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Dec 10, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Google Doodle invites you to play Mexican card game Loteria. "Google wanted people to kick off their week with a little Mexican flair Monday, giving us an interactive […]
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Dec 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Texas State Library and Archives Commission: From "Unplayable" to Searchable Online: the House Recordings Recovery Project. "In 2007, Texas House of Representatives' Media Services transferred to the Texas State Library […]
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Dec 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Radio New Zealand: Online resource journeys through hidden history of Waipa. "Te Ara Wai Journeys is a self-guided tour of New Zealand Land Wars battle sites, landscapes and early settlements […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Circular: "Wikipedia for waste" launched as knowledge sharing platform. "Resource management company Monksleigh has created a new company, Wiki Waste Limited - on a not for profit basis - to […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES St. Olaf College: St. Olaf team creates Caribbean Studies Network. "Thanks to the research and funding opportunities provided by the Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) program, the TRIO McNair […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES KTVA: New database lists all Alaskans known missing since 1960. "The Alaska Department of Public Safety has completed a project to list online everyone known to be missing in Alaska […]
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Dec 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BusinessWire: Suretypedia Converts to a #Crowdsourced Platform (PRESS RELEASE). "Suretypedia, the free encyclopedia for surety bonds, launches a major upgrade to https://www.suretypedia.com/, which provides a brand new interface and […]
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Dec 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES From early November, but I missed it then. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries: ASERL Launches Shared Exhibit. The link is to a PDF file. "The exhibit, ‘Enslaved People in […]
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Dec 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES International Falls Journal: Newly digitized photo albums celebrate MN history. "As Minnesotans gather together to celebrate the holidays, it's often a time of reminiscing and remembering our shared memories. For […]
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Dec 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES US Department of State: Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute Release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Volumes VII, VIII, IX, Arms Control; National Security Policy; Foreign […]
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Dec 06, 2019
These migraines are not doing me any favors. NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Confederate naval ledger now freely available online. "The Confederate States Naval Iron Works operated from 1862-1865. The ledger […]
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Dec 05, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Reddit's monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019. "In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year […]
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Dec 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Los Angeles Times: Their kids died on the psych ward. They were far from alone, a Times investigation found. "How many others die in California psychiatric facilities has been a […]
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Dec 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Daily Herald: Saints by Sea: BYU database collects stories of Latter-day Saint maritime immigration. "[Fred] Woods, a professor of religious education at Brigham Young University in Provo, is the compiler […]
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Dec 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES DeSmog: The Imperial Oil Files: New Collection Adds to Climate and Energy Research Archives On Science and Denial. "These documents add new context to the groundbreaking investigative reporting by Inside […]
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Dec 04, 2019
I know a lot of y'all had some feelings about the Good Housekeeping article I posted a few weeks ago. It was about talking to your family and getting family history. I […]
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Dec 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Atlas Obscura: A Newly Digitized Menu Collection Shows Off America's Lost Railroad Cuisine. "[Ira Silverman] began collecting dining car menus, eventually amassing an archive of 238 menus and related pamphlets. […]
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Dec 03, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BetaNews: Facebook launches data portability tool to allow users to transfer photos and videos to Google Photos. "Embracing the notion of data portability, Facebook has launched a new tool […]
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Dec 03, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES United States Mint: United States Mint Launches New Online Education Game "Map Mania". "The United States Mint (Mint) launched its newest educational game Map Mania. This game teaches U.S. […]
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Dec 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES RTL Today: Luxatlas. lu offers a digital look back at Luxembourg City through the ages. "The…website showcases 200 years of the city's development in a click, highlighting different iterations of […]
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Dec 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES La Crosse Tribune: Collection of Odin Oyen art expands UW-La Crosse archive. "Oyen headed a La Crosse artisan firm in the early 1900s that specialized in providing interior design — […]
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Dec 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Medium: We're open! — Thoughts on building a new home for SMK's online collection. "It's alive. After months (ok years) of discussion, iteration, and intense testing we've now opened the […]
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Dec 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: 100 Years of Bauhaus on Google Arts & Culture. "One hundred years after the movement began in Germany, we're still surrounded by Bauhaus ideas about art, technology and […]
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Dec 01, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Geo Awesomeness: CARTO boosts public geospatial data with Google BigQuery. "When location intelligence platform CARTO built its Data Observatory, the chief idea was to create an up-to-date index of […]
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Nov 30, 2019
Sorry for the delay, I got run over by a migraine. NEW RESOURCES Express & Star: Second World War photos to be preserved in Express & Star online archive. "Hundreds of historic […]
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Nov 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Chemistry World: Open access Atlas maps out microbial natural products. "A new open access database of microbial natural products has launched online. The Natural Products Atlas (NPAtlas) is free to […]
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Nov 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Blavity: There Is Now A Database Documenting The Stories Of More Than 160 Black Women Radicals Thanks To This Howard University Student. "With a desire to bring Black women and […]
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Nov 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: A gun is fired on US school grounds twice a week, database reveals. "A gun is fired on a school campus in America nearly twice a week. Suicide, […]
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Nov 28, 2019
It's Thanksgiving here in America, so there will be only one issue today. I'll see you tomorrow. Much love. NEW RESOURCES I found out yesterday on Twitter that Duke digitized its collection […]
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Nov 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Health IT Analytics: NIH, FDA Launch Database for Parkinson's Disease Precision Medicine. "The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) program for Parkinson's disease (PD) has launched a data portal to help researchers […]
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Nov 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Bernews: BC Journal: Voices In Education Expands Access. "Bermuda College's BC Journal: Voices in Education was recently invited to be included in the University of Florida's Digital Library of the […]
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Nov 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Crain's Chicago Business: A new way to rate charities—on impact. "Donors who want more specific info on how a nonprofit will spend their contribution now have a place to go… […]
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Nov 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Daily Finland: Finnish missions abroad expand historical archives. "As part of its centenary celebration in March 2018, the Foreign Ministry published reports from the Finnish diplomatic missions abroad dating from […]
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Nov 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: In the Library's Web Archives: 1,000 U.S. Government PowerPoint Slide Decks. "PowerPoint presentations have become a nearly ubiquitous form of communication document in the digital era. At […]
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Nov 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of North Carolina: Archaeologists open ‘virtual museum' of ancient NC history online. "The public got its first peek at decades of work by Carolina archaeologists when the new interactive […]
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Nov 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES European Patent Office: European Patent Office launches new Espacenet, improving access to world's largest free collection of patent documents. "The European Patent Office (EPO) has today released the new Espacenet, […]
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Nov 25, 2019
I don't know if y'all saw yesterday's RB article on junk sites in Google News, but I think I ran down another bunch of them today. I've updated the article at https://researchbuzz.me/2019/11/24/look-out-for-junk-sources-in-google-news/ […]
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Nov 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: When fashion and choreography meet artificial intelligence. "For our first experiment, Runway Palette, we came together with The Business of Fashion, whose collection includes 140,000 photos of runway […]
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Nov 24, 2019
For a long time I have relied on Google News as a useful source for Web monitoring. As I understood it, Google News had some pretty substantive standards for being included in its […]
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Nov 24, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES LinkedIn Blog: Our Expanded Transparency Report: First Half of 2019. "Today we're publishing our bi-annual Transparency Report for the January-June 2019 reporting period. As always, this includes our Government […]
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Nov 23, 2019
NEW RESOURCES State of Hawaii: State Unveils New Online Tool to Assess Potential of Contaminated Sites for Renewable Energy Development. "The State of Hawaii has launched a new online mapping tool as […]
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Nov 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Montana History Revealed: ExploreBig Gets Bigger and Better. "In 2017, [Montana Historical Society] launched ExploreBig.org—a website and mobile app—to share the history and architectural significance of selected Montana buildings, neighborhoods, […]
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Nov 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Technical. ly Philly: Media Mobilizing Project is launching an online archive of Philly's social justice movements . "Media Mobilizing Project (MMP), a nonprofit that works to amplify voices of communities […]
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Nov 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from the Houston Chronicle: Texas outlaws, giant crocodiles and Houston's Astrodome in historical photos database. "Traces of Texas is a historical database of sorts, which collects photos of the […]
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Nov 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Institute on Aging: The Neighborhood Atlas—Free Social Determinants of Health Data for All!. "Developed by Amy Kind, M.D., Ph.D., and her team at the University of Wisconsin School of […]
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Nov 21, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES OZY: Tired Of The Social Media Void? Try Connecting Over Poetry. "Poetizer, a new social media platform, is connecting its users through verse. Aiming to be a positive, metaphysical […]
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Nov 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Database of Mass Shooters Compiled by Hamline Students Released for Public Use (PRESS RELEASE). "On November 19, 2019, The Violence Project, a nonpartisan think tank, will publicly release […]
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Nov 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: New website officialfireclaims.com and 888-909-0100 phone number opened to help NorCal wildfire victims file loss claims to PG&E Bankruptcy Court (PRESS RELEASE). "This extension and information outlets (website, […]
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Nov 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Center for Public Integrity: Puppies, Phones And Porn: How ‘Model Legislation' Affects Consumers' Lives. "Earlier this year, the Center for Public Integrity, USA TODAY and the Arizona Republic analyzed model […]
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Nov 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Columbia University Libraries: Just Launched: Web Archive of Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs. "I am pleased to announce the launch of the Web Archive of Independent News Sites on […]
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Nov 19, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Twitter launches a way to report abusive use of its Lists feature. "Like many things found on today's social media platforms, Twitter's Lists feature was introduced without thinking […]
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Nov 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Calvert Journal: A digital archive is recovering half a century of communist Romania's eclectic visual culture. "Romanian culture zine Kajet Journal has launched a digital archive of the country's communist-era […]
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Nov 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Farm Journal Launches First Hemp Industry Database (PRESS RELEASE). "Over the past 50 years, Farm Journal has become the trusted partner in agricultural data and today manages more […]
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Nov 18, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES UPI: Twitter details bans of political ads, limits 'cause-based' ads. "Twitter announced details of its new policy on accepting political advertising on Friday, which effectively stops candidates and campaigns […]
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Nov 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images?. "The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images […]
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Nov 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES From RTL News, and translated from Dutch by Google Translate: Digital slave registers Suriname are ‘warning against slavery'. "It took two years, but tomorrow is finally there: the Surinamese slave […]
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Nov 17, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Opera's latest browser update will show you how much you're being tracked. "With its previous release, Opera unveiled a tracker blocker for its browser that sped it up […]
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Nov 16, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: WordPress introduces a new way for bloggers to get paid. "WordPress, one of the internet's leading purveyors of blog infrastructure and hosting, has taken a step toward […]
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Nov 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Daily Commercial News: TOBuilt: a new tool for construction reno planning. "TOBuilt, a crowd-sourced database with information and images of 11,500 buildings in Toronto, is proving to be […]
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Nov 15, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Facebook Pay is a new payment system for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. "Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay. It will be […]
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Nov 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES China Daily: Ancient texts made available online. "Digitized versions of about 7,200 copies of ancient Chinese books went online on Tuesday and can now be accessed for free by the […]
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Nov 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: YouTube's new kids' content system has creators scrambling. "On Tuesday afternoon, YouTube formally announced its plan to have creators label any videos of theirs that may appeal […]
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Nov 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Yahoo Japan and Line are reportedly going to merge. "According to Nikkei, messaging app Line and Yahoo Japan are about to merge and form a single tech company. […]
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Nov 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Washington Secretary of State: Giving New Voice To Thomas Handforth, A Northwest Artist With Global Perspective. "Best known for his children's book Mei Li, which won the 1939 Caldecott Medal […]
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Nov 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Cincinnati Enquirer: Our history: 1960s underground newspaper Independent Eye gets exposure. "In the 1960s, underground newspapers were subversive, radical publications. Now they are cultural artifacts of that era. One of […]
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Nov 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES My Champlain Valley: Public database of racial info from Vermont traffic stops launched. "Five years after Vermont law enforcement officers first became required to document the race of all drivers […]
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Nov 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Stars And Stripes: New study shows veteran benefit discrepancies between states. "Several years ago, Iraq War veteran Kayla Williams and her family moved to Pennsylvania, where she and her husband […]
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Nov 12, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mozilla Blog: New Bytecode Alliance Brings the Security, Ubiquity, and Interoperability of the Web to the World of Pervasive Computing. "The Bytecode Alliance is a newly-formed open source community […]
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Nov 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Alabama at Birmingham: Free resource helps determine reading difficulty, provides interventions to help overcome. "UAB launched an online resource, Electronic Portal for Assistance Learning, to remediate student difficulties […]
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Nov 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Liliputing: Database of 200 smartphones that can run Linux (unofficially). "In a nutshell all you have to do is type your phone's model number into a box at… and if […]
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Nov 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Sacramento Bee: Search this database of police officers convicted of crimes in the past 10 years. "The review found 630 officers convicted of a crime in the last decade — […]
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Nov 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Washington Post: D.C.'s Black Broadway is gone. A Georgetown professor wants to remind U Street newcomers of its history.. "[Professor Ananya] Chakravarti convened a team of students, community members and […]
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Nov 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Mother Jones: Can White Graduates of Racist Schools Unlearn Hate?. "As kids, they were thrown into ‘segregation academies' in the South—private all-white schools where parents could send their children to […]
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Nov 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Villanova University: Now Digitized!. "Over ten years ago, Distinctive Collections posted a blog post, "THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY…," about the many materials that are too difficult to digitize. Michael […]
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Nov 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Windsor Star: History project on Windsor's modern women unearths compelling tales. "Windsor women who were in their teens and early 20s in the 1920s and 1930s — also known as […]
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Nov 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Oskaloosa Herald: Family photos connect Iowans to history. "[Bettina] Fabos discovered the original Fortepan photo archive in 2013 in Hungary, where she was a Fulbright scholar. The project began when […]
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Nov 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Teachable Machine 2.0 makes AI easier for everyone. "Teachable Machine 2.0 lets you train your own machine learning model with the click of a button, no coding required, […]
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Nov 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: First Freely Available Patent Transactions Database Launched by Unified Patents and ROI (PRESS RELEASE). "Unified Patents, the organization dedicated to deterring NPE activity and improving transparency in the patent […]
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Nov 07, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: 8chan gets back online—and is promptly forced off again. "8chan was back online this week—albeit with a new name—three months after the site was essentially kicked off […]
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Nov 07, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: RIP OG Pixel: Google ends support after just three years [Update]. "Pour one out this morning for the OG Google Pixel 1. This month's Android security patches […]
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Nov 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Catalogs from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke Now Available!. "Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, catalogs from the school and its precursors […]
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Nov 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Preserving stories of Black History in the UK and beyond. "The theme of the motherland can also be found in another new exhibition on Google Arts & Culture. […]
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Nov 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EIN News: Al-Ahram, Egypt's Newspaper of Record, Now Available Online (PRESS RELEASE). "East View Information Services is pleased to announce the release of the digital archive of Al-Ahram, Egypt's long-standing […]
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Nov 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NoCamels: The Wikipedia Of Graves: Israeli App CemoMemo Brings Cemeteries Into The Digital World. "CemoMemo, a collaborative documentation platform for gravestones, is undertaking the digitization of headstones to turn cemetery […]
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Nov 05, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder. "Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots […]
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Nov 05, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES IP Australia: IP Australia is the first in the world to extend its WIPO's Digital Access Service (DAS) digital library to trade marks . "IP Australia is pleased to […]
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Nov 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: New database enhances genomics research collaboration. "The MaveDB database is a repository for data from experiments - called multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs) - that systematically measure the […]
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Nov 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Armenian Mirror-Spectator: Daring Armenian Women Group Goes Online to Bring Heroines Out of Obscurity. "‘Do You Know My Name?' is the first in a series of video montages presented by […]
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Nov 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Step Right Up! Circus Posters for Your Viewing Pleasure. "Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, please direct your attention to the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, […]
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Nov 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Irish Tech News: PEIG.ie to be launched welcoming in a new era for the Irish language online. "This launch welcomes in a new era for the Irish language online. PEIG.ie […]
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Nov 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Tennessean: NPT digitizes Seigenthaler's ‘A Word on Words' series. "Nashville Public Television has digitized and made available 901 episodes of renowned journalist John Seigenthaler's series "A Word on Words." Seigenthaler, […]
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Nov 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES King City Rustler: Rustler's early issues now available in online database. "Copies of the King City Rustler newspaper from 1901 through 1925 have been converted from microfilm to a digital […]
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Nov 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EdScoop: Edtech purchasing a guessing game for schools, but new data could help. "To help schools make sense of the overwhelming number of educational technology products available, a team of […]
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Nov 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Houston Chronicle: FIFA database opens legal cases to more scrutiny. "FIFA has opened its legal work to scrutiny by starting to publish detailed verdicts in most ethics and disciplinary cases […]
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Nov 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES State Archives of North Carolina: New Additions to Civil War Digital Collection. "A selection of 12 volumes from the Soldiers' Home Association have been added to the Civil War digital […]
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Oct 31, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: The first map of America's food supply chain is mind-boggling. "My team at the University of Illinois just developed the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply […]
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Oct 31, 2019
NEW RESOURCES WalesOnline: Classic Argos catalogues of the 70s, 80s and 90s are now available to browse online. "A staple of any child's life in the run-up to the festive season - […]
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Oct 31, 2019
Boo. NEW RESOURCES Pitchfork: Red Bull Music Academy, Which Shuts Down This Week, Shares Archive With Over 500 Lectures. "The archive contains over 500 RBMA lectures, as well as interviews, features, videos, […]
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Oct 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Esri: Web Maps Share Detailed Submarine Cable Data. "The Submarine Cable Database enables analysis for the Submarine Cable Almanac, Cable Map, Industry Tender Package, and Industry Newsfeed. The […]
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Oct 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Drugs .com: New Database Shows ‘Rare' Diseases Are Not So Rare Worldwide. "A disease is considered rare when it affects fewer than five in 10,000 people, according to a European […]
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