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Gale is providing free access to Global Issues in Context and dozens of eBooks from the Gale Virtual Reference Library in an effort to make reliable information regarding the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, available. Librarians can install a free widget - found at www.gale.cengage.com/flu/ to their homepage, Facebook page or blog through Oct. 31, 2009.
Concerns about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season have people on alert and the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) are responding by making the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.
The site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) will provide evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™.
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The Library of Congress is now offering 3,100 images on Flickr. See the LOC website for details on the project and their Flickr account, http://www.flickr.com/photos/Library_of_Congress for the images.
ProQuest offers a variety of free email newsletters designed to help teachers, librarians, and administrators stay informed about the latest changes to their ProQuest subscriptions. The newsletters also provide classroom resources and offer tips for using your ProQuest databases in a variety of settings.
Check the ProQuest Web site to sign up for free email newsletters for the following ProQuest resources:
From September 15 to October 15, 2006, Thomson Gale will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by offering free or trial access to a variety of online resources, educational activities, and authoritative information about the history, influence and achievements of the Hispanic culture.
Check the Gale Web site to find free activities, biographies, links, music, and more.
Teacher Reference Center, an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books, is now offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more. (Source: EBSCO; edited)
In the First Person, from Alexander Street Press, is a free index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives. Imagine seeing into the minds of 10,000 individuals and knowing the details of their lives within seconds. That's the experience of using In the First Person—a free library index with citations linking to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
In the First Person searches archives and repositories all over the world and leads users to hundreds of thousands of pages of content. Search by narrator, subject, geographical location, format (full text, video, audio), date, and dozens of other elements. A unified, organized search result is returned, with richly detailed records for every collection and repository, and with all available links to the narratives themselves. (Source: Alexander Street Press; edited)
www.Standardcatalogs.com, a clearinghouse of free tools for collection development, is being offered by H.W. Wilson as a free service for librarians. The site includes "best" lists, editors' picks. Hot topics, periodical lists, best professional books, librarian home pages and blogs, and more. The Editor's Picks feature focuses on notable titles from Wilson's Children's Catalog, Public Library Catalog, Fiction Catalog, Senior High School Library Catalog, and Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog. (Source: H.W. Wilson; edited)