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Reference	Bibliographic tools		Web resources
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Acronyms and Abbreviations Phone Directories Hebrew on the web	Bibliographies and Document delivery services Electronic journals and databases Rebellion sites against the rising prices of journals E-Prints Guides to citing articles (including Internet sources)	Tools for librarians Publishers MARC Format for Bibliographic Data Library Catalogs Vendor Sites	Online book stores Guides to web resources Various sites for information

Reference

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Oxford English Dictionary Online / A service provided by MALMAD (Israel Center for Digital Information Services).
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopaedia Britannica.com
• dictionary.net
• Exemplar - words in context (Springer) : discover how a particular term or phrase is used in scientific literature.
• Google Language Tools
• OneLook Dictionary search
• Hebrew terms database → Show dictionaries / The Academy of the Hebrew language
• Morfix
• Arabic-Hebrew dictionary of modern Arabic

  For more reference resources online, try: Bartleby.com: Great books online.

• Abbreviations.com: The A to Z of acronyms & abbreviations on the net. Also includes Hebrew acronyms
• Acronym Finder / Mountain Data Systems
• Acronym Search / BlueSparks
• The Internet acronym server / Silmaril

• Israeli Phone Directory
• Phonebook
• yellowpages (Please prefer Explorer when viewing this site).
• Zip code search / Israel Post

Hebrew University

• Search HU Directory of Faculty and Staff
• Units and departments

• Snunit Guide

Bibliographic tools

• See: Document Delivery Services (International)

• Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography: Journals distributed via the World Wide Web / by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston libraries.
• Electronic Journals: A selected resource guide / Harrassowitz.

  Rebellion sites against the rising prices of journals

  The web has many sites rebelling against the rising prices of journals and offering publishing alternatives:

• Issues in scholarly communication / Cornell University Library
  • Sticker Shock: the rising costs of scientific journals (2001): Want to learn some hair-raising facts about your library? Click on the image, and prepare to be shocked! / Cornell University Engineering and Computer Science Library team
  • Sticker Shock 2: an Update (2008)

• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Open Access Now: Campaigning for freedom of research information / BioMed Central
• Public knowledge project / The University of British Columbia.
• SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition / Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
  The SPARC Open Access Newsletter
• Sherpa : British open access projects
• U. of California tries just saying no to rising journal costs / The Chronicle of Higher Education

• e-print archive (Tel-Aviv University mirror)
• E-Print Network / U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• eprints.org
• The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the federal government's leading delivery outlet for scientific and technical reports, especially those produced under government contract. On its Web site, NTIS has begun electronic delivery of all its reports dating to 1997. Reports numbering fewer than 20 pages are free; those over 20 pages are $8.95. The scanned reports appear in Adobe PDF. Some documents are retrieved through links to other federal agency Web sites; however, NTIS promises that the archived copies of all documents will remain available through its site.
  More info: NTIS Provides Free/Cheap Electronic Delivery of Technical Reports / by Barbara Quint

Tools for librarians

• Copyright at Indiana University / Indiana University Information Policy Office

• Liblicense: licensing digital information / Yale University Library.

• AcqWeb: Information for acquistion librarians.
• Books-in-Print / Bowker's
• Global Books-in-Print / Bowker's
  Please note that the UK material is searchable through the "Quick Search" option only. The "Browse by General Subject" and "Browse by Index" are limited to Canadian & U.S. data only.
• UNESCO Libraries Portal

  Publishers:

• Science and Technical Publishers / Yahoo!
• Academic Publishers / Yahoo!
• Mathematical Publishers / AMS

• Publisher's lists of series in mathematics
• Publisher's lists of series in Computer Science

  MARC Format for Bibliographic Data

• MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data      (MARC Standards)
• OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards

  Library Catalogs

• LibDex: The library index: Index to 17,600 Libraries

• National libraries catalogues worldwide
  • The British Library
  • Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France):    Catalogue
  • Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
  • The Library of Congress online catalog
    • Z39.50 gateway / The Library of Congress
  • National Library of Israel:    Catalog

• Union catalogues
  • MALMAD Bibliographic Databases

  • COPAC: unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
  • KVK: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog / A service of the University Library Karlsruhe.
    75 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.
  • Melvyl: The catalog of the University of California libraries.

Vendor Sites & services

Vendors	Services
Blackwell (UK)  /  Blackwell's library services  /  infomayda (Sales agent - Israel) News (Dec. 2009): Baker & Taylor, Inc. had acquired Blackwell North America.    See: YBP	Collection Manager
ComBooks
Harrassowitz	OttoSerials
KargerLibri Subscription Agency	LibriAccess
Koch, Neff & Volckmar GmbH
Kubon & Sagner:    English  -  German   /   Verlag Otto Sagner
Rodney Franklin Agency    (Israel)
Rupprecht    (Formerly: Hueber)
Swets Information Services	SwetsWise
Teldan    (Israel) Netlibrary
YBP Library Services   /   Baker & Taylor	GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information).    More info.: GOBI
Ziur information systems    (Israel)

Savoir Solidaire.net   /   Bibliothèques sans frontières = Libraries without borders

Web resources

Online book stores

• AddAll: Book Search and Price Comparison
• abebooks.com: Network of independent booksellers - Used, rare, out-of-print books
• All Discount Books.net
  • Discount Textbooks.net
• BookFinder.com: New, used, rare, and out of print books
• BooksPrice.com: Multiple Book Price Comparison
• Bublos.com: Bublos is primarily a book price comparison site, though also offers many other useful resources as well, including a growing book-review archive, and lots of other literary bits and pieces. It also has useful information regarding used and rare books.
• ChooseBooks.com
  International book selling site, with books in English, German, Spanish, French, and many other languages.
• DealOz (Formerly Campusi)
• Direct Textbook: find cheap used college textbooks
• textbook coupons

• BUBL Link: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
• Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.
• LookSmart: The quality web directory.
  Contains lists of sites by subjects, and general resources including a list of academic journals in computer science.
• SciCentral / Gateway to scientific research news sources
• Braintrack University Index: The world's most complete education index.

• Best Colleges: rankings (The online version of America's Best Colleges) / usnews.com
• Best Graduate Schools: Graduate program rankings / usnews.com

  Conferences:

• MInd: The Meetings Index, Identify and locate future conferences, congresses, meetings or symposia / InterDok
• Netlib conferences Database, information about upcoming conferences, lectures and other meetings relevant to the fields of mathematics and computer science.

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