Widgets, toolbars & add-ons, oh my!

Library tools
UW-Madison's Ebling Library has created a variety of tools for free download, including:

• Ebling Library toolbar - search MadCat, Google Scholar, PubMed, etc.
• iGoogle gadgets - Library Express, Find It, Refworks, MadCat, health science resources
• Browser extensions - Firefox addons and Greasemonkey scripts

Journal, newspaper & e-book databases

• Knovel e-books: biochemistry, biotechnology, food science, toxicology, engineering - widget, toolbar and search plugin
  
• Lexis-Nexis news & legal resources - browser toolbar
  
• JSTOR journal database - Facebook app
  
• WorldCat global library catalog - Facebook app

Health sciences
UW-Madison's Ebling Library has collected a variety of tools, including:

• National Library of Medicine toolbar - PubMed, Medline, Entrez, NLM/NIH resources
  
• HONcode toolbar - "health information you can trust"

Research citation management

• Endnote Web - Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins
• Refworks - Write-n-Cite and RefGrab-It tools
  
• Zotero - Firefox extension

Rice database wins award

The Rice Bibliography Database of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Library is the winner of the 2009 Oberly Award by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

This online search engine of the world’s scientific and technical rice literature has its roots in "The International Bibliography of Rice Research," first published in 1961 and then supplemented annually. Since 1996, the database has been online, and updated daily.

All publications represented by the database's 267,000+ entries are available in print or electronic format, and made available upon request.

More:

• Oberly Award press release
  
• What's New in the IRRI Library blog
• Global rice and agricultural trade liberalisation: poverty and welfare implications for South Asia (2008)
  
• Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora (2008)
  
• Arroz en Bolivia (2007)
  
• Weedy rices: origin, biology, ecology and control (2007)
• Neak sre = Les gens de la rizière = Rice people [videorecording] (2006)
• Monograph on genus Oryza (2003)