Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Philanthropy–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
New, America’s Most-Generous Donors
From the article, “America’s most-generous donors contributed a total of $4.3-billion to charity last year, a sharp drop from 2004, when the top donors gave more than $10-billion, a new Chronicle survey has found. For the first time since 1998, no gifts of $1-billion or more were donated to charitable causes. The median amount the donors on the list gave in 2005, including pledges, was $32.5-million, meaning that half gave more and half gave less. In 2004, the median was $40.8-million. On this year’s list of big donors, higher education received by far the largest share of gifts — 44 — than any other category, followed by 18 gifts to hospitals and medical centers. The Chronicle annually ranks the 60 donors who give the most money to charitable causes; for the 2005 list, 63 donors were included because of ties.”
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Personal Wealth–China–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
New, Greater China’s 40 Richest
Direct to rankings.
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Terrorism
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
New, Profile: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
A new Background Q&A from the CFR. “A profile of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man responsible for coordinating suicide bombings in Amman and Madrid, multiple attacks on Iraqi Shiites and Shiite mosques, and the highly-publicized beheading of American Nicholas Berg.” More Profiles Here.

Medicine
Source: World Health Organization
New Report: Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A Concept Paper for Effective International Cooperation
Summary Full Text (PDF)
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Disasters–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: FEMA
Major Disaster Declaration State Totals
Clicking takes you to a detailed breakdown by state.
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International Business
Source: GlobalEDGE, Michigan State University
New Section, Faculty Development
The Academy section invites a new sub-section, Faculty Development, to the site. This venue provides information regarding upcoming business conferences, meetings, and speakers from a variety of universities across the United States. Offered from the many Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) across the country, the listed events are intended to enhance the professional and educational competence of today’s business practitioners. Topics range from global interdependence to international study programs, which are designed to immerse the traveler in the business culture of world markets.”
See Also: The Thousands of Other Resources and Links GlobalEDGE Offers
Special Note to the Country Insights Section
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United States–Oral Histories
Source: Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina
Southern Oral History Project
“Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program seeks to foster a critical yet democratic understanding of the South — its history, culture, problems, and prospects. We have recorded more than 2,900 interviews with men and women from all walks of life…The site includes information about the project and its activities, and recordings of interviews collected by the project.”

Web Search–Google
Google Launches Web Page Creator (Beta) THEN Temporarily Shuts Down Registrations to Use It
Well, here we go again. Google announces a new service and then within hours (about nine according to InsideGoogle) of annoucning it temporarily stops people from registering to use it. The new service is called Google Page Creator and allows users (who are registered) to create web pages and then host them (free) on the GooglePages.com domain. Remember, Google also owns the Blogger weblog creation service. Both Chris Sherman and Philipp Lenssen were able to use the service before registrations were closed (for the time being) and have excellent overviews. Chris notes that the new service might have Google going after the MySpace.com user market. Good point. It also might be about getting out of the box a bit more quickly than the new Microsoft Office Live (closed beta, see below) that offers free web hosting and page creation tools.

However, only hours after the Google launch the sign-up page has a note (lower right corner) stating that new accounts are unavailable today but if you share your email with them, you’ll be notified when you can register to try the service. If you enter your Gmail address (you’ll need one) you find a page that reads:

“Oops…Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new users. Thank you for your patience.”

Yes, it’s a “beta” but Google has the knowledge to know that whatever they offer will be in heavy demand especially on the day it’s announced. They also have the resources (capacity) to be ready for it (especially after learning from other launches). This is NOT the first time we’ve seen this with a Google product introduction. Registrations for Google Analytics and Google Earth were stopped for a period of time) because of high demand. Why are they unprepared? I have no idea but can only guess that limiting users keeps the buzz about the service going long after the first announcements are made. In other words, I would say it might be another example of good pr (and in this case getting buzz going before more people check the MS Live Windows service). But is it? How many introductions will take place before people just get frustrated (at Google) and lose interest (in the service) as they wait for an invite? Btw, an interesting thread in the Google Page Creator discussion about a person’s Gmail address being used for page naming purposes. Many believe that this will be a new source for spammers.

Other Services
Web-based page creation (not the same as blog creation) and hosting services (not the same thing as the many weblog creation and hosting services) have been a part of the web since the early days. What’s old is new again. Other examples include:

+ Microsoft Office Live Basics (Beta)
Free basic site. Lots of tools including some traffic info. You’ll need to register to be accepted into the beta. Included is a free unique domain name (you choose). Additional tools and services are now free (during beta) then will become fee based.

+ Yahoo GeoCities
Both free and fee-based web page creation and hosting services.

+ Tripod/Lycos
Both free and fee-based web page creation and hosting services. AngelFire offers the same services.

+ AOL Hometown
Both “traditional” web pages and blogs. Free.

Search Briefs
+ Australia: CSIRO Spins Out Search Engine (via Sydney Morning Herald)
“Search engine technology developed by the CSIRO has spawned a new spin-off company called Funnelback to help drive the expansion of its Panoptic system further into international territories.” More about Panoptic here.
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+ Indeed.com (A Metasearch Engine for Jobs) Now Available via New York Times and About.com
“After searching the site’s own job listings at jobs.nytimes.com, users can click ‘Job Market Web Results’ to return more jobs from thousands of websites, powered by Indeed.” Clusty also offers access to Indeed.com (very useful). SimplyHired.com is another metasearch engine that scours numerous job databases and company sites for job listings. Both services offer excellent alerting tools.
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+ A Profile of the Founder of Blog/RSS Search Engine Technorati, Dave Sifry (via The Guardian)

Briefly
+ More New Content Added to Answers.com Database
This week Answers adds a Cancer Dictionary and Cancer Encyclopedia
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+ Ask a question online, get an answer…sometimes (via News.com)
We were VERY HAPPY to see that VRD’s AskA+ Locator service got a mention in this article.
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+ Canada: SAGE Publications and CSA sign agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network
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Fast tracks legal taxonomy (via IWR)
“Enterprise search vendor looks to legal information specialist for improved searching terms.”

Two for the Road
New, The Internet Archive Unveils Social Bookmarking Tool
Brewster Kahle introduces a new IA feature that “allows people to explore the music movie and book collections on the Internet Archive using other patron’s bookmarks.” For example here are Brewster’s bookmarks.
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+ Google’s Research Team Launches Its Own Blog (via SEW Blog and Google Blogoscoped)

Professional Reading Shelf
Access to Information–United States
Source: Secrecy News
Reclassification Program At National Archives Exposed
“U.S. military and intelligence agencies have assigned personnel to review and reclassify declassified historical records at the National Archives where they have withdrawn thousands of records from public access.”
See Also: Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program (via National Security Archive)
See Also: NARA finalizes rule on short-term e-records (via GCN)
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Library Databases–United Kingdom
Source: Kable’s Government News
England’s Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has launched a new service for access to reference material
“Named Reference Online, it provides a channel to 26 electronic subscription based products, including directories, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, newspapers and business information. MLA said on 20 February 2006 that it had brokered deals with 14 separate suppliers for the service. Traditionally, public library managers have researched the details and negotiated the costs of online resources either individually or as small regional consortia.”
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Digital Preservation–United Kingdon
Source: DPC
New Report, Mind the Gap: Assessing digital preservation needs in the UK (PDF)
From the summary, “A ’state of the nation’ report today reveals that less than 20% of UK organisations surveyed have a strategy in place to deal with the risk of loss or degradation to their digital resources – despite a very high level of awareness of the risks and potential economic penalties…The survey reveals that the loss of digital data is commonplace – it is seen as an inevitable hazard by some – with more than 70% of respondents saying data had been lost in their organisation. Awareness of the potential economic and cultural risks is high, with 87% recognising that corporate memory or key cultural material could be lost and some 60% saying that their organisation could lose out financially. In 52% of the organisations surveyed there was management commitment to digital preservation – but only 18% had a strategy in place.”
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Digital Libraries
Source: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
The February Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Articles include:
+ A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive
+ Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors Perspective
+ Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites
+ OSTI’s E-print Network experiences rapid growth

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Employment–Surveys
Source: Manpower
New Report, Manpower Inc. Talent Shortage Survey Reveals 40% of Employers Worldwide Are Struggling to Find Qualified Job Candidates
” The survey results, released today, revealed that 40 percent of employers worldwide are having difficulty filling positions due to the lack of suitable talent available in their markets. Employers having the most difficulty finding the right people to fill jobs are those in Mexico (78% reporting shortages), Canada (66%) and Japan (58%). The talent shortage appears to be least problematic in India, where only 13 percent of employers reported having difficulty filling positions. Direct to Full Text Report: Talent Shortage Survey (PDF).
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Genealogy
Source: FamilySearch.org
Guides Explain pre-1858 English Probate Jurisdictions
“A complete collection of guides depicting pre-1858 English Probate Jurisdictions will be available online through FamilySearch. The probate records of England are among the best genealogical sources for direct evidence of relationships. They are also among the most neglected sources because of the many variations in jurisdictions which governed the probating of wills prior to 1858. The EJP guides provide a wealth of useful information.”
See Also: West Virginia records now online
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Travel Industry–United States–Cruise
Source:
North American Cruise Passengers Statistics
+ New, Summary Tables 2003 – 2005 (Excel)
+ New, Detail 2003 – 2005 (Excel)
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Congressional Research Service
Source: OpenCRS and FPC
A Selection of New/Updated CRS Reports
+ European Views and Policies Toward the Middle East
+ Post-War Iraq: A Table and Chronology of Foreign Contributions
+ U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism
+ Palestinian Elections
+ Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
+ India: Chronology of Recent Events
+ Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events

Search Briefs
+ Image Search and Copyright: Google and A9 May Stop Showing Perfect 10s (via InternetNews.com)
“A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google’s popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law.” The full text of the court ruling by Judge A. Howard Matz can be found here. (48pages; PDF). What this will mean for others who offer large algorithmically generated databases of images (regardless of type of material) culled the open web is TBD. Other players with large image databases include:
+ Yahoo
+ Ask Jeeves
+ PicSearch
+ MSN (uses PicSearch)
+ Ditto (uses PicSearch)
+ A9 Image Search (uses Google)
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+ MSN executive to take leave
Person in charge of MSN taking one year leave of absence.
See Also: MSN Search Home Page Has a New Cleaner Look and Larger Search Box

Briefly
+ New Issue of Thomson Scientific e-newsletter Now Online
Includes blurb about the launch of Web Citation Index.
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+ GIDEON & EBSCO Publishing Partner to Offer Wider Access to the Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network Decision Support System

Briefly
+ New Issue of Thomson Scientific e-newsletter Now Online
Includes blurb about the launch of Web Citation Index.
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+ GIDEON & EBSCO Publishing Partner to Offer Wider Access to the Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network Decision Support System

Professional Reading Shelf
National Science Digital Library
Source: EurekaAlert
Researchers to develop technology to extend benefits of National Science Digital Library
“Virginia Tech and Villanova University researchers have received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to extend the benefits of its free, online library by developing technology that will allow college students and professors to conduct flexible and customized information searches directly from course Web sites.” If you’ve never visted and used the National Science Digital Library, you should. A great example of a specialty search tool.
Make sure to keep current with the “What’s New” page and RSS feeds. The NSDL is a must for educators!
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Academic Libraries
Source: ACRL
Registration Now Open for ACRL’s First Completely Online Conference
April 20-April 21. “Register now for ‘Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries,’ the first-ever Virtual Conference offered jointly by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE. The Joint Virtual Conference will be held completely online and will offer a forum for an energizing exchange of ideas focusing on technology and academic librarianship.”
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Conferences–Canada
Information Highways 2006, March 26-28, 2006, Toronto
“Delivered over three days, with the first day devoted to industry-hosted workshops, the 17th annual Information Highways Conference program is organized around four key areas (Information Centers/Libraries, Government Departments, HR/Training & eLearning Departments and the Enterprise) where successful content solutions can have the greatest impact on productivity and profitability.” Btw, one session at IH 2006 will focus on the use of wikis as a knowledge-sharing tool.
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Conferences–Europe
9 – 11 April 2006, EUSIDIC Annual Conference 2006, Innsbruck
“Integration versus granularity of information resources: Interoperability and interconnectivity of services, systems, and media manifestations…The information industry needs to support its customers. That’s because customers are under pressure to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively. They would no longer pay for services and products which do not serve their purpose. The information industry has to build value through partnerships and customers are partners. Understanding customer needs is a key factor for success and means customer involvement from the beginning with the customers’ fingerprints all over the product.”
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Information Industry–Nexidia
Source: News Release
Nexidia and ActiveGroup partner to bring immediate, searchable audio results to qualitative research
Nexidia is a company and technology we’ve been following since they were known as Fast-Talk. Their technology for creating searchable audio is different than what others offers. Cool stuff and a company to watch. What makes Nexidia different? Their technology breaks a spoken word down into phonetics (to be more precise, phonemes (the smallest unit of human speech) for faster and more precise indexing. Nexidia is well-known in the call center and enterprise search world and is now slowly but surely making a play into other areas of the multimedia search space.
See Also: Nexidia Named Best Audio Search Technology at SpeechTEK West

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Women–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts About Women in the United States
Women’s History Month begins on March 1st. Facts include:
+ 149.1 million
The number of females in the United States as of July 1, 2004. That exceeds the number of males (144.5 million). Males outnumbered females in every five-year-age group through the 35- to 39-age group.
+ 31%
Percent of women ages 25 to 29 years who had attained a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2004, which exceeded that of men in this age range (26 percent). Eighty-eight percent of women and 85 percent of men in this same age range had completed high school.
+ $950.6 billion
Receipts for women-owned businesses in 2002, up 16 percent from 1997.
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Science–Information Dissemination
Source: GCN
New, Cutting Edge: NOAA builds AJAX-based data viewer
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has released a browser-based application called the Dapper Data Viewer for viewing oceanographic and atmospheric data.
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Human Trafficking–Databases
Source: National MultiCultural Institute
Human Trafficking Search
“Human Trafficking Search is a web portal provided by the National MultiCultural Institute “as a service to those individuals and organizations working to eliminate human trafficking.” The site provides access to thousands of documents on the web produced by various entities and categorizes them into four topics: Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Bonded Labor, and Sex Slavery. Within each category, users have basic and advanced search options. The search features support Boolean searching, as well as phrase searches, truncation, and wildcards. Users may also limit by date, author, and document field. Synonyms may also be added, although
many of these are automatically searched. Significant guidance is provided on the site as to how to use the search function. For human rights researchers, the portal provides convenient access to a vast array of web-published material. Thanks to Stuart B. and the Cornell Law School Library for the tip.
See Also:
Asia–Human Trafficking
Source: Asia Foundation
TIPinAsia.info
A former ResourceShelf Resource of the Week. “TIPinAsia.info provides quick links to country-specific information on trafficking in persons in multiple languages, as well as anti-trafficking news and information about individual countries.
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Human Trafficking
Source: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
In the Spotlight: Trafficking in Persons
Includes:
+ Facts & Figures
+ Legislation
+ Publications
+ Programs
+ Training & Technical Assistance
+ Grants & Funding
+ Related Resources
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Real Estate–United States–Databases
Source: HousingTracker
HousingTracker
“HousingTracker is an attempt to gain a more realtime understanding of the national housing market. For the most part, all we have to rely on is the quarterly Realtor reports to get a sense of how the last quarter played out. HousingTracker data is compiled weekly from MLS listings which contains asking prices as opposed to the Realtor-reported sale prices. HousingTracker gives you the 25th percentile, 50th percentile, and 75th percentile asking price for the metro areas covered. Additionally, the number of homes for sale (Inventory) for the metro area is reported.”

Search Briefs
+ Truveo Video Technology Coming to AOL Video Search Later This Week, New Content On the Way (via SEW Blog)
See Also: USA Today Article Gary’s Original Review (Very Positive) of AOL Video Search
See Also: The SEW Blog Post Also Mentions That Video Will Be Delivered via AOL’s Hi-Q Video Download Service. More About that Service Here.
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+ MSN Search Home Page Has a New Cleaner Look and Larger Search Box
Gone is the blue box and a larger search entry box. Much cleaner. Here’s a cached copy of what the page looked link on 2/14 (via MSN). We’ve also noticed that other MSN Search sites like MSN Search UK and MSN France have undergone the makeover. More from the MSN Search Blog.
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+ Google Opens Office in Israel (via SEW Blog)
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+ Google Admits Desktop Security Risk
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+ Original Content at Yahoo: Can Braun lift Yahoo’s media group? (via News.com)

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–Video Downloads
Source: Rocky Mountain News
Library will be first in nation to offer downloadable films, concert videos
“Next month, the Denver Public Library system will become the first in the nation to allow people to download movies and concert videos from home with a click of their computer mouse. And it’ll be free to anyone with a Denver library card and a speedy Internet connection…. In mid-March, members will be able to start downloading documentaries and IMAX movies, travel and concert films, do-it-yourself remodeling flicks and exercise videos.”
See Also: We First Blogged About Downloadable Video Coming to Libraries Last Summer
Note from Gary: Folks, on-demand video is (if it’s not already) the “next big thing.” It’s great to see libraries taking part. Now WE HAVE TO PROMOTE it. If there has ever been a time to promote the fact that the library of the 21st Century extends beyond the four walls of the building, this might be it.
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Information Industry–CrossRef
New Free Service for CrossRef Member Publishers
“CrossRef is very pleased to announce a new trial service for its member publishers. In partnership with Inera, CrossRef has deployed a custom version of Inera’s eXtyles refXpress that parses unstructured, free-text references into granular and valid XML and returns any matching DOIs for those references. The Free-Text Query form is now available to members on a trial basis at http://www.crossref.org/freeTextQuery. The simple cut-and-paste form accepts references formatted in common bibliographic styles and returns the DOI for the article if one is found in CrossRef. One or more references may be pasted into the form on this page; each reference must begin on a new line.”
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Federal Government Libraries–United States
Source: FLICC (Federal Library and Information Center Committee)
FLICC Names Libraries and Librarian of the Year
Congrats to All Winners!
+ 2005 Federal Librarian of the Year: Leslie Campbell, Law Library program administrator at the National Judiciary Library Program for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

+ Large Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 11 or more federal and/or contract employees): The Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

+ Small Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 10 or fewer federal and/or contract employees): U.S. Army Military Intelligence Library in Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Congressional Research Service–History
Source: The Memory Hole
Minutes of the Legislative Reference Service, 1947-1953
“The Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress, has for decades produced thousands of fact-rich, unbiased, nontechnical reports to members of Congress regarding a variety of issues. The CRS itself does not distribute these reports to the public in any way. You can’t order paper copies from the CRS, read them in the Library of Congress, or officially get them online (although copies of some reports are posted without CRS approval). Nor can you get an index of reports that they have produced in the past. CRS publishes a website only for members of Congress that contains some, but not all, of its recent reports and briefings…. Last year, researcher Michael Ravnitzky reviewed and obtained copies of selected minutes from staff meetings of the CRS’s predecessor, the Legislative Reference Service, from 1947 to 1953. Interestingly, these meeting notes show the organization wrestling with the same problems over 50 years ago – distribution of the reports; avoidance of controversy; whether the reports should contain analysis and recommendations or simply state facts; whether reports should arrive at conclusions; etc.” (via DocuTicker)
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Manufacturing Productivity–Statistics
Source: BLS
International Comparisons Of Manufacturing Productivity And Unit Labor Cost Trends, Revised Data For 2004
“Manufacturing labor productivity increased in 13 of 15 economies in 2004, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The U.S. increase of 5.2 percent was the sixth highest. Korea and Sweden had the largest productivity increases (12.1 and 9.8 percent respectively). The U.S. productivity increase is a revision from the preliminary estimate of 4.7 percent released in October 2005. Australia and Italy were the only two economies showing declines in manufacturing productivity in 2004.”

Search Briefs
Yahoo “Embeds” Cached Pages into Yahoo Korea Search Results Pages
One of my favorite features that both Vivisimo and Clusty (look for the magnifying glass icon next to each result) have offered for years is an option allowing users to embed LIVE pages directly into a list of search results. Vivisimo/Clusty calls it page “preview.” In other words, the user can click a link from the search results list and open a live version of the page embedded in a box. Then, when finished, close the box and move on to the next result. Wisenut also offers this feature (they call it sneek-a-peek). This feature has the potential to be not only a time saver but also help unsophisticated users from getting lost with too many windows or tabs opened. If my memory is correct, a Lycos site in Europe also offers this option.

Yahoo Korea
You don’t have to have Korean fonts on your system to see this Yahoo Korea feature in action. Here’s a search on Yahoo Korea for “Bill Murray.” Next to each result note the arrow (pointing to the right) on the same line where the url is located. Click the link and a window with the CACHED version of the page will open in the results list. Btw, also note that Yahoo Korea web search results pages also include inline images, movie info, news links, and answers from a community question answering service, on a results page.

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–Internet Privacy
Source: WTOP (Washington, D.C.)
County Officials Apologize After Library Porn Incident
“Montgomery County officials are apologizing Friday, after two local Homeland Security Department employees tried to prevent people from searching for pornography on the Internet in a public library last week. Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan tells WTOP the officers clearly broke county policy when they told one Little Falls Library visitor his choice of Internet site violated sexual harrassment laws. ‘These security officers clearly overstepped their bounds,’ Duncan says. ‘They are not there to look at what people are doing in our libraries and other facilities. They are there to protect those facilities.’”
See also: Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description (Washington Post)
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E-books
Source: CNN
E-textbook demand slow despite comfort with technology
“Brown University junior Stuart Thompson jumped at the chance to save $30 and become a digital pioneer when his school bookstore offered a discounted, electronic version of an American history textbook. But after making the purchase, he noticed a few things amiss: He couldn’t run a highlight marker over key points or jot notes in the margins, nor could he curl up with the tome without printing out the pages. He won’t rule out another e-book, but he’s not completely sold, either.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Pop Culture–Multimedia
InterviewsRus.com
Was one of your favorite celebs recently interviewed on U.S. television? This site (searchable) lets you download and view high-quality copies of many of those interviews from a variety of programs. The database is updated regularly. You’ll need to register to download content but it’s free and easy. At the moment, access to over 430 interviews are available.
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Abraham Lincoln–Historical Cartoons
Source: HarpWeek (Harper’s Weekly)
Abraham Lincoln Cartoons
“This collection of more than 400 Lincoln-related cartoons is derived from HarpWeeks Lincoln and the Civil War.com database of 49 Civil War era periodicals. The cartoons have been scanned at high resolution and come from 21 illustrated journals that varied in type and allegiance. They include the three prominent American weeklies of the period-Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and New York Illustrated News; campaign newspapers such as The Rail Splitter, Campaign Plain Dealer, and Strong?s Campaign Pictorial; satirical publications such as The Comic Monthly, The Phunny Phellow, and Vanity Fair; and pro-Confederate journals published in the American South-Southern Illustrated News and Southern Punch?and in Britain-Fn and Punch. The vast majority of the cartoons include images of Lincoln, but a few only reference him textually. In all, Abraham Lincoln Cartoons.com spans the period from his presidential campaign in 1860 through the major events of the Civil War to his assassination in 1865.”

Search Briefs
+ New Site Allows Users to Say Goodbye to Mr. Jeeves
Read a note from the butler about the upcoming site and service, help select a place for Mr. Jeeves to retire, send him a good luck note, and more. More here.
See Also: Chris Sherman on the new AJ Image/Picture Database (1/26/06)
See Also: More About AJ Image/Picture Search
See Also: Ask Jeeves Opens European R&D Center; Several Interesting Live Demos and Papers by AJ R&D Center Leader Also Available