Peter's Digital Reference Shelf- May 2002
Lois Kiehl
kiehl at hawaii.edu
Tue May 7 20:55:58 EDT 2002
Subject: Peter's Digital Reference Shelf- May 2002
The May 2002 edition of Peter's Digital Ready Reference Shelf is now
available on the Gale Group website. This month Peter reviews:
1) Oxford Reference Online - One hundred renowned dictionaries,
encyclopedias and directories pack a mighty punch, in spite of some
software glitches.
2) The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk - A superb current awareness
service featuring high-quality, free, ready reference sources on the Web.
These in-depth reviews are illustrated with dozens of screenshots and
provide a multi-linked virtual walk-through of the databases. They are
written by Peter Jacso, the 1998 recipient of the Louis Shores - Oryx
Press Award of the Reference and User Services Association for his
discerning database reviews. His column is available free of charge to all
users at:
http://www.galegroup.com/reference/peter/peter.htm
See the Archives for databases previously reviewed:
Merriam-Webster Third International Unabridged Dictionary
AskOxford
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
Britannica Concise
Word Reference Desk
NBC Olympics
Bloomsbury Research Center
50states.com
The Top 10 of Everything
Xrefer.com
PubList
Ulrich's International Periodicals
Profusion
Cultural Profiles Project
Columbia World of Quotations
Yahoo! Reference
Atomica 2.1
DealTime.com
Expedia
Travelocity
CyberAtlas
Penguin New English Dictionary
ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
Comparative Religions on File
Adflip
Canadian Encyclopedia Online
Awesome Library
Librarian's Index to the Internet
TechEncyclopedia
Webster's Third New International Unabridged Dictionary
Artcylopedia
Sports Rules on File
Nolo Law Dictionary
Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
CIA World Factbook 2000
GuruNet reference suite
InteliHealth version of the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Nobel Prize List
Zagat Survey
Encyclopaedia of the Orient
Bowker's Complete Video Directory
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
Online Columbia Encyclopedia 2000 (6th edition)
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Choice Reviews Online.
Oxford English Dictionary Online.
New Millennium Encyclopedia on CD-ROM
Funk & Wagnalls Knowledge Center
Biography Resource Center
Biography.com
Biographical Dictionary
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2000 (CD-ROM)
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Deluxe 2000 (CD-ROM)
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 2000 (CD-ROM)
American Heritage Dictionary Deluxe
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
WWWebster Dictionary
Encarta World English Dictionary
Encarta Africana 2000
Britannica.com
Grolier Multimedia Online Encyclopedia version 2
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
InfoNation
Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000
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