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Mar 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Berkeley: CalLands maps cropland ownership across California. "To build the CalLands' interactive website, Luke Macaulay and Van Butsic — both assistant UC Cooperative Extension specialists based in UC Berkeley's Department […]
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Mar 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Nextgov: White House Launches AI.gov. "The site features AI-focused policy initiatives and accomplishments across the federal government and also brings together governmentwide resources such as fact sheets, strategic documents, agency […]
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Mar 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Columbia University Archives: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Launches the Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive. "The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Brazilian Presidential […]
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Mar 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Cape Gazette: Delaware Poetry Review still accessible in online archive. "Published between 2007 and 2017, Delaware Poetry Review featured a total of 163 poets, ranging from authors who had never […]
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Mar 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Digital Journal: Q4 Quiz Produces the Largest Online Database of Quiz Questions and Answers Free Of Charge (PRESS RELEASE). "Q4 Quiz is an online question and answer platform. It covers […]
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Mar 19, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BBC: MySpace admits losing 12 years' worth of music uploads. "MySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of […]
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Mar 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Christianity Today: Making Missions Count: How a Major Database Tracked Thailand's Church-Planting Revival. "Dwight Martin can tell you the exact number of churches in Thailand. At the start of 2019, […]
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Mar 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas: New Journal to Bring Insight Into Athlete Development. "The journal's goal is to give new voice and insight to the athletic experience from a variety of perspectives […]
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Mar 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES USC Viterbi: From Deep Sea Mining To Genetic Engineering. "A newly launched USC Viterbi online publication - believed to be the first student-run engineering ethics magazine in the country - […]
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Mar 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Saigon Times: Hawa launches database of legal wood. "The Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCMC (Hawa) rolled out a website on January 18… known as Vietnam's Legal Wood Database, […]
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Mar 17, 2019
USEFUL STUFF Search Engine Journal: 13 Awesome Professional Networking Alternatives to LinkedIn. "I tend to use LinkedIn as a virtual Rolodex and I try to connect with all of the individuals that […]
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Mar 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Collect Space: Apollo Press Kits website showcases moon landing media guides. " A new online archive is showcasing the original guides to the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission: 50-year-old […]
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Mar 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Retriever: "Chicory" and the forgotten voices of Black Baltimore. "In Nov. 1966, the first issue of ‘Chicory,' written by everyday residents of Baltimore City, was published. Publishing original poetry […]
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Mar 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES UN Environment: New ‘hotspots' tool pinpoints unsustainable consumption and production. "UN Environment launched in March 2019 a new tool that allows countries to see ‘hotspots' of unsustainable practices in consumption […]
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Mar 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Michigan Radio: In trouble at school for social media posts? Now you can get legal help online. "Over the last eight years, [Nancy] Costello says she and her law students […]
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Mar 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Sunlight Foundation: Three attacks on public information highlighted in Gov404, our new Web censorship tracker. "Today the Web Integrity Project (WIP) released Gov404: The Web Integrity Project's Censorship Tracker. Gov404 […]
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Mar 13, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Politico: Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup. "Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook […]
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Mar 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Hawaii Tribune-Herald: Hawaiian voices: Digital repository features collection of native speakers. "The voices of Hawaii's past will be preserved for the Hawaiian language's future, thanks to the launch last week […]
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Mar 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Computerworld: National Library launches ‘enormous' archive of Australia's Internet. "‘The Australian Web Archive [AWA] is one of the biggest in the world. And when we say big, we mean enormous,' […]
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Mar 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: New student newspapers from Queens University of Charlotte now online at DigitalNC. "A new batch of newspapers from Queens University of Charlotte is now online. The batch covers a […]
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Mar 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Quartz: The Museum of Women's History in Zambia is changing how a whole country sees itself. "The Museum of Women's History in Zambia has no physical space and […]
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Mar 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing pointed me toward this crazy search engine for animal heads. From the brief writeup: "x6udpngx's x6ud is a single-purpose search engine that offers high-quality animal photographs for use […]
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Mar 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Shakespeare's Globe: Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance Now Published Online (this link is to a PDF document). "Archives from the world-renowned Shakespeare's Globe are now available online, as […]
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Mar 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Forbes: New $25 Million Initiative Aims To Provide Young Women With Contemporary STEM Role Models. "IF/THEN aims to inspire young women to enter the STEM fields by highlighting the achievements […]
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Mar 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Big thanks to Esther S. for the pointer! EuroNews: Digitising Slovakia's literary heritage for posterity. "Books are an essential element of any country's culture. To ensure this knowledge is preserved, […]
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Mar 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Guardian: Facebook takes down fake account network used to spread hate in UK. "Facebook has removed a network of more than 100 accounts and pages for ‘coordinated inauthentic […]
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Mar 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Resources Defense Council: New Meal Prep Tool Helps Users Save Food, Money, Environment . "Users can choose to build their own customized plan or use one of Meal Prep […]
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Mar 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PRWeb: HazardHub's HydrantHub Passes 10 Million Fire Hydrant Locations Nationwide (PRESS RELEASE). "HazardHub, the nation's fastest-growing supplier of geospatial risk data, has announced that HydrantHub - the nation's first and […]
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Mar 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Explore millennia of human inventions in one exhibition. "Today, we're celebrating the objects dreamt up and created by inventors, scientists and dreamers. Thanks to over 110 institutions, as […]
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Mar 06, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Google Glass' second-gen enterprise model leaks with updated specs and USB-C. "Google Glass may not have exactly set the world on fire with its vision of an […]
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Mar 06, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES University of Washington: Fake faces: UWs ‘Calling BS' duo opens new website asking ‘Which face is real?'. "Which of these two realistic renderings of faces is real, and which […]
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Mar 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NPR: Search The Thousands of Disaster Buyouts FEMA Didn't Want You To See. "NPR analyzed records from a Federal Emergency Management Agency database of more than 40,000 property acquisitions, or […]
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Mar 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NZ Stuff: New Zealand's longest river on Google street view. "Every kilometre of New Zealand's longest river can now be explored through Google street view. The 425km virtual tour of […]
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Mar 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Refinery29: Exclusive: Giphy Releases A Collection Of GIFS Designed By Black Artists. "For their latest collaboration, GIPHY has teamed up with Refinery29 Unbothered, Refinery29's Instagram account and initiative for Black […]
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Mar 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES MyHeritage: MyHeritage Completed Digitizing All of Israel's Cemeteries!. "We're very happy to announce that, after five years of dedicated efforts, we've completed our ambitious goal of digitizing every cemetery in […]
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Mar 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Now available — an enormous online archive of music related to My Little Pony. 600 GB is a lot, yeah? As I understand it, this is music related to and […]
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Mar 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES WIVB: The Buffalo Library has a new digital collection of News 4 content. "The Buffalo Library has a new digital collection now available to the public featuring close to four […]
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Mar 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Seacoast Online: New website connects Maine students to charities. "Zoe Siegel and Parker Harnett, sophomores at Yarmouth High School, have published a new database-driven website entitled ‘How to Help in […]
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Mar 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Seacoast Online: New website connects Maine students to charities. "Zoe Siegel and Parker Harnett, sophomores at Yarmouth High School, have published a new database-driven website entitled ‘How to Help in […]
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Mar 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Scottsbluff Star-Herald: Nebraska unveils Open Educational Resources Hub. "Nebraska is furthering its commitment to equitable access to open educational resources and services with the launch of the Nebraska OER Hub, […]
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Mar 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Internet Archive: After 50 Years, Riley Shepard's "Encyclopedia of Folk Music" is Finally Available. "On my 54th birthday, 10 years after my father's death, I took my copy of The […]
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Feb 28, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Princeton University: Good news for future tech: Exotic ‘topological' materials are surprisingly common. "In a major step forward for an area of research that earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in […]
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Feb 28, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: Google turbo-charging the back button with Chrome's new "back/forward cache". "Google is developing a new cache for Chrome (via CNET) that should make some page loads extremely […]
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Feb 28, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BetaNews: Facebook to launch its Clear History tool later this year — to the joy of privacy advocates and the pain of advertisers. "Facebook is no stranger to privacy-related […]
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Feb 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Pet Food Processing: AAFCO streamlines labeling process with new ingredient database. "Since 1934, AAFCO [Association of American Feed Control Officials] has annually published what it calls the Official Publication (OP), […]
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Feb 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Sportskeeda: Coaching site builds list of those banned from US Olympics. "An advocacy group has published a first-of-its-kind comprehensive list of coaches banned from Olympic sports, creating a database of […]
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Feb 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Indian Institute of Science: Launch of the ‘Digital Flora of Peninsular India'. "As you may be aware, the Centre for Ecological Sciences at IISc has a herbarium with a large […]
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Feb 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Index: This week at Index: 45 years of Index magazine archive now free. "Index on Censorship is pleased to announce that the online archive of 45 years of publications of […]
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Feb 24, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Yeshiva University: Yeshiva University Launches YUTorah App. "Thanks to the generous support of Marcos and Adina Katz, YU is proud to announce the introduction of the YUTorah app for YUTorah […]
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Feb 24, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The Public Domain Game Jam!. "At the beginning of January, we decided to celebrate the long-awaited entry of new works into the public domain […]
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Feb 23, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Facebook will try to quell controversy with connectivity vision at MWC 2019. "At the biggest mobile show in the world, it's easy to be blinded by the vast […]
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Feb 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES CAIR: CAIR Research Director Launches ‘After Malcolm Digital Archive' with George Mason University. "The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced […]
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Feb 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Sonoma News: Sonoma history group launches online architectural database. "The original information was gathered in 1978 by a group of league volunteers, lead by Johanna Patri, who is still an […]
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Feb 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Cap Times: Wisconsin think tank launches online database of state educational data. "The Wisconsin Policy Forum announced Friday the launch of an online resource for the public to access […]
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Feb 21, 2019
NEW RESOURCES I'm not sure how useful this is, but it's fascinating. Futurism: This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings. "A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist […]
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Feb 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Motor1: Motorsport Stats Launches The World's Largest Free Results Database. "From today, motor racing fans with a thirst for knowledge will find the new Motorsport Stats Results service the ideal […]
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Feb 20, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES KnowTechie: Microsoft's new Timeline Chrome extension will sync your browsing history across Windows 10 devices . "One of the most useful features that Microsoft added to 2018's Spring Update […]
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Feb 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace. "Would you like to find out more about the Anglo-Saxons? Have you been mesmerised by our recent blockbuster exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, […]
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Feb 19, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Guardian: Facebook labelled ‘digital gangsters' by report on fake news. "Facebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law and should urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a […]
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Feb 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: DigitalNC's newest newspaper title, The AC Phoenix, is available now!. "The AC Phoenix serves the African American communities in and around North Carolina's Triad region. Based in Winston-Salem, this […]
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Feb 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Iowa: Rare Recordings of Civil Rights Activists Available Now. "In 1963 and 1964, attorney Bob Zellner recorded a series of interviews with civil rights activists in Mississippi and […]
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Feb 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of North Carolina: William Blake Archive Opens New Digital Archive Exhibitions Wing. "The William Blake Archive at UNC recently announced the grand opening of its newest digital wing: an […]
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Feb 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Music Mayhem Magazine: The Prince Estate Launches New Prince Social Accounts, Giphy Launches Comprehensive Library of Authorized Prince GIF Content. "To help celebrate the launch of the Prince social media […]
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Feb 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Alabama Secretary of State: Secretary Merrill Announces Availability of Proclamations On Secretary of State Website. "Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill has worked to digitize proclamations issued by the […]
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Feb 15, 2019
Kyoto University has released the North China Transportation Company archive of photographs. It is entirely in Japanese and the translation is a little awkward. I wouldn't have found this at all, though, […]
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Feb 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Cornell University: Freedom on the Move launches database of fugitives from American slavery. "Freedom on the Move (FOTM), an online project devoted to fugitives from slavery in North America, is […]
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Feb 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Washington Post: ‘Since Parkland': A remarkable project by teen journalists about kids killed by guns in America. "…as the project's new website explains, more than 200 teen journalists across the […]
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Feb 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Chronicle of Social Change: New Data Tool Measures Health of Every Baby Born in California. "With funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation, First 5 Association of California and Children's Data Network […]
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Feb 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Hawaii News Now: Never-before-seen trove of photos shows Honolulu during height of World War II. "After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Richard Perkins joined the Army and was stationed at […]
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Feb 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Gaelic Athletic Association: The GAA launches new digital archive with support from the BAI . "The GAA, in conjunction with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, today launched the GAA Digital […]
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Feb 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Israel21c: Israel National Library launches free Israeli music app. "Sing out! In the same spirit that only a few weeks ago launched a thousand images documenting Israel's history for free […]
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Feb 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Spirits Business: New resource highlights dangerous cocktail ingredients. "Cocktail Safe, which currently focuses on US regulations, provides information and advice on regulated ingredients such as quinine and wormwood, as […]
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Feb 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from KWTX: First Texas Black Business Week observance begins. "The first observance of Texas Black Business Week got underway Monday, coinciding with Black History Month, and its creator hopes […]
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Feb 12, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Wired: A New Tool Protects Videos From Deepfakes and Tampering. "Video has become an increasingly crucial tool for law enforcement, whether it comes from security cameras, police-worn body cameras, […]
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Feb 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Variety: Telescope Launches Search Engine for Foreign Films in U.S.. "New search-engine website Telescope launches in Berlin this week with the mission of helping American audiences find online the kind […]
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Feb 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Houston Chronicle: 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms. "In all, since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations […]
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Feb 10, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Nieman Journalism Lab: Anchor too? With a second big acquisition, Spotify shows it's serious about podcasts — as both producer and platform. "Told you Spotify wasn't done shopping. This […]
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Feb 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Food & Wine: New Tool Helps Diners with Allergies Find Restaurant Options Wherever They Are. "Nima—the company behind the portable gluten and peanut sensors—is taking its mission to help diners […]
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Feb 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Thomas Edison State University Launches the Journal of Women and Minorities in Technology . "The new publication will be an open access journal that […]
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Feb 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Loop TT: FilmTT launches digital tools to improve film production. "The Ministry of Trade and Industry, along with the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company Limited (FilmTT), hosted a press conference […]
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Feb 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Astana Times: First virtual museum of Kazakh women's history educates and empowers. "Kazakh women's history museums educate and empower women, providing an awareness-raising platform and tools for overcoming discrimination, […]
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Feb 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Geeks in Cambodia: RUPP Unveils App on Khmer Rouge. "As a new generation of young Cambodians learn about the Khmer Rouge era in school, technological advancements such as the Mapping […]
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Feb 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES OutSmart: New Houston Black LGBTQ Archive to Launch on Feb. 21. "[Harrison] Guy asked the staff at Houston's African American Library at the Gregory School about starting a black LGBTQ […]
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Feb 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies has digitized its magazine, Cairn, with archives going back to 1976. It's available at https://www.whyte.org/the-cairn . The magazine is digital now but the […]
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Feb 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online. "Together with an 18th-century directory of sex workers in the Covent Garden area of London, and the violent erotic works […]
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Feb 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: The web meets genomics: a DNA search engine for microbes . "The search engine, called Bitsliced Genomic Signature Index (BIGSI), fulfils a similar purpose to internet search engines, such […]
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Feb 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Curbed NY: Interactive eviction map shows where landlords are booting tenants. "A new interactive map tracking eviction rates across the five boroughs paints a stark portrait of the city's housing […]
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Feb 04, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ubergizmo: Self-Harm Images Will Be Hidden Behind ‘Sensitivity Screens' On Instagram. "Instagram wants to clamp down on images that depict suicide or self-harm. The Facebook-owned company has now decided […]
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Feb 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Read an article about this but it didn't include the URL, so I'm going straight to the source to tell you about Fauna Toolkit: Bird Bones. From the home page: […]
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Feb 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: MTPA Launches National Online Directory Of ALS Specialists And Neurologists At Multidisciplinary Centers (PRESS RELEASE). "Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. (MTPA) today announced the launch of a national […]
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Feb 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES MIT: MIMIC Chest X-Ray database to provide researchers access to over 350,000 patient radiographs. "Last week, the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology, a part of the Institute for Medical Engineering […]
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Feb 02, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: Twitter suspends accounts that sell automated follow/unfollow services. "Twitter has suspended three prominent social media companies that enable clients to rapidly follow and unfollow accounts using the Twitter […]
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Feb 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Hechinger Report: College spending comes under closer scrutiny. "The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Wednesday launched a site that makes it easy to track how your hard-earned […]
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Feb 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Cornell: Botanical illustration pioneer goes from obscurity to online. "Dating back to 1826 and brimming with meticulous descriptions and vivid watercolor illustrations, Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft's manuscript, ‘Specimens of the […]
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Jan 31, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Daily Leader: New MDOT site shows road and bridge data. "A new Mississippi Department of Transportation data website can tell county residents something they already know — some state maintained […]
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Jan 30, 2019
NOTE: You may have noticed that the publishing schedule for last several days has been erratic, and not the 5AM-ish / 2PM-ish schedule I prefer. It's because we took one of our […]
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Jan 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Kyoto University Library Network: Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 1,443 titles including "Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection" and others newly available. "The digital images newly released this time include 219 […]
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Jan 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Salt Lake Tribune: Utah leaders hope a new database will help them solve the more than 400 cold cases in the state. "There are more than 400 cold cases throughout […]
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Jan 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EU Science Hub: New Urban Centres Database sets new standards for information on cities at global scale. "Building on the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), the new database provides more […]
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Jan 28, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bing Blogs: Location, location, location! . "The Bing Maps team has been hard at work releasing three new REST APIs that bring the power of location-based search to maps […]
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