Resources
Gateway to Scientific Data from the Canadian government.
Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers
The first time Europeana (a digital library funded by the European Commission) launched so many people visited that it promptly crashed. This time it seems to be stable and is very nice to browse.
Musopen "is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music." (Project Gutenberg and Mutopia also have sheet music; Gutenberg also has music recordings, moving pictures, etc.)
Tools
Have you ever used Tinyurl to make a short link for a long url? Now Krunchd gives you a short link for a collection of urls.
Ideas
David Lee King writes about embedding a link to their virtual reference in their HIP catalogue (including on their Search Results page).
Stephen Abram writes about how phrasing on signage can increase compliance.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Links of interest 3/6/09
Labels:
catalogue,
europeana,
music,
open access,
signage,
tools,
virtual reference