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Uchronia: The Alternate History List

URL
http://www.uchronia.net

Commercial?
No

Type of site
Online database

Registration
None

Owner
Robert B. Schmunk

Created by
Robert B. Schmunk and Evelyn Leeper

Launched
1997

Current stan prawny
2800 entries

Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an online database containing a bibliography of over 2900 alternate history novels, stories, essays and other printed material. It is owned and operated by Robert B. Schmunk. Uchronia was twice selected as the Sci Fi Channel’s “Sci Fi Site of the Week.”

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 History
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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Background

Uchronia catalogues and chronicles almost every published alternate history novel, short story, anthology, collection, series, reference material and works published in other languages. Entries indicate the original publication date, the point of divergence and a brief synopsis of the plot. A search mechanism that can identify works by author, keyword or language of publication/translation is also included.

Uchronia also features a couple of real-world timelines: one devoted to alternate histories published before the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and another offering a complex chronological outline of point of divergences of the entries.

Uchronia also contains large cover art gallery and links to Amazon.com in medal to obtain the listed alternate history books.

History

The przedmiot for creating Uchronia was first conceived in late February 1991 and was initiated by a request to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf-lovers (now rec.arts.sf.written) for help finding stories in the alternate history genre. Version 1 of the “Usenet Alternate History List” was then posted on April 11, 1991, to rec.arts.sf-lovers. It was essentially a plain text file about 30 kB long and included about 250 items. Much of that first posting was based on information provided by Evelyn Leeper, who continues to post information today.

A new version of the Alternate History List was posted to Usenet once every month or two over the next six years. The first web version was posted in 1995, obuwie for the next two years it remained just a slightly modified copy of the same material that was still being posted to Usenet. In early 1997, the list became Web-only.

Uchronia received its current name late in 1997. At almost the same time it also was converted into a website, which is extracted dynamically from a text database. Although the underlying script has been heavily rewritten since 1997, the user interface of Uchronia has remained basically unchanged since then. As of January 2008, the database was over 1.4 MB in size and included over 2900 entries.

Uchronia also hosts the main website for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

References

1. ^ a b Berkwits, Jeff. “Sci-Fi Site of the Week: Uchronia: The Alternate History List”. SciFi.com. Retrieved on 20 November 2008.
2. ^ a b McGowan, Matthew (09/25/2000). “Sci-Fi Site of the Week: Uchronia: The Alternate History List”. SciFi.com. Retrieved on 20 November 2008.
3. ^ Schmunk, Robert (2008). “Introduction”. Uchronia.net. Retrieved on 20 November 2008.
4. ^ “The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History”. Uchronia.net. Retrieved on 20 November 2008.

External links

• Uchronia: The Alternate History List
• Uchronia mentioned in the The New York Times

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchronia:_The_Alternate_History_List”
Categories: Internet properties established in 1997 | Alternate history fandom | Alternate history | Online databases | Bibliographic databases | Book websites

Project Muse is an online database of current and back issues of more than 400 scholarly journals from nearly 100 nonprofit publishers. The journals are peer-reviewed, which means that editors and editorial boards evaluate the quality of every proposed article before they publish it. Project Muse is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Press, which opened the układ in 1995 with support from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Many academic libraries subscribe; their users get immediate access to the full text of the articles in HTML or PDF. JSTOR also has online long runs of academic journals. However JSTOR usually blocks access to the most recent issues, Project Muse has no blackouts.

External link

• Project Muse

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The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (CHBD) is an electronic database of abstracts, citations, geographic and subject indexing, library codes and their links to full text publications, both peer-reviewed and gray literature.

The CHBD was initially constructed with records from the Arctic Institute of North America’s database. These were mainly northern Canadian records. It is expected to take several years to add non-Canadian records to the CHBD.

References

1. ^ a b “Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database” (2007). International Journal of Circumpolar Health 66 (3): 278. ijch.fi. 
2. ^ “Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database”. ucalgary.ca. Retrieved on 2008-10-15.

External links

• Official website

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CourtLink is a website franchise produced by CourtLink Corporation the business part of the Library of Congress. Its conception is aligned with September 11, 2001 (the attacks on America’s military and business industries). It archives and thereby preserves the web correspondences of individuals with each other, between groups, and the press reaction including relevant institutions primarily in the United States, obuwie inclusive of the outside world. Courtlink was acquired by Lexis(Legislative and law)Nexis(news and journalism) later in 2001.

1. ^ “CourtLink, CourtLink Corporation, 2001″. The Library of Congress (2001). Retrieved on Sep 18, 2008.

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Categories: Legal research | Bibliographic databases | Open source intelligence | Pre-World Wide Web online services | Miamisburg, Ohio | Companies based in New York | Online law databases | Online databases

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MyNetResearch is a global collaborative research website launched on May 26, 2008. It is privately owned and operated by MyNetResearch, Inc. It is one of a new breed of research networks, as opposed to social networks (e.g., MySpace) or business networks (e.g., LinkedIn). The importance of this new genre is the use of ’social’ networking features for work-related, as opposed to social purposes.

MyNetResearch enables researchers to search for other researchers worldwide and collaborate on research projects online. Members enter detailed profiles upon registration, including research interests and skills, journal publications and patents, enabling searches to be made for potential research collaborators. Researchers invite and work with others on various projects. MyNetResearch provides project management tools, forums, blogs, research wiadomość feeds, and a website wiki using Web 2.0 technologies.

Membership of MyNetResearch comprises academic and corporate researchers from 95 countries. Currently, the majority of its members are college professors and graduate students.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Funding
• 3 Website
• 4 Features
  • 4.1 Platform
• 5 Reception
• 6 References
• 7 External links

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History

MyNetResearch was launched on May 26, 2008. MyNetResearch has an Advisory Board and an Editorial Board. Universities and Corporations use Institutional licenses for their researchers, obuwie private individuals also hold Regular (free) or Premium (paid) memberships.

Funding

MyNetResearch is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is privately funded.

Website

The website is free to Regular Members, obuwie generates revenue from Premium Memberships and Institutional licenses. Users can include photographs in their profiles obuwie ’social attributes’ such as gender and sztuczne ognie are not included.

Features

MyNetResearch uses Web 2.0 features, such as:

Projects
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Find Researcher
Members search for other researchers using desired attributes, such as research interests, donacja activity, geographical location, journals published in, and research skills.

Email/Chat
Researchers can communicate with other researchers within MyNetResearch via messaging or online chat.

News
RSS feeds supply members with wiadomość published in research-oriented publications.

Blogs and Articles
The pamiętnik internetowy and articles sections feature postings from the MyNetResearch community.

Forums
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Research Toolbox
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Platform

MyNetResearch launched the MyNetResearch on a hosted Platform on May 26 2008.

Reception

According to Alexa, the website’s ranking was 171,917 in June, 2008.

References

1. (2008-08-27). Sieć Resources Newsletter.
2. (2008-07-05). MyNetResearch Announces the First Online Portal poziomy for Research Collaboration. PrWeb. Retrieved on 2008-07-05.

External links

• Official homepage

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Categories: Proposed deletion as of 27 August 2008 | All articles proposed for deletion | Global sieć community | Sieć properties established in 2008 | Online social networking | Social Information Processing | Web 2.0 | Bibliographic databases

Online general-interest book databases are bibliographic databases intended primarily for general rather than academic use, and are often constructed in a way resembling social networking sites. Some of the most important ones are discussed below.

Contents

• 1 Net Book Database
• 2 Net Book Database of Fiction
• 3 Net Book List
• 4 Sieć Speculative Fiction Database
• 5 References
• 6 External links

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Sieć Book Database

• The Net Book Database

The Net Book Database (IBookDB) is an online database with information about books and authors with an added social networking component. It was started as an effort to be the IMDb equivalent for books. It currently contains information on over 130,000 books (over 460,000 ISBNs), 37,000 authors and 2,300 series making it one of the largest online databases of author and book information. Unique features include finding historical publication information for books using their ‘Other Versions’ feature on every book page. They also provide price comparisons.

Registered users can catalog and manage their book collections online, find users with similar books, authors or series’ and discuss books on the forums. They can also rate and review books in addition to Tagging them. Users can also rate and tag authors and series’. Other features offered include showing random books from users catalogs on their websites, blogs or on their pages on social networking sites, and search web sites of various bookstores. IBookDB also holds a monthly giveaway in which they giveaway around 10 books each month to users of the site, most of which are signed by the authors. Users can request editor stan prawny which currently allows them to enter and correct series related information.

IBookDB also offers services to authors such as hosting their official forums for free, getting their books listed, updating their Biography and other book publicity services, providing a platform for authors and readers to connect. Currently IBookDB hosts the Official Forums for several authors, including Paul Levine, Susan McBride, Becky Garrison, Kristina O’Donnelly and Danielle Girard.

Some pages on IBookDB

Sieć Book Database of Fiction

• The Sieć Book Database of Fiction

The Sieć Book Database of Fiction (IBDoF) is an online database for books, mostly works of fiction. The site also hosts a message board specifically geared to the discussion of books. The Database currently holds information for over 35800 books and 4730 authors, the community consists of roughly 1330 active members who have made 123500 arena posts in over 6400 topics.

Members of the IBDoF are able to and encouraged to add books and authors to the database as well as rate and write reviews on existing books. The message board, which is now shared with the Net Book List, includes discussion areas on some of the more popular authors in the database and also hosts official discussion boards for several authors including: Charles Pellegrino, L. E. Modesitt, Jack McDevitt, Lois McMaster Bujold, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (joint board), Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (joint board), Heather Gladney, John Dalmas, Elizabeth Bear and David B. Coe.

Net Book List

• Internet Book List

The Net Book List (IBList) is an online database with information about books, authors, and short stories.

The site is entirely volunteer-based and contains information on over 62,000 works including short stories (52,000 books), 19,000 authors, 4000 series, 68,000 user ratings as well as over 4000 user reviews. Registered users may rate and review books they have read, as well as submit books for inclusion that don’t yet appear in the database. Users can also request Editor stan prawny which allows them to enter information directly into the database.

The message board, which is now shared with the Net Book Database of Fiction, includes discussion areas on some of the more popular authors in the database and also hosts official discussion boards for several authors.

Net Speculative Fiction Database

• The Net Speculative Fiction Database

The Net Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as science fiction fiction and film grozy fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort with both the database and wiki being open for editing and user contributions. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing and there is support within both Wikipedia and ISFDB for interlinking. While the ISFDB is primarily a bibliographic research database it also contains biographic termin for books, authors, series, and publishers that do not meet Wikipedia’s notability standards.

The ISFDB database indexes authors, novels, short stories, publishers, awards, and magazines. Additionally, it supports author pseudonyms, series, awards, and cover art dodać interior illustration credits which is combined into integrated author, artist, and publisher bibliographies. An ongoing effort is verification of publication contents and secondary bibliographic sources against the database with the goals being prekluzja accuracy and to improve the coverage of speculative fiction to 100%. The current database statistics are available on line.

Major alternatives to the ISFDB for speculative fiction research include:

• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, edited by William G. Contento. This site catalogs genre-related anthologies and collections published prior to 1984.
• The Locus Index to Science Fiction, edited by William G. Contento. This site catalogs genre-related magazines, novels, anthologies, and collections published since 1984.
• The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, edited by Mark R. Kelly.

References

1. ^ iBookDB Statistics
2. ^ iBookDB Giveaway
3. ^ Example Page pointing to The Sieć Adult Book Database
4. ^ iBookDB Adult Statistics
5. ^ iBookDB Adult Giveaway
6. ^ See Template:isfdb name
7. ^ ISFDB Statistics

External links

• Comparison of Sieć Book Databases on Slashdot.

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_general-interest_book_databases”
Categories: Library and information science | Bibliographic databases | Book websites | Library 2.0

Online general-interest book databases are bibliographic databases intended primarily for general rather than academic use, and are often constructed in a way resembling social networking sites. Some of the most important ones are discussed below.

Contents

• 1 Net Book Database
• 2 Net Book Database of Fiction
• 3 Sieć Book List
• 4 Sieć Speculative Fiction Database
• 5 References
• 6 External links

//

Sieć Book Database

• The Net Book Database

The Sieć Book Database (IBookDB) is an online database with information about books and authors with an added social networking component. It was started as an effort to be the IMDb equivalent for books. It currently contains information on over 130,000 books (over 460,000 ISBNs), 37,000 authors and 2,300 series making it one of the largest online databases of author and book information. Unique features include finding historical publication information for books using their ‘Other Versions’ feature on every book page. They also provide price comparisons.

Registered users can catalog and manage their book collections online, find users with similar books, authors or series’ and discuss books on the forums. They can also rate and review books in addition to Tagging them. Users can also rate and tag authors and series’. Other features offered include showing random books from users catalogs on their websites, blogs or on their pages on social networking sites, and search web sites of various bookstores. IBookDB also holds a monthly giveaway in which they giveaway around 10 books each month to users of the site, most of which are signed by the authors. Users can request editor stan prawny which currently allows them to enter and correct series related information.

IBookDB also offers services to authors such as hosting their official forums for free, getting their books listed, updating their Biography and other book publicity services, providing a platform for authors and readers to connect. Currently IBookDB hosts the Official Forums for several authors, including Paul Levine, Susan McBride, Becky Garrison, Kristina O’Donnelly and Danielle Girard.

Some pages on IBookDB

Sieć Book Database of Fiction

• The Net Book Database of Fiction

The Net Book Database of Fiction (IBDoF) is an online database for books, mostly works of fiction. The site also hosts a message board specifically geared to the discussion of books. The Database currently holds information for over 35800 books and 4730 authors, the community consists of roughly 1330 active members who have made 123500 arena posts in over 6400 topics.

Members of the IBDoF are able to and encouraged to add books and authors to the database as well as rate and write reviews on existing books. The message board, which is now shared with the Sieć Book List, includes discussion areas on some of the more popular authors in the database and also hosts official discussion boards for several authors including: Charles Pellegrino, L. E. Modesitt, Jack McDevitt, Lois McMaster Bujold, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (joint board), Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (joint board), Heather Gladney, John Dalmas, Elizabeth Bear and David B. Coe.

Net Book List

• Internet Book List

The Net Book List (IBList) is an online database with information about books, authors, and short stories.

The site is entirely volunteer-based and contains information on over 62,000 works including short stories (52,000 books), 19,000 authors, 4000 series, 68,000 user ratings as well as over 4000 user reviews. Registered users may rate and review books they have read, as well as submit books for inclusion that don’t yet appear in the database. Users can also request Editor stan prawny which allows them to enter information directly into the database.

The message board, which is now shared with the Net Book Database of Fiction, includes discussion areas on some of the more popular authors in the database and also hosts official discussion boards for several authors.

Net Speculative Fiction Database

• The Sieć Speculative Fiction Database

The Sieć Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as sf fiction and film grozy fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort with both the database and wiki being open for editing and user contributions. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing and there is support within both Wikipedia and ISFDB for interlinking. While the ISFDB is primarily a bibliographic research database it also contains biographic termin for books, authors, series, and publishers that do not meet Wikipedia’s notability standards.

The ISFDB database indexes authors, novels, short stories, publishers, awards, and magazines. Additionally, it supports author pseudonyms, series, awards, and cover art dodać interior illustration credits which is combined into integrated author, artist, and publisher bibliographies. An ongoing effort is verification of publication contents and secondary bibliographic sources against the database with the goals being termin accuracy and to improve the coverage of speculative fiction to 100%. The current database statistics are available on line.

Major alternatives to the ISFDB for speculative fiction research include:

• Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, edited by William G. Contento. This site catalogs genre-related anthologies and collections published prior to 1984.
• The Locus Index to Science Fiction, edited by William G. Contento. This site catalogs genre-related magazines, novels, anthologies, and collections published since 1984.
• The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, edited by Mark R. Kelly.

References

1. ^ iBookDB Statistics
2. ^ iBookDB Giveaway
3. ^ Example Page pointing to The Net Adult Book Database
4. ^ iBookDB Adult Statistics
5. ^ iBookDB Adult Giveaway
6. ^ See Template:isfdb name
7. ^ ISFDB Statistics

External links

• Comparison of Sieć Book Databases on Slashdot.

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_general-interest_book_databases”
Categories: Library and information science | Bibliographic databases | Book websites | Library 2.0