Web Archive Projects
OCLC Collaborates to Develop Digital Archive of Web Documents
Important and exciting research. From the release, “The goal of the Web Document Digital Archive project is to create a sustainable service to provide long-term access to web documents. The service will fill libraries’ basic needs for identification, selection, capture, description, preservation, and access to documents that would not be accessible in the future otherwise.”
See Also: Preservation Metadata: A Review of the State of the Art (Full-Text)
50 pages .pdf from OCLC/RLG Working Group on Metadata

New Database
Chemical Safety–Worldwide
International Program On Chemical Safety-INCHEM
From the news release, “The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that thousands of chemical safety documents are now available free on the Internet – a development which will help countries to fulfil UN environment goals. According to WHO, the website of the International Programme on Chemical Safety (www.inchem.org) now offers easy access to thousands of searchable full-text documents from international bodies on chemical risks and chemical risk management.”
News Release ||| Direct to the Database

New Database
Buildings–United States Government
U.S. Government Leased and Owned Buildings
From the press release, “The GSA buildings and sites database allows the visitor to view expiring lease/occupancy information from more than 7,000 GSA leases and the locations of more than 1,900 GSA-owned buildings. Visitors to the site can view the information by GSA region or by state from congressional districts.”
Direct to the Database

Web Search–Pay-For-Placement
Source: IndustryStandard.Com
GoTo.Com Does Well, Financially
Despite increased scrutiny about pay-for-placement search tools one of the few dot coms that is doing well financially is GoTo.Com, a pay-for-placement search engine. GoTo and similar engines should not be stopped, shut-down, fined, or anything close. The issue in my mind is one of user education for both information professionals and those users who come to us for web search assistance. We should teach/alert people that different types of search tools exist and the answers you receive will be different and/or perhaps labeled differently, depending on which one you choose. It’s also important to alert users who use meta-search engines to pay close attention to exactly which engines they are searching. Most meta-search engines send the search to some percentage of pay-for-placement engines. Danny Sullivan has written an excellent article on this topic. This pay-for-placement controversy is a perfect opportunity for profession to get out and inform the public about something they should know about.

Full-Text Document Shelf (5 Items)
E-Government–Benchmark Study
Information Age Government – Benchmarking Electronic Service Delivery – 2001
Source: Office of the e-Envoy (United Kingdom)
From the site, “International benchmarking studies have been carried out in 2000 and again this year to compare the Government�s progress against G7 and other leading nations in the development of electronic government services.” The report is available in several formats. The year 2000 report is also available at this url.
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Birth Rate–United States
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
From the summary, “The U.S. teen birth rate declined to a record low in 2000, according to a preliminary report on births from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report showed that the 2000 rate was 22 percent lower than the rate in 1991 when the decline began. In addition, the report showed an estimated 4,064,948 births for all ages in 2000 in the United States, 3 percent more than in 1999 and the highest in almost a decade.”
News Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
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Womens Health–United States
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
New Report: Utilization of Ambulatory Medical Care by Women: United States, 1997-98
From the news release, “A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) examines women’s use of ambulatory medical care in 1997 and 1998 and finds that in many significant ways their care differs from men.”
News Summary ||| Direct to the Full-Text
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Individual Proprietorships–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Nonemployer Statistics: 1998
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Employment–State and Local Government–United States
Source: U.S. Census
State and Local Governments Employ More Than 15 Million
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