Online Searching
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
“Johns Hopkins� Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death?”
A complete and thorough search is not always as easy as it may appear to be.
Web Portals–Yahoo
New Resource: “Yahoo Education”
From the news release, “– As the new school year begins, Yahoo! today announced the launch of Yahoo! Education (http://education.yahoo.com), a free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Through this new service, professors and teachers can extend the traditional classroom onto the Internet by posting class rosters, calendars, and syllabi, and by connecting with students through private classroom message boards and e-mail. Yahoo! also announced new agreements with three leading providers of education materials — Bartleby.com, Britannica.com, and Houghton Mifflin Company — who bring together their resources to create the Yahoo! Education reference area.”
Direct to Yahoo Education
Online Information Industry–NewsEdge
Another Acqusition for Thomson: NewsEdge
From the annoncement: “The Thomson Corporation (TSE: TOC), a leading e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace, and NewsEdge Corporation (NASDAQ: NEWZ), today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Thomson will acquire NewsEdge”
See Also: An Analysis of the Acquisition by Marydee Ojala, editor of Online.
See Also:NewsEdge Letter To Customers
See Also: Acquistion FAQ
Online Information Industry–Factiva
Online Information Industry–Knight Ridder
“Factiva Announces Addition of Knight Ridder Digital Online Content”
From the announcement, “…an agreement allowing Factiva to include online content from twenty-nine Knight Ridder newspapers as part of its global news and business information offering.”
See Also: Direct to Knight Ridder Digital
Web Search–FindSame
Another Link To Remove, FindSame is Gone
A quick note to alert VAS&ND users that FindSame.Com along with its owner, Digital Intergrity, are no longer online or in business. What did FindSame do? From the FAQ, “Most search engines work on keywords. They find documents in their database that contain the words you enter anywhere in the document. Current search engines compete with each other by trying to make this list “more relevant” to the topic you wanted to find. Digital Integrity searches in an entirely different way. The search takes as input an entire document and returns to you a list of documents that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text. FindSame was used by many to assist in identifying plagarized materials.
Web Search–Google
Source: IndustryStandard.Net
A Few Comments from the New Google CEO Eric Schmidt
From the article, “Eventually Schmidt says he foresees taking the privately held company public, but given the poor performance of the market it won’t be anytime soon. Nor is the company strapped for cash. Google has received more than $35 million in funding from such well-respected venture capital firms as Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.”
Online Databases
Milestones For Two Databases
INSPEC just added its 7 millionth record
AGRICOLA adds its 4 millionth record.
Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf (3 Items)
Health–United States
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
2001 State Health Profiles
Material for all 50 States and the District of Columbia
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Labor–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Current Population Reports: Reasons People Do Not Work
20 pages .pdf
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Labor–United States
“National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 1999″
189 pages .pdf
See Also: Occupational Data from Nine Census Divisions, 1999
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