[mou] Birding journal on the web

[Jim Williams]

This note might be of interest to those of you who have reason to consult
past issues of the journal of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. The WSO
has put the contents of The Passenger Pigeon on the web in a fully
searchable format. Details on this valuable effort are described below.
Jim Williams
Wayzata

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From: "Howe, Robert W." <hower@uwgb.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:28:05 -0500
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@lawrence.edu>
Subject: [wisb] Passenger Pigeon on the web

 
Wisconsin birders and researchers should be pleased to learn that Volumes
1-63 (through 2001) of the WSO publication, The Passenger Pigeon, are now
available on the web in a fully searchable format.  This means that you can
enter a word or phrase (e.g., Yellow Rail, hummingbird, Tom Soulen) in the
"Search" window and you will be returned a list of articles and pages where
this term or phrase was used.
 
The web resource is part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection
Series, a project designed to bring quality Wisconsin-related resources from
academic libraries to students, faculty, and the general public.  Also
available are Wisconsin DNR technical reports, Proceedings of the North
American Prairie Conferences, and other useful references.
 
We decided not to include the most recent issues of the Passenger Pigeon in
order to encourage people to join WSO or to keep their existing membership.
 
Credit for this important project is due to fellow birder, Nolan Pope, who
is a member of the UW Digital Collection Series Advisory Committee; Nolan
first suggested the idea and shepherded the work through the technical
stages.            
 
Here's the link to the Ecology and Natural Resources Collection, which
includes the Passenger Pigeon.  Be sure to make it a "bookmark" or
"favorite" on your web browser for future reference:
 
http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/EcoNatRes/
 
The general link to the UW Digital Collection Series is the following:
 
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections.html
 
 
For a sense of history, check out Volume 1, page 1:
 
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/EcoNatRes/EcoNatRes-idx?type=article
&byte=90493394&isize=M
 
Happy reading.
 
Bob Howe
 
<http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/EcoNatRes/>

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