Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib August 2007 Hagedorn et al.	Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata Librarians are aware that it is often difficult to create simple interfaces to complex online resources; however, a marriage of the two worlds is not impossible.
D-Lib August 2007 Gano & Linden	Government Information in Legacy Formats: Scaling a Pilot Project to Enable Long-Term Access An "open repository" model would allow institutions to approach archiving tasks and sets of CD-ROMs in different ways.
D-Lib August 2007 Kubiszewski & Cleveland	D-Lib Featured Collection July/August 2007: The Encyclopedia of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) seeks to become the world's largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.
D-Lib August 2007 Devare et al.	VIVO: Connecting People, Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community VIVO's campus-wide, cross-referencing search capability and large index of life sciences researchers, resources, and facilities make it a core service whose timeliness and need at Cornell and beyond are becoming clear to faculty and administrators alike.
D-Lib August 2007 Carr & Brody	Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles This article attempts to start developing a workable metric for a reasonable rate of ingest that is consistent with capturing the community's scientific and scholarly output. Such a measure is needed both for evaluating the performance of a single repository.
D-Lib August 2007 Justin Littman	Actualized Preservation Threats: Practical Lessons from Chronicling America The purpose of this article is to articulate some "lessons learned" about the long-term preservation of digital content, since during the development phase a number of preservation threats have been actualized.
Information Today July 16, 2007 Barbara Quint	Sunlight Foundation Adds LOUIS and Insanely Useful Websites for Congressional Observers Curious what your representatives are doing with your tax dollars? Ask LOUIS, the new search engine from the Sunlight Foundation.
Information Today July 16, 2007	Northern Light Introduces SinglePoint 4.0 Northern Light introduced SinglePoint 4.0, the latest release of its hosted market research portal and content integration application for enterprises.
Information Today July 9, 2007	OSTI Partners with Internet Archive The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) recently partnered with the Internet Archive to ensure uninterrupted access to more than 1 million online research papers from the E-print Network.
Information Today July 1, 2007 Paula J. Hane	Alacra (Re)Packages the Value of Vertical Search The company is showing its savvy by using custom search technology from Google plus its own resurrected Portal B search engine to package and offer a new free vertical search offering called AlacraSearch.
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