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As a follow-up to my October 6 posting, Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase, from the Library Journal (reg. req’d), Google Goes Inside the Book, But No Link to Libraries. At this time, Google is not indexing OCLC’s Open WorldCat program records as part of their new service, and indicates …
From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886, it said on Wednesday.” [Link]
From the website: “The much-anticipated grand opening of America’s first state government digital archives occurred on October 4, 2004…The Washington State Digital Archives is the nation’s first archives dedicated specifically to the preservation of electronic records from both State and Local agencies that have permanent legal, fiscal or historical value.” Three search features are available …
From the University of Houston Libraries, this selective, annotated guide includes links to sites sponsored by state and federal government, academic, association, news sources, campaigns and polling organizations. [thanks D.C]
Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services Commentary: A Librarian Blogger at the DNC I’ll Have Wireless to Go, Please Looking For International Law? EISIL It! Net Snippets: How to Manage Your Legal Research and Save Time Too Law Firm Marketing: Lawyers Win Business With Blogs After Hours – Travel Tips …
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing today, “A Review of Counter-Terrorism Legislation and Proposals, including the USA PATRIOT Act and the SAFE Act.” Link to testimony and member statements The SAFE Act (S. 1709), To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to place reasonable limitations on the use of surveillance and the issuance of search …
Press release from the Davies Project at Princeton University, Research into the History of University Libraries in the United States and the History of their Collections Database of American Libraries before 1876: “More than 9,800 records for over 80 types of libraries, searchable on 14 fields. Also view original Unisort data cards. Users may record …
From the press release: “The NLM Catalog provides access to NLM bibliographic data for over 1.2 million journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources, and other materials via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system.” [thanks d.c.] NLM Catalog Help
“The British Library is putting online 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare’s plays.” [Link] “On this site you will find the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.” Related reference: from the September 12 New York Times: Shakespeare’s Leap, “How …
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Research Libraries’ Costs of Doing Business (and Strategies for Avoiding Them)
“This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 2001, all “born digital” publications, and at least 40% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In addition to online …
