Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today September 10, 2007	IFLA Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries initiative.
Information Today September 10, 2007	MyiLibrary Partners With Swets to Provide a Single Point of Access MyiLibrary Ltd., a provider of digital content and part of Ingram Digital Group, announced that it has chosen Swets, a subscription services company, to enable customers to access ebooks and electronic journals from one easy-to-use and efficient point of access.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Katrina Chan	Ask.com Seeking Better Algorithm The search site still lacks the right stuff. Ask.com could not separate websites from other search results, nor could it filter out duplicate articles from the same source.
Information Today September 1, 2007 Paula J. Hane	People Search Tools Populate the Web Here's a quick update on what's been happening with people search tools.
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Svetla Baykoucheva	A New Era in Chemical Information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central How the emergence of PubChem, DiscoveryGate and Chemistry Central are changing the field of chemical information.
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Marydee Ojala	Making Sense of Search Has search really become irrelevant? How do we, as information professionals, make sense of search?
Information Today September 4, 2007 Barbara Quint	Thomson Scientific Redesigns ISI Web of Knowledge Interface Ten years after its launch, the ISI Web of Knowledge from Thomson Scientific has a new interface, designed to provide easy navigable discovery for the end user, built around researchers' workflow.
Information Today September 4, 2007	ebrary Ebooks Now Available Through YBP Library Services The two companies have integrated ebrary's platform and its ebooks with the GOBI system, providing an easy and efficient way for libraries to preview, order, and manage ebrary titles along with their other print and digital holdings.
Information Today September 4, 2007	Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources.
Geotimes September 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s.
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