Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib December 2002 Lee Iverson	Report on eLibrary@UBC 4: Research, Collaboration and the Digital Library For the past four years, the main library at University of British Columbia has held symposiums "to promote awareness and discussion of the kinds of opportunities presented by the evolution of a university-based research library, as collections and services become more digital and network-oriented."
D-Lib December 2002	In Brief Report on a Panel on Information Management Technology Requirements... DARE: A New Age in the Provision of Academic Information... Interested in Institutional Web Portals?... JISC Consultancy on Archiving of Licensed E-journals... etc.
D-Lib December 2002	Clips and Pointers Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics... Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism... etc.
New Architect January 2003 David Howard	You Are Here Still lost? A cadre of new search engine companies want to show you the way.
Information Today December 9, 2002 Nancy Lambert	MicroPatent Announces New Products and Plans MicroPatent, the Connecticut-based information company that currently provides the largest range of full-text-searchable patent databases, recently announced some new products and services.
Information Today December 9, 2002 Miriam A. Drake	Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting.
Information Today December 2002 Richard Poynder	A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry.
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan	In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge.
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan	Revisiting Meta Tags Follow up to October 2002 article about the demise of the meta keywords tag.
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan	Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums.
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