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Jul 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Associated Press: Google gear helps create virtual tours of Georgia sites. "Miles of central Georgia trails and some of Macon's most prominent historic landmarks can now be toured online on […]
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Jul 16, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Daily Hive: Three Canadians are putting together the ultimate ‘Made In Canada' list. "The tariffs against the US took effect on Canada Day and have the potential to raise the […]
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Jul 16, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Anglo-Saxon charters online. "In anticipation of the British Library's major Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition, which opens on 19 October, we are delighted to have added the vast majority of […]
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Jul 16, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Audubon Magazine: These Century-Old Photos Inspired Some of the West's First Bird Refuges. "The Oregon Historical Society and Oregon State University recently collaborated on a project to collect and digitize […]
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Jul 15, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Techpoint (Nigeria): Introducing Techpoint Base: A comprehensive database for startups. "Over the years, Techpoint.ng has extensively covered Nigerian and African startups in their entirety and in this time, we have […]
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Jul 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Calvin College: Hymn Database Captures Attention Of Millenials. "With more than 1.3 million hymns, 6,000 hymnals, and 700,000 users a month, Hymnary.org has grown from a small online […]
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Jul 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Radio Survivor: The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map Is Now Online. "Brooklyn, NY has one of the densest populations of unlicensed pirate radio stations in the U.S. As he explained […]
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Jul 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Hidden City Philadelphia: Victorian-era Philly Bicycle Routes Now Available Online. "Cycling was immensely popular in the 1890's, and Estoclet produced what seems to be a unique set of American narrative […]
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Jul 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Herald Scotland: Major Harris Tweed industry archive to go online. "ITS devotees include pop veteran Madonna, former Dr Who Matt Smith and actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Now an archive containing a […]
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Jul 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES IndieWire: 45 Genre Screenplays to Download For Free, From ‘A Clockwork Orange' to ‘Goodfellas'. "The best way to learn the tricks of movie screenwriting is to read as many movie […]
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Jul 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The New Times (Rwanda): ITC launches portal to avail the market price information. "The International Trade Centre (ITC) yesterday launched a market price information portal, an online database that will […]
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Jul 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Violinist: Music by Living Black Composers Directory Now Available Online. "Rachel Barton Pine is determined to make it easier for performers, conductors, and concert programmers to find the music of […]
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Jul 10, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Washington Post: Google may have to make major changes to Android in response to a forthcoming fine in Europe. "Google could face a record penalty this month from European […]
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Jul 10, 2018
Writing last week's article took me back to the early days of the Web. (I had to walk ten miles through the snow uphill to get online, you know.) Web searching was […]
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Jul 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Inside Higher Education: New Tool for Open-Access Research. "Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory — the […]
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Jul 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Daily Times: After Zamindar, PUCIT launches digital archives of Urdu paper Inqilab. "The Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT) has launched digital archives of Inqilab, a famous Lahore-based Urdu […]
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Jul 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Niche Canada: The Syllabus Project. "Has anyone else noticed how often environmental history syllabi largely omit women and scholars of colour? A colleague's initial Twitter query about good sources for […]
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Jul 08, 2018
NEW RESOURCES NZ Scoop: Index of historic Maori Land Court records now open access. "The Maori Land Court Minute Books Index has been made available by Libraries and Learning Services at the […]
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Jul 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES CBS Local Boston: Mass. High School Yearbooks Now Available Online. "The high school yearbook is a rite of passage, a remembrance of days gone by, for better or for worse. […]
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Jul 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Ellines: The first web Atlas of ceramic kilns in Ancient Greece. "The Web Atlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece is the first of its kind GIS database of kiln […]
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Jul 06, 2018
Recently a ResearchBuzz article comment mentioned WordPress, and the difficulty the comment's author had on finding WordPress in Google News' blog search. The comment author said: One caveat about the blog searches: they […]
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Jul 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Georgia Straight: Move the Movement builds a healing database of cannabis experiences. "‘Each and every person who has found relief in cannabis has a part to play in this […]
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Jul 05, 2018
MyHeritage: Happy July 4th: Enjoy Free Access to U.S. Newspapers. "In honor of July 4th, we are delighted to announce FREE access to all U.S. Newspaper collections on MyHeritage's SuperSearch™, for a […]
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Jul 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES National Institutes of Health: NIH-funded scientists put socioeconomic data on the map. "The Neighborhood Atlas…, a new tool to help researchers visualize socioeconomic data at the community level is now […]
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Jul 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES VPR: Surprising History From Vermont's Online Newspaper Archive: Bicycles, Women's Suffrage & ‘Scorchers'. "Vermonters can now access more than 200 years of newspapers online after the Vermont secretary of state's […]
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Jul 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Explore the British Library's collections for Black British and Asian British Studies. "With the launch of the Black Britain and Asian Britain subject hub, we are offering a […]
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Jul 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES KPEL: Louisiana Rolls Out New Website To Track Government Spending. "With much of the recent attention on funding Louisiana's budget, the state is making upgrades to the way residents can […]
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Jul 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES UK Fundraising: New database unites public information on charities in England & Wales. "A free, open source charity data portal, CharityBase, has launched, providing public information on the activities, locations […]
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Jul 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: The Virtual Mappa Project and DM: Online Editions of Medieval Maps and More. "After a long journey and much hard work from a lot of very dedicated people, […]
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Jul 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Middletown Press: CAA Creates Online Database for TV Writers of Color. "CAA has launched a new database, Amplify Database, a searchable directory for some 800 TV writers of color. The […]
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Jul 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: Twitter launches its Ads Transparency Center, where you can see ads bought by any account . "Twitter says that with this tool, you should be able to search for […]
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Jun 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: Update: Faces of Auschwitz website is now live. "A while back, I wrote about Faces of Auschwitz: a website dedicated to telling the stories of the prisoners of […]
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Jun 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Unredacted: New Digital National Security Archive Document Collection Highlights CIA Covert Operations from 1961-1974. "Explore important historical events, like the epic Bay of Pigs disaster, through the lens of little-known […]
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Jun 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES AIGA Eye on Design: Lubalin's Radical '60s Magazines Are Giving Us A Lesson in Archiving on the Web. "Around 2013, Mindy Seu was in San Francisco, browsing through Adobe Books […]
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Jun 28, 2018
My husband is going on vacation soon and I can't wait. Now, let me assure you that I love him a lot. We celebrate our silver anniversary next year and he, as […]
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Jun 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Bit-Tech: BBC launches Computer Literacy Project archive. "The BBC has added the output of its Computer Literacy Project, covering more than 260 full-length TV programmes and 166 BBC Micro computer […]
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Jun 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: First of Its Kind Web Tool Lets You Know if You're Funding Gun Violence and War (PRESS RELEASE). "Weapon Free Funds, covering 3,000 of the most commonly-owned U.S. […]
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Jun 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Safety Health: OSHA launches database for workplace chemical information. "A new database from OSHA offers access to safety profiles and information on workplace chemicals. Pooling data from various government […]
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Jun 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Arabian Business: Guinness World Records sees 283% rise in Middle East applicants. "Guinness World Records has seen the number of applicants from the MENA region increase by 283% since it […]
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Jun 26, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BusinessWire: Apple News Launches 2018 Midterm Elections Section (PRESS RELEASE). "Apple® today announced a new 2018 Midterm Elections section in Apple News®, providing a new resource for timely, trustworthy […]
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Jun 26, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Wolfram: We've Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!). "On June 23 we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Mathematica. Most […]
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Jun 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Kentucky: OutSouth Oral History Project Hopes to Tell the Stories of Region's LGBTQ* Community. "An understanding of the power of oral history to tell personal journeys brought together […]
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Jun 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Live Science: Enigmatic Stone Balls from 5,000 Years Ago Continue to Baffle Archaeologists. "Archaeologists still don't know the original purpose or meaning of the Neolithic stone balls, which are recognized […]
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Jun 25, 2018
I mentioned this in an earlier issue so let me put this up-top: It does not appear that iPhones are vulnerable to brute force password attacks. From a BetaNews article: "One hacker […]
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Jun 24, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Save dinosaurs from extinction in a game world built with Google Maps. "Just in time for summer and the release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom™, you can […]
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Jun 23, 2018
I thought I was soooooo clever. I was going to go to all the question-asking sites, and ask a question, then do an article about how the different sites answered the different […]
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Jun 23, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Open Gov Asia: India launches National Digital Library. "On 19 June, the Union Human Development Minister, Mr Prakash Javadekar launched the National Digital Library in the country's capital. The library […]
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Jun 22, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Eater London: This U.K. Chef Database Wants to Address the Industry's Gender Problem . "At the same time as controversy swirls around gender representation in the restaurant industry, intensifying after […]
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Jun 22, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Energy Voice: Female energy high-fliers to be identified via crowdsourcing database. "RenewableUK has today announced that it will launch a crowd-sourced database of women working in the energy sector to […]
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Jun 21, 2018
I PROMISE you I am not sitting over here eating bonbons. NEW RESOURCES Berkeley News: New website amplifies refugee voices amid immigration crackdowns. "To humanize the growing refugee crisis, researchers at UC […]
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Jun 21, 2018
Late again. Y'all must think I'm over here eating bonbons. NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: AllHorror.com - New Horror Movie Database by Horror Fans, for Horror Fans (PRESS RELEASE). "A horror movie might […]
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Jun 20, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Coastal Review: ‘Harm's Way' Exhibit Shows Century of Storms. "The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center has collected accounts and artifacts from the storms that have molded the coast […]
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Jun 20, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Brush up on Chinese modern art with Google Arts & Culture. "For the last century, the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing has been the preeminent […]
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Jun 19, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Genealogy's Star: Reclaim the Records frees the NYC marriage license index for 1996-2017. "Another big win for genealogists and others needing records from New York. Reclaim the Records has […]
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Jun 19, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: Revitalizing the drug pipeline: AntibioticDB, an open access database to aid antibacterial research and development. "The current state of antibiotic discovery, research and development is insufficient […]
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Jun 18, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Indiana University: Medical student founds national organization connecting LGBTQ community with health care. "[Dustin] Nowaskie graduated in May, but before that, in the middle of his psychiatry studies, he founded […]
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Jun 18, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Taipei Times: Culturally important locations to be put on online database. "Culturally significant locations around the nation are to feature on an online map on the government's ‘Taiwan Geospatial […]
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Jun 18, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Maine: Team creates online database to compare regenerative tissue capabilities among animals. "Comparing regenerative tissue capabilities among animals is the focus of a new database created by a […]
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Jun 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Wisconsin Ag Connection: NCIS Launches Website Highlighting Crop Insurance in all 50 States. "The Senate officially begins its Farm Bill process June 13, as the Agriculture Committee debates a draft […]
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Jun 16, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Introducing VR180 Creator, simplifying the video editing process. "VR180 cameras allow creators to shoot three-dimensional, immersive photos and videos using affordable cameras that are small enough to […]
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Jun 16, 2018
Thank you for your notes about yesterday's lack of RB. I'm fine, there was a just a lot going on. I'm mad at myself for messing up my blogging streak. NEW RESOURCES […]
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Jun 15, 2018
Probably tomorrow. Sorry, things got a little out of hand.
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Jun 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Gale Introduces New Digital Archive on Amateur Newspapers From the 19th Century (PRESS RELEASE.) "Gale, a Cengage company, is introducing a new digital archive that's considered the social […]
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Jun 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Smoky Mountain News: WCU unveils new economic tool. "A new tool that compiles a mind-boggling array of economic and demographic data and presents it in a simple map-based interface will […]
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Jun 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Globe Newswire 2018 World Salt Symposium to Feature 500 International Experts (PRESS RELEASE). "The Tenth World Salt Symposium will be held June 19-21, 2018 in Park City, Utah, and will […]
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Jun 13, 2018
I love news searching. I do it a lot. Searching News sites instead of a general Web search engine is a good way to find items that are more detailed, more recent, […]
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Jun 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES PRWeb: Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank - a New Search Engine for Digital Badges (PRESS RELEASE). "Powered by a sophisticated ranking algorithm, BadgeRank indexes over 100,000 digital badges from around the […]
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Jun 12, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Muckrock: MuckRock and DocumentCloud merge to build tools for a more informed society. "We are thrilled to announce that DocumentCloud and MuckRock are merging. The reason is simple: Mission. […]
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Jun 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The National Library of Australia: has a new Daisy Bates collection online (this links to a Facebook post.) "The controversial ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early […]
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Jun 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES PublicNow: NUI Galway ENERGISE Project Launches Online Database Of Energy Initiatives (PRESS RELEASE). "NUI Galway, lead coordinators of the €3.7 million pan-European Horizon 2020 project, ENERGISE (European Network for Research, […]
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Jun 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Ransom Center Magazine: Remembering photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, 1916-2018. "The internationally-renowned American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died at age 102 in France. As Harry Ransom Center Curator of photography […]
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Jun 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Inequality: BlackHer - A New Online Platform Raises the Voices of Black Women Politically and Economically. "With only 19 African-American women in Congress - representing a paltry 3.5 percent of […]
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Jun 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Wisconsin-Madison: Tool Links Health Care Organizations, Public To Improve The Health Of Wisconsinites. "The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has updated and improved its online tool to […]
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Jun 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Chronicle of Higher Education: Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn't-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels. "Following in the footsteps of other disciplines, a group of female historians unveiled a […]
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Jun 08, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Google brings free Wi-Fi to 400 India train stations, reaches 8 million users. "Google announced Thursday that it hit its target in bringing free Wi-Fi to 400 train […]
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Jun 08, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Arizona State University: Recent Barrett grad Alexa Rose's database of Pompeii's graffiti documents life in the ancient city. "Recent Barrett Honors College graduate Alexa Rose compiled a database on the […]
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Jun 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES US Army Corps of Engineers: USACE Opens Updated National Levee Database. "The database includes attributes of levees and floodwalls relevant to flood fighting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair and inspection. […]
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Jun 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The National: Scotland Is Now launches Portal AR app with partners Google. "The Portal AR app has users travel through portals on their phone screens to visit different destinations across […]
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Jun 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Japan Times: In tattoo-taboo Japan, new website offers helping hand for those with ink. "In tattoo-taboo Japan, those who are inked-up have received a helping hand — in both English […]
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Jun 06, 2018
Motherboard: Hacked: 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage. "When you sign up to a website handling sensitive information, perhaps a medical service or social network, one of the basic […]
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Jun 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Washington Secretary of State: Introducing Primarily Washington, A New Education Resource. "For the last few years, the Washington State Library, Washington State Archives and Legacy Washington have been have been […]
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Jun 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New York University: NYU Fales Library Releases Flaherty Seminar Recordings, Unveiling Fifty Years of Cinematic History. "New York University's Division of Libraries today announced the public release of more than […]
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Jun 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Glasgow Live: Adverts for runaway slaves in 18th century shared in Glasgow University database. "Fugitive slave adverts from 18th century UK newspapers have been published in a new database from […]
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Jun 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me: ZooScope — a database of animals in movies. From the About page: "Animals have played a crucial role in the development of film as an artistic medium, from the […]
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Jun 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: an archive of LGBTQ pride t-shirts. "There is a perception by some that LGBTQ history didn't happen in the Midwest. And while it is true that many of the […]
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Jun 03, 2018
Recently there was some research published indicating that YouTube is the most popular Internet platform for teenagers. After reading that I thought "Maybe I should do an article on my favorite YouTube […]
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Jun 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous. "The Victorian government has launched a new website that will allow non-Indigenous people to ask questions of and about […]
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Jun 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Associations Now: American Academy Of Actuaries Launches Online Voter Guides. "Not only does Memorial Day signal the start of summer, it also marks the moment when political campaigns for fall […]
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Jun 01, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Public Radio East: Shark Spotting Citizen-Science Program Launches. "The Spot A Shark USA program starts June 1. People who encounter sand tiger sharks are asked to upload their photos […]
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Jun 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Environmental Defense Fund: Hundreds of Golf Courses Tee Up to Help Monarch Butterflies. "Audubon International and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recently partnered to launch Monarchs in the Rough, a program […]
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May 31, 2018
NEW RESOURCES American Veterinarian: Online Database of Canine Inherited Genetic Disorders Now Available. "In the largest canine genetics study to date, researchers from Wisdom Health and Genoscoper Laboratories examined the prevalence of […]
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May 31, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Isabella d'Este Archive (IDEA): Project Launch: IDEA Bibliography. "IDEA Bibliography is an extensive bibliography of published primary sources and secondary literature related to all disciplines represented in IDEA. The bibliography […]
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May 31, 2018
My schedule and situation has been very disrupted for the last 36 hours or so. Getting back to business today. Enjoy yesterday's afternoon buzz, which with said disruption did not get posted. […]
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May 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Forbes: Want To Know What Technologies Are Coming In The Future? There's a Database For That . "Spider silk transformed into fiber for tissue reconstruction; paper that conducts electricity; renewable […]
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May 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Brookings Institution: Introducing Sourcelist: Promoting diversity in technology policy. "I am delighted to announce the launch of Sourcelist, a database of experts in technology policy from diverse backgrounds. Here at […]
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May 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Papers of President Woodrow Wilson Now Online . "The papers of President Woodrow Wilson, from his time in the White House and as a scholar and governor […]
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May 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Hyperallergic: New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo's Life and Work. "Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together […]
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May 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: New platform for analyzing global trade in the last two centuries . "This new web platform, called Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database, collects information about imports and exports from […]
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May 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Next City: New York City Debuts Regional Mapping Tool. "New York City's planning department has launched a new mapping tool that harnesses population, housing and economic data and makes it […]
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May 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Pappas Post: Philadelphia Historical Society Preserves City's Greek Musical Heritage. "In recent years, the Greek American Heritage Society of Philadelphia has been on a long-term mission, collecting countless photographs and […]
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