Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today September 2003 Paula Hane	The Latest on Content, Search Engines, and More I expected a fairly quiet summer for industry news after the major conferences ended, but it actually buzzed with activity.
Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser	Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Information Today September 2003 Marydee Ojala	Online in South Africa The vibrancy of the South African information community was evident at the seventh Southern African Online Information Meeting, held June 4-5 in Muldersdrift, South Africa.
Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser	Impressions of IFLA 69th World Information Congress was all about access
Searcher September 2003 Kenneth Fink	Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology.
Searcher September 2003 Barbara Quint	Muggle Magic Today's information professionals probably book more online for their end-user client communities than I ever reached with intermediated searching, but, if they're doing their job well, the clients may never see the work.
Searcher September 2003 Carol Ebbinghouse	Protecting Yourself Against "Rogue" Vendors: Beyond "Divine" Guidance Here's a scary thought. Is divine's RoweCom/Faxon the only loose link in the vendor chain? Does dealing with any other companies put your operation at a similar risk?
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking	Put Google in IE's Search Bar There's a quicker way if you want to make Google your default.
Information Today August 25, 2003 Miriam A. Drake	Agreement Ensures Permanent Public Online Access to Government Information The Public Printer and Archivist of the United States announced an agreement that will enable the Government Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration to ensure free and permanent access to more than 250,000 federal government titles available through GPO Access.
Information Today August 18, 2003 Barbara Quint	CAS Pursues Patent Searching Market with Science IP Chemical Abstracts Service has long had a custom search service available to do intermediated searches, primarily sophisticated searching of chemical files. Now, CAS has re-named and re-targeted its custom search service to focus on patents, both within and outside the chemical field.
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