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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Acronyms and Abbreviations Phone Directories	Bibliographies and Document delivery services Electronic journals and databases Rebellion sites against the rising prices of journals Repositories (articles) Guides to citing articles (including Internet sources)	Tools for librarians Publishers MARC Format for Bibliographic Data Library Catalogs Vendor Sites Sources for purchasing ebooks	Online course sites Guides to web resources Various sites for information

Bibliographic tools Bibliographies and Document delivery services See: Document Delivery Services (International) Electronic journal directories and databases Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography: Journals distributed via the World Wide Web / by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston libraries. Rebellion sites against the rising prices of journals The web has many sites rebelling against the rising prices of journals and offering publishing alternatives: The cost of knowledge : Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier's business practices  /  Tyler Neylon ; inspired by Tim Gowers U. of California tries just saying no to rising journal costs / The Chronicle of Higher Education Open access publishing    Open access week  /  organized by SPARC Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Open access to scientific information : Information on Open Access Budapest Open Access Initiative Public knowledge project / The University of British Columbia. SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Sherpa : British open access projects The "dark side" of open access publishing: Parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor them. Many of the journals and meetings have names that are nearly identical to those of established, well-known publications and events. ... online journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee. -- Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too), New York Times, April 7th, 2013. It is recommended to publish only with a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Repositories arXiv.org e-Print archive / Cornell University 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 OSTI.gov / U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information Directory of Published Papers (DoPP)  /  InterDok Guides to citing articles (including Internet sources)      See: Searching and Accessing Articles: Library's tutorial → Guides to citing articles (including Internet sources) Tools for librarians Copyright at Indiana University  /  Indiana University Policies Liblicense:    licensing digital information  /  The Center for Research Libraries. Books-in-Print  /  Bowker's Publishers: 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 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:    Merhav catalog Union catalogues Israel union catalogs 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 Dawson Books GOBI    Formerly YBP Library Services   /   EBSCO    GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information). East View information services    (acquired Kubon) EBSCO Information Services EBSCOnet Harrassowitz Fokus (formerly OttoSerials) infomayda    (Israel) KargerLibri Subscription Agency LibriAccess KNV : Koch, Neff & Volckmar GmbH ProBook    (Israel) Rupprecht    (Formerly: Hueber) Teldan    (Israel) Ziur information systems    (Israel) Vendor news: Aug. 2017    Kubon & Sagner    declared bankrupt Feb. 2015    YBP acquired by EBSCO Sept. 2014    Swets Information Services declared bankrupt April 2013    Blackwell (UK) closed its Library Services division. Sold to Dawson Books Aug. 2012    ComBooks acquired by ProBook Dec. 2009    Baker & Taylor, Inc. had acquired Blackwell North America.    See: YBP Sources for purchasing ebooks Publishers (HUJI agreements) Cambridge University Press    from list de Gruyter & Harvard University Press    through MendeleBook or Delbanco Elsevier Oxford University Press    through ProBook Taylor & Francis eBooks    (includes CRC Press)    through MendeleBook Wiley (not textbooks)    (includes IEEE).    More information: IEEE Sage World Scientific    through MendeleBook Aggregators DawsonERA ProQuest Ebook Central (ebrary) EBSCO eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)    (Formerly NetLibrary) NA IEEE (package only) Pearson Wiley textbooks Springer (packages only)

Web resources Online course sites Coursera : Free online courses from top universities and organizations in the world, including the Hebrew Unversity of Jerusalem EdX : Courses from the world's best universities Khan Academy : Offer thousands of bite-sized free instructional videos on YouTube and KhanAcademy.org covering everything from basic arithmetic to calculus, chemistry, physics, history, art and finance. Khan Academy also offers infinite problems for practice (currently in Math). Guides to web resources SciCentral / Gateway to scientific research news sources Various sites for information Best Colleges: rankings (The online version of America's Best Colleges)  /  U.S.news - Education Best Graduate Schools: Graduate program rankings  /  U.S.news - Education Academic ranking of world universities (ARWU)  /  Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CWCU)

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