Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today January 24, 2011	OCLC Releases New Report on Perceptions of Libraries The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online information habits, preferences, and perceptions.
Information Today January 24, 2011	Credo Reference Enhances Topic Pages With H.W. Wilson Databases Each of the approximately 9,000 Credo Topic Pages is a starting point that assembles topical material from resources within and outside the library.
Information Today January 24, 2011	Mergent Metadata to be Added to EBSCO EDS Mergent's Annual Reports Database includes more than 300,000 annual reports from global publicly traded companies and is continually updated throughout the year.
Information Today January 20, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Streaming Video and Music Developments at Alexander Street Press Alexander Street Press doesn't act like a company struggling in a tough content market and dealing with library budget cuts.
Information Today January 20, 2011	SAGE Introduces SAGE Research Methods Online SRMO provides advanced search and discovery tools to support researchers and students as they explore relevant content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.
Information Today January 20, 2011	OCLC and The Combined Regions to Launch Public Library National Union Catalogue in UK Containing the bibliographic data from 80% of the U.K.'s public libraries, the service will make it possible for web users to simultaneously search 9 million bibliographic records and 50 million holdings.
Information Today January 20, 2011	PRG Publishes 'The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices' The 115-page report looks closely at how 70 academic, special, and public libraries in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe, Canada, and Australia plan their database licensing practices.
InternetNews January 20, 2011	CEO Shakeup at Google, Q4 Earnings Soar On the heels of another stellar quarter, Google announces that Eric Schmidt will step aside as CEO, focus on deals and partnerships, with co-founder Larry Page set to take the top spot in April.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Brase & Farquhar	Access to Research Data DataCite, launched in December 2009, is an association of more than a dozen members from 10 countries and growing, that enables researchers to locate, identify, and cite research datasets with confidence, and plays a global leadership role in promoting the use of persistent identifiers for datasets.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Merce Crosas	The Dataverse Network: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data The main goal of the Dataverse Network is to solve the problems of data sharing through building technologies that enable institutions to reduce the burden for researchers and data publishers, and incentivize them to share their data.
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