Web Search–Google
Google Makes An Acquisition
From the news release, “Google Inc. today announced the company’s acquisition of the intellectual property, including patent rights, source code, trademarks, and associated domain names, from Outride Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of online information retrieval technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition is another example of Google’s commitment to providing the highest quality search service in the world,” said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president, Products. “Outride has made significant advances in the field of relevance technology and we believe Google provides the ideal vehicle to continue the development of these technologies.”

Info Industry–TheScientificWorld
Scientific Conferences–Specialized Databases
Articles on Demand
TheScientificWorld Continues To Add Content
From the news relase, “TheScientificWorld, Inc. today announced that, through agreements with the British Library, IOS Press and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), nearly 4 million records have been added to the Company’s core database of scientific information, sciBASE. Citations to conference papers and abstracts, held by the British Library and summarizing 100,000 meetings, conferences and symposia since 1993, are now available through sciBASE to TheScientificWorld members [membership is free] at www.thescientificworld.com. Approximately 3,000 new conference citations will be added each day. In addition, single articles dating back to January 1998 from the 30 journals of IOS Press, as well as articles published since January 2001 in Pure and Applied Chemistry, published by IUPAC, can be located, purchased and delivered online in portable document format (.pdf) through the sciBASE service.” The WorldMEET database contains info on over 4,000 scientific conferences.
See Also: Direct to TheScientificWorld

Digital Archive–New Mexico
Online Archive of New Mexico
From the site, “The Online Archive of New Mexico is a single, integrated source for searching and navigating finding aids to archival collections. These finding aids, usually called guides or inventories, contain descriptive information about archives and manuscript collections housed at research institutions in New Mexico.”

Public Schools–Database–United States
Higher Education–Database–United States
Source: NCES
Database Update #1: Public School and School District Locator
Updated for 1999-2000 School Year
Database Update #2: Students’ College Search
New Features! From the site, “You can find information on over 3,800 U.S. 2-year and 4-year colleges or universities, including: Contact information; Full-time,
First-time Undergraduate Students Tuition and Fees; Graduate Tuition; Total enrollment, degrees and programs offered; Diversity of student body; Library
Information; U.S. Dept. of Education campus crime/security statistics; and links to the U.S. Dept. of Education Student Financial Aid Homepage.”

Professional Reading
The September issue of D-Lib Libraries is Now Online
Here are 2 articles from the 9/2001issue:
“Preserving Scholarly E-Journals” by Dale Flecker
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“Linking to the Appropriate Copy, Report of a DOI-Based Prototype”

Full-Text Document Shelf (3 Items)
Forestry–Canada
Source: Natural Resources Canada
The State of Canada�s Forests 2000-2001
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Health–United States–Statistics
Source: NCHS
Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook
460 pages .pdf
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Economic Statistics–United States
Source: U.S. Census
1997 Economic Census, Company Statistics, Company Summary
567 pages .pdf

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