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Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fourth Edition
Websites referred to in Chapters Six through Ten


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Chapter 6: Print-Based Serials

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Document Delivery Field Continues to Shrink with Demise of EBSCO Document Services
by Barbara Quint; Information Today Newsbreaks, March 1, 1999.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb0921-2.htm

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Chapter 7: Electronic Serials

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CSU | SEIR | Systemwide Electronic Information Resources (California State Universities) (URL/Name change from text)
http://seir.calstate.edu

P. 202/203 -- Web Sites and Discussion Lists

NewJour -- List of archived networked e-journals.
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography -- References on electronic publishing.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via The World-Wide Web -- From the University of Houston Libraries; lists more than 120 free web-based academic journals.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html

CONSER Program Home Page -- The Library of Congress' Web site for information about the Cooperative Online Serials Program (CONSER).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/

North American Serials Interest Group -- NASIG is an important group in serial management programming and information. (URL changed from text)
http://www.nasig.org

Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum (Serialst)
LISTSERV@uvmvm.uvm.edu.
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For detailed information regarding SERIALST, visit http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html.

Electronic Journal Miner -- The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries site that provides information on almost 3,000 e-journals. (URL/Name change from text)
http://ejournal.coalliance.org

The Daily Press -- An web site in English providing information about print and electronic newspapers in Spain. (URL changed from text)
http://www.sispain.org/english/media/press.html

Welcome to JSTOR -- Journal Storage (JSTOR)'s home page
http://www.jstor.org

Ejournal SiteGuide -- Joseph Jones' Web site with annotated links to sites for e-journals.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour

Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information -- Archive for LIBLICENSE - L discussion list.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/

ICOLC Statement on Electronic Information -- Site for information on the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) that deals with consortial purchases of electronic resources.
http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html

E-zine list: John Labovitz's e-zine-list -- John Labovitz's site for electronic 'zines available via the Web, FTP, or otherwise electronically.
http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/

The Journal of Electronic Publishing -- A good source of information about E-publishing from the University of Michigan Press.
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

UK Serials Group WWW Page -- An excellent source of information about UK and European serial vendors and services.
http://www.uksg.org

United States Book Exchange -- A mainstay for serials librarians as a source of missing journal issues and exchange of serials.
http://www.usbe.com/

Back Issues and Exchange Services -- A source of missing issues and exchange of serials and other materials.
http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/backexch.html

Maintained by Birdie MacLennan; her main site is "Serials in Cyberspace," (http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/) a collection of resource and services of use for serials librarians.

Impact of Scientific Journal Costs -- From the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/prices/index.html

LIS-Serials Discussion List -- "An informal list open to members of the serials community to discuss matters relating to serials/journals including selection, pricing/finance, supply, etc."
Subscription information available at: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-k-o/lis-serials/

PubList.Com -- An Internet Directory of Publications
http://www.PubList.com

Library oriented lists and electronic serials (URL changed from text)
http://www.wrlc.org/liblists/

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Chapter 8: Other Electronic Materials

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Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Books on the Internet (URL updated from text)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

Project Gutenberg Home Page
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Oxford Text Archive (URL corrected from text)
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

UM Press--University of Michigan
http://www.press.umich.edu/

Humanities Text Initiative -- University of Michigan School of Library and Information Studies
http://www.hti.umich.edu/

The Woman Writers Project -- Brown University
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

Electronic Text Center- -- University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

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Stanford University -- Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities
http://musedata.stanford.edu

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) -- A source for numeric data sets.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

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Yankee Book Peddler
http://www.ybp.com

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EBSCO (URL updated from text)
http://www-us.ebsco.com/home/default.asp

Publisher's Catalogs Home Page -- Maintained by Northern Lights
http://www.lights.com/publisher

AcqWeb -- A website for acquisitions and collection development information maintained by the Vanderbilt Law School Library
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html

Booklist -- Including a cumulative index to its reviews.
http://www.ala.org/booklist/

New York Times Book Review (URL updated from text)
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html

Los Angeles Times Book Review
http://www.latimes.com/ -- Choose "Books" from "Sections" option on list.
OR visit: http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/

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Internet Scout Report -- From the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Madison
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

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Evaluating Quality on the Net -- Hope Tillman, Babson College (URL changed from text)
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

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Evaluating Internet Resources -- Nicole Auer, Virginia Tech (URL updated from text)
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evalbiblio.html

Collection Development and the Internet -- Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html

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Electronic Text Center Holdings -- University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

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Chapter 9: Government Information

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"Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980" -- Public Law 96-511
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm
Search Title 44, Section 3501 for full text in U.S. Code.

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Government Information Locator Service -- GILS (URL updated from text)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/index.html

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Code of Federal Regulations (URL updated from text)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (URL updated from text)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wcomp/index.html

GPO Access -- United States Government Printing Office (URL updated from text)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

Budget of the United States Government
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/index.html

Economic Report of the President
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/

White House News (URL/Name change from text)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

POTUS: Presidents of the United States -- From the Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

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Federal Judiciary page (Name change from text)
http://www.uscourts.gov/

CAPWEB: Internet Guide to the U.S. Congress (URL change from text)
http://cw2k.capweb.net/voteweb/

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GPO Access -- United States Government Printing Office (URL updated from text)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html


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General Accounting Office Website
http://www.gao.gov

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State and Local Government on the Internet (URL updated from text)
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

Government: State Government -- From Yahoo! (URL updated from text)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/State_Government/

Minnesota's North Star Page
http://www.state.mn.us

North Carolina State Home Page (URL changed from text)
http://www.ncgov.com

Utah State Home Page
http://www.state.ut.us

StatesNews -- From the Council of State Governments (URL updated from text)
http://www.statesnews.org

California State Home Page
http://www.state.ca.us

Maryland Electronic Capital -- Maryland State Home Page
http://www.mec.state.md.us

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BEV: Blacksburg Electronic Village
http://www.bev.net

Foreign Government Resources on the Web -- From the University of Michigan Documents Center (URL updated from text)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreignnew.html

CIA World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Geneva International Forum (URL updated from text)
http://geneva.intl.ch/gi/egimain/edir.htm

International Governmental Organizations -- From Northwestern University (URL updated from text)
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

Government: Countries -- From Yahoo! (URL updated from text)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Countries

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U.N. Publications Catalogue
http://www.un.org/publications

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Federal Depository Libraries (URL updated from text)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html

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U.S. Government Online Bookstore (URL/Name updated from text)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.html

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Chapter 10: Audiovisual Materials

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Mika Iisakkila's Video Recording Formats Website (NOTE: Site last updated 9/00)
http://www.hut.fi/~iisakkil/videoformats.html

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LJDigital: Video Reviews -- From Library Journal (URL updated from text)
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com

Booklist -- Choose "Reviews of the month" from side menu, then "media".
http://www.ala.org/booklist/

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Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com

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Billboard Reviews (URL/Name change from text)
http://www.billboard.com/bb/reviews/index.jsp

Downbeat Magazine -- Reviews of Jazz artists--Choose "artists" to search by artist name, album or song title.
http://www.downbeatjazz.com/

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National Information Center for Educational Media -- NICEM Net
http://www.nicem.com

Videolib Discussion list -- (URL updated from text)
Subscription information available at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videolib

Videonews Discussion list (URL updated from text)
Subscription information available at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videonews

Media-L Discussion List (URL updated from text)
media-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu

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