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Information Today
October 4, 2004
Susanne Bjorner |
A Tough Test for PhRMA's New Clinical Study Results Database The announcement the day before of a worldwide withdrawal of Merck & Co.'s popular arthritis and acute pain medication Vioxx, created a high-bar test that shows the holes in the new database concept.   |
Information Today
October 4, 2004
Paula Hane |
Washington State Launches Digital Archive System The new system is designed to stem the loss of key government electronic records. Archivists have estimated that the state of Washington is missing more than half of its previous electronic records, and many may never be recovered. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Local Officially Launches After just two months in testing, Yahoo has pushed its local search out of beta and is giving the service prominent exposure on the Yahoo home page. |
Information Today
October 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today
October 2004
Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
Information Today
October 2004
Nancy Garman |
On the Road: November in Monterey The conference tracks at Internet Librarian 2004 span the full scale of a librarian's responsibilities, from core Web search topics like Information Discovery & Search and Search Engines to Web Design & Development, Web Systems & Operations, and E-Resources & Digital Libraries. |
Searcher
October 2004
Judith Gelernter |
Infoviz for Info Pros: Information Visualization Software Tools Info pros, regardless of their preference for text or context, should be aware of the growing availability and acceptance of context-type infoviz tools. The software uses quantitative data to reveal trends probably undetectable in raw textual or numerical output. |
Searcher
October 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Unknown Known Problems for searchers and info pros due to new content and new readership and new distribution channels are good problems. These are problems worth investing the sweat equity it will take to solve them. |
Searcher
October 2004
Gary Price |
Webmastery: Good Things Come in Small Packages, or, Findory Gets Personal Small Web search and software development companies do good for searchers, but often we know very little about the people who run them. Here's an an e-mail interview with the online personalized news site, Findory's Greg Linden. |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2004
Chris Sherman Gary Price |
Reducing Information Overkill Vivisimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from a variety of information sources. |
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