Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib November 2004 Bonita Wilson	D-Lib Featured Collection November 2004: Astronomy Picture of the Day The site is mirrored by fourteen other sites throughout the world, which is evidence of the wide appeal of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) collection of priceless astronomy pictures. Here's the link.
D-Lib November 2004 Sumner et al.	A Web Service Interface for Creating Concept Browsing Interfaces Concept browsing interfaces, based on nationally recognized educational standards, can help educators and learners to locate, comprehend and use educational resources in digital libraries.
D-Lib November 2004 Andreas Stanescu	Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers.
D-Lib November 2004 Canos et al.	A Service-Oriented Framework for Bibliography Management The continuous growth of information sources and the subsequent increase in the size of collections has made bibliography management one of the most frustrating tasks researchers face. Bibshare exploits the power of Web services to provide a framework for bibliography management.
D-Lib November 2004 Masanes & Rauber	Report on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW): 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom The IWAW is the only regular international event in the domain of Web Archiving. This year there were more than 50 participants selected through a formal reviewing process. Here are the workshop highlights.
PC Magazine November 30, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	It's a Snap At October's Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Gross unveiled a prerelease version of Snap, a search engine that incorporates site visitor feedback and executes search refinements as you type them.
InternetNews November 12, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition?
InternetNews November 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Desktop Security Warning Issued Two analysts issued independent warnings today suggesting Google's Desktop Search tool -- released in October -- poses security risks for the enterprise.
T.H.E. Journal November 2004	Fla. Program Aids Hurricane-Ravaged Schools, Libraries The State Library and Archives of Florida and Thomson Gale have launched a collaborative program that gives those K-12 schools and public libraries damaged by the hurricanes free access to the Thomson Gale online subscription databases.
InternetNews November 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search.
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