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The Internet Archive: How You Can Look Into The Web’S Past And Plan Your Future, Joe Zumalt Oct 2008

The Internet Archive: How You Can Look Into The Web’S Past And Plan Your Future, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

How to find historical pages on the World Wide Web with the Internet Archive.


"Open” Resources For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt Apr 2008

"Open” Resources For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Review of free resources available over the Web.


Wikipedia: A Multi-Lingual, Multi-Subject Resource Created By Potentially Anyone And Everyone, Joe Zumalt Jan 2008

Wikipedia: A Multi-Lingual, Multi-Subject Resource Created By Potentially Anyone And Everyone, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Review of the rise of Wikipedia.


Agris: An Fao Information Resource For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt Nov 2007

Agris: An Fao Information Resource For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

A review of AGRIS.


Agrovoc: A Multilingual Resource For Agricultural Journalists, Joe Zumalt May 2007

Agrovoc: A Multilingual Resource For Agricultural Journalists, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

A review of AGROVOC.


Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt Dec 2006

Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Resources within Google for agricultural journalists.


Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt Dec 2006

Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Agricultural communications" is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the "agriculture" and "communications" literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard databases such as CAB Abstracts and Communication Abstracts, while a good start, does not sufficiently cover the field. The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has, over the last quarter century, worked to help define and collect this literature, by identifying relevant documents and entering them into a Web-searchable Microsoft Access database. An analysis of this database reveals important clues concerning the …


A Primer On Agricultural Communications For Student, Librarians And Researchers, Joseph Zumalt Dec 2002

A Primer On Agricultural Communications For Student, Librarians And Researchers, Joseph Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

The article focuses on a primer on agricultural communications for student, librarians and researchers. Universities, libraries and librarians have served as partners to assist working professionals in all fields in agriculture. Universities have helped educate agriculture professionals. Universities have helped to create new knowledge. Libraries, especially at land grant institutions, have played a crucial role in disseminating this new knowledge and, increasingly, are seen as the logical place for archival activities, given the public nature of much of this knowledge. Universities and libraries have specifically played an important part in agricultural communications. While demographic changes in Western society, a switch …