| Web Sites for Answering
Ref Questions
Herein are new or recently discovered web sites that tend to aid in the answering of questions encountered at the Reference Desk. |
| Web Sites | Online Journal Search Engines | Online
Journals*
* Journals not linked from the library web site |
Newsbatch
http://www.newsbatch.com/
Newsbatch provides encyclopedic coverage of current policy issues with many maps and charts to illustrate important statistics. Links are provided for additional research. The site has been recommended by U.S.News. It is listed in Refdesk.com and in several university and public library reference sites.
Electronic
Journal Miner
http://ejournal.coalliance.org/
Electronic serials may be
defined very broadly as any journal, magazine, e'zine, webzine, newsletter
or type of electronic serial publication which is available over the
Internet. Within this broad definition, the titles can be electronically
accessed using different technologies such as the World Wide Web (WWW),
gopher, ftp, telnet, email or listserv. Of course, virtually all
modern electronic journals are mostly available via the Web. This
site primarly includes ejournal sites as they are offered by the publisher.
In general this site excludes ejournals that are embedded within
aggregators (such as Northern Light, EBSCO, Bell & Howell ProQuest,
Information Access Company and others). This web page provides a
series of indexes (e.g. title and Library of Congress Subject Heading)
to provide easy access to different electronic serials. There has
been no attempt in this product to provide any evaluation of the
titles in terms of content or quality. However, a unit record for
each title must be viewed before launching to a title of interest which
will provide some information about scope and content. Since electronic
serials are constantly appearing and disappearing, the unit records
will be periodically checked for accuracy. New titles are added as they
are discovered.
Spring:
The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/Cummings/Index.htm
First
Monday
http://www.firstmonday.dk/
First Monday is one
of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to
the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published
356 papers in 71 issues; these papers were written by 419 different authors.
First Monday is indexed in INSPEC, LISA, PAIS and other services.
Current
Research in Social Psychology
http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.html