Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today January 27, 2003 Barbara Quint	ProQuest Begins Its Integration of bigchalk The takeover of the digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market provides ProQuest with a collection of new licensed content as well as some interesting technological and interface improvements.
Searcher January 2003 Melissa Barr	Democracy in the Dark: Public Access Restrictions from Westlaw and LexisNexis Amidst a growing wealth of free, reliable information on the Internet, there is a poverty of access to the decisions and opinions of the courts that protect our liberties.
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.
D-Lib January 2003 Norman Paskin	On Making and Identifying a "Copy" The purpose of this article is to explore some of the conceptual issues of "making a copy" digitally and in an automated DRM environment which need to be clarified to enable rights expression languages and other DRM tools to deal with the concept of copying.
D-Lib January 2003 Canos et al.	Building Safety Systems with Dynamic Disseminations of Multimedia Digital Objects Safety Oriented Systems are emerging as a new kind of decision-support system aimed at improving personnel protection in large organizations. An SOS makes extensive use of hypermedia technology and information fusion to provide users with all the information needed to correctly handle emergency situations.
D-Lib January 2003 Richard Rinehart	MOAC A Report on Integrating Museum and Archive Access in the Online Archive of California
D-Lib January 2003 Smith et al.	DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository DSpace functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization.
D-Lib January 2003 Mitchell et al.	iVia Open Source Virtual Library System iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system.
D-Lib January 2003 Dobratz & Matthaei	Open Archives Activities and Experiences in Europe: An Overview The Open Archives Forum is not another OAI implementation project. It is a clustering activity that targets existing open archives communities, as well as new communities, like IST projects or national initiatives planning or initiating open archives.
D-Lib January 2003 Kalinichenko et al.	Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections: Report on RCDL'2002 -- the 4th All-Russian Scientific Conference, Dubna.
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