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Information Today
November 19, 2009
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Judicial Opinions Now Available in Google Scholar For the lay public, it is fun to search opinions because you not only get judges explaining how a particular law is applied to certain facts in the case, but you also get links to law journals and treatises citing the case and "related scholarly works"   |
Information Today
November 19, 2009 |
Nstein Launches New Semantic Site Search 3S leverages Nstein's patented text-mining technology to power a faceted site search that returns highly accurate results that are organized categorically. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009 |
International Activists Launch New Copyright Watch Website The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries, and other international copyright experts joined together to launch a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Where Google's Chrome Needs Some Polish The promise of Google's operating system is intriguing. Chrome is to be open source, lightweight, and an efficient gateway to cloud computing applications. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Yahoo! Ever Be Great Again? Yahoo! continues to slip in search. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2009 |
Factery Aims to Go Beyond URLs in Search Results Initial release lets developers add FactRank technology to get authoritative results. |
Chemistry World
November 17, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
InternetNews
November 17, 2009 |
Microsoft, Google Put the Squeeze on Yahoo Google keeps making headway, while Bing and Yahoo are still battling it out. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Rehak, Nicholas & Ward |
Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations This article details a service-oriented model for a scalable infrastructure that supports resource federations for educational content, publishing, search, and metadata registries. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Cristina & Daniel Tofan |
A Low Cost, Low Memory Footprint, SQL and Servlet-based Solution for Searching Archived Images and Documents in Digital Collections A simple, elegant solution to digitizing special collections documents to meet the needs of the institution without additional monetary commitments. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Samson C. Soong |
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility This article describes a study to measure the actual effect of open accessibility on citation rates. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Koelen & Quaye-Ballard |
The Importance of Digital Libraries in Joint Educational Programs A case study of a master of science program involving organizations in Ghana and the Netherlands. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Cassella & Calvi |
ECDL 2009 Enhancing digital libraries users' experience. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Dallas & Doorn |
Report on the Workshop on Digital Curation in the Human Sciences The first Digital Curation in the Human Sciences provided the ground for an exciting debate among the leading European projects for digital infrastructure in the human sciences. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Innocenti, Toli & Candela |
Report on the First DL.org Workshop on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations The event was dedicated to discussing top-level challenges and priorities for investigating and achieving digital library (DL) interoperability. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Laszlo Karman |
Report on the Workshop on Harvesting Metadata - Practices and Challenges Various issues, from the generous, European-level requirements to the individual partners' actual results and difficulties, were discussed. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Traugott Koch |
Report on the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop The workshop discussed approaches to the management of knowledge organization systems that support emerging and future requirements. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Orio, Rauber & Rizo |
Report on Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces 2009 The goal of this workshop was to promote the interchange of ideas and communication of results between researchers in two related disciplines: digital libraries and music information retrieval. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Carol Peters |
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Celebrates Tenth Birthday The objective of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is to promote research in the field of multilingual information access (MLIA) research and development. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Rauber, Masanes & Spaniol |
Report on the International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2009 The workshop provided a comprehensive overview on active research and practice on the preservation of the Web. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Leta hendricks |
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection (HC&TC) is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture for the Columbus academic, art, business, and cultural communities. |
D-Lib
December 2009 |
Letters to the Editor This letter is a hypothetical dialogue that might occur between an author and an open access consultant about the new pitfalls of assigning copyrights to publishers |
D-Lib
December 2009
Ioannidis, Manghi & Pagano |
Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries 2009 Digital Libraries are information production and dissemination vehicles, and research is expected to deal with large-scale issues such as distribution, integration of services, information objects, users and policies of use. |
Information Today
November 16, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces Evidence-Based Monitoring Service--Sustainability Watch EBSCO plans to offer similar executive decision support tools based on proprietary, evidence-based content in additional areas. |
Information Today
November 16, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Announces New Ebooks Metadata Normalization Process To enable normalization of ebooks metadata, Serials Solutions metadata librarians have developed algorithms that efficiently aggregate and authoritatively link data from all available sources. |
Information Today
November 16, 2009 |
NewspaperDirect Launches PressReader for Smartphones The move expands the audience of full-content newspapers and magazines for NewspaperDirect's publishing partners, and it lets millions of smartphone owners download their favorite daily read from a selection of more than 1,300 newspapers and magazines. |
Information Today
November 12, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Ingests OAIster: Pearls to Follow The WorldCat.org service now includes all the OAIster records. Users of the old OAIster.org site will now be automatically shifted over to an OCLC-based site. |
Information Today
November 12, 2009 |
EBSCOhost Now Offers Mobile Access EBSCO Publishing has released EBSCOhost Mobile, allowing researchers to access their EBSCOhost databases via smartphones and other handheld devices. |
Information Today
November 12, 2009 |
ebrary Launches Complimentary Ebook Database for Knowledge Managers The new Library & KM Center now features a growing selection of more than 140 titles along with tools that make it easy to find, use, and manage information online. |
Information Today
November 12, 2009 |
New Release of Dow Jones Companies & Executives Now Available The company says its release signals an end to cold calling with tools that automatically identify reasons to call companies and easily connect to prospects with a real need. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
What's Next on Google's Buy List? There are few things that Google loves more than ads and mobs, so it wasn't surprising to see the world's leading search engine snap up mobile marketing network AdMob in a $750 million all-stock deal. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2009 |
Microsoft Soups Up Bing With WolframAlpha Data First big Bing update sees data-sharing pact, new video features. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 5, 2009
Dian Schaffhauser |
Blackboard and Microsoft Team To Put Course Info on Bing Blackboard and Microsoft have joined forces to offer students access to information from their online courses on Web browsers. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Next-Generation YouTube: Microsoft's Bing? Search engine Bing wants to be your video hub, too. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Free Wi-Fi? Why, Fine! All three of the country's leading search engines are giving you wireless connectivity this season. You just need to know where to look to tap into your presents. |
Information Today
November 9, 2009
Nancy Davis Kho |
LibreDigital Provides AllAccess to Content LibreDigital is one player in the e-reader market trying to offer maximum format flexibility to readers. |
Information Today
November 9, 2009 |
Summon Service to Include MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index to print and electronic books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. |
Information Today
November 9, 2009 |
Knovel Adds Engineering Cases to Showcase Real Problem Solving The articles, which are written by engineers and reviewed by experienced editors, highlight specific examples of how engineers have applied innovative and fresh approaches to both common and uncommon challenges |
Information Today
November 9, 2009 |
OverDrive Brings Audiobook Access to Schools The AudioBook Classroom service allows K-12 schools to provide cost-effective access to a sizable catalog of audiobooks of many different genres and varieties and can be used in different formats. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Robert D. Hof |
The Geekdom of Google Ken Auletta's new book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, probes the hard-driving personality of the search giant, where the tech mindset is all-pervasive. |
InternetNews
November 5, 2009 |
Ballmer: Yahoo Bing Deal Will Be Global Microsoft's fledgling deal with Yahoo may be broader than first assumed. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Expanding Web Presence in Wall Street Journal Professional Edition The service will integrate content from 17,000 Factiva sources with WSJ.com content to create news flows covering key industries, companies, etc. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
AIIP Technology Award Goes to Attaain, Inc. The Association of Independent Information Professionals honored AttaainCI for its competitive intelligence and market intelligence tool, which provides information through a full-featured easy-to-use web-based system |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
Credo Reference to Launch SAGE Reference Publisher Collection Nearly 70 SAGE titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform. SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
ARL, ALA Issue Statement Supporting PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association have issued a statement saying they strongly support the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 |
InternetNews
November 5, 2009 |
Google Brings Enterprise Search to E-Tailers Commerce Search product aims to improve customer experience, boost sales conversion rates. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Aaron Levin |
Where Past Meets Future Winston Anderson filled his garage with objects and documents tracing the history of African slaves and their American descendants. Now anyone can see his collection at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2009
David Stuart |
Social Media Metrics Social media has been adopted by every type of library in recent years, from small special libraries to large national ones. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2009
Marydee Ojala |
The Power of Three Describing your job responsibilities or your business mission in three words remains an interesting endeavor and a fun challenge. |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
Information Today
November 2, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up BookServer is intended to be easy-to-use, while respecting authors' and publishers' interests |
Information Today
November 2, 2009 |
Silobreaker Offers News Intelligence Software to Corporate and Government Customers It offers a new option for companies wanting to combine news aggregation with sense-making tools and graphics. |
Information Today
November 2, 2009 |
Safari Books Online 6.0 Offers Improved Usability Safari Books Online's entire collection of more than 8,000 books, training videos, rough cuts, short cuts, and articles is available online. |
Information Today
November 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Text Analytics Gains a Broader Audience in the Enterprise For the last several years, text analytics technologies have been continually improving and are increasingly being incorporated into new information filtering solutions. |
Search Engine Watch
October 30, 2009
Michael Boland |
Local and Social: It's all Coming Together Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search? |
Search Engine Watch
October 30, 2009
Frank Watson |
Philosophy and Search: The Big Three Founders and the Philosophers Does the thinking of Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Microsoft's Bill Gates mirror some of the great philosophers of history? |
Information Today
October 29, 2009
Marydee Ojala |
DeepDyve's Rent-to-Own Service DeepDyve, a California-based company with offices in Shanghai, announced a new content delivery initiative on Oct. 27, 2009, that allows people to rent premium journal articles for as low as 99 cents per article. |
Information Today
October 29, 2009 |
Dialog All A-Twitter Dialog intends to tweet news and opportunities of all types. |
Information Today
October 29, 2009 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Delivering Ebooks via Ovid The first 46 books going onto the OvidSP scholarly search and discovery platform will cover chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and related disciplines. |
Information Today
October 29, 2009 |
Remote API Searching of Nature.com Through OpenSearch The new service allows application software to query nature.com and return results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Hand Edits or 'Vince' at Work in Google Search Results? It's Google's job to rank the most qualified search results for their searchers. But is Google purposefully helping big brands rank higher? |
Information Today
October 26, 2009
Thomas E. Wolff |
LexisNexis Opens the `Black Box' With Powerful Semantic Search Technology The partnership agreement gives LexisNexis exclusive rights to implement PureDiscovery's KnowledgeGraph technology to intellectual property data. |
Information Today
October 26, 2009
Cindy Shamel |
SLA Name Change: Can the Name Convey the Value? Last week, Special Libraries Association leadership announced that members will soon vote on a new name. |
Information Today
October 26, 2009 |
Upgrade Released for All My Books The new version 1.8 offers further functionality expansion for the visual display of book collections and advanced features for ebooks and audiobooks collecting. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009
Barbara Quint |
HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library of Books By mid-November, the HathiTrust Digital Library will have a full-featured, full-text search service for 4.3-5 million items. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009 |
Thomson Reuters Makes Offer to Acquire Breakingviews Breakingviews will be managed by the Reuters news organization. The acquisition is designed to further enhance and build upon Reuters own fast-growing global commentary service. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009 |
PASCAL and FRANCIS Now Available via EBSCOhost PASCAL is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering science, technology, and medicine. FRANCIS is a multidisciplinary database providing humanities and social sciences coverage. |
Information Today
October 22, 2009 |
New Network for Chinese Researchers With a goal of reducing the barriers separating Chinese researchers from their counterparts in the U.S. and Europe, Anianet announced the launch of the Anianet professional network |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
RefWorks-COS Enhances Its COS Funding Opportunities Service It has improved and clarified the advanced search features, enhanced sorting and viewing of results, and provided unlimited search saving and sharing. |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
Springer Launches TheNeuroNetwork.com The website offers an online community and networking site for those studying neural activities in the brain (invertebrate to human), including brainlike systems and networks. |
Information Today
October 15, 2009 |
Dialog Reaches Out to Unemployed Librarians The company is waiving standard Dialog startup and service fees, offering free Dialindex service, and throwing in a 10% discount on Dialog usage to librarians and information |
Information Today
October 15, 2009 |
Financial Times Available Through EBSCOhost Corporations that access The Financial Times and EBSCOhost databases will now be able view the Financial Times newspaper on the EBSCOhost platform. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2009
Michael Bonfils |
Baidu -- The SEO Perspective If China is, or will be, a big piece of your international search marketing plans, start your SEO efforts on Baidu now. |
Information Today
October 8, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Elsevier's New SciVal Products Target Academic Accountability and Strategic Planning SciVal is a pioneering suite of research tools that helps researchers evaluate, establish and execute research strategies more effectively. |
Information Today
October 8, 2009 |
EBSCO Expands Coverage With New Literary Reference Center Plus The database expands upon EBSCO's Literary Reference Center and provides additional content including more than 1,100 reference books and more than 125 literary periodicals. |
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