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Some posts from the Internet Resources Newsletter, March 2009

Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Feb, 2009

An introduction to Google's search engine

http://websearch.about.com/b/2009/01/22/google-search-google-search-engine-basics.htm

From About.com

http://www.authormapper.com/

AuthorMapper, an online tool for visualizing scientific research, enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps.

CiteAlert

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/cite_alert

CiteAlert is a service which automatically notifies authors by e-mail soon after their work is referenced in a newly published article on ScienceDirect.

Europeana

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

Federated Search Finds Content that Google Can’t Reach

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/01/11/federated-search-finds-content-that-google-cant-reach-part-i-of-iii/

From AltSearchEngines.

Free Language Translator

http://www.codeplex.com/LanguageTranslator

This is a desktop language translator application using the Google translation service. It adds more features to the existing service and addresses some of its shortcomings.

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

http://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365/

From digital inspiration.

Joomla

http://www.joomla.org/

Award-winning Open Source content management system.

JURN

http://www.jurn.org/

Search 1842 free scholarly ejournals in the arts & humanities. See also the Jurn blog..

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

Learning occurs in social networks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA&eurl=http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-learning-occurs-in-social.html&feature=player_embedded

A YouTube video.

MelZoo

http://www.melzoo.com/en_GB/search

This Meta search engine, offers "visual previews" of the search results.

Memidex

http://www.memidex.com/

This is a free online dictionary/thesaurus with several unique features, including more extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, simple interface, and frequent updates.

PDFse

http://pdfse.com/

Ebook search

Ranking Web of World Repositories

http://repositories.webometrics.info/

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development.

http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-02.pdf

Report commissioned by OCLC Research.

The European Library

http://www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org

The European Library has announced a new site release.

The new portal incorporates many of the recommended enhancements from user feedback studies. Top of the list was more multilingual facilities. As a result, users can now navigate and scan over 330 collections in their native language. Support materials, including FAQs and a first-time user guide, are available in 22 European languages.

Twidox

http://www.twidox.com/

Twidox is a free, user generated online library of quality documents that allows individuals and organisations to easily publish, share and search for them, allowing people to share their knowledge and help others with their work, learning, teaching and research.

And there's lots more good stuff:

Internet Resources Newsletter, 170, March 2009

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn170/irn170.html

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