Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition
Chapters Six through Ten
Related Websites
Chapter 6: Serials - Print and Electronic
Back
Issues and Exchange Services -- A source of missing issues and exchange
of serials and other materials.
http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/backexch.html
BioMed
Central -- Online collection of open access biomedical journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
California
State University: Systemwide Electronic Information Resources - Product Reviews
and Vendor Responses
http://seir.calstate.edu/reviews/index.shtml
CONSER
Program Home Page -- The Library of Congress' website for information about
the Cooperative Online Serials Program (CONSER).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser
The
Daily Press -- A website in English providing information about print and
electronic newspapers in Spain.
http://www.sispain.org/english/media/press.html
Ejournal
SiteGuide -- Joseph Jones' website with annotated links to sites for e-journals.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour
Electronic
Journal Miner -- The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries' site that
provides information on almost 3,000 e-journals.
http://ejournal.coalliance.org
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.e-zine-list.com/
Gold Rush -- Licensing information
for the Gold Rush electronic resource comparison service.
http://grweb.coalliance.org
ICOLC
Statement on Electronic Information -- Statement of the International Coalition
of Library Consortia (ICOLC) concerning consortial purchases of electronic resources.
http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html
JAKE:
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment
-- An open source, open URL finding tool.
http://jake.openly.com/
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/
JSTOR
-- Journal Storage (JSTOR)'s home page.
http://www.jstor.org
Liblicense
-- Resource for information about Licensing Digital Information sponsored by
Yale University.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
Library
Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com
Library
Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials -- Sponsored by the Washington Regional
Library Consortium (WRLC).
http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists
LOCKSS
-- LOCKSS project home page, including links to sample vendor agreements and
a list of current participants and titles.
http://lockss.stanford.edu/
Newjour
- Electronic Journals and Newsletters -- List of archived networked e-journals.
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
North
American Serials Interest Group -- Website of NASIG, an important group
in serial management programming and information.
http://www.nasig.org
Project
MUSE -- Created by Johns Hopkins University. Provides the full text of approximately
250 journals in the arts and humanities from 40 scholarly publishers.
http://muse.jhu.edu
Public
Library of Science
-- Website of PLoS, focusing on materials in science and medicine.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
PubList.Com
-- An Internet directory of publications.
http://www.PubList.com
PubMed
Central - An online archive of life science journals.
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
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
Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum
(SERIALST)
LISTSERV@list.uvm.edu
To subscribe, send the following message:
SUBSCRIBE SERIALST Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name.
For detailed information regarding SERIALST, visit http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html.
United
Kingdom Serials Group Homepage (UKSG) -- 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/
University
of Georgia Electronic Journal Locator
-- An example of an e-journal finding tool maintained by the University of Georgia.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ejournals/
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Chapter 7: Other Electronic Materials
AcqWeb
-- A comprehensive website for acquisitions and collection development.
http://www.acqweb.org/
Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts -- A catalog of electronic books on the Internet.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex2
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com
ARBAonline
-- Subscription-based database for American Reference Books Annual.
http://www.arbaonline.com/
ChoiceReviews.online
-- From the American Library Association.
http://www.choicereviews.org
Classical
Music Library -- From Alexander Street Press.
http://www.classical.com
CETH
-- A directory of electronic text centers.
http://harvest.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/
Collection
Development and the Internet -- A handbook created by staff at the Library
of Congress.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html
CUFTS
-- A journal search and resource comparison site developed at the Simon Fraser
University Library for the Canadian Council of Prairie and Pacific University
Libraries.
http://cufts.lib.sfu.ca/tools.shtml
Digital
Academic Repositories
-- Information on the DARE program from the Netherlands.
http://www.darenet.nl/en/
Digital
Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/
Digital
General Collection -- Online repository from the University of Michigan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/g/genpub/
Digital
Library and Archive
-- Scholarly publishing repository at Virginia Tech.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/
Digital
Library Production Service
-- Information about the DLPS at the University of Michigan.
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/
DRUM
-- Digital Repository at
the University of Maryland.
https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/index.jsp
Dspace
-- Digital Library (Institutional Repository) developed jointly by MIT and Hewlett-Packard.
http://www.dspace.org
Dspace @Cambridge
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/
EBSCO
Information Services
http://www.ebsco.com
Electronic
Text Center- -- From the University of Virginia.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
eScholarship
Repository -- Sponsored by the California Digital Library for the University
of California system.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
Evaluating
Internet Resources -- Bibliography created and maintained by Nicole Auer
at Virginia Tech.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html
FAIR
-- Focus on Access to Institutional Resources, sponsored by the Joint Information
Systems Committee, UK.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_fair
GlobalBooksInPrint
-- Subscription service from Bowker.
http://www.globalbooksinprint.com/GlobalBooksInPrint/
GPO
Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List -- Database listing from the
United States Government Printing Office (GPO).
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html
Grove
Art Online -- Subscription service providing access to the text of the Dictionary
of Art (1996).
http://www.groveart.com
Humanities
Text Initiative -- From the University of Michigan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
Inter-University
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) -- A source for numeric
data sets, housed at the University of Michigan. [Note: Web page opens
in another window.]
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
iTunes
-- From Apple computing.
http://www.itunes.com
JSTOR
-- Journal Storage (JSTOR)'s home page.
http://www.jstor.org
KidsClick
-- A web search engine designed for children's websites.
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Librarian’s
Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
Los
Angeles Times Book Review
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/more/
MuseData
-- An electronic library of classical music scores, sponsored by the Center
for Computer Research in the Humanities, Stanford University.
http://musedata.stanford.edu
Musicnotes
-- Online resource for sheet music and musical scores.
www.musicnotes.com
Napster
http://www.napster.com
Naxos
Music Library
http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com
New
York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
Oxford
Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Project
Gutenberg Home Page
http://www.gutenberg.org
Public
Knowledge Project
-- Sponsored by the University of British Columbia.
http://www.pkp.ubc.ca
Publisher's
Catalogs Home Page -- Maintained by Northern Lights.
http://www.lights.com/publisher
Research
Port -- Online
database portal administered by the University System of Maryland and Affiliated
Institutions (USMAI).
http://researchport.umd.edu
University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions -- USMAI website.
http://usmai.umd.edu/
Rhapsody
-- Subscription-based digital music library.
http://www.rhapsody.com
Sheetmusicdirect
http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com
Sunhawk
-- Digital sheet music downloads.
http://www.sunhawk.com
Web
Feet -- Subscription-based
collection of reviewed websites from Thomson/Gale.
http://www.webfeetguides.com/
The
Women Writers Project
-- Subscription database from Brown University.
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
YBP
Library Services
http://www.ybp.com
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Chapter 8: Government Information
Bernan
-- Website for Bernan Publications.
http://www.bernan.com
BEV:
Blacksburg Electronic Village
http://www.bev.net
California
State Home Page
http://www.state.ca.us
CIA
World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Congressional
Biographical Directory
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Council
of State Governments
http://www.csg.org
Documents
Data Miner -- Collection management tool for federal depository libraries.
[Note: Web page opens in another window.]
http://govdoc.wichita.edu/ddm
Foreign
Government Resources on the Web -- From the University of Michigan Documents
Center.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forcomp.html
Federal
Judiciary page
http://www.uscourts.gov/
Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov
Data Access Tools
http://www.fedstats.gov/toolkit.htmlMapstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/
Firstgov
http://www.firstgov.gov/
Geneva
International Forum [Note: Web page opens in another window.]
http://geneva.intl.ch/gi/egimain/edir.htm
Government
Accountability Office Website -- (GAO).
http://www.gao.gov
Government:
Countries -- Directory listing from Yahoo!
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Countries
Government
Documents Electronic Depository -- Pilot project from the University of
Arizona Library.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/pol/guide/gpo-pilot
Government
Documents Round Table
-- Website of GODORT, the ALA roundtable devoted to issues of concern for librarians
working with government documents.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/
GOVDOC-L -- A discussion forum for issues related to government information and the Federal Depository Library program.
To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU:
SUB GOVDOC-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname.
Government
Information Locator Service -- GILS
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/
Government
Information Table of Contents
-- Resource listing from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/nsletter/govtoc.html
Government:
State Governments -- Directory listing from Yahoo!
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/State_Government/
GPO
Access -- Website of the United States Government Printing Office (GPO).
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
Congressional Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.htmlCongressional Record
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.htmlDecision Framework -- Draft matrix created for Federal Document Repositories by the Center for Research Libraries.In PDF format:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/decisionmatrix.pdf
FDLP
Desktop -- Website of the Depository Library Council.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/council/index.html
FDLP Desktop Electronic Collection -- Digital library of U.S. government information.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ec/index.html
Federal
Depository Library Listing
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html
New
Electronic Titles -- Finding aid for electronic documents.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/net/index.html
Strategic Vision for the 21st Century -- Strategic plan for the GPO issued December 2004. In PDF format
http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/pdfs/04strategicplan.pdf
U.S.
Government Online Bookstore
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.html
New Titles by Topic -- Title alert service from GPO.
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/alertservice.htmlSubject Bibliographies
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/sb/about.html
International
Governmental Organizations -- From Northwestern University.
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
Maryland
State Home Page
[Note: Web page opens in another window.]
http://www.maryland.gov
Minnesota's
North Star Page
http://www.state.mn.us
North
Carolina State Home Page
http://www.ncgov.com
NTIS/GPO
Depository Library -- Pilot project from the University of Central Florida
Libraries.
http://library.ucf.edu/GovDocs/ntis
POTUS:
Presidents of the United States -- From the Internet Public Library.
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus
Public
Electronic Network -- Service from the City of Santa Monica, California.
http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/
Riverside
County - Website from Riverside, California.
http://www.co.riverside.ca.us/
State
and Local Government on the Internet -- "A directory of state, county
and city government websites."
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
U.N.
Publications Catalogue
http://unp.un.org
U.S.
House of Representatives -- Member listing from the Office of the Clerk,
U.S. House.
http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.html
U.S.
Senate Home Page
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Utah
State Home Page
http://www.utah.gov
Web-Based
Government Information Project
-- An initiative of the California Digital Library, supported by Mellon Foundation.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/govinfo/
The
White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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Chapter 9: Audiovisual Materials
Association
of Independent Video and Filmmakers -- FAQ list for distributors.
http://www.aivf.org/resources/faq/dist_faq.html
AudioVisual
Useful Links --
Resource list from the Public Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/committeework/audiovisualuseful.htm
Booklist
-- Choose "Reviews of the month" from side menu, then "media".
http://www.ala.org/booklist/
"Best" List -- Annual listing from Booklist.
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/alasbestlists/Best.htm
Care
and Handling of CDs and DVDs -- A guide for librarians and archivists from
the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub121abst.html
CD
Hotlist -- CD reviews by librarians.
http://cdhotlist.btol.com
CD Hotlist Guide -- User guide for CD Hotlist. In PDF format
http://www.btol.com/pdfs/Guide_CD_Hotlist.pdf
Educational
Media Reviews Online
-- A review database hosted by the SUNY at Buffalo Libraries.
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/search.html
Image
Providers Directory -- A directory of image providers serving the academic
community.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~beetham/vendor.htm
Mapquest
-- Online maps for the United States and Canada.
http://www.mapquest.com
Mappy
-- Online maps for Europe and Great Britain.
http://www.mappy.com/
Media-L
Archives
http://listserv.binghamton.edu/archives/media-l.html
Media-L Discussion List
media-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
To subscribe, send the following message:
SUBSCRIBE Media-L Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name.
Media
Resources Guidelines -- Guidelines for Academic Libraries from the ACRL
Media Resources Committee.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesmedia.htm
Motion
Picture Licensing Corporation
http://www.mplc.com
National
Information Center for Educational Media -- NICEM online film and video
finder.
http://www.nicem.com
Online
National Register of Microform Masters -- Information from ARL.
http://www.arl.org/preserv/nrmm.html
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection -- Materials at the University of Texas Libraries.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
Talking
Book Topics -- From the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped of the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/tbt/index.html
Videolib
Archives
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/pipermail/videolib/
Videolib Discussion list -- Subscription information for Videolib.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videolib
Videonews
Archives
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/pipermail/videonews/
Videonews Discussion list -- Subscription information for Videonews.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/videonews
Video
Librarian Online -- Video reviews for librarians.
http://www.videolibrarian.com
Video
Round Table
http://www.ala.org/ala/vrt/vrt.htm
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Chapter 10: Acquisitions
Acquisitions,
Serials and Collection Development -- A collection of resources from the
Internet Library For Librarians.
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/acqsercd.htm
AcqWeb
-- A website for acquisitions and collection development.
http://www.acqweb.org/
Back
Issues & Exchange Services -- Compiled by Birdie MacLennan.
http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ebmaclenn/backexch.html
Backmed -- Forum for the listing of both available and desired serial issues and books in primarily medical subject areas.
To subscribe, E-mail backmed@lists.swetsblackwell.com
or visit http://lists.swetsblackwell.com/mailman/listinfo/backmed.
Backserv -- Forum for the listing of both available and desired serial issues and books in all non-medical subject areas.
To subscribe, E-mail backserv@lists.swetsblackwell.com
or visit http://lists.swetsblackwell.com/mailman/listinfo/backserv.
Book
Sale Finder -- Online guide to used book sales.
http://www.book-sales-in-america.com/
Euroback
-- Discussion list for European serials.
http://www.lists.ulg.ac.be/mailman/listinfo/euroback
Gifts
to the Collection -- Information statement regarding library donations from
the University of Maryland Libraries.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/CLMD/Gifts/donate.html
Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum (SERIALST)
LISTSERV@list.uvm.edu.
To subscribe, send the following message:
SUBSCRIBE SERIALST Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name.
For detailed information regarding SERIALST, visit http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html.
Statement
on Principles and Standards of Acquisitions Practice -- From the Association
for Library Collections and Technical Services: Acquisitions Section of the
American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alctscontent/alctspubsbucket/alctsresources/acquisitionsres/ethicsacq/principlesstandards.htm
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Contact the authors: G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro
Last Updated: May 2005