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IE 7 Quick Reference Sheet
Are you a Internet Explorer User? Check out this handy IE 7 reference guide sheet for quick tips and tricks for using this browser effectively.
Microsoft Office Product Alternatives
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The JRL library’s SuperHOMER workstations are NOT equipped with the Microsoft Office products (word, excel, powerpoint, access). You can however save or email a word document so you can download and view the document for quick edits. Please remember to save (using a USB portable drive) or email (to another email account like Huskymail) a back up copy to your work.
The campus microlab has the Microsoft Office products. Howerver, there are some free alternatives out there. Google offer’s “Docs and Spreadsheets” (formerly called Writely).
For non-Office users who need a rough equivalent to Office should examine the Zoho Virtual Office (www.zoho.com) It doesn’t have the polish or the features of Microsoft’s offerings, but it does have similar core functionality and it’s free.
As with Google-created documents, the documents created by Zoho’s applications are stored on the web, so you can get to them from any Internet-connected computer.
GoodSearch
Let your Internet searching help a good cause! GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50 percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It’s a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSerach exactly as you would any other search engine and it is powered by Yahoo! so you get proven search results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers — the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!
Enter the charity or school you support here, click “verify,” then search from above. You can even donate to UCONN!
Algae Database Finished
The Benthic Marine Algal Herbarium of Long Island Sound Digital Collection, created, digitized, and cataloged by JRL librarians Shelley Cudiner and Nancy Gillies, has finally been completed. Professor Charles Yarish donated his collection and taxonomic expertise. This database was created to produce an identification database of collected and pressed specimens of algae from the Long Island Sound for teaching purposes while at the same time creating an image archive for UConn’s algal herbarium. Specimans from the University of New Hampshire and the Millstone Environmental Lab have also been included. There are 299 images and accompanying photographs of all 236 Long Island Sound species. Check it out. www.algae.uconn.edu
Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online_ is now available
[ http://darwin-online.org.uk/ ]
This site contains Darwins complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts. There are over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. There is also the largest Darwin bibliography and the largest manuscript catalogue ever published. More than 150 ancillary texts are included, ranging from reference works to reviews, obituaries, descriptions of the Beagle specimens and related works for understanding Darwin’s context. Free audio mp3 versions of his works are also available.
Find Reference Books Online at UConn
A web site has been developed by librarians at the Homer Babbidge Library in Storrs to make it easy to find electronic reference books that have been purchased by UConn. Reference Books Online allows you to browse titles or subject to find a wealth of information traditionally found on library reference shelves. Many of these electronic books are only available to UConn students, faculty, & staff. If you have a valid NetID but are off-campus, please log into the Libraries’ VPN before accessing this page.
Reference books online. Check it out!
WorldCat.org
Web users can now search the collections of the world’s libraries through the new WorldCat.org site
Source: LibraryTechnology.org, 8/8/06
Center for Research Libraries: a valuable resource
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a non-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that aims at acquiring and making available important but relatively rarely used materials in support of teaching and research. Its outstanding collections include over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources. Because the University Libraries have membership in CRL, the University of Connecticut students, faculty, and staff may borrow these collections through Interlibrary Loan. For more information, see: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/services/crl/crl.htm
Orangoo (online spell checker)
This little application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access.
Spell check in 28 languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, ελληνικά, English, Español, Eesti keel, Français, עִבְרִית, हिंदी, Hrvatski, Italiano, Latviešu, Lietuvių, kalba, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Română, Slovenščina, Slovenčina, Suomi, Svenska, Türkçe and РУССКИЙ!