October TCA Electronic Reviews Released [1]
The October 2010 issue (V12N2) [3] of The Charleston Advisor (TCA), an online review of electronic resources for libraries, has been released. This edition includes a few reviews by CRL staff: President Bernie Reilly examines the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, [4] while Special Projects Librarian Marie Waltz takes a look at Scribd [5].
Other featured databases and electronic resources analyzed in the current issue of TCA include:
- Conduit [6]
- CQ Global Researcher [7]
- EBSCOhost Mobile [8]
- Food and Nutrition Information Center [9]
- Gale Powerspeak Languages [10]
- Mass Observation Online [11]
- Morningstar Investment Research Center [12]
- Springer E-Book Collection [13]
- WizFolio [14]
- Wolfram | Alpha Knowledgebase [15]
- Women in the National Archives [16]
- Xtranormal [17]
As a benefit of CRL membership, librarians and specialists at CRL libraries have free access to all TCA online reviews. CRL also invites your input [18] 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 [19]. To see all Charleston Advisor product reviews over the last decade, visit their scoreboard at http://charlestonco.com/index.php?do=Scoreboard [20]