Economic Resources
The Dismal Scientist Becomes A Subscription Site
One of the better free economics resources has moved to a pay format. An monthly suubscription will be $16.95. A site license will cost $2995 per year. Thanks to GT for the news tip.

Information Navigation
Source: Information World Review(Registration Required, Free)
Fractal Mapping of Information
Helen Jezzard from Information World Review reports on Fractal Edge. The company is developing mapping technology to aid in info retrieval. From the article, “According to chief executive, Roger Wilcocks, fractal maps solve the problem of displaying large amounts of information on PC � or even PDA � screens by making the complete information structure visible with a minimum of clicks.”

Web Browsers–Opera
Opera 6.0 Released
One of my favorite pieces of software. If you’ve never tried Opera give it a try. It’s a quick download and an ad sponsored version is free to use. $39 to turn the ads off. Be prepared to say wow!
See Also: Learn More About Opera 6.0

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources
Online Translation–Arabic
Ajeeb.Com Offers Instant Arabic to English Translation
Like you should do with all mechanical translation tools,. use with caution. Thanks to S.S. for the site tip.

Web Search–Google
Google Makes Searching Phrases Containing “Stop Words” Easier
Nate Taylor of Google informs the VAS&ND of a new feature that will make searching for exact phrases containing stop words (common words including a, be, by, to, etc.) easier. Google permits you to search on a stopword by placing a + in front of the term(s). Previously, searching a phrase with stop words required the searcher to place a + in front of each term. For example: “+to +be +or not +to +be”. This is NO LONGER necessary. Google now automatically recognizes phrases that contain stopwords and will the complete phrase searchable without having to add the + in front of each term. Examples: “to be or not to be”, “how are you”, “what you see is what you get”. Remember, place your phrases inside “quotation marks”.

Web Search–AltaVista UK
Report: AltaVista UK Increases Index Size, Content
From the annoucement, “AltaVista�s new search index, which in the UK has increased threefold in the last year combines all their regional and global indexes into one. This means that on the AltaVista UK site, users can continue to access all worldwide (.com) information or specifically request. UK site.” So, AV has combined all of their regional indexes and main index into a signal database. What this means for the database in terms of currency is yet to be determined. Reports and tests have shown the primary database to be many months old. Hopefully, this may signal a conplete AV database refresh coming soon. Stay tuned.
See Also: Direct to AltaVista UK Engine
See Also: Mirago (Another UK only engine. Several unique ways to sort results)

Online Information–Fee Based–ISI’S Web Of Knowledge
Official Product Launch: ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Releases Web of Knowledge 1.0
The service has been online for some time but yesterday was apparently the “official launch”. From the announcement, “The ISI Web of Knowledge content is multidisciplinary, and supports research conducted at academic, corporate, government, and not-for-profit organizations worldwide. From a single point of entry, ISI Web of Knowledge integrates ISI Web of Science(R) and ISI Current Contents Connect(R) with patent data (Derwent Innovations Index(SM)), proceedings information (ISI Proceedings(SM)), life sciences literature (BIOSIS Previews(R)), structural chemistry (ISI Chemistry(SM)), analytical and evaluation tools (ISI Essential Science Indicators(SM) and ISI Journal Citation Reports(R)), bibliographic management tools (EndNote(R), ProCite(R), Reference Manager(R)), and evaluated Web content.” “CrossSearch is one of the unique features of ISI Web of Knowledge. CrossSearch empowers the researcher to uncover essential information regardless of where it resides. With CrossSearch, users can access a specific ISI Web of Knowledge product or search across multiple products in the platform. Users can choose to search by specific fields (such as topic and author), or they can conduct natural language searches by entering words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs. In ISI Web of Knowledge version 1.0, four products will be CrossSearch enabled: ISI Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, BIOSIS Previews, and Derwent Innovations Index. Future versions will CrossSearch enable a suite of ISI Web of Knowledge products. CrossSearch will also extend its capabilities to content sources — such as Agricola and PubMed — residing outside the ISI Web of Knowledge environment.
See Also: Barbara Quint’s June 6, 2001 ITI News Break About Web of Knowledge
See Also: Read A Company Sponsored Essay On Web of Knowledge (includes a brief history of citation indexing).
Learn More: Read Eugene Garfield’s 1955 Science Article, “Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas”

Web Search–Excite
Source: Reuters
“InfoSpace Wins Approval to Buy Excite Assets”
From the article, “Bellevue, Washington-based InfoSpace also said the Excite assets, which include trademarks, domain names and user traffic, would be at the center of a new service agreement with iWon, a privately held portal that offers daily cash giveaways to draw traffic. Under the deal, InfoSpace said it would power the search and directory portions of the Excite Web site, while the portal’s other pieces would be sold or licensed to iWon.” Chris Sherman reports this morning that Excite’s crawler will no longer be used to build the database. Keyword search results will be provided by the Dogpile metasearch engine. A search using Excite or Dogpile will return the same results. Dogpile search results primarily come from pay-per-click and paid inclusion engines such as Overture, Looksmart, FindWhat, Sprinks, About.Com, ePilot.com, Ah-ha.com, Kanoodle, direct hit, and others. Another change will see the directory at Excite moving to results provided by Looksmart. Bottom line: Another “unique” crawler and database of web content bites the dust.

Media Libraries
Source: SIMILE (Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education)
“The Evolution of Media Librarianship: A Tangled History of Change and Constancy”
This article is available in full-text. Thanks to RLG ShelfLife for the link

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (3 Items)
AIDS
United Nations, World AIDS Day Resources
December 1st is World AIDS Day, a UN sponsored Webcast is scheduled for November 30th.
See Also: More World AIDS Day Resources (via The Guardian)
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Geographic Information–United States
GeoCommunicator
Portal containing several geographic information tools and services. “GeoCommunicator is provided by the Bureau of Land Management & the U.S. Forest Service.”
Of Special Note:
GeoCom Explorer (ability to limit search to “Free Data”)
Land Manager Viewer
See Also: Learn More About the GeoCommunicator Site
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Computer Security–Lists & Rankings
Top 10 Computer Viruses of 2001
Compiled by ranking calls to the Sophos (a well-known computer security firm) helpdesk.

British Library
The British Library Launches New Version of Web Site
You can learn more about the changes here.

Department of Transportation Library–United States
DOT Library Updates Web Home
Of special note to all researchers:
* Transportation Bibliographies
* Online Digital Special Collections

Web Search–Google
Source: ZD Net
“Google Votes to Put Surfers in Charge”
I’ve been a big fan and user of the Google toolbar since it came online late last year. A real timesaver when I want to search using Google. Now, word of a beta release that allows users to vote and help determine the popularity of a given page. This is only a test according to Google spokesperson David Krane. We will have to wait and see if this is something Google begins to use on a full-time basis as part of its relevancy algorithm. Question? This article also provides a good overview of the search engine optimization world and how Google ranks pages. If your interested in a detailed discussion about Google, this paper Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented at a 1998 WWW conference is well worth a read.
See Also: Direct to Download Google Toolbar BETA WITH Voting Option
See Also: Direct to Download Google Toolbar Without Voting Option (A Must Have, IE Only)
See Also: Not a IE User, Try Google Buttons with Netscape

Standards–OpenURL
Elsevier Announces Update To Ulrichsweb.Com, New SFX OpenURL Interface
See Also: Gale Group Announces Adoption of SFX OpenURL Standard
See Also: Direct to SFX OpenURL Home Page
See Also: Peter Jacso’s Recent Review of Ulrichs CD-ROM Product

Natural Language Processing
Source: South China Morning Post
Learn About ISilk
Search in Chinese get results in English.
See Also: Direct to the ISilk Web Site

Professional Reading
Digital Resources
“Integrating Digital Resources Into the Library Information Infrastructure”
This paper was written by Peter Haddad Director, Technical Services National Library of Australia and presented at the 14th National Cataloguing Conference earlier this month.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (2 Items)
Information Technology–Lists & Rankings
Source: Computerworld
Emerging Companies to Watch in 2002
Direct to the Emerging Companies List
(Entries include Name, Location, CEO, # Employees, Founding date, Priv/Pub, Product(s) or Service(s), Company claims)
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Economics–United Kingdom
Economics–United States
Source: OECD
OECD Releases Two Economic Surveys
Now available online:
Economic Survey of the United States
Economic Survey of the United Kingdom

Digital Reference
Source: LJ
“Time To Get the Numbers on Digital Reference”
A report from the recent 2001 Virtual Reference Desk Conference in Orlando. From the article, “After studying seven libraries that provide digital reference services, a team of researchers has concluded that, to improve future projects, better evaluation and assessment methods must be found and implemented.” “Usage of such live reference service varies markedly, the study observed, as some libraries field only a few questions a week, while others answer many more. McClure also noted that, even though libraries may want to advertise 24/7 service, usage from midnight to 6 a.m. has been minimal.”
See Also: Complete Proceedings from the 2000 VRD Conference

Business-Public Company Filings
EDGAR Online To Provide Real-Time Feed To SEC.Gov Site
From the news release, “EDGAR(R) Online(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR) announced today it has reached a non-exclusive arrangement with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) whereby the SEC will link its Web site ( http://www.sec.gov) to EDGAR Online for real-time access to SEC filings. The SEC currently posts delayed documents on its Web site. EDGAR Online, Inc. is a provider of financial information derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data and developer of financial and business systems solutions.”
See Also: Clarification and Explanation from EDGAR Online
Thanks to GT for the news tip.

Web Search–Lycos
Web Portals
Source: ZD Net
Lycos Tells U.S. Employees To Take A Vacation
From the article, “NEW YORK–Spanish Internet media giant Terra Lycos has told its U.S. employees to take a mandatory five-day paid vacation around Christmas and New Year’s as the company tries to save some money, a company representative said Monday.”

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources
New Material from ERIC
Various ERIC affiliated organizations online with several resources of potential value.
ERIC Database Search Tutorial
“This online search tutorial created by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education takes users step-by-step through a methodical search of the ERIC Database on the topic of “Professional Development.” The tutorial can be used by either opening two browsers (one for the search tutorial and one for the actual search) or printing the tutorial and following the directions online.”
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ERIC Statistics, How Many People Search the ERIC Database Each Day?
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Update: Test Review Locator
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements are pleased to announce that the Test Review Locator now includes links to ordering information for more than 400 test reviews. The Test Review Locator has also been updated to include citations from the 14th edition of
the Mental Measurements Yearbook.”
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Site Redesign: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Federal Communications Commission
FCC Unveils New “Site” Search Tool
From the news release, “The new FCC search engine searches throughout the FCC’s web site, collecting information from web pages and many types of documents including Word, WordPerfect, Acrobat, Excel, and ASCII Text. The new FCC search engine also searches the Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS). However, the new search engine cannot collect information from other FCC databases and electronic filing systems, such as the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS).”

Automobiles–Environment
Source: EPA
Update: EPA’s Green Vehicle Guide Adds Data for 2002 Models

Home Ownership–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Housing Characteristics: 2000
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text

Web Search–Google
Source: News.Com
Issues with Google Providing Access to More Formats
A few weeks ago we mentioned that Google was now crawling and making available content from MS Word files, Excel spreadsheets and more. Now, an article expressing concern over security issues. I agree with Google on this one. If a document is “on the Internet” (publicly available) than it should be the responsibility of the document owner and/or webmaster to block the crawler from accessing the material. Remember, the document(s) were placed in a publicly available location in the first place. Perhaps this story and information will be a wake-up call for many webmasters. From the article, “Our specialty is discovering, crawling and indexing publicly available information,” said Google spokesman David Krane. “We define public as anything placed on the public Internet and not blocked to search engines in any way. The primary burden falls to the people who are incorrectly exposing this information. But at the same time, we’re certainly aware of the problem, and our development team is exploring different solutions behind the scenes.” Bottom line: Yes, security is an issue. However, a great deal of info that might be of value exists in PUBLICLY available formats other than html and pdf. Let’s hope a happy medium between security concerns and potentially useful material.

Info Industry–ProQuest
Proquest Makes an Acquisition: SoftLine Information
From the news release, “The company’s [SoftLine] critically acclaimed full-text databases will become available from ProQuest immediately. SoftLine offers more than 500 newspapers and magazines from ethnic, minority, native, gender, alternative, and independent press. Prior to SoftLine’s introduction of its databases, most titles were not available in electronic formats. The titles are organized into five specialized databases covering ethnic, cultural, and demographic diversity, including: Ethnic NewsWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch History, Alt-Press Watch, Gender Watch, and Diversity Your World.”

Info Industry–Eliyon
Biographical Information–Databases
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
Eliyon Offers Business Database Built with Web Information
Business research expert and author, Sheri Lanza offers a review of Eliyon, a database, “that uses Web data-extraction technology to build a database on the business history of 6.4 million people and 560,000 companies in the U.S.” Lanza’s review also shares several, “glaring weaknesses” with the system.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (4 Items)
World War II–Digital Archive
New, Digital Archive of Historic World War II U.S. Government Documents Online, Impressive
Search or browse, then view scanned images of documents. All of the actual content resides on the Invisible Web. This database is provided by Southern Methodist University.
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Demographics–United States
U.S. Census Releases Data About Families
From the announcement, “The Census Bureau will release the most comprehensive and detailed data on American families in 64 cities across the country today. The Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS) data detail housing, language, income and other statistics.” “C2SS data can be accessed through the Census Bureau’s new search-and-retrieval database, American FactFinder, at http://factfinder.census.gov. C2SS operational information, narrative and tabular profiles for all summary levels and rankings at the state, county and place levels also may be found at http://www.census.gov/c2ss/www.
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School Districts–United States
Source: NCES
School District Demographics System
From the site, “CES’ new School District Demographics Website provides access to school district demographic data useful for describing and analyzing characteristics of school districts, children, and K-12 education.”
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Health–Canada
Redesigned Site: Health Canada

Video Search
Video Clipping
Source: Technology Review
“All the News That’s Fit for You”
Learn about research that will allow you to develop a customized VIDEO news clipping tool. From the article, “At its tenth anniversary this fall, Microsoft Research unveiled prototype software that analyzes and indexes news footage. Q-Video, as Microsoft calls it, lets viewers find a CNN story as easily as a New York Times article.”
See Also: “Upstream: Video Searching”
See Also: Keyword Search PBS NewsHour Video, VIEW Results Using Real Player

Professional Reading
A Selection of Recent Articles from Library Journal
For your reading pleasure, here is a selection of articles that might be of interest.
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Online Databases–Lists & Rankings
“Online Databases”
What are the most popular database systems?
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Reference Linking
“A Lesson in Linking”
From the article, The ability to click on a citation to a work and obtain the full electronic text of the work itself is called ‘reference linking.’ The idea of reference linking is so conceptually simple it is almost intuitive, but robust, scalable, open systems of reference linking are enormously complex, and the standards and technical infrastructure to support them are only now being developed.
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School Libraries–Databases
Source: School Library Journal
“The Search is On”
“A team of librarians reviews the top periodical databases for the K�12 market.”
See Also: Direct to the Database Reviews

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (2 Items)
Educational Technology–Portals
Source: UNESCO
Now Online: Information and Communication Technology Portal (ICT) for Teacher Training
From the site, “The Information and Communication Technology Portal (ICT) for Teacher Training is the gateway to Internet resources and websites dedicated to training the teachers in utilizing information and communication technologies to enhance their teaching skills.”

Electronic Commerce
Full-Text Document
Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
E-Commerce and Development Report 2001
Full-Text available until 12/20, Complete report 292 pages .pdf

Online Reference–Oxford University Press
Coming Soon: OUP Creating Online Library (Fee-Based) of Core Reference Titles
Set to debut in March, 2002 with content from “100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books”.
See Also: List of Titles
See Also: Learn About Semantico, the Company who Designed this Product

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered (3 Items)
Transportation–Great Britain–Statistics
Source: Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Transport Statistics Great Britain: 2001 Edition
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Music–Canada
Now Available: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
From the site, “Hosted by the National Library of Canada and developed through the cooperative efforts of the board of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and the Library�s Digital Library of Canada Task Force, the site features some 4000 searchable articles, in both official languages, documenting a wide range of Canadian musical endeavours, from the Guess Who, to La Bolduc, and from Maureen Forrester to Monsieur Pointu.”
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Information & Communications Industry–Canada–Industry Overview
Source: Industry Canada
The ICT Industry in Canada
Handy overview of the industry, several charts and graphs
3 pages .pdf
See Also: Canada’s Information & Trade Technologies Trade Performance 1993-2000
34 pages .pdf

Almanacs
Reference Newsletters
The World Almanac And Book of Facts 2002 Hits Bookstores, Free Newsletter Available to All
One of the essential ready reference tools is now available in both virtual and bricks and mortar bookstores. This Amazon.Com entry allows you to preview 88 pages from the book. Pure bliss for the reference geek!
—Did You Know? The World Almanac publishes a FREE monthly e-mail newsletter? Each month you’ll receive info about that particular month including notable birthdays, “on this day” history, chronology of events, and a set of useful urls. This link also provides access to all newsletters from 2001.
See Also: Learn About the History of The World Almanac

Winter Olympics 2002
Debut of Official Winter Olympics 2002 Sites
All three “Official Sites” are joint ventures between Microsoft, NBC Television, and the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. From the article, “Microsoft’s MSN network and MSNBC.com, the joint venture between Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC, are now responsible for hosting the Web sites and creating all of the content and services that will be available online, [Perkins] Miller says. The Web properties managed by Microsoft and NBC are online at NBCOlympics.Com and SaltLake2002.com. For the first time, the Olympic Committee’s official site at Olympics.com will also fall under the management of the Microsoft-NBC venture.
Notes:
Each site is a “gateway” for content targeted to a particular audience.
Olympics.Com site includes French language content.
Olympics News Alerts provide real-time delivery of news and results.
See Also: International Olympic Committee Official Site

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered (3 Items)
Yearbooks–United Kingdom
Source: National Statistics
UK 2002 - The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The entire yearbook can be viewed or downloaded from this url for FREE!!! This page also includes a link to download all tables in Microsoft Excel format.
Entire Document 577 pages .pdf
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Higher Education–United States–Salaries
Chronicle Of Higher Educaton Salary Survey
Salary data for most institutions. Searchable database, lists, and tables. Data back to 1996.
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Energy–United States–Statistics
Source: EIA
State Electricity Profiles 1999

Online Services–Questia
Electronic Libraries
Source: Houston Chronicle
Poor Sales Continue at Questia, Workforce Cut By Another 50%
Last week we had news of the possible takeover of netLibrary by OCLC. Today, word of continuing problems at Questia. From the article, “Questia Media cut its workforce in half last week, reducing the number of employees to just 68 because of lower than expected demand for its online library and research service. “This is the second round of layoffs at the Houston firm, which laid off 140 out of 280 employees in May. The firm is cutting back because relatively few high school and college students have been willing to make monthly payments for the service, said spokeswoman Ann Brimberry, adding that the weak economy played a part. “We’re seeing good week-over-week growth but not at an aggressive rate as we anticipated,” she said. “Our priorities now are to make the service work as well as we can for subscribers.” Thanks to P.E. for the news tip.

Web Search
Source: PC World
“Search Engines Still Sputtering Along”
The author makes a few valid points however he fails to realize that a bit of education about using a few engines in a more sophisticated than two keywords and click can go along way to making currently available engines even more valuable resources. Of course, plenty of room for improvement exists. The author writes, “Search engines still return way too many results for the average query, forcing users to comb through sites that are either marginally related to the topic or, if related to the topic, most likely to feature low-quality, useless content.”
Two comments. 1) You are what you input. Search queries should use as specific language as possible. 2) Regarding content. Many people, including the author of this PC World article, think it’s all “on the Internet” for free. How wrong they are. We all no content varies “on the net”. If it’s there, great, but don’t expect to find “everything” for free via a general-purpose search tool.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (3 Items)
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The British Library
Coming Soon: New British Library Site To Debut November 28th
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Law–U.S.
Source: GPO
Online Today, Update: United States Code (2000)
The general and permanent laws in effect as of January 23, 2000 — Titles 1 through 7
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Criminal Justice–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
Federal Criminal Case Processing, 2000: With trends 1982-2000, Reconciled Data
“Between 1994 and 2000, investigations initiated by U.S. attorneys increased 25% — from 99,251 to 123,559.”

Subject Bibliographies–U.S. Government Publications
Source: NTIS
Six Subject Bibliographies About Current Events From NTIS
These bibs contain citations to government resources.
From the web site:
Afghanistan: A bibliography listing 22 research and background reports.
Anthrax: A collection of 67 scientific government reports on Anthrax released during the past ten years.
Bioethics Reports: A series of reports from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission giving the latest scientific views on a variety of ethics issues affecting medical research including stem cells and human cloning.
Cybersecurity Training: A collection of interactive multimedia training for computer information systems security personnel.
Emergency Response to Terrorism: A collection of multimedia training materials relating to antiterrorism in the area of explosives, emergency medicine and first response, for use by fire service and police academies.
Terrorism: A list of government research reports and audiovisual training materials � updated weekly.

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (4 Items)
Business–Corporate Earnings
Source: Business Week
“Confused About Earnings”
A series of articles, tables, and charts written to help investors better understand company earnings.
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Highway Safety–United States
Full-Text Document
Source:NHTSA
Highway Statistics 2000
Available in HTML, .pdf, or .xls formats.
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Campus Safety–Post-Secondary Education—-United States
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Database Update: New Campus Crime Data Online
From the news release, “Calling it a powerful tool for students and families, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today announced that the most recent crime statistics for the nation’s 6,269 colleges, universities and career schools are now available on the U.S. Department of Education Web site: http://ope.ed.gov/security.”
See Also: Direct To Database Interface
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Canada–Consumers
New Site: The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
“The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) is a newly created agency working to protect and educate consumers in the area of financial services.”

Web Search–Google
Small But Useful Change at Google.Com
When Google began crawling .pdf documents (February 2001), they also began converting the content to text and providing a link to it in addition to a direct link to the .pdf content. This is a great resource, particularly if the computer you are using does not have a.pdf reader or you don’t want to take the time to open the reader. The problems with this service — difficult-to-read converted documents because of display and formatting problems. The second link was labeled “view as text”. Recently, Google changed the conversion from text to HTML. The formatting and display of converted material appears to be greatly improved. The link now reads “view as HTML”.
Btw, the conversion of material to HTML is also available for most of the formats Google has just started to crawl and making available.
Here is the list:
Yes, converted to HTML, Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
Yes, converted to HTML, Lotus WordPro (lwp)
Yes, converted to HTML, MacWrite (mw)
Yes, converted to HTML, Microsoft Excel (xls)
Yes, converted to HTML, Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
Yes, converted to HTML, Microsoft Word (doc)
Yes, converted to HTML, Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
Yes, converted to HTML, Microsoft Write (wri)
Yes, converted to HTML, Rich Text Format (rtf)
No, but converted to text, Adobe PostScript (ps).
Example: Here’s a search for a .pdf file. Note the “View as HTML” link with each entry.
Example: Here’s a search for a .xls (Microsoft Excel) file. Note the “View as HTML” link. Clicking it will convert the spreadsheet (cells and all) into an HTML document .
Search Tip: To limit your search to any filetype use the syntax, filetype:

Full-Text Books
Electronic Libraries
Source: News.Com
Ebrary To Announce Deals With More Publishers
From the article, “Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ebrary said it has agreed to distribute titles online from academic publisher Greenwood Publishing Group and from John Wiley & Sons, a publisher of scientific, technical and medical books. The company expects to announce a similar agreement with Penguin Putnam in the next few weeks…Ebrary’s service, dubbed Ebrarian, lets people read articles and books online for free but charges them to copy text or print pages.”
Direct to Ebrary
Search, View, Read, and Purchase Full-Text Content from Ebrary

Web Search–FirstGov
Source: Online Journalism Review
“FirstGov: A Gift Horse for the Federal Government”
More on the history and politics behind FirstGov.Gov. Note: The FirstGov report is part of a larger article about e-government. The FirstGov section appears in the mid-section of the article.

New York Times
Source: NYT
A Very Brief History of the New York Times Index

Online Databases–10K Wizard
Corporate Filings
10KWizard Offers Free Access For Full-Time Students And Faculty
In case you missed it, 10KWizard, a robust real-time EDGAR filings database offers FREE access for full-time students and faculty. From the site, “10KWizard will waive the subscription fee to full-time students and teachers… Note: The free guest pass is not valid for use in fundraising, advancement, development or other business functions within an educational institution.” Currently, it costs $99 per year to access the database. 10KWizard was free to all users until Summer, 2001. 10KWizard features include the ability to download tables in .xls format, text into .rtf., and the ability to set e-mail alerts.

Web Search–Yahoo
Source: News.Com
Yahoo Unveils Plan For the Future, Cuts About 300 Jobs
Changes are underway at Yahoo. From the article, “Before Thursday, the former Warner Bros. executive had refused to tip his hand except to downplay expectations of a major overhaul, suggesting last month that pending changes will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Semel reiterated that view Thursday, saying he plans to move from the company’s historical approach of aggregating free content. Going forward, he said he expects Yahoo to own more content that carries a price tag. “We will continue to offer content fundamentally for free, but we will offer additional options for pay,” he said, adding that the company will pursue acquisitions and partnerships for more content.”
Also, Semel pointed to Yahoo’s recent partnership with Overture Services for paid search listings as rich soil for future growth. He added the deal is a makeshift solution to garner revenues from search until the company introduces its own for-fee sales. “It’s a large business we left on the table for all these years,” Semel said. “But it’s something we can do ourselves.” With Yahoo and Looksmart focusing more and more on paid entries, web “collection” development (building local web catalogs and directories) is becoming more and more crucial. For more on new Overture paid content and info on web directories compiled by librarians see the 11/12/01 postings.
See Also: Wired News Coverage

U.S. Army–Intranet
Source: Wired News
Learn About the World’s Largest Intranet
From the article, “The United States Army has flicked the switch on the world’s largest Intranet — a giant computer network that will connect more than 1 million soldiers, support personnel and veterans all over the globe. It’s called the Army Knowledge Online Portal (AKO), because it acts as a portal to hundreds of the Army’s internal websites, servers and information sources. The network will have at its disposal 70 terabytes of storage. According to figures compiled by the Internet Archive, that’s three times the size of the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library.”

National Library of Medicine
Web Tools–Web Browsers
Wireless Browsers Coming To National Library of Medicine
From the annoucement, “GOMID, the developer of innovative Internet browsers, has won a National Institute of Health (NIH) contract to supply the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with desktop and wireless all-Java browsers. The award will help the NLM to meet its goal of wider and more timely dissemination of information. GOMID’s iConnecter and iConnecter Mobile, for desktop and wireless, respectively, will be used by the NLM’s Specialized Information Services (SIS) division for onsite and remote access to a variety of toxicology and environmental health databases.”