Librarians off to Convocation

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Freshmen Convocation was this morning. Bill, Marvin, Randy, Kathy, and Steve posed for me before leaving the library. Here's to a great year!

Web Bits

Web Bits is a look at selected scholarly, practical sources available free online. All reviews are excerpted from Choice. Have a favorite website to share on Web Bits? e-mail ra2@evansville.edu

Research 101 http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/

"Research 101 is an interactive tutorial about conducting research, developing research questions, and understanding how information is produced and distributed. Its organizing principle is the concept of information cycles. The site is a nondisciplinary perspective on information cycles, presented in a publicly accessible framework that can be licensed free by other academic libraries." Choice June '04 Vol. 41, No. 10

Governing.com http://www.governing.com/

"This well-designed Internet portal is a valuable free resource for finding current information by and about state and local government. The site is an outgrowth of Governing magazine. Both are subsidiaries of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. The Today's News section provides links to major stories from various newspapers reporting on state and local government affairs, with separate links for news items related to politics generally, state legislatures, technology issues, and related federal government activities. The GovLink section provides wide-ranging links to local and state government sites as well as to resources on such topics as the environment and waste management, health, policy and politics, and transportation." Choice April '06 Vol. 42, No. 8

Encyclopedia of North American Indians http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_000107_entries.htm

"This Web site from Houghton Mifflin reproduces the text of The Encyclopedia of North American Indians (CH, Apr'97, 34-4194), edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. The print Encyclopedia was highly recommended and distinguished as a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book." The Web site for the Encyclopedia contains all of the articles as they were originally written, along with the book's introduction, list of contributors, and credits. The original index is absent, as it refers to page numbers that are nonexistent in the Web-based version, but it has not been replaced by an alternative. Nor are there any features added for this Web version. Entries are alphabetically organized in an easy-to-use format, with hyperlinked cross-references. Unfortunately, the articles have not been updated." Choice May '06 Vol. 43, No. 9

The James Madison papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/

"Online access via the American Memory Project (CH, Dec'05, 43-2404) to the James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress gives researchers access to the finding aids, organization, and content of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images. According to the custodians of this important resource, this collection is built from digitally scanned images of microfilmed copies of handwritten documents. Many document images link to searchable text transcriptions. With this resource researchers can now access many of these materials with considerable ease, although the quality of some images varies. The collection is organized into six series dating from 1723 to 1836." Choice January '06 Vol. 43, No.5

Repositories of primary sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

"Repositories of Primary Sources (RPS) is, as the Web site states, "a listing of over 5,000 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar." The site provides direct links to archival Web sites for major colleges, universities, and research centers, for any subject or discipline, in the US and abroad. There is no ranking or analysis of linked sites--RPS is merely a portal, albeit an important one, to archival and manuscript repositories. Linked sites are searchable geographically by state or region and also alphabetically in a master list." Choice January '06 Vol. 43, No. 5

2 New Journals in Project MUSE

Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law

New Journals in JSTOR & Project MUSE

All of these full-text titles are free to the UE Community. Clicking on a title will take you to that journal's information page at either JSTOR or MUSE.

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

Journal of Canadian Studies

Education and Culture

Eighteenth Century Fiction

Desarrollo Economico

Higher Education

International Review of Education

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics