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PLEASE take a look at the new trial databases. Please send comments to melo@colin.edu.
How to Never Spend Money on PC Software Ever Again
Lists and provides an overview of worthwhile online FREE software
including word processing, web browsers, internet security, web editing
products, email, and more.
Google Patent
Search
Another great Google search tool that makes it easier to find patents.
All patents available through
Google Patent Search come from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO).
Pakistan's Political Crisis
BBC news.
NASA's 50th
Anniversary
“Over the next year, NASA will celebrate 50
years of scientific and technological excellence.”
100+
Ways to Organize Your Life
Though we won’t add this website to MELO’s collection, still fun to look
at for those making New Year’s resolutions!
File Extensions
Source for file extension information and associated applications.
WiserWiki
Elsevier page aimed at becoming the a key source for online medical
information.
The website del.icio.us keeps links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web. A popular social networking tool that also allows sharing and discovery of other favorites!
The old World Lecture Hall is still a great resource for online course work. The last time I looked it seemed to neglected and dying, but now seems to have made a great recovery. The course work is certainly worth checking out!!!
Who is today's college student? See video A vision of Students Today that a University of Kansas social anthropology class put together to tell us!
Teaching can always be enhanced by the power of exciting, creative websites that pull together a place, time, or person. The following history related sites perfectly illustrate this point and are well worth passing along to history instructors or classes.
JFK in History: Cuban Missile Crisis - A day forever remembered when
"October 1962, a U.S. spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile
sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba."
Presented by the JFK Presidential Library and includes multimedia
presentation, primary resources, and historical commentary.
The War: A Ken Burns Film - PBS
website that tells the story of WWII through personal accounts.
Remember the Alamo -
Another PBS presentation that focuses on Navarro and his efforts to save
his homeland. Includes a teacher's guide.
Cool tool for library patrons to calculate the value of a library. The website is Maine's Library Use Value Calculator. Good for the folks in Maine to come up with such a great library PR idea!
Dictionaries and encylopedias and manuals..... oh,
my!!! Basic information websites new to MELO's ref collection:
ArtLex - art index with hypertext
Assorted Encyclopedias on
the Web - more specific topics
Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize it and Avoid it
IT Security Dictionary
- dictionary of information security
Internet Country Codes
North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS)---replaces the
old
Standard Industrial Classification System (SICS)
OSHA Technical
Manual
U.S. Code Online
Writing
Resources - Purdue's handouts & materials
Excellent news! The New York Times, as of September 18th, has stopped charging readers for access to all parts of the website. They also made the decision to make available its archives back to 1987 as well as the all the public domain articles which include the years 1851 to 1922. The contents page includes sections Arts, Books, Breaking News, Business, New York Times: Latest Headlines (Blogspace), Dining & Wine, Education, Health, Home & Garden, International, Movies, National, Obituaries, Op-Ed Columns Archive, Politics, Sports, Style, Technology and Weather.
For those interested in doing screencasts for instructional purposes, there is a wonderful new utility called JING. Though it in in a free trial/development phase, it is well worth the time and interest. You will be amazed at how easy it is to create a short video to put on the web. Developed by the same company that created Camtasia, it actually could be better named 'Camtasia-lite'!
A great open source extension is Zotero,
a bibliographic management program that helps collect, manage, and cite
research sources. The 'down' side is that it works only with the
Firefox browser.
Designing Better Libraries is a new blog offering information about library design. All 'fits' with the new 'library as place' philosophy!
A useful page of software tutorials may be found at Wikivid.
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)."