Searching the Internet for Images
An excellent tutorial on finding images on the internet. Includes reviews of the different image search engines and links to image collections. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchingresources.html
This site is presented by TASI - Technical Advisory Service for Images (http://www.tasi.ac.uk/)
What is TASI?
The Technical Advisory Service for Images is a JISC funded service. It provides advice and guidance to the Further and Higher Education community on the issues of:
- Creating digital images (including raster, vector and animated formats)
- Delivering digital images to users
- Using digital images to support teaching, learning and research
- Managing both small and large scale digitisation projects
Gender Genie -- barely better than chance!
This site promises 80% accuracy in identifying the gender of an
author when he/she inserts a sample snippet of text in the window provided. You tell it if it is fiction, nonfiction or a blog entry.
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html.
I was identified as male (incorrect). When you provide feedback you get the current success percentage. It was at 69% correct when I did it.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Canadian Environment Week
Canadian Environment Week
May 30 - June 5, 2004
http://www.ec.gc.ca/e-week/index_e.htm
EcoTips
Commuter Challenge
Kid Zone
Youth Section
One-tonne challenge
Clean air day
New Tri-national Occupational Safety and Health Web site launched in Canada, the United States and Mexico
The Tri-national Occupational Safety and Health Working Group under the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC) announced the launch of a Web site (www.naalcosh.org) to promote and improve safety in the workplace. The web site provides valuable links to information to promote public education and encourages the ongoing exchange of best practices on programs, projects and activities relating to workplace health and safety issues in Mexico, the United States and Canada. The website is available in Spanish, English and French.
http://www.ccohs.ca/headlines/text130.html
ChemSpy
Chemistry news, links, downloads (reactor conversin adn simulatin software), a chemistry search, etc.
The search is nice...type in your key words then click the service/site/database you want to search in.
http://www.chemspy.com/
An interesting use for a copier
An article from CFO Magazine (may 1 2004)The Secret Life of Copiers
"Most copy machines are now full-blown IT devices, with network and E-mail server connectivity. Any information stored on them can often be accessed by employees and targeted by hackers or thieves."
http://www.cfo.com/Article?article=13513
Research Information
Research Information is a bimonthly printed full-colour magazine produced by Europa Science Ltd. The features are available full text online. The subscription is free to qualified requesters.
March/April 2004
BUSINESS CONTINUITY FOR LIBRARIANS
DATA STORAGE
Will banking data improve research output?
PUBLISHERS AND READERS: THE IEE VIEW
Serving today's user
PROFILE: DARLENE WALTERS
Maths teacher turned publisher
Q&A: ERIC VAN AMERONGEN
An agent's view
THOMSON ISI
A road map to scientific excellence
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Book a Minute
For busy professionals who also want to keep up on their reading. Some advertising flashing light stuff.
Covers classics, childrens books, and science fiction.
http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/
A sample:
Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy By Douglas Adams Ultra-Condensed by David J. Parker and Samuel Stoddard
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(The Earth gets BLOWN UP.)
Arthur
I'm a bit upset about that.
Ford
Yes, I can understand that.
(They fly around the galaxy. They go UNDERGROUND, where they see...)
Arthur
The Earth.
Deep Thought
Forty two.
THE END
Friday, May 07, 2004
A Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd edition
Full text, online, free.
What more can you ask. This is a heat transfer textbook aimed at engineering undergraduates. Written by John H. Lienhard IV, Professor, University of Houston and John H. Lienhard V, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not something I would purchase for my particular library, but worth cataloguing as a "virtual" resource.http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html
Comprehensive listing of free electronic journals
from the site:
A supplement to every library catalogue on the planet!
"FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents. If you wish to "search" for articles on a particular topic, please use a bibliographic database such as PubMed. This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content. Titles will be removed from this list if they cease to offer any free full-text content."
http://www.freefulltext.com
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties
CPhA has announced e-CPS and electronic version of the famous blue drug book. They have a free trial until June 6, 2004 at http://www.pharmacists.ca/function/subscriptions/ecpsfree.cfm
"Marketing for the Info-Entrepreneur" - MaryEllen Bates in Freepint
From a recent Freepint issue.
I am contantly looking for help in marketing and promoting the library. As everyone knows engineers are notious for their lack of library use (compared to chemists -- for example).
While this is not an article on marketing libraries to engineers, it is an article on marketing library services to clients.
QuickMBA
Many great topics of relevance to all managment -- including library management. Each topic has a multi page overview. Topics include positioning; the marketing plan; various accounting explainations; economics; business law; finance; statistics; strategy; entrepreneurship....
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Cosmas
Website: http://www.methylsalicylate.com/cosmas/
Description: A weblog for subjects mostly related to computational chemistry, chemoinformatics, statistical analysis in these areas and some quantum chemistry.
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