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Information Today February 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest News About Elsevier, BIOSIS, and More Following the usually quiet news period during the last half of December, January started off with a flurry of company and product news, much of it timed for ALA's Midwinter Meeting, held Jan. 9-14 in San Diego. |
Information Today September 2004 Paula Hane |
Developments in Open Access, Search, and More Open-Access Update... Search Developments... Local Search Is Hot... Niche Engine... More on Desktop Search... Traditional Services' Upgrades... Miscellaneous Content News... |
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. |
Information Today March 15, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today December 22, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Groxis Ships Version 2 of its Visual Search Tool Groxis, Inc. has introduced its desktop software product, Grokker 2, which provides new search capabilities, a simplified user interface, and a visual context for accessing search engines and content sources. |
Information Today March 8, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine Having launched a major challenge to Google's dominance of the Web search engine field Yahoo! has now added a Content Acquisition Program that offers enhanced coverage to both commercial and noncommercial data sources. |
Information Today August 2004 Paula Hane |
News About SLA, ProQuest, Search Technologies, and More News from SLA... Busy Times at ProQuest... Newspaper Update... Search Engine Update... Specialized Search Engines... Desktop Search... Enterprise Search... Links... |
Search Engine Watch April 6, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Milestones for March 2004 Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month. Yahoo! Search Launches New Content Acquisition Program... Ask Jeeves Acquires Interactive Search Holdings... etc. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update Updates on projects, partnerships, improved services, and more in the information industry |
Information Today January 3, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Wrapping Up 2004; Looking Forward The Hot Stories of 2004: Open Access initiatives exploded... Traditionals met the new generation... Looking Ahead: Open access is an ongoing story... Integration progress will continue... Further Reading... etc. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane |
The Latest on Enterprise Search Products, E-Books, and More There should be a steady supply of news to report, as vendors continue to announce new products and services through the end of the year. Here's a wrap-up of some of the news from the past month. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 |
Industry News No Divine Presence in Library Subscription Renewals... D&B May Not Clean Up with Hoover's... COUNTER Code of Practice... Dialog on World Chambers Network... Social Sciences & Humanities... Sci-Tech... etc. |
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Groxis and Yahoo! Team Up to Grok the Web With the launch of Grokker.com, the first consumer-oriented, browser-based Web version, Groxis hopes to increase the awareness of visual search tools, build brand recognition, and test the use of highly targeted advertising directly correlated to topics within Grokker maps. |
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? |
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. |
Searcher October 2004 Judith Gelernter |
Infoviz for Info Pros: Information Visualization Software Tools Info pros, regardless of their preference for text or context, should be aware of the growing availability and acceptance of context-type infoviz tools. The software uses quantitative data to reveal trends probably undetectable in raw textual or numerical output. |
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 September 2003 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Content, Search Engines, and More I expected a fairly quiet summer for industry news after the major conferences ended, but it actually buzzed with activity. |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Grokker Schools Students on Meta-Search Search software vendor Groxis announced Tuesday the launch of Grokker E.D.U., a search-and-research software platform that adds a new dimension to research for students. |
Information Today August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
Information Today May 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Search, Content, and More National Library Week... Three search conferences being held in May... Enterprise Search Update... ProQuest Information and Learning announced... etc. |
Information Today December 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Ingenta, Scopus, OA, and More IngentaConnect Launch... Scopus Finally Launches... Open Access... Search News Roundup... Digital Archive of Americana Launched... Content Additions... Links... |
Information Today October 13, 2003 Barbara Quint |
RLG's Union Catalog Available on the Open Web Research Libraries Group, builder of one of the world's largest union catalogs of merged library holdings, has opened a Web-based version of its file to all users of the Web. |
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? |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
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. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Alacritude Focuses Its High Beam; Stays in the FAST Lane... Three Science Sites Eliminated... Groxis Announces Grokker 2... etc. |
Information Today November 2004 Paula Hane |
Developments in Search, Digital Archives, and More New Dance Partners... Digital Preservation and Access... Search Engine News... New Ventures... Tweaking and Enhancing... Over at the Googleplex... |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Searcher October 2001 Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
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. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 |
In Brief Sciplore MindMapping is a tool combining mind maps with PDF and reference management... Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge U.S. Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results... etc. |
Searcher January 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! Whatever librarians and information professionals do to help the new services, make sure they know it's our help that brought it about. Copy them with information on what you're doing and what you need. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2011 |
In Brief and In the News New Guidelines: CrossRef DOIs to be Displayed as URLS... The POCOS Project: Addressing the Challenges of Preserving Complex Visual Digital Objects... The Widget Design Authoring Toolkit ... |
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. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 |
In Brief and In the News Report on the International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives 2011... Report on the Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries... UNC's Digital Innovation Lab: Fostering Public Digital Humanities... |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
Information Today January 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Wrapping Up 2005; Looking Forward Recapping information industry headlines from 2005 and trends to watch in 2006. |
PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Davis D. Janowski |
Mapping Goes Local New local search services combine the search functionality of yellow-page sites, the cartographic abilities of the best mapping services, and a healthy dose of business and restaurant reviews provided by the locals themselves. |
Information Today March 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Industry News, Developments in Enterprise Search, and More During the past month or so, U.S. news has been dominated by both the MyDoom computer worm... To aid the print and online media, Factiva provides a media index that tracks the visibility of high-profile election candidates... etc. |
D-Lib October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc. |
Information Today January 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
D-Lib May/Jun 2009 |
In Brief European initiative to facilitate access to research data... Nevada's statewide digital initiative... The Mark Twain's Mississippi project... Council of Science editors honors CrossRef... etc. |
D-Lib February 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |