Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today May 23, 2011 Nancy Herther	McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets.
Information Today May 23, 2011	Groups Support Congressionally Mandated Reports Act The Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act requires that any report required by statute to be issued to Congress and releasable under the Freedom of Information Act be posted on a website managed by the US Government Printing Office. The reports would be available no la
Information Today May 23, 2011	National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections.
Information Today May 23, 2011	Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%.
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Julia Ioffe	Yandex Says Nyet to Google and Da to Nasdaq Russia's homegrown search engine is going public with a $1 billion IPO.
Information Today May 19, 2011 Paula J. Hane	New Outsell Research: '2011 Smartpen Landscape Report' Outsell defines a smartpen as "any handheld device that digitally captures text and drawings while they are being written or drawn, and either renders them immediately on a computer or saves the data for later transfer."
Information Today May 19, 2011	Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress.
Information Today May 19, 2011	Elsevier Launches Apps for Library Idea Challenge The international competition encourages librarians and information professionals to conceptualize solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information.
Information Today May 19, 2011	Gale Partners With TheGreenInterview.com to Enhance GREENR Content TheGreenInterview.com will be providing Gale with video interviews covering a range of issues connected to our planet, humans on earth, damage to our ecosystem, alternative development ideas, sustainability and more.
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Li & Banach	Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats.
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