Translation Resources on the Web

This is a very helpful article from C&RL News, June 2009, Vol. 70, No. 6. It was posted on Resource Shelf.

New AASL Site: Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

"The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning honors websites, tools, and resources of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner."

Media Cloud - New News Tracking Service

"Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data."

Virtual Reference Bibliography Online

Virtual Reference Bibliography Online

Discovering American Women’s History Online

"This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas’s photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century."

Stateline.org: State Data Resources

"Stateline.org has put together a comprehensive list of state data available online. Organized by issue, you will find useful links to essential information from government, academia, and think tanks."

Vadlo: Biomedical and Life Sciences Search Engine

"Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web."

Web Dictionary Plans to Outdo Print Cousins

"Harnessing the native capabilities of the Internet, Wordnik definitions include images scraped from Flickr, audio recordings of pronunciations, and ratings of definitions by other users. The project includes 4 billion words and offers sample sentences plucked at random from the web."

YouTube: The Reference Tool

". . .YouTube, conceived as a video hosting and sharing site, has become a bona fide search tool. Searches on it in the United States recently edged out those on Yahoo, which had long been the No. 2 search engine, behind Google. (Google, incidentally, owns YouTube.) In November, Americans conducted nearly 2.8 billion searches on YouTube, about 200 million more than on Yahoo, according to comScore."

Collaborative Online Medical Encyclopedia Goes Live

"Medpedia, a new online medical encyclopedia relying on user-generated content from anyone with an M.D. or a Ph.D. in a biomedical field, officially became available today."