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The article provides information on several movie review Web sites. Roger Ebert's Web site, at www.rogerebert.com, offers an archive of reviews dating from 1967, along with reviews of Great Movies ranging from Birth of Nation (1915) to Fargo (1996). If you want to search an archive of more than 15,000 reviews, visit the Movie section of the online version of The New York Times, at movies.nytimes.com. The archive includes the reviews published in the paper since 1960 as well as selected reviews dating from 1913. For an overview of critical reaction from print and online critics, visit Rotten Tomatoes at www.rottentomatoes.com.

This article announces that Nature Publishing Group and the Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for neuroscience and genomics research. The Neuroscience Gateway, which was available in early May 2006, provides the latest papers, neuroscience news, and free access to highlights lights of key articles. It will also provide free access to highlighted primary research papers from journals in the Nature family as well as direct access to the Allen Brain Atlas, a freely available scientific resource developed by the Allen Institute.

Announces that the Library of Congress has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site. How the Jefferson papers include correspondence, memorandum, notes, and manuscript volumes; Consideration of how the local link resolver can link from the HLAS Online records to the Web resources.

This article reports on SocINDEX databases offered by EBSCO Publishing as of June 2005. SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text are now available via EBSCOhost. SoclNDEX features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a 15,000-term sociology-specific thesaurus as welt as abstracts for more than 620 core journals dating back to 1895. It also provides priority coverage of more than 500 journals and selective coverage of more than 1,070 other journals. Indexing for books, conference papers, and other sources is included, as are searchable cited references. SoclNDEX with Full Text provides the same indexing and abstracts as Soc-lNDEX, as well as the full text of 72 priority journals and 241 core journals dating back to 1895. The database also includes the full text of 545 books and 6,711 conference papers.

ISI ResearchSoft announced the release of WriteNote, a Web-based research and writing tool designed for the undergraduate market. Sold as an annual, sitewide subscription to the institution, WriteNote is designed to help students conduct research and compose papers. WriteNote, which is customized for each campus, takes students to their library resources. There, users can search for relevant content and capture references into their personal library folders. They can also annotate and save Web pages for citing in their papers..

The article discusses various papers published in the July/August 2008 issues of "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research ONLINE and Searcher." In the article "Water Resources: Tracking Freshwater," Jackie Shane highlighted some of the best resources for gathering information on surface and groundwater. She noted that combined ground and surface water accounts for nearly 0.6 percent of Earth's water. Carol Ginsburg and William Noorlander discussed the issue of outsourcing in their article "Investigating Outsourcing and Offshoring Research." In "Researching the Americas' First Peoples: Sources and Searching Problems," Nancy Herther addressed the communication problems between Native Americans and European descendants.

This article focuses on the things that online users hate about Web sites and the Internet. Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor at Columbia University, wrote a column titled Stuff I Hate, for PoynterOnline in 2005. He wrote a similar piece in 2003. In each, he asked readers to tell him what they hated online. Responses to his most recent article indicate that things haven't really improved. For example, there are still plenty of Web sites that don't include easy-to-find contact information. One person complained about going to a newspaper Web page and not being able to figure out where the paper is located. A medical writer said he was frustrated by Web stories without a date because he can't tell how fresh or how stale the information is. Other peeves included slow-loading home pages, often due to promiscuous use of music or graphics; pages that mess with a user's browser; Web sites that require downloading special software in order to access content; sites that present a seizure-inducing Flash introductory page; and links that start the download of unexpectedly large portable document format files without warning.

This article provides information on the Web portal, DocuTicker. In 2004, Gary Price planned to spin off a new Weblog from his popular ResourceShelf. This one would be devoted, purely and simply, to identifying new reports from government agencies, trade associations, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and other organizations that releases research studies, and position papers. Since then, DocuTicker has taken on a life of its own. DocuTicker is never lacking for sustenance. Substance, on the other hand, is a separate issue. Substance, like beauty, is definitely in the eye of the beholder. This can be heard from journalists who have gotten story ideas from things they have seen on DocuTicker. From people who latch onto an interesting item and wonder where they can find similar material. And also from folks who feel that there are too much liberal stuff or too much conservative stuff posted at the site. DocuTicker does not have an ideological slant. Basically, they post anything that someone might want to read because the topic is current, it contains potentially useful statistics, and a helpful bibliography is included. However, DocuTicker does not include commentary from its contributors Internet.

This article reviews the Learner's Library (LL) database produced by Knowledge Ventures Inc. It is a database of multidisciplinary, full-text journal articles intended primarily for college students. Social science has the largest number of titles, with approximately 80. Arts and humanities, science and current events each have about 50 and business has about 20. The database's search results are often thin and spotty, with the same few periodicals providing the bulk of the retrieval in a given search. It uses relevance searching and there is no field limiting or data searching. It is the only service that has only one search method. An LL search identifies the passage within the individual document that has the highest occurrence of search terms and it sorts results accordingly. The idea is that users do not have to read through a lengthy and difficult article. Users just cut the database's quote and paste it into their research paper. There are two major faults with the database's searching. First, searches are full of duplicates. Moreover, the documents provided lack original graphics such as tables, charts and illustrations. LL is a subscription service that is sold to individuals. The cost is $9.95/week, $24.95/month, $49.95/6 months and $74.95/year.

The article offers information on the State Papers Online, one of Gale/Cengage Learning's latest digital collections which brings a host of British primary documents to life from the Tudor and Stuart government and society from 1509 to 1714. When the four-part project is completed in 2011, users will have access to nearly 3 million pages of reports, letters, memos, and parliamentary drafts from the 16th through the early 18th centuries.

Notes the policy of Elsevier Science regarding permanent archiving of electronic journals. Plans to maintain electronic journals through ScienceDirect perpetually and ensure redundancy and the ability to re-create the files should disaster strike; The need for a secure electronic archive during the transition from paper to electronic; Other details.