Search Engines & Research Tools

Magazine articles on search engines, research tools, libraries, and museums.

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BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Ben Elgin	Web Searches: The Fix Is In How much exposure can you buy? Plenty, concludes a BusinessWeek probe. Controversy over paid inclusion is driving a wedge through the search industry. At the heart of the issue is whether the industry's content will be swayed by advertisers.
Search Engine Watch September 25, 2003 Gary Price	A Conversation With Gigablast's Matt Wells Most major search engines rely on an army of hundreds of people to create and maintain their services. Not Gigablast -- it's a high-quality search engine built and operated by sole proprietor Matt Wells.
PC Magazine September 24, 2003	The Antisearch Engine For more than 3 years, researchers at IBM have been working on a way to deliver contextual information in online searches. Now, they think they are getting close.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Web searches tap databases The mountains of data stored in relational databases is largely inaccessible to the Web. A search tool that allows free-text queries of databases could change things. The key is mapping the data in databases as though it were a series of links Web pages.
Information Today September 22, 2003 Barbara Quint	IBM's WebFountain Launched -- The Next Big Thing? IBM has launched a service named WebFountain that applies an elaborate mesh of software called text mining or text analytics to spidered data from across the Web.
Information Today September 15, 2003 Paula J. Hane	LexisNexis to Create a Digital U.S. Congressional Serial Set LexisNexis has announced a project to digitize the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, based on the microfiche set and companion Index created by Congressional Information Service. An ambitious product roll-out schedule has been established.
D-Lib September 2003 Gadd et al.	The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project The RoMEO project aimed to develop simple rights metadata by which academics could protect their research papers in an open-access environment and also to develop a means by which OAI Data and Service Providers could protect their open-access metadata.
D-Lib September 2003	Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards Because the native metadata for the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse collections follow different metadata standards and the metadata to be harvested via the NSDL OAI repository follows the Dublin Core metadata standard, ENC needed to develop crosswalks between these three standard metadata schemas.
D-Lib September 2003 Pinfield & James	The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer.
D-Lib September 2003 Terry Reese	Aggregate Record Management in Three Clicks The sheer volume of record sets tends to restrict a library's ability to customize the record sets to suit their individual needs. To meet these challenges, the Oregon State University (OSU) library developed an innovative aggregate record management application.
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