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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.
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.
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 January 2004 Barbara Quint	Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 April 23, 2007 Barbara Quint	OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service.
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 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.
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 4, 2011	Copyright Clearance Center Launches Get It Now for Academic Institutions The service complements academic institutions' interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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.
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 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?
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Searcher February 2007 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries...
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint	HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type.
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 December 2004 Bonita Wilson	The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli	Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price	Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
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.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King	An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones.
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future.
Searcher April 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Great Equalizer Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians.
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 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.
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery	Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations...
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.
D-Lib April 2001	To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"...
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2008	D-Lib -- In Brief News about a digital libraries curriculum, CrossRef, an independent membership association that provides a linking infrastructure for scholarly communication, and other reports on items of interest to librarians.
D-Lib October 2000 John V. Lombardi	Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems...
Information Today December 2003 Paula Hane	Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse.
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.
Information Today August 2002 Barbara Quint	CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc.
Information Today December 2000 Tom Hogan	IT Interview: Jay Jordan Settles In at OCLC Jay Jordan became president and CEO of OCLC about 2 years ago, following the retirement of K. Wayne Smith, who had achieved living legend status during his 10-year tenure---a tough act to follow...
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake	Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future.
Information Today February 24, 2011 Theresa Cramer	New Study: Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints At the very time that library budgets were being slashed, demand for the services provided by these institutions was increasing in the communities they served. Libraries have had to reprioritize and get creative with budgets.
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident.
Information Today June 10, 2002 Barbara Quint	QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world.
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary	Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.