Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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D-Lib April 2006	In Brief The DIDET Project - bringing digital libraries into the classroom for Design Engineering students... Modular Emulation... CLOCKSS: Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe - Large Dark Archive Initiative... etc.
Bio-IT World April 2006 Kevin Davies	Harvard Opens Breast Cancer Protein Library In a landmark for functional proteomics, researchers at Harvard Medical School have unveiled a publicly available library of proteins that are active in breast cancer tissue. The resource could help speed drug discovery efforts against the disease.
Bio-IT World April 2006 Salvatore Salamone	Is caBIG Ready to Bloom? What is the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics initiative called the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), and why should researchers care?
Bio-IT World April 2006 Mark D. Uehling	Debating Clinical Registries and Databases The pharmaceutical industry has been forced by medical journal editors and Congress to make public more data about clinical trials. Registries are here, most people are used to them, and they're not going away. But can the industry do registries and databases better?
Bio-IT World April 2006 Bill Van Etten	Easing In to Ease of Use The dramatic change in the bioinformatics and related information technology user profile requires an appropriate response from the producers of these technologies to provide a level of "ease of use" that is consistent with the large-volume, low-cost, and less specialized user.
InternetNews April 13, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Intel, Baidu Sign China Search Agreement Intel China and Baidu.com said today they will work to develop search applications for the growing China Internet market.
InternetNews April 13, 2006 David Miller	Microsoft Searching in Academia Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft's search service for scientists, scholars and other such studious folks, debuted on Tuesday with the noble aim of providing easy access to information tucked away in specialized pedagogic journals and conference notes.
InternetNews April 12, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Defends Cooperation With China Google is defending its cooperation with the Chinese government's restrictions on Internet users.
Search Engine Watch April 12, 2006 Chris Sherman	Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served.
InternetNews April 11, 2006 David Miller	Google Digs Down Under Google has bought the rights to a search engine algorithm that its creators predict will revolutionize the way people search for information on the Internet.
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