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David P. Dillard, founder of the Yahoo! group “NetGold,” posted a collection of links to grant resources and Webliograpies on grants in message Yahoo! Groups : NetGold Messages : Message 798 of 800.

NetGold is a valuable resource for librarians. It is also useful to LIS students, as it may alert the student to subjects of interest to working librarians. It can serve as a starting point—using the links—for a research paper.

Version 52 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Web site, published by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., was released today. It contains roughly 2050 citations relating to “selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.”

This is of interest to future librarians because it has references to issues of interest to—or should be of interest—the Information Age librarian. Citations cover intellectual property rights, cataloging identifiers and metadata, e-prints, information integrity, and much more.

If the cited article has public accessible Internet access, such as an HTML page, the citation contains a link to it. Bailey has a Table of Contents to each category of citations and has a last updated notation. This is a must bookmark Web site for anyone interested in future directions in libraries and publishing.

For years, Sloan has been keeping a bibliography of everything written about digital reference services at DIGITAL REFERENCE SERVICES BIBLIOGRAPHY: A SUPPLEMENT. This link is to the supplement, and as of today it was last updated on November 18, 2003. Where it is possible, he has provided links to the digital form of the article. If you want to learn about what is happening in digital reference, or are writing a paper, this is an absolute first stop for your literature review of the state of digital or virtual reference.