Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today June 23, 2003 Robin Peek	NLM Proposes New Journal Standards The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals.
Information Today June 23, 2003 Marydee Ojala	Changes in Document Delivery at Infotrieve and the British Library Two major document delivery sources announced changes to their delivery systems during the Special Libraries Association annual conference -- Infotrieve and the British Library. Not surprisingly, given the tight-knit world of document delivery, there are similarities in the two.
Information Today June 16, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Special Libraries Association Keeps Its Name Following 3 years of research, heated discussions, and brand name debates, the members of the Special Libraries Association voted to retain the organization's nearly 100-year-old name.
Information Today June 16, 2003 Barbara Quint	LSSI Sells Virtual Reference Operation to Tutor.com LSSI (Library Systems and Services, Inc.) has sold its Reference Division to Tutor.com, an online homework help and educational service. The acquisition includes LSSI's Virtual Reference ToolKit, Web Reference Services, and Integrated Reference Management System with RefTracker.
Information Today June 16, 2003 Miriam A. Drake	GPO and OMB Compromise on Agency Printing: More information at a lower cost? At the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, GPO will develop a demonstration print procurement contract for an agency or department chosen by OMB. The program will feature an online system that allows federal agency GPO customers to use a one-stop and integrated system for print ordering and invoicing.
D-Lib June 2003 Bonita Wilson	Improving Access to STM Literature: The Need for Continuing Dialogue Digital technologies have transformed the processes involved in information creation, dissemination, and access. The potential exists for the results of STM research to be reported, accessed and used more rapidly than could ever have been imagined in the print-only days.
D-Lib June 2003 Donald Beagle	Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space The concept of c-space is proposed as a visualization schema relating containers of content to cataloging surrogates and classification structures. Possible applications of keyword vector clusters within c-space and related advantages are discussed in this article.
D-Lib June 2003 Kenney et al.	Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers This paper presents the results of a modest study to compare and contrast its digital reference services with those of Google Answers. The study provided an opportunity for librarians to gain insights into how Google's approach to service development and delivery has made it so attractive.
D-Lib June 2003 Bonthron et al.	Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students This article examines disciplinary differences in the use of electronic journals by academic staff and students and considers whether library services need to differentiate between staff and students when planning support services for electronic journals.
D-Lib June 2003 Norman Paskin	DOI (Digital Object Identifiers): A 2003 Progress Report The initial simple implementation of DOI as a persistent name linked to redirection continues to grow, with approaching ten million DOIs assigned from several hundred organisations through a number of Registration Agencies in USA, Europe, and Australasia, supporting large scale business uses.
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