Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib August 2003 Van de Sompel et al.	Using the OAI-PMH... Differently The Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was created to facilitate discovery of distributed resources. This article describes innovative applications of the OAI-PMH that researchers have introduced in recent projects.
D-Lib August 2003 Gladney & Bennett	What Do We Mean by Authentic? What's the Real McCoy? Authenticity is among digital document security properties needing attention. Literature focused on preservation reveals uncertainty -- even confusion -- about what we might mean by authentic. This article provides a solid, useful definition that spans vernacular usage of "authentic."
D-Lib August 2003 Peterson & York	User Evaluation of the Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) In-depth evaluation of digital collections using snowball sampling and interviews
D-Lib August 2003 Michael Nelson	Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): 27 - 31 May 2003, Houston, Texas The Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003) was held on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas, May 27 - 31.
D-Lib August 2003 Hagen et al.	Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide: Highlights of the ETD 2003 Symposium The electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) movement is truly becoming a global phenomenon, and the ETD 2003 Symposium has certainly lived up to its motto "Next Steps: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide."
CIO July 15, 2003 Michael Goldberg	The Art of Being Found Catering to search engines' tendencies has been going on "almost since we've had them," says Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com. Consequently, search engine optimization consulting firms have sprung up to work the system.
Information Today July 14, 2003 Barbara Quint	EBSCO Acquires Two Info Pro Databases from ITI EBSCO Publishing has acquired two abstracting services covering computers, the Internet, and information sciences from Information Today, Inc.
Information Today July 7, 2003 Paula J. Hane	FIND/SVP Buys Teltech FIND/SVP, the New York-based business research and consulting firm, announced it has purchased Teltech, the U.S.-based information management (IM) division of Sopheon, PLC. The acquisition brings together two of the leading custom research firms.
Information Today July 7, 2003 Miriam. A. Drake	Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2003 Michelle A. Romero	Open Access and the Case for Public Good: The Scientists' Perspective Who should have control over access to scientific knowledge? Who will determine the shape of the future?
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