New TCA Electronic Resources Reviews

Friday, February 17, 2012
Contact: 
Mary Wilke - mwilke@crl.edu

The January 2012 issue (V13N3)of The Charleston Advisor (TCA), an online review of electronic resources for libraries, features a comparative review of a variety of online tools that facilitate fair use decisions, as well as reviews of Middle East Newsstand, OECD iLibrary, Business Analyst Online, and the following databases and electronic resources:

 

The issue also features a summary of CRL’s Charleston Preconference, “Weighing the Evidence: Evaluating Major Research Databases,“ by Bernie Reilly. The preconference presentation slides are available on CRL’s website.

As a benefit of CRL membership, librarians and specialists at CRL libraries have free access to all TCA online reviews. CRL also invites your ideas on future databases and electronic resources for review. 

To maintain a high level of accuracy and integrity, all reviews are peer-reviewed by librarians. Reviewers come from all fields and all types of libraries, ensuring that products are reviewed by people who actually use them. For more information, visit www.charlestonco.com  . To see all Charleston Advisor product reviews over the last ten years, visit their scoreboard.

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CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”