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Small Business--U.S.--Lists and Rankings Source: Fortune Small Business The FSB 100 From the article, "...America's fastest-growing small public companies, based on revenue growth, earnings growth and stock return." Direct to the FSB 100 List Archives--U.K. Invisible Web Archives Hub From the site, "The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although where possible they are linked to complete catalogue descriptions." Friday, June 29, 2001
Librarians In the News Tasini Case Source: Wired News "Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians" The deletion process begins and quality research becomes more difficult. Web Search--Vivisimo Meta-Search Tools Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette All About Vivisimo! Read all about the Carnegie-Mellon research team that developed this search tool. Web Search--Google Source: Financial Review Google Grows in Popularity with Australian Searchers Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) 2 New Reports from the U.S. Census America's Families and Living Arrangements: March 2000. Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Document --- The Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States: March 2000 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Document Canadian Resource Shelf Source: Health Canada New Edition: 2001 Seniors Guide to Federal Programs and Services Thursday, June 28, 2001
Ready Reference--Glossaries Glossary Agent From the site, "Glossary Agent™ is an ever-expanding, unique compilation of links to online monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual glossaries of interest to professionals in insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits, healthcare, and related fields such as law and financial services."
E-Reference NPR Features Report on Cleveland Public Library's KnowItNow Service Listen to this Report (RealAudio) The NPR synopsis reads, "David Barnett of member station WCPN reports from Cleveland, where the public library is offering a new online service featuring real-live librarians to answer questions -- it's an antidote to the often incorrect and poorly organized facts provided by automated Internet searches. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the library's Web page." Learn More About KnowItNow Thanks to HT for the tip. Science Invisible Web Source: Nature Is the PubScience Database About To Disappear? Lead of the Declan Butler article, "A powerful congressional committee has passed a budget bill which, if enacted, could close down PubScience, a free search service for the physical sciences literature, operated by the US Department of Energy (DoE)." See Also: A Nature Editorial, "Defending Tax-Funded Navigation" Criminal Justice--United States Updated Resource: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online The Sourcebook now includes spreadsheet versions (.xls) of most tables. Direct to a List of Tables and Figures Aviation--United States NTSB Adds New Feature to Site From the news release, "The National Transportation Safety Board has added a new feature to its web site that gives notice of pending releases of probable cause briefs of general aviation accidents. The new feature debuted this week." Canadian Resource Shelf Wealth--Lists and Rankings Source: National Post Business 40 Richest Canadians Under 40 Documents in the News Traffic Safety--U.S.--Lists and Rankings Traffic Safety--Canada--Lists and Rankings Source: State Farm Insurance Most Dangerous Intersections in the U.S. and Canada-2001 Top 10 Most Dangerous (U.S. Only) ||| Top 10 Dangerous by State/Province See Also: Additional Material Education--Academic Freedom New Web Resource: NEAR (Network For Education and Academic Rights) This organization was just launched. It is sponsored by UNESCO. The site features background on the organization, alerts about recent incidents, and links to related resources. Professional Reading Archives--Australia Government Information Learn About the PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia From the paper, "The National Library of Australia maintains PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications. The purpose of PANDORA is to ensure that Australians of the future will be able to access a significant component of today’s Australian web based information resources." Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Energy--Global--Statistics Source: BP New Edition Now Available: The Statistical Review of World Energy 2001 This is the 50th Edition of this publication. NOTE: This year BP has also published The Statistical Review of US Energy 2001 Electronic Resources--Bibliography Just Updated, 7/01: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information & Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography Kudos once again to Marian Dworaczek for compiling and maintaining these important resources. From an email alert, "The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes approx. 1,400 titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated." Venture Capital--United States--Lists and Rankings IPO's--United States--Lists and Rankings Investment Banking--United States--Lists and Rankings Source: Red Herring The Top 25 VC Firms of 2000 The Top 25 IPOs of 2000 The Top 25 Investment Banks of 2000 Web Search--AltaVista AV Joins the Fee-Based Crawling Club First Inktomi. Then Fast. Today, AltaVista (with Infospider) joins the fee-based crawling party. Say hello to Express Inclusion. From the press release, "...submit from one to 500 URLs in a single batch. Once these URLs are included in the AltaVista index, they will be refreshed weekly." Pricing is determined the by amount of urls crawled. The first url is $39 for 6 months. Direct to the AV Express Inclusion page.
Census 2000--U.S. Demographics--U.S. Additional Summary File 1 (Detailed Demographic Info, by State) Now Available Reports for: Alabama Kansas Missouri New York Ohio Canadian Resource Shelf E-Business New Portal: E.biz Enable From the site, "Industry Canada’s e-business portal. ebiz.enable consolidates the information you need to make key e-business decisions." Medical Schools--Global--Directories Source: World Health Organization Full-Text of World Directory of Medical Schools (7th ed.) Available on Web Distributed in in several .pdf files. Schools are listed by country with basic directory info provided. Some additional info (ie. licensing, stats) are provided. Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Copyright--Databases "Supreme Court Rules for Freelance Writers in Tasini Appeal" Marydee Ojala, the editor of Online and an Editor-at-Large at EContent has posted a commentary about yesterday's Supreme Court decision. The article also contains comments from several publishers and attorneys. A must read! See Also: ALA/ARL Statement on Decision Web Search--Google Google Debuts Beta of "Image Search" According to the FAQ the database currently contains about 150,000,000 images. Access to Image Search is avaiable via a special interface box on the advanced search page or on the Google Image Search page. Images can be limited to type by using Additional Details via Search Day Info Industry--Dialog News Release: "Dialog Announces New Pricing Initiatives" Analysis: Barbara Quint provides a Complete Analysis via an Information Today NewsBreak The lead of the news release, "Dialog, a leading provider of online-based information services and a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation (TSE:TOC), announced today the first in a series of new pricing initiatives to be rolled out during the next two years in which Dialog will develop and implement new pricing programs and options across all three product lines - Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar." Highlights: *Revision in DialUnit Structure *Connect Time Pricing *Simplified Contracts Web Search--FirstGov.Gov FirstGov.Gov Adds State Pages to Database Pages from individual States have been added to the FirstGov database. The main FirstGov page allows users to select either Federal, State, or both types of material. The advanced interface allows limiting to a particular State. Also, new to the advanced interface is the ability to limit by domain. Hopefully, this upgrade to FirstGov along with others (the advanced interface needs to be clearer) will make for a more effective tool for searching U.S. Federal and U.S. State material. More later. Direct to the Advanced Interface of FirstGov.Gov Updated 6/27 "FirstGov Expands to States" via Federal Computer Week Web Search Source: Wall Street Journal "New Search Technology May Not be Able to Read Your Mind, but It's Getting Closer" Kudos to Craig Landy for making sharing this important message. From the article, "All that said, there are issues standing in the way of a perfect search engine that may never be resolved. Problems like relevancy have come a long way in the past six years, says Craig Landy, director of SearchEngines.com, a Chicago-based industry-watch group. But one thing that hasn't improved, he says, is credibility of information. "It's easy to know if a document is relevant," he says. "But it's hard to know if it is accurate, viable information."
UK Document Shelf Source: House of Commons Library Research Report (01/56): Animal Experiments (46 pages) Full-Text Document Shelf/Docs in the News (5 Items) Athletics--College Source: Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education 27 page .pdf ---- Economics--Global Antidumping Source: CBO Antidumping Action in the United States and Around the World 144 page .pdf ---- Stalking Domestic Violence Source: NCJRS Stalking and Domestic Violence: Report to Congress 117 pages .pdf --- Community Safety Source: NCJRS Role of Local Government in Community Safety 65 pages .pdf --- Health Statistics Source: National Center for Health Statistics "Mortality Declines for Several Leading Causes of Death in 1999" Summary ||| Full-Text Report Monday, June 25, 2001
Copyright--Databases Decision: NY Times v Tasini, Electronic Databases Not the Same As Print From the article, "The court ruled 7-2 that compilation in an electronic database is different from other kinds of archival or library storage of material that once appeared in print. That means that copyright laws require big media companies such as The New York Times to get free-lancers' permission before posting their work online." Read the Full-Text of the Opinions See Also: "High Court to Publishers: Pay for Electronic Use"
Web Search--Google Source: BBC Google About To Go Public? From the article, "Google, the internet search engine, is looking to brave the choppy equity markets with a flotation, according to the Sunday Business newspaper. Analysts estimate that a float would value the company at $250m. The Sunday Business reports that founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are considering taking the company public before the end of the year." "The odds are that we will go public," Mr Brin told the newspaper." Full Text of Sunday Business Story UPDATE 6/25 9:25 PM "Google Denies Press Report" Source: Silicon.Com
Health--HIV/AIDS UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Begins Today Date: 6/25/01-6/27/01 Direct Links via Special Session Home Page *Official Conference Site *Key Documents *LIVE Webcast Coverage *Additional HIV/AIDS Resources via UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library See Also: *Various Full-Text Reports/Statistics via World Bank "AIDS Economics" Resource *Primary UN HIV/AIDS Web Site *Epidemic Update (including Fact Sheets by Country) Employment--Minorities--United States--Lists and Rankings Source: Fortune Best Companies for Minorities Direct to Top 5 By Minority Group Direct to Top 5 in Key Area Scientific Information--Databases Invisible Web Source: Chronicle of Higher Education "Learning to Swim in the Rising Tide of Scientific Data" From the article, "Using information stored in the databases has saved scientists a vast amount of time and effort, and what's more, it has allowed them to answer big-picture questions that seemed unapproachable just a few years ago." Canada Resource Shelf (3 Items) Searchable Database--Government Employees Directory (GED) Invisible Web GED Web Site Redesigned Direct to Search Interface ---- Historical Objects--Database Artefacts Canada More than 2300 new images have been added to the database. From the site, "Artefacts Canada, previously known as the National Inventories, provides access to information on millions of museum objects, natural history specimens and archaeological sites. These records, contributed by museums and heritage organizations across Canada, have been assembled into three groups." ---- Copyright--Reform--Canada Source: Newsbytes "Canada Tackles Copyright Laws For Digital Age" See Also: Copyright Reform Process (Links to Several Full-Text Documents) Education--Directories Searchable Directories Gateway to Educational Materials--Beta From the Access ERIC Update, "The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is previewing their redesigned Web site. New capabilities include an option on the search screen to select a subject from the GEM-controlled vocabulary and to limit a search to resources that are free of charge. The new site is still undergoing testing and is not fully operational; before getting started, please read more about it." Read more about the preview. Sunday, June 24, 2001
Full-Text Document Shelf Selected New or Recently Updated Congressional Research (CRS) Service Materials via Federation of American Scientists & National Council for Science and the Environment Intelligence Issues for Congress (IB10012) Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy (IB95112) Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (95-815) Endangered Species: Difficult Choices Environmental Protection Issues in the 107th Congress Energy Policy: Setting the Stage for the Current Debate Protecting Natural Resources and Managing Growth: Issues in the 107th Congress (IB10015) ---- California Electricity Situation--Overview & Timeline Source: Congressional Research Service California Overview California Timeline ---- Crime--Victims Source: BJS Injuries from Violent Crime, 1992-98 Summary, Full-Text, and Spreadsheets Saturday, June 23, 2001
Business--Intelligence--Worldwide ebusinessforum.com This very impressive compilation (updated daily) is a source of, "global business intelligence for the digital age". The site is compiled and features content from the respected Economist Intelligence Unit. The "doing business in..." section is an excellent guide to basic e-business statistics for many countries. Election Results--U.K. Source: House of Commons Library General Election results, 7 June 2001 A 93 page .pdf document Friday, June 22, 2001
Higher Education--U.K.--Lists and Rankings Higher Education--U.S.--Lists and Rankings Higher Education--Canada--Lists and Rankings Higher Education--Germany--Lists and Rankings Source: The Guardian EducationGuardian's University Guide From the site, "EducationGuardian.co.uk's interactive guide to universities and colleges covers some 60,000 vital statistics on 150 higher education institutions...exclusive international research rankings for universities and research centres in the UK,USA, Canada and Germany by viewing the university guide." Additional Resources: Direct to World University Research Tables ..."exclusive series of studies identifies the top research institutions worldwide in seven major fields of research in the natural and social sciences." Academic Libraries--Statistics--U.S. Source: NCES Academic Library Peer Comparison Tool From the NCES site, "he NCES Library Statistics Program has just released its new Academic Library Peer Comparison Tool. Using fiscal year 1998 data, the Academic Library Peer Comparison Tool allows users to get information on any of the approximately 3,600 academic libraries in the U.S., or to customize a peer group by selecting variables so you can define them. The user can then view customized reports of the comparison between the library of interest and its peers, on a variety of variables as chosen by the user. Professional Reading The New Issue of Ariadne (Issue 28) is Online Many interesting articles in this U.K. based e-journal. Here are the titles of a few articles in this issue: "Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges" "The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution" "Supporting Material for Database Training – or “Here’s One I Prepared Earlier” Encyclopedias--Encyclopaedia Britannica Print Resources Source: LJ "Encyclopaedia Britannica Releasing Revision"From the article, "Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. has announced a full revision of its venerable 32-volume resource for release this fall." Full-Text Document Shelf/Documents in the News (1 Item) Petroleum--Statistics Source: EIA Petroleum Supply Annual 2000 Volume 1 ||| Volume 2 Thursday, June 21, 2001
Web Search--Pay for Placement Source: eCompany Now "Searching for Reliable Information" From the article, "Web search engines are a critical business research tool. Too bad so many have sold out to advertisers." Thanks to S.K. for the suggestion.
Nicholson Baker Watch Newspaper Archives Streaming Media Nick on the Air in Southern California An archived version (RealAudio) of the program is available. Web Search--Google Source: Salon Google à Go-Go Monika Henziger, Google's director of research, chats with Salon.Com Web Search--Ask Jeeves and Ask George Source: Washington Post "High-Tech Answers to Customer Queries" "Visitors to the AccessWashington site, operated by the Washington state government, were greeted [after the August, 2000 earthquake] with an "Ask George" box in which to enter questions about temporary shelters, road closures and other developments. The site, powered by the same technology that operates the Ask Jeeves Web search engine, churned out the answers."
Campaign Finance Political Action Committees Searchable Databases--Invisible Web Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.Org) Unveils Revamped PAC Section An e-mail messge alerts us to several new/updated section features including: *Search for PACs by Industry and Sector Database breaks down PACs among 13 economic sectors and more than 100 industries. *View the Top PAC Contributors by Election Cycle *Look Up Foreign-Connected PACs. NEW! The Center lists PACs affiliated with subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies. Individual Wealth--Lists and Rankings Forbes World Billionaires 2001 Supercomputers--Lists and Rankings Top 500 Supercomputers List See Also: Federal Computer Week article about the list
Reference Tools--Dictionaries Webster Adds Pronunciations To Online Dictionary Thanks to T.C. & ResearchBuzz for the news. From the press release, "is adding a new audio feature to its on-line version of the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary. Now when site visitors see a red audio icon next to an entry word, they may click on it to hear the word pronounced by real voices. Multiple icons will be displayed when variant pronunciations are available. Thousands of words—many reflecting the latest developments in technology, social topics, and the sciences—may now be heard as well as seen, allowing users to explore and improve a full spectrum of both written and verbal communication skills." On a Related Note: The Voice of America also provides AUDIO Pronunciations of names in the news. Full-Text Document Shelf/Documents in the News (4 Items) Internet Usage--Teenages Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project The Rise of the Instant-Message Generation and the Internet's Impact on Friendships and Family Relationships -- Health--Heart Disease Source: CDC Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality Both publications are available in an interactive format. They can also be downloaded (full-text) as .pdf files. --- Wholesale Trade Annual Benchmark Report for Wholesale Trade: January 1992 to March 2001 Source: U.S. Census World Health--Directory Global Directory of Health Information Resource Centres From the site, "This is the first edition of the largest global listing of health information resource centres, with data pertaining to about 1,000 centres." Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Coming Next Week!!! National Library of Canada Books New Resource From the National Library of Canada: New Books Service From the press release, "Working in partnership with Canadian publishers, the National Library of Canada has designed an innovative electronic showcase for new Canadian titles. Through the New Books Service of the National Library of Canada, publishers, booksellers, librarians and the reading public are invited to browse a new digital collection of forthcoming print and electronic releases. This searchable, bilingual Web site can be found at www.nlc-bnc.ca/newbooks/ and www.nlc-bnc.ca/nouveauxlivres/. The new resource is set for debut on Monday the 25th (6/25/65) Labor Statistics--United States Web Databases--Invisible Web Source: BLS New Material Searchable From BLS Public Data Query Three new databases accessible via the Public Data Query page: Covered Employment and Wages (also known as ES 202) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Selected Characteristics of Nonfatal Cases of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Involving Days Away From Work See Also: Additional New Resources from BLS Full-Text Document Shelf Aviation--Safety Documents in the News Source: FAA FAA Runway Safety Report
U.S. Census 2000 Online Today, Now Available More Summary File 1 (Detailed Demographic Data) for Several States Material for: Connecticut District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Louisiana Massachusetts Montana Nebraska Nevada New Web Portal--UNESCO Water UNESCO Debuts New Web Portal: Water Info Industry--Cold North Wind Source: Calgary Herald "Ottawa Firm to Put U.S. Papers on Web" Last week we mentioned a new digitization project from Cold North Wind, a Canadian company. Today, a bit more about the company and the project. See Also: Boston Globe (6/18/01) Internet Domains-.Info .Info Domain To Go Live 9.19.01 Source: Wired News From the article, "...officials at Afilias, the registry charged with overseeing the rollout of dot-info, said they intend to take the domain live on Sept. 19. Although the tentative launch date is later than originally anticipated, it is earlier than the debut of the second new top-level domain, dot-biz, which is slated for October." See Also: Learn More About the .Info Domain See Also: Full-Text of Press Release See Also: Need To Register a .Biz Address?
Directories--Higher Education Source: Chronicle of Higher Education Coming Soon? A Directory of Faculty, Staff, Students in Higher Education From the article, "The Internet2 consortium of research universities will try to build a Web directory of millions of people in higher education. The directory would be, in effect, an electronic "white pages" of students and faculty and staff members, with information about how to communicate with them electronically over the Internet..."This is an experiment," says Michael R. Gettes, principal technologist at Georgetown University, who is one of the project's leaders. Few directories of the size anticipated have ever been built, and the necessary standardization is often hard to achieve when many institutions are involved." See Also: Full-Text of Internet2 News Release Web Search--AltaVista--Canada Source:CNW "AltaVista Canada to Rejoin AltaVista Company's Worldwide Network" From the release, "Operational and management responsibilities for AltaVista Canada will return on June 28, 2001 to the AltaVista Company, a majority owned operating company of CMGI, following a successful three-year relationship in which TELUS launched and managed the site at www.altavista.ca" Update: AltaVista Reclaims Canadian Portal (Source: Globe and Mail)
Canada Resource Shelf Internet Access Source: Industry Canada The New National Dream: Networking the Nation for Broadband Access News Release and Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Full-Text Document Shelf NTIS Source: GAO Review of NTIS (National Technical Information Service) Now Available From GAO Information Management: Dissemination of Technical Reports GAO-01-490, May 18 Objectives: 1) NTIS' various functions 2) The quality, age, and demand trends of reports in NTIS' repository 3) The extent that reports in NTIS' repository are readily available from other public sources 4) Whether federal agencies are sending their reports to NTIS for sale to the public, as required by law, and, if not, the reasons for lack of compliance. ---- A few highlights from the findings: NOTE: Page numbers refer to PDF. 1) Fewer than One In Ten Reports in Repository Has Been Sold Since 1995 (p.14) 2) Nineteen Percent of Reports in NTIS' Repository Were Available from Other Public Sources (p. 17) 3) Thirty-Seven Percent of the Reports Available Elesewhere Were Free On the Internet (p. 19) 4) Agencies Did Not Always Send Their Reports to NTIS, as required by law. (p. 21)
Web Search--Intelliseek Invisible Web Source: Newsbytes CIA Venture Capital Fund Makes Invest in Intelliseek (ProFusion, Bullseye) From the story, "In-Q-Tel, the CIA's unclassified venture capital fund, announced a $1.4 million investment in Intelliseek, a Cincinnati company that offers products and services that help companies gather intelligence electronically." See Also: Intelliseek's Press Release Update 6/25 "Intelliseek Gains $1.4 Million From CIA-Backed Firm" Source: Washington Post
Web Search--Pay for Placement Source: S.F. Chronicle Searching For Profits: Amid Tech Slump, More Portals Sell Search Engine Results To Highest Bidder Once again, let the searcher beware! Web Search--Inktomi Web Search--MSN Search MSN Search Chooses Inktomi for Asian Portals From the release, "Inktomi® Search/Web will provide full-text results for MSN Search in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, providing highly relevant, comprehensive search results to Internet users in these regions." Information Industry--Databases Information Industry--Copyright Source: Newsbytes "House Judiciary Chair Nudges Industry On Database Accord" From the article, "House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told high-tech industry leaders that unless they can hammer out a compromise position on a common database intellectual property protection bill, House leaders would forge their own version of the measure out of two conflicting pieces of legislation.The IT industry and other database and intellectual property holders remain far apart on their concept of database protections, with many content providers trying to keep their databases proprietary. However, Internet portal sites and other presenters of information want databases to be available under copyright law, so long as they are significantly augmented."
Web Search--Visualization Web Search--Antarcti.ca UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Registry) Antarcti.Ca Releases Demo of UDDI Directory Using Visualization Technology From the release, "The UDDI Business Registry is a global, public, online directory that gives businesses a uniform way to describe their services, discover other companies' services, and understand the methods necessary to conduct e-business with a particular company.Visual Net places the UDDI Business Registry data on large-scale maps utilizing a superior navigation system and information-rich visuals to enable users to find information on businesses in a way that is more natural, more like real life. This is expected to expedite the integration of the UDDI registry into a businesses' standard work environment." Direct to UDDI/Visual Net Demo Professional Reading--Conference Papers ACRL Conference Papers Available Online, Full-Text The full-text of invited and contributed papers from the ACRL Conference in Denver Over 40 papers (.pdf format) are available A Few Titles From the Collection: Digital Collections: Acceptance And Use in a Research Community Digital Librarian, Cybrarian, or Librarian with Specialized Skills: Who Will Staff Digital Libraries? The Future is Now: Reference Service for the Electronic Era Learning by Teaching: Student Presentations of Databases Online Journals: Utility of ToCs vs. Fulltext Shifting Sands—The Jurisdiction of Librarians in Scholarly Communication Monday, June 18, 2001
Election 2000--Archives Archived Web Material New Web Resource: Alexa Internet Debuts Election 2000 Collection From the news release, "Alexa Internet today announced the Election 2000 Collection, a groundbreaking, large-scale collection of date-searchable Web sites archived and made available online.The Election 2000 Collection developed for the U.S. Library of Congress by the Internet Archive, and Compaq Computer, is now being made available as an Internet library containing archived copies of more than 1000 election-related Web sites (http://archive.alexa.com). The collection, searchable by date, by website, and by category via Alexa's new Wayback Machine technology, contains more than two million megabytes, or about 87 million pages, of election-related information gathered between August 1, 2000 and January 14, 2001, including what was published on the candidates' web sites, political party sites, and major news sites."
Information Quality Web as a Research Tool Source: The Globe and Mail (Canada) "Web Isn't Always a Hit for Students" This article is on target! Kudos to The Globe and Mail. Highlights from the article, Knowing how to find information on the Net is an important skill for students. But most don't learn how to search properly...Knowing how to find information on the Internet is one of the most important skills a high school or university student can have. But most students don't take the time to learn how to conduct their research properly...Librarians can be a valuable resource manager in a student's quest to search the Internet for print, video, audio or other material. They can also assist with tips on how to use search engines and directories in order to narrow down a search...Often, students will "place too much faith in search engines, figuring they'll just type in a couple of words and the search engine will find what they're looking for," says Internet author and consultant Rick Broadhead."
Government Documents Searchable Databases--Invisible Web GPO Access New Edition: GPO Access Training Manual Online This new edition is a 73 page pdf file. Print versions are to follow according to the GPO site.
Science--Digital Libraries National Science Foundation National Science Foundation Plans Digital Library Source: Wired News "The National Science Foundation is funding the construction of a National Science Digital Library, where users will be able to browse quality resources from libraries around the country." Visit a Prototype of the Library via the Site for Science at Cornell University Encyclopedia--New Zealand Source: The New Zealand Herald "Work on Online Encyclopaedia to Start Next Year" From the article, "Work will begin next year on an online encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Prime Minister Helen Clark and Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Judith Tizard said yesterday that it would provide a comprehensive guide to the country's natural environment, history, culture, economics, institutions and social development." E-Books--.netLibrary Books in Print "netLibrary eBooks Now Available in R.R. Bowker's Books In Print Database" "...an agreement with R.R. Bowker that incorporates netLibrary's eBook titles into R.R. Bowker's Books In Print(R) book information database." Information Industry--ProQuest ProQuest to Add Oxford University Press Titles Over 70 full-text titles to be added to ProQuest products in the Fall of 2002 Info Industry--LexisNexis LexisNexis Announces Release of "Current Issues Universe" For Academic Community From the release, "The release of CIU marks the first time students will have online access to these important documents through one research solution. CIU delivers access to the complete text of documents from more than 8,000 “gray literature” sources." Full-Text Document Shelf United States Congress Health Care Financing Alert: Money in Congress Alert via Center for Responsive Politics CRP out with a document (including links to database entries) discussing the American Medical Association and contibutions to politcal candidates. From the alert, "At the forefront of the debate is the American Medical Association, a trade group representing hundreds of thousands of physicians nationwide. The AMA, which today launched an ad campaign in support of managed care reform, widely has been considered one of the Republican Party’s biggest allies over the years, a position largely reflected in its political giving." Sunday, June 17, 2001
Product Design--Lists and Rankings Source: Business Week Annual Design Rankings "The best product designs of the year." Direct to the Winners List Business--Lists and Rankings Source: Fortune Cool 2001 Lists of cool companies, people, trends, and products. Separate foreign and domestic categories. Information Technology--Lists and Rankings Source: Business Week Information Technology 100 EXPANDED CONTENT Web version contains rankings for 200 companies. Data provided by S&P Compustat Information Technology--Lists and Rankings Source: Upside Upside Hot 100 (Private Companies) Saturday, June 16, 2001
Dictionaries--Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary Adds Terms The lastest issue of the OED News contains a full list of recently added terms. Here are just a few of them: bad hair day, browser, channel surfing, cybercafe, double-click, home page, MP3, pay-per-view, retail therapy, smiley, spammer, urban legend, webliography
Ontologies Classification and Categorization "Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology" Written by two members of the Stanford University faculty. From the abstract, "Ontologies have become core components of many large applications yet the training material has not kept pace with the growing interest. This paper addresses the issues of why one would build an ontology and presents a methodology for creating ontologies based on declarative knowledge representation systems." Make sure to take a look at the Protege Project software. It's free to download. Full-Text Document Shelf Electric Blackouts--California Source: California Independent System Operators California ISO System Conditions Notification Process (14 Pages) California ISO System Conditions Notification Process--Addendum ISO 2001 Summer Assessment Report (50 Pages) Friday, June 15, 2001
Real Estate--United Kingdom Proviser: Home Prices Throughout England and Wales Data source is H.M. Land Registry.
Web Search--Google Searching PDF Material With Google Several "tips" to search only .pdf material in Google have been mentioned in various articles. Here is another. *If you need to search ONLY .pdf content, combine this syntax: filetype:pdf with your search terms. Example: filetype:pdf "Dulles International Airport" site:gov *If you need to eliminate .pdf material from you search, try this: Example: -filetype: pdf "runway construction" More info via this Google FAQ
Online Databases--Canada Invisible Web The National Library of Canada Announces FREE Access to AMICUS Database From the news release, "AMICUS, which includes the catalogue of the National Library of Canada as well as records for items held in all of Canada's major research libraries, had been available only to those libraries that could afford the subscription fee. This barrier has now been eliminated." Direct to the AMICUS Web
Web Search Industry--RealNames Web Search Industry--MSN UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) Business Directories "Microsoft and RealNames Announce Registration and Navigation Services for the UDDI Inititative" Portion of news release of greatest interest to the searcher, "In addition, users can now also search the UDDI Business Registry by typing the Keyword phrase UDDI, followed by a company name or portion of a company name, into the address bar of Internet Explorer (for example: UDDI Corp). The results will display a complete listing of all the ways businesses with Corp in their company name are identified within the UDDI Registry." More info via this Reuters story. Reviews--Reference Commentary--Copyright New Material from Jacso and Tennant A new edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf is now available. He reviews CyberAtlas, a statistical site for Internet information and and The New Penguin English Dictionary. -- Roy Tennant's latest column for LJDigital is also online It's titled, "The Copyright War". From the column, "Copyright as we presently know it is dead. To be specific, copyright law as it currently stands is not only unenforceable, it is widely perceived by the general public as overly protective of publishers and, to a lesser extent, creators. Thus, even as copyright law is strengthened in the legislatures and the courts, it is dead to many in our society." Government Information--United States United States Government FAQ Compilation Thanks to the LII for the tip. Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) Children--United States Working Series No. #52 Source: U.S. Census "At-Risk Conditions of U.S. School-Age Children" ---- Health Statistics--Lists and Rankings Source: CDC Top Ten States with the Highest Rates of Tuberculosis Library and Information Technology Worth A Bookmark: Public Library Association (PLA) Tech Notes Concise overviews on current topics. These will be of interest to all types of libraries. A few titles available include: E-Reference: Closing in on 24/7 Intranets: The Web Inside Metadata: Always More Than You Think Education--Directories Education--Databases The ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools alerts us to 3 directory resources they compile. *Latino Education Directory *Outdoor Education Directory *Rural Education Directory Thursday, June 14, 2001
Business Research Source: Business 2.0 "How to Find Warning Signs in Quarterly Reports" An overview written for the lay investor or new business researcher about gleaning info from EDGAR documents. Full-Text Document Shelf Law--U.S. Federal Courts--Statistics Federal Court Management Statistics-2000 Court of Appeals ||| District Courts
Search Engines--Future Search A New Visual Search Engine in the Research Stage Source: New Scientist "Rather than returning lists of possible website hits the new engine, called Visualization Information Tool (VisIT), shows results as icons. These represent groups of sites, with the most relevant ones towards the centre." Direct to a Beta Test of the VisIT Engine Web Search Industry--FAST More Details on the FAST PartnerSite Program According to a FAST .pdf file, $100 a month will allow for up to 1000 pages crawled/recrawled/refreshed everyday. Web Search Industry--Vivisimo Yahoo! Internet Life Names Vivisimo Search Engine Developed at Carnegie Mellon The `Best New Search Service on the Web From the release, "...Vivisimo's free public Web site -- http://www.vivisimo.com -- works with several of the major search engines, including Yahoo!, AltaVista, MSN and Lycos. It also can access government sites such as FirstGov.gov, which compiles information from all federal agencies, PubMed, which reports medical information, and many corporate, news and university sites, such as Microsoft, CNN and Harvard. All of these are seen at http://www.vivisimo.com/demos/. Convergence Hello to the Enuber Project Source: NetNews Today"Trials of the Enumber project have started. The idea is to map phone numbers to net addresses, so everything is seamlessly connected. With this information, a phone call can be routed via a mobile or the Net, and even turned from a voice message to an email." Canadian Resource Shelf Access to Information Annual Report to Parliament for 2000-2001 - Information Commissioner of Canada From the site, "The Report includes several recommendations to assist the Access to Information Review Task Force in improving the Access to Information Act and provides report cards on the performance of several departments." Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Census 2000--United States Summary File 1 (Detailed Demographic Data) Material Begins To Roll Out Material for Delaware and Vermont is now available. Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) Crime--Statistics--United States Source: BJS Criminal Victimization 2000: Changes, 1999-2000, with Trends, 1993-2000 Summary/News Release ||| Full-Text/Spreadsheets -- Gangs--Statistics--United States Source: USDOJ The Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970–98
Enterprise Search Source: Computerworld AltaVista Offers Corporate Network Searching Apps "The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company announced its AV Enterprise Search application, designed to give workers access to a wider array of data within their company. The software will work inside corporate firewalls, allowing workers to get more information faster, according to AltaVista. Also announced today was AV Personal Search software, which gives individual corporate users similar search capabilities on the hard drives of their desktop computers." New AltaVista App: Too Invasive? Source: Associated Press Internet Statistics Source: Nielsen//Net Ratings "429 Million People Worldwide Have Internet Access"
Canadian Resource Shelf Federal Government--Glossary Government On-Line (GOL) Glossary ---- Intelligence Canadian Security Intelligence Service 2000 Public Report ---- Transportation--Statistics Canadian Transportation Agency Annual Report: 2000 Search Industry--Fast Fast Does Deal With IBM, Fast Products To Be Used on IBM.Com "Under an agreement signed today between the two companies, IBM will license FAST Site Search™, and will be coupling FAST’s product with IBM developed technology to provide rapid, intelligent access to the more than 14,000 products and 1 million pages on ibm.com. FAST hosts and manages the ibm.com index at FAST’s data center, refreshing content twice weekly to ensure delivery of fresh and accurate information on demand to ibm.com users worldwide, including support of the 25 languages found on the site." Tuesday, June 12, 2001
Professional Reading--Library and Information Science--Directories Electronic Journals in Library and Information Science Compilation Belinda Weaver, web columnist for inCite, the news magazine of the Australian Library Association, alerts us to very comprehensive list of electronic journals in librarianship and information science compiled by the Thomas Parry Library at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in the United Kingdom. The Wireless Librarian--Directories New Resource: LIS Directory WAP Directory A new directory of wap (wireless access protocol) tools and resources of interest to the info pro is now online. Very strong with UK content. The directory is part of the Info Connect collection. News Briefs Cleveland Public Library Opens 24hr Reference Service ---- Ebrary Joins OCLC Monday, June 11, 2001
Digitization Projects--Newspapers "The National Newspaper Association, EMC and Cold North Wind To Introduce America's Chronicles Historical Newspaper Project -- More Than 300 Years of American Life to be Digitized As Original Page Images" "More than 20,000 community newspapers, some long out of print, have recorded American life since the 17th century and two unique organizations have set the common goal of providing Internet access to this documentation of American heritage.The National Newspaper Association (NNA) and Cold North Wind Corporation signed a letter of intent today to create America's Chronicles(SM), an online search engine that accesses the digital archives of America's community newspapers, beginning with the archives of the 3600 NNA member newspapers.The project could eventually result in 500,000,000 pages of original, historical content dating back to the 1600s and will be available online at www.americaschronicles.com. The site will be launched at the NNA's 116th Annual Convention and Trade Show in Milwaukee, September 12-15, with access to the first of many digital archives." Direct to Project Web Site
Info Industry--Factiva The Official Launch of Factiva.Com is Underway From the news release, "Factiva™, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, announced today the launch of Factiva.com, a Web-based news and business information service for the enterprise. Factiva.com will replace Dow Jones Interactive® and Reuters Business Briefing, and deliver for the first time the content sets from these two existing products to provide a universally indexed, global content collection of nearly 8,000 sources in 22 languages from 118 countries...Factiva.com will be commercially available in the third quarter 2001. Learn more about Factiva.Com. Info Industry--LexisNexis LexisNexis Adds STM (Science, Technical, Medical) Content from Elsevier "Technical librarians and intellectual property professionals now can research an extensive collection of scientific, technical and medical abstracts from the premier science publisher Elsevier Science on the LexisNexis™ Web-based and dialup information services.Seven Elsevier Science databases of abstracts, six of them new to the LexisNexis service, have been added to the Science-Technology library."
Education--Various Resources A Few New Resources and Tools From ERIC 1) "Educational Leadership" Preselected ERIC Database Search "The ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management has added a new topic to the "Preselected ERIC Database Searches" section of its Web site. The new topic includes ERIC document and journal article abstracts pertaining to over a dozen issues of concern to educational leadership." -- 2) New URL for ERIC Systemwide Web Site The ERIC Program office has issued a new URL (http://www.eric.ed.gov) for the ERIC Systemwide Web site. The new URL conveys that the ERIC Systemwide Web site represents the whole ERIC system and that ERIC is a part of the U.S. Department of Education. The old URL (http://www.accesseric.org) will continue to work until September 15.
Info Industry--Data Downlink Name Changes "Data Downlink Corporation Changes Corporate Name To Alacra, Inc." "Data Downlink Corporation, a privately-held global provider of business and financial information, announced today the change of its corporate name and brand identity to Alacra, Inc., effective immediately. The company's portfolio of service offerings, which includes the business search engine Portal B(TM) and its premium database service, .xls, will be packaged as Alacra and available to users under that name beginning July 10, 2001 (www.alacra.com)."
Business--Lists and Rankings--Europe Source: WSJ.Com "The Europe 500" This resource includes FREE access to 4 lists as well as a searchable database. Canadian Resource Shelf Recycling New: Canadian Recycling Web Site Business--Online Databases--Company Sleuth Source: InfoToday "Infonautics Unveils Company Sleuth Subscription Service" Invisible Web--Overview Source: IndustryStandard.Com "Deep-Net Fishing" Saturday, June 09, 2001
Medical--Databases New "Easy to Remember" URL Available for NLM Pubmed The National Library of Medicine has created an "easy to remember" alias url for the Pubmed Database. URL: http://www.pubmed.gov The http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query address is still usable.
Search Engine Business--Fast Fast Launches Fee-Based Enhanced Crawling Service A few months back Inktomi began a similar service aimed at "large content publishers". Fast's (Alltheweb.com) announcement is aimed at small and medium sized organizations. From the press release, "FAST PartnerSite™ ensures that an enterprise website is regularly indexed and promises enhanced visibility through the premium reach of FAST’s global portal network, including Terra Lycos, Spray, World Online and WIND, as well as FAST’s own Internet search engine, AlltheWeb.com,” said Rob Fisher, FAST’s chief executive officer." The press release does not mention the pricing of the service but notes that it can be paid for by credit card. Thanks to GN for the tip. Friday, June 08, 2001
Cool Database of the Day!--Invisible/Opaque Web Small Business--Benchmarking--Canada Performance Plus A new web site for this product. From the site, "Performance Plus is an on-line performance benchmarking tool. It provides detailed financial and employment data on more than 600 business sectors across Canada, including more than 30 performance benchmarks to help small businesses determine how they measure up against their competitors.This tool uses the Small Business Profiles (SBP) created from a sample of Revenue Canada tax returns for both incorporated and unincorporated businesses operating in Canada." Canadian Resource Shelf (2 Items) Invisible/Opaque Web Cataloging--Subject Headings "CSH [Canadian Subject Headings] on the Web Celebrates Six Months" From the article, "Canadian Subject Headings (CSH), the National Library of Canada's list of some 6000 standard subject headings (in English) relating to Canada, has been available free of charge on the Web since October 2000. CSH on the Web can be found on the National Library's Web site..." Direct to the Database --- Economics--Statistics--Foreign Investment Source: Monthly Trade Bulletin "Canada's Foreign Investment Performance in 2000"
Full-Text Document Shelf (4 Items) Climate Change Source: National Research Council Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions From the summary, "In a report requested by the Bush administration, a committee of the National Academies' National Research Council summed up science's current understanding of global climate change by characterizing the global warming trend over the last 100 years, and examining what may be in store for the 21st century and the extent to which warming may be attributable to human activity." Direct to the News Release/Summary ||| Direct to the Full-Text ---- Presidential Election 2000--United States Source: United States Commission on Civil Rights Draft Staff Report on Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election --- Business--Statistics--United States Source: U.S. Census Annual Capital Expenditures: 1999 Summary/News Release||| Full-Text Document --- Higher Education--Science & Engineering--United States Source: NSF 01-327 Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 1990-98 Thursday, June 07, 2001
Cool Database!--Invisible/Opaque Web Global Event Calendar WhatsOnWhen.Com Search or browse a list of events taking place around the World. Make note of the "bizarre" theme that you can browse or use to limit your search. (: This resource is U.K. based and uses editors and journalists to filter submissions.
Webliograhies--Conference Resources Source: Free Pint "Conference Information and the Internet" A comprehensive webliography of web-based resources.
Library History--Australia New Web Resource: Our Nation's Album: The Library's First 100 Years A new site from the National Library of Australia
Web Search--The Future P2P Distributed Searching JXTA Search: A Look at the Future of Searching An interview with Gene Kan, creator on Gnutella and founder of InfraSearch (now JXTA, part of Sun) UPDATE 6/8/01-A demo and additional information is now available Professional Reading (2 articles) Scholarly Publishing "Online or Invisible?" Source: Author Web Page/Nature From the article: "Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access." -- Electronic Books Source: First Monday "The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World" This article was written by Clifford Lynch Web Directories New Web Directory Goes Live: Hello to JoeAnt.Com A new volunteer style web directory similar to the ODP. Not much available at the moment but you will be able to get a feel for the site in terms of layout and design. From the site, "JoeAnt was founded by a group of former Go Guide volunteers who enjoyed working together and enjoyed the work they were doing. After the demise of Go, they formed JoeAnt to keep their online community intact and continue their volunteer effort." The new directory was also mentioned in a May, 2001 Business Week article. Full-Text Document Shelf Energy--Alaska Source: EIA Future Oil Production for the Alaska North Slope Wednesday, June 06, 2001
Energy--California Real Time Information Two Resources to Monitor California Energy Supply and Demand 1) Today's Supply of and Demand for Electricity in California Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Real-Time chart along with a detailed explanation. 2) OFFICIAL Status Information from California Independent System Operators This page updates itself every 60 seconds. Note: You can find a database of historical load information via the OASIS system. Material back to 11/1/01. This material is via a "prototype" OASIS system and interface. Current OASIS System and Interface. Technology Industry--Employment--United States American Electronics Association Releases Cybercities 2001 The report is a "State-By-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry". The full-text is not available online and must be purchased. Online the AEA makes a full set of press releases available with summary statistiscal data for most states. Direct to Press Release Compilation Additional Information via this IDG report U.S. Senate--Senate Chairman--Lists & Rankings Source: CQ Shortest Terms as Senate Chairman Since 1947 Source: U.S. Senate History Office Majority and Minority Parties (Party Division) Majority and Minority Leaders Senators Who Changed Parties During Senate Service (Since 1890) Senators Representing Third or Minor Parties U.S. Senate--Bibliographies The United States Senate: An Institutional Bibliography, 1789-2000 Source: Senate Historical Office From the site, "...includes more than six hundred citations to books, articles and government documents printed since 1789."
Canadian Resource Shelf Children--Directory--Canada Source: Government of Canada Services for Children: Guide to Government of Canada Services for Children and their Families Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) Cities Source: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) State of the World Cities 2001 News Release/Summary ||| Direct To Full-Text Document -- U.S. Government--Management Source: Committee of Governmental Affairs (U.S. Senate) Government at the Brink (Thompson Government Management Report) Volume 1 ||| Volume 2 Tuesday, June 05, 2001
Copyright--Databases--United States New Databases: Web Access to Copyright Files The U.S. Copyright Office has made a new "experimental" web interface to several copyright files available online. From a ZDNet article, "As a simpler replacement to an earlier, outdated search tool, the Copyright Office's new service won't shift any of the power balances between copyright holders and their critics online...The new copyright-finding tool covers works that have been registered since 1978. The office said that more than 13 million search terms are included, although this covers considerable duplication of works." LOCIS access to the copyright files continues to be available. Full-Text of ZDNet Article ||| Direct to Copyright Database Resources Web Search--Google Canada Gets "Customized" Google Site From the release, "The new site features options to search the entire web, to search pages from Canada only, and the ability to quickly customize Google's interface and search language to French." Updated (6/6) with an article from the National Post
Web Search--Focused Crawlers--Scirus Jacso on Scirus Library professor, writer, and database expert Peter Jacso takes a look at the recently released Scirus science search engine from Elsevier. An enlightening read! The British Library--Strategic Plans The British Library: New Strategic Directions This new 19 page document was placed online today. Information Industry--ProQuest Bell & Howell Info & Learning/Publishing Services Become ProQuest From a press release, "When the New York Stock Exchange opens tomorrow [6/6/01], ProQuest Company (NYSE: PQE) becomes the new name and new listing for 94-year-old Bell & Howell Company. ProQuest Company is composed of the companies formerly known as Bell & Howell Information and Learning and Bell & Howell Publishing Services..." UPDATE: ProQuest Execs Discuss the Company Direct to the ProQuest Web Site
Libraries and Librarians "Librarians Get Truth-in-Internet Challenge" Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette From the article, "Vartan Gregorian, called the savior of the New York Public Library during his tenure as director, gave a pep talk yesterday to librarians everywhere at a ceremony in the Carnegie Lecture Hall. "You're in charge of the future developments of the digital age," Gregorian said. "No [Internet] search engine can replace a librarian. The article continues, "Saying librarians were responsible for "separating the wheat from the chaff," he warned that the Internet's power to provide an excess of information is now a danger to democracy...The threat to freedom used to be a lack of information, Gregorian said, but thanks to the Internet, "we're given too much. It's the librarian's job to separate fact from fiction." Comment: Right On Mr. Gregorian! Health Care Data "U.S. Plans To Rate Health Providers" Source: Washington Post From the article, "The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), using newspaper advertisements, the Internet and toll-free telephone numbers, plans to release numerical scores for every Medicare provider four times a year based on a half-dozen criteria, ranging from medical credentials to staffing levels...Details of the proposal are still being worked out, but HCFA staff members said they are confident the agency has the data, money and authority to move quickly. E-Books Report on E-Books From BookExpo America in Chicago Source: Wired.Com From the article, "...the general feeling at the educational panels -- attended by over 2,000 industry professionals including booksellers and librarians -- was that the fire that will ignite the e-book business has not yet been lit." Business-Europe--Business Leaders Source: Business Week Europe The Stars of Europe: Europe's Best and Brightest Business-Rankings and Lists Source: Business Week Hot Growth Companies Full-Article ||| Direct To List Small Business--Rankings and Lists Source: Entrepreneur Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet's 7th Annual Hot 100 Direct to Full-Text Article ||| Direct to List Information Technology--Rankings and Lists Source: ComputerWorld 100 Best Places to Work in IT (8th Annual) Direct to Full Article ||| Direct to List Canadian Resource Shelf Air Transportation Source: Statistics Canada Trade and Aviation Passenger Transportation, 1966 to 1998 Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) Transportation--Statistics National Transportation Statistics 2000 (NTS) Released earlier today. Summary/News Release ||| Direct to Full-Text Document ---- State Governments--Technology 2001 Digital State Survey Source: Center for Digital Government and the Progress & Freedom Foundation "The four-part survey will document and assess progress state governments have made in adopting and utilizing digital technologies to improve the delivery of services to their citizens." News Story ||| Direct to Full-Text Document Monday, June 04, 2001
Full-Text Document Shelf (3 Items) Health Statistics--United States 1998-1999 State Health Care Expenditure Report Source: National Association of State Budget Officers Note: See NASBO site for more full-text documents -- Health Statistics--Rankings and Lists--United States UnitedHealth Group State Health Ranking - 2000 Edition -- Real Estate--United States 1) Studley Office Leasing Trends 12 City Reports, National Report 2) Grub & Ellis Commercial Real Estate Reports National reports are free along with exec summaries of metro reports. Quick Takes (3 Items) Labor Statistics--United States The BLS "Economy at a Glance" page now includes data for many smaller metro areas. -- National Public Radio The NPR site relaunch includes a few new limiting options to the program archive database. -- Canada--Universities Canadian National Site Licensing Project CNSLP Leases ISI Web of Science
Library News "A Time Inc. Institution Will Close Its Doors" AOL Time Warner set to close main research library. Source: NY Times Search Engines--Pay-For-Placement Search Engines--GoTo.com "Paid Placement Is Catching On in Web Searches" Source: NY Times From the article, "We think the marketer's interest in targeting is equal to the user's interest in relevance," said Ted Meisel, GoTo's chief executive. "But our job is not only to enhance search results. It is also to provide a revenue stream to our partners." Comment: We may forget that the general search tools are or attempt to be profit-making organizations. Priority number one is not to put the most timely, accurate, and authoritative in your hands in a timely matter but rather to serve the needs of their companies. This DOES NOT mean that general search tools don't serve an essential role. They do. However, after reading about GoTo.com's success realize pay-for-placement (and paid entry) is here to stay. Therefore, we must: *Alert users to pay-for-placement links that are incorporated into results pages and that search optimization people work to get their clients listings at the top of the non-paid results. *STRESS, the importance of going beyone just typing a word or two into the search box, being as specific as possible with search strategiess, and learning to limit where possible. If they don't use these techniques alert them that the BEST answer may not be at the top of the results page. *Be aware that many paid placement only engines make up many of the search tools that meta search engines utilize. See Danny Sullivan’s recent article on this subject. *Take full advantage of focused/targeted crawlers that do not have pay-for-placement obligations. In fact, many of these tools can make portions of the "opaque web" easily accessible. -- Thanks to BQ for the tip. Search Engines--Google "The Virtuous Search Engine" Source: ZDNet From the article, "With its holier-than-thou pose, Google stands alone from other major search companies, including Ask Jeeves, GoTo.com, Inktomi, LookSmart and Yahoo!. There are generally two kinds of fees they charge: paid listings, in which customers pay for their sites to be included in a search provider's directory or index, and paid placements, in which sites are guaranteed the top spots in searches that contain specific keywords...But in the end, there's the question of whether the supposed taint of paid-for search results even matters. Ironically, the good will in Google's refusal to offer paid submissions into its index may be lost on many Web users." Information Quality "Consumers Union To Begin Web Credibility Project" Source: LJ Digital From the news brief, "Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, has named Beau Brendler, former editorial director of ABCNEWS.com, as director of its new Web Credibility Project...The project will examine broad trends and underlying business models on the web as well as specific information practices on health, finance, travel, consumer shopping, and journalism sites. It also will develop effective standards and best practices for credible information and information disclosure on the web and work with other organizations to promote them and encourage web publishers to adopt them." Thanks to GT for the tip. Online Information Tools-ProQuest/Bell & Howell Preview: ProQuest 5.0 Coming 7/29/01 a new interface and more. Web Research Tools--Resource Discovery Network "Behind the Headlines": A New Service From the RDN The U.K. based Resource Discovery Network is online with a new service, "Behind the Headlines". From an e-mail message, "The service offers users background information on the latest news stories via pre-set searches of high-quality Internet resources. All of the RDN's 30,000 resources are selected, catalogued and described by subject and information professionals drawn from over 60 UK education institutions and related organisations." E-Publishing "ebrary Inks Deals with 12 Top University Presses" From the news release, "ebrary™ (www.ebrary.com), the leading provider of software for online delivery of copyrighted content, today announced that it has signed content distribution agreements with MIT Press, University of California Press, Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Texas Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Marquette University Press, Purdue University Press and University of Utah Press...Under terms of the agreements, these respected university presses will provide ebrary with thousands of valuable titles ranging from business and finance to anthropology and zoology. Many of these works will be available to ebrary’s online channel partners, such as e-learning providers, Internet portals and library Websites, as part of the ebrarian™ solution and will also be available on the ebrary.com site." Updated(6/6) Additional info via The Chronicle of Higher Education Search Engines--Most Popular Search Terms The Top 50 Search Terms Source: Business 2.0 From the article: "The top 50 online search terms account for 2.73 percent of all searches...Net surfers used 9.1 million unique terms between March 1999 and January 2001." |
