New TCA Electronic Resource Reviews [1]
The April 2011 issue (V12N4) [3] of The Charleston Advisor (TCA), an online review of electronic resources for libraries, has been released. This edition includes reviews of Electronic Enlightenment [4] and the World Health Organization [5] database, and a comparative analysis of Encore Synergy and Primo Central.
Other featured databases and electronic resources analyzed in the current issue of TCA include:
- social networking sites Diigo and Digg [6]
- the Blekko search engine [7]
- Business Technical Solutions database [8]
- Colonial State Papers [9]
- Films on Demand, [10]
- the Gimlet application for collecting service point statistics in libraries [11]
- Internet Scientific Publications [12]
- the LibAnswers refence tool [13]
- Something About the Author Online [14]
- and the Teen Health and Wellness [15] database.
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 [16] 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 [17]. To see all Charleston Advisor product reviews over the last ten years, visit their scoreboard at http://charlestonco.com/index.php?do=Scoreboard [18]