Many of the designations that manufacturers and sellers use to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. 6 percent of the journals covered for free by FindArticles, and their actual subscription costs to individuals in hard copy.
Your Key to Building a World Class Personal Library
I can get it for you wholesale.” These are some of the most seductive works in the English language. So I would strongly recommend that all libraries carefully assess their current collections and acquisition policies in light of the resources Nick describes in the Web Library.
What Was and What Is
In addition, some of the information that can be obtained on the World Wide Web is even more valuable because there is no physical counterpart. However, one of the conditions is that you need to know where to look to find the free materials.
Welcome to the Web Library
For more information, see "About the Web Page.") "Web Library Software Keys" provides practical suggestions for creating a personal Web page so you can link to free Web sites that provide library-quality material. It also provides information about the plug-ins required to manage a web library and some of the "cool tools" that you can take advantage of.
Free Articles and Indexes
Can You Afford Not to Use Them?
Wilson Company's Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. It costs a minimum of $310, and if the librarian chooses a more timely edition of the Guide (nine per year), the price increases. Specific costs for some of these resources cannot be directly ascertained for our purposes because the publisher prices them according to the service basis (a sum calculated as a function of "the degree of service or use the index provides the particular library that subscribes to it" ).
Why It Pays to Listen to Mother
Moreover, a significant amount of the full text of journal literature itself is free. If you had deep pockets, you could get the full text of the articles by paying more than $20 for each article at Ingenta (including the service charge and copyright charge).
An Illustrative Comparison
Each of the three is worth exploring; FindArticles offers the most value as a free full-text resource, and Ingenta is a commendable free indexing database. For example, FindArticles indexes and provides full text for more than 500 journals; a search within the collection for Shakespeare and Hamlet yields 212 articles.
More for Free
Guests can go to http://www.sciencedirect.com and browse the tables of contents of 1,700 journals. The free full text saves a huge amount of money (Elsevier's journals are expensive), and the user can also browse the tables of contents and summaries of journals for free.
Selected Collections of Digitized Journals
Pointers to Online Collections
A Word to the Wise (Librarian)
Online Magazines: A Close Read
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL
INSIDER'S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL:. of the print magazine's market was observed. The site is actually increasing subscriptions through online offers of four trial issues of the magazine.
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: KATIE BACON,
KB: This is why we only provide half of the current issue on the website (and never the cover story). As Katie Bacon said, the Atlantic's website gives readers access to eight years of the print publication's articles at no cost.
An Aggregator at Your Service
A prominent aggregator, MagPortal (http://www.magportal.com), offers several additional options for individual site users.
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: BILL DIMM,
BD: The premium feeds allow other companies to embed a mini MagPortal.com into their website that uses a subset of our data. The article links take the user to the publisher's website, such as on MagPortal.com.
Other Aggregators and Portals for Online Magazines and Journals
Index of Internet Librarians: Journals by Subject http://www.lii.org/search/file/magazines. The site also links to publications, putting the user just one click away from the magazine's own site.
Just Help Me Find It!
Its website offers a searchable selection of content from around 100 company publications. There is overlap, but you need to do the search twice to get a true picture of the literature on your topic.
Other Free Indexes to Help You Locate Periodical Articles
Many of the items in the ERIC database can be purchased from ERIC, but the journal articles found in the database generally must be obtained from libraries or other outlets. See "Objective diagnosis of otitis media in early infancy by tympanometry and ipsilateral acoustic reflex thresholds," by C. D. Marchant in the Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 109, pages 590-595, October 1986).
Staying Alert Without Caffeine, Exercise, or Meditation
Usually the full text is given; coverage goes back to 1994 and includes links to other preprint servers. Laying the groundwork for solving technical challenges such as archive maintenance, accessibility and interoperability, the project was called the "Open Archives Initiative". The database is now called “ARC: The Cross-Archive Search Service.”9 (Search the service at http://arc.cs.odu.edu.) Searching the Open Archives is exciting because it offers metasearch for what's important.
Great Things Ahead
Péter Jacsó, a professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawaii's Library of Information Science program, has begun providing a suite of resources that enable powerful searches of publicly available information across disciplines.
Use Your Library Card
Free Medical Journals Database, http://www.freemedicaljournals.com Internet Public Library Serials, http://www.ipl.org/div/serials. Internet Librarians Index: Periodicals, http://www.lii.org/search/file/magazines Magatopia, http://www.magatopia.com.
Conclusion
S AMPLE A NNUAL S AVINGS
All the News that Fits and a Few Gigs More
When the cost of newsprint eventually stabilizes or declines, as it is known to do, the event is never accompanied by a drop in the price of newsprint. The obvious alternative is online news, and research shows that readers will not only accept it, but that it may even displace the physical newspaper in the future.
Here’s the Scoop on Newspaper Reading
The reasoning behind free access to newspaper sites is based on the understanding that news can be easily obtained through thousands of providers. Subscription level #1 allows full access to news, including search and retrieval of five years of the newspaper, plus access to business trend surveys.
Typical Newspaper Expenditures by Libraries and Information Professionals
Benchmarks include the New York Times, the Manchester Guardian, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. A small number of other newspapers may reflect the interests of certain ethnic groups in the community, eg Moskovskie Novosti (Moscow News), India News, Polako-American Journal, America's Italy Oggi, La Prensa, The Brazilians, China Daily, Gazeta Wyborcza (“Election Newspaper”).
Free Model Is an International Model
Or read the best reporting from the best newspapers on their respective websites for free.
What’s Online?
The Washington Post is 125 years old, but its site is as current as any on the Internet. Registered members can also personalize their news, receive targeted newsletters on topics that interest them, and share opinions on the site's discussion boards.
Wait—There’s More
WSJ ranks 69th overall in terms of how often it is accessed from NewsLink's pages. Newspapers, magazines, and electronic magazines in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish are listed on the MIT page.
Behind the Scenes at a Newspaper Web Site
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: GARY
DUCHANE, HARTFORD COURANT
What are some other areas of the site that offer this type of comprehensive coverage. In return, they are connected to one of the biggest and best websites in the state.
Broadcast Journalism News Sites
Nielsen/Net Ratings recently showed that 3.9 million site visitors checking from work and 1.9 million checking from home went to CNN.com for information on November 8, 2000 – the day after the 2000 presidential election – a record audience. CNN also operates CNN/Money (its financial counterpart at http://money.cnn.com), the "AllPolitics" website at http://.
Alternate Approaches
Of Ananova and Weblogs
Giving News a Personal Spin: Weblogs
My weblog, Scripting News (http://www.scriptingnews.com), is part of the blogging community and part of the freelance developer community, especially those using scripting environments. Heaps of new stuff at the top of the page; Old things sink to the bottom.” Check out the Salon site at http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose weblogs.
Locating the Blogs: Key Resources
This is in contrast to Blogdex, where you can see the most frequently discussed blogs. For example, in August, blogs were discussing the Salon magazine article called "Media Titans Still Don't Get It." (Major media companies may have lost billions on the Internet because their executives never used it.).
Other Resources: Yesterday’s News
The site presents details of scanned images of the pages of newspapers with the relevant words highlighted. The site generates additional revenue by selling reproductions of pages that users have found relevant.
Using News Search Engines
This service pulls information from 4,000 of the world's news sources collected during the previous week, a relatively short time interval. The keywords "California Environmental Housing" (the connector "AND" is not necessary in Google searches) found 165 articles.
Setting Up News Updates and Newsletters
The CNN site gives visitors the ability to receive breaking news alerts, morning headlines, a weekly political bulletin, and computer and Internet news delivered every Wednesday. At the bottom of the MSNBC home page, click "News Tools" or try this URL: http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools.
Sports Newsletters and Alerts
Newsletters and Breaking News at National and Local Newspaper Sites
Alerts," or "Latest News." These links will take you through registration and configuration of the newsletters you want to receive.
A Free Service Becomes Fee-Based While Two New Free Services Take Its Place
Then you can set up alerts that focus on your interests, whether they're as mainstream as "stem cell research" or as focused as "Arcane Knights of the Apocalypse." You can also choose to receive the alerts as the news is reported, daily or aggregated for weekly delivery to your email address.
Create Your Own News Portal
A Journalist Talks About Web News
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: RICHARD
In one of the first cases on the Internet, Brain Jam took long encyclopedia articles and "clipped" them using the now routine. I produced the site for the Millennium microsite (a site within the larger site) as well as the microsite for the 1999 Person of the Year.
Endnotes
Ready or Not
What Is a Reference Question?
31,000 at the University of California (Riverside) to nearly 600,000 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The phenomenon is not limited to North America - the University of Edinburgh averages around 75,000 inquiries a year.
How Much Does It Cost to Answer Questions?
In addition to the constraints of budget, library reference collections also vary based on library missions, library clients, and library types. This is called the "Ready Reference Collection". This is the collection you want to "host" at your web library.
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: WILLIAM
However, there are probably about two dozen important ready-made reference materials that almost any library you visit will have.
KATZ, LIBRARIAN, EDUCATOR, AUTHOR Free, But Are They Really Useful?
WK: Two points: First, the most used aspect of the Net, in terms of information, is easy reference. The Net for easy reference looks at the number of users only with entertainment (gaming, etc.), e-mail, shopping and, yes, pornography.
Consensus on Ready Reference Sources
A major challenge is that much of the immediate data is outdated, less objective and often completely wrong. The library's other website includes the Guinness Book of World Records, Who's Who in the World, and the Times World Atlas of the Top 10.
The Top Reference Sources in Print and Online
An annual subscription to the value-added World Book Online website (http://www.worldbookonline.com) costs $49.95. The same information can be accessed for free at Bartelby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/65).
Frequently Used Reference Materials
The Centennial Edition appears at http://www. merck.com/pubs/mmanual and includes extensive links to related text and images. In 1998, Merck began to reach a wider audience when it published the Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition, a freely accessible text version available at http://www.merck.com/. bars/mmanual_home/contents.htm.
Top Sources and Free Web Information
Botany.com (online since 1996), http://www.botany.com Listed by Coutts and Richards: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics$129.
Case Study: Sparknotes, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots
Librarians' Index to Internet Individual Biography Pages (online since 1998), http://www.lii.org/search?title=. Almost all students have found it necessary at one time or another to consult the Cliff Notes analysis of an assigned literary work.
One-Stops for Ready Reference
INSIDER’S VIEWPOINT FROM YOUR WEB LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL: STEVEN VAN
On a personal level, I have followed the rise and fall of many online "free" services closely, and look forward to an in-depth analysis of this market.
Notable Standalone Web Sites for Specific Subjects
Bowker's standard books in print (hundreds of dollars) or its web equivalent http://www.booksin print.com (thousands of dollars). The following day I offered the maestro all this 411; he was grateful and I got a few compliments. http://www.allmovie.com.
Great Web Reference Sites—
Pick Two and Go with Them
Clearly, many librarians worked long and hard on these lists, which include dozens of subject categories and available reference resources. Back in a 2001 New York Times article (January 26, p. 3), Secretary of State Colin Powell said that RefDesk.com was his favorite Internet site; he had thrown out his dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The Observations of a Top Web Reference Librarian
Services and the coordinator of the Ask a Question service at the Internet Public Library (IPL), who kindly answered my questions about free reference resources. Among her IPL responsibilities are coordinating the Frequently Asked Reference Questions (FARQ) pages, the Pathfinder pages, and the Native American Authors collection.
PATRICIA MEMMOTT, USER SERVICES COORDINATOR, THE INTERNET
PUBLIC LIBRARY
NT: What do you consider to be the most readily available reference websites on the Web—ones that IPL librarians themselves use extensively and consider to be reliable sources of information. If they knew about the correct sites, end users could find most of their ready reference answers.
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Supplementary Information
The “Alexa Toolbar”
Unobtrusive Data Analysis of Digital Reference Queries and Services at the Internet Public Library: An Exploratory Study." Library Trends.
Expert, AskA, and
Digital Reference Services
