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Below are some resources I found of particular interest in the latest newsletter, and thought might be useful or interesting to other libraries. Please note that in no way are these resources affiliated with us, nor are we promoting them; as with anything on the web, ymmv.

AccessArt
http://www.accessart.org.uk/
“If you are a teacher, student, parent, home-user or artist looking for practical and inspirational visual arts resources, AccessArt is the site for you. Created by artists, our resources are packed full of ideas, inspiration and techniques which can be used at home, in school and in the community.”

AccessEngineering
http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/
AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere online engineering resource, formerly known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library.

BookRags
http://www.bookrags.com/
BookRags is the premier research site for students, with over 8.3 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks sourced from over 100 respected education databases.

Brainify
http://brainify.com/
Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students.
”Find the best academic websites, ask questions & connect with other students.”

Compendle
http://www.compendle.com/
“Compendle is a dynamic workspace where you can create, organise, review and publish courses online. It incorporates a suite of user-friendly tools which allow you to create vibrant, professional courses for who you want, when you want.”
Includes a free trial.

DeepDyve
http://www.deepdyve.com/
“For the first time, researchers, students, technical professionals, business users, and other information consumers can access a wealth of untapped information that resides on the "Deep Web" – the vast majority of the Internet that is not indexed by traditional, consumer-based search engines. The DeepDyve research engine unlocks this in-depth, professional content and returns results that are not cluttered by opinion sites and irrelevant content.”

MakeBeliefsComix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
An online comic generator. The site offers fun characters with different emotions to choose from, blank talk and thought balloons to fill in with text, and story and writing prompts.

OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://ocwconsortium.org/
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

DISCLAIMER: The State Library regularly highlights third-party events and online resources as a way to alert the library community to training and resource opportunities. By doing so, we are not endorsing the content of the event, nor promoting any specific product, but merely providing this information as an FYI to librarians who must then decide what is right for them.