UPDATED> ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 148

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:07:23 GMT
To: gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ResourceShelf Reminder -- Week 148
From: Gary Price <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ResourceShelf
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Week 148
January 22, 2004
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Greetings from Washington DC.

ResourceShelf is compiled by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
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Thursday, January 22, 2004

Web Resources of the Week
Four items for your ready-reference shelf.
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1) Music--Grammy Awards--Searchable Database
Source: NARAS
GRAMMY SEARCH
A searchable database of all GRAMMY winners (1956-Present). From the site,
"...winners by name of the award recipient, by categories within a genre, by
year, by title of work and/or by the artist performing the work. With the
exception of the category field, which requires that you first select a genre,
you may use as few or as many of the available search fields." Latin Grammy
winners are in a separate database. The 2004 Grammy Awards will be held on
February 8th.
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2) Area Codes--North America
Source: North American Numbering Plan Administration
Database of North American Area Codes
The North American Numbering Plan Administration manages the area code system.
+ Search or Browse Data
+ Printable Area Code Maps
+ Additional Resources
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3) Population--Database--United Kingdom
Source: National Statistics
Neighbourhood Statistics Database
+ Search by Name or Postal Code
+ Browse Detailed Statistics by Subject
+ Browse by Area Name
+ Select Areas via Interactive Map (England and Wales Only)
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4) Maps--United States
Source: National Atlas of the United States
Printable Maps of the United States
Most maps can be downloaded as either pdf or dif files.
+ Reference Maps of the United States (including time zones)
+ Outline Maps of the United States
+ Congressional Districts - 108th Congress
+ Presidential Elections - 1789-2000
+ Federal Lands and Indian Reservations

Information Industry--Legislation
Database Bill Passes Congressional Committee
The legislation discussed in the article is often referred to as the "Database
and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act."

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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Unstructured Data--Taxonomies
Source: FCW
Taxonomy Use Grows
 >From the article, "Federal agencies are increasingly likely to use and
understand taxonomies, the system of data classification that goes hand in hand 

with Extensible Markup Language (XML) in organizing data, according to industry 

experts."

Search Engine Roundup
In the past week several sites have mentioned new search tools. Join me in
checking them out. Expect more about tool each resource in upcoming weeks.
+ Lean About Dipsie
Coming in 2004, Beta available in the near future.
+ Eurekster Overview (via Search Engine Watch) ||| Direct to Eurekster (Beta)
Social network searching, personalized results.
+ Meceoo Overview (via Pandia) ||| Direct to Meceoo (Beta)
Metasearch, "...allows searchers to define their own 'exclusion list'. Hence
they may ask the metasearch engine to exclude sites that includes specific 
terms
in their domain name."
+ Metrobot (via Search Day) ||| Direct to Metrobot
Local search. Graphical results pages.

Citation Analysis
Scholarly Publishing
Source: ISI
+ Management: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1998-2002
+ Science in Scotland, 1998-2002

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Digitization Projects--Lithuania
Parchments Digitization Project at Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Completed
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National Libraries--Malaysia
Digitization Projects
The National Library of Malaysia Launches the International Islamic Digital
Library
A bit of background in an Access article. The library is home to both
bibliographic and full text material.
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Entrepreneurship--Canada
Source: Ernst and Young
Full Text, Survey of Canadian Entrepreneurs

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Web Search--Google
You Might Be Missing Material: Backwards Link Searching (Link:) With Google
If you who use Google to find what pages are linking to a specific web page
(often referred to as a backward link or a reverse link), you might find the
following news of interest. Google might NOT be showing you all of the pages
that link to a specific url.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Education--Classification Schemes
Source: NCES
Just Released, The Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC)
 >From the site, "The Classification of Secondary School Courses (CSSC) 
provides
a general inventory of courses taught nationwide at the secondary school level
(grades 9 through 12). The basic unit of instruction in the CSSC is the
individual COURSE. Vocational, academic, and general courses are offered for
credit and included in this listing."
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Space Exploration--United States
Source: National Academy of Science
Full Text Reports from the National Academy of Science About Space Exploration
and Space Policy
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Books--Online Exhibits
Source: Lilly Library, Indiana University
4000 Years of Miniature Books

Enterprise Information Briefs (4 Items Listed on the Web Site)
New, Fee-Based Service Offers SEC EDGAR Filings via an RSS Feed
In addition to the information in the news release, you can view a sample feed
and learn more here.
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Virage to Participate in Video Analysis and Content Extraction Research Program 

Sponsored by the Advanced Research and Development Activity
Learn more about the project here.

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Monday, January 12, 2004

Web Search--Yahoo
Overture's Research Lab is Renamed, Hello to Yahoo Research!

Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Open Access
Presentations from the SPARC/ACRL Forum
The forum took place at the 2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting.
Presentations available (PowerPoint slides):
+ Who Pays for Open Access by Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science
+ Publishing by the Academic Library by Henry Hagedorn
+ Using the Library Budget to Drive Change by Joseph Branin

and while we're on the topic of scholarly publishing...

Full Text, "Reed Elsevier Feels Resistance To Web Pricing" (via The Wall Street 

Journal)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Factiva Posts Media Visibility Index for Democratic Presidential Hopefuls (Week 

Ending 1/18/04)
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Olympics--Web Resources
Source: International Olympic Committee
Direct Links: Official Web Sites of the Nine Cities in the Running for 2012
Olympics

Industry Briefs (2 Items Listed on the Web Site)
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Sunday, January 11, 2004

Digital Archives--United Kingdom
World War II--Images
Source: AP
Available Monday (1/19/04): Digital Archive of World War II Aerial
Reconnaissance Photos

Privacy--United States
Source: Reuters
Report: Airline Gave Passenger Data to Government
 >From the article, "Northwest Airlines provided information on millions of
passengers for a secret U.S. government air security project after the Sept. 11 

attacks on America, the Washington Post reported on its Web site on Saturday
See Also: Additional Documents (via EPIC)
See Also: Report from U.S. DOD Contractor (Torch Concepts): "Homeland Security
Airline Passenger Risk Assessment"
See Also: Data Mining and Aviation Security (NASA)

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Saturday, January 10, 2004

Web Search--Google
Source: Reuters
Report: Google Getting Into the E-Mail Ad Business
See Also: Google's Focus (via News.Com)
Do you remember the following statement from Google spokesperson David Krane
made in a August, 2001 News.Com article? Krane says, "But we've firmly
established ourselves as the No. 1 search service on the Internet, and this can 

be attributed to our laser-like focus on a search-only business model."

Open Access Publishing
Several Library Organizations Send Letter Asking For NIH to support of Open
Access Publishing

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Think Tanks
Online Books
Source: Rand Corporation
Rand Bestsellers
Provides links and access to the full of text (PDFs) of RAND's bestselling
publications for the previous month. Publications may also be purchased in hard 

copy.

Archives--Music
Source: Lawrence Journal World
KU's jazz archive struggles to survive
Learn about the Richard Wright Jazz Archive (over 20,000 recordings) at the
University of Kansas.

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Friday, January 9, 2004

Web Search
Ay-Up: Another Source For Cached Web Pages

Legal Information--United States
Pilot Project Makes Federal Court Transcripts Available Online

Digitization Projects
History--United States
Source: American Memory Project/The Library of Congress
Released Today, Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their
Stories

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents
Computer Security--Web Resources
New, Security, Privacy and Cryptology Collection
Compiled by Pete Weiss and H. D. Knoble at Penn State University.

Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items Listed on the Web Site)
Digital Libraries
Source: Digital Library Federation
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services

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Visit The Virtual Chase
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Thursday, January 8, 2004

News Searching--Yahoo
Early Beta Test: Changes and Tweaks at Yahoo News Search

Public Libraries
Gates Foundation Announces $5.8 Million in Grants to 18 State Library Agencies

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items Listed on 
the
Web Site)
Human Rights--Asia and the Pacific
Source: UNESCO
New, Database on Human Rights Instruments in Asia and the Pacific
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News Calendars
Web Access to the Reuters Daybook

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