SK-Libris --- WWW Library Resources
- IREX - International Research &
Exchanges Board
- IREX is a nonprofit organization promoting research between the
United States and Central and Eastern Europe.
Of possible interest:
Special
Projects in Library
and Information Science (Application Deadline - April 15, 1999)
IREX -
Slovakia Programs and Projects
- OSI Network Library Program
- Open Society Institute - Budepest
Coordinator in Slovakia
Ms. Luba Koskova
Open Society Fund-Bratislava
Staromestska 6
811 03 Bratislava
tel(421 7) 544 169 13, 544 147 30
fax (421 7) 544 188 67
email: lubica@osf.sk
- SABRE Foundation
- The SABRE Foundation donates books to needy organizations within
Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and other developing regions.
Details concerning the SABRE book donations can be found at
http://www.sabre.org/books/BOOKORG.html
.
A directory of other Book Donation Organizations can be found at
http://www.sabre.org/books/lifeship/lifeship.html
- Agricola
- Agricultural database from the United States National
Agricultural Library.
Includes a journal article citation index from
1979 to the present.
- Annual Reviews Online
- ***Free Trial Period for Annual Reviews Online will extend to
December 31, 1998
Includes: Biomedical
Sciences Online, Physical
Sciences Online, and Social
Sciences Online,
Reviews from 1996-98 are full text, earlier reviews include citations.
-
Anthropological Index ***Free Until the end of 1999***
- An index to periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library, London this
resource provides unique access to much of the research literature in the
areas of anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and linguistics.
- CSA Biological Sciences Database
***Free Until May 15, 1998***
- Database to abstracts and citations in biology and medicine.
- C-Alert
- A table of contents alerting system from Elsevier that
covers many journals in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry
- Disertation
Abstracts - ProQuest Digital Dissertations
- Access to the two most recent years of UMI's Dissertation Abstracts
database.
- ERIC
- Major education database.
-
FREE TRIALS OF FEE-BASED ONLINE DATABASES
- Access to a number of free trials are provided via Dr. Anne L. Barker's
article "Review of Online Information 98" in Free Pint - Issue 28.
- Handbook of Latin American
Studies
- A bibliography of Latin American annotated works.
- Los Alamos - Physics
and Mathematics Pre-Print Archive
- This archive provides free and ready access to full text manuscripts
in the hard sciences and is an excellent resource for locating some
of the most recent research in Physics and Mathematics.
- Medline - PubMed
- The major medical database created and maintained by the National
Library of Medicine.
Also available from Grateful
Med,
HealthGate, HealthWorld
Online, and INFOTRIEVE
ONLINE.
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
- Summaries of U.S. criminal justice publications and reports from the
federal, state, and local level.
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Criminal Justice Statistics
- United States Bureau of Justice Statistics, Juvenile Justice Facts &
Figures, and links to criminal justice statistics by state.
- PubSCIENCE
- Department of Energy Physical Science Database
- Social Sciences (Free
Trial Period ***) Annual Reviews Online
- ***Free Trial Period for Annual Reviews Online will extend to
December 31, 1998
Includes: Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Review
of Energy and the Environment, Annual Review of Political
Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Review
of Public Health, and Annual Review of Sociology
Reviews from 1996-98 are full text, earlier reviews include citations.
- UnCover
- UnCover provides citations to over
17,000 journals. Though particularly strong in the sciences UnCover
is a multidisciplinary database that is useful in all libraries.
To view the list of journals indexed by this database
go to
http://uncweb.carl.org/uncover/subtitle.html
Another fine service available from UnCover - though not free -
is UnCover Reveal.
"UnCover Reveal is an automated alerting service that delivers the table of
contents of your favorite periodicals directly to your e-mail box. The
Reveal
service also allows users to create search strategies for their favorite
topics. These search strategies are then run against the entire UnCover
database and weekly alerts on the latest articles published on the
specified
topics are also delivered to the user's e-mail address."
Agriculture Network Information Center - AgNIC
http://www.agnic.org
agnic@agnic.org
National Agricultural Library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/
webmaster@nal.usda.gov
National Agricultural Library Gift and Exchange Program
http://www.nal.usda.gov/acq/gift_and_exchange.html
rdubois@nalusda.gov
National Agricultural Library - Personnel
Director:
Pamela Andre pandre@nal.usda.gov
Deputy Director:
Keith Russell krussell@nal.usda.gov
Associate Director for Public Services:
Maria Pisa mpisa@nal.usda.gov
Reference & User Services:
Alvetta Pindell apindell@nal.usda.gov
Stan Kosecki skosecki@nal.usda.gov
The Reference Desk agref@nal.usda.gov
United States Geological Survey Library:
http://library.usgs.gov
library@usgs.gov
United States Biological Resources Division
http://biology.usgs.gov/
United States Geologic Information
http://geology.usgs.gov/
United States Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/
United States Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov
United States Water Resources Information
http://water.usgs.gov/
-
Big 12 Library Consortium Preferred Practices for License Agreements
- Statement of
Current Perspective and Preferred
Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information
- ICOLC - International Coalition of Library Consortia
also - Guidelines
for RFP Requirements and Contract Negotiations
- LIBLICENSE
- A guide on licensing digital information from Yale University
AAASS
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
AATSEEL
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/
American Council of Learned Societies
Manual for International Book and Journal Donations
--- Janet Greenberg
http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/aclsman.html
Balch Institute Library and Archives
http://www.libertynet.org/balch/html/body_library.html
Largest multiethnic collection in the country.
Cleveland Public Library
Foreign Literature Department
http://www.cpl.org/
Large Slovak Language and Literature Collection
First Catholic Slovak Union of the United States and Canada
http://www.fcsu.com/index.html
Links to the Union Library and Archives at Jednota Estates
Contacts:
Corporate Headquarters
6611 Rockside Road,
Independence OH 44131
1-800-JEDNOTA
Harvard University
Widener Library - Slavic Collections
http://hul.harvard.edu/libinfo/index.html
or
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/map/Level4/Yard/widener.shtml
over 7000 Czech and Slovak Literature titles.
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford University
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/
Collections dealing with changes in Eastern Europe since 1991-
contact:
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/main/form/form.html
Indiana University Libraries
Slavic Collection Office
http://www.indiana.edu/~libslav/office.html
or
http://www.indiana.edu/~libslav/czech.html
A combined Czech and Slovak collection of over 43,000 volumes (much of
which is in the vernacular languages).
contacts: croucher@indiana.edu, byrd@indiana.edu, johnsomk@indiana.edu
Kent State Univerity Libraries & Media Services
http://www.library.kent.edu/
Contains about 350 cataloged volumes dealing with Slovak Language and
Literature
Possible contacts:
http://www.library.kent.edu/services/staffdir.html
Library of Congress
European Reading Room
Czech and Slovak Collections (European Reading Room)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/european/
or
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/european/nuweb/collczec.html
also ...
Slovaks in
America
New York Public Library
Research Libraries, Slavic and Baltic Div.
http://www.nypl.org
Contact: 212-930-0714
Ohio State University
William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/eesweb/
or
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/
Emphasis on Slavic literatures, languages, and history.
contact:
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/eesweb/
PACSLAV
Pacific Coast Slavic & East European Library Consortium
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Slavic/Pacslav/
Project Bookshare
American Chemical Society
http://208.209.231.7/memgen/intlactv/homeinac.htm
or
http://208.209.231.7/memgen/intlactv/prohome.htm
contact: j_torio@acs.org
SABRE Foundation
http://www.sabre.org
or
http://www.sabre.org/books/BOOKORG.html
or
http://www.sabre.org/books/lifeship/lifeship.html
contact:
Tania Vitvitsky
Project Director
tania@sabre.org
or
Rebecca Schneider
Reference Librarian
Sabre Foundation, Inc.
872 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 2-1
Cambridge, MA 02139
tel: 617/868-3510; fax: 617/868-7916
e-mail: sabre@sabre.org
UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles
Slavic & East European Library Collections
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/slavic/
Large Eastern European collection (over 300,000 titles) from Russia,
Poland, and the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Slovak Bibliographer
Leon Ferder
e-mail: Lferder@library.ucla.edu
University of Chicago Library
Special Collections
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Libraries/SpCl/
Hirsch-Bernays Collection of European Continental Literature.
Contacts:
Special Collections
SpecialCollections@lib.uchicago.edu
The Joseph Regenstein Library
JRL 130
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1507
773 702-8705
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Slavic and East European Library
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/
or
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/default.htm
One of the largest Slavic and East European collections in the country.
Czech and Slovak titles total over 35,000 volumes.
contacts:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/staff2.htm
Univeristy of Ottawa
Morisset Library
http://www.uottawa.ca/library/mrt/morisset/
contact:
Slavic Studies
Lorraine Albert
e-mail: lalbert@uottawa.ca
University of Washington
Suzzallo Library
Slavic and East European Section
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/RussiaEastEurope/
or
http://www.lib.washington.edu/
contact:
For assistance using UW Libraries Slavic and East European studies
resources, contact staff of the Libraries Slavic and East European
Section by phone at (206) 543-5588; and by e-mail at
mbiggins@u.washington.edu or slavinfo@u.washington.edu
World Library Partnership, Inc.
http://rtpnet.org/~wlp/
or
http://rtpnet.org/~wlp/resource.htm
contact:
wendell@acpub.duke.edu
The World Library Partnership
1028 Bahama Rd.
Bahama, NC 27503
(919)479-0163
Yale University Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/
or
http://www.library.yale.edu/socsci/egcree.html
or
http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/cent.htm
- BOPAC
- A search engine that searches a number of British University OPACs
as well as the Library of Congress and MELVYL (large California Union
Catalog).
- CIC Virtual Electronic Library
Catalog
- The CIC Virtual Electronic Library Catalog provides access to the
catalogs of
all Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago.
- Committee on
Institutional Cooperation
- CIC Center for Library Initiatives
- HYTELNET
- Large list of library OPACS.
- ILLINET
Online
- A Union Catalog that serves 45 different Illinois college and university
libraries.
A list of member libraries can be found at
http://ilcso.aiss.uiuc.edu/Web/About/ilcsolibs.html
- ICOLC - International
Coalition of Library Consortia
-
- LIBWEB
- Library servers and home pages via WWW.
also...
USA -
Regional Consortia
- MAINECAT
- A Union Catalog for a large number of public, college, and university
libraries
in the state of Maine.
A list of member libraries found at
http://www.state.me.us/msl/mcbycity.htm
- MELVYL
- A large union catalog for the University of California system. It is
comprised of two parts - the Melvyl Catalog database and the Melvyl
Periodical
database.
"The Melvyl Catalog database (CAT) contains records of UC's book
holdings, as
well as records of other materials such as maps and music. The Catalog also
includes the book holdings of the California State Library in Sacramento,
the
California Academy of Sciences and the California Historical Society,
both in
San Francisco, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Graduate
Theological
Union in Berkeley. There are currently over 9.5 million unique titles
representing over 14.4 million holdings."
"The Periodicals database (PE) includes over 857,000 unique
titles of
newspapers, journals, proceedings, etc., representing over 1.4 million
serial
holdings from UC, the California State Library, the California Academy of
Sciences, the Center for Research Libraries, the Graduate Theological Union,
Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the 19-campus
California State University system, the California Union List of Periodicals
(community college libraries, public libraries, and selected special or
corporate libraries), California medical libraries in SERHOLD, and selected
other libraries."
- OhioLink
- A Union Catalog that provides access to many public, college, and
university
libraries in Ohio.
The list of participating libraries can be found at
http://www.ohiolink.edu/members-info/
- ORBIS
- A Union Catalog that provides access to colleges and universities in
Oregon and Washington.
The list of participating libraries can be found at
http://orbis.uoregon.edu/screens/members.html
- SILO (State of Iowa
Libraries Online)
- A Union Catalog for many libraries in the state of Iowa.
Background information on SILO can be found at
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/ted_htmls/silo_wha.html
- WEST VIRGINIA
UNION CATALOG
- A Union Catalog for a large number of public, college, and university
libraries
in the state of West Virginia. A list of member libraries can be found at
http://hpk220.wvlc.wvnet.edu/virtua/english/alphcode.html.
- AJR NewsLink - Popular
Electronic Magazines
- Electronic versions of many of the most popular magazines from Canada
and the United States. Note - many of the electronic versions contain
only a portion of the content found in the print magazines.
- ARL Directory of
Electronic Journals
- The Association of Research Libraries provides access to the archival directories of electronic
journals (1996) as well as information concerning subscriptions
to the new(?) ARL "Directory of Electronic Journals" 7th edition.
- E-ZINE-LIST
- Created and maintained by John Labovitz, this site provides access to
nearly 3000 e-zines. Provides ready access to American culture and
counter-culture.
- Electronic
Journals Alphabetical List by Subject
- A large array of electronic journals arranged by the University of
Pennsylvania Library (University of Pennsylvania "only" journals are
indicated with a "p").
- Full-Text Electronic
Journals
- The University of Waterloo Electronic Library provides both subject
and alphabetical lists of restricted and open access electronic
journals.
- NewJour
- An large archive of old and new electronic journals from the
University of California, San Diego. NewJour also provides a listserv
announcing new electronic journals.
- NewspaperLinks.com
- Gateway to U.S. Newspapers on the WWW.
- Database
Vendors
- From the Texas Library Resource Sharing Program - Building Digital
Libraries on the Web
- Licenses
Provided by Publishers
- Links to license statements from over fourty different publishers and
vendors. From LIBLICENSE - Yale University.
- More Database
Vendors
- Electronic Collection Vendors:Getting Help - Virtual Library of Virginia
- ALEPH - Integrated Library System
- CECUP - Central and Eastern
European Copyright User Platform
- Copyright legislation, issues, publications, and
upcoming workshops.
- Collaboration
Out of Chaos: The Challenges and the Rewards
- A review of a presentation given by Barabara McFadden Allen at the
October, 1998 Iowa Library Association Annual Conference written by
Katherine Martin of the University of
Northern Iowa.
From ILA/ACRL Newsletter vol 8., no. 3, November 1998
- EQUINOX - Library Performance
Measurement and Quality Management System
- European Commission funded project to create electronic library
performance indicators -
other European Commission projects include:
EQLIPSE
MINSTREL
DECIMAL
DECIDE
CAMILE
- Eurotext
- Eurotext is a collaborative resource center of learning materials on
Europe. The Eurotext Website is divided into two major sections: EU Texts
and Hot Links. EU Texts contains full-text documents
covering key policy areas, such as Development Policy, European
Integration, and Economic and Monetary Union. Hot Links provides
introductory material, institutional information, and
other associated Websites.
- Intellectual
Property & Copyright
- A resource from the American Library Association covering the many sides
and issues of Copyright.
- Tietolinja News
- The Electronic Newsletter of the Library Network Services, Helsinki
University Library
- WWW.COSMOTRON.CZ
- The suppliers of "Rapid Library" OPAC systems.
Chris Neuhaus
October, 1999