.Michigan site is a gateway to a wide spectrum of initiatives at the University of Michigan and our collaborating institutions. With a common goal of opening resources for teaching, learning and research for use and enhancement by a global community, these projects increase the value of those resources to U-M and the world. Open.Michigan provides a clear view of the many places and ways U-M contributes to our world's knowledge and creates exemplary resources for education and research. Open.Michigan includes information, updates, discussion, blogs, videos, and podcasts detailing our efforts. You will also find links to projects in open educational resources such as the U-M Health Sciences Global Access project and the dScribe project; in open source software, the Sakai and SiteMaker projects; in open archives and publishing, Deep Blue, digitalculturebooks, MBooks, and OAIster projects; and in open standards, the IMS Global Learning Consortium work and conferences"
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International Journal of Zoology is a peer-reviewed, open access journal from Hindawi Publishing Corporation that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of zoology
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"Millions of people across Europe will have easy access to environmental information through mobile and online technology as a result of the partnership between the European Environment Agency and Microsoft"
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"As centers of lifelong learning, museums and libraries contain a wealth of resources and information that can help youth fulfill their vast potential. To assist museums and libraries in their development of effective and engaging youth programs, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has published Nine to Nineteen: Youth in Museums and Libraries; A Practitioner's Guide, the newest resource in the Museums and Libraries Engaging America's Youth Initiative series. The guide features several examples of successful youth programming from around the country, as well as useful information for planning exemplary youth programs"
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Primary Source - May 2008 issue now available from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC, USA
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Carmen Bernier-Grand of Portland has won the 2008 Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award. The award, given by the Children's Services Division of the Oregon Library Association, is given for contributions to children's literature and library services
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"Ancestry.com has partnered with America's record keeper, the National Archives and Records Administration, to preserve important documents and help people discover more of their family stories. Since 1998, Ancestry.com has digitized and indexed millions of NARA records to create the largest collection of NARA records online. Starting in the spring of 2008, we'll be scanning documents on location at NARA. This will enable access to more U.S. historical records online than ever before. Our growing collection of NARA records includes more than 750 million names and 70 million images in census, immigration and military records, among many others"
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Friday, May 16, 2008
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Foreign Words and Phrases. Test your knowledge of foreign languages (ancient and modern) by translating these words and phrases into English. The original language is included in brackets Answers here.
1. Merci beaucoup (French)
2. Ad nauseam (Latin)
3. Ciao (Italian)
4. Mea culpa (Latin)
5. Fromage (French)
6. Kismet (Turkish)
7. Hombre (Spanish)
8. Wunderkind (German)
9. Je ne sais quoi (French)
10. Panem et circenses (Latin)
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Cites & Insights 8:6 (June 2008) is now available for downloading
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"Scientists Without Borders aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world. The research community is already promoting global health, agricultural progress, environmental well-being, and so on, but current communication gaps limit its power. The Scientists Without Borders database will provide a way for organizations, projects, and individuals with complementary needs and resources to find one another. This tool will eventually create a record of accomplishments that also identifies the next steps for solving specific problems"
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Ask.com has announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction
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"SciSeek is a guide to the best the Internet has to offer in the fields of science and nature. Styled like a conventional Internet guide, this service lists Web sites covering subjects from agriculture and forestry to engineering, chemistry, physics"
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"Professor Foot is a noted historian and academic. He is the official historian for the WW2 Special Operations Executive and has an extensive knowledge of the background to the requirements for secrecy in government records. This is a rare opportunity to hear the views of a person who has lived with secrecy of records for many decades." The UK National Archives Podcast Series
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The Best of the Booker, a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, has announced its shortlist. The overall winner will be announced as part of the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre on 10 July 2008 where the winner will be awarded a custom-made trophy
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"Civica is to provide Kent Libraries, the UK's largest library authority, with new library management systems in a contract valued at GBP1.6 million over the next five years. The programme will see Kent join the South East Library Management System (SELMS) consortium, in order to achieve enhanced reader services for over 1.3 million people as well as procurement savings"
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"Teaching English is produced by the British Council with content and editorial support from the British Broadcasting Corporation. Both organisations receive funding from the UK government for their work in promoting English, supporting English language teaching (ELT) and providing information and access to ELT products, services and expertise from the UK. The Teaching English project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is free to access"
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D-Lib Magazine - May/June 2008 is now available
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Best of Reference is an annual list of books, websites, and electronic resources selected by a committee of librarians from the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library and the Queens Library for their usefulness in branch reference collections. Selection criteria include value and appropriateness for community library collections, organization of materials, style of presentations, and authority of authors and editors
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"Booktrust, in association with Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, has announced the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize. This exciting new prize has two categories - the funniest book for children aged six and under, and the funniest book for children aged seven to fourteen. Fiction, non-fiction and poetry will be welcomed. A panel of five judges will be chaired by Michael Rosen; the other judges are Sophie Dahl, Dara O'Briain, Chris Riddell and one other. The judges will select a shortlist of six books in each category in early September to tie in with the third Roald Dahl Day on 13 September. The winner of each category will receive GBP2,500, which will be presented at an awards ceremony in London in November 2008"
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The winners of the British Book Industry Awards 2008 have been announced
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"CourseSmart is a new venture founded and supported by six higher education textbook publishers. Our mission is to improve teaching and learning by providing instructors and students better exposure and access to digital course materials. CourseSmart brings together thousands of textbooks across hundreds of courses in an ebook format on a common platform. In doing so we provide a number of unique benefits to instructors, students, partners and institutions"
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"Information & Libraries Scotland is the blog of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS). The blog is intended to complement our existing electronic content and services on the SLAINTE website and our Pagecast. We aim to stimulate discussion and debate within the Scottish library and information community so please contribute by adding comments to our posts"
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JISC Legal newsletter for April 2008 is now available
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Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has named 25 additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress
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Yale University Press has the full text of Johanathan Zittrain's book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It free online
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2008 West Texas Book and Music Festival - September 23-27 - Abilene, Texas, USA
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Library and Information Research - Vol 32, No 100 (2008) now available
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"On Thursday May 15, Welsh Assembly Government Heritage Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, will launch Libraries for Life: Delivering a Modern Library Service for Wales, a three year plan for Welsh libraries, which sees a record level of investment and support for services designed around modern lifestyles. The Assembly Government will be investing GBP10.5 million over the next three years to help deliver the programme, which includes increased funding to modernise facilities in over 20 percent of public libraries open 10 hours or more a week by 2011"
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Librarians' Internet Index - New This Week - May 15, 2008
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"The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start. The files are in PDF format."
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Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions by Richard Gartner - JISC Technology and Standards Watch, April 2008
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
HarperCollins Publishers has announced "the creation of an in-house internet broadcast studio. Modeled on a newsroom environment, the studio has been developed to create author videos for sales, marketing and promotional opportunities. The studio represents the next step in HarperCollins' ongoing digital efforts. The videos will be available on HarperCollins.com author and title pages, and the publicity and marketing teams will use the content to promote authors on blogs and Web sites, as well as to the media and to bookstores. The goal is to produce 500 videos annually"
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Legal Frontiers in Digital Media: a joint conference of The Media Law Resource Center; Stanford Publishing Courses; Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society, is designed for in-house and outside lawyers representing media and digital content companies, as well as for Web publishing professionals who need to understand emerging legal issues in digital publishing and content distribution - May 15-16, 2008 - Stanford, California
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Facilitated and presented by Terry Kendrick, Marketing and Information Consultant; lecturer in Marketing, University of East Anglia. He will outline the current state of the art in searching both the visible and invisible Web, highlighting key hints and tips for effective search. He will also outline some recent developments in Internet search technologies and explain what can help and hinder effective Internet search - 14 October 2008 - London, UK
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The California Digital Library has announced the new release of its search and display technology, the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) version 2.1. "XTF is an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF offers efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital content collections"
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Wiley-Blackwell has announced it has formed a "publishing partnership with the Cognitive Science Society to publish their flagship journal, Cognitive Science, and to launch a new journal, Topics in Cognitive Science. Both journals aim to bring together researchers from a broad range of fields who are dedicated to understanding the nature of the human mind"
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E-News for ARL Directors, May 13, 2008 is now available online
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Bookeen has announced the availability of the "new edition of the Cybook Gen3. With 512 MB (1,000 books) of internal storage memory, a new firmware version and a revised housing which facilitates navigation, the Cybook becomes the thinnest, lightest device with the largest storage capacity on the market"
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The World Almanac E-Newsletter - Volume 08, Number 05 - May 2008 is now available
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8th Annual Augustana Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop - November 20, 2008 - University of Alberta, Canada
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"The WorldWide Telescope is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope - bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe"
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"Cases Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing case reports from any area of healthcare that are understandable, ethical, authentic and include all information essential to its interpretation. Case reports will be archived in PubMed Central, and incorporated into our forthcoming database of case reports"
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"The mission of TD Canadian Children's Book Week is to connect the authors and illustrators of Canadian children's and young adult books with readers across Canada. TD Canadian Children's Book Week is Canada's largest celebration of reading and Canadian children's books. The first Book Week tour was held in 1977 and since then over 300 Canadian authors, illustrators and storytellers have toured throughout the country. Every November, in celebration of TD Canadian Children's Book Week, the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) sends authors, illustrators and storytellers on a cross-Canada tour to give readings, workshops and presentations to children in schools, libraries, community centres and bookstores. This year the Book Week tour will run from November 15 to 22, 2008"
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"This website is one of several initiatives to provide greater online access to the services, collections and information at the State Library of Victoria. Designed for secondary students and their teachers, ergo not only teaches students research skills but also provides access to the vast range of resources at the Library"
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"Powerset's goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. Powerset's first product is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008"
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Monday, May 12, 2008
What 4,000 years of art teaches us about Web content and design with Erica Reynolds, Web Content Manager for Johnson County Library in the suburban Kansas City area - "Web design might be relatively new, but art itself is thousands of years old. Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary art from around the world provides an excellent source of inspiration as we build the next generation of Web sites. Ideas on content, planning, philosophy, organization, technology and design are gracing canvases, lurking in brush strokes, lounging on sculptures, and bouncing around multi-media expressions of all types, and all are waiting for you at your local art museum" - Web Conference, Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Oxford University Press has announced that the following journals are now available on Highwire:
Public Health Ethics
Journal of World Energy Law
Journal of Plant Ecology
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Inderscience has published the first issues of 3 new titles:
International Journal of System of Systems Engineering
International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
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The May 2008 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available
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"Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to work published in its three journals"
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LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #21 : "This week's episode has a bit of a Rod Serling inspired feel to it. As the podcast is not a video one, we can control neither the horizontal nor the vertical. We can present a different look at things, though. The podcast opens with a zeitgeist check by the podcast audio production engineer. An interview with Blake Carver follows with the fifth installment of Tech for Techies soon thereafter. The podcast audio production engineer wrapped up the episode". Previous Podcasts can be found here
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The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Version 2 is now available from Digital Scholarship. This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Engaging with the environment: finding quality eInformation resources - The objectives of the workshop are to introduce delegates to some of the vast number of sources for environmental information. The workshop will cover Government departments and committees; Influential groups and bodies; News sources; Research - 5 November 2008 - London, UK
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SAGE Publications has announced that Career Development for Exceptional Individuals is now available online
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Emerald Group Publishing is celebrating the publication of the inaugural issue of Indian Growth and Development Review by providing free access to two articles to be published in the first issue. "The journal is the first of its kind within the economic profession which simultaneously integrates frontier level research, provides a policy debate and advances and discusses pedagogical issues in economics education"
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The Wellcome Library, in London, UK, has announced workshops taking place in May and June 2008
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Towards Information Literacy Indicators - Conceptual framework paper prepared by Ralph Catts and Jesus Lau with a list of potential international indicators for information supply, access and supporting skills by UNESCO Institute for Statistics - UNESCO: Paris, 2008
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The May 2008 issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available
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"The purpose of Research Resources is to promote and support the use of research and evidence in the museums, libraries and archives sector. We believe that research and evidence have a pivotal role to play in informing decision making, supporting communications strategies, and guiding the development of the sector"
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Walking a Tightrope: Selection vs Censorship with Sya VanGeest and Beth McEwen - "Part of the formal education program to qualify as librarians and teacher-librarians includes the study of the principles and methods of building library collections, the writing of a good selection policies, criteria for evaluating materials in a variety of formats and for a range of purposes, and the relationship of the selection process to user requirements. Training also includes the issue of censorship, the art of the book review, and acquiring familiarity with basic selection tools, current reviewing media, and acquisitions procedures" - Audio conference from the Education Institute - May 13, 2008
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People, from goths to a former vicar, are volunteering as living books for loan from a 'living' library in Bradford, UK
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