Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today May 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The theme is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom established Choose Privacy Week to deepen public awareness about this issue. The event is timely with many privacy issues like CISPA in the news.
ONLINE May/Jun 2012 Chris Belter	Feature: Visualizing Networks of Scientific Research Bibliometric mapping is one of the many applications of network science. To better understand bibliometric maps, it is useful to have a general understanding of network science.
ONLINE May/Jun 2012 Marydee Ojala	HomePage: Thinking About Search Research doesn't start when you enter words into a search box. It begins with conceptualizing the project. What is the intent of the search? What are you trying to accomplish? And why?
Searcher May 2012 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print.
Searcher May 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation.
Information Today April 30, 2012 Carol Ebbinghouse	Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms."
Information Today April 30, 2012	Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.
Information Today April 30, 2012	ebrary Announces New Ebook Solution for Medical Libraries The new, discounted packs include essential ebooks from publishers such as Informa Healthcare, F.A. Davis Company, and Oxford University Press that are purchased outright under a perpetual archive model.
Information Today April 30, 2012	EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers.
Information Today April 26, 2012 Theresa Cramer	Making Sense of Business Intelligence With FirstTweets Using Twitter as a business intelligence tool, however, has presented a lengthy list of challenges. The sheer volume of information being shared via Twitter is daunting to say the least, especially when all you have to battle the tide of information is a few keywords and hashtag searches.
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