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Open Access, Tools & Resources

TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library

Did you ever wonder what would happen if a bunch of librarians got exasperated enough about the underutilization of a huge corpus of material in their libraries’ collections (largely because of a lack of access points) to actually DO something about it? OK, probably not. But if you ever did, in the case of U.S. government technical reports, TRAIL is what happened. A grassroots effort … Continue reading TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library

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NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection

I have been thinking a lot lately about how science librarians can partner with Special Collections and Archives Librarians to teach students about scientific sources and data that are in special collections and archival collections. A cool digital archive is the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) Glacier Photograph Collection. This database contains over 16,600 digital (or digitized) photographs of glaciers from around the … Continue reading NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection

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