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The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782; Part IV: State Papers, Foreign, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/state-papersonline-eighteenth-century-part-iv.

The article reviews the website database "The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990" from the Gale firm Cengage Learning, located at http://www.gale.com/moml-aclu-papers.

The article evaluates various databases and online products released in 2016, including "American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990," from Gale, "The Criminal Justice & Criminology Video Collection," from SAGE Knowledge and "Cancer Biology," from Annual Review.

The article reports on controversies involving Sci-Hub, the world's largest website for sharing scholarly literature. Many publishers have complained regarding the theft of copyrighted material, and the Association of American Publishers has censured an academic librarian for his comments on Sc-Hub during a panel at the American Library Association conference in June 2016. Elsevier sued the site, its founder Alexandra Elbakyan and LibGen for copyright infringement and hacking in June 2015.

The article reviews several academic databases including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers from Proquest, Silent Film Online from Alexander Street Press, and Britannica Library from Britannica Digital Learning.

The article reviews the Web site UN iLibrary, from United Nations, located at www.un-ilibrary.org.

The article reviews the web site Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences from Morgan and Claypool Publishers.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on reviews of online resources related to the People's Republic of China including the websites China Data Online, Chinese Research Perspectives Online, and Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894–1945 by educational publishing company Gale Cengage.

The article reviews the web site "Bloom's Literature" located at http://www.infobase.com/product/academia/blooms-literature-2/ from Infobase.

The article features the database World Religions Online from Infobase.

The article reviews the web site The Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I, located at www.gale.com/archives-of-sexuality-and-gender-lgbtq/.

The article reviews the web site Global Health, located at www.cabi.org, from CABI.

The article reviews the web site African American Newspapers which is an online collection of seven newspapers published by African Americans during the 19th century.

The article reviews several web sites related to military history including Armed Conflict Database from the Institute for Strategic Studies located at www.acd.iiss.org, Military & Government Collection from EbscoHost located at www.ebscohost.com/government/military-government-collection, and Military & Intelligence Database Collection from Gale Cengage Learning located at www. galetrials.com.

The article reviews several reference web sites including Artcyclopedia at artcyclopedia.com which is a search engine for art, Europeana 1914–1918 at europeana1914–1918.eu/en which offers a collection of resources on World War I, and Nutrition Data at nutritiondata.com.

The article evaluates the Shen Bao Digital Archive available through information services company East View Information Services at http://eastview.com.

The article reviews the web site "Migration to New World" located at http://www.migration.amdigital.co.uk, from Adam Matthew Digital.

The article reviews several web sites related to military history including American Civil War Online from Alexander Street Press located at www.alexanderstreet.com/products/american-civil-war-online-package, Archives Unbound from Gale Cengage Learning located at www.galetrials.com, and The First World War from Adam Matthew Digital located at www.firstworldwar.amdigital.co.uk.

The article reviews the website Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society located at www.gale.com/c/amateur-newspapersfrom- the-american-antiquarian-society.

The article reviews several free web sites about U.S. politics and elections including CQ Researcher at library.cqpress.com, MyGovernment at www.galetrials.com, and PolicyMap at www.policymap.com.

The article reviews the website America's Historical Newspapers (AHN), located at www.readex.com/content/americas-historical-newspapers, from the Readex division of the group Newsbank.

The article offers information on the online resource, The Vogue Archive which offers contents on textiles and dress, popular culture, and graphic design. The resource features a search box wherein a researcher can find contents and view the latest issues of the magazine Vogue. It also features topics related to fashion, history and gender studies.

The article reviews the Web site J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America, developed by Adam Matthew Digital, located at http://www.jwtadvertisingamerica.

The article reviews the website http://www.literaryprintculture.amdigital.co.uk/, which provides literary prints.

The author reflects on library resource discovery for self-published books and electronic books. According to the author, library patrons are interested in reading books that interest them regardless of the publishing pedigree. Particular focus is given to the electronic book collections of the OverDrive app, as well as its self-published section. Also mentioned are the use of vendor catalogs in searching for print works, Edelweiss discovery tool, and the Goodreads site.

The article discusses the implications for libraries of the utility of semantic search and linked data. According to Jeff Penka of Zepheira, the World Wide Web has increasingly become about data and relationships among data objects. Jeremy Nelson, metadata and systems librarian for Colorado College in Colorado Springs, says that a structured data approach that works well with commercial search engines can transform the way library content is discovered.

The article discusses the digital library of plant specimens Global Plants of digital library JSTOR. Topics include details on JSTOR's collaborations with herbaria to create the library, details on the library's collection of images of the plants and metadata on the species, and details on Global Plants' letters among naturalists, articles, and books.