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Information Today November 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program.  |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.  |
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk.  |
Information Today November 15, 2004 Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar The co-branded toolbar serves as a vehicle for delivering Open WorldCat content and empowers users with the ability to seamlessly search for information that is available in offline databases.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better.  |
Search Engine Watch November 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web.  |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.  |
Information Today January 9, 2006 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Expands Linking Resources with Acquisition of Openly Informatics OCLC, the leading library vendor, has acquired Openly Informatics, a service that supplies linking software and services to libraries through direct arrangements and, especially, through platform services provided to library vendors.  |
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?  |
Information Today August 2004 Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search.  |
Information Today October 11, 2004 Barbara Quint |
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search.  |
Searcher June 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Tithing Set aside a portion of each year's library budget to support the information system you want to have in the future.  |
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database.  |
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product?  |
Information Today July 16, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching  |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?  |
Searcher March 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 Nancy O'Neill |
Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective Ultimately even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. If you believe in libraries, as OCLC obviously does, what's not to love about Open WorldCat?  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc.  |
Information Today August 27, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya For many researchers, faculty, and students, Google Scholar is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed by academic and corporate libraries.  |
Information Today July 5, 2005 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings.  |
Searcher January 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Help! How do you move commercial Internet organizations to improve what's being offered for free?  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
Searcher March 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged.  |
Information Today April 7, 2015 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest to Open Content Through Google Scholar ProQuest, has announced that it will be sending the full texts of scholarly journals, conference presentations, and working papers to Google for inclusion in the widely used Google Scholar.  |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.  |
Information Today June 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences.  |
Searcher August 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities.  |
Searcher January 2009 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect.  |
Information Today May 8, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
RLG to Merge with OCLC The two leading membership-based organizations in the library world have announced that they plan to join forces.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way.  |
Information Today December 4, 2006 Tara Calishain |
Google Shutters Its Answers Service Google's decision to close down Google Answers has produced a huge amount of discussion and comment from all corners of the Web.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Leads in Toolbar Searches Though it continues to fall behind Google in other categories, Yahoo currently holds the lead for the most toolbar searches, but only by the thinnest of margins.  |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions...  |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?  |
Information Today June 28, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment.  |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas.  |
Information Today February 5, 2009 Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC.  |
Information Today June 27, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Varying Content Commitments from Vendors for Yahoo! Search Most content providers allow the search service only limited access to their libraries for resale. But they all hope the service will bring increased user access and sales.  |
Search Engine Watch October 9, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results.  |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo?  |
Information Today February 27, 2012 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2004 Rich Duprey |
Google Graduates to Vertical Search New Scholar service allows searching of peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, etc. that would normally be inaccessible.  |
Information Today April 2004 Paula Hane |
News About Organizational Tools, the Content Industry, and More New Tools... Cuadra Enhances Its STAR... Search Engine Wars Heat Up... etc.  |
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.  |