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Information Today October 7, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Make Research Easier With These Five Tools Here's a look at several popular research and reference managers, including their key functions and new features, as well as a sneak peek at their future upgrades. |
Information Today April 15, 2013 |
ProQuest Launches RefWorks Flow Flow was created to provide a better solution for the changing workflow of researchers, who are increasingly working in team environments and want seamless access to full-text documents, rather than citations alone. |
Information Today March 4, 2013 |
OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services. |
Information Today August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
Information Today June 10, 2014 |
CCC Introduces Copyright Compliance Solution The solution offers confirmation of companies' CCC content usage rights, as well as real-time analytics on content usage and spending. |
Information Today July 8, 2010 |
ProQuest's Open Web Article Linking is Live A new ProQuest initiative researches article-level links to popular periodicals published on the open web, simplifying existing access to full-text articles at no charge to library patrons. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Springer Gets Reference Manager Papers Papers acts as a repository for digital academic documents in one's personal library, accepting 85 different types of documents, including books, articles, web pages, patents, reports, etc. |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Playing the Numbers: NISO/NASIG Focus On Best Practices for Library Usage Statistics The National Information Standards Organization, and the North American Serials Interest Group co-sponsored a webinar intended to "effectively understand and apply usage data," which is an important skill for librarians. |
Information Today November 19, 2015 |
Paperpile Introduces Google Docs Integration The Paperpile reference manager released a free, standalone, fully featured citation manager that works with Google Docs so users can collaborate on papers and grants. |
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. |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
Information Today December 11, 2008 Avi Rappoport |
CiteSeerX and SeerSuite--Adding to the Semantic Web CiteSeer could be called a vertical research portal, a niche search engine, or a specialized digital library. |
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. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Information Today January 27, 2011 |
EasyBib.com and OCLC Collaborate on Library-Branded Citation Service The EasyBib Library Edition service will be rolled out in a beta testing phase with select OCLC member libraries this month. |
ONLINE November 2000 Winfred Ark & Sue Park |
A Plain Text Metamorphosis: Converting Search Results to HTML Rather than static, ASCII-based text, the Web provides the ability to deliver more dynamic, interactive information... |
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
Information Today April 1, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing Announces New How-To Databases for Public Library Patrons Libraries are busier than ever and patrons making legal decisions or looking to create or expand their small businesses need resources for their specific demands. |
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 June 2004 Mick O'Leary |
Learner's Library Dumbs Down This fee-based research service for students is a dumbed-down, error-ridden product that offers both haphazard content and inferior searching. |
Information Today June 30, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces New Version of Intota ProQuest announced that version 2 of Intota, its cloud-based library services platform, will be available in mid-2016. |
Information Today September 24, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Demise of TimesSelect Deals Blow to Pay-for-News and Alters Access to Archives The New York Times discontinues its TimesSelect subscription program. |
Information Today September 23, 2014 |
SirsiDynix Jump-Starts the Library Conversation SirsiDynix announced a series of webinars and downloadable website content that will address topics pertaining to libraries' value, visibility, and usage. |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
Information Today June 2, 2015 |
ProQuest Rolls Out Genealogy Resource ProQuest added Ancestry.com's Fold3 Library Edition to its line of family history products. |
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. |
Searcher August 2004 Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 Add it all up and one can see that virtual reference built on chat technology is a pretty expensive proposition. |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
Information Today March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
Information Today March 1, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer Thomson ISI will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Samson C. Soong |
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility This article describes a study to measure the actual effect of open accessibility on citation rates. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Marydee Ojala |
What's in a Name? The vote was to remain as Special Libraries Association. For some, this was nothing less than an identity crisis. Was this an association for librarians or not? |
Information Today August 4, 2003 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
D-Lib February 2003 Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
Information Today November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways. |
Information Today July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
Searcher September 2004 Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
Information Today October 13, 2011 |
Thomson Reuters Launches Book Citation Index This is a new resource within the Web of Knowledge platform covering 25,000 books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. |
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 October 21, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Enhances Its Family of 360 Services Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced that it has made significant enhancements to its family of 360 Services for discovery, enabling librarians worldwide to activate a wide variety of new patron-facing tools and localization capabilities. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Chapman et al. |
Developing Best Practices in Digital Library Assessment: Year One Update In the face of limited resources and increasing demand for online access to digital library content, we need to strategically focus our efforts and better understand users, impact, and associated costs. |
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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Bertin & Atanassova |
Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Publications and Metadata Our aim is to bring new value to scientific publications by automatic extraction and semantic analysis. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Factiva and ProQuest Expand Channel Partnership... New H.W. Wilson Fiction Catalog Available... EBSCO Offers Free Access to Teacher Reference Center... |
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
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. |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
Information Today July 19, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities. |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |