Fast Facts
Ready Reference
Factbox, Fast Fact Lists From Reuters
Reuters is the compiler of these wonderful lists. The only drawback is with some of the web news providers having formatting problems with them. However, it’s nothing that some quick reformatting can’t fix. Reuters is available from many news sources including Yahoo, CBS Marketwatch, and Northern Light, and many fee-based vendors.
Here are a few Factbox lists. Grab them while you can!
–A Timeline of Major Developments in PCs
–Recent Major Computer Bugs, Viruses, and Worms
–Recent Layoffs of 1000 or More
–Players in the Electronic Trading Systems (U.S. Fixed-Income) Space
–Major Players in the Japanese Handheld PC Space
–Top 10 Largest Point Increases in the NASDAQ (as of 4/5/01)
–Past Pepsi Advertising Campaigns

Web Compilations–California–Statistics
Counting California
From a news release, “In the first release of the service, researchers and the public can discover and interact with current and historical census data, almanac-style statistics, county business data, and a range of education, crime, election, and demographic information from nearly a dozen different sources. Searching can be done by topic, geography, title, and data provider. The University of California’s California Digital Library developed and hosts Counting California with support from state and federal research grants.”
Direct to the Counting California site

Full-Text Resource Shelf (4 Items)
Stem Cell Research
Source: Congressional Research Service
Stem Cell Research (RL31015)
Note: This Congressional Research Service report (14 pages .pdf) was updated on 8/10/2001
It’s accessible by following these 3 steps:
1) Go to http://www.house.gov/shays/CRS/CRSProducts.htm
2) Select CRS Long Reports
3) Scroll To The Document
See Also: U.S. News Library Briefing Book, “The Science, Politics, and Ethics of Stem-Cell Research”
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Labor–Women–United States–Statistics
Source:BLS
Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2000
37 pages .pdf
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Science and Engineering–United States–Statisitcs
Source: NSF
Scientific and Engineering Research Facilities: 1999 (NSF 01-330)
From the site, “These tables provide data on the status of research facilities needed to conduct science and engineering (S&E) research at U.S.colleges, universities and nonprofit biomedical research institutions. Data on the amount, quality, adequacy and condition of S&E research space are presented for the year 1999. Data on the construction and repair/renovation of S&E research facilities and their costs are presented for the years 1998-2001. The historical tables present data for the years 1988-99.”
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Internet–Australia
Digital Divide–Australia
Source: Parliamentary Library (Australia)
A Digital Divide in Rural and Regional Australia?
Numerous stats about use of Net in Australia

Organization of Information–Taxonomies
Professional Reading
“Taxonomies: The Value of Organized Business Knowledge�
Jack Bryar at NewsEdge has written a 14 page white paper on the importance of taxonomies and other tools (e.g. XML) in making material easier to search and access. This paper is a worthwhile read for info professionals and for those people who want an introduction to a topic getting more and more well-deserved attention.

Online Map Update–MapQuest
Online Map Update–MapBlast
From MapQuest: Satellite Photos of U.S. Addresses
Enter an address. When the map is returned, click the “Aerial Photo” tab directly above the map. You can zoom in and out. Also, click the Big Map button for a larger, easier to use photo. Images can be saved. You can move (all directions) by clicking on the image. Here is a satellite image of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.
New From MapBlast: “LineDrive” Direction Maps
Enter data and notice the “Direction Format” options. Select “LineDrive”. Easy to understand, interpret, and print. An example of the new “LineDrive” maps illustrating a route from the British Embassy in D.C. to the Canadian Embassy a few miles away.

Science–Databases
Invisible Web
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Future of PubScience Looking Better
Lead of article, “The fate of PubScience — the U.S. Department of Energy’s Web portal that allows scientists to search journal abstracts in the physical sciences — looks brighter following Senate approval last month of a spending bill for the agency.”

XML
Northern Light Adds “Special Edition” Devoted To XML
A great compilation of resources along with predefined “live” search queries.

Web Search
Source: Washington Post
A Review of Resources That Track Popular Search Terms
Just for fun!

Full-Text Resource Shelf
Environment–Rivers–United States
Source: American Heritage Rivers
American Heritage Rivers Progress Report

Web Browser News
New Version of Netscape Online Today
Version 6.1 is now available. Early reports, “much more stable”. New version of Internet Explorer due in the next few days.

Current Awareness Tools–Patents
Current Awareness Tools–Medicine
An article by Chris Sherman in his SearchDay newsletter alerts us to Patent Alert, a new tool (free) that will automatically run your search strategies (pre-defined searches are also available) against the USPTO Patent Database and return newly added material to you via e-mail. Today, allow me to bring PubCrawler to your attention. It provides the same type of service, also free, except it automatically searches for new material in the medical/health world by running your search strategies against the Pubmed/Medline database.
Direct to Patent Alert
Direct to PubCrawler

Web Search
Source: Dow Jones Newswires via Business.Com
“Goto.com CEO: Consumer Group Charges Are Off Mark”
It’s important to realize that the wants, needs, and desires of web search industry and those who use the open web as a research tool are sometimes, but not always, the same. The two major camps at the present time are those who use web search as an advertising, promotion type of vehicle. The other, those of us who use the “open web” as one of many research tools available to us. Can and do the two worlds bump against each other? Yes. Can the two worlds exist together? Absolutely! However, it will require those of us in the information research world to be armed with a thorough knowledge of how the engines work, how they differ, what they can and can’t do, and how to fully exploit their advanced search capabilities. From the article, “Speaking at the Jupiter Media Metrix Inc. Online Advertising Forum in New York Wednesday, [Ted] Meisel [GoTo.com CEO] said it isn’t important whether search engines tell users which listings have been paid for by advertisers. The important thing is that the results are relevant, he said. If they aren’t, consumers will move on to other search engines, regardless of whether the listings are paid for or compiled by editorial workers. “Users don’t care how they’re made,” Meisel said. “Most search is influenced by payments in one form or another.” I would be curious what AllTheWeb, Google, and WiseNut would have to say.
See Also: I will be speaking, along with many others, at WebSearch University here in D.C. Sessions will cover power searching with the general web search tools, taking advantage of the Invisible Web, and maximizing the value of several fee-based services.

Web Directories–Government Information
Meta-Subject Index to Government Information
From the site, “This index is intended to direct the user to Subject Indexes which have been created for the purpose of identifying government internet resources in a given subject area. This index currently contains 13,131 entries.” Some of the subject directories used to build this “meta” index come from the National Library of Canada, Univ. of Michigan’s Document Center, and the Yale University Government Documents Center. Kudos to Stephen Woods at Idaho St. University.

Web Resources–Legal
Source: Chicago Tribune
New: American Bar Association Launches Consumer Oriented Site
From the article, “There are other sites that provide some of what we offer on a piecemeal basis,” [ABA President] [Robert] Hirshon said Friday. “We felt there ought to be a centralized location for one-stop shopping for people looking for legal information.”
Direct to the New ABA Consumer Site
Thanks to G.T. for the tip.

Census 2000–United States
Demographics–United States
Additional Summary File 1 (Detailed Demographic Info, by State) Now Available
New This Week: California, Puerto Rico, South Dakota
Next Week: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin

Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf (6 Resources)
Elections–Canada
Parliament–Canada
Source: Elections Canada
List of Members of Parliament by Province and Territory
Breakdown of Election Expenses of Registered Political Parties � 2000 General Election
Election Expenses and Reimbursements, by Registered Political Party � 2000 General Election
Statements of Assets and Liabilities � 2000 Fiscal Period
Political Parties� Fiscal Period Returns for 2000 (Searchable Database)
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Economics–Regional–United States
Labor–Technology Workforce–United States
Source: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs/University of Minnesota
High-Tech and I-Tech: How Metros Rank and Specialize
See Also: An article from the Washington Post about the report.
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Labor–United States
Source: BLS
Unemployment–United States
Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 1999
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Legal–Microsoft
Documents in the News
Microsoft Petitions U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case
Full-Text of Brief (Writ of Certiorari)
Full-Text of Microsoft’s Motion for Stay of the Mandate Pending Petition for Writ of Certiorari
–U.S. v. Microsoft – Appellees’ Response to Microsoft’s Motion for Stay of the Mandate Pending Petition for Writ of Certiorari (8/10/2001)

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

Web Search–Google
Source: Wall Street Journal via MSNBC
Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, Named CEO
From the article, “Google is naming highly respected Silicon Valley technology executive Eric Schmidt as chief executive. Mr. Schmidt, 46 years old, whose appointment is expected to be announced Monday, has been chairman since March 26 and most recently served as CEO of software maker Novell Inc…He takes over for co-founder Larry Page, 28, who will become president of products. Co-founder Sergey Brin, 27, will become president of technology…Messrs. Page and Schmidt say they expect their business to grow as companies expand their corporate Web sites. “If we know how to search the Web really well, we can search your company site very well,” says Mr. Page. If a company wants search technology on its own Web site, it can pay Google to manage that.” The article also mentions Yahoo’s licensing of Google content when its directory is unable to produce a hit. These hits are listed as “web page matches”. It is important to remember that this service DOES NOT search the same index searched at Google.Com. The Yahoo/Google index is smaller. Additionally, Yahoo/Google doesn’t offer the cached version of material accessible at Google.Com
See also: Official Google Press Release
Updated: Schmidt Says Google is Profitable (Reuters)

Web Search–Lycos
Source: ZDNet UK
“Lycos Bug Lets Malicious Web Pages Crash PCs”
From the article, “Lycos has a bug in its search engine that could allow malicious Web pages to crash users’ computers, according to bug hunters. It emerged last week that the way Lycos renders HTML in its search results could allow JavaScript to be launched from the results page without the knowledge of Lycos or the end user. This could be used to merely launch spam pop-up windows or, using documented malicious JavaScript tricks, to crash the user’s computer.”
See Also: Lycos Open to Malicious Attacks (Silicon.Com)
See Also: Search Engines HTML Parsing Vulnerability (SecuriTeam.Com)

E-Books
Source: Los Angeles Times
“E-Book Saga Is Full of Woe–and a Bit of Intrigue”
From the article, The publishing world’s attempts to turn electronic fiction and nonfiction into a lucrative revenue stream has yielded only a trickle of customers. Flaccid sales aside, publishers face even bigger challenges. Digitizing the printed page has put the very nature of books up for grabs, unleashing heated battles among writers, readers, librarians and technologists over who should control electronic books. “There’s only one place e-books are popular: the courtroom,” said publishing consultant Lorraine Shanley.While no industrywide statistics are being kept on e-book sales, consultant Jim Lichtenberg says the market is practically nonexistent. “There’s no standardization in technology,” he said. “It’s all a big mess. This is like having a car in 1905. It breaks down instantly, which means you have to travel with your own mechanic–and since there are no roads, there’s nowhere to go anyway.”

Full-Text Document and Resource Shelf (4 Items)
Census Bureau Releases Census 2000 Supplementary Survey Data
Source: U.S. Census
This site includes a link to a summary news release and links to the following charts and tables:
Educational Attainment by State of the Population 25 Years and Over
Language Spoke at Home by State for the Population 5 Years and Over
Median Value by State of Specified Owner-Occupied Housing Units
Median Household Income, by State (in 2000 inflation-adjusted dollars)
Percent of People Below the Poverty Level, by State
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Software Industry–Lists and Rankings
Source: Software Magazine
Software Magazine – 2001 Software 500
“The 19th Annual Ranking of the World’s Largest Software and Services Suppliers”. A list of the Top 25 companies is available without registration. To access the complete list (searchable) you’ll need to complete the free registration form.
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Energy–Statistics
Source: Energy Information Administration
Annual Energy Review 2000
From the site, “This report is EIA’s comprehensive statistical, historical overview of energy. Where possible, data are provided for 1949-2000 in data tables and graphs for production, consumption, trade, storage, pricing, and reserves of all major forms of energy…Also included this year is an all-new introductory section Energy Perspectives that employs 67 selected graphs and accompanying captions to summarize key energy trends and milestones from 1949-2000.”
Also available: Annual Energy Review Interactive Data Query System
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Online Investing
Source: GAO
On-Line Trading: Investor Protections Have Improved But Continued Attention Is Needed
42 pages .pdf file. Numerous charts, graphs, & tables.

Web Search–Google
Google Search Tidbits
1) The & (ampersand) is searchable. Treat it like a stop word. Place a + in front of the symbol.
For example, “Dun +& Bradstreet”
2) As you know the OR operator can be used with Google. If you prefer, the | (pipe) symbol will also provide an “or” search.

Web Search–Paid-Placement
Source: National Public Radio
More on Paid-Placement Search Tools (RealAudio)
A four minute segment from Weekend All Things Considered.
See Also: “The Search Engines’ Little Secret” from Business Week

Web Search–LII
Source: LJ Digital (Free Registration Required)
Carole Leita To Leave as Coordinator of Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Our friend, web innovator, and one of the essential people to know in the library/information world, Carole Leita, is leaving her position as coordinator of the Librarians’ Index to the Internet. Carole founded the LII in 1990. She will stay busy travelling and working as a trainer for the Infopeople Project. Karen Schneider, another well-known and highly respected librarian will become the next coordinator the essential web directory. From the article, “It’s an exciting and exhilarating opportunity,” said Schneider, who was assistant director of technology, Shenendehowa Public Library, Clifton Park, NY, until July 6; she begins at LII August 27. ” My first priority is to continue delivering the same quality of services that people have been used to getting from LII, under [Leita's] leadership.”
See Also: Read An Interview with Carole from Searcher

Web Directories–Business.Com
Business.Com Moves To a Paid Entry Format
The Business.Com site is moving to a paid entry format for listing in the their directory. According to the site $199 is the cost to have your site reviewed for inclusion. This fee does not guarantee an entry. The current directory will not be purged but an update to the entry will require payment. Also, the site mentions that free submission is no longer possible. However, a program for free submission by “qualified nonprofit organizations” will be available in the next couple of months. The Business.Com directory currently has about 400,000 entries. Let’s hope that the Business.Com will remain a quality research for web researchers.
UPDATE: 8/8/01
More about Business.Com (from Business 2.0)
“One scheme that did stick was to charge companies for preferential positioning in Business.com directories and searches. [Peter] Gumbel, the editor-in-chief, felt the move destroyed the journalistic integrity of the site and quit on the spot.”

Image Search–picsearch
A New Image Search Tool: Hello to picsearch
We’ve been awaiting the arrival of this s new image search engine. It’s now live and ready for testing. A basic search is limited to images larger than 200 pixels. Make sure to note the advanced interface to search ALL images. It also allows the ability to limit to color and animations/non-animations. The +(plus) and (-) minus signs can be used. Regarding filtering the site states, “offensive content is easily eliminated by our specially designed filters before it can even enter our database. Unfortunately no filtering process is flawless.”
More later.

Resource Discovery–RDN (Resource Discovery Network)
Web Directories
The RDN Website Recieves an Overhaul
This U.K based site with a wonderful and searchable directory of web resources has undergone a redesign. In addition to the directory, the site contains the “Virtual Training Suite” of forty subject-specific tutorials. From the site, “The RDN is a collaboration of over sixty educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library. In contrast to search engines, the RDN gathers resources which are carefully selected, indexed and described by specialists in our partner institutions.”

Virtual Collections–Smithsonian Institution
American History
Access to 450 Items “Not Usually on Public Display” From the Smithsonian/National Museum of American History
From the site, “HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things is a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. Here you’ll have an opportunity to look at hundreds of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.” The site is navigated via a map interface which is constantly reshaped by user input.

Full-Text Resource Shelf
Labor–Layoffs–United States
Source: BLS
Extended Mass Layoffs in 2000, Report 951
27 pages .pdf

Current Awareness Tools
Online News�Aggregators
Resource of the Week: NewsNow
Those of you who like Moreover as an aggregator of breaking news links will want to visit and bookmark NewsNow, another U.K. based resource.
NewsNow compiles information from hundreds of well-know news sources from around the world.
Here are a few of my favorite features:
*Home page updates automatically with new material every 5 minutes.
*Home page divided into 6 categories (Business & Finance, Info Tech, Current Affairs, Sport, Entertainment, U.K. Politics)
*Right side of page contains links to many subject oriented �newswire� compilations. These links also aggregate news from many providers.
*Keyword search engine finds links to articles from the past month (left side of page)
*Each news entry throughout the entire site is labeled with an image of the flag of the country where the news source is based.
*The LiveFeed link (left side of page) opens open a separate window with a virtual ticker that automatically refreshes itself every 5 minutes. The LiveFeed is a great way to quickly identify each news story, for all sections of the site, as they come in. In addition to the flag icon, each entry is color-coded by subject.
*The LiveFeed is also available at: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/-LiveFeed.htm
The only thing this free resource seems to lack is a complete list of the sites where news is culled from. However, a quick tour will result in you identifying many top-level news sources.
Kudos to NewsNow!

Research To Know About
Preservation of Authentic Records
InterPARES (International Research on Authentic Permanent Records in Electronic Systems)
From the site, “The goal of the InterPARES Project is to develop the theoretical and methodological knowledge essential to the permanent preservation of electronically generated records and, on the basis of this knowledge, to formulate model strategies, policies and standards capable of ensuring their preservation.”
The project is based at the the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Available is 14 page .pdf glossary containing definitiond of terms about information organization, preservation, and the program itself.

Web Search
Source: Internet.Com
“Is The Internet Becoming A Commercial Directory?”
From the article, “GoTo.com’s growth and continuing development has seen the majority of its search counterparts follow suit and implement paid inclusion programmes. For instance, Inktomi – one of the web’s original crawlers – is increasingly relying on its paid inclusion products to grow its revenue base. Similarly, Looksmart’s quarterly earning calls last week re-iterated that the future of the company was in paid listings.” Training users to understand the differences between the types of results and the different types of engines is more important now than ever before.

Document Resource Shelf
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Online Retail–Canada–Statistics
Source: RetailInteractiva.Ca
Canadian Online Buying Activity

Legal Industry–United States
Source: GAO
Hourly Fees Paid by Various Federal Agencies to Private Attorneys for Legal Services
5 pages .pdf

Education
New Material From ERIC Clearinghouses
Community College Abstracts
“…from the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges (ERIC/JC) provides an opportunity for users to view new abstracts that have been processed by ERIC/JC but don’t appear in the ERIC Database yet. Abstracts are accessible through this system until they are available in the ERIC Database.”
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Child Care FAQs
Child Care FAQ’s From the National Child Care Information Center
This adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse, has added new content to the FAQ section of the site. New FAQ’s include: Average Number of Children in Child Care and Child Care Workforce Salaries.
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From the NCES
Home Schooling in the United States: 1999
30 pages .pdf
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The Nation’s Report Card: Mathematics 2000
National Mathematics Assessment
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text

World Population
Source: Population Reference Bureau
World Population Gap Widens
Includes the chart, “World Population Clock”
See Also: World Population Data Sheet-2001
“The 2001 World Population Data Sheet contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for all geographic entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the United Nations.”

Public Libraries–Canada
“Public Libraries Connect Canadians to the Web”
From the article, “In 1999, Canada became the first country in the world to have all its public libraries and schools connected to the Internet . Public libraries have always been leaders at providing information to Canadians. To librarians the Internet is just another form of information and culture, along with books, videos, CDs, microfilm and magazines. So it’s natural that they wanted to make the Internet available to Canadians.”

U.S. Congress–FY 2002 Appropriations
A Handy Compilation from THOMAS
A “scoreboard” with links to the appropriate documents as they move through the U.S. Congress.

CUSIP Numbers
Business Research–Invisible Web
New: CUSIP Lookup Database
A free service that requires registration. However, the registration is fast and simple.
See Also: What is a CUSIP

Web Search Comparisons
Source: LLRX
“Search Engines Comparison 2001″
Librarian and instructor, Diana Botluk, has written an article comparing several features of the major search engines. From the article, “General search engines come packed with features that are often underutilized, but can be helpful in increasing search precision. The features differ from engine to engine, and skilled researchers will adjust their search strategy to take advantage of these differences depending on the type of results sought.”

Info Industry–Encyclopaedia Britannica
Info Industry–Merriam-Webster
Source: MSNBC/WSJ
Words of the Day from Merriam-Webster: We’re For Sale
From the article, “Encyclopaedia Britannica Holding SA, after stumbling in ambitious online efforts, has put its storied Merriam-Webster Inc. dictionary business on the block…The Merriam-Webster unit could fetch between $20 million and $40 million, they say…Industry executives say Encyclopaedia Britannica wants to sell the dictionary division it has owned since the early 1960s to raise fresh capital.”

Legal Research–United Kingdom
Source: LLRX.Com
“A Guide to the UK Legal System”
Sarah Carter, a Law Librarian at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, has just updated this comprehsensive guide to web-based legal and legislative resources.

Info Industry–OCLC
Now Available To FirstSearch Subscribers: Pay-Per-Article Purchases From OCLC Electronic Collections Online
From the announcement, “Over 1,100 journals from 22 publishers are now available, and the full complement of approximately 3,500 journals from 42 participating publishers will be available for purchase on an individual basis in the coming weeks…The per-article purchase of electronic journal articles will be available from databases throughout the FirstSearch service which link to Electronic Collections Online content. This means that searches in databases such as ERIC, MEDLINE or PsycINFO may retrieve citations that include links to available full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals.”

Census 2000–United States
Demographics–United States
Additional Summary File 1 (Detailed Demographic Info, by State) Now Available
This Week:
Idaho
Michigan
Minnesota
Rhode Island
Wyoming
Next Week:
California, Puerto Rico, South Dakota

Full-Text Document Shelf
R&D
Several New Statistical Reports From the National Science Foundation
Federal Funds for Research and Development: Detailed Historical Tables: Fiscal Years 1951-2001 (NSF 01-334)
Federal R&D Support to Nonprofit Institutions Exceeds $3 Billion (NSF 01-335)
++Federal Funds for Research and Development, Fiscal Years 1970-2001, Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of Science and Engineering
+++Federal Funds for Research and Development: Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Detailed Field of Science and Engineering: Fiscal Years 1973-2001