[ResourceShelf] Newsletter 464
Gary Price
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Number 464 July 15, 2010
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we've been continually updating ResourceShelf since 2001 and
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Resource of the Week - E-mail Newsletters That Are Still Worth It
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
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I don't subscribe to very many listservs anymore, and I've gone to RSS
in lieu of most e-mail newsletters. Dealing with e-mail in general can
be tedious and time-consuming. And yet it remains useful...and popular
as a information delivery mechanism. Case in point - our e-mail
newsletters for ResourceShelf and DocuTicker go out to more than
22,000 folks every week.
But e-mail newsletters are not only an info delivery mechanism. They
can also serve as 'ticklers' to remind you to check certain websites
for content updates you don't want to miss. Our newsletters here, for
example, present just a tiny fraction of the content we've added to
both of our websites in the course of an average week. Both
ResourceShelf and DocuTicker are updated continually throughout the
day, all week long.
At any rate, here are some other newsletters I still look at
regularly, which you may or may not find useful as well.
* The Mighell Marker: A Legal Technology Weekly
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This newsletter is an offshoot of Inter Alia, a legal technology
weblog maintained by Tom Mighell, senior counsel and litigation
technology support coordinator at Cowles & Thompson in Dallas. It
focuses mainly on websites and other resources of particular
relevance to attorneys and legal researchers, but almost anyone will
find something of interest each week. The current issue, for
example, provides pointers to the research area of the Dana Farber
Cancer Institute website, as well as a post from makeuseof.com on
about the Top 5 Tools That Will Help You Locate Your Lost Cell
Phone. Sign up here.
* Brookings Alert
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This is a weekly update that provides a summary of new reports and
other resources on the Brookings Institution website. Brookings is a
venerable think tank that does work in a wide range of public policy
areas - and a reliable source of interesting items that we post
regularly on DocuTicker. Sign up here, where you'll also find a
listing of all the specific topic-oriented newsletters offered by
Brookings, on everything from China to health care policy.
* INFOMINE Alert Service
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INFOMINE, a ginormous scholarly internet resources collection, has
been around since you had to connect to the Internet with Dixie cups
and string. Created and maintained by academic librarians, it offers
'useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals,
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to receive these alerts.
* The Scout Report
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Another venerable resource, this weekly newsletter is the 'flagship
publication' of the Internet Scout Project. It's been around since
1994, and more than 250,000 folks read it every week. "Published every
Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient
way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team
of professional librarians and subject matter experts select,
research, and annotate each resource." Enough said. Sign up here.
* Uncle Sam, meanwhile, pumps out a wide range e-mail newsletters, for
just about any kind of information you can imagine. You can sign up
for as many as you want from this central location. Some newer
offering include:
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* International Environmental and Climate Change Issues
* Democracy, Human Rights, and Refugees
* State Department Highlights
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* Pandemic Flu Updates
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Looking for e-mail newsletters on a specific topic? Give the New-List
directory a try. Search or browse through more than 9,200 e-mail
newsletters, organized by category. It can, however, be somewhat
tedious to pick through here; it's up to you to separate the wheat
from the chaff. For librarian-oriented info, check AcqWeb's Directory
of Journals, Newsletters and Electronic Discussion Archives. (Note:
there are plenty of things here that will interest non-librarians,
including pointers to other news/newsletter directories.)
Oh, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point you to the sign-up pages for
the ResourceShelf and the DocuTicker weekly newsletters.
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