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Jan 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Wire: ‘Home Is Where the Heart Is': Remembering Kolkata's Jewish Community. "The Jewish community in Kolkata is close to extinction - of the original Baghdadi Jews who migrated, only […]
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Jan 19, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Flickr Blog, from last Wednesday: Celebrating 11 years of The Commons. "Today marks the 11th anniversary of The Commons - a project that Flickr began to provide cultural institutions, […]
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Jan 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: HepVu Releases state-level maps showing impact of h=Hepatitis C epidemic across the US . "Today, HepVu launched new interactive maps visualizing state-level estimates of people living with Hepatitis C […]
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Jan 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Spring Hill College: The Springhillian, other student newspapers digitized back to early 1900s . "The Springhillian, Spring Hill College's student-produced newspaper, was recently digitized along with other previously published student […]
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Jan 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Star Tribune: Want to ogle chic vintage hats? Minnesota Historical Society unveils vast digital archive. "Some of the feathers on these hats are subtle — a single plume. Others are […]
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Jan 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES No Film School: A Comprehensive Database of Every American Film Festival on the Circuit . "The festival circuit can be a little bit tricky to navigate. Ok, it's very difficult […]
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Jan 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Christian Post: New ‘Visual Commentary on Scripture' website offers new way to study the Bible. "A new $2 million web project launched by King's College London is offering users a […]
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Jan 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Only Known Surviving Muslim American Slave Autobiography Goes Online at the Library of Congress. "The Library of Congress has acquired and made available online the Omar Ibn […]
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Jan 15, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Neowin: Google partners with Automattic to support local news with Newspack. "Google has announced a new initiative to help local news publications be more sustainable for their contributors. The […]
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Jan 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Cancer Institute: BRCA Exchange aggregates data on thousands of BRCA variants to inform understanding of cancer risk. "A global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in […]
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Jan 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES WordPress 5.1 Beta 1 is now available. "Site Health Check is an ongoing project aimed at improving the stability and performance of the entire WordPress ecosystem. The first phase […]
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Jan 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Neowin: Firefox 69 will have Flash disabled by default. "According to Mozilla's plugin roadmap, the firm planned to disable Flash by default in Firefox sometime this year. Now, a […]
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Jan 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES H-HistBibl: Launch of the digital archive "The Long Emergency. Media and Democracy in India". "The government of India declared a national emergency citing internal instability in June 1975. By June […]
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Jan 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The State Archives of North Carolina has put up a new photo album on Flickr. It's called Ernest W. Payne Vietnam War Images and it's over 300 images covering 1967 […]
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Jan 12, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES PLOS One Blog: Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages. "Despite Wikipedia's importance as a resource for both practicing physicists and the wider community, it is rare for […]
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Jan 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NHK World: Atomic bomb publications database released online. "The project was organized by LinguaHiroshima, a group of researchers based in the city of Kure in Hiroshima Prefecture. The group's website […]
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Jan 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES WBIW: Indiana Architectural Foundation Announces 50 Significant Buildings and Sites as Part of New Database Celebrating Design in Indiana. "Indiana has a rich architectural history, and the Indiana Architectural Foundation […]
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Jan 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES AdWeek: The New David Bowie AR App Lets You Explore His Life in the Most Mind-Bending Way Yet. "David Bowie might make augmented reality a hero-at least for one day. […]
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Jan 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NECSUS: MediArXiv: New digital archive for media research. "The online platform Open Access in Media Studies has announced the launch of the new project MediArXiv. MediArXiv is the new open […]
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Jan 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES DPLA: Digital Virginias is now a DPLA Hub. "We are pleased to announce the launch of a new service hub, Digital Virginias, which offers more than 58,000 items for research […]
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Jan 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: New Online: Circus Workers Folklife Project. "The American Folklife Center (AFC) is delighted to announce the online presentation of an important new oral history collection documenting the […]
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Jan 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: GitHub Free users now get unlimited private repositories . "If you're a GitHub user, but you don't pay, this is a good week. Historically, GitHub always offered free […]
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Jan 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES File this under "Oh, why not," from Hackaday: Google Assistant, Now Available On Ham Radio. "Depending on who you talk to, Google Assistant is either a tool capable of […]
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Jan 07, 2019
USEFUL STUFF The Windows Club: Emsisoft Browser Security blocks malware and phishing attacks . "These two are dangerous. While one can turn your computer unusable, the later can steal your account details […]
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Jan 07, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Internet Archive Blog: A Public Peek into 1923. "Commercial radio broadcasting began in the 1920s, bringing entertainment, news and music into people's homes. Now, instead of needing to play […]
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Jan 07, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES State Archives of North Carolina: $1.1M grant from Mellon Foundation will facilitate advances in email curation . "The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a grant […]
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Jan 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES USC News: Innovators of USC: Doctors have an eye on GIBLIB, the ‘Netflix of medical education'. "Imagine a surgeon being able to watch multiple surgical procedures in 360 virtual reality […]
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Jan 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The State: Hospital bills can vary by tens of thousands. Now you can compare prices in SC. "New federal rules mean hospitals nationwide now have to make cost information available […]
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Jan 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Virginia Mercury: New database holds 400 years worth of information on members of Virginia's legislature. "A working database of Virginia legislators from the Jamestown settlement to the present day is […]
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Jan 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES David Rumsey Map Collection: 1940 WPA San Francisco Model 42×38 ft Now Online. "For the first time since 1942, the entire immense 42 by 38 foot WPA built San Francisco […]
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Jan 03, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: GE adds a bunch of Google Assistant-friendly smart home products . "At the Pixel 3 event back in October, the company announced that its C by GE bulbs […]
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Jan 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Sainsbury's: Sainsbury Archive goes digital to mark 150 years. "The Sainsbury Archive is putting almost a hundred thousand never-before-seen items online for the first time, allowing the public to easily […]
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Jan 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Bangor Daily News: Calais man launches online resource for LGBTQ community. "For David Burke, growing up gay in Calais, Maine, meant never being able to be himself. To be gay […]
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Jan 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Newish, definitely, New-to-me, from The Local Denmark: Thousands download newly-published list of Danish WW2 Nazis. "A list detailing of members of the Danish Nazi party, DNSAP, during the Second World […]
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Jan 01, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Google is testing group calling in Duo . "Google's upgrade strategy for Duo could include some highly sought-after features. Android Police sources say Google is testing a group […]
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Jan 01, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ecns: China's first Mongolian language search engine begins operation. "Northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region launched China's first Mongolian language search engine Friday, according to the region's ethnic affairs […]
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Dec 31, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ubergizmo: Google Fit Will Introduce Monthly Challenges For A Healthier 2019. "The new year is nearly upon us which means that there is almost a guarantee that we will […]
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Dec 31, 2018
NEW RESOURCES BuryTimes: We Were There Too project to immortalise contribution of region's Jewish community to WWI. "The We Were There Too project represents a permanent record of the lives of Jewish […]
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Dec 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Download Hebrew Manuscripts for free, in partnership with BL Labs. "We are delighted to announce that five more downloadable datasets containing a total of 139 digitised Hebrew Manuscripts […]
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Dec 29, 2018
My sinuses have slowed me down. BUT THEY WON'T STOP ME! TWEAKS AND UPDATES Yahoo Finance: The reign of social media influencers may be coming to an end. "Social media influencing is […]
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Dec 28, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: Google Chrome's new UI is ugly, and people are very angry. "Designed with mobile devices in mind, the new Chrome user interface style was officially rolled out in […]
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Dec 28, 2018
Apologies for the delay. Feeling under the weather just in time for the last weekend of the year. TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Indian Express: Google now ready to give public ‘flood alerts'. […]
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Dec 27, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ubergizmo: Xiaomi Launches Its New Low-Storage ‘Mint' Browser. "While flagship smartphones are a great way to showcase what a company can do and how far their R&D has come […]
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Dec 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Not sure how new this is, but looks like a gorgeous resource. ArchDaily: A Colorful Interactive Version of Euclid's "Elements" Online for Free. "Written in 300BC, Euclid's ‘Elements' is a […]
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Dec 26, 2018
USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: 5 New Ways to Search YouTube and Find Trending and Awesome Videos . "Given the amount of great content on YouTube, you'd think it would be easier to find […]
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Dec 26, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Independent (Nigeria): Why We're Building The Biggest African Food Recipe Database Online -Kevin Eze. "Kevin Eze is a serial entrepreneur, brand strategist and founder of African Food Network, […]
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Dec 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Hankyoreh: KFTC to launch online database on chaebol. "The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has launched a website that contains all the information it has collected on South Korea's chaebol […]
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Dec 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Newish, definitely new-to-me, from The Sumter Item: Newspapers, press association launch statewide online public notice database. "The site, which launched in August, is a central repository of virtually all public […]
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Dec 24, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Daily Front Row: Miu Miu's Entire Image Archive Is Now Available Online . "Remember when Drew Barrymore was a Miu Miu model? Or when Kate Moss and Chloë Sevigny […]
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Dec 24, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New York Academy of Medicine: Digitizing the William S. Ladd Collection of Prints. "We are excited to launch a new digital collection: the William S. Ladd Collection of Prints! In […]
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Dec 24, 2018
NEW RESOURCES 500 Women Scientists: 500 Women in Medicine launches to improve gender equity in medicine . "500 Women in Medicine (500WIM) is a satellite of 500 Women Scientists established by Kate […]
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Dec 23, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Public Broadcasting of Latvia: First batch of Latvia's KGB archives published online. "Accessible by providing the Latvian equivalent of a social security number, it seems that in reality only the […]
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Dec 22, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Alexa gets access to Wolfram Alpha's knowledge engine . "Knowledge base is one of the departments where Alexa has lagged Assistant. After all, it's pretty tough to compete […]
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Dec 21, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Scottsdale Independent: Arizona Department of Education launches website detailing school performance. "The Arizona Department of Education launched the state's School Report Cards website, an education resource created to assist the […]
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Dec 21, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas: Libraries Launch Digital Collection on American Old West. "Whiskey smuggling, murder, scandal and a ‘hanging judge' — the latest digital exhibit from University Libraries has all this […]
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Dec 20, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Slate: Twitter Has Finally Made It Easy to Set Your Timeline to Reverse-Chronological. "Almost three years ago, Twitter introduced one of the most controversial changes in its history. It […]
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Dec 20, 2018
NEW RESOURCES State Scoop: California launches new online repository to share open-source code. "The California Government Operations Agency last week launched a new website that will eventually host the state's open-source software […]
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Dec 19, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Tumblr porn ban goes into effect, puppy photos caught in sweep. "Tumblr's ban on adult content went into effect Monday, and it didn't take long for users to […]
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Dec 19, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from L.A. Taco: Vintage L.A. Forever: This Archivist Is Preserving Los Angeles Pop History In A Massive Digital Archive. "Before he started preserving vintage Los Angeles, J. J. Englender […]
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Dec 18, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Merriam-Webster: Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2018. "Our Word of the Year for 2018 is justice. It was a top lookup throughout the year at Merriam-Webster.com, with the entry […]
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Dec 18, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Wired: A Year Without Net Neutrality: No Big Changes (Yet). "It's been one year since the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. The good news […]
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Dec 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Maryland: Lefty's Legacy Saved in Digital Collections!. "As we continue to celebrate the 100th Season of the Men's Basketball, devoted Terp fans reminisce on the many standout players […]
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Dec 17, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Business Insider: Facebook quietly killed its Building 8 skunkworks unit as it reshuffles its cutting-edge experiments and hardware. "Facebook has killed off its Building 8 skunkworks lab following a […]
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Dec 17, 2018
As I move away from Facebook I'm spending more time on Twitter. Not that Twitter has some kind of claim of moral authority over Facebook, and I'll probably move on to more […]
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Dec 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES From a Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg press release translated by Google Translate (Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg has an English-language Web site, but apparently has not yet translated this press release): Mozart's notes […]
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Dec 16, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Neowin: Microsoft launches AI-powered Hummingbird news app on the Play Store . "Microsoft has released a news app today that's powered by artificial intelligence to provide content that it […]
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Dec 15, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Cancer .gov: Researchers create record-sized, integrated cellular cancer database. "An international team of researchers have created a powerful new database that consolidates data on a record number of cancer drugs […]
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Dec 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Geospatial World: NASA and FAO jointly develop a new forest and landscape monitoring tool. "A new way of looking at the dense forests and tall trees has been devised as […]
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Dec 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES 6sqft: New Historic Districts Council website lists every landmark in NYC. "Preservationists, advocates, history buffs and anyone interested in finding out about the history of New York City's neighborhoods and […]
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Dec 13, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Supermicro says investigation firm found no spy chips. "Supermicro has sent a letter to its customers saying that it has found no evidence of malicious chips on its […]
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Dec 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Eastern Mennonite University: Seven shapes or four notes? If you have an opinion, then you'll want to know ‘The Musical Million' 1879-97 is now online. "Giving special thanks to Eastern […]
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Dec 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES CBC: Everything we know about gender violence in one new website. "A newly launched government website is bringing together all federal programs, research and information related to gender-based violence across […]
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Dec 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES I'm not sure how new this is but it's new-to-me: the Washington Prison History Project. From the front page: "Welcome to the Washington Prison History Project, an online project documenting […]
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Dec 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES POGO: Pentagon Revolving Door Database. "The revolving door of Pentagon officials and senior military leaders seeking lucrative post-retirement jobs often leads to confusing what is in the best financial interests […]
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Dec 11, 2018
Google thinks I don't have enough people nagging me. My mother isn't enough. My dentist isn't enough. My cat isn't enough. I must have more people and things reminding me that I […]
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Dec 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: 100 Issues of The Carolina Union Farmer now online at DigitalNC. "100 issues of the Carolina Union Farmer are now online at DigitalNC. The recently digitized issues form a […]
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Dec 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: World War I: A Wartime Clipping Service Update: All 400 Volumes Now Online. "The massive collection, World War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926, is now fully […]
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Dec 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Tennessee Aquarium: A "Facebook for Fish": Public, Scientists to Benefit from Freshwater Information Network's Interactive Database of Native Species. "With the launch of the Freshwater Information Network (FIN), the Aquarium […]
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Dec 10, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Brave browser matures with move to Chromium foundation. "One day after Microsoft announced it's ditching its own EdgeHTML core and rebuilding its Edge browser on Google's rival Chromium […]
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Dec 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Your Local Guardian: Kingston University launches online archive of Leveson Inquiry. "Launched by former Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, the inquiry led by judge […]
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Dec 08, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Chemistry World: Database seeking to help to diversify chemistry gathers pace. "At three months old, Diversify Chemistry contains the names of more than 230 chemists who have self-reported as belonging […]
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Dec 07, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Gizmodo: YouTube & National Geographic Team Up For VR Series. "One of the benefits of using virtual reality (VR) is that due to the immersive nature of the technology, […]
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Dec 07, 2018
Beg pardon. Some technical difficulties this morning. NEW RESOURCES Irish Times: The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die'. "[James] Mustich is keenly aware that the compendium is […]
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Dec 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES RTE: Chester Beatty makes rare artefacts available to view online. "The Chester Beatty in Dublin has launched a new website offering online access to thousands of rare books, manuscripts and […]
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Dec 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: People and plants: Working together for the planet . "Plants, People, Planet, a cross-disciplinary Open Access journal, launches today with its first issue. Plants, People, Planet will publish peer-reviewed […]
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Dec 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: Chiba University launched Open Access Resource ‘c-arc' . "Chiba University launched a new academic resource collection named ‘Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc)' which makes contents published and provided […]
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Dec 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES JSTOR: Understanding Great Works: a new research tool on JSTOR. "Understanding Great Works (Beta) is a free research tool from JSTOR Labs that fosters student engagement with classic literature by […]
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Dec 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: An art gallery in your pocket: See Vermeer's paintings in augmented reality. "…now, you can experience all of Vermeer's known artworks in one place for the first time. […]
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Dec 04, 2018
As more and more news about Facebook comes out, I'm feeling less and less comfortable with being on Facebook. But life is messy, I have friends and family with whom I want […]
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Dec 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Ahval: Turkish historian launches digital archive documenting Armenian genocide. "Turkish historian Taner Akçam, a professor of Armenian genocide studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, has launched a digital archive of […]
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Dec 03, 2018
Facebook Search, Facebook Watch, Google Hangouts, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, December 3, 2018 TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Journal: Facebook Explains How its Search Results Work. "Facebook has put together a short […]
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Dec 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES ESB: Film Archive is launched. ESB stands for Electricity Supply Board. It is an electric utility in Ireland. "To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of ESB's Public Relations […]
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Dec 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Science Daily: Skin cancer rates in England far higher than previously thought, according to new database . "Data from the newly established UK skin cancer database, the largest database of […]
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Dec 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Phys. org: ‘Murder map' reveals medieval London's meanest streets. "Stabbed by a lover with a fish-gutting knife. Beaten to death for littering with eel skins. Shot with an arrow during […]
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Dec 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Baseline: International Tennis Hall Of Fame Courts Fashion. "‘Couture curious?' asks the International Tennis Hall of Fame, alluding to its new style-centric exhibit. The surefire reply: Yes. More. One doesn't […]
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Nov 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Dartmouth: Dartmouth and Hebrew University Strengthen Jewish Music Archive. "What does Jewish culture sound like? You can find over 100,000 answers in the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive (DJSA), […]
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Nov 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: Blue Brain Project releases first-ever digital 3D brain cell atlas . "The first digital 3D atlas of every cell in the mouse brain provides neuroscientists with previously unavailable information […]
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Nov 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Cities Today: New database released to better assess African cities. "The most complete data set on African urban agglomerations has been launched during the 8th Africities Conference in Marrakesh. Africapolis […]
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Nov 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Over 90 issues of Lambda, UNC's LGBTQ student newspaper, now online at DigitalNC!. "Over 90 issues spanning nearly the entire run of Lambda, UNC Chapel Hill‘s LGBQT student newspaper, […]
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Nov 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Planetary Society: New Cameras on Mars!. "There was jubilation when InSight landed, but I'm just as happy to be writing about a distinct InSight event: The flow of raw images […]
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