New Information and Learning Sites

Open access bibliography presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (incl. some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources published between 1999 and 2004 that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature.

Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography Presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources on scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. Includes a blog and RSS feed, as well as a directory of web resources .

"College learning for the new global century, published through the LEAP initiative, spells out the essential aims, learning outcomes, and guiding principles for a twenty-first-century college education. It reports on the promises American society needs to make--and keep--to all who seek a college education and to the society that will depend on graduates' future leadership and capabilities"--Foreword

Electronic Resources

Bookwire is a website corresponding to R.R. Bowker's book review publication. It is an internet site "dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop on the book industry! Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events. "


Richmond Daily Dispatch is the result of a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and collaboration between the University of Richmond, Tufts University's Perseus Project, and the Virginia Center for Digital History to provide access to Civil War Era newspapers. There are currently 1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865. Proximity and Boolean searching is available, and the ability to browse by calendar dates is a convenient feature.

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin provides "Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published. There are also over 180 ancillary texts, from reference works, reviews, obituaries and more." The site is fully searchable, and provides original illustrations, mp3 recordings of books, and
translations of selected materials into Danish, Norwegian, German,

and Russian.

More Websites

The film preservation guide: the basics for archives libraries and museums is a publication of the National Film Preservation Society and is aimed at helping inexperienced professionals at research institutions with film collections to develop preservation techniques. It is intended primarily for those in libraries, archives, and museums who have little or no technical experience with film preservation.




Foreign Relations of the United States, the Department of State's record of official foreign policy decisions , has now been digitized, in part, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Libraries. The collection covers 1861-1958, and 1960, and can be browsed by volume or searched. The pages are resizeable, and are available as printable images, or OCR generated text (for copying, pasting, etc.). Note: Full-text searching isn't 100% flawless due to possible errors in the uncorrected optical character recognition (OCR) scanning.




Boating Uses, Economic Significance, and Information Inventory for North Carolina's Offshore Area, "The Point" is a 3 volume set published by the Minerals Management Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Interior. The purpose Volume 1 was to determine the geographic extent of the area known as The Point; to identify and characterize the primary users of The Point, and to determine the extent of, and seasonality of their use. Volume 2 aims to generate baseline economic information for the counties that might be affected, explore the potential economic impacts of an oil spill off the Outer Banks, provide information on the value of recreational fishing at The Point and estimate the potential losses to recreational fishing at The Point if there were an oil spill. Volume 3 creates a centralized compilation of the research conducted in the area known as The Point.

Recent Websites

Past Portal is a website of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, maintained by the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. It provides digital access to rare books, manuscripts, and other primary resources from Virginia's history, including the full run of the Virginia Gazette. Users can browse the collections, or make use of the site's search features, which include Boolean logic and word truncation.



American Women Through Time is a site maintained by Ken Middleton and provides chronological timelines of notable women or events, with hyperlinks to relevant online sources. There are also links to primary resources such as diaries, advice columns, newspaper, and even quilts. Links to other timelines, including ones categorized by name, state, and subject are also included.




Space Available: Economic Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy is a report from the Brookings Institute that describes a national trend of waning demand for convention center space, while at the same time many local governments nationwide are investing heavily in such facilities as a way to boost economic development. Author Heywood Sanders, Ph.D., professor in public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio, dispels what he sees as myths about the economic prospects of building or expanding convention centers, and uses case studies to reflect the shrinking marketplace of convention centers.



The Archival Appraisal of Moving Images: A RAMP Study with Guidelines is a digitized version of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's 1983 publication regarding a long-term Records and Archives Management Program (RAMP). This "present study, prepared by Sam Kula under contract with the International Council on Archives - ICA - is intended to assist archivists and records managers involved in the selection of moving images for preservation through a comparative study of past and present policies and practices in this area, and the formulation of guidelines based upon the most widely acceptable of these to other cultural policies and practices." -- Preface
Note: PDF is in two formats, printable image scan of the original, and textual version generated by optical character recognition (OCR), which can have spelling/grammar errors.



Inquiring into Inquiry , edited by Jim Minstrell and Emily H. van Zee, "focuses on three questions: Why inquiry?, What does inquiry look like?, and What are some issues associated with shifting toward inquiry-based practices? Contributing authors are scientists, teachers, researchers, professional development specialists, and administrators. Many work with students from diverse cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. Settings ranged from science lessons with primary students to informal meetings with experienced teachers. " --from the Publisher's website
The e-book is divided into three parts, and the front matter, each as a PDF.