Professional Reading Shelf
National Libraries–China
Source: People’s Daily
China: National Library opens digital portal
“A digital portal to collections of the National Library of China was opened on May 29, providing online search and accession to digitalized resources of the library. As the latest public service platform launched by the library, the D-portal combines 37 Chinese-language data banks, 77 foreign language data banks, 16,000-odd periodicals in both Chinese and foreign languages, as well as special resources including local records…”
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Newspapers–Digitization
Source: MarketingVOX
Digitized Archives of Small Town Papers Going Online
” SmallTownPapers has been digitizing newspaper archives for free and giving them a presence online, while preserving a rich - and searchable - historical record. Through the project’s website, browser can see an archived newspaper as it was printed and can also search through articles and advertisements, and look for photos.”
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Internet Resources
The June, 2005 Issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is Online
Looking for some new and/or useful resources? If so, this is one great resource.
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Scholarly Publishing–Open Access
Source: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005: Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era (Chapter 6; via E-LIS)
The Next Information Revolution - How Open Access will Transform Scholarly Communications
“Complaints about spiralling serials costs, lack of service from large commercial publishers, and the inability to meet the information needs of researchers are not new. Over the past few years, however, we have begun to see new models develop that better serve the information needs academics as both authors and readers. The internet is now being used in ways other than just to provide electronic facsimiles of print journals accessed using the traditional subscription models. Authors can now ?self-archive? their own work making it available to millions and new open access journals extend this by providing a peer-review service to ensure quality control. SPARC and SPARC Europe play a prominent role in the new scholarly communication landscape as they encourage the progress of open access while working closely with scholars and scientists, who must recognize the benefits of change within academe in order for such progress to occur.”
Full text (Word document)
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National Libraries
Source: ManagingInformation.com
Over 11m Digital Records Now Available At European Library
“After three years of collaborative project work and ten months of operational development, The European Library was recently launched. Over 11 million digitised and born digital records and objects from 9 of Europe’s National Libraries are free to all.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Watergate
Source: Vanity Fair (via DocuTicker)
Full Text of Vanity Fair Article: W. Mark Felt Is Deep Throat
This is a full text preview of an article that will appear in the July 2005 issue of Vanity Fair. It’s a nine page PDF file. Thanks to E.D. for the news tip.
See Also: Watergate Timeline (via Washington Post)
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Women And Science–Europe–Statistics
Source: European Commission
Women & Science Statistics and Indicators
Various statistics and sources.
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Health–Web Resources
Source: MedlinePlus
Two New Compilations
+ Psychotic Disorders
+ Childhood Brain Tumors
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Medical Tutorials–Search Engine
Source: RxPG PLC
Spider Nevi
“SpiderNevi medical tutorial search engine project is a non-commercial volunteer project started by a group of doctors from UK and India. Its main purpose is to provide a free human edited tutorials directory to medical fraternity. All included links are reviewed by a volunteer team of doctors and medical students before inclusion in the SpiderNevi database.”

Briefly
Leading Children’s eBooks Now Available to Thousands of Library Websites Through Agreement Between Childrenselibrary.com and OverDrive

Search Briefs
All About the RSS “FeedMesh” (via eWeek)

Professional Reading Shelf
Librarians
Source: Daily Universe (BYU)
Librarians, the library’s secret resource
“The more than 30 subject librarians at the Harold B. Lee Library are one of the most valuable yet underutilized resources available to students.”
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Preservation
Source: University of Florida Libaries
Brittle Books Program
“The Brittle Books Program, a section of the Reprographics Unit of the Preservation Department, is responsible for the identification and care taking of the brittle materials in the library system. Approximately 540,000 volumes are thought to be brittle at this time.” Learn how brittle materials are identified and procedures for dealing with them.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Anatomy
Source: University of Texas at Austin
The eSkeletons Project
“The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species.” Cool.

Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Content Management
Source: Public Library Association
New Tech Note: Digital Content Management
History and overview. “Digital content management, as used in this TechNote, has sometimes been confused with electronic resources management. The former deals with the management of the digital files of a library or consortium; the latter deals with the management of subscriptions to electronic resources supplied by others. Electronic resources management is the topic of a separate TechNote.”
See Also: List of Other Tech Notes

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Online Books
Source: NLM
NLM’s “Turning the Pages” now Online
“Have you ever come across a beautiful old book locked away in a glass case in a library and wanted to leaf through it? Now, you can (virtually), anywhere in the world, using a computer and Web browser. Using the new, free, online version of ‘Turning the Pages’ (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/turningthepages), viewers can flip through three treasured books from the National Library of Medicine’s 16th century with a click of their computer mouse.”
See Also: Use “Turning the Pages” Technology at The British Library
12 full text books available.

Professional Reading Shelf
Corporate Archives–Directories
Source: The Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section/Hunter Information
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
Last updated: 4/2005.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
United States–History
U.S. Census
Source: U.S. Census
Now Available Online from U.S. Census: Material from the 1890 U.S. Census
Files are in PDF format. Overview here.
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Faculty–Postsecondary Institutions
Source: National Center for Educational Statistics
2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) Report on Faculty and Instructional Staff in Fall 2003
“This publication is the first from the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04), a study of faculty and instructional staff employed in degree-granting public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions in the United States. This report describes the gender, race/ethnicity, tenure status, and income of all faculty and instructional staff, by employment status, institution type, and program area.”
Full report (PDF; 255 KB)

Search Briefs
New from Yahoo Research: Rerank Your Results Based on the Type of Material You’re Looking For!

Professional Reading Shelf
Science and Technology Librarianship
The Spring 2005 Issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is Now Online
Articles include: The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries, Survey of GIS Implementation and Use within Smaller Academic Libraries, and Scientific Research: The Publication Dilemma.
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Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Source; eGov Monitor
New, LONGITUDE: a toolkit of resources for public library staff to evaluate the long-term impact of IT-based services on users
“The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has launched LONGITUDE: a toolkit of resources for public library staff to evaluate the long-term impact of IT-based services on users.”
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Libraries–Licensing
Serials
Source: NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group)
NASIGuide: License Negotiation 101
See Also: More NASIGuides
+ Electronic Resource Management
+ ISSN
+ OpenURL
+ Title Changes
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Scholarly Publishing–Conferences
Source: CERN
CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4)
Conference announcement and call for papers.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Design–Directory
Source: Dexigner Design Portal
DesignDirectory
Hierarchical-style “international design links database.” Keyword searchable. Anyone may submit links for inclusion; all submissions are reviewed by editors. Database currently contains about 4,900 links in 1,650 categories. See the newest and most popular links.
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Plant Pathology–Glossary
Source: American Phytopathological Society
Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology
From abaxial to zygospore. Many terms have a clickable icon that displays an illustraton. Nice. See Education Center for K-12 resources, Plant Disease Lessons and more.
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Food Safety and Nutrition–Terminology
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
CFSAN Technical Lexicon: Version 0.9
“This is an electronic text file derived from the CFSAN Thesaurus, which installs into most word processors or email clients in a few minutes. It contains a comprehensive list of approximately fifteen thousand technical and scientific terms commonly used in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in correspondence and regulatory documents. Once installed, spell-checkers will not flag correctly spelled technical terms as misspellings. In addition, misspelled technical terms will be flagged, and the correct spelling offered as suggested spellings by the spell-checking tools of the word processor.”
Download and install the lexicon.
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Cigarette Smoking–United States
Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via DocuTicker)
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2003
“One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults to 12%. To assess progress toward this objective, CDC analyzed self-reported data from the 2003 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The results of that analysis indicated that, in 2003, approximately 21.6% of U.S. adults were current smokers. Although this prevalence is lower than the 22.5% prevalence among U.S. adults in 2002 and significantly lower than the 22.8% prevalence in 2001, the rate of decline is not sufficient to meet the national health objective for 2010 (2). Comprehensive, sustained interventions that reduce the rate of smoking initiation and increase the rate of cessation are needed to further the decline in cigarette smoking among adults.”

Search Briefs
New Interface Available: Search Only Material in the Google Print Database

Briefly
RLG Introduces New Fine Arts Database: CAMIO–Catalog of Art Museum Images Online