[LM_NET] A Look at Science Databases; World eBook Fair Now Live, and More ResourceShelf highlights

[gary price <gary@RESOURCESHELF.COM>]

It's a very busy time at ResourceShelf and we hope you are having a wonderful
summer. Here are a few links that might be of special interest. ResourceShelf
and its sister site, DocuTicker are updated daily.

http://www.resourceshelf.com
http://www.docuticker.com

1) A Quick Look of a Few Free Science Search Tools (Scirus, Live Search
Academic, Google Scholar, Scitopia, Global Science Gateway, and More
http://tinyurl.com/3y74nk

2) eBooks: World eBook Fair Underway: Nearly 3/4 of a Million Books Available
Online, Most Content is available at No Charge!
Very impressive! 2nd year in a row.
http://tinyurl.com/2kgt2l

3) Lists & Rankings: Volunteering in America: 2007 City Trends and Rankings
http://tinyurl.com/346keb

4) Direct From Reuters Labs: Newsmaps and Related Tools
http://tinyurl.com/2jr2rd

5) Statistics: Home Broadband Adoption 2007, 47% of Adults Have High-Speed
Internet Connections at Home
http://tinyurl.com/2mfkfg

6) ‘Free’ Credit Report Sites: Worth the Real Costs?…and other full-text reports
on DocuTicker
http://tinyurl.com/2mmu68

7) New Online: Learn More about Aging on the New Data and Statistics Web Site
http://tinyurl.com/3ayxdv

8) Cool!
Free During July: Digitized Primary Historic Documents (Full Text, Full Image)
via Footnote: Read First-Hand Accounts of the Birth of America
http://tinyurl.com/2ln2vb

9) Some News Resource: NewsNow, 30,000 Sources Crawled and Updated Every 5
minutes.
http://tinyurl.com/2whh7f

10) Amazon.com Adds New Features to Their Mobile Web Site, Amazon Anywhere
http://tinyurl.com/3xj5la


Thanks for your interest. Much much more on ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. Both
sites are updated daily.

http://www.resourceshelf.com
and
http://www.docuticker.com

cheers,
gary



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