Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - June 2004
Lois Kiehl
kiehl at hawaii.edu
Sun Jun 6 16:26:49 EDT 2004
Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - June 2004
The June edition of Peter's Digital Ready Reference Shelf has been posted
on the Gale Group website. This column is available free of charge to all
users at:
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/
Peter Jacso is a member of the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame
(http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/lrc/hofprevious.htm). His in-depth reviews are
illustrated with dozens of screenshots and provide a multi-linked virtual
walk-through of the databases he evaluates. Jacso was the 1998 recipient
of the Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award of the Reference and User Services
Association for his discerning database reviews.
This month Peter reviews:
[1] CrossRef Search Pilot
High-quality scholarly content from nine big-name publishers deserves much
better treatment by Google, or rather by some other company that has
demonstrated expertise in bringing the best of millions of high-quality,
consistently structured and tagged Web pages with excellent metadata.
[2] ResourceShelf
Subscribing to an Internet monthly newsletter: $30.
Attending a half-day brush-up workshop about Web searching at your next
conference: $199.
Starting each day with Gary Price's ResourceShelf: Priceless.
See the Archives on the Gale site for databases previously reviewed:
KeepMedia
Adherents.com
A & E Biography
MetaCritic
Fact Monster
e.encyclopedia
Official Academy Awards Database
New York Times Movie Reviews
PsycINFO
e-psyche
Amazon Search Inside the Book
ConsumerSearch
Xrefer Plus
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary
Britannica GeoAnalyzer
Facts for Features
Enciclopedia Universal Micronet
Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary
Rotten Tomatoes
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia- National Geographic version
Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2003
The Blair Archive
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Collins English Dictionary
Searchasaurus database collection
Hutchinson Encyclopedia concise version
World Atlas
Hoover's Online
Consulta
American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms UK Official Charts
American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Concise Oxford Dictionary
jake
Ulrich's
Annual Reviews, Inc.
OCLC WorldCat
DOE Energy Citations Database
PubSCIENCE
Subway Navigator
How Stuff Works
Search Engine Showdown
AP Multimedia Archive
Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Oxford Reference Online
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
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
Expedia
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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