Sunday, December 21, 2003
"Asian Resources for Librarians
Aardvark - Asian Resources for Librarians, has thousands of links to Asian university libraries and over 450 links to Asian databases on the Web (most of them free), conference listings, and much much more. You can get to it at http://www.aardvarknet.info .
Interesting stuff is spread all over the page here, so let's get started. Over on the left you can browse information about Asian databases, from A Sense of History in Singapore to the Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library, included here because it has a China Christian college database. There's also a search engine on the browse page. Over on the left there's also a list of over 300 conferences (nicely described, searchable as above) and links to the current issue and back issues of Access, which describes itself as Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services.
From the front page there are several link categories, including annotation, metadata, copyright, and open access. Next to that is a recommended list -- of Asian Digital Libraries, Asian Library Schools, Publishers, Professional Organizations, and more. And finally all the way over on the right is information relevant to Asian library services
Aardvark - Asian Resources for Librarians, has thousands of links to Asian university libraries and over 450 links to Asian databases on the Web (most of them free), conference listings, and much much more. You can get to it at http://www.aardvarknet.info .
Interesting stuff is spread all over the page here, so let's get started. Over on the left you can browse information about Asian databases, from A Sense of History in Singapore to the Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library, included here because it has a China Christian college database. There's also a search engine on the browse page. Over on the left there's also a list of over 300 conferences (nicely described, searchable as above) and links to the current issue and back issues of Access, which describes itself as Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services.
From the front page there are several link categories, including annotation, metadata, copyright, and open access. Next to that is a recommended list -- of Asian Digital Libraries, Asian Library Schools, Publishers, Professional Organizations, and more. And finally all the way over on the right is information relevant to Asian library services
Drugs.com Adds PDR to Their Database
Drugs.com has added the Physicians Desk Reference to their drugs database, and has slightly revamped their search options for finding any of over 26,000 drugs and medications.
From the front page of http://www.drugs.com, you may browse alphabetically or search by keyword. A search for 'osteoarthritis' found 68 results divided into several sections: consumer information, advanced consumer information, PDR professional information, condition guide, and news and related articles.
The first three sections are drug information, which include brief descriptions of drugs and pointers to more extensive information. The one result in the condition guide provides information about osteoarthritis, while the news and articles category provides some related news which in this case mostly seems to be focused on arthritis. The search results provide a headline, summary, and pointer to additional information; unfortunately many of the headlines weren't as useful as they might be ('Capsule archive Late March').
Don't forget to check the other search options across the top of the Drugs.com homepage, including an interactions checker, pill identifier, and an image search."
Drugs.com has added the Physicians Desk Reference to their drugs database, and has slightly revamped their search options for finding any of over 26,000 drugs and medications.
From the front page of http://www.drugs.com, you may browse alphabetically or search by keyword. A search for 'osteoarthritis' found 68 results divided into several sections: consumer information, advanced consumer information, PDR professional information, condition guide, and news and related articles.
The first three sections are drug information, which include brief descriptions of drugs and pointers to more extensive information. The one result in the condition guide provides information about osteoarthritis, while the news and articles category provides some related news which in this case mostly seems to be focused on arthritis. The search results provide a headline, summary, and pointer to additional information; unfortunately many of the headlines weren't as useful as they might be ('Capsule archive Late March').
Don't forget to check the other search options across the top of the Drugs.com homepage, including an interactions checker, pill identifier, and an image search."
