Info Industry–Thomson
“Thomson Expands InfoTrac College Edition”
From the announcement, “The Thomson Corporation announced today it will provide faculty and students using textbooks from Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Duxbury, Heinle, Schirmer and South-Western with access to 10 million full-text, online articles to support research and classroom learning. InfoTrac College Edition, an online periodical library, contains 3,800 full-text journals, packaged exclusively with Thomson textbooks. Adoption of college texts from these publishers includes a free passcode, providing 24/7 access to full-text online articles for four months.” The new version of InfoTrac College Edition sees an increase of 400% more material from full-text journals. Comment: The bundling of database access with textbooks is not new and can be a tremendous tool. However, what about the duplication of resources, wasted energy of librarians, and financial issues for the students/faculty who already have access to these sources from their university library or local public library? Why do I need to consider other/additional library resources? All I need to do is open my textbook, get the “passcode” and start searching. Another question, are textbook costs rising to subsidize access to databases that are already available from the library?

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
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Documents in the News
Internet Fraud
Source: IFCC (Internet Fraud Complaint Center)
Full-Text, IFCC Annual Internet Fraud Report
27 pages .pdf, Numerous lists and rankings.
Related Article, “FBI: Auction fraud tops Net scam list” (via News.Com)
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Documents in the News
United States Congress–Government Waste
Source: Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)
New Edition Available: 2002 Congressional Pig Book Summary
From the site, “Congressional Pig Book Summary symbolize the most egregious and blatant examples of pork.” Previous editions of the book (back to 1995) are also on the site.
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Business–Europe–Lists & Rankings
2002 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Technology Fast 500 Europe
“Europe’s fastest growing high tech companies.”
See Also: Learn More About the Fast 500 Europe
Note: Fast Search and Transfer, the AllTheWeb people, are ranked number 6 on the list.
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Electric Power Plants–United States
Source: EIA
Inventory of Electric Utility Power Plants in the United States 2000
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text (3.3MB)(.pdf)

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items)
On the Web vs. Via the Web
Fee-Based Information
Source: Factiva
White Paper, Free, Fee-Based and Value-Added Information Services
13 pages, .pdf, Many statistics.
See Also, White Paper: Selecting Business Intelligence Sources: The Open Web vs. Value-Added Online Services (1999), by Mary Ellen Bates.
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Web Resources–Reviews
P�ter’s Digital Reference Shelf, April 2002
This month P�ter Jacs� reviews AskOxford.Com and Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online.

Copyrights–Canada
Source: CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
New: Canadian Copyrights Database
According to the CIPO site this new searchable database, “…includes all copyrights which were registered as of October 1, 1991, pursuant to the Copyright Act. In some cases registrations prior to 1991 were entered into the database due to request for certified copies. This includes traditional copyrights (original literary, artistic, dramatic and musical works) and copyright in other subject-matter (performer’s performances, sound recordings and communication signals), as well as information on licences and assignments.” The database is updated daily, Monday – Friday.

Research–Lists and Rankings
Citation Indexing
Recent Lists from the Institute for Scientific Information
Computer Science: High-Impact Institutions, 1991-2001
Education: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1997-2001
Science in Canada, 1997-2001
Economics & Business: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1997-2001
Literary Studies: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1996-2000
Journals Ranked by Impact: Food Science & Technology
See Also: The Hottest Research of 1999-2000
See Also: Additional Lists and Rankings
See Also: ISI Highly Cited (Another Free Service) Adds New Categories

Professional Reading Shelf
Competitive Intelligence using the Web
Source: ABA Law Practice Management
“In Pursuit of Company Secrets”
Supersearcher and The Virtual Chase editor Genie Tyburski with an article full of tips and techniques on using the web and “open source” information as a CI tool.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Business–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
The World’s Best Companies, 2002
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Pulitzer Prizes, 2002
Pulitzer Prize Winners, 2002
I’ve updated my compilation with links to most of this years Pulitzer Prize winning material in the journalism categories.
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U.S. History
Source: GPO
Full-Text: Capitol Builder: The Shorthand Journals of Montgomery C. Meigs, 1853-1859, 1861
Available by chapter (.pdf files)

Update
Back on April 2nd I mentioned that the 2002 edition Fortune 500 was available on the Fortune site. However, I failed to mention that the online version of the list makes rankings and company profiles available for 1000 companies.

Philanthropy Research Databases–GuideStar
GuideStar Secures 11.5 Million Dollars in Funding
A key web resource that provides data on non-profits has just been given 11.5 million dollars in funding. From the news release, “The Atlantic Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Surdna Foundation have committed grants totaling $11.5 million to GuideStar over the next 5 years…The GuideStar database currently comprises information on more than 850,000 nonprofit organizations. Basic program and financial data about these organizations is available for free on the GuideStar Web site. The database also includes more than 730,000 digitized Forms 990 and 990-EZ, offering three years� worth of returns for those organizations required to file the financial reporting forms with the Internal Revenue Service.”
Direct to the GuideStar Database

Online Industry–Dialog
The “Article” Economy
Dialog, BioSpace Alliance Provides Pay-Per-Document Searching of Several Files
You can search several Dialog files using the BioSpace public site. Then, purchase individual documents via credit card. From the announcement, “The initial Dialog content available to BioSpace users includes clinical databases, worldwide patents and related intellectual property documentation, world news focused on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and an extensive array of scientific literature.” You can find a complete list of sources here.
See Also: Direct to the BioSpace/Dialog Search Interface

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
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Documents in the News
Airline Industry–United States
Source: UNO Aviation Institute
Full-Text Report, Airline Quality Rating 2002
Highlights/News Release ||| Full-Text Report ||| Archive of Previous Reports
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Electronic Publishing
Source: SPARC
Full-Text Document,
Gaining Independence: A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture
From the announcement, “This new publication, available on the Web free of charge at www.arl.org/sparc/GI, is a detailed, step-by-step guide leading readers through the creation of a business plan for start-up and early-stage electronic publishing ventures, including digital repositories and journals.”
See Also: “An Economic Model for Web Enhancements to a Print Journal” (from The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4/02)
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Library Buildings–Higher Education–Bibliography
Source: National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities (NCEF)
Libraries–Higher Education Resource List
From the site, “NCEF’s resource list of documents, reports, links, books, and journal articles exploring the planning, design, construction, and operation of libraries in higher education institutions.”

Online Exhibits
U.S. History–Images
Source: National Archives
Panorama
From the exhibit homepage, “This exhibit of panoramic photographs is but a small sample of the wide variety of panoramic images in NARA`s still picture holdings located at the National Archives Building at College Park, Maryland. The exhibit photographs date from approximately 1864 until 1937. The vast majority of the collection, however, dates from the World War I era.”

Web Search–Google
Source: NY Times
“Google’s Toughest Search Is for a Business Model”
Discusses the prospects of Google will going public. From the article, “All this has made Google Silicon Valley’s hottest private company, one deluged with 1,000 r�sum�s a day. And the whisper is that when Google finally does go public, probably in the next year or so, it will make its debut with a multibillion dollar valuation. (That is one dot-com tradition the company probably will not disdain.)” The article includes this sentence, “The company is so infatuated with its technical prowess and sense of destiny that it has developed a reputation as being difficult to deal with.”
See Also: “Google Finds Itself in Patent Suit” (via InfoWorld)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Daylight Saving Time
Source: CRS
Congressional Research Service Report: “Daylight Saving Time”
A five page history about DST in the U.S. The report also includes a short bibliography.
To Access: Select this link. Then, select “CRS Short Reports” and scroll to the DST document.

Professional Reading Shelf
Chemical Information
Source: Free Pint
“Finding Chemical Information on the Web – the User’s Viewpoint”

Electronic Publishing–Webliography
Source: SPARC
Publishing Resources for Journals and Repositories
From the site, “This is a simple list of software tools and suites for publishing and managing online journals, archives, and repositories. The purpose of this list is only to identify potentially useful technologies for institutions, societies, or startups.”

Travel Intelligence–iJET
Fee-Based Information Services
Source: Newsbytes/Washington Post
Learn About: iJET
From the Newsbytes article, “You’re an international traveler heading to Indonesia on business or Russia on vacation. You’re about to venture into a post-Sept. 11 world where danger seems to lurk beyond every airport metal detector and customs checkpoint. You want information more current than what’s in a travel guide, more comprehensive than what’s on CNN, more practical than what you get from the State Department. Enter iJET, an Annapolis start-up that provides more than 350,000 corporate employees and 21,000 travel agents with access to detailed travel intelligence on 156 countries. With the help of computerized filters and knowledge of 17 languages, iJET staffers absorb files from 5,000 sources a day, monitoring conditions in 10 areas of intelligence, including security, health, transportation and environment. The information gets as particular as traffic fine procedures, handshaking customs and the dial numbers for local English-language radio stations.”
See Also: Direct to the iJet Web Site
Note: Selecting This LinkTo View A Few Recent iJET Travel Alerts
Update: More on iJET from Wired News (4/12/02)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
Graduate Schools–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: U.S. News and World Report
Updated: 2003 Graduate School Rankings
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Documents in the News
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Source: DOJ (U.S. Department of Justice)
Full-Text: “Webster Commission Report” (Review of FBI Security Programs)
136 Pages .pdf
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XML–United States Government
Source: GAO
Full-Text, Electronic Government: Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language
GAO-02-327, 73 pages .pdf
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Firearm Sales–United States–Statistics
Source: Bureau of Justics Statistics
Full-Text: Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales, Midyear 2001
Laws and Statistics by State, 98 pages .pdf

News Brief
Public Libraries–Internet Filtering
Source: Philadephia Inquirer
Filtering Trial Concludes
See Also: Judges Blast Library Filtering” (via Wired)

Web Resource of the Week
Trade Associations, Scholarly/Professional Societies–Directories
I’ve prepared a short list of “open-web” resources to assist in locating these types of groups.
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Scholarly Societies on the Web
Organizations from around the World
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AssociationCentral.Com (U.S.)
Another database of U.S. associations
Associations on the Net
From the Internet Public Library
Gateway To Associations (U.S.)
Over 6500 associations located in the U.S.. Database is a service of the American Society of Association Executives
Government and Business Associations Directory (Australia)
Compiled by Business Entry Point (BEP). A service of the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
International Organization Web Sites
Over 3500 entries compiled by the Union of International Associations. Entries were selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations
International Trade Associations in North America, Directory of
From the Federation of International Trade Associations
National Trade Associations (Canada)
From the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Trade Association Forum Directory (U.K)
U.K. based trade associations, guilds or federations
Trade Associations in Canada (via Strategis)
A single page compilation is not available. However, many of the “Business Information by Industrial Category” entries contain links to associations.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Manufacturers–Directories
Source: Consumers Union of U.S
Directory of Major Manufacturers (Consumer Products)
Perfect for your ready reference shelf/folder/bookmark list! The directory features telephone numbers (many toll-free) and web addresses of leading manufacturers (by market share) for hundreds of consumer products.

Librarians
Source: The Oregonian
“Old Principles Guide Librarians on Net”
Meet Ginnie Cooper, director of the Multnomah County Library and Candace Morgan, associate director of Fort Vancouver Regional Library. From the article, “The role for a librarian grows more important,” said Cooper, whose library joined the legal challenge in February 2001, after being approached by the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter. The ACLU suit was later combined with Morgan’s American Library Association suit. “Because of all those resources, we are really bombarded with data, and part of the special skill of a librarian is to make sense of all that data and make sure you get a Web site that will provide you with information that is reliable,” Cooper said.

Web Search
Source: NY Times
“Upstart Search Engines Try to Topple Google”
A short piece by Lisa Guernsey on Teoma, AV, and WiseNut. One engine that isn’t mentioned in the article but continues to grow and become more useful is AllTheWeb. Management continues to tell us that searchable access to full-text .pdf material is on the way. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Finally, AllTheWeb’s underlying technology from FAST Search and Transfer will soon power the FirstGov.Gov engine.
Related Article From the Washington Post

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
Maps–United States
The Maptech Mapserver
One of the most robust online interactive mapping databases I’ve seen. Access (zoom-in/out) topographic, aeronautical, nautical, and in some cases satellite images after entering city/town name, zip code, or latitude/longitude coordinates. Maps can be printed or e-mailed. You can also mark and label points on any map by utilizing the “My Maps” feature.
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Libraries–Directories
Source: International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts
SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections
From the site, “The SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime).”
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Legislative Research–United States
Source: Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C (LLSDC)
Resource Update: LLSDC’s Legislative Source Book
This important research tool has seen many revisions and changes over the past few months. Additionally, a new section of the Source Book has just been placed online. “Schedule of Volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set” with “An Overview of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set”
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Internet Usage–United States
E-Government
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
Full-Text Report: The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies’ Web Sites
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Travel–Webliography
Source: College and Research Libraries
“Travel on the Web: Sites to Help You Plan Your Vacation”
See Also: Die Bahn European Rail Timetable Database (First Mentioned Last May)
A VERY comprehensive and useful database for European rail schedule info. Plan a trip and/or view a current station schedule via the Arrival/Departures link. This database offers numerous features including a “graphics” tab that will create a simple map of the route selected. Cool!
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Note: Several of today’s “Resources” come from the BUBL Link 5/15 Update
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Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items)
Librarians
Source: NewBreed Librarian
Michelle McGinnis, Research Librarian/Personal Librarian
A chat with Michelle McGinnis. McGinnis works as a “personal librarian” for Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired Magazine. An interesting interview about a very exciting job.

News Brief
Public Libraries–Internet Filtering
Source: Wired
“Full Assault on Filter Software” (Multnomah County Public Library v. United States)
Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday.

Business–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Fortune
Now Available: Fortune 500, 2002
Includes links to several specialized lists and the ability to sort by various criteria.

Web Search–FirstGov
Source: Federal Computer Week
“FirstGov Search Misses Deadline”
The new database/engine was originally supposed to go live online yesterday. Well, it was a no go. According to a FirstGov spokeswoman, a specfic date for the new engine to go live is not available. We will keep you posted. The new database/engine will be powered by FAST, the people who run the AllTheWeb search engine.

Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items)
Web Search–Trends
“Sex is Out, E-Commerce is In: New Web Searching Trends”
From the news release, “People are looking less for sexually oriented material on the Web and more for business information, a new Penn State-led study says. At the same time, researchers found that Web users aren�t spending the time they need to get quality information and that Web designers may need to develop a new generation of search engines.”
See Also, Study: “Web Surfers Seek Business, Travel Sites More than Porn” (Source: AP)
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Reference Linking
Source: Searcher
“Thinking About Reference Linking”
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Document Delivery
Source: Library Journal
“Ingenta Grows in the U.S. Market”
Carol Tenopir reports on Ingenta. From the article, “Ingenta is still a youngster in the library market�it was founded in 1998 and opened its first U.S. office in Cambridge, MA, in 1999. It focuses on providing access to scientific and research literature to academic and corporate libraries. Recent acquisitions and partnership strategies reflect this focus.”
Direct to the Ingenta Web Site
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Online Industry–Elsevier Science
Source: Information Today
“Not Pleading Poverty”
A Q&A interview with Elsevier Science CEO, Derk Haank
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Library Literature
Source: The Daily Herald (Chicago Suburbs)
“First Monday Makes the Internet its Beat“
Learn about one of first and best Internet only publications. From the article, “The magazine is called First Monday because it is issued on the first Monday of each month. Since its beginning, there have been 342 papers in 69 issues written by 407 authors from around the world.”
See Also: Direct to First Monday
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Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
Libraries and Technology–United States–Legislation
Source: Libraries and Information Technology Association (LITA)
“Legislative Issues Affecting Libraries and Technology”
LITA’s Legislation and Regulation Commitee has updated this handy guide. The document is a 3 page .pdf file.
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Training Tools–Government Printing Office (U.S)
Source: GPO
Update: GPO Access Training Manual
33 pages of changes available.
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Environment–Coastlines–United States
Source: EPA
New Report: National Coastal Condition Report
Fact Sheet ||| Direct to Full-Text Report
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National Archives–United States
U.S. Census–1930’s
Source: Washington Post
“Census Offers Peek Into Homes of 1930″
See Also: Direct To National Archives 1930’s Census Finding Aids
Note: The above link is to a finding aid. The actual microfilm has not been digitized.

Web Search–Teoma
The Much Anticipated Relaunch of Teoma is Now Live On the Web
What’s New
Database Size (Claim 200 million pages) vs. 90-100 million prior to relaunch.
They anticipate having the database at 500 million urls by the fall.
The names of the 3 types of results have also changed:
Web Pages…Now Labeled as “Results”
Web Pages by Topic…Now Labeled as “Refine”
Expert Links…Now Labeled as “Resources”
Explanation/examples available stress that part of the ranking algorithm is based, on what Teoma terms, “Subject-Specific Popularity”. This is determining the authority of a page based on other pages with the same subject and accomplished by page and link analysis. From the site, “Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity, to determine a site’s level of authority.” This concept is based in large part on the Hub/Authority work of Raghavan, Kleinberg and others. An article from Scientific American (1999) written by many members of the CLEVER project does an excellent job of explaining and illustrating these ideas.
Other Changes
Sponsored Results (Overture)
Logo
Slogans A) “Search With Authority” & B) “One Search…Three Responses”
See Also: Official Teoma News Release

Online Industry–Dialog
Online Industry–Gale
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
“Gale Group, Dialog Announce Library Marketing Alliance”
From Barbara Quint’s article, “Two Thomson Corp. subsidiaries, Gale Group (http://www.gale.com) and Dialog Corp. (http://www.dialog.com), have announced that they will begin a comprehensive, long-term joint-marketing effort designed to reach the academic and public library markets worldwide. No specific products or services were described in the announcement, beyond the fact that the first set of offerings would target the public library market and appear by the middle of this year. (This probably means timing the new products� releases for ALA�s Annual Conference.) The new alliance could put Dialog back in the public library market after decades of disinterest, as well as increase the company�s presence in academic libraries. Gale would be able to draw on Dialog�s breadth of content to round out and distinguish its offerings in these hotly contested market sectors.”

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
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Baseball–Statistics–Databases
Source: Major League Baseball
It’s Opening Day 2002! A couple of databases to celebrate.
1) Major League Baseball Historical Statistics
What’s Available:
Historical Stats (by Player)
Historical Leaders
Historical Team Statistics
Earlier Franchises Statistics
2) Major League Baseball “Find A Player” Database (Active Players)
3) Current Statistics, Various Criteria, Various Sorts, (Updated Daily)
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Educational Management–United States–Directory
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
Directory Update: Directory of Organizations in Educational Management
From the site, The purpose of the Directory is to guide users to sources of information on a wide range of topics related to educational policy, management, leadership, and organization of K-12 schools.” The directory can be searched or browsed.
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Fast Facts–United States
Source: U.S. Department of State
Fact Sheet: The Great Seal of the United States
Fact Sheet ||| Full-Text (30 page) .PDF File

Professional Reading Shelf
News Libraries
Source: LJ
“Reclaiming News Libraries”
This article was written by Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen.

News Brief
Public Libraries–Internet Filtering
Source: AP
“Library Filtering Case Continues” (Multnomah County Public Library v. United States)