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Contents About the Web Page Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Free Articles and Indexes: Can You Afford Not to Use Them? Why It Pays to Listen to Mother An Illustrative Comparison More for Free Selected Collections of Digitized Journals Pointers to Online Collections Online Magazines: A Close Read Side-by-Side: Time Magazine and Time.com MagPortal.com: An Aggregator at Your Service Other Aggregators and Portals for Online Magazines and Journals Just Help Me Find It! Other Free Indexes To Help You Locate Periodical Articles Staying Alert Without Caffeine, Exercise, or Meditation STM - Scientific, Technical, and Medical Literature: Whither Free Content? Use Your Library Card Conclusion Chapter Two: All the News that Fits and a Few Gigs More Here's the Scoop on Newspaper Reading Pay for Online News? I Think Not Typical Newspaper Expenditures by Libraries and Information Professionals The Free Model Is an International Model What's Online? Behind the Scenes at a Newspaper Web site Broadcast Journalism News Sites Alternate Approaches: Of Ananova and Weblogs Giving News a Personal Spin: Weblogs Other Resources: Yesterday's News Using News Search Engines Setting Up News Updates and Newsletters Sports Newsletters and Alerts Newsletters and Breaking News at National and Local Newspaper Sites Conclusion Chapter Three: Ready or Not: Reference on the Web What Is a Reference Question? How Much Does It Cost to Answer Questions? Consensus on Ready Reference Sources The Top Reference Sources in Print and Online Frequently Used Reference Materials Top Sources and Free Web Information Case Study: Sparknotes, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots One-Stops for Ready Reference Notable Standalone Web sites for Specific Subjects Great Web Reference Sites3/4Pick Two and Go With Them Conclusion Chapter Four: Reference Part II: Expert, AskA, and Digital Reference Services The Virtues of Web-Based Assistance Ask-an-Expert Sites: The Good News The Nonlibrary Resources What Happens When Web-Based Assistance Doesn't Work What Happens When Web-Based Assistance Works Finding the Answer: Other Possible Solutions The Library Answer Continuum: From "A"(synchronous) to Live Reference The World's Largest Library and its Role in Virtual Q & A Are You Affiliated with a Leading Edge Library? The Library Difference Conclusion Chapter Five: Books in the Web Library How Much Time People Spend on Reading How Much Money People Spend on Reading Traditional Books, Electronic Texts, and Electronic Books Online E-Text Collections: Cornerstone of Your Own Web Library Free E-Text Collections and Catalogs on the World Wide Web Other Extraordinary E-Text/E-Book Resources Sites for Electronic Books Other Web Resources with Links to E-Text/E-Book Sites A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Online Electronic Texts and Books Interesting Developments in Electronic Books Conclusion Chapter Six: When Image Is Everything Uses of Images from the Web Image Search Engines What's Wrong with this Picture? Copyright Refresher for Image Acquisition Permit Me, S'il Vous Plaît Types of Image Files Key Words Examples of Image-Rich Sites Image Services Requiring Payment How to "Grab" an Image from the Web Conclusion Chapter Seven: On (Your) Display: Special Collections and Online Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Physical World Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions: the Raison d'Etre Taking on the Devil's Advocate Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions: the Distinctions Uses of Online Exhibitions and Galleries Finding Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions On Your Own: Other Strategies for Locating Online Exhibitions A Little Nonsense Now and Then Taking Full Advantage of Online Collections, Galleries, and Exhibitions Conclusion Chapter Eight: Software Keys to the Web Library Basic Plug-ins More Software for Books and Other Documents Multimedia Plug-ins Toolbars - Coolbars Your Personal Web Library Portal Conclusion Chapter Nine: Final Considerations What Have You Gained? It's Not Always About Money What May Never Be in the Web Library Stay Tuned Conclusion Appendix About the Author About the Editor Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Computer network resources, Online information services, Digital libraries, Internet searching, Web sites Directories, Internet addresses Directories