Search Engines & Research Tools

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InternetNews March 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Microsoft Presses On With Kumo Search Plans Twitter blows the lid off Microsoft's trial run at a major upgrade as the company mulls its position in search with or without Yahoo.
Information Today March 2, 2009	Thomson Reuters Partners With CABI to Expand Life Sciences Content The comprehensive database of public health information will provide users with global and regional public health coverage.
Information Today March 2, 2009	Autonomy Unveils ControlPoint for Multimedia Solution for Microsoft Customers Users are presented with the most relevant content, both textual and non-textual, that is conceptually related to the selected rich media file in an intuitive interface.
Information Today March 2, 2009	ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008
Information Today March 2, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries Openness is increasingly a characteristic of many sectors and technologies -- open access, open library, open source, open standards, open platforms, and more.
Information Today March 2009 Bill Greenwood	The Philadelphia Story: 11 City Libraries Fight Closure Patrons at the 11 branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia that were slated to close on Jan. 1 are breathing a sigh of relief, at least temporarily.
Information Today March 2009 Shirley Duglin Kennedy	Internet Waves: So You Think You Know the Internet? I hate to generalize, folks, but the more of these questions you can answer, the less of a life you probably have (and you might be pretty old too).
Searcher March 2009 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Life Lessons In these difficult days, safety -- such as it is -- must lie in info pros remaining open to change but dedicated to the welfare of our clients.
Searcher March 2009 Mary Ellen Bates	Living Large in Lean Times As an independent information professional and a former special librarian, I have gone through several cycles of economic downturn and recovery.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al.	FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes.
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