Re: [LM_NET] HIT: Free Online Databases

[Robert Eiffert <beiffert@COMCAST.NET>]

Encyclopedia Mythica:
"Determining authority can be tricky with Encyclopedia Mythica, as 
information is taken from a variety of sources and most entries are not 
signed. A list of resources used in creating some of the articles is 
available and include standard sources in the field, such as Joseph 
Cambell's series on the Power of Myth and Edith Hamelton's Mythology: 
Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Other entries are written by the 
encyclopedia's editorial staff and founder, Micha F. Lindemans. Anyone 
interested in contributing to the encyclopedia is encouraged to do so."  
ACRL Internet Reviews 
<http://www.bowdoin.edu/~samato/IRA/reviews/issues/julaug00/emythica.html>

There are an amazing number of contributors from Clarksville Middle School.

Many articles have no citations so no idea where the author got or 
compiled information from, I couldn't find an author page with 
information about either the main editor or any of the contributors 
(Wikipedia does that much).

Images don't cite sources either. So how do you know the image is being 
properly identified?

The rest of the list (of online DB)  looks pretty solid.

Robert Eiffert
Librarian, Pacific MS  Vancouver WA
pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library beiffert@egreen.wednet.edu
Librarian in the Middle Blog: www.beiffert.net  robert@beiffert.net

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degree to which you are free..." - Utah Phillips



Leanna Giesige wrote:

>Fellow LMers:
>
>This HIT is long overdue and for that I appologize.  I have taken over 9 pages of 
>information on free online databases/websites and have cut it down to a 2 page 
>handout of the most essential databases that I felt my staff and students in an 
>International setting would find the most useful.  Below you will find my original 
>Target followed by the information that I have cut and paste from the document I 
>created.  I hope that you find some of this useful as well!
>
>I am currently teaching a course for 9th graders on Information Skills.  For the 
>lessons on online databases I would like to develop a list of the best free online 
>databases to be used for research (such as information please almanac, etc).  I 
>have several, but I thought I would call upon the collective wisdom of this group 
>to provide the best of the best.  If you wouldn't mind sharing some of your 
>favorites, along with the URL, I will compile the suggestions and send out a HIT 
>so 
>that we can all benefit.
>
>  
>

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