Professional Reading Shelf
British Library
Source: BL
New, The British Library’s Content Strategy
“On 25 April the British Library published a consultation document: “The British Library’s Content Strategy — Meeting the Knowledge Needs of the Nation”. This sets out the Library’s proposals for what information resources we should collect and connect with, in order to meet the needs of UK research, both today and in the future.”
Direct to: The British Library’s Content Strategy (PDF)
Direct to: The British Library’s Content Strategy appendices (PDF)
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Medical Librarianship
Source: MLA
Now Available: April 2006 issue of The Journal of Medical Library Association
Articles include:
+ An introduction to the Semantic Web for health sciences librarians
+ How to identify randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE: ten years on
+ The information seeking of on-duty critical care nurses: evidence from participant observation and in-context interviews
+ Consumer health information for pet owners
+ Electronic Resource Review: wired.MD
+ “Mini-Medical School for Librarians”: from needs assessment to educational outcomes
+ Book Review: Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources: The New Challenges for Research Libraries
+ Book Review: Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners
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Information Industry–Elsevier–ScienceDirect
Source: Elsevier
Newsletter: ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles
Free. “When you subscribe to the ScienceDirect TOP25, you’ll receive an e-mail every three months listing the ScienceDirect users’ 25 most frequently downloaded journal articles, from any selected journal [in the SD database]…, or from any of 24 subject areas.”
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Depository Libraries–United States–Conference Proceedings
Source: U.S. Government Printing Office
Proceedings of the Annual Spring Depository Library Council Meeting, April 2-5, 2006
A detailed agenda with additional information, names of speakers, Depository Library Council discussion topics, and educational programs is available on this page in HTML format below. It is also available in PDF. Some presentations available in PDF.
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Public Libraries–Computer Games
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Libraries try catering to gamers
“Faced with the cost of replacing an outdated collection of CD-ROM games, library officials realized an online database might be the way to go. The library pays $10,000 a year – roughly what it pays for other research databases – and doesn’t have to worry about replacing damaged CDs or buying new games every time Windows releases a new operating system.”

Scholarly Publishing–Citation Reports
Source: ISI
+ Science in Italy, 2001-05
+ U.K. Universities: Highest Impact in Civil Engineering, 2001-05
+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Hematology
+ Metallurgy: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2001-05
+ The “Hot” Paper in Medicine
+ The “Hot” Paper in Biology
+ Geosciences
“Top 20 institutions [that] attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Scientific-indexed Geosciences journals.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Iraq
Source: U.S. Department of State
Section 1227 Report on Iraq
“The Department of State has released the first Presidential report to the United States Congress pursuant to the United States Policy in Iraq Act, section 1227 (c) of the National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1227 (c). The report covers current military, diplomatic, political, and economic measures that have been undertaken to successfully complete the mission in Iraq. The report offers an assessment of the current situation in Iraq — paralleling the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq released by the White House in November 2005 — and outlines goals and measures on the political, economic, and security progress.”
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Phishing
Source: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Dhamija, Tygar, Hearst)
Why Phishing Works (PDF; 827 KB)
“To build systems shielding users from fraudulent (or phishing) websites, designers need to know which attack strategies work and why. This paper provides the first empirical evidence about which malicious strategies are successful at deceiving general users. We first analyzed a large set of captured phishing attacks and developed a set of hypotheses about why these strategies might work. We then assessed these hypotheses with a usability study in which 22 participants were shown 20 web sites and asked to determine which ones were fraudulent. We found that 23% of the participants did not look at browser-based cues such as the address bar, status bar and the security indicators, leading to incorrect choices 40% of the time. We also found that some visual deception attacks can fool even the most sophisticated users. These results illustrate that standard security indicators are not effective for a substantial fraction of users, and suggest that alternative approaches are needed.” (via DocuTicker.com)
See Also: Phishing and Crimeware Map
See Also: February Phishing Trends Report Available (via Anti-Phishing Working Group)
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Enron Trial
Documents in the News
Source: Houston Chronicle
Full Text: Enron Trial Transcripts
Most recent accessible in middle column. Other transcripts can be found here.
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Agriculture–Databases
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, UN
Updated: FAO GeoNet
From the announcement, “A new version of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s spatial data catalogue, FAO GeoNetwork, which provides agricultural information to decision-makers, allowing them to access satellite imagery, interactive maps, and spatial databases from FAO, WFP, CGIAR, and others…” Thanks to Adena S. for the news tip.
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Development–Global–Statistics
Source: World Bank
Just Released: World Development Indicators 2006
“The World Development Indicators, published annually by the World Bank, is the world’s most authoritative set of development statistics. It draws on an underlying database of more than 600 indicators covering 206 countries and territories. The World Bank works closely with other international agencies to assemble the most reliable statistics for its publications.”
Summary Direct to Full Text and Other Selected Stats
See Also: More Key Development Data & Statistics
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Pets–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: ASPCA (via Infoplease)
Top 30 Pet Names
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Television–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: TiVo
Most-Recorded Shows (with TiVo) For the Week Ending 4/23/2006

Library Digitization Projects
A new occasional feature on ResourceShelf.
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Digitization Projects–Audio
Source: University of California, Santa Barbara Library
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
“With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online…Listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.”

Briefly
+ Federal Citizen Information Center (the Folks in Pueblo) Begin Providing RSS Feeds
Six feeds are available including FAQs From FirstGov.gov.

+ AOL Places New Web Site for Kids (aged 2-5) Online
It’s called KOL Jr. You don’t need to be an AOL subscriber to use the site.

Search Briefs
+ Google Adds Detail to European Maps (via Beta News)
Services like the wonderful Mappy.com (tons of features), Multimap, Maps24.com, and Maporama have provided street-level maps and directions for European cities and regions for many years. Btw, Mappy.com also provides detailed aerial imagery for 63 European cities. PagesJaunes offers gorgeous street-level imagery for cities in France and Spain.
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+ A Well-Rounded Approach to Searching the Blogosphere (via SearchDay)
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+ Search engine to target Arabic speakers (via ABC)

Professional Reading Shelf
Engineering–Databases
Federated Search
Metasearch
Source: PerX
New: Pilot Subject-Based Cross-Repository Search Tool Now Available
Via an e-mail. Word of a new, “pilot service http://www.engineering.ac.uk providing subject resource discovery across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research communities has been released by the PerX Project. Although the target repositories included in the Pilot are relevant to engineering, the cross-searching methods and interface used, plus the range of repository types included, should be of interest to many as a demonstrator of one method of resource discovery across multiple digital repositories. Twenty-eight repositories are currently cross-searched by the Pilot. These include: the Directory of Open Access Journals (engineering and technology sections), DSpace at MIT, the Energy Citations Database, the GROW Digital Library, NASA Technical Reports, Jorum, ePrints UK, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS), Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), CISTI – Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports, and several more established repositories of interest to the engineering community. More repositories will be added to the Pilot as they are identified and configured.”
See Also: Source Listing
See Also: Learn More About the PerX (Pilot Repoistory Xsearch) Project
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Scholarly Publishing–Podcast
Open Access
Source: EDUCAUSE
Interviews with SPARC’s Heather Joseph and CNI’s Cliff Lynch
These interviews took place at the recent CNI Spring Task Force Meeting that we blogged about last week.
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Digital Archives–Webcast
Source: LC
Archive Ingest and Handling Test
“Keith Johnson, digital repository product manager at Stanford University, reported on Stanford’s contribution to the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), an initiative sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program designed to test the feasibility of transferring digital archives from one institution to another. He was joined by Library program officer Martha Anderson, who provided an overview to the project.”

Briefly
Elsevier reviews its journal models (via IWR)

Multimedia Shelf
World Wide Web–Lecture
Source: Oxford University
Webcast: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on the The Future of the Web
“The development of Web technology has been an exciting ride, a series of socially motivated technical innovations some languishing, others catching on in a viral way. As each development has suggested many new ones, and much of the original vision is still unfulfilled, there is a lot to do. This talk will discuss new challenges and hopes for weblike systems on the net.” The lecture was given on March 14, 2006. Slides used during the talk are available here.
See Also: TB-L’s Lecture at Tufts Univ (March 28, 2006): “Web Design and Web Use: Hopes and Fears”

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
John F. Kennedy–Assassination
U.S History–Pearl Harbor
Source: NewspaperArchives.com
New Newspaper Archives Online: Kennedy Assassination Archive and Pearl Harbor Archive
More free and valuable content from NewspaperArchive.com. This time the company has released more than 50,000 historical newspaper pages (all full text) about the JFK assassination available online. All articles are full text searchable. Pages are delivered as PDF files and can be saved/printed. The company has also released Pearl Harbor Archive containing more than 40,000 newspaper articles. Access to both the database and the full text content is completly free.
See Also: More Free Archives (Hundreds of Thousands of Pages) From NewspaperArchive.com on a Variety of Different Topics
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Television–United States–Lists & Rakings
Source: Broadcasting and Cable
New, Top 25 Station Groups at a Glance
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Women in the Workplace–United States–Statistics
Source: BLS
New Research Brief: Women Still Underrepresented Among Highest Earners
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International Business
Trade Law
Source: GlobalEdge
New Section: Trade Law
An “extensive business overview of international trade law.”
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Spam
Source: OECD
OECD Anti-Spam Toolkit
“[The] Anti-Spam ‘Toolkit’ as the first step in a broader initiative to help policy makers, regulators, and industry players orient their policies relating to spam solutions and restore trust in the Internet and e-mail.”
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United States House of Representatives–Lists & Rankings
Source: Clerk, U.S. House
New Historic Lists of House Officers
“These lists document the history of House Officers such as the Chief Administrative Officers, Sergeants at Arms, Parliamentarians, Postmasters, and the Doorkeepers of the House.”

Cool Stuff
Forget Static Street Level Imagery, Check out What Immersive Media is Building: 360-degree views of Surroundings
Sure, Pages Jaunes (cities in France and Spain), A9, and now MSN Live Local all offer very cool street-level imagery for various places but check out what Canada’s Immersive Media is doing for 25 U.S. cities. Hal Reid from Directions Magazine does a great job summarizing. He writes, “[Immersive Media] involves 11 cameras taking 360 degree imagery in real time, all merged into a single image. The imagery is geo-referenced; you can measure how big or how far apart things are. If you are doing anything related to real estate, city planning, etc., you need to see this.” ResourceShelf agrees. They call it (your new word for the day) their technology Telemmersion. Demo here.
See Also: Read More About Similar Concepts and Technology

Professional Reading Shelf
Data Security
Source: Computerworld
Top Secret: Securing Data with Classification Schemes
“Many technology executives are taking note of the new breed of data classification or information content management (ICM) offerings, which promise to help set policies and access controls on sensitive data buried in unruly, unstructured data sets. Vendors are positioning ICM storage software as an alternative to labor-intensive content management or metadata tools…According to IDC, enterprises will see a staggering 52% growth in data over the next year – much of it an increase in unstructured data. Besides data volume spikes, security concerns — especially in the area of compliance — are spurring interest in ICM…”
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Serials–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
SUNCAT continues to grow as further records are added
“The national serials union catalogue – known as ‘SUNCAT – has moved into a new phase of its development with the addition of data from seven more libraries. The pilot service already contains over 4 million records from 22 of the largest UK research libraries and the databases of the CONSER programme and the ISSN International network…” Learn more about SUNCAT
See Also: List of Online Union Catalogues in the UK
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Archiving–Digital Images
Source: Digital Curation Centre
Digital Images Archiving Study: Final Draft
“This article is part of a series of feasibility studies produced by the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) which aim to assess the preservation risk and retention criteria for digital content. The purpose of the Digital images study is to define the preservation requirements of digital image files and to determine archiving methodologies and future research directions. Issues discussed include the properties of digital images, preservation methods, images metadata, life cycle models and assessing preservation costs.”
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National Archives–United States
Source: NARA
National Archives Web Site Launches Spanish Portal
“For the first time, the National Archives web site now includes a Spanish portal, viewable online at www.archives.gov. The new “Espanol” portal, which is linked from the top of every page on the web site, provides basic information to Spanish-speaking customers about records, services and exhibits at National Archives facilities nationwide.”
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Public Libraries
Source: Information Week
Kids Unplug For Library Books

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Personal Wealth–United Kingdom–Lists & Rankings
Source: Sunday Times of London
Just Released, Rich List 2006
“The definitive guide to the richest 1,000 in Britain and Ireland.” Direct to tables. All tables are available as PDF files. Also includes Europe’s Richest 100. You can also search the list.
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Journalists–World War One
Source: National Library of Australia
Online Exhibit: Despatches from Gallipoli
“Despatches from Gallipoli is a website which includes transcripts of the news stories of journalists Charles Bean, Keith Murdoch, Phillip Schuler and Charles Smith and highlights the role of the correspondent in the development of an Australian identity. Official war correspondents were an innovation of the First World War and their despatches provided a means for everyday Australians to receive information about the activities of their troops. Overseas news services provided minimal coverage of Australian troops and soldiers’ letters to home were often out of date. The website includes war images, accounts of battles, examples of censorship, and discussions of the Australian legend. It also includes a copy of a letter written by Keith Murdoch, the father of Rupert Murdoch, to Prime Minister Fisher regarding the conditions facing Australian troops at Gallipoli.”
See Also: More Online Exhibits from the National Library of Australia
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Parliament–Australia
Source: Parliamenrary Library
New Research Note: Members of the Commonwealth Parliament with War Service
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Afghanistan–Geology–Map
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Geologic and Mineral Resource Map of Afghanistan
Full color map in (large) PDF format (121 MB)

Briefly
+ RLG’s Merrilee Proffit Interviewed (via EDUCAUSE)
Merrilee is one of the key people behind the development of a ResourceShelf favorite resource and frankly one that deserves more attention, RedLightGreen. You can learn more about this very useful (free) service here. Proffit also played a role in the development and recent release of ArchiveGrid that we posted about here.
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+ LITA names Ching-chih Chen winner of the 2006 Kilgour Award
“‘The Kilgour Award Committee takes great pleasure in acknowledging the important work and contributions of Ching-chih Chen, whose research has led to significant achievements in the areas of global digital libraries, multimedia technology, digital imaging, interactive videodisc technology, global information infrastructure, and information management,’ said Qiang Jin, chair of the award committee.”
See Also: A List of Dr. Chen’s Writings and Accomplishments
See Also: Dr. Chen is Also Supervising the Development of the Global Memory Net
“GMNet’s goal is to develop a model of international collaboration through the development of this global gateway to world culture, history, and heritage. The main portion of GMNet is its extensive image collections of GMNet’s own as well as those contributed by its content collaborators, such as the US Library of Congress’ Asian Division, and many other major institutions in the world…Global Memory Net (GMNet) will be launched for public access in 2006.”

Search Briefs
+ Microsoft Enhances Search Options on MSN Messenger with “Shared Search”
+ Search with friends
+ Drag and drop results
+ Now available on Windows Live Messenger Beta and MSN Messenger.
+ Currently only available in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan.
+ Image search coming soon.
+ Screen caps and instructions here and more detail here.
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+ Jim Lanzone Named CEO of Ask.com
Personal note from Gary. We’re very excited for Jim and for Ask.com. Jim was the person who recruited me for my new job and even personally introduced me in this blog post a few months ago.

Briefly
+ LexisNexis Launches Legal Portal site martindale.jp
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New Hosted Patents Search Offering Introduced on Engineering Village 2

Professional Reading Shelf
Open Access
Source: Open Access News
More on Biochemical Journal’s century of free content
George Porter writes, “A highlight of Biochemical Journal’s centenary, as noted by Peter Suber, is the completion of the Wellcome Trust funded retrodigitization project. The complete backfiles are freely available through both PubMed Central and the journal’s website.”
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Weblogs–Records Management
Source: AIIM E-DOC
Lions, Tigers, and Blogs – Oh MY!

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
College Athletics–Finances–Database
Source: Indianapolis Star
NCAA Financial Reports Database
“This is the most detailed, publicly available database of college athletic department financial information ever assembled. It came from forms required by the NCAA for the 2004-05 school year. While the NCAA reports such information only in aggregate, the data is presented here by individual school — with the ability for users to sort by category and conference, and to compare two schools.”
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Occupations–Lists & Rankings
Source: Money Magazine
Best Jobs in America
“MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors. These careers ranked highest.” Librarian did not make the top 50, but a report is available. Says the average pay is $52,977.

DocuTicker
Best of DocuTicker
DocuTicker is ResourceShelf’s sister site and is updated daily with a wide variety of new full text reports on many topics from government agencies, think tanks, ngo’s and many other organizations.
+ The Beauty of Bets: Wagers as Compensation for Professional Athletes
+ Community Colleges Today: The Presidents Speak Study
+ The Death Penalty in 2005
+ At the Cross Roads: US/Mexico Border Counties in Transition
+ Crime and the Nation’s Households, 2004
+ Snapshot: Health Care Costs 101, 2006 Edition

Mobile Search
+ Two New Features from Yahoo Mobile: Access Your Yahoo Photos (Beta) and Backup Mobile Phone Contacts
A new beta from Yahoo Mobile. You can now access photos saved to Yahoo Photos via the Yahoo Mobile portal. You can get an idea using a regular web browser with this URL. If a friend has “shared albums” on Yahoo Photos, their albums can also be viewed using the mobile portal. Of course, you’ll need their Yahoo user ID. Also from Sunnyvale…Cingular and T-Mobile subscribers with SyncML compatible phones can now back up their contacts into their Yahoo account.