Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib October 2007 Adam J. Smith	Developing Handle System(R) Web Services at Cornell University Recognizing the importance of consistently implementing persistent identifiers (PIDs), a group of librarians at Cornell University evaluated several PID strategies and chose to use the Handle System.
D-Lib October 2007 Cassel & Borbinha	Report on the Seventh ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007) - Building and Sustaining the Digital Environment After attracting a record number of paper submissions, JCDL 2007 opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Keynote speakers piqued interest and sparked discussions.
D-Lib October 2007 Castelli & Fox	Series of Workshops on Digital Library Foundations The papers presented during the workshop aimed to contribute to laying the foundations for digital libraries as a whole, as well as continuing the work on the definition of a Reference Model for Digital Libraries that was launched by the EU DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.
D-Lib October 2007 Javed Mostafa	The 3rd Annual Digital Libraries Workshop at the JCDL 2007 Conference Understanding the key challenges for improving DL education and identifying and developing strategies to tackle the challenges were the main goals of the 2007 workshop.
D-Lib October 2007 Andreas Rauber	Report on the 7th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2007) The workshop program featured updates on the current state of development on a range of open-source tools for Web archiving and best practice reports, as well as novel research results and work in progress presentations.
D-Lib October 2007 Najjar et al.	Contextualized Attention Metadata: Personalized Access to Digital Resources Enabling effective and efficient access to relevant digital resources is one of the key challenges in digital libraries. One approach to addressing this challenge is based on Contextualized Attention Metadata that describe how people interact with information in different contexts.
D-Lib October 2007 Ghosh & Mandal	Global Access to Science- Scientific Publishing for the Future A Report of IATUL 2007 Conference Held at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: The general aim of the IATUL annual conferences is to provide members and other interested professionals the opportunity to discuss issues facing tertiary education libraries.
Information Today September 17, 2007 Paula J. Hane	LexisNexis Adds TotalPatent to Its Suite of Solutions Against the backdrop of new technology patent infringement claims and Congress voting on changes to the U.S. patent law, LexisNexis introduced a new tool for patent professionals -- patent attorneys, information professionals, researchers, and engineers.
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards Google goes on the offense in Europe over privacy concerns.
Information Today September 10, 2007 George H. Pike	Federal Judge Overturns PATRIOT Act NSL Provisions Late last week, a federal court declared portions of the USA PATRIOT Act dealing with National Security Letters to be unconstitutional.
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