IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature 1995-                                                    3 August 2004

Illustrated London News                                                                                                          10 October 2008
first printed in 1842; 3000 original copies from an estimated 8000 printed; Ilustrated London News 1870; June 6th 1944; 1876; 24th February 1923 Tutankhamen Illustrated London News 1875; 1874;  1880; 1890; Illustrated London News, Shipping & Emigration extracts(some pictures, used to illustrate, may not be original to the articles);

Inderscience journals                                                                                                                9 December 2005
Engineering, Computing/ICT & Technology; Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development; Management & Business Admin; Healthcare, Sport & Leisure; free quarterly newsletter Highlights; free search, abstracts & fulltext online journals in February 2006;

IndexCat(National Library of Medicine)                                                                                   19 May 2005
digitized version of Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office; 4.5m+ online references to 3.7m+ bibliographic items - 2.5m primarily journal articles; 250000 monographs(books, pamphlets, reports); 300000 dissertations(theses); 16000 journal titles. Series 1 & Series 2 include portraits as separate citations but Series 3, 4, & 5 indicate portraits in descriptive notes for monographs & dissertations; material from Antiquity through 1950 imprints; Series 4 of IndexCat is incomplete, citations printed only in A-Mn, remainder never published; primary coverage is monographs, dissertations, & pamphlets pre-1950; NLM Classification(2006)

Index Morganagus fulltext index of library-related electronic serials(Eric Lease Morgan)          10 May 2002

Index New Zealand(INNZ)                                                                                                    22 October 2006
index & abstracts from selected NZ serial publications journals, including newspapers & 300 journals about NZ & South Pacific updated daily; 2000 documents/month; general interest material, social research, current affairs, arts & humanities; Comprehensive coverage of titles from 1987. Many NZ titles indexed retrospectively; See also Te Puna web directory;

Index to theses in Great Britain & Ireland                                                                                 25 April 2008
comprehensive listing with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain & Ireland since 1716 - 491658 theses(11 August 2006); 3 enhancements from 18 February 2008: ‘Link to full text’ button for approx 0.5%; ‘How to obtain full text’ button; ‘ETD-Advisory’ records(Electronic Theses & Dissertations): when a doctoral ETD that matches a University Library Catalogue record is not ready to generate a full Index to Theses entry;

Index Translationum                                                                                                               15 July 2006
cumulative bibliographical information on books translated & published by UNESCO's Member States since 1979; 1.6m notices in all disciplines: literature, social & human sciences, natural & exact sciences, art, history; search by author to find books from one language translated into target languages;

Info Connect: International Union Catalogues                                                                          12 October 2004
union catalogs, library network catalogs, library consortium catalogs based on Z39.50 networking protocol; 

Informed Librarian Online                                                                                                       6 July 2003
monthly tables of contents from 250+ library & information-related journals, e-journals, magazines,e-magazines, newsletters, e-newsletters; subscribe for access to: ILOSearch tables of contents, abstracts, & fulltext of all journals; fulltext Guest Forums, Featured Articles, etc; alphabetical list of titles & list by Subject;  SCOPE OF SEARCH; 36000 articles post-January 2003, from 300+ library journals, newsletters, magazines & webzines 

International Bibliography of Art(IBA) Getty discontinuing ProQuest adopting                           26 June 2010
Getty discontinuing support; ProQuest taking over the indexing function, putting database(2008 -2009) on the CSA Illumina platform,  bringing up to date & expanding geographic coverage to Asian, Latin American, & African art; Getty putting predessor Bibliography of the History of Art on its library website as a searchable database;

International Dataset Catalog Search, Linking Open Government Data (LOGD) project           1 May 2011
brings together open government data worldwide; Linking Open Government Data project investigates opening & linking government data using Semantic web technologies; translating government-related datasets into RDF, linking them to Web of Data, providing demos & tutorials on mashing up & consuming linked government data; To the extent possible under law, Tetherless World Constellation has waived all copyright & related or neighboring rights to TWC LOGD, an educational project on open government data using Semantic Web technologies. Datasets hosted are converted from a number of data sources such as data.gov. All data created here is open for reuse, usage of data created & managed by other sources should follow their own licenses;

International Union Catalogs(based on Z39.50 networking protocol)                                       30 September 2004
electronic format union catalogs(CD-ROM or Internet) access to large libraries, & part of town, city, county, region, consortium, state, province or country, etc.

Internet Library of Early Journals  (U's of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester,Oxford)                    29 May 2010
substantial runs of C18, C19 journals

In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories & Other Personal Narratives  26 August 2005
in-depth indexing of 2500+collections of oral history in English worldwide; historical events, repositories, narrator, year, subject; Access some by subscription

Irish Times Online Archive                                                                                                      14 September 2007
full archive(1859-); text archive & digital archive(1996-); keyword search past 30 days, past year, or date search; .Search results show date of search & headline of article with keyword; pay for fulltext  €10/24-hour pass to €395/year; high-quality page reproductions

ISBN-13 Standard                                                                                                                 1 September 2005
Bowker ISBN-13 - Free resources & links, FAQ, 10 – 13 conversion tool BooksInPrint.com & GLobalBooksInPrint fully support ISBN-13 searching; ThingISBN API is free for non-commercial use, returns usual book data & "edition disambiguation" list of "related" ISBNs—other editions, other media, & translations; ISBNdb.com scans libraries worldwide for data parsed & stored in a searcheable, browseable database & cross-indexed by author, publisher, category; uses DDC & LC Classification; book price comparison;

JAKE - Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment                                                             27 October 2003
finding, managing, and linking online journals and articles for students, researchers, and librarians; managing meta-data about online resources; database union list, title authority control, & linking tools; customize library's holdings; search by title or ISSN; which databases index which journals, dates of coverage & full-text

Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals                                                                                       11 November 2006
links & information on Open Access journals..4900+ current OA-journals & 948 historic;

JISC Collections Academic Database Assessment Tool                                                             13 October 2006
27 July 2010: Open Access & JISC’s contributions over the years;

Journal Citation Reports(Thomson ISI)                                                                                      7 August 2005
informative charts provide help in selecting most influential journals in subject; category-wide median & aggregate impact factors, aggregate immediacy index & cited half-life scores, journal-level performance indicators; web & CD-ROM sunscriptions; Jacsos review;

Journal ranking - ISI, etc.                                                                                                          20 March 2009
5-year Journal Impact Factor measure position of Information Research JIF is 1.309, 16th out of 56 in ISI's list; 'general purpose' LIS journals, leaving out niche journals, like Scientometrics, & journals not really in LIS field, like MIS Quarterly, & ARIST, an annual serial rather than a journal, puts IR in 5th position, headed by Information Management, JASIST, IP&M, & Journal of Documentation; IR's climb in ranking lists recognized by Australian Research Council draft journal ranking for its Excellence in Research initiative;

Journals list(Jan Szczepanski, librarian, Sweden's Goteborg University)                                       30 July 2005
scholarly, academic, intellectual, cultural, peer-reviewed, fulltext or accessible without cost journals, focused especially on humanities; lists journals not peer reviewed; Jan's second file of historic or retrodigitized OA journals. (Excel spreadsheet, 315 KB.);

JournalTOCs free alert service (Gary Price review)                                                                     16 September 2010
search latest Table of Contents(TOCs) of 14228 journals from 607 publishers; search(404539 TOC articles) by journal title or keywords; browse by publisher or subject; Developers can use API(application programming interface) to embed search functionality within their web applications & use journal TOC RSS feeds metadata; select & save journal TOCs in MyTOCs folder to read your at your convenience or export as OPML file into your favourite feed reader; Register to ensure MyTOCs are permanently saved;

JSTOR  5m articles as of May 2009                                                                                          23 October 2006
not-for-profit  mission to create & maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals & provide access; high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues & pages as originally designed, printed, & illustrated; many disciplines; from 1 to 5 year gap between recently published journal issue & back issues available in JSTOR; JSTOR XML Gateway for subscribers to better facilitate metasearching (federated searching, cross-database searching); As of July 2007, JSTOR material is provided by 446 publishers; 53m  archives searches performed between January & July 2007; availability of many JSTOR journals is controlled by a moving wall, agreed delay, between current volume & latest volume available on JSTOR specified by agreement between JSTOR & publisher(usually3-5 years). Publishers can change period of moving wall, request discontinuation of coverage, or request change to a fixed wall specified date after which JSTOR is not allowed to add new volumes into their database, usually arranged when publisher makes articles available online; See also
ARTstor sister organization to JSTOR has digitized Illustrated Bartsch catalogue of 50000+ old master prints, 9 universities in Australasia, four in England & one each in Italy & China are the only non-US/Canadian subscribers (781 listed subscribers in June 2007);  Aluka online digital library of materials about Africa merged with JSTOR organizationally & platforms & content will eventually be merged; Data for Research (DfR) service for selecting & interacting with content to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API; Fulltext and fielded searching; Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, & ngrams; Request & download datasets containing word frequencies, citations, key terms, or ngrams associated with content selected.; API for content selection & retrieval; 14 Jan 2010: Article-level records for JSTOR Archive  content now indexed in WorldCat.org & delivered in WorldCat.org search results; Scholars & researchers connect with fulltext content using authorization provided by their library;

JURN directory of 1500+ Open Access journals in arts & humanities                                          6 June 2009
Journals listed are either free, or offer significant free content; JURN search-engine indexing free open access ejournals in arts & humanities, other arts & scholarly journals offering free content; Short guide to free academic search, for UK students in the arts & humanities;15 May 2012: JURN results now re-sortable by date;

KBART: Knowledge Bases & Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010) / KBART(UKSG)                 22 June 2011
being developed with recommendations for timely exchange of accurate metadata between content providers & knowledge base developers; newest endorsers are: American Geophysical Union ; BioScientifica, representing European Society for Endocrinology, Society for Endocrinology, & Society for Reproduction & Fertility; Cambridge University Press; Credo Reference; Emerald Group Publishing; & IEEE.

ILO's LaborDoc Catalogue books, reports, journals & references to journal articles                     2 April 2005

Lathrop report on newspaper indexes, 1979-1980 edition                                                             20 May 2009
details of US & Canadian newspaper indexes;

LCSH Tag Cloud: Flinders University(South Australia)                                                                22 February 2008
displays categories in a cloud-like format, similar to ones used on social media sites & blogs;

Legal ontologies spin a semantic web                                                                                    8 June 2009

LexisNexis AlaCarte!                                                                                                                  10 December 2004
for small businesses & independent professionals; free search, pay only for documents received; register

Lost titles, forgotten rhymes: How to find a novel, short story, or poem without knowing title or author  14 July 2008

Magazine search engines                                                                                                                  11 November 2009
Maggwire carries 600 top magazines, browse by category, utilizes social intelligence to recommend magazine articles, free for now(Feb 2010);

Making Online Information for All Australians a Reality:  A Proposal by the National Licensing Reference Group
to All Australian Libraries Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005.                                        30 August 2005

Mendeley | Academic software for research papers                                                                     5 April 2010
free research management tool for desktop & web; academic software indexes & organizes PDF documents & research papers into your digital bibliography, gathers document details from your PDFs to search, organize & cite; also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs & related document details automatically; Drag & drop functionality; Web Importer from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE; Collaborate with fellow researchers & share information, resources & experiences with shared & public collections; automatically extracts bibliographic data, keywords, & cited references from your PDFs for a searchable fulltext database; Reference Management(RM) software: a comparative analysis of 4 products (ISTL, Summer 2011)

MeSH Browser(2006 MeSH): NLM Medical Subject Headings                                                     28 October 2006
5 Dec 2011: MeSH 2012: implications for LocatorPlus, NLM Catalog & NLM Classification; 

Metadata Coverage Index(MCI): a standardized metric for quantifying database annotation richness  8 April 2012
Variable extent of descriptions of data(metadata) held in public repositories forces users to assess quality of records individually, which rapidly becomes impractical; MCI(percentage of available fields actually filled in a record or description) scores can be calculated for a whole database, individual records orcomponent parts(variables or subsets of the data) & can be used to filter, rank or search for records, to assess metadata quality of an ad hoc collection, or determine  frequency with which fields in a particular record type are filled;

Microsoft Live Academic(MLA) Search                                                                                         14 April 2006
works with publishers using structured feeds to build index of peer reviewed articles; currently computer science, physics, electrical engineering; journal list; Sort & limit results by author, date , journal, conference, relevance; Richness Slider for relevance ranked display of search results; author bibliographies; View or hide abstract; Export citation in basic text, RIS’ EndNote, or BibTeX bibliographic formats; check OCLC’s Open WorldCat service holdings; Search Builder macros support RSS feeds; long-term goal to open participation in service to CrossRef member publishers on standard terms & conditions; linking to library OpenURL resolvers that give patrons authenticated access to fulltext digitized journal subscriptions; Gary Price overview; Recent Article feature; Other large aggregators include IngentaConnect & MetaPress; Scitation facilitaties discovery of 1m+ documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, & other special publications from prestigious scientific societies & technical publishers. On a smaller scale, dedicated to one subject area, TechXtra an initiative of Heriot Watt, aggregates access to 27 databases & 4m+ items(books, technical reports, theses, articles, eprints, etc), & also, via additional services like OneStep Jobs syndicates content from numerous sources, providing one location to find latest job & industry news; indexes Open Archives(OA) repositories arXiv, CiteSeer & others; click on author's name to see other work; supports OpenURL so that if your library cooperates with Microsoft & you search from an authenticated IP, you can click through to non-OA but prepaid fulltext; Unlike Google Scholar it relies on publisher feeds rather than a crawler to gather content; not working on Microsoft Browser with XP currently - use Firefox; 16 Nov 2011: Microsoft Academic Search adds arts & humanities - expanded specialist academic journal search engine now claims to index 1.1m+ publications in arts & humanities from paywalled services like Informaworld, Muse, & Oxford Journals & demands Silverlight (Microsoft's version of Flash);

Microsoft Live Search Books keyword or 'search inside the book' option;                                      24 May 2008 now integrated in Live Search, as is Live Search Academic project

Most-Cited Legal Periodicals(International)                                                                                   28 July 2005

National Archaeological Database(US)                                                                                         22 November 2008
National Park Service & partners' 350000+ reports on archaeological investigations over the past decades; standard or expanded result for their search query; standard formats citation or record in style of  American Antiquity journal, expanded result includes location of report & name of lead agency that sponsored the report.

National Bibliography of US Government Publications                                                         14 August 2004
principal application of GPO's Integrated Library System(ILS), Ex Libris' Aleph 500, when implemented. (Resource Shelf, Aug 14, 04)

National Geographic Publications Index                                                                                     6 January 2005
indexing (including subject descriptors) for every story, map, etc. since 1887; limit your search to a specific publication.

Nature Archive, 1960- (eventually 1950- )                                                                               15 December 2005
Subscribe for access to fulltext; Free searching; Jan.1960 - Dec.1969 content includes 53069 articles from 522 issues;

NDLTD Union Catalog                                                                                                              14 June 2004
electronic theses & dissertations; display documents by institution; title, author, topic, abstract,institution, document date, URL of full-text, language;

Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations(NDLTD)                                                   11 June 2004
international organization promoting adoption, creation, use, dissemination & preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses & dissertations; ETD union catalog by UNESCO

Newssift Financial Times business knowledge navigator                                                           4 April 2009
access to global business news sources, including news wires, television & radio, & expert commentary; save specialized searches; interactive list of Topics in the news organized thematically into subsections that cover organizations, persons, & business topics.

New Statesman archive                                                                                                              1 September 2007
free search for articles dating back to 1998; selected back archive dating back to 1913: From our archive column;

New York Times complete article archive from September 1851 to December 1995                   19 December 2003
free search of fulltext, author, or headline; specify date range or include advertisements & other listings in search; lists title, date, author; sample portion of article or purchase for US$2.99; 25-article "pack" costs US$1.05 for 180 days; 

New York Times Movie Review Archive                                                                                     15 April 2004   
5000+ New York Times movie reviews; free archive of films reviewed since 1983; Best Picture Academy Award winners; 1,000 Best Movies

New York Times to publish index as Linked Data                                                                         19 June 2009

NLM Classification(2006)   NLM Classification Fact Sheet                                                         11 November 2006
5 Dec 2011: MeSH 2012: implications for LocatorPlus, NLM Catalog & NLM Classification; 

OAIster digital resources union catalogue                                                                                     24 September 2002
collections from institutions include description, number of records from each collection; (20 May 2005) Open Archives Initiative(OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting(PMH) 4.8m metadata records from 400+ organisations worldwide; some hidden behind search forms or CGI script inaccessible to search engines; text, images, audio & video files - repositories carrying mainly bibliographic records are removed or asked to isolate digital content for harvesting; monthly updates; duplication & search via variable date formats problem; metadata included in Yahoo! search index since March 2004; Google use only URLs; If you use Firefox, you can add OAIster as a search engine plugin in for browser toolbar; (13 April 09)20m+ rcords from 1000+ institutions; Search Entire Record, Title, Author/ Creator, Subject & filter on Language; Boolean search & wildcards; Filter results on types like text, images, audio, video & data sets; Sort criteria; repositories & number of hits; works with SRU(Search/Retrieval via URL) & supports CQL(Contextual Query Language); 4 Dec 09 OAIster 23m records from 1100 organisations integrated into OCLC WorldCat.org; See also AVANO - Marine & Aquatic Sciences OAI harvester;   

OAPEN(Open Access Publishing in European Networks) open library & publication platform   17 May 2012
independently operating commercial venture with the benefits of being embedded in scholarly community; collaborative initiative to develop & implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in Humanities & Social Sciences; Listing your titles in OAPEN Library involves a fee starting at around €700, depending on size of frontlist, & number of titles submitted to OAPEN Library;

OARE(Online Access to Research in the Environment)                                                                 14 June 2007
launched October 2006 & coordinated by UN Environment Program(UNEP) & scitech publishers for free access to 1000+ journals from 200+publishers;

OA tracking project See Open Access Tracking Project(OATP)                                                   

OCLC NetLibrary eContent Collections                                                                                        22 April 2009
(July 2009) WorldCat.org adds library-branded, single-search-box access to NetLibrary® eBooks & eAudiobooks, Electronic Collections Online™ eJournals, OCLC FirstSearch databases, ArchiveGrid® archival collection descriptions & CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online;

OCLC Open Worldcat Bookmarklet                                                                                           11 Oct  2004
entire collection of 53.3m( 928.6m library holdings) harvested by Google & Yahoo!; Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective (Searcher, Nov/Dec 2004); subject headings now visible & hotlinked in Open Worldcat item records via Google or Yahoo; (18 Nov 2004) Yahoo!/OCLC Toolbar works with Windows 98/2000/XP & MS Internet Explorer 5.0+; 1-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search’s Web search engine; subset of Open WorldCat(currently 2m of  57m records available in full WorldCat, reflecting holdings of 9000 libraries); OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to World(August 2006) - WorldCat.org search box will make visible all 70m+ records not just the smaller data subsets of 3.4 to 4.4m at Open WorldCat partner sites, such as Google, Yahoo! - enhance- ments include Post search support(e.g. “Did you mean?”); Results sorting ; Get it; Identify public domain content; Click through to Open URL resolvers; Add article-level metadata; Expand social networking capabilities; Create custom views; merger of RLG & OCLC may see features(& expertise in terms of usage, promotion, etc) available from RedLightGreen on OCLC’s Worldcat.org; (23 June 2007)list-making functionality!; xISBN retrieves a list of International Standard Book Numbers(ISBNs) associated with a submitted ISBN, based on WorldCat information; formula also works for the new 13-digit ISBN. Free & subscription versions; British Library adds 20m bibliographic records on articles to WorldCat from about 20000 journals. "This data load increases by 60% the amount of article-level metadata in WorldCat.org & brings the number of article records to 57m+; (24 Oct 08) Bibliothèque nationale de France to add records to WorldCat; 1.2b items in 10000 libraries!; WorldCat keyword search widget; April 2009 Enhancements: keyword search widget, Save searches, Cover art on brief results, Profile enhancements & popularity tracking; OCLC WorldCat Mobile project in collaboration with Boopsie, US based provider of software for mobile deviices: finding info in libraries with advanced global-positioning capabilities found in most mobiles: web app from a PDA or smartphone; 18 Sept 09: addition of "Library 2.0" social features on licensed content; Users rate, review & tag licensed content, create bibliographies & enjoy relevancy rankings, faceted browsing & simultaneous searching of OCLC databases;  Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials; 4 Dec 09 OAIster 23m records from 1100 organisations integrated into OCLC WorldCat.org;18 December 2009 WorldCat releases a basic API: free but requires a Worldcat account to get the free API key; limited to non-commercial use & 1000 queries/day for information on authors, titles, ISBNs, & OCLC numbers(instructions); API defaults to ATOM format for results, RSS, & some citation formats; 14 Jan 2010: Article-level records for JSTOR Archive  content now indexed in WorldCat.org & delivered in WorldCat.org search results; Scholars & researchers connect with fulltext content using authorization provided by their library; OCLC & Gale(Cengage Learning) agreement to index Gale's flagship fulltext periodical databases in WorldCat Local to provide single-search access to users that subscribe to both services; WorldCat Publisher Pages; 21 Dec 2011: WorldCat.org: lowercase Boolean operators no longer work; 24 Dec 2011: OCLC releases FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as experimental Linked Data service;  

OECD Observer(Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development )                               10 July 2004
technical reports, working papers, development updates to complement print version; economy, society, development, & government; knowledge economy, sustainable business practices, taxation, & governmental corruption; email updates

OldMagazineArticles.com                                                                                                           14 September 2007
primary source reference for students, educators, authors, researchers, dabblers, dilettantes, hacks; essays, poetry, cartoons & photographs collected from libraries, bookshops & yard sales in US & Europe; public domain(except RSS feeds on Latest Fashions & Education); digital facsimile in PDF format; subject index; free to read on line, version that can be printed costs $5.00 for email or fax delivery; 29 June 2010: now extended to post-1922 items;

Online Books Page(sources include Project Gutenberg, Google Library Project, Digital Book Index) 25 August 2006
25000+ free web books; archives & indexes; freely accessible archives of serials(magazines, journals, newspapers); Serials archives & indexes listings; RSS feed 

Online Research Collections Australia(ORCA)                                                                            3 May 2007
registry & support network for OA repositories in Australia; ORCA collections register; ORCA experts register prototype;    

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints & Open Access Journals  7 March 2005
1300+ selected English-language books, conference papers(including digital video), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal magazine articles, news articles, technical reports; useful in understanding open access movement's efforts to provide free access & unfettered use of scholarly literature; 1999 to August 31, 2004, some earlier; links to sources freely available on Internet(78%); Key Open Access Concepts; OA repositories - Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) & OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); Six things that researchers need to know about open access; See also Heather Morrison's blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics; OA concept map; Open Access Journals Bibliography , Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 1: 8/23/2010; 

Open Access Directory(wiki) See also Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook(OASIS)   3 May 2008
compendium of simple factual lists about open access(OA) to science & scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large; discussion forums, events, jobs, OA declarations from journals & learned socities, research; Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet with 95419 titles, information includes description(aims & scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category & ISSN. Search for rapid identification of potential journals to publish research in or find new journals of interest in your field; See also Open J-Gate, Registry of Open Access Repositories(ROAR) & OpenDOAR(Directory of Open Access Repositories); What's in the open access e-journals?;  

Open Access for Australian medical librarians, Morrison, Heather & Waller, Andrew (2008)    25 April 2008
(Health Inform (Spring) via e-LIS); Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ) 3200 open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals; 400+ in health sciences; adding 1.5+ titles/day. PubMedCentral(PMC),world’s largest open access archive, 1m+ items; PMC International network envisioned, with copies worldwide for preservation & security, local option for deposit; supported by US National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research requiring public or open access to the research they fund;

Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index                                                                             27 May 2011   
SPARC(Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) free online information & documents to support launch & operation of open-access journals; See also Society publishers with Open Access journals. 2nd edition(below);

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook(OASIS)   See also Open Access Directory        17 July 2009
developments & initiatives worldide with links to additional resources & case studies; specific focus areas reflect interest in wider access to research highlighting Researchers, Librarians, Publishers, Administrators, Public, & Students.

Open Access Overview, 31 Dec 2004 See also Peter Suber's FOS(below);                              31 December 2004
The dramatic growth of open access : implications & opportunities for resource sharing[Jan./Feb.2006?-Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve]; Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice(Ariadne, No.46, Feb 2006); See also Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals; OA OK the last decade(Nov'07); American Chemical Society(ACS) & Open Access; Gratis & libre Open Access; (3 May 2009)Open Access Tracking Project(OATP) tracking of OA developments worldwide; Economics of OA Publishing(Economic Access & Policy: J of Economic Society of Australia. Queensland Branch, V.39No.1, 2009); OA & JISC’s contributions over the years; Discovery, rediscovery, & open access. Part1(SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Aug 2010); Part 2(SOAN, Sept 2010); 14 Sept 2010: What's in the open access e-journals?; Open access in 2010(SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #153; Peter Suber); Explore Open Archives lists & comments on other lists of individual open archives giving a broad overview of  structure, size & progress of fulltext open access eprint archives maintained & updated to assist quantitative research on open access eprint phenomenon; Green & gold - what's happening in open access:  Green Open Access is where a research article, accepted for publication in a scholarly journal, is freely available online to readers because the author has 'self-archived' a fulltext version to an institutional repository; Gold Open Access - publisher of a scholarly journal provides free online access to full content of journal. Business models for this form of OA vary. In some cases, the publisher charges author(or author's institution) an article processing fee(eg PLoS). In some cases, the costs are covered by direct & indirect subsidies from institutions & scholarly societies; 20 Oct 2011: Complexities & economics of OA;

Open Access to scientific information: policy guidelines released by UNESCO                        9 April 2012

Open Access Tracking Project(OATP) social tagging capture of new OA developments in real time 23 April 2012

Open Data Handbook version 1.0(formerly Open Data Manual)  c    Open Knowledge Foundation     23 February 2012
legal, social & technical aspects of open data; covers many types of data but particular focus is open government data; first of a open-source Handbooks & Guides including Data Journalism Handbook, DataPatterns focusing on technical aspects of data wrangling, &
Guide to finding Public Domain works online;

Open Data Institute(ODI) to be established in London                                                                 3 December 2011
co-directed by Professor Tim Berners-Lee & Professor Nigel Shadbolt to drive innovation & exploit growth opportunities for UK created by government's Open Data policy; will involve businesses & academic institutions & focus on innovation, commercialisation & development of web standards to support Open Data Agenda; work with academic centres to increase number of trained personnel with extensive Open Data skills & provide expert advice for government;

Open J-Gate(Informatics(India) Ltd)                                                                                         12 March 2006
electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain; seamless access to database of literature from 3000+ open access journals with links to fulltext at publisher sites; limit search to peer-reviewed journals, or to professional & industry journals only;

Open Journal Systems(OJS): now compliant with OpenAIRE: New plug-in released                    16 February 2011
OJS(journal management & publishing system) plug-in to support authors’ compliance with European open access policies, i.e.European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme(FP7) Open Access Pilot & European Research Council(ERC) Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access. While submitting their articles to an OJS-based journal authors can now easily acknowledge related project funding; plugin modifies OAI interface of OJS software & provides a set of all publications resulting from EC/ERC project funding. OpenAIRE(Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) harvests publications from open access repositories & journals, & presents aggregated collection at OpenAIRE portal;

Open Library(Beta) project of non-profit Internet Archive supporteded by California State Library  14 July 2009
open semantic wiki aggregates bibliographic metadata from world’s libraries & publishers, includes references to electronic book collections, physical libraries & booksellers; aim to list books in-print or out-of-print, available at bookstore or library, scanned or typed; provides pointers to Gutenberg & Internet Archive scans, Amazon downloads, library borrowing; 30m records(20m onsite now); database infrastructure & wiki interface; search book records, narrow results by facet, & search fulltext of 1m scanned books;

Open Metadata Registry: The RDA (Resource Description & Access) Vocabularies                    29 April 2011
identify, declare & publish through registration metadata schemas(element/property sets), schemes(controlled vocabularies) & Application Profiles(APs);

Open Publish, National Library of Australia   (review)                                                               29 October 2007
open access journal publishing service using Open Journal Systems, an open access journal management & publishing system that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication & indexing;

OpenSIGLE                                                                                                                             28 August 2008
multidisciplinary database covering fundamental & applied sciences, technologies, humanities & social sciences; open access to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports & other grey literature(GL; open source materials not controlled by commercial publishing) produced in Europe; government, academia, associations, business & industry, & government publications, technical reports, newsletters, bulletins, white papers, position papers, fact sheets, conference proceedings distributed freely in print or electronically; records are in English & include bibliographical data, SIGLE classification codes(cf. Full Subject Category List) with their wording, & possibly an English summary, availability & conditions of access from each supply centre;

Open Translators (CARE Affiliates, Index Data & WebFeat)                                                  25 February 2008
libraries can use federated search interface of their choice to access 10000+ databases using SRU/SRW/Z39.50 – Libraries  with a Z39.50 client in their OPAC can connect to licensed databases; free databases; catalogues; Z39.50, Telnet & proprietary databases. Those building or using an open-source federated search will now be able to expand; WebFeat translators structure & parse unstructured citations even for databases that don’t support functionality. Results usage can be tracked in compliance with COUNTER standards

Open WorldCat See also OCLC Open Worldcat (above);
merger of RLG & OCLC may see features(& expertise in terms of usage, promotion, etc) available from RedLightGreen on OCLC’s Worldcat.org;

Ottobib                                                                                                                                     5 October 2006
make bibliographies; auto-generate  MLA, APA, AMA, or Chicago style guide book citations from ISBN numbers;

PAMBU(Pacific Manuscripts Bureau)                                                                                             28 August 2009
copies, archives , manuscripts & rare printed material on Pacific Islands; 3300+ microfilm & related published indexes for time-based studies of Pacific Islands; records of contemporary organisations, recorded audio interviews, oral histories 7 speeches. Complete sets of microfilms & audio recordings are held in major Pacific research libraries which sponsor the Bureau;

ParaCite                                                                                                                                    5 October 2002
experimental service for location of articles from raw references. Reference is split into components(author, title, year; ). Based on subject area, & data provided, a set of resources is presented most likely to provide fulltext article at no charge.

Paratext Reference Universe: the cumulative index to subject encyclopedias                                8 December 2011
subscription bibliography of English-language subject encyclopedias & scholarly compendia from 1980- ; 30m+ index level citations from 750+ publishing imprints;

Peter Suber's Free Online Scholarship site                                                                                  15 November 2002
newsletter, blog, timeline of FOS movement; guide to scholarly open archives; 5 July 2003 - open access = barrier-free online availability of scientific & scholarly literature; 'FOS' aka "open access" since launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002; Newsletter & Forum home page(SPARC); SPARC Open Access Newsletter by Peter Suber;

Play Index                                                                                                                                 10 February 2006
contemporary playwrights to classic & historic plays in collections & anthologies. 30000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949; 1-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio & television plays, classic drama written in, translated into English; Search by title, author, subject, cast type, 24 different styles & genres; limit results to plays with specific number of male or female roles, by size of total cast, & propriety for grades pre-K to 6, 7 to 12, or adult; free trial;

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature  1802 - 1907                                                                     19 June 2010
revised 1891 edition & 5 supplementary volumes; reprinted 1958 by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher, Franklin Osborne Poole, & Mary Poole;

Population Index                                                                                                                         16 September 2003
annotated bibliography of recent books, journal articles, working papers on population; search, browse 46035 abstracts from Population Index 1986-2000

Principles on Open Bibliographic Data                                                                                            19 January 2011
main recommendations: When publishing bibliographic data make an explicit & robust license statement; Use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate for data; If you want your data to be effectively used & added to by others it should be open as defined by the Open Definition – in particular non-commercial & other restrictive clauses should not be used; Where possible, we recommend explicitly placing bibliographic data in the Public Domain via the Public Domain Dedication & License(PDDL) or Creative Commons Zéro(CC0);

Print disabled, books for                                                                                                            4 September 2010
Internet Archive Open Library for the print disabled; DAISY standard for digital talking books; Books out of copyright are accessible via unencrypted DAISY format, in-copyright books in encrypted DAISY require an NLS(National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped) key to access; list of “Protected DAISY” titles;

Print-on-demand services  HP BookPrep   &    Creates Long Tail for Out-of-Print Books;      13 March 2008

Product & merchant evaluations                                                                                            24 December 2007
Consumer Reports; Consumer Review; Consumer Research; Epinions; Choice(Australian Consumers Association); Consumer Search consumer product reviews, analyses of reviews, top-rated products listings; electronics, sports, office, kitchen, health, automotive, garden; browsing or keyword searching; FAQs; direct link to comparison pricing databases; Swotti semantic search engine aggregates good & bad experiences of others, reviews & feedback from the web & categorizes them; See also Recommendation engines;

ProQuest Digital Dissertations!                                                                                                   6 January 2005
freely access last 2 years of citations & abstracts in Dissertation Abstracts database; subscription institutions access database of 1.6m+ titles; See also Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations;

publications.gov.au - Access to Australian Federal Government publications                              3 July 2009

Publications with free archives on Web  links to a page with title, URL, & date range                   21 June 2002

Publisher Newsletters                                                                                                              9 December 2008
Wiley-Blackwell newsletter for librarians; Inderscience Highlights Newsletter; Springer for Librarians; Sage Librarians Site; Elsevier Alerts & Newsletters; C+T+S Update (Ovid); RSC Publishing Librarian Portal; Oxford Journals for Librarians;

Publishers Email Table of Contents(TOC) services                                                               17 December 2006
American Chemical Society Publications: Free email alerts; APS Journals E-Mail TOC Alerts; Blackwell Publishing Ealerts; CSIRO Early Alert; IET Digital Library; Inderscience TOC Alerting; IoP Email Alerting Service; RSC Journals Email Alerting Service; SAGE Journal Email Alerts; SARA – Scholarly Articles Research Alerting; SPIE Digital Library My E-mail Alerts; SpringerLink; Wiley InterScience; WorldScientific Table of Contents Updates; IngentaConnect Email Alerts; Project Muse; Zetoc Alert (access to British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of 20000 current journals & 16000 conference proceedings published/year & an email alerting service; free for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher & further education institutions);

Publishers Weekly Large Open Access Collection of Book Reviews                                             17 November 2006
book reviews published since 1987 print & online with other materials in Publishers Weekly; title & bibliographic data elements(ISBN, author, publisher, BISAC(Book Industry Standards & Communications) subject) are searchable; fulltext reviews displayed & printed;

Publishing & Ecology of European Research(PEER )                                                                          9 October 2011
Final Report: Authors & Users vis-a-vis Journals & Repositories;                                                                 

PubList search directory of 150000+ magazines, journals, newsletters; article finder & TOC alerts   23 January 2003

RAND Review                                                                                                                               4 December 2004
civil justice, education, energy policy, substance abuse, international affairs; published tri-annually; search by date, topic, or keyword; free online subscription.

RDA(Resource Description & Access): a cataloguing code for the 21st century                                5 September 2008

Readers Guide to Periodicals Literature(partial file; 1900-1911,1913-1922)                                      30 March 2010
Hathi Trust has fulltext early volumes including cumulated & supplementary volumes covering all years in some fashion except for 1912 at this writing. Volumes past 1922 are currently not available fulltext but can be searched; See Wilson Web for later & current issues; Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals(1896-99, 1902, 1903) Cleveland Public Library published first volume in 1896. After the first 3 volumes, the Cumulative Index Co. was formed to publish the Index which ceased in 1903 & was absorbed into the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature;

Recent Australian Publications free monthly reference service listing Australia's recent publishing output  20 January 2006

RedLightGreen(formerly known as Union Catalog Project, now Worldcat)                                   2 October 2003
bibliographic records from Research Libraries Group(RLG)'s libraries, archives, museums worldwide; 130m+ bibliographic records(42m titles); search titles with Amazon.com & Google; query Online Books Page(U of Pennsylvania) or fulltext e-fiction; citation button selects style; MLA, Chicago, Turabian, or APA; free registration; designed for undergraduates & libraries that support them; going offline Nov. 2006 after OCLC/ RLG merger & launch of Worldcat;

RefAware web based current awareness service                                                                               25 April 2008
access to new research & publications within hours of posting online from 8000+ peer-reviewed journals & non-refereed sources of information; web scraping of 10 distinct search areas which consist of key terms, authors, journals of interest; email alerts;

Reference Management(RM) software: a comparative analysis of 4 products (ISTL, Summer 2011)   8 September 2011
RefWorks generated most accurate citations, others offered contrasting strengths: CiteULike- simplicity & social networking, Zotero - ease of automated importing, Mendeley - PDF management; choice of RM should reflect user's needs & work habits; 

Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts(RAAM)                                                                    16 October 2003

Repository of Primary Sources                                                                                                         6 August 2003
5000+ websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, & other primary sources for research scholar.

Research Information Systems(RIS) format compatible with Mendeley, EndNote Reference Manager    9 April 2012
format for information providers who deliver bibliographic information on the web including Google Scholar®, Web of Knowledge®, Ovid®, Science Direct, & OCLC®;

Resource Description & Access(RDA) to replace AACR                                                                20 October 2010
cf RDA section of ACOC at NLA for timeframes, accessing RDA & other resources; RDA Toolkit was freely available in Australia from release until Aug 31;   

Revealweb for blind & partially sighted                                                                                             18 May 2007
resources in Braille, moon, audio & digital talking books, large print; contact details of organisations that hold titles in accessible formats & terms under which they supply them; who produces, loans or sells accessible material;

ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies                             7 August 2011

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Library Catalogue                                                                             21 December 2002
key world botanical reference sources; 1/2m+ books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters & manuscripts, periodicals, biographies & maps. 90+ languages;  early books - Linnaeus, herbals & incunabula; illustrations & descriptions of early uses of plants; C18 - C21 expeditions; papers of botanists, plant collectors & artists - Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Marianne North; botanical gateway; connects to Library of Congress & Natural History Museum, London; 

Royal Historical Society bibliography                                                                                              22 August 2005
387000+ entries, 3 updates/yr; journal articles from 500+ journals, collective volumes, books; access to Irish History Online & London's Past Online; search by keyword; author, title, journal or series, date of publication, subject & period covered; subject classification scheme; .full text, where available; authoritative guide to British & Irish history from Roman period; guide to historical record societies; 

Safari Rough Cuts Service                                                                                                               27 January 2006
searchable fulltext access to technology books; manuscripts yet to be published online or as PDF; initial version is not fully edited, subjected to final technical review, or completely formatted; Rough Cuts PDF is updated every time author & editor make changes; built-in Notes feature, readers feedback, suggestions, bug fixes, & comments to author & editor;

SAIL-eprints(Search, Alert, Impact & Link)                                                                                    1 March 2004
electronic open access service for scitech documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Micro- electronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography, Agriculture, & related applications

SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting free table of contents alert service(Taylor & Francis)      2 August 2005  

Scholarly & Academic Research: Finding Journal Articles                                                                 21 April 2006

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography                                                                                    10 January 2007
2560+ articles, books, other resources on Internet; HTML version; .Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources directory; 270+ Web sites; See also The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints & Open Access Journals in-depth on open access movement & related topics; The Open Access Webliography link list of open access related topics sites; new address Nov. 2006; Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 3350+ articles, books, printed & electronic sources; version 76: 3480+ articles;  site also has Electronic Theses & Dissertations Bibliography last updated in July & Google Book Search Bibliography(version 5) English-language articles & works about GBS; 2010 ed; 

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition(SPARC)  See (SPARC)(below)

SCImago Journal & Country Rank (review)                                                                                    5 January 2008
indicators calculated from information exported from Scopus® database on March 2007 & updated periodically; alternative to Thomson’s Scientific Impact Factors for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, & comparing journals;

SCIPIO: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs                                                                                     5 October 2004
union catalogue of auction sales catalogues; 650000 bibliographic records from N American & European auction houses & important private sales; from late C16 to scheduled auctions; manuscripts, sculpture, world art from all time periods, drawings, prints, photographs, musical instruments, furniture, objects d'art, decorative & applied arts; dates & places of sale, catalogue title, auction house, sellers & institutional holdings; search via KineticaWeb or RLG Gateway; KineticaWeb configure SCIPIO consistent with search strategies of other databases but there are differences; see RLG Website 

Scopus abstracting & indexing database (Elsevier)                                                                         13 May 2010
17500 peer-reviewed titles from 5000+ international publishers; multidisciplinary records since mid 1960’s; Abstracts from 1966; fulltext links; 167m scientific web pages; annual institutional subscription for access to complete, unabridged database; Update on Coverage; Review(Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Winter 2006); citation searching for 1996+; 27m documents; Comparison of major features of the Web of Science,Scopus, & Google Scholar citation-based & citation-enhanced databases(28 November 2005); Scopus Journal Analyzer helps researchers, journal editors & librarians compare journals & assists optimizing resources, maximising return on investment; Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials;13 May 2010: Scopus Alerts(Lite) gives researchers mobile access to Search & Alert features of Scopus;

SCoRe: national UK catalogue of printed company reports                                                     18 December 2008
SCoRe Search Company Reports current & historic, held in UK libraries including London Business School, British Library, Manchester Business School, City Business Library, Guildhall Library, Strathclyde University & University of Warwick; full list;

Screw Cap or Cork? Keeping Tags Fresh (& Related Matters): OCLC Systems & Services 24(2) 11 July 2008
On the Record, final report of Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control; challenge of maintaining user-supplied tags in absence of an agency responsible for their upkeep; chaos emerging convergence of enriched catalogs, WorldCat Local, & federated tools;

Search All federated search tool                                                                                                18 March 2006
search resources of Library & Archives Canada(LAC),  former National Archives of Canada & former National Library of Canada

Search British newspapers, 1800 – 1900(British Library)                                                          10 July 2009
49 London, national & regional titles; View complete articles from Penny Illustrated Paper & Graphic free; 24-hour pass: £6.99 for up to 100 articles, 7-day pass: 200 article views for £9.99;

Searching for Call for Papers, Journals & Conferences                                                               16 May 2009
Papers Invited database charges for information(searching free); Conference Alerts drill down by country; ConfSearch on General, Keywords, Related Conferences & Authors; timeline/bar view matching conferences in a gant chart like view; switch to  textual/table view which just shows dates; WikiCFP;  AllConferences.com also shows past events; EasyChair conference management system allows you workflow after receiving papers; sending of the paper to reviewers, rating & communication/notification of authors with list of EC events;

Social bookmarking/tagging                                                                                                        1 January 2010

Social metadata for libraries, archives, & museums(OCLC Research)                                 8 September 2011
Part 1: Site Reviews;  

Society publishers with Open Access journals. 2nd edition(Dec 2011)      
2nd edition is a Google spreadsheet under a CC-BY license; 2007 edition is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet under CC-BY license; See also  the article accompanying 2007 list: Society publishers with open access journals(SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2007)    

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)                                                17 December 2009
SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, & libraries – builds on unprecedented opportunities created by networked digital environment to advance conduct of scholarship; Publications brochures for campus distribution, position & discussion papers, guides, newsletters, moste freely available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License for download in PDF format; Resources for Publishers; SPARC-ACRL Forum; provides a full suite of resources for librarians, authors, publishers, editors to educate themselves & help create change in scholarly communication system; Advocacy for policy changes at local, national & international levels to support use of technology to advance scholarly communication, & explicitly recognize dissemination of results of research is an essential, inseparable component of research process; actively supports policies for public access to publicly funded research; SPARC Open Access Newsletter by Peter Suber; Campus-based Publishing Resource Center: provides information for libraries, presses, & other academic units interested in launching & maintaining campus-based publishing partnerships as well as Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index;

SPARC Open Access Newsletter by Peter Suber                                                                    18 July 2010

Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index: SCAMPI                                                   17 December 2006
Joint Forces Staff College Library specialized military library focus on research in joint & multinational operations, military history & naval science, operational warfare, non-war operations; staff.scan.journals such as Military Review, Armed Forces Journal, NATO's Nations & Partners for Peace, RUSI Journal, Naval War College Review, reports from RAND & the General Accounting Office;

Start To Finish Guide To Whipping Your Music’s Metadata Into Shape                                        8 April 2010

Steve Hitchcock's Core meta-list of open access eprint archives                                                5 July 2003

Subject Categorization & Classification in Digital Library Work                                                    13 November 2010
role of subject cataloging & indexing in digital libraries focusing on a brief survey of current research projects; ways in which digital libraries attempt to improve subject access to existing subject metadata; movements to improve usability of digital libraries by replicating some functions that traditional librarians serve are explored, specifically innovations in user interfaces, non-textual based subject searches, & subject gateways; comparison of services provided to users by traditional & digital libraries;

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information 1990-                                     1 Augusty 2006
accompanying Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography; electronic print & non-print publishing including, periodical articles, monographs & individual chapters in collected works. 2005 edition includes 1770 titles; Index & Bibliography continuously updated.

SUNCAT(Serials Union Catalogue for UK research community)                                               19 March 2007
free tool to locate serials held in UK; print & electronic serials-journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports & other publications of a continuing nature; No registration or subscription necessary; See also BUCOP;

SwetsNet                                                                                                                                  3 August 2004 

Table of contents(TOC) services                                                                                            2 April 2009
Current Contents database of former Institute for Scientific Information covers 8000+ scholarly journals; available on commercial hosts such as Dialog, Ovid, & Web of Science in different subsets & in combination with Current Web Contents on Current Content Connect;
Zetoc service based on the table of contents records provided by British Library is maintained & operated by MIMAS National Data Center of UK Higher & Further Education administration free for students, staff & teaching & research faculty at qualifying institutions within UK; See also ticTOCs(below)

Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers’ Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles      10 June 2006
well-illustrated, detailed car catalogs from 1909 provided by dozens of automobile manufacturers, some online, in New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery color plates & diagrams..keyword search entire collection or browse source list;

Taxodiary: At last a taxonomy news service                                                                                   4 August 2010
blog on news & information about indexing, ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, metatagging & related subjects

Taxonomy & Content Classification                                                                                           31 July 2003
Creating User Centred Taxonomies: Part 1; Part 2: creating, testing & launching the taxonomy; Taxonomies or Search – Ending the Debate! – Part I,  Part II; The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden(Information Today Inc, May 2010): review, Table of Contents, Foreword by Patrick Lambe, Introduction, Chapter 1 (PDF; Web Sites from the Book; Index (PDF); Taxonomy Guide web resource of organized, structured, clearly written content on building & implementing an enterprise taxonomy; SKOSsy web service generates SKOS(Simple Knowledge Organisation System) based thesauri in German or in English for a domain;

Taxonomy Warehouse                                                                                                               18 July 2003
free, comprehensive directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes & authority files from around world; information  resources & events; includes both taxonomies for sale & for free license;

Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of growth of Open Access
& how it increases research citation impact                                                                                21 December 2005

Thesauri See Taxonomy...

ticTOCs project   now JournalTOCs (13 Dec 09) see above                                                     18 August 2007
freely available service to  make it easy for acadmics & researchers to find, display, store, combine & re-use tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is primary funder, project will run for two years from April 2007; discover, subscribe, search within, be alerted, aggregate, export & re-use standardised Table of Contents RSS feeds & their content for journals from numerous publishers; facilitates re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services; 11000+ scholarly journals from 300+ publishers(Nov 08); RSS & scholarly journal Tables of Contents: ticTOCs Project, & Good Practice guidelines for Publishers; (April 09)Peter Jacso recview now 14400 journals;

Times Smart Search                                                                                                                    18 December 2005
Blinkx-Times Online co-branded toolbar variation on Blinkx desktop search with content from Times; Smart Folders update automatically with content relevant to topic; 2 versions: light version doesnt search your PC but gives access to Smart Folders & custom-made Times Online services; Advanced version  includes desktop search; for PCs running later versions of Windows - no Mac version yet; works with IE & Firefox; Beta download;

Tomatoes are not the only fruit: A rough guide to taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies & the like         12 August 2005

Trove(National Library of Australia) replaces free Libraries Australia service & other resources  24 February 2010
integrated access to 45m+ items from NLA's collaborative services & elsewhere; Metadata from Australian sources including Australian National Bibliographic Database containing location information from 1200+ Australian libraries; Picture Australia; Australian Research Online including links to scholarly research generated by university libraries, federal & state government departments, & ejournals hosted by Australian knowledge agencies, tables of contents & sample book chapters from Library of Congress; Music Australia, Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts; People Australia program including biographies & relationships from Australia Dancing, rich biographical data from Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian Mines Atlas, Australian Women's Register, Collections Australia Network (CAN, which represents museums), Australian Music Centre, Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, Features access to National Bibliographic Database for checking holdings in libraries Australia wide; Increased online content with access to fulltext online resources; free account for users to search for holdings in their preferred libraries, add comments & tags to resources, & (soon) save lists of favourite resources in their profiles; Improved search functionality with relevance ranking, facets for narrowing results & ability to search across multiple formats;  , Music Australia;  Overseas sources including, OAIster service from OCLC containing 20m+ records for scholarly materials sourced from universities & research agencies worldwide, PubMed Central, Project MUSE, NASA Technical Report Server, CiteBase, Nature Publishing Group, etc; Open Library - online public domain books; Hathi Trust - online public domain books; Wikipedia keywords (tags) associated with books; reviews from Amazon; Lists of items you find in Trove or on the web; Alerts to newly digitised newspaper content; Trove User Forums; Trove YouTube channel videos to demonstrate a range of searching techniques;

True Knowledge answer engine/platform                                                                                      12 May 2009
comprehensive world ontology excluding species of plant & animal life(about 100k classes) & products(another 1/2m classes), the system now knows about more than 20000 real-world classes on human experience: places, people, planets, substances, concepts: all arranged to show what is a kind of what(all doctors are people,all villages are places), which classes never share members(integers are never substances; indian restaurants are never hairdressers) & which sometimes do(some women are lawyers, some lawyers are women); For every entity it knows about some 6m things & which classes they are members of & which they are not; also contains comprehensive lexical knowledge: what words are used to denote which classes & objects;

TSO Bookshop(Stationery Office)                                                                                              8 September 2005
strong on UK Government publications(including out of print); all kinds of books available in Britain;

UMBEL(Upper-level Mapping & Binding Exchange Layer) Web services                                      26 December 2009
Wikipedia: UMBEL Concept; lightweight reference structure for placing Web content & data in context with other data; comprises 20000 subject concepts & their relationships with one another, with external vocabularies & named entities; See Zitgist sandbox; 19 Feb 2011: Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00; : reference ontology of 28000 concepts(classes & relationships) derived from Cyc knowledge base &  mapped to Wikipedia, DBpedia ontology classes, GeoNames & PROTON; UMBEL Services, Part 1: Overview; Part 2: Fulltext, faceted search;   

Unified Medical Language System(UMLS)                                                                                 24 December 2009

Union catalogues See Multi-national union & census catalogues;                                              29 December 2008

UNOG Registry, Records & Archives Unit(1870-)                                                                     2 February 2006
archival research catalogue of League of Nations & United Nations Office at Geneva; ten fonds in compliance with ISAD-G standard; sub-fonds, series, sub-series, files & documents; keyword search, browse; allows attaching a digitized document  to a unit of description; .

User manuals                                                                                                                              14 February 2009
OwnerIQ: Product user manuals, help, forums tips & tutorials; Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History core books & journals in Home Economics & related disciplines published 1850-1950; Old Car Manual Project; Popular Mechanics(PM) magazine Archives: Tools; Search for lost User Manuals with Diplodocs; 

Vascoda subject gateway(German & English languages)                                                              5 May 2006
free academic portal; basic module for Digital Library Germany: Electronic Full Text Access to Journal Articles, Working Papers etc.; Subject Gateways, offering reliable & quality controlled access to subject-specific websites containing scientific & other high-standard resources; Bibliographic Data of other types of media(printed books & journals, microfilms etc.), often combined with document delivery systems to enable access; calendars, statistical data, videos etc: Humanities & Area Studies; Economics & Social Sciences; Life Sciences; Engineering & Physical Sciences; Electronic Journals Library(EZB) & 4 German information alliances EconDoc(economy), GetInfo(scitech), infoconnex(education science, social science, psychology) & medical science;

VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File                                                                            28 October 2010
joint project of several national libraries implemented & hosted by OCLC to lower cost & increase utility of library authority files by matching & linking authority files of national libraries on the Web; National Library of Australia; National Library of the Czech Republic; Bibliotheca Alexandrina(Egypt); Bibliothèque nationale de France; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Getty Research Institute; National Library of Israel; Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico(Italy); Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal; Biblioteca Nacional de España; National Library of Sweden; Swiss National Library; Library of Congress/NACO Authority File; Vatican Library; NUKAT Center(Poland); Library & Archives Canada; NII(Japan); National Széchényi Library(Hungary);

viaLibri resources for bibliofiles                                                                                                29 December 2008
18 web sites aggregate the inventory of 20000+ antiquarian booksellers world-wide; search by author, title, imprint, publication years(before/after), price, first edition,keyword; sort t results by year of publication, price, author, title or bookseller, click on individual links for details of book or to buy; Reference & research, forums & blogs for bibliofiles; 553 years of printing history retrieved from our cache of recent matches; Multi-national union & census catalogues;

Victorian Periodicals Mentioned in the Victorian Web                                                                4 July 2010

Virtual International Authority File(VIAF)   implemented & hosted by OCLC                         29 April 2011
joint project of national libraries & selected regional & trans-national library agencies to lower cost & increase utility of library authority files by matching & linking widely-used authority files on the Web;

Virtual Technical Reports Center                                                                                                18 March 2004
browsable directory links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, research reports; metasites listed by subject categories & by institution;  fulltext or searchable extended abstracts ; updated monthly

Visually impaired, books for See Print disabled, books for

Web & Intranet indexing                                                                                                             22 October 2006

Web Citation Index™(Thomson Scientific)                                                                                                              13 January 2006 
multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional & subject-based repositories; preprints, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, & other gray literature; collaboration between NEC Laboratories America, & major institutions: Australian National U, California Institute of Technology, Cornell U, Max Planck Society, Monash U, U of Rochester, & NASA Langley;

Web of Science Citation Indexes(review)                                                                                    3 August 2004
world’s C20 scientific research ; bibliographic data from highest impact journals selected by citation patterns, geographic origin, balance across scientific disciplines; key part of ISI Web of Knowledge; Cost depends on database combinations & time span; Arts & Humanities Citation Index(A&HCI), Social Sciences Citation Index(SSCI) & expanded version of Science Citation Index Expanded(SCIE); 28m records for 1975-2004 from 9000+ journals; Use Google Scholar, Scopus & Web of Science for Comprehensive Citation Tracking; WOS's "Citation Mapping" Tool;

WHOLIS(World Health Organization(WHO) database )                                                             28 March 2004
WHO publications from 1948 & article & technical documents produced since 1985; search or browse by keyword & power search; record includes author, title, publication year & location; Hyperlinked subject headings facilitate expanding a search; print capture copies search results to save, print or email

Windows Live Academic                                                                                                           23 December 2006
journal articles & conference papers primarily in physics, electrical engineering, computer science & related fields, such as information science; free with links to full text articles & conference papers accessible to members of subscribing libraries; Review (April '06);

Windows Live Search Books(launching 2006?)                                                                          30 June 2006
find answers from authoritative trusted book content; Windows Live Books Publisher Program allows publishers to submit in-copyright material ; FAQ;

Women's Library Source Notes For Their Collections                                                                12 April 2005
feminism, women & the home, women & literature, women & the media, women & peace, women & politics, women & prostitution; primary & secondary sources & material available in a variety of formats;

Working Class Movement Library: WCML                                                                                14 May 2005
English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives & artefacts of labour movement, its allies & enemies, since late 1700s

Worldcat See OCLC Worldcat(above) See also Yahoo! & Google (Google Deskbar too) for access; (23 June 2007)list-making functionality!

WorldCat Publisher Pages                                                                                                                26 October 2010
outgrowth of OCLC Publisher Name Authority File, OCLC WorldMap & OCLC Audience Level activities; 1800+ publishing entities(including imprints), publishers in US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, China, Russian Federation, Spain, Finland, Australia, Taiwan, & New Zealand; overview of each organization’s footprint in WorldCat, including: authoritative name(form used by Library of Congress or by Bowker's Books in Print usually); location of headquarters, authors most associated with publisher, languages for publisher's books, subjects published, maps showing where books originated & where held, graphics representing publication history & OCLC Audience Level, complete interactive chart of larger organization to which publisher or imprint belongs;

World of Words: International Collection of Children’s & Adolescent Literature                              4 September 2010
U of Arizona online a database of its collection of 30000+ non-US children’s books; keyword search, advanced search by ISBN, author, illustrator, & translator; browse by region, age, or genre;

xISBN from OCLC submit ISBN for a list of ISBNs(related reprints, other editions, etc)            28 February 2004
ISBNs related using librarian-catalogued bibliographic records in WorldCat with algorithm used by OCLC Research to restructure WorldCat bibliographic records to conform to FRBR conceptual model for information objects; formula works for new 13-digit ISBN

Yahoo! search subscriptions single searchbox to multiple online subscription content sources & Web 17 June 2005

Year of Cataloging Research(2010)                                                                                               23 March 2010
American Library Association & Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) are highlighting the need for research in bibliographic control; announcements, event information, links to relevant videos;

ZDB(Zeitschriftendatenbank)                                                                                                         28 November 2008
world’s largest specialized database for serial titles(journals, annuals, newspapers etc, incl. e-journals) managed by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin & held on a server of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; 1m+bibliographic records of serials from C16 onwards, all countries, all languages, held in 4000 German libraries(& some foreign), with holdings; advanced search to combine terms with Boolean operators; material selection: print & electronic journals; systematically ordered list of eJournals including those accessible free of charge;

Zetoc: Electronic Table of Contents from British Library                                                               19 December 2003
British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of 20000 current journals & 16000 conference proceedings published/year; free for members of JISC- sponsored UK higher & further education; available to English NHS Regions & NHS Scotland; available to institutions through Mimas at U of Manchester;

Zotero 2.0 open-source research & bibliography tool (research assistant)                                       17 March 2007
Firefox 2.0 extension helps users collect, manage, cite research sources, capture citation information from web pages; users notes; Windows or Mac; Online research: Zotero moves into the Cloud - integrates with Microsoft Office & OpenOffice; save articles & create bibliographies from major free & for-pay research databases & online newspapers; synchronize databases between different machines through online backup of your database on Zotero.org; Zotero 2.0 users can collaborate in groups & create group libraries; Reference Management(RM) software: a comparative analysis of 4 products (ISTL, Summer 2011)