The folks at Melissa Data have just placed a new email location database online at no charge. After entering the email address, the database will tell you where the mail server is located. Of course, this does not guarantee that the sender is located in the same place. For example, the mail server might be located in the UK but the sender is in the U.S.

Direct to Email Lookup Database Interface

Displays the city, state, country & a map of an email address.

Review All Melissa Data Lookup Databases

Source: Melissa Data

SearchMedica Offers Medical Professionals Six New Specialized Clinical Web Searches

From the news release

SearchMedica adds cardiovascular, diabetes/endocrine, infectious disease, musculoskeletal, pediatric, and respiratory disease categories to cancer/hemic, mental/nervous system and general medicine.

Direct to SearchMedica

Chronicling America Newspaper Site Adds More Pages, Features

From the announcement:

More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America Web site at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. With this update, the site now provides access to more than 500,000 digitized newspaper pages, dating primarily from 1900 to 1910, and representing 61 newspapers from California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah and Virginia. Chronicling America is a project of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), which is a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

New features in Chronicling America include:

+ “See All Available Newspapers” page - A list of all newspapers with pages available on the site.

+ RSS feed and E-mail Update service - Users can subscribe to Real Simple Syndication (RSS) updates or e-mail delivery at www.loc.gov/rss/ (see list under Topics/Newspapers and Journalism). Updates will include notices of added content and other points of interest.

Make sure to see the news release with links to a few highlights from the database.

Source: LC

From the announcement:

CrossRef, the multi-publisher linking platform, announced today that Mekentosj, creator of Papers, had signed on as a CrossRef affiliate in order to integrate DOIs and CrossRef metadata into its services. Papers is an award-winning application for researchers that improves their Mac-based workflow for searching, downloading, and managing PDF articles.

Papers already uses the DOI as a standard way to identify and lookup scientific articles. With the new partnership, Papers will add a tighter integration with Crossref’s OpenURL service to facilitate the discovery of both new and existing scientific publications. As a result of the CrossRef integration, Papers can recognize the DOI in PDF files and on web-pages, and automatically retrieve the available bibliographic information, including title, authors and journal names, from Crossref’s metadata database. With one click, this information is then added to the researcher’s personal library, making scientific articles more accessible and manageable.

Source: CrossRef

A full review will be coming soon on ResourceShelf.

What is it?

1) Available for IE only!

2)

The gClick™ button allows readers to dynamically extract real-time comprehensive intelligence — on companies, executives, and events — from any Web page with the click of button. Within seconds, you can go from scanning an article, anywhere on the web, to viewing in-depth information about the companies and executives referenced in the article.

3) gClick gathers real-time, contextual business intelligence from any story or HTML page by clicking on the button or using imbedded links.

More here. The technology comes from a company named Generate Inc. American City Business Journals became a “Strategic Investor” in Generate Inc. in 2005.

Here are two screen caps of gClick in action using a WSJ story. It works with all content, not only American City Biz Journals material.

1 (the story itself) ||| 2 (clicking on a company mentioned in the story)

Worth a look and more coming from RS in the future about gClick. It’s a free app, btw. We also hope a Firefox version is also in the works.

+ Add Footnotes & Endnotes to your Zoho Writer Documents
Hooray! Hooray!! Hooray!!!

+ Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition (via SEL)

+ Hackers Rig Google to Deliver Malware (via PC World)

+ It’s Hard to Hide From Your ‘Friends’ (via WSJ)
Note: No mention of the Ask.com Eraser feature that might also be of interest. You can read about it here. Gary is Director of Online Info Resources at Ask.com.

+ Oklahoma Governor Pushes Bill To Create Rx Drug Web Site

+ Middle East and Asia lose internet access after cable fails (via The Guardian, Hat Tip, Barry)

New Health Topic Resources from MedlinePlus: Diabetes Complications

Source: MedlinePlus

+ Zillow Comes Out of Beta (via ScreenWerk)

+ Baidu to Launch Japanese Version of Search Service After 1-month Delay (via Search Engine Journal)

+ Welcome New Neighbour: New Social Network Launches in UK (via WebUser)
If you don’t want to ring the doorbell and introduce yourself to the new neighbours, you can use ResidentsHQ.

+ Say Hello to Fancast (Beta)
From Comcast. One stop shop to view complete programs online, show clips, options to buy DVD’s, tv listings, movie listings, and more.
See Also: TV Guide Online Directory

+ The Search Party (via New Yorker)
Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics. By Ken Auletta.
See Also: Summary and Analysis from Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan

Back in 2006 we posted about research at Microsoft dealing with cameraphone searching. We also listed other players in the cameaphone search space. That post is still online and many of the links (have you seen or tried Semapedia?) are live.

On Monday, at the CES Conference, Bill Gates (video here) demonstrated Mobile Navigator.
From the caption:

At CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shows attendees the company’s new “mobile navigator” technology that can be used to point at a person or place, and get more information. The new software will be incorporated into devices such as cameras, PDAs, and phones.

Source: ZDNet

See Also: Cameraphone Searching in Japan (via SEW Blog)

See Also: Review: Content-Based Image Retrieval: Tools, Writings and Demos

A couple of month’s ago, Shirl posted this Resource of the Week titled, “Free Stuff From Pricey Database Vendors”. Today, another freebie. This time from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (deceased citizens of the UK) and Oxford University Press. A free full textg biography from the dictionary is posted daily and can be accessed via email, RSS, or by visting this page where the full text of DNB bios are kept for one week (so, make sure to save those of special interest). This feature is officially named “Life of the Day” and “Lives of the Week.”

See Also: More DNB Reading

See Also: More Free Dictionaries from Oxford

Source: Oxford University Press

If you’ve never reviewed a list of Scirus sources (besides open web content) you can find a growing list here. Growing in terms of both sources and number of entries in each database. If you want to compare, here’s what the list looked like (below) before the most recent update that’s now online.

• 422,000 articles from American Physical Society
• 444,000 e-prints from ArXiv.org
• 19,000 full-text articles from BioMed Central
• 13,000 documents from Caltech Coda
• 3,000 e-prints from Cogprints
• 72,000 full-text articles from Crystallography Journals Online
• 14,000 documents from CURATOR
• 950,000 documents from Digital Archives
• 19,300 documents from DiVa
• 37,000 full-text articles from Project Euclid
• 2,600 documents from HKUST Institutional Repository
• 16,000 documents - of which 12,000 full-text documents - from HKUTO
• 8,700 full-text documents available from IISc
• 4,800 full-text documents available from Humboldt Universität
• 240,000 full-text articles from Institute of Physics Publishing
• 21.5 million patent data from LexisNexis
• 11,500 full-text articles from Maney Publishing
• 4,600 full-text documents from MD Consult
• 17.0 million Medline citations via PubMed
• 61,000 documents from MIT OpenCourseWare
• 23,900 technical reports from NASA
• 309,000 full-text theses and dissertations via NDLTD
• 6,900 documents from Organic Eprints
• 735 documents from PsyDok
• 800,000 articles from PubMed Central
• 221,000 documents from RePEc
• 60,000 full-text articles from Royal Society Publishing
• 7.2 million full-text articles from ScienceDirect
• 400,000 full-text journal articles from Scitation
• 9,100 articles from SIAM
• 9,600 documents from University of Toronto T-Space
• 14,000 full-text documents from WaY

See Also: Scirus Review by Dr. Peter Jacso (12/2006)

A service we talk about quite a bit on ResourceShelf (it’s a long time fave), NewsNow, has added several new categories to their beta release. ALL pages auto-refresh every five minutes as new content is found.

1) Search Engine Optimization

2) Social Networking

3) Web 2.0

4) Blogging

The “Search Engine” category remains available.

NewsNow aggregates content from nearly 31,000 news sources and blogs.

+ infoUSA Coming to UK
The well-known provider of directory (business and people) listings will begin building a UK database in the next few weeks. Look for additional material at info.UK soon.

+ New “Pictures” Tool from Digg Labs

+ Baidu CFO, Shawn Wang, Killed in Boating Accident (via Reuters)

UK: Databases: The Medical Register

Two databases:

+ List of Registered Medical Practitioners

You can use the List of Registered Medical Practitioners to check details of all the doctors on the GMC’s register.

It gives details of:

* the doctor’s reference number, name, any former name, gender
* year and place of primary medical degree
* registration status
* date of registration
* entry in GP/Specialist Register
* any publicly available fitness to practise history since 20 October 2005

+ List of Registered Medical Practitioners

Personalization with MyGMC

Source: General Medical Council

Something many have wanted for a long time. Look for a longer overview of Trend Tracker soon.

Trend Tracker, [the] new online search tool, offers immediate, interactive access to the Center’s historical financial data on U.S. grantmakers. For the first time, anyone can tap the Center’s database to create statistical reports on the nation’s top 20,000 foundations. Review an individual grantmaker’s fiscal data or compare up to five foundations and create charts, line graphs, or tables displaying historical assets, gifts received, expenditures, or giving information.

Trend Tracker is part of Fact Finder, a suite of free tools including Foundation Finder and 990 Finder, which provide quick access to key information on foundations and other nonprofit organizations. Trend Tracker currently covers the years 2000-2005, and subsequent years will be added as that data becomes available. The Center will also be adding other interactive tools for analyzing data about foundations and their giving.

News Release

Direct to Trend Tracker

Source: The Foundation Center