Art, Communications, History and Current Culture
(Reference): Flickr: The Commons,
a subsite of Yahoo!’s photo-sharing
site.
CHOICE® reviewers wrote: “This is the most accessible collection of freely available historical
photographs on the Web, and the rich metadata make photos easy to find.”
Participating institutions include: the George Eastman House, the Getty
Research Institute, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution,
NADA, and the national archive of the US, the UK, Norway, and the Netherlands.
Computer and Information Science: AI (Artificial Intelligence) Topics,
from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Health Care and Medical Technology: Influenza Encyclopedia, from the
University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and MPublishing.
Aimed primarily at AI students
and faculty, an editorial review board selects materials “to be accessible to
all interested readers.” Articles date from the 1980s; video sources include
materials from the 1940s and 1960s. The site employs standard Google search methods. Readers may submit materials to the review
board for consideration using an online submission form. Not all articles can
be freely provided, although each includes citations and abstracts. Saint Leo University students, faculty, and staff can
use citations to track full-text back to university databases for full-text
delivery, or search for individual eJournals by title using the AtoZ Journal List to locate full-text from online library resources.
URL: http://aitopics.net/
Similar to The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919 <http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/>,
the Influenza Encyclopedia site is
actually an encyclopedia solely about the American flu epidemic of 1918-1919. It addresses how the Department of Health and Human Services used two
University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine research studies to “form
policy decisions on handling pandemic influenza.” Fifty US cities are
represented, each with an essay and supplemental materials. The site is based
on primary source materials, including images, and is divided into four
topics: People, Places, Organizations, and Subjects.
Health Care, Sociology and Social Work (Reference): The Human Mortality Database, created
by demographers John R. Wilmoth (Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Vladimir
Shkolnikov (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany).
On the home page, site developers Wilmoth and Shkolnikov explain that it was “created to provide detailed mortality and population data to
researchers, students, policy analysts and others interested in the history of
human longevity,” such as those majoring in or researching topics in the fields of health
care, sociology, anthropology, or social work. At present, there are 37
countries included, each with data sets linked from the site’s home page. Use
the left-hand frame for navigation to sections such as registration, projects,
people, methods, data, and links. If you need this type of data, you might also
consider looking at the United Nations’ Population
and Vital Statistics Report at <http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/>. For similar data on the United States, look at the US Census Bureau's The National Data Book, the online version of the series known as The Statistical Abstract of the United States or link to it from the library's online catalog, LeoCat.
History and Archeology : Texas beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage, from the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University, the Council of Texas Archeologists and 15 other organizations.
Launched in 2001, the site seeks to “interpret and share” a bounty of research into "at least 13,500 years" of Texas
history and archeology. The site includes virtual museum exhibits,
Gr. 4-7 curricular materials, and a clickable map to 60 other Texas sites.
Additional resources are listed in the Credits and Sources section of individual pages. The site
has been infrequently updated in recent years, but still provides a great
jumping-off point for both academic and lay researchers.
Scholarly Communications (Reference): The Scholarly Kitchen, from the Society
for Scholarly Publishing.
This moderated blog was started
in 2008 by the Society for Scholarly Publishing and focuses on “scholarly
publishing, particularly in scientific, technical, and medical fields.” Use the "Follow" button on the lower right of the home page or the Twitter, RSS Feed, and Email Notifications features on the right-hand side of the home page to sign up for notifications from the site. Readers can search by contributor, keyword, or a topical
index, as well as join in the scholarly discussions of individual articles using the "comments" feature. You
might want to compare it to the SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition) blog site,< http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/blog/index.shtml>.
Undergraduate Instructional Materials (Reference):
PRIMO; Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online, from the Instruction Section of the Association of
College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Started as the Internet Education Project by ACRL’s
Instruction Section, this database is regularly updated and curated by
section members. Tutorials are selected for “their strong instructional value” and
can be used by both academic librarians and undergraduate subject faculty
interested in developing the research skills of their students. The collection
presently tops 250 tutorials created from 1996 to the present. Navigate the
site by browsing or searching. Results include the tutorial record, a short
description, the tutorial link, and data from the developers.
--Items selected by
Sandra Lee Hawes,
eLibrary News Editor,
from CHOICE Reviews
March 2013, Vol. 50, No. 7
Sandra Lee Hawes,
eLibrary News Editor,
from CHOICE Reviews
March 2013, Vol. 50, No. 7
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