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Tom:

Somehow I started getting messages from this site. I did do a little
research on IR this year, but that is it. I have no idea what my username
or password is. Could you please remove me from this list? Thanks.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wilson [mailto:t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:11 PM
To: irweblog.irweblog
Subject: IR-WEBLOG Resource for ornithologists

Msg URL: http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/312
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If you are a bird-watcher ('birder', if in the USA) or, more seriously, of
an ornithological bent, you'll find the Ornithological Worldwide Literature
<http://egizoosrv.zoo.ox.ac.uk/OWL/> (OWL) site of interest. It's a
collaborative affair:

OWL is a joint effort between the American Ornithological Union and the
British Ornithological Union and Birds Australia. The database is hosted by
the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, based in the Zoology
Department of Oxford University, UK

Moreover:

Eventually, the online database will go back 50 or more years to acquire
citations to the serial literature. OWL will proceed well into this century
with a database of the current worldwide literature that would be of
interest to ornithologists.

The database is reported to have 19,000 entries at the moment - but that
should increase substantially, given the plans.

Be sure to take a look at 'Help with syntax' before you search - otherwise,
like me, you are likely to get nothing but an error message. There's no
automatic 'AND'ing.

Curious that a site with the acronym OWL, should have a picture of what
appears to be a plasticene humming bird!

That acronym is really too common. A quick search reveals:

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>
OWL - the discovery magazine for kids <http://www.owlkids.com/owl/>
OWL.org (Our Web Location for education) <http://www.owl.org/index.jsp>
OWL Composite Protein Sequence Database
<http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/OWL/>
OWL Web Ontology Language <http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/>
OWL - Older Women's League <http://www.owl-national.org/>
Career OWL <http://www.careerowl.ca/>
The ESO 100-m OWL Telescope concept <http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/>
OWL-online.de <http://www.owl-online.de/>
Openwall GNU/*/Linux <http://www.openwall.com/Owl/>
[A site for women's organizations in Russia] <http://www.owl.ru/>


I thought I'd give the links, just in case someone isn't interested in
birds!

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