Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Friday, November 19, 2004
What's new
Amid all the war and other news, some useful new things happening on the Web:
Google Scholar is a new search engine from Google that just finds scholarly reports. Many of them will be available online, although in some cases you will just get a bibliographic record and will have to find a library holding the issue.
The Library of Congress has announced they are starting a project to create a huge digital archive of American newspapers. For a start, they have World War I issues of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. It's easy to search for a name, or browse a particular issue. The search results show the entire page with the story your search terms are in magnified. Want to know more about this project? Here's a speech to the National Press Club by the chairmain of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is supporting the newspaper project.
Note if you're interested in find more of this sort of research tool, I often highlight them on my other blog, Behind the News; for daily updates on latest research resources, though, I always check Gary Price's ResourceShelf and another of Gary's projects, Docuticker. posted by liz at 9:17 AM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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