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I found these images, one, two, when I typed in “tent” in the “search all fields” field and selected image as resource type. The site is OAIster, which is a digital library, which has 3,273,233 records from 301 institutions. Its my new magic eight ball. (via)
I have used that site often for off-beat and interesting things...it is indeed a fine place to go to seek the offbeat, unusual etc and to come up with surprises.
posted by Postroad at 8:17 AM on June 20, 2004
posted by Postroad at 8:17 AM on June 20, 2004
Nice.
posted by Quartermass at 9:44 AM on June 20, 2004
posted by Quartermass at 9:44 AM on June 20, 2004
Quite the eclectic group of databases...a flea market of archives. heh.
posted by jaronson at 11:11 AM on June 20, 2004
posted by jaronson at 11:11 AM on June 20, 2004
Wow, what a cool resource. I found the wording of their mission a little funny:
Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources
So, they're going to *try* to make it difficult to access? :)
Great post.
posted by scarabic at 12:09 PM on June 20, 2004
Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources
So, they're going to *try* to make it difficult to access? :)
Great post.
posted by scarabic at 12:09 PM on June 20, 2004
Yes! I recently blogged about how difficult it was to find and access scholarly information without access to a school that subscribes to a large number of databases. Even when things are republished elsewhere traditional search methods like google are lacking for this type of information retrival. I'm glad to see someone agrees. Now, if only those $$$ databases would allow access for personal use, the world would be perfect.
posted by Grod at 1:29 PM on June 20, 2004
posted by Grod at 1:29 PM on June 20, 2004
An awesome bounty of historic hilarity!
Get down and waltz your honey with some hot Arabian Love
And be sure not to miss Ranee oriental wonder woman in miracles of India. She performs amazing feats that will cause you to discredit your eyesight!
posted by Meridian at 5:45 AM on June 21, 2004
Get down and waltz your honey with some hot Arabian Love
And be sure not to miss Ranee oriental wonder woman in miracles of India. She performs amazing feats that will cause you to discredit your eyesight!
posted by Meridian at 5:45 AM on June 21, 2004
Hmm. The first result of a search for "blah" is A Generic Collapse Result for FO + poly Extended with a Connectivity Predicate. Sounds about right.
posted by Shane at 7:42 AM on June 21, 2004
posted by Shane at 7:42 AM on June 21, 2004
Great post. Thank you. I found a paper my dad wrote while in gradute school 44 years ago. He liked it too.
posted by Shike at 11:00 AM on June 21, 2004
posted by Shike at 11:00 AM on June 21, 2004
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