Top Web Sites of 2009

PCMag.com recently published its “Top 100 Web Sites of 2009” list. According to PCMag, the list contains “50 classic Web sites and 50 new and/or undiscovered sites you haven’t heard of yet.” A committee at PCMag solicited nominations for the sites, and then compiled the list.

The list includes these sites:

*Google
*IMDB
*The Onion
*Pandora
*Twitter
*Flickr
*BBC
*Digg
*WebMD
*WorldWide Telescope

For the complete list, click on the link below. You will be directed to the page, and to view the site you simply click on the icon with each site.

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=242492&a=242570,00.asp

To read the PCMag article, follow this link:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350553,00.asp

-CS

Popular vs. Scholarly Resources

For those of you who are getting started with a whole new semester of research, here is a handout that compares popular and scholarly sources. I like to re-post it once in a while for those who are looking for a comparison or explanation on what “scholarly resources” means. Happy Researching!

http://www.kutztown.edu/library/materials/PopularvsScholarly.pdf

Announcing Oxford Reference Online

The library is pleased to announce the addition of Oxford Reference Online.  This new database brings the best reference sources in the world to our students 24/7 anywhere in the world!

 Oxford Reference Online “includes over 175 titles, updated regularly with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals.  This means a total of over 1.4 million entries, including longer in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.  Subscribers also benefit from improved search funtionality which makes it easy to choose between longer or shorter entries from subject reference titles, definitions from English or bilingual dictionaries, and quotations.  The collection is updated regularly with new titles, new editions, new entries, full-color maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies.”

You can view all the library’s databases here.

By Robert Flatley, Coordinator of Electronic Resources, Interlibrary Loan, and Periodicals

The library is pleased to announce that the following Oxford Reference Titles (electronic versions) have been added to the collection:

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

International Encyclopedia of Dance

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Encyclopedia of Evolution

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Dictionary of American Family Names

Encyclopedia of Social Work

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Oxford Classical Dictionary

You can access all the library’s electronic research resources at:

http://www.kutztown.edu/library/er/