Watergate Revisited

Now that we know that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat," perhaps you would like to review the Washington Post's archive of Watergate articles. You can do that here.

US Blue Pages Online

You know about the Yellow Pages and White Pages being online, but did you know the Blue Pages are online too? The Blue Pages provide a quick way to find a general government number, government TTY numbers, government hotlines or local government agency branch phone numbers. Just click here to search.

Feed Link of the Day - ABC's Podcasts

Click here for a list of ABC’s podcast feeds. You can get feeds for Good Morning America, Nightline and more.

Loansome Doc Gets A New Look!

It looks like some great changes are going to take place with Loansome Doc on June 5th. Check out the details here. Loansome Doc is a great service (but it was a little challenging to use) that allows people to order documents found on PubMed. You'll find a link for more information on Loansome Doc from an earlier AbsTracked post here.

AbsTracked Feeds

I'm trying to consolidate my 4 feeds into 1. If you are subscribing to an AbsTracked feed other than this one: http://AbsTracked.blogspot.com/atom.xml, please switch to this and delete any others. Thanks!

Pentagon Channel via RSS

With US Memorial Day on Monday, I thought this might be an appropriate time to post about the Pentagon Channel's feed. You can subscribe to the Pentagon Channel’s streaming military news and information broadcasts via RSS. Here's the Top News feed. You can also get feed for Newscasts, Specials, Briefings, "America Supports You," Updates, Interviews, RECON, Ceremonies and "The American Veteran." The feed is all text, but if you click on a headline from your aggregator, you'll be taken to that specific broadcast. Click here to watch the Pentagon Channel's 24 hour live stream. You can also watch recorded broadcasts (including briefings) and send them to someone via e-mail.

NOTE: I just noticed that the link to the streaming video doesn't appear to work with Firefox, so if you have a problem, switch to Internet Explorer.

A Real Search Page for Google Print

Gary, over at SEW points out that Google Print finally has a direct search page. You can access it here: http://print.google.com

Travel - Kitschy & Bizarre

With the US Memorial Day holiday extending the length of the upcoming weekend, you might want to take a little road trip. So, where do you go? If you like "kitschy" or the downright bizarre, you might want to check out Roadside America. You can find out where to see the world's largest (insert any word here), amputated legs on display (one happens to be in Washington, DC), fiberglass giants, a beer can house (I won’t even get into the pet cemeteries) and so much more. You can search by state or by attraction. You can also click on the interactive map here. If you really want to be in the know (I know I do), you can sign up for their “occasional” e-mail newsletter here.

If you're in the Washington, DC area, you might want to drive over to White Post, Virginia to check out Dinosaur Land. After reading about it on Roadside America, I checked it out on Google Local and the Google Directory to see what else might be near Dinosaur Land. I found that Gore's Custom Slaughter & Processing is just over 4 miles away. I also found other interesting attractions like this Monster Truck Racing venue and Haunted Nightmares (I think I might be experiencing that right now). If you like the idea of traveling through Virginia, but those attractions aren't quite your cup of tea, there is always Foamhenge. And you thought DC was exciting?!

Get Emergency Alerts for Washington, DC

Sign up for for emergency alerts for Washington, DC via e-mail or via text messaging here.

Bookworm’s Tour of London

OK, Christopher Culwell at Fodor’s Travel Wire posted “A Bookworm’s Tour of London.” Now, how could I NOT post about that. Here’s the link.

Feed Link of the Day - Top Blawg Posts

The Blawg Republic has RSS feed for their list of the 20 most popular items in the Blawg Republic. Here's the feed.

New 18th ed. Bluebook Now Available

The new 18th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is now available. You can order it here.

Law Librarian Blog mentions a program scheduled for the AALL Annual Meeting called "Is the New Bluebook New?" You can read that post here. For more information on the AALL Annual Meeting, click here.

Feed Link of the Day - Chilling Effects

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is "A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics." Among other things, they are building a database of cease and desist notices (related to online First Amendment and intellectual property rights). You can can get their latest cease and desist notices by subscribing to this feed.

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

GLIN is a full-text, searchable, online database of laws, regulations, legislative records, judicial decisions, and other legal sources supplied by governmental agencies and international organizations. “GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN.” GLIN is maintained at the Law Library of Congress Web site.

You can search GLIN here. You can access the database contents list here. Click on this link for a list of the countries and institutions supplying full-text documents for public use.

Docket Information & Medical Literature

Two new LLRX articles that look particularly good are: Robyn Robollo's Dockets Update and Gloria Miccioli's Researching Medical Literature on the Internet -- 2005 Update. You can get the LLRX feed here.

Feed Link of the Day - ZD NET

ZD Net has quite a nice list of RSS feeds. They include:

All News
Application Development News
Data Management News
Hardware Upgrades News
IT Management News
OS Migration News
Security News
Software Infrastructure News
Web Technology News
Wired & Wireless News
ZDNet Audio/Video
Product Reviews

They also have feed for their many blogs. You can view the link and grab some feeds here.

Expert Witnesses

House of Butter recently pointed out ALM’s experts & consultants site. You can currently search for more than 15,000 experts. What I like best about it is that your search produces very user-friendly results. You get a neat little chart that can (and usually seems to) provide a PDF resumé, printable profile, Web site link and e-mail address. Click here to check it out.

Feed Link of the Day - BNET

Along with their blogs and editorial updates, BNET offers company updates (ex. Dell, Nokia, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, etc.), topic updates (ex. biotech, hedge funds, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.), white papers by job function (ex. audits, Six Sigma, terrorism insurance, etc.), white papers by industry (ex. books, oil recycling, REITs, etc.) all via RSS. Click here for the list of feeds. Click here to learn more about BNET.

Comparing Web Browsers

ZD Net compares Internet Explorer 6, Firefox, Netscape 8, Safari RSS, Opera 8 and Deepnet Explorer here. The new Netscape is looking good.

New National Sex Offender Search Page Coming

According to this article, the US government has plans for a new Web site that will allow you to perform a nation-wide search of sex offenders. Right now you can search by state on individual state sites. They hope to have this available in about two months.

Click here for the FBI's list of "State Sex Offender Registry Web Sites."

Chicago

Chicago Crime Data
A lot of bloggers have been writing about the new ChicagoCrime.org site...and for good reason! Adrian Holovaty (you can read his blog here) merged Google Maps with data from the Chicago Police Department to create this amazing site! The most amazing part of the site (to me) is that you can actually get RSS feeds with the latest crimes for each police beat and each city block in Chicago.

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Map
ChicagoCrime isn't all Holovaty has done with Google Maps. He has also merged the CTA Map with the Chicago city map at Google. Read more about that here.

Electronic Encycopedia of Chicago
No, this one isn't Holovaty's. It's brought to you by the Chicago Historical Society, The Newberry Library and Northwestern University. It's a wonderful resource for Chicago history. You can get to the site here. Check out the list of maps here.

Billy Goat Tavern
The Billy Goat Tavern, an institution in Chicago, is coming to Washington, DC. Click here and look right above "The Curse of the Billy Goat" for that little announcement on the Tavern's site. You might also want to read about the supposed curse on the Cubs baseball team. Click here to read more about the new BGT coming to DC and for additional history about the famous Saturday Night Live skits regarding the Tavern. Do you think the Tavern is coming to DC to give the Cubs' fans a place to go when they come to see the Cubs play the new Nats? Do you think it's an attempt to break the curse?

Cubs Feed
If all of this writing about the Cubs has made you want to keep track of what they're doing, here's a news feed on the Cubs from Topix.net: http://rss.topix.net/rss/mlb/chicago-cubs.xml

Feed Link of the Day - BizJournals

Bizjournals.com is where you'll find your local Business Journal...as in the Washington Business Journal. Click here for a list of the feeds the site offers. You can find feeds for a particular city or for business news for a variety of industries. Here is the feed for Washington, DC. This will link you to the feed for legal services business news.

RedLightGreen (in a nutshell)

It has certainly been mentioned around the blogosphere this year. Searcher magazine had a feature article about ReadLightGreen and Open WorldCat last month. So, what is RedLightGreen?

In a nutshell, you search for books at RedLightGreen. It is the Research Library Group’s Union catalog of more than 130 million books. You can pull up the catalog record and find a library in which it is located. The Research Library Group (RLG) is a “nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning.”

That's it. However, if you want to read more about it, just go here.

Feed Link of the Day - Amazon RSS Feeds

Thanks to Blake Carver at LISNews for this great post. It's wonderful news! I set up an RSS feed to monitor Tom Robbins' new books. Lo and behold, Robbins has a new book, Wild Ducks Flying Backward, coming out in August! I had to pre-order.

ERIC - Free Full-Text Documents

From ERIC's Web site:

"The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. When the ERIC digital library opened to the public on September 1, 2004, the collection consisted primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature selected by ERIC from 1966 - 2003. The collection has expanded to include full-text articles. In years ahead, the collection may include other electronic resources such as audio and video materials."

"More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database."

You can search ERIC here.

Feed Link of the Day - Barchives

Ernie the Attorney posted about a new blawg today. It is called Barchives and is a blawg for bar associations. You can check it out at barchives.org. Here is the feed.

More Law Journal Links

Yesterday, I posted a link for searching law journal articles on the Internet. I thought I would add two more helpful law journal links today.

Washington & Lee Law School's Current Law Journal Content
Here you can search a vast number of current law journals in a variety of ways. You can search by:

1. journal name by using "jo" - example: "jo(harvard law review)"
2. author by using "au" - example: "au(lessig)"
3. article title term by using "ti" - example: "ti(legal malpractice)"
4. subject by using "ab" - example: "ab(ethics)"

You can also combine search tags. Your results will have a hyperlinked TOC. Click on it to get further links to the journal homepage and to other sites where you should be able to obtain a full-text copy. You can also access all of the RSS feeds here.


University of Southern California Law - Journal Library
Wendy Nobunaga, Head of Cataloging at Gabriel and Matilda Barnett Information Technology Center and The Asa V. Call Law Library at USC's law school has compiled a great, linkable list of law journals that are available on the Internet. Not only that, she has also coded what's available at each site:

F = Full-text, A = Abstracts, T = Table of Contents, S = Subscription Information

Isn't that nice? Here's where you can find Wendy's list.

How Fast Are You Surfing?

In an earlier post, I mentioned Google’s Web Accelerator and Firefox’s Pipelining feature. I didn’t think I could see a difference in the speed it took to download pages. If you’re like me, you might want to test it out over at Internetfrog.com. Here’s a link to see how fast you’re surfing.

Feed Link of the Day - WTOP News Radio

Today’s Feed Link of the Day is to WTOP news radio. It’s a local Washington, DC news radio station. However, WTOP often breaks national and world news stories faster than CNN and the other major news networks. Here is a link to the various feeds (including podcasts) they offer. Since they don’t have a “breaking news” feed, you’ll need to sign up for breaking news via e-mail here.

Science/Medical/Technology News Via RSS

EurekAlert! is a global news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It "provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology."

Click here to link to their list of available RSS feeds. I've included the current list of 19 feeds below.

• Breaking news (all topics)
  
• Agriculture
  
• Archaeology
  
• Atmospheric Science
  
• Biology
  
• Science Business
  
• Cancer
  
• Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Sciences
  
• Earth Science
  
• Education
  
• Infectious and Emerging Diseases
  
• Mathematics
  
• Medicine & Health
  
• Nanotechnology
  
• Oceanography
  
• Science Policy
  
• Social & Behavioral Science
  
• Space & Planetary Science
  
• Technology, Engineering, and Computer Science

Free Full-Text Law Journal Articles

Over the weekend, Investigate This! posted a link to lawreview.org where you can search the full-text of law journal articles for free. You can access the search box here.

Feed Link of the Day - Delaware

The state of Delaware offers an amazing number of RSS feeds and even offers podcast feeds! Click here to look at the long list of Portal news feeds. Click here for the podcast.

Federal Citizen Information Center – e-Pubs

The Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC) has all kinds of US government and consumer information you can use. It used to be that you had to write to them at their (now famous) address in Pueblo, Colorado. Now, however, you can place requests over the phone or via an e-mail message. They also have some electronic publications on a wide variety of topics. Below is a list of the topics with examples of some of the e-publications next to each.

Cars Gas-Saving Products: Fact or Fuelishness?
Computers Internet Fraud: How to Avoid Internet Investment Scams
Education Think College? Me? Now? A Handbook for Students in Middle School and Junior High
Employment Work-at-Home Schemes
Family Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Federal Programs Medicare & You 2005
Food Are Bioengineered Foods Safe?
Health Getting Information From FDA
Housing Homeowner's Glossary of Building Terms
Money Finding a Lost Pension
Small Business General Information Concerning Patents
Travel Travel Tips for Older Americans
And More... U.S. and the Metric System

To access the list and link to the publications, click here.

Free Digital Science Articles

The Library Link of the Day was to this article. It is about the free, searchable science article repository called DAREnet. Here is a description from the Dutch DARE Web site.

“The DARE programme is a joint initiative by all the Dutch universities and the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Its aim is to store the results of all Dutch research in a network of so-called "repositories", thus facilitating access to them. All the institutions involved do this in a similar way, but retain responsibility for and control over their own data. This material can then be made available in a range of ways and forms: online through personal or university websites, existing preprint servers or e-journals, or in traditional journals or books. Or even in new, yet to be developed means of academic communication.”

“Cream of Science is the showcase of Dutch prominent research. More than 200 top scientists in the Netherlands with 25.000 publications are accessible for everyone. About 60% is full content available.”

“DAREnet gives access to a broader collection that is guaranteed digitally accessible without any restrictions. As of May 2005 DAREnet consists of 47.000 digital objects. The full text available publications of Cream of Science can also be found here.”

I ran some searches and received great results. The results I looked at were all in English.

Here is a link to the DARE site. Here is a link to the search page.

Feed Link of the Day – Justia’s Legal SEO Blog

That's Legal Search Engine Optimization Blog to you and me. It's a great blog for links. Check out these "free 60" links:

Justia's 60 essential free competitive intelligence sources 1-11
Justia's 60 essential free actionable intelligence sources 12-24
Justia's 60 essential free strategic intelligence resources 25-39
Justia’s 60 essential free competitive intelligence sources 40-44

That’s all that’s available for now. You’ll have to check out the blog here for the rest. Here is the feed.

More on Governement Feeds

Yesterday I posted about the new US Government RSS Library on FirstGov. This has the potential to be a great one-stop shopping location. So, here's my plea:

FirstGov Wants You! That's right, you! If you know of US government feeds that aren't included in their lists, please let them know about them. Just click here:

http://www.firstgov.gov/feedback/SuggestLinkForm.jsp

Fill out the form letting them know about whatever feeds are missing. We'll all benefit!

I just sent them this one:
US Fire Administration feed

While I obviously can't add a Canadian feed, I thought you might like to know about it anyway. Click here to find out more (via feed) about the government of Alberta.

Interactive US Federal Court Map

Thanks to TVCAlert for the post about this map.

Update - Firefox Holes Patched

The security problems with Firefox have been resolved with version 1.0.4 You can read about it here. To download the new version just click on the red arrow in the upper right corner of your Firefox browser or go here. For Mozilla’s latest news updates, click here for the feeds.

Feed Links of the Day - US Party Feed

Click here for donkey feed (from the DNC).
Click here for elephant feed (from the GOP).

More Government Feeds

US Government RSS Library
With the news of the US Copyright Office feeds, I thought I'd do a quick check to find a few more US government feeds. I think you'll like the US Government RSS Library on FirstGov. Click here to check it out. You'll find a lot of great "new content" feeds and a lot more!

NASA
Here is the list of NASA feeds including the "Large Image of the Day" and "Breaking News" feeds.

US Geological Survey
Click here to get feeds for recent earthquake activity.

National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center
Get feeds for hurricanes and tropical storms in English and Spanish here.

US Department of Energy
Click here to access the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy News feed and here for Building Energy Codes.

UK - 10 Downing Street
Get the feed for the British Prime Minister here.

UK - Small Business Service
Get the SBS's latest news releases here.

Scotland - Scottish Executive
Get RSS feed for the Scottish Executive news here.

Australia - Parliament
Click here to get the feed containing updates of the Parliament of Australia's Library publications.

Canada - Nova Scotia
Get the Government of Nova Scotia news headlines in RSS here.

US Copyright Office Feeds

Steven Cohen at Library Stuff points out that the US Copyright Office now has some RSS feeds to offer. Check them out here.

NASD BrokerCheck

At NASD BrokerCheck, you can get professional background information on brokerage firms and their registered brokers. You can check the status of registrations, licenses and conduct on over 850,000 current and former registered individuals and over 6,000 NASD registered firms. You usually get a detailed report via e-mail within minutes of your request. NASD also recommends that you consider requesting information from state securities regulators as well. Here’s a link to a list of state securities regulators. Here is the link to NASD BrokerCheck.

Feed Link of the Day – Yahoo News RSS Feed

The FLOTD yesterday was for the un-official RSS feed for Google News searches. In case you haven’t heard, you can get official RSS feed for Yahoo news searches. Just click here, run your search and click on the orange button for your feed. Add it to your aggregator and you're good to go!

See ALSO!

ALSO!, better known as American Law Sources On-Line is a site that was created and is maintained by LawSources, Inc., in Oakland, California. Here is a description of the site from LawSources, Inc.:

"The purpose of ALSO! is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge to the users, including sources of Canadian and Mexican law as well as sources of federal and state law for the United States. The source documents are stored, in various file formats, in numerous separately maintained databases located throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Those documents are all easily accessible through the links on the ALSO! pages."

Included with the US legal materials are legal materials for American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Native American tribes.

Feed Link of the Day – Google News RSS Feed

According to the site, “ScrappyGoo lets you search Google News and generate a unique RSS feed of your results. This persistent news search delivery is offered as a free service. By default, each feed has 16 entries. It uses standard boolean operators.”

Is it too good to be true? Possibly. ResearchBuzz says it violates Google’s terms of service. Read about it at ResearchBuzz here. Link to ScrappyGoo here.

Firefox - 'Extremely Critical' Security Hole

Since I posted about all the great things Firefox has to offer, I thought I should also add a link to an article about a serious security problem. A temporary fix is currently available and a patch is expected soon. You can read more here.

Dissertation Links

CRL’s Foreign Doctoral Dissertations
ResourceShelf had a brief post today about "Foreign Doctoral Dissertations." It sounded interesting, so I took a look. You can search databases at the Web site for the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to see if they have a dissertation in their databases. CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. So, when they say "foreign," they presumably mean non-American. Though they don't update their Web site copyright date, they do update the site itself. Here is a link to the search page. Here is a link to information about borrowing from them. It’s not quite clear whether non-member institutions can borrow from them, but they include an e-mail address for more information.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
“As a visitor, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. To search the entire database of more than 1.6 million titles, you will need to connect from a subscription institution.” Even as “a visitor” you get access to a 24 page PDF preview of many of the dissertations. Here is the link.

Index to Theses – UK & Ireland
“A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.” Again, this requires a paid subscription to access. Here is the link.

Theses Canada
You can actually access the full-text of electronic Canadian theses for 1998-8/31/2002 at Theses Canada. You also have the option to borrow or buy other theses at this site. Click here to search.

Dissertation Abstracts International
The library of Congress has some good advice about tracking down dissertations including accessing Dissertation Abstracts International and searching FirstSearch. You can read LC’s research help here.

Dissertation.com
Dissertation.com buys and sells dissertations. You can also search and browse their collection here. They offer a 25 page PDF preview.

Feed Link of the Day - Engadget

If you like gadgets, you'll love Engadget! The feed is very nice. It has attractive photos to go with each gadget. Even the ads are completely unobtrusive. As I write this, I am looking at their latest post for GuardianLion.com GPS Child Security Device. Hmmm. Here's the feed.

Blog from Your Mobile Phone

Read about it here at Google Blog.

US Municipal Code Links

Here is a list of several places you can go on the Web to find online US municipal codes:
http://municipalcodes.lexisnexis.com/

http://www.municode.com/resources/online_codes.asp

http://amlegal.com/online_library.htm

http://www.codepublishing.com/municodes.html

http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html

http://sterlingcodifiers.com/online.htm

http://www.walterdrane.com/internet/index.htm (OH)

Would You Like a Smile with That?

Click here to read some good customer service advice that anyone can benefit from (pdf from AALL Spectrum)!

Read About RSS

'Not familiar with RSS, aggregators, feeds, etc.? Read this!

Feed Link of the Day - Satellite Images

If you don’t have time to play around with the new Google Maps, you can always just subscribe to the feed for Google Sightseeing. They post some very interesting shots from the Satellite side of Google Maps. I’ve been waiting for them to post the bizarre satellite image of the US Capitol Building and surrounding Senate and House office buildings, but they haven’t yet. Here’s a link so you can check it out for yourself. It's too bad that whatever is blocking them out isn't also blocking out the Library of Congress across the street. One of the Computers in Libraries (CIL) speakers pointed this out in Keyhole last March. Here’s the feed for Google Sightseeing.

BTW, as long as I’m writing about Google, if you haven’t already heard about it, Google Web Accelerator is available for download here. It is supposed to speed up your broadband connection. I tried it and to be honest, just like Firefox Pipelining, I really can’t tell the difference.

Free Litigation Headlines

Would you like free topical litigation reporter headlines delivered right to your desktop? Click here for a list of RSS feeds for over 50 LexisNexis Mealey publications. Click here to sign up for e-mailed headlines for any of nearly 50 of West's Andrews Litigation Reporters. While I have not done it (because I’m leery of anything involving my ID), you are supposed to be able to get free RSS feed for Andrews headlines (and many other Westlaw sources) by using WestIntraClip here.

I did a little search just now to see if anyone else posted about WestIntraClip and found this LawLibTech post. You should read it. How weird is it that Cindy Chick posted that exactly one year ago today! Freaky!

Feed Link of the Day - ComputerWorld

The worm attack that was mentioned over at TheCommonScold today made me think of a good feed for today. ComputerWorld has several great news feeds available. You can get access the list here. There is one specifically for viruses, but the “latest 10” breaking news feed covers that and a lot more. You can get that feed here.