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Library of Congress Releases New Online Collection of Rare Garden Images
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From the Announcement: The Library of Congress today is releasing online the digital images of a rare collection of more than 1,000 hand-colored, glass-plate lantern slides of American gardens taken a century ago by one of the first professional female photographers to achieve international prominence, Frances Benjamin Johnston. A selection of 250 color images can […]
EBSCO (in Conjunction With ATLA) Adds New Database to Historic Digital Archive Collection
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, Reports, Resources
|From the Announcement: EBSCO has released the latest database in its Historic Digital Archive Collection, The African American Historical Serials Collection. Developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this digital collection includes African American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922 including materials from African American religious organizations and social service agencies. […]
From the U.S. Courts Web Site: Fiscal year 2011 was the busiest ever for the federal judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, and this fiscal year continues that trend. In the first four months of FY 2012, the PACER Service Center responded to about 60,000 telephone calls and 15,000 emails. In addition, […]
The World Bank Announces Open Access Policy, CC Licensing, and Launches Open Knowledge Repository
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|From The World Bank: [Yesterday,] The World Bank announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as possible. As […]
Here’s yet another example for your growing list of things you can do with Wolfram|Alpha, the superb and always expanding reference and ready reference tool. From a Wolfram|Alpha Blog Post: For hundreds of years, scholars have carefully studied the plays of Shakespeare, breaking down the language and carefully dissecting every act and scene. We thought […]
Via the NLM Web Site Data for Past Three Fiscal Years (Complete Chart Includes Data for FY 1995 – FY 2011) Fiscal Year # Citations 2011 724,831 2010 699,420 2009 712,675 Indexed citations are those citations selected for MEDLINE that have completed processing and indexing with current MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings®). Indexed citations have a […]
New from the National Council of State Legislatures and the Pew Center on States: From the Database Intro: Current legislation on pensions and retirement is available in a searchable database. You can search 2012 pensions and retirement bills by topic, primary author, state, bill number, status or keyword. The database is updated every two weeks. […]
Information Technology: IT History Society Adds New Research Database
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From the News Release: The IT History Society’s (IThistory.org) growing library of databases now includes a hardware database of all information technology hardware ever manufactured. The initial library consists of over 2,000 entries and it is growing by over 100 per day. The database is located on the web at http://ithistory.org/hardware/hardware-name.php “The IT History Society’s […]
From the PACER Web Site and the PACER Quarterly Newsletter: Lasting only a few minutes each, the tutorials are a quick and fun way to learn something new about PACER or to brush up on your existing PACER skills. Starring Ms. Gavel and Mr. Sound Block, current topics include the PACER Case Locator, Digital Audio […]
As we pointed out a few week’s ago we haven’t heard a lot from Google Scholar in the past year while Microsoft has been doing great work with the Microsoft Academic Search product. However, in the past couple of days Google has announced a useful enhancement by adding some metrics for publications in GS database. […]