ssWeb Resource of the Week Electronic Journals--Database Electronic Journal Miner
What might be an old fave to some will be a great new resource for others. With that in mind, say hello to the Electronic Journal Miner. The EJM contains information on over 7200 e-journals. From the site FAQ, "Electronic serials may be defined very broadly as any journal, magazine, e'zine, webzine, newsletter or type of electronic serial publication which is available over the Internet. Within this broad definition, the titles can be electronically accessed using different technologies such as the World Wide Web (WWW), gopher, ftp, telnet, email or listserv...This site primarly includes ejournal sites as they are offered by the publisher. In general this site excludes ejournals that are embedded within aggregators (such as Northern Light, EBSCO, Bell & Howell ProQuest, Information Access Company and others)." "The Electronic Journal Miner only lists ejournals and other online serials that are available from publishers or directly from their producer." Each entry includes basic info (start date, ISSN, contact info, etc.) along with subject access via LCSH. A final point, many of the journals in this database do not provide free, full-text "on the web".
Public Libraries OCLC Awarded $9 Million Dollar Grant From Gates Foundation To Build Computing Portal for Public Libraries, Others
From the announcement, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today awarded the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) a three-year, $9 million grant to build a Web-based, public access computing portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. The new portal will build on the foundation�s five-year-old U.S. Library Program, which is providing computers with Internet access to more than 10,000 libraries across the United States."
Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items) Bibliographies
Source: Wall Street Journal (Read the Full-Text) "Bibliography Mess: Web Muddles The Fineries of Scholarly Citations"
From the article, "Computers have made research so easy. Search engines lead to Web sites where hyperlinks point the way to vast databases where keywords pull up pages where 3-D graphics and color animation leap from the text and authors leave their e-mail addresses to promote online discussions. It just seemed logical that something else was going to get more complicated. Now it's clear what that is: the fine print at the end of a book or scholarly article -- the bibliography. "All the rules we've spent years developing are out the window," sighs Karen Patrias, a librarian and bibliographer at the National Library of Medicine, or NLM, in Bethesda, Md.
-- Web Searching--Financial Issues
Source: Searcher "Free to Fee"
From the site, Barbie Keiser examines the reasons why some search engine producers have stopped offering services at no cost, looking at Web site economics, advertising, pay level logistics, and how some services have reached a happy medium between free and fee.
-- Web Search
Source: Online "Dead Search Engines"
Greg Notess writes, "And like so many aspects of the Internet, the death of a search engine is no simple matter. It can come in a variety of styles. Indeed, most of the original search engine URLs remain, and with some kind of a search box on the page. Many of our organizations continue to maintain Web pages with links to search engines. Which ones should we still link to and which have really died? It helps to understand how search engines die and which are left standing." See Also: Search Engine Showdown's List of Dead and Dying Search Engines
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