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Sure, Ed - no problem.

Tom

Quoting Ed Manning <edmanning@bellsouth.net>:

> Msg URL: http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/314 > -------------------------------------- > > 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 > -------------------------------------- > > 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! > > -------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe from this list visit: > http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/members/settings/preferences$convers > ation=irweblog&plugin=Email%20Interface > > > > -------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe from this list visit: > http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/members/settings/preferences$conversation=irweblog&plugin=Email%20Interface > >

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