Sunday, June 8, 2008

Online E-News Resources


Columbia University

Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting path breaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries has a nice composition of 25 Columbia University and affiliated libraries access the rich array of both traditional and electronic information services. A click of mouse can open the 500+ databases, 45,000 e-journals, 50,000 e-books and 645,000 e-images which are safely stored in digital form.

E-Resources
E-Resource is the link which explores the ocean of E-Resources. With the help of 13 web links it includes general resources like databases, journals, Books and special type of E-resources like E-Images, E-Music, and Numeric and Spatial data as Data/GIS etc. Apart of that some noteworthy resources also graced the link which can be listed as follows-
v Online Access to Columbia Dissertations , Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
v Selection of Columbia Digital Projects and Initiative
v Selected Virtual Exhibition catalogue
v Subject-focused guides to digital and print resources
v Internet Search tools like about.com, Yahoo, Google.
E-News
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/index.html
In the world of online news E-News, devised by Columbia University Library is an awesome work. It is graced by News resources like LexisNexis and Factiva and infinite links to local, National and International News resources. To facilitate News Safari this web link has following main links-
Search for News
This link gives the opportunity to a user to explore the news world in print as well as audio video form too.
1. News and Current Event Databases
It has 54 databases of newspaper and magazine articles, wire service news, and broadcast transcripts. Coverage varies by source. To access the database one
Has to have the University Ids.
http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ldpd/app/rti/results?hl=1&ps=1&sb=1&ss=1&qt=6&q=&hpp=100000&hk=-1&rt=nw
2. American Newspaper at Columbia
This is a comprehensive list of print and microfilm U.S newspapers from 1704 to the present available in the Columbia University Libraries and arranged by state and city of publication... Like Database it also has restricted access and demands UNIs.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/news.html
3. Internet Public Library
This is an open access Links to news sources and information by subject.
Compiled and maintained by the University Of Michigan School Of Information.
http://www.ipl.org/
4. Online News Sources
This is just not a simple link, but one can simple say it is an immeasurable ocean of news links to news sources worldwide. ABYZ has responsible for this laudable job.
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
5. News Magazines
Its a list of 145 online news magazines worldwide categorise in region like Africa (26), Asia/Oceania (26), Europe/Eurasia (22), Latin America (18), Middle East /North Africa (27), North America (26) and in language category only Spanish is there.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/magazines.html
6. Art and letter Daily
Its an daily edition published by The Chroncile of Higher Education in New York. This is an excellent source of news, information and administration news. It can be rewarded as BLIMFUL INFORMATION OCEAN. It has an array of varied links covers News papers, Book Reviews, Magazines, Weblogs, Radio News, Channel News , in other form every possible form and format in which any type of news across the world can appear, it is there in this link.
http://aldaily.com/
Broadcasting
In this category various audio and video news resources are given as follows-
1. Radio-Locator
It covers 3000 radio station working in US terrritory.
2. Zap2it
This is an excellent index of US Television index.
3. Weather Channel
This is an excellent source to know the local weather of US at any time.

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