Search Engines & Research Tools

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Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 David Dickson	Modern Technology Unplugged Providing knowledge-poor countries with access to information is only half the battle.
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies	Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified?
Information Today February 10, 2003 Paula J. Hane	EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services.
Information Today February 10, 2003 Barbara Quint	Nexcerpt Web Monitoring/Redistribution Service Launched Monitoring good Web content sources, extracting relevant information, and redistributing it to the people who need it has become a basic, time-consuming service offered by many information professionals. The automated features in the newly launched Nexcerpt service can simplify and speed up the process.
Search Engine Watch February 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Ending The Debate Over Cloaking This article examines why people have traditionally cloaked content from search engines and how the issue is largely now about different standards for paid inclusion content.
Information Today February 3, 2003 Paula J. Hane	RoweCom Files for Bankruptcy, Then Sues divine for Fraud In a bizarre twist to the continuing saga of the disappearing subscription money, RoweCom, the beleaguered subsidiary of divine, inc., filed for bankruptcy on Monday Jan. 27, then sued its parent company for allegedly looting the company.
Information Today February 3, 2003 Mary Ellen Bates	Dialog Makes Changes to Pricing Strategy, Again During the week of Jan. 27, 2003, Dialog subscribers received a letter from Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president for strategic marketing at Dialog, describing pricing changes, effective Feb. 1. Most of the changes in the Dialog service are simply increases in existing fees.
Information Today February 3, 2003 Barbara Quint	Consulta Spanish-Language Collection Launched by Gale Thomson's Gale chose the American Library Associaton's Midwinter Meeting to debut Consulta, its first Spanish-language Resource Center. The new product combines reference content from Oceano Grupo Editorial, some of new online to the U.S., with Gale reference content.
Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane	Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo.
Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane	What's Ahead? 15 information industry executives talk about their companies' health in the current economy, their plans on how to ride out the turbulence, and their priorities for 2003.
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