Science & Technology Internet Resources
January 2006
History of the Internet
Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/
A timeline from 1962 to 1992 describing the evolution of the Internet and giving background for each period. Good for those who weren’t around then.
Current State of the Internet (and Libraries)
First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.dk/
One of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.
Internet2
http://www.internet2.edu/
Internet2, managed by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), is a consortium being led by 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. University of Pittsburgh and CMU participate in it.
Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/
” The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.”
The website contains many reports on how the Internet is being used by the American public.
Talis: Do Library Matter?http://www.talis.com/downloads/white_papers/DoLibrariesMatter.pdf
This is a white paper on Library 2.0
Web Logs
ALA TechSource Bloghttp://www.techsource.ala.org/blog
Check here for latest discussions on technology in libraries.
Better Library Services for More PeopleUpdate on Library 2.0 from Michael Stephens & Michael Casey
Blyberg.nethttp://www.blyberg.net/
John Blyberg is the Network Administrator and Lead Developer at the Ann Arbor District Library, where the front page is a blog.
Cites & Insights: Crawford at Largehttp://cites.boisestate.edu/
Libraries · Policy · Technology · Media
Latest issue on Library 2.0.
Digitization Bloghttp://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/
This blog will connect you with the latest publications and issues in digital libraries.
Flickr: Libraries and Librarianshttp://www.flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/
Check out the way libraries are using and sharing photos. For instance, the National Library of Australia: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/.
Free Range Librarianhttp://freerangelibrarian.com/
Karen Schneider’s postcards from the edge of librarianship
LibraryCrunchhttp://www.librarycrunch.com/
Bringing You A “Library 2.0″ Perspective, by Michael Casey
Open Access Newshttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
The latest news on the open access movement from Peter Suber
Patent Librarianhttp://patentlibrarian.blogspot.com/
Michael White, Librarian for Research Services, Engineering and Science Library, Queen’s U (Kingston ON), started a blog called The Patent Librarian in November, 2005, that features a number of links to critical and useful patent resources.
Scitech Library Questionhttp://stlq.info/
A blog featuring postings of interest to librarians working in science and engineering libraries, maintained by Randy Reichardt, Information Services Librarian (Engineering), Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta. Down the right hand column are links to Engineering and SciTech Library Blogs and to Library Blogs and RSS Feeds. Look also at Other Sites of Interest
Tame the Webhttp://www.tametheweb.com/
The Tame the Web Blog is written by Michael Stephens, a librarian, technology trainer and proponent of Library 2.0. Topics include current and future technology uses in libraries.
St. Joseph County Public Library (SJCPL)http://www.libraryforlife.org/
This is Michael Stephens’ library. It has always been at the forefront of public libraries on the web. Check out his Subject Guides: “All of the guides have areas where you can offer feedback, input, and suggestions for other guides you would like to see.” It is powered by MediaWiki, the software of Wikipedia.
Web 2.0 Workgrouphttp://www.web20workgroup.com/
a network of weblogs that write content about the new generation of the Web
News / Newsletters / Alert Services
E-Streamshttp://www.e-streams.com/
Electronic book reviews of Science & Technology Reference books covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science. E-Streams is a collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services. For the academic library. They can be subscribed to via a listserv.
Eureka Alert!http://www.eurekalert.org/
EurekAlert! is an online press service created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to provide a forum where research institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media. And where the public and news media can access them.
Google Newshttp://news.google.com/
If you are looking for breaking news on a particular topic or for reviews of a particular book, say Jared Diamond’s Collapse, you can set up a news alert on google that will email you stories on that topic as they break or once a day.
Google Librarian Centerhttp://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html
“Librarians and Google share have a similar a mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself you who work each day to further that mission. This page is a first step toward improving and expanding that support.” WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?? The first issue of “Google’s Newsletter for Librarians” came out in December of 2005. You can subscribe at the above address. There are currently 19168 members.
Lii.org Alert Listhttp://lii.org/search/file/mailinglist
Receive notification of the latest additions to the Librarian’s Index to the Internet in a weekly email.
LLRX: Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC.http://www.llrx.com/
LLRX.com provides up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools.
Deep Web Research 2005http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm
By Marcus P. Zillman
News @ Naturehttp://www.nature.com/news/
(Formerly Nature Science Update). These science headlines from the publishers of Nature are particularly interesting and hardly ever dry. Get them delivered to your email box.
Physics News Updatehttp://www.aip.org/physnews/update/
Physics News Update is a digest of physics news items arising from physics meetings, physics journals, newspapers and magazines, and other news sources. Subscriptions are free as a way of broadly disseminating information about physics and physicists. From the American Institute of Physics.
ResourceShelfhttp://www.resourceshelf.com/
“Resources and News for Information Professionals”. This is actually a weblog that tells you about new or recently discovered resources. You can subscribe to the ResourceShelf Newsletter Mailing List, which is highlights from the weblog delivered via e-mail every Thursday.
SciCentralhttp://www.scicentral.com/
Acquired by SciQuest in 2000. “Gateway to the best scientific research news sources”, including
NewScientist.comhttp://www.newscientist.com/news.ns
Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/
Sci-Tech Library Newsletterhttp://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/
A informal newsletter for science librarians put out by Stephanie Bianchi that collects news and resources of interest to science librarians, for instance links to the “Best Science of 2004″ including the best science books.
SciTech Dailyhttp://www.scitechdaily.com/
It’s not clear what category this site falls under but it collects a lot of links to science news and sites of interest to the general public that they might not normally run across, like the Vega Science Trust.
The Scientisthttp://www.the-scientist.com/
A general science journal. Its short news articles are free but now its feature articles are by subscription. HOWEVER: “As our way of saying thank you for visiting The Scientist’s redesigned website, we’re making every area of the site free until the end of January. Enjoy access to over 20 years of archived information and a host of fresh, exciting new web features, at no cost.”
Scout Reporthttp://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/
Published every Friday by professional librarians covers general resources. Until June of 2005, they published three reports on the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Math, Engineering & Technology with NSF funding. Now they are working on AMSER.
STS-L Listserv Archivehttp://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/sts-l
Sign up this term for the mailing list of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) of the American Library Association. It is an active list offering opinions on current issues, relevant websites, job information, etc.
- Local Alert Services
Pittsburgh Tech Newshttp://www.pittechnews.com/
Pittsburgh Tech News is a free click-and-read news service that saves you time by emailing you links to the latest local and national high-tech news articles about Pittsburgh companies and universities 3x per week.
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Dailyhttp://www.paconserve.org/wpc_daily.asp
The photos aren’t the greatest, and much too large but the captions are often very informative.
Pennsylvania Watershed Weeklyhttp://www.pawatersheds.org/WWeekly/
A state-wide publication with updates on the latest environmental information relating to watersheds in the state.
Online Journals & Databases
If you don’t have access to the major commercial journal databases, these are some options.
American Chemical Society Publicationshttp://pubs.acs.org/
A nonsubscriber can search the journals and then elect to purchase online access to the full-text of an article for $25 (payable with a credit card). They also provide access to hot articles and for their 125th anniversary in 2003, free access to the Most Cited JACS Publications.
American Institute of Physics: Scitationhttp://scitation.aip.org/
You can browse the table of contents of their Journals or search for an article after free registration, then opt to purchase an article online (if you do not subscribe).
BioMedCentralhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/
“The Open Access Publisher”
Over 140 open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine
Who, What, Why?http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/www/?issue=old
A series of short guides to the players, stakeholders and technical terms relevant to Open Access publishing.
BioOnehttp://www.bioone.org/
“BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.” Some article are available free, others to subscribers of BIOONE.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)http://www.doaj.org/
DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. As of 1/21/2006, they had 2007 journals in the directory (up from 1410 in 1/13/2005 and 736 in 2/2/2004). From Lund University Libraries in Sweden.
e-Print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineershttp://www.osti.gov/eprints/
Created by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information in the Department of Engergy, and formerly called the PrePRINT Network, e-prints include pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups. The resources available via the E-print Network are located on a wide range of sources residing at academic institutions, government research laboratories, scientific societies, private research organizations, and the Web sites of individual scientists and researchers. The Network facilitates access to these resources, it does not house them.
The Department of Energy planned to create “PubSCIENCE” a searchable database that was to provide access to energy, science and technology journal literature of concern to DOE and was meant to be the DOE equivalent to PubMed. It was discontinued in November, 2002.
Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com/
“Stand on the shoulders of giants”
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Try your search for scientific topics here.
HighWire Press, Stanford University, Free Online Full-text Articleshttp://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
“HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 1/21/06, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,158,323 free full-text articles and 2,989,333 total articles. (On 1/13/05, the figures were 821,792 free full-text articles and 2,077,789 total articles; on 1/29/04, the figures were 676,929 free full-text articles and 1,680,228 total articles.)
IEEE Explorehttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE allows nonsubscribers to browse and access tables of contents of (but not search) IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings and standards.
Institute of Physics Electronic Journalshttp://www.iop.org/EJ/
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is pleased to announce that FREE full text searching is available for their entire Electronic Journals archive back to 1874. The archive includes over 172,000 articles and 1,000 volume-years of journals, starting with the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London in 1874. IOP is a British organization with an office in Philadelphia.
SCIRUS – for scientific information onlyhttp://www.scirus.com/
A free Internet Search engine developed by Elsevier that concentrates on scientific content only and searches both web and journal sources. In December of 2005 Scirus partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its 200,000 articles.
Subject Guides
By Librarians
BUBL LINKhttp://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Internet-based information service for the UK higher education community with a catalogue of 12,000 selected Internet resources. Located and run from the Centre for Digital Library Research of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collectionshttp://infomine.ucr.edu/
Recently updated with a new interface.
Search or browse subjects at this extensive site from the University of California at Riverside. Look at the “What’s New” for a topic to get an idea of the type of web resources collected. It was begun in 1994 and set up as a database. Subject librarians add web sites via an online form and thus don’t have to know html. The pages are created dynamically from the database.
Subscribe to email newsletter of latest additionshttp://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/alert_service_editor
Internet Public Libraryhttp://www.ipl.org/
This is one of many educational initiatives started by the University of Michigan School of Information. Unfortunately, these initiatives are often projects that run out of steam (their Argus Clearinghouse Project, a collection of independent internet guides to various topics, has been abandoned – it began as a gopher project).
Science & Technology Resourceshttp://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/sci00.00.00/
Librarians’ Internet Index (Index to the Internet)http://lii.org/
Maintained by Karen G. Schneider on the Berkeley Digital Library SUNsite, this is a database of Internet sites collected, categorized and annotated by 100 contributing librarians throughout California and Washington state. It is funded by the State Library of California. “The Librarians’ Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 17,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.” The lii.org has increased its focus on California and the West Coast compared to the early years. It used to categorize its links into Library of Congress Subject headings and had 17768 subjects as of Jan 21, 2005. Now it hides all those subject headings from the public with its new website and database, unveiled in July of 2005. It also has been involved in the California Digital Library.
Subscribe to LII New This Weekhttp://lii.org/pub/htdocs/subscribe.htm
Sciencehttp://lii.org/search/file/scitech
SAGE: University of California, San Diegohttp://libraries.ucsd.edu/sage/
Sage is a database and search engine for the high quality WWW and other electronic resources that have been selected by UCSD library subject specialists as being valuable for research by students, faculty and staff. It includes websites, electronic journals, electronic books and reports, and databases of all types. You can view a record with the data fields for an entry in SAGE by clicking on the asterisk at the bottom of the full description of the entry.
Virtual Reference Libraryhttp://www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca/
An online library created by the Toronto Public Library for citizens of Ontario. Includes a subject guide to the Internet with popular rather than academic categories and with a regional (Ontario, Canada) emphasis.
By Search Engines
dmoz Open Directory Project: Sciencehttp://www.dmoz.org/Science/
An alternative to Yahoo!: “The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.” From Science, you can click on Technology, and then Invention and Innovation or the various fields of Engineering.
Google Directory: Sciencehttp://directory.google.com/Top/Science/
The default listing of the websites is in Google PageRank order. An alternative is to view them in alphabetical order. Again, go to technology to get to inventions and engineering.
Yahoo!: Sciencehttp://dir.yahoo.com/Science/
If the WWW Virtual Library does not include your topic, or if you are looking for less scholarly scientific resources, Yahoo! is probably the best place to start. From there you can select likely directories and follow their links. This is a place to begin your search to other, more professional/scholarly sites. There is also a lot of junk here and outdated links that you will have to wade through.
Academic Directories
AgNIC: The Agriculture Network Information Centerhttp://www.agnic.org/
AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions. One of the objectives of AgNIC is that member participants take responsibility for small vertical segments of agricultural information (including basic, applied, and developmental research, extension, and teaching activities in the food, agricultural, renewable natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences) and develop Web sites and reference services in specific subject areas.
AMSERhttp://amser.org/
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges – but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is being created by a team of Project Partners lead by the Internet Scout Project.
Biology Browserhttp://www.biologybrowser.org/
BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.
K-12 Educational Initiatives
ThinkQuesthttp://thinkquest.org/
This is one site that all secondary school students and their teachers and librarians should be aware of. Recently acquired by Oracle Help Us Help
Foundation.
Federal Government Initiatives
NSDL: National Science Digital LibraryNational Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/
NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, starting with a partnership of NSDL-funded projects and organized in support of science education at all levels, but with an emphasis on K-12.
Resource Discovery Networkhttp://www.rdn.ac.uk/
To see what the United Kingdom is doing in the area of organizing online scientific resources see their
Subject Portals Project.http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/
The United Kingdom’s RDN Subject Portals Project is developing portal functionality for five of the subject hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), BIOME, the bio-medical sciences hub; EEVL, the engineering, maths and computer sciences hub; HUMBUL, the humanities hub; PSIGate, the physical sciences hub and SOSIG, the social sciences hub.
BIOME (Life sciences)http://biome.ac.uk/
EEVL (Engineering, Math and Computer Science)http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
GESource (Geography and the Environment)http://www.gesource.ac.uk/
PSIGate (Physical sciences)http://www.psigate.ac.uk/
Enrich UKhttp://www.enrichuk.net/
Includes “regional and national ’sense of place’ websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.”
People’s Networkhttp://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/
online services from England’s public libraries
Science.govhttp://www.science.gov/
First Gov for Science.
Unveiled in late 2002. A website that will let you search through multiple government websites.
State Initiatives
Michigan eLibraryhttp://www.mel.org/
“Brought to you by the Library of Michigan, the Michigan eLibrary is an anywhere, anytime information gateway to selected Internet resources, full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic books online practice tests and more.”
PA POWER Libraryhttp://www.powerlibrary.net/
Offers database access via public and school libraries.
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/reference/indexes.html
Search Engine Evaluation
Search Engine Watchhttp://searchenginewatch.com/
A website evaluating search engines and updating you on changes and new ones. A mailing list will also send you a thick report once a month. Look at their list of major search engines and directories to see what is available.
Search Engine Showdownhttp://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
“User’s Guide to Web Searching”. Written by Greg Notess, net columnist for Online and Database magazines, for which he also writes the “Search Engine Update” column. Check here for the latest developments at each search engine.
Journals for Resources
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – C&RL Newshttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/collegeresearch.htm
Internet Resources Published Monthlyhttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/internetresources.htm
Each month usually has an article exploring internet resources in a particular academic field. There is also a separate Internet Reviews Archive that examines individual websites.
D-Lib Magazinehttp://www.dlib.org/
articles on digital libraries
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianshiphttp://www.istl.org/
A quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries you can find articles as well as a column on web resources. Available online.
Webliographies from ISTLhttp://www.istl.org/webliographies.html
Science Magazine Netwatchhttp://www.sciencemag.org/netwatch/
Although Science Magazine doesn’t offer much for free, their Netwatch column is accessible. However: “Science Online does not attempt to make sure old links are still working” so this is not an updated subject guide.
Libraries
You can browse through these indexes of libraries to help you locate models for designing your own library’s website. Also check the last updated information.
LibWebhttp://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
Libweb currently lists over 7400 pages from libraries in over 125 countries.
LibDex – The Library Indexhttp://www.libdex.com/
An index to 18,000 libraries. The original owner, Peter Scott, sold LibDex and all of its files to Bisca International Investments Ltd in late 2004.
Selection Criteria
lii.org (Librarian’s Index to the Internet)
“Selection Criteria for Adding Resources to the LII”http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/selectioncriteria.htm
This is a very good list of criteria to consider when selecting websites.
OCLChttp://www.oclc.org/
Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guidehttp://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/cataloging/internetguide/
Sample Websites
Animal Diversity Webhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
A searchable database of animal information put together by University of Michigan students for K-12 and college classes in biology.
E-ANSWERShttp://e-answers.adec.edu/
The American Distance Education Consortium, made up of 65 Land Grant colleges and universities, has made more than 250,000 pages of Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station information available through this online database.
GlobalSpechttp://www.globalspec.com/
“The Engineering Search Engine.” A search engine for electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, and optical products. Allows patent searching as well.
Native Plant Information Centerhttp://www.wildflower2.org/
A database of over 5,200 native plants at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Texas. You can browse by state (distribution). At the bottom of each record are reference links to other databases such as
http://www.itis.usda.gov/ and http://plants.usda.gov/.
NatureServehttp://www.natureserve.org/
Representing an international network of biological inventories operating in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, NatureServe offers searchable databases of plant, animal and ecosystem information.
Paleontology Portalhttp://www.paleoportal.org/
This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. From the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the United States Geological Survey.
PhysicsWebhttp://physicsweb.org/
A website from the British Institute of Physics offering the Latest News, tempting excerpts from Physics World magazine, Job postings, Resources, Events, Best of PhysicsWeb and Industry Information
PhysNet: Physics Departments and Documents Worldwidehttp://www.physnet.net/
PhysNet is a distributed information service. It uses the information which can be found on the web-servers of the worldwide distributed physics institutions and departments of universities seen as a distributed database.
The Signaling Gatewayhttp://www.signaling-gateway.org/
The AfCS (Alliance for Cellular Signaling)-Nature (Publishing Group) Signaling Gateway is a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute resource for anyone interested in signal transduction. This Gateway represents a unique collaboration between academia and scientific publishing and is designed to facilitate navigation of the complex world of research into cellular signaling. Information and data presented here are freely available to all. Nature calls it a “groundbreaking new form of scientific publication”.
Species 2000http://www.species2000.org/
Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of organisms on Earth (animals, plants, fungi and microbes) as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity. It is a “Federation” of database organisations working closely with users, taxonomists and sponsoring agencies (including the United Nations Environment Programme) to create an array of participant global species databases covering each of the major groups of organisms.
Use their Annual Checklist to search for common or scientific names. The results are linked to web and image searches.
Tree of Lifehttp://www.tolweb.org/
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world with more than 3000 web pages. The site provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Originally designed for biologists, the Tree of Life website has proved popular with middle and high school students and the nonbiologist.<!–
Wayne’s Wordhttp://waynesword.palomar.edu/
An example of how a design-challenged person can still create a website with interesting data. It was recently featured in the January 7, 2005, NSDL Scout Report for Life Sciences–>
WebMineralhttp://www.webmineral.com/
A database of minerals created by petroleum geologist David Barthelmy. Included are links to other sites that provide good fodder for browsing.
Societies & Associations
Scholarly Societies Projecthttp://www.scholarly-societies.org/
Web Sites of 4,108 Scholarly Societies maintained by the University of Waterloo Electronic Library. This is a great way to get online information and additional links on a scientific topic with the assurance that it is maintained by scholars/professionals in the field. There is a subject guide or you can search their database.
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)http://www.ala.org/acrl/
This is a Division of the American Library Association
Science & Technology Section (STS)http://www.ala.org/acrl/sts/
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)http://www.arl.org/
An organization of 123 institutions (University of Pittsburgh is one). Explore the websites of these 123 member libraries to find recommended resources (Internet websites, electronic journals and databases) in a desired topic.
Open Access Issues
Removing the Barriers to Research:An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2003/february1/removingbarriers.htm
An article from the February 2003 issue of CRL News by Peter Suber.
ARL Newsletterhttp://www.arl.org/newsltr/
The following articles deal with Open Access and Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Communication Articleshttp://www.arl.org/newsltr/osc.html
Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishinghttp://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html
ARL SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)http://www.arl.org/sparc/
A worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market to expand access.
Create Changehttp://www.createchange.org/
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. An online brochure from ARL, ACRL, and SPARC
Repository Resourceshttp://www.arl.org/sparc/repos/
SPARC Open Access Newsletterhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
Open Access Overviewhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Open Access News Bloghttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
arXiv.orghttp://arxiv.org/
ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, with partial funding from NSF.
EPrints.orghttp://www.eprints.org/
An archiving initiative from the University of Southampton (UK) offering software and dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.
Ithakahttp://www.ithaka.org/
Ithaka is a newly formed not-for-profit organization, supported by the Mellon, Hewlett, and Niarchos Foundations, with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education around the world. At present, Ithaka is incubating three initiatives – the Electronic Archiving Initiative, Aluka, and NITLE – and has as Affiliates two organizations that already are recognized as independent not-for-profit organizations, JSTOR and ARTstor.
National Institutes of Health: Public Accesshttp://publicaccess.nih.gov/
“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public Access Policy), which took effect on May 2, 2005, requests and strongly encourages all investigators to make their NIH-funded peer-reviewed, author’s final manuscript available to other researchers and the public through the NIH National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) immediately after the final date of journal publication.”
Open Access and Librarieshttp://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/OALibraries2.pdf
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Preprint 1/11/06. An overview of the issue.
Open Access Webliographyhttp://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm
Open Archives Initiativehttp://www.openarchives.org/
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to develop uniform standards to allow academic archives of all kinds to be searched effectively.
The Public Library of Sciencehttp://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
http://www.plos.org/
A non-profit organization of scientists working for the establishment of an online public library that would provide the full contents of the published record of research and scholarly discourse in medicine and the life sciences in a freely accessible, fully searchable, interlinked form.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliographyhttp://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. By Charles W. Bailey, Jr..
SciDevNet (Science and Development Network)http://www.scidev.net/
Providing free, reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact the economic and social development of developing countries. It offers comprehensive coverage of the open-access publishing movement.
Wellcome Trust: An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishinghttp://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD003181.html
In part as a result of this study published in January 2003, the British Wellcome Trust supports Open Access Publishing as the best way to disseminate scientific information.
Digital Libraries
DSpace Federationhttp://www.dspace.org/
Digital library system software, developed by MIT and Hewlett Packard, to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats.
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Agehttp://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
Clifford Lynch in the Feb 2003 issue of the ARL Newsletter argues that universities must take an active role in conserving scholarly works
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)http://www.clir.org/
CLIR, serving as administrative home to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) (http://www.diglib.org/) — a collaborative enterprise of prestigious research libraries and archives — is committed to fostering the development of digital libraries.
Digitization Bloghttp://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/
This blog will connect you with the latest publications and issues in digital libraries.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertationshttp://www.ndltd.org/
Project pages
University of Pittsburgh eTDThese are entered into Pittcat and can be searched
- Selected Digital Library Collections
California Digital Libraryhttp://www.californiadigitallibrary.org/
Check out their featured collections, particularly the California plant photos.
Einstein Archives Onlinehttp://alberteinstein.info/
The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
CMU: Allen Newellhttp://diva.library.cmu.edu/Newell/
CMU: Herbert Simonhttp://diva.library.cmu.edu/Simon/
