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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 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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 Marydee Ojala	Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused...
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...
Information Today November 7, 2006 Barbara Quint	Linking Up Bibliographies: DOI Harvesting Tool Launched by CrossRef The reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query where users can enter a citation in any format and receive the matching Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Information Today May 3, 2004 Barbara Quint	CrossRef Search Uses Google to Provide Full-Text Access Google will supply the search technologies and CrossRef the reference links to publisher Web sites for the pilot project, CrossRef Search that will enable users to search the full text of scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, and other sources from nine leading publishers.
Searcher September 2002 Barbara Quint	The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks?
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage.
Searcher December 2008 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - What Is the Question? It seems these days that article after article, commentary after commentary, even blog after blog keeps asking and answering questions on the future of libraries, librarians, and information professionals.
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?
ONLINE Marydee Ojala	Search Is Not Static Since search is not static, information professionals should strive to understand the changes, evaluate their benefits (or detriments), and devise search strategies to accommodate them.
Information Today November 1, 2007 Paula J. Hane	Elsevier Creates Social Spaces for Researchers Elsevier's newest social networking initiatives are designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced research tools.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price	Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching
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.
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 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.
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 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?
PC Magazine May 17, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n10 Google has recently been granted a patent for a voice interface for search engines.
Information Today May 2003	Computers in Libraries 2003 It's always interesting to see how the "hot technologies" change from year to year at Information Today, Inc.'s annual Computers in Libraries conference.
Search Engine Watch August 26, 2008 Mark Jackson	SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content.
Search Engine Watch December 31, 2008 Eric Enge	Use Caution When Growing Your Site Thinking of dropping 100,000 new pages onto your 20,000-page site? Think again, as this may be a horrible idea.
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint	Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites.
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.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier	Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2005 Chris Sherman	Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results.
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.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2008 Marydee Ojala	ONLINE's Got a Brand New Tag: Exploring Technology & Resources A publication for information professionals changes its tag line to include technology and resources.
Searcher August 2002 Cynthia L. Shamel	Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large.
Information Today November 24, 2008 Barbara Quint	The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way--In Time: Reference Extract Experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content.
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.
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 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.
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...
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 John C. Dvorak	A Threat to Web Search Google, along with the rest of us, worries about Net neutrality.
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do?
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 Catherine Holahan	Searching For John Q. Public New people-search engines hope to do better than Google in finding the less-than-famous. Spock is one of dozens of niche search companies trying to capture some of the more than $60 billion that is projected to be spent on search marketing over the next four years.
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann	Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines?
Searcher January 2002 Barbara Quint	Now or Never! This is the best chance librarians will ever have to break the chains that have bound them and their budgets. No one knows better than the wise information professional how inevitable the final victory of the Web is...
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Marydee Ojala	Information Professionals as Technologists It's the combination of people and technological knowledge that will further our success as technologists.
D-Lib March 2004	Using the Internet for Searching (March 2004) 2004 is rapidly becoming the year of the search engine wars.
Information Today January 2006 Richard Poynder	To Have and to Hold - Viewpoint: Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers has taken a stand on Google Book Search, previously called the Google Print Library Project. Here is its viewpoint.
Information Today August 4, 2011 Nancy K. Herther	Scholar Citations -- Google Moves into the Domain of Web of Science and Scopus On July 20, 2011, Google formally launched Google Scholar Citations to provide "a simple way for scholars to keep track of citations to their articles."
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002	Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc.
InternetNews April 13, 2006 David Miller	Microsoft Searching in Academia Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft's search service for scientists, scholars and other such studious folks, debuted on Tuesday with the noble aim of providing easy access to information tucked away in specialized pedagogic journals and conference notes.