See this interesting post with a search engine that allows you to find a book by color: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/170/
Note that you need to know hex values for the colors, you can see those here: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3478961
Have fun!
A new search engine has appeared on the scene, Powerset. This engine relies on a natural language search, instead of a keyword search. Read an article about it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/17/financial/f091731D92.DTL. See the search engine here: www.powerset.com.
Check out PC Magazine’s list of Top 100 Undiscovered Websites: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2174685,00.asp. There seem to be some great reference tools among these, including Ninjawords (a really fast dictionary – like a Ninja): http://www.ninjawords.com/ and Footnote: The place for original documents online: http://www.footnote.com/. The list includes websites in all kinds of categories from cooking to finance. If you are like me, you will want to bookmark several of these. Enjoy!
Full text digital collections of newspaper archives are incredibly useful tools for historians, students, and the general public. These tools typically offer simple keyword searching and more advanced searching of phrases, combinations of search terms, and date specific search ranges.
Many newspaper websites these days offer search access to their archives and so it’s a fairly simple process to go to a specific newspaper website and look for their archive database. If archives are available usually there is a prominent link somewhere on the newspaper’s homepage. There is a catch, however. Many, though not all, newspapers have established fee based subscription requirements for access to their valuable historical article archives. They may let you search the archive for free, but often payment of a fee is required to retrieve the full text of the article to your computer.
Fortunately for students and faculty, the USCA Library offers free access to the full text articles from some of the best newpapers in the US through subscription to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers archive. Newspapers included in this service are:
The service pemits searching of any one or combination or all of these newspapers at one time. Note that ProQuest also provides full text access to the current article databases for these newspapers and the Los Angeles Times. ProQuest does not permit searching of their historical and current databases at the same time.
The giant search engine Google recently introduced its own historical newpaper archive section. You can visit the Google News Archive Search at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.
A big advantage of the Google service is that it includes many, many more newspapers than ProQuest. Some of the hits you’ll find in Google’s service will feature access to free articles, however, as expected most articles in digital newspaper archives involve a fee to access the full text. Search hits found in searches of Google’s database include helpful extra features, such as links to recommended Web sites.
Should you just use one or the other of these great tools? Heck no; both are powerful research tools which should be consulted whenever you’ve got a research project concerning American history.
For full text access to current national and international newspapers, students and faculty at USCA should of course also consult the Lexis Nexis search engine. You can access the ProQuest and Lexis Nexis search engines by using the Database and E-Resources Index on the USCA Library homepage.
