Videos on: Climate Science, Physics, Anatomy & Physiology
Archive for Search Engines
OpenCourseWares & Applications for mobile phones
CourseSmart, a new mobile application, offers over 7000 e-textbooks; each is fully searchable and available via mobile or online.
OpenCourseWare Finder helps students find free online courses, known as OpenCourseWares, or OCWs.
Yale Image Finder
Search the actual image content of over 34,000 Open Access articles from PubMed Central.
Top Web 2.0 Services in Medicine 2008
Top Web 2.0 Services in Medicine 2008
Courtesy of Dean Giustini, Author of UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar Blog
Science’s NetWatch & Podcasts
Every week for 9 years, Science’s NetWatch scoured the Internet for interesting scientific Web sites. You can look up reviews of the more than 1000 sites that have been highlighted between April 1998 and November 2007. The last regular NetWatch review was published on 2 November 2007, but occasional reviews continue to appear in the Random Samples section.
Science Podcasts: Science’s weekly podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites. You can listen to these audiocasts on your own computer simply by clicking on the “Listen to MP3″ links on the podcast announcements. If you use a podcast aggregator like iTunes or Juice, you can subscribe to podcast feeds to automatically download the files for syncing to portable audio devices.
OpenCourseWare
The OpenCourseWare initiative is an effort to format course materials created by faculty and make them available on the internet to anyone who wants to use them – self-learners or educators.
Other Open Courses compiled on the Steacie Library home page.
ibiblio – the public’s library & digital archive
ibiblio is an Internet library, an archive, or depository of materials that are freely available for reuse. The material is contributed by anyone and is usable by anyone. ibiblio is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Europeana: Europe’s multimedia online library
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items.
- Images – paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
- Texts – books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
- Sounds – music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
- Videos – films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe’s
- museums and galleries
- archives
- libraries
- audio-visual collections
The content comes from Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris. The complete list of organizations is also available.
Open Courseware, E-books, Educational videos and more
Christina Laun has compiled an excellent list of Open Courseware classes, search engines, and other resources for free learning.
On the technology front PC Magazine has compiled a list of 529 tips covering fundamentals of computing and then moves on to multimedia, mobility, business, and online solutions.
