Archives–United States
Source: FCW
“NARA Overwhelmed, Report Says”
From the article, “The torrent of electronic records being generated by federal agencies has overwhelmed the ability of the nation’s official recordkeeper, the National Archives and Records Administration, to identify and preserve them, a congressional audit concludes.”
Note: You Can Find a Link to the Full-Text of the Report Mention in this Article in Yesterday’s Postings

Electronic Archives–Government Documents
“Washington Breaks Ground on Digital Archives Building”
Source: GovTech.Net
From the article, “The Secretary of State, Sam Reed, announced on Tuesday that the state is taking steps to create a Digital Archives building that will use storage area networks (SANs) to store electronic records from the various branches and levels of state government. “We’ve had a problem in the state, which I’m sure is generally found around the country, of actually losing some of our electronic records,” Reed said. “We have e-mails from a previous governor’s administration that have disappeared. We also have Wang disks from another governor’s administration that we don’t have the right equipment to read what is on those disks. We currently have a situation where there’s a considerable amount of public policy discussion, and, frankly, development, going on via e-mail, and we need to have a set up to be able to capture that for history.”

Digitization Projects–Mexico–Newspapers
Deal Finalized: Canada’s Cold North Wind To Digitize Historical Newspapers from Mexico
From the announcement, “With over 490 titles, this unprecedented project will create the single largest portal of Spanish-language historical newspapers on the Internet and will allow for access to be available to researchers and students in Mexico and around the world. Covering 3 centuries and over 20 million pages of news, the portal will allow a unique view of Mexican history that in some instances has been neglected. The project will be facilitated by the creation of a new organization called Cold North Wind de Mexico. The company is a joint venture between Cold North Wind and Carlos Alvarez del Castillo Gregory, publisher of the Guadalajara newspaper, El Informador.”

British Library–OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
“British Library Catalogue Enabled for Simultaneous Searching”
From the annoucement, “The British Library has today [6/7] launched its new BLPCZ service, which provides Z39.50 compliant access to the British Library Public Catalogue for the first time…The service allows quick and easy access to bibliographic records from the catalogues of the main British Library collections – already available online at http://blpc.bl.uk. In addition to this, the new feature will allow users with suitable retrieval software to download and make use of the Library’s bibliographic citations for their own personal research purposes. This should prove of particular use to researchers and students compiling bibliographies for monographs, research reports or theses.”
See Also: Learn More About the British Library Catalogue

Patents–United States
Source: GCN
LexisNexis, Others Win Contract to Sell E-Filing Services for Patent Applications
From the article, “The Patent and Trademark Office today negotiated zero-dollar contracts with five companies to sell electronic-filing services for patent applications. The companies will integrate their applications with PTO�s existing Electronic Filing System. EFS has proven so difficult to use that PTO receives about 3 percent of patent applications through it. The five companies are Aspen Grove Inc., of Needham, Mass.; AutoDocs LLC. of Falls Church, Va.; First to File Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif.; LegalStar Inc. of Williamsville, N.Y.; and LexisNexis Group of Atlanta, Ga.”

Web Search–Google
Source: Fast Company
“How Google Searches Itself”
From the article, “To stay on top, Google needed a stream of new ideas. But where could the company look for them? And more important, how? “We always had great ideas, but we didn’t have a good way of expressing them or capturing them,” says Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology. Mayer’s proposal: Search for ideas in the same way that the Google search engine combs the Web. Google’s Web searches succeed because they roam far and wide, scouring billions of documents. Also, search results are ranked by relevance ( taking into account how many links a page has, among many other factors ), and they come back fast.”

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Fast Facts–4th of July
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts: The U.S. and the Fourth of July
Facts about fireworks, flags, your holiday barbecue and more.
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Security–United States
Source: Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
Full-Text Report, Security in the Information Age: New Challenges, New Strategies
134 page .pdf document. Papers include:
“Critical Infrastructure Assurance: A Conceptual Overview”
“Cybersecurity Policy: Moving from Nouns to Verbs”
“National Security: The Definitions Landscape”
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Public Records–Web Compilations
URL Update: The URL for the Comprehensive Public Record Compilation, PAC-Info.Com, Has Changed
The official address is now http://www.searchsystems.com. This “must have” compilation contains links to over 7700 public record databases from around the world.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Fast Facts–4th of July
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts: The U.S. and the Fourth of July
Facts about fireworks, flags, your holiday barbecue and more.
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Security–United States
Source: Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
Full-Text Report, Security in the Information Age: New Challenges, New Strategies
134 page .pdf document. Papers include:
“Critical Infrastructure Assurance: A Conceptual Overview”
“Cybersecurity Policy: Moving from Nouns to Verbs”
“National Security: The Definitions Landscape”
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Public Records–Web Compilations
URL Update: The URL for the Comprehensive Public Record Compilation, PAC-Info.Com, Has Changed
The official address is now http://www.searchsystems.com. This “must have” compilation contains links to over 7700 public record databases from around the world.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Fast Facts–4th of July
Source: U.S. Census
Fast Facts: The U.S. and the Fourth of July
Facts about fireworks, flags, your holiday barbecue and more.
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Security–United States
Source: Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
Full-Text Report, Security in the Information Age: New Challenges, New Strategies
134 page .pdf document. Papers include:
“Critical Infrastructure Assurance: A Conceptual Overview”
“Cybersecurity Policy: Moving from Nouns to Verbs”
“National Security: The Definitions Landscape”
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Public Records–Web Compilations
URL Update: The URL for the Comprehensive Public Record Compilation, PAC-Info.Com, Has Changed
The official address is now http://www.searchsystems.com. This “must have” compilation contains links to over 7700 public record databases from around the world.

News Briefs
Webcasting Rate Information Due From Copyright Office/Library of Congress at 5pm Thursday

United States Army–Publicly Accessible Information
Source: Government Computer News
“Army Cleaning Up Web Sites”
From the article, “Col. Thaddeus Dmuchowski, director of information assurance in the Army’s Chief Information Officer Office, said the service was “caught blindsided” when it first learned of more than 70 examples of publicly accessible Army Web sites containing “inappropriate information.” Also from the article, “The latest problem, which was identified by the Army in the past week, involves “hidden” sites that are no longer visible to basic searches or indexes, but can still be found through more sophisticated digging. Dmuchowski likened it to a Microsoft Corp. PowerPoint presentation with hidden slides that may not be visible, but are still there.”
See Also: This Article Also References a 6/5/02 DoD Inspector General Report (Summary), Full-Text of DoD Report

Web Search–Google
Source: ABCNews.Com
If and When Will Google Go Public?
More thoughts and opinion about this popular topic. SearchDay’s Chris Sherman is quoted.

Online Industry–LexisNexis
LN Serves Up Several Enhancements for Academic Universe
From the announcement, “The enhancements include faster access to search forms for news, legal and company financial information, all of which now appear on the home page. Another feature designed especially with students in mind is a �Quick News Search� feature. For the first time ever, users will be able to search across all news files within LexisNexis Academic Universe for the previous two years with a �one-box� search interface.”

Online Industry–ProQuest
Coming July 28th, Launch of ProQuest 6.0
From the announcement, “The new ProQuest 6.0 interface will include enhanced tools and features for linking, extensive coverage date information, a new title list system, French and German user interfaces…”

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
Energy–Statistics
Now Available, Full-Text: The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2002
Summary ||| Full-Text
Some material can be downloaded into Excel format.
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Parliament–Canada
Source: Library of Parliament, Canada
New, Full-Text: Inside Canada’s Parliament
41 pages .pdf
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U.S./Iraq Relations
Source: Division of Parliamentary Libraries, Australia
Research Note, Full-Text, U.S. and Iraq: Immediate Options
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Information Preservation
Source: GAO
Full-Text, Information Management: Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic Records
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Documents in the News
Energy–United States
Source: GAO
Full-Text, Energy Markets: Concerted Actions Needed By FERC To Confront Challenges That Impede Effective Oversight

News Briefs (2 Items)
“Libraries in Need of Librarians” (via AP)
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British Library Names Head of Science, Technology, and Innovation

Web Search–AllTheWeb
AllTheWeb: An Essential and Must Use Search Engine
Those of you who read this weblog on a regular basis are most likely aware of my very positive feelings about AllTheWeb.Com as an essential general web search tool. Today, news that ATW is claiming a slightly larger database than Google. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Google up their total in the next few days. The announcement also claims that AllTheWeb is refreshing their complete database every 7-11 days. More on this later after we run a few tests. Regardless of these new claims, it’s ESSENTIAL that information professionals use more than a single general web search tool. ATW is now “the engine” in the number two spot and should be a “must use” tool by all searchers. Actually, I’ve been using ATW more and more as my first choice and have been impressed. By the way, see this past Friday’s and Saturday’s postings for a bit more ATW news and comment.
See Also: Search Engine Showdown, the definitive place to find engine size analysis and more.
See Also: “AlltheWeb’s Engine Chugs Past Google” (via AP, includes a comment from Google)

Online Industry–Gale Group
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
“Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles InfoTrac Holdings”
From Barbara Quint’s article, “Apparently they only count in hundreds at Gale Group: hundreds of sources, hundreds of clients, and now hundreds of years. Gale Group has announced a mammoth 20-million-page project that will bring to the Web most books published in the English language during the 18th century. Proclaimed as �the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken,� it reflects cooperation by The British Library and other leading research libraries. In another announcement, Gale has more than doubled its InfoTrac holdings with the integration of 5,400 titles from ingenta. This makes a total of more than 9,000 electronic periodicals. �We own the 18th century,� boasted Mark Holland, publisher in Gale�s U.K. office (and it sounded like he meant more than just the title of Gale�s prospective digital edition of The Eighteenth Century). When finished, the project will include the full-image text of 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800. Gale plans to complete the project in time to put the product on the Web beginning in June 2003.”

The Internet Archive
Source: The Seattle Times
“Digital Library of Knowledge Doable Dream”
Read and Learn about Brewster and the Internet Archive.
See Also: Direct to the Internet Archive

Professional Reading Shelf
The June issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Online
Here are the titles of just a few of articles:
“Evaluation of Digital Library Impact and User Communities by Analysis of Usage Patterns”
“The KYVL Kentuckiana Digital Library Project: Background and Current Status”
“Virtual Museum of Canada – Promoting Canada’s Heritage Online”

News Briefs (4 Items)
Natural Language Search: iPhrase Does Deal With Lycos
iPhrase nlp technology will be used on Lycos Finance site.
See Also: Demo iPhrase with Yahoo Finance
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Companies Sign-Up for Google’s “Search Box”
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Ask.Com Unveils New Enterprise Search Tool
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AltaVista Names New Chief Scientist

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Small Business–United States
Source: Fortune Small Business
“America’s Fastest Growing Small Companies”

Databases
Learn More: Cycorp
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Another article about Doug Lenant and Cycorp. We’ve featured several in the past 18 months. From the article, “Although some critics question the potential of this painstaking effort, the inventors believe Cyc will form the brains of computers with supercharged reasoning abilities – which could help us work more efficiently, make us understand each other better, and even help us predict the previously unforeseeable. Cyc (pronounced “psych”) has already helped Lycos Inc. generate more relevant results on its Internet search engine. The military, which has invested $25 million in Cyc, is testing it as an intelligence tool in the war against terrorism. Companies use Cyc to unify disparate databases, and they are examining a new application that warns when computer networks have vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit.”
See Also: Direct to Cycorp Web Site

Web Browsers
Source: The Washington Post
“Mozilla, an Old Browser New Again”
The Post’s Rob Pegoraro with some very positive comments about the Mozilla browser. I’ve been using Mozilla quite a bit since the official launch and have been very impressed.
See Also: Direct to the Mozilla Web Site (Download)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Demographics–United States
CensusScope
From the site, “CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable trend data, CensusScope is designed for generalists and specialists.” Data from 2000 and 1990 Census. Discovered via Infomine
See Also: Ameristat
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Health Information
Source: National Library of Medicine
A Selection of New MEDLINEplus Compilations
MEDLINEplus: Hepatitis A
MEDLINEplus Hepatitis B

Web Search–AllTheWeb
AllTheWeb Adds “PDF Only” Limit To Advanced Interface
It’s nice to see the major engines being so quick to respond to suggestions. A few weeks ago, after ATW added .pdf content, I mentioned (along with many others) that it would be great if a limit to only search .pdf content would be available. This morning, a new box on the advanced interface, provides the “pdf only” limit.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Health Information–Medline
Source: National Library of Medicine
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
From the site, “The National Library of Medicine (NLM) designed the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users to provide bibliographic information for serials from which articles are indexed with the MeSH� vocabulary and cited in MEDLINE�, the backbone of NLM’s PubMed� database. Citations from these serials date back as far as 1966 and include data from all serials indexed for the formerly separate NLM databases AIDSLINE� and HealthSTAR, and data from core serials indexed cover-to cover for the formerly separate databases BIOETHICSLINE�, HISTLINE�, and SPACELINE. The 2002 edition contains 9,930 serial titles, including 4,498 titles currently indexed for MEDLINE, cited alphabetically by abbreviated title followed by full title.”
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Teaching–Webliography
Source: C&RL News
Full-Text article, “Navigating the Web of Discourse on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: An Annotated Webliography”
Compiled and annotated by Musa Abdul Hakim a librarian at SUNY-Buffalo.

News Briefs (2 Items)
Factiva and ChoicePoint Form Marketing Alliance
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Coming Soon To Five Cities: One Day “Understanding Census Statistics” Workshops From the U.S. Census
These hands-on seminars are scheduled for Brooklyn, Orlando, Houston, and Iowa City.

Web Search
Source: Law.Com
“Three Upstarts Take On the Almighty Google”
The author, Robert J. Ambrogi, lists WiseNut, Vivisimo, Teoma. A couple of comments:
*No mention of AllTheWeb. In my mind the number two engine at the present time and always improving. ATW is rapidly increasing index size, tweaking the result ranking algorithm, and about one month ago began providing access to .pdf material. As Greg Notess points out, ATW indexes the full-text of .pdf files unlike Google which stops indexing after about 120K. Btw, Google stops indexing html documents after 101K.
*While WiseNut looks promising, and it’s something we need to keep on our radar, the database is extremely out of date. Three quick sample searches found urls that haven’t been updated in almost a year. Also, WiseNut offers no advanced searching options.
*Vivisimo is an interesting, worthwhile, and valuable product. Not mentioned in this article is Vivisimo’s very useful “page preview” feature and the ability to demo it’s clustering technology with many specialized search tools.

Libraries–Marketing
Source: Library Journal
“Marketing the Worth of Your Library”
A must read. From the article, “Despite all our real-time reference, web sites that rock, and exemplary programs, libraries are still missing the hook that will change our public’s perception of what we have to offer. It isn’t enough simply to tell potential patrons what is available at their library. What was the last Madison Avenue ad campaign you saw that just told what the product offered? That hook is selling the value of the library in real bottom-line terms.”

Search Engines
Source: Search Day
How Search Engines Look at Links
From the article, “Representatives of Google, Fast, and Ask Jeeves/Teoma shared inside information about page ranking and linking analysis at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Boston, March 4th.”

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Cultural Heritage–Searchable Database
Source: Getty Conservation Institute
New Database, AATA (Abstracts of International Conservation Literature)
From the site, “AATA Online enhances the preservation of our global cultural patrimony by providing high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management in a free online database. Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work.” This database is available at no charge. Thanks to J.O. for the news tip.
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National Statistics–United Kingdom
Source: National Statisitics Office
“New Look for Interactive Neighbourhood Statistics”
From the site, “The Neighbourhood Statistics website has a new look, incorporating a state-of-the-art Geographical Information System supported by data from governmental and other reliable sources. It provides new and improved search options which, for the first time, allow users to search specified areas which cross ward boundaries.”
Direct to the Neighbourhood Statistics Service Site
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Intelligence–Canada
Source: Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Canadian Security Intelligence Service 2001 Public Report

Web Resource of the Week
Ready Reference Tools
A Longtime Favorite: xrefer
xrefer continues to provide high-quality reference material on the web. What’s even more exciting is that a sizable selection of this content is available at no charge via a searchable database. A few of the 100 free titles, all from top reference publishers, that xrefer provides full-text access to include:
Oxford Dictionary of Art
The Penguin Dictionary of Economics
The Penguin Dictionary of Music
Bloomsbury Thesaurus
Compact American Dictionary of Computer Words
In addition to the free xrefer service, the company also markets xreferplus for libraries. This fee-based service provides searchable and browsable, full-text access to many more titles. A one month free trial is available for qualified organizations.
See Also: Read Peter Jacso’s In-Depth Review of xrefer (from Information Today)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Schools–United States–Maps
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
New, Interactive Mapping Database: 2000 Census School District Maps
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Science & Technology
Source: Government of Canada
New Portal, The Federal Science and Technology Community
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Law Libraries–Washington D.C.–Directory
Source: Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C.
Now Online, Enhanced Web Version: Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C.
Metropolitan Area
See Also: LLSDC’s Legislative Source Book

Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Preservation
Source: Working Group on Preservation Metadata
New, Full-Text Report: Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects

Librarians in the News
Source: The Pantagraph (Bloomington-Normal, IL)
“Normal Librarian Loves to Find the Answers”
Read about Pixie Freymann, a librarian at the Normal Public Library. Freymann earned her MLIS at Dominican University. From the article, “I love to be able to find things,” Freymann says, “and I don’t give up easily. I’ll dig and dig until I find it.” This leads to her favorite part of the job. “I love the fact that I’m learning all the time,” she says.”

Congrats To Will Hann and the Free Pint Team For Reaching the 50,000 Subscriber Mark!!!
Never Visited the Free Pint Site? You Should!

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
Nuclear Waste Transport–United States
Source: Environmental Working Group
New, Interactive Database, Nuclear Waste Route Maps
See Also: Learn More About the Maps, (.pdf maps also available)
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Resources in the News
Catholic Bishops–United States–Database
Source: Dallas Morning News
New Database, “Records of the Top Leaders of the Nation�s 178 Mainstream Roman Catholic Dioceses”
From the site, “The study – the first of its kind – looked at the records of the top leaders of the nation�s 178 mainstream Roman Catholic dioceses, including acting administrators in cases where the top job is vacant. Excluded from the study were auxiliary bishops who, in larger dioceses, serve in subordinate roles but still can vote on many matters before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the 17 bishops who lead eparchies, which are diocese-like entities that worship according to the Eastern rite. In checking whether a bishop had protected priests or other church representatives accused of sexual abuse, reporters Brooks Egerton and Reese Dunklin relied on published reports, court records, interviews and church records obtained in civil litigation.”
See Also: Additional Background About the Study
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India-Pakistan Situation
Source: Department of the Parliamentary Library, Australia
Full-Text, E-Brief, India-Pakistan: Tensions over Kashmir
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Climate
Source: EPA
Full-Text, Climate Action Report 2002
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E-Government
New, Subject Portal, e-Gov FirstStop
From a Government Technology article, After a yearlong process of research and development, the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany is rolling out e-Gov FirstStop, a knowledge-sharing partnership for government managers and staff. The Web site includes a carefully selected collection of e-government materials including executive-level briefings, research and best practices reports, case studies and Web sites. Officials of the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) said all resources included in e-Gov FirstStop are reviewed and selected by e-government practitioners and scholars.”
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Research and Development–United States–Statistics
Source: National Science Foundation
Full-Text Report, Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (NSF 02-321)

Professional Reading Shelf
Three New Articles About Reference Linking in the New Issue (6/2002) of RLG Focus
“Connecting Citations and Full Text: Eureka� and OpenURL”
Walt Crawford, RLG
“Implementing OpenURL Linking with SFX: The NYU Experience”
Gloria Rohmann, New York University
“OpenURL at the University of Chicago Library”
Jim Mouw, University of Chicago
“Implementing OpenURL: Advice from the Library Trenches”
Kimberly Parker, Yale University

News Briefs
Albert’s Natural Language Search Teachnology to Power Forbes.Com Site
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“Six Science Publishers Create New Web Font Set: The STIX Project”
From the announcement, “After years of planning, a group of scientific publishers today formally announced the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project and the launch of the STIX web site at http://www.stixfonts.org. The STIX publishers aim to develop a comprehensive set of fonts for mathematics and other special characters used in Scientific, Technical, and Medical publishing. The web site provides information for potential users within the scientific and publishing communities, and a special area for software developers who may want to incorporate support for the STIX Fonts into their products. The six publishers � the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) ” (Discovered on NFAIS’s Noteworthy).
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“Lawsuits Attack Site-to-Site Links” (AP via International Herald Tribune)

Web Search–Ask.Com
A Redesigned Ask Jeeves Interface is Now Online, News Search Also Available
The new interface includes tabs for web and news searches. The results page page is less cluttered. Results labeled as, “You may find my search results helpful” are derived from and utilize the Teoma database and algorithm. PDF material is not available. The news database is powered with a full Moreover feed of over 3,000 sources and is updated hourly. Ask.Com also unveiled a new “popular queries” compilation similar to the Lycos 50 and Google Zeitgeist. Ask’s compilation is called Jeeves IQ.

Virtual Reference–QuestionPoint
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
“QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference”
Barbara Quint writes, “In the history of computing, the date to remember is the one when IBM produced the first PC. In the history of the Internet, future historians may note the date when Mosaic became Netscape or perhaps when Bill Gates finally decided Microsoft would recognize the Net. It�s not the originating date, it�s the maturing date. The Virtual Reference Desk movement may have reached such a juncture with the launch of QuestionPoint by OCLC, the world�s leading library vendor, in a joint project with the Library of Congress, the world�s largest library. The production model of the service should go online June 23.”
Direct to the QuestionPoint Site

The Semantic Web
Source: The Boston Globe
Next Up: Web of Data
Tim Berners-Lee with this example of searching on the semantic web, “‘You’ll tell a search engine, `Find me someplace where the weather is currently rainy and it’s within a hundred miles of such and such a city.’ Today a search engine can go and find you pages with those words on them, but with the Semantic Web, it will come back and say, `Look, I found this place and I can prove to you why I know that it’s raining and why I know it’s within a hundred miles of this place.’ So you’ll be dealing with much firmer information.” Thanks to C.S. for the news tip.

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Business Information–Canada
Source: Industry Canada
Improved Search Engine: Strategis Portal Upgrades Search Engine
From the announcement, “…enhancements include a faster search engine, indexing done by the root of a word, improved navigation within the result pages, a better ranking algorithm, as well as more collections from which to draw.
Databases include:
Canadian Company Capabilities
Canadian Patents Database
Federal Incorporations Database
Trademarks Database

Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Libraries
Source: Journal of Digital Information
“Interactional Digital Libraries: Introduction to a Special Issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries”
Articles in this Special Issue (all articles linked from the introduction):
“Experimental User-Centered Evaluation of an Open Hypermedia System and Web Information Seeking Environments”
“Linked Active Content for Digital Libraries for Education”
“Atmospheric Visualization Collection: Developments in the NSDL”
“Active Netlib: An Active Mathematical Software Collection for Inquiry-based Computational Science and Engineering Education”

Specialized Search Engines�News
War on Terrorism
Source: The Washington Post
Full-Text Content: America at War, Material from The Washington Post
As you know, many major newspapers provide full-text content at no charge for only one or two weeks. However, exceptions exist. For example, if your searching for full-text material about America’s war effort and the events of September 11th using a specialized search interface on The Washington Post�s site, you can access a large archive, about 3400 stories as of today, of full-text material that the paper has published since 9/11. Remember, this material is only searchable and accessible if you use this special search tool and not using any of search engines available on The Post’s search engine page. Btw, an access point on the �America at War� page also provides the ability to browse the content by subject or view a complete list of material in this archive.
See Also: The New York Times �College Times” section provides a browsable directory of selected stories on many topics. This directory contains some material past the normal two-week limit.
NOTE: If you know of other specialized directories and databases from major publications and news organizations, I would love to learn more about them.

Enterprise Search–Software
Source: Reuters
New Natural Language Search Software Debuts: Inquira
Direct to Inquira

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
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Internet Training–Tutorials
U.K.’s Resource Discovery Network Adds 11 New Tutorials to Virtual Training Suite
If you need some Internet training or an Internet trainer make sure to take a look at these great resources. The suite currently holds over 50 subject-specific tutorials.
The 11 tutorials added today are:
�Internet for Art, Design and Media
�Internet for Business Studies
�Internet for Construction
�Internet for Engineering (General and Automotive)
�Internet for Hairdressing and Beauty
�Internet for Health and Social Care
�Internet for Hospitality and Catering
�Internet for Information and Communication Technology
�Internet for Leisure, Sport and Recreation
�Internet for Performing Arts
�Internet for Travel and Tourism
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XML
Cataloging–MARC
MARC 21 XML Schema
Thanks to C.B. for letting us know about this site.
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Business–Lists & Rankings
Source: Fortune
“Cool Companies 2002″
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Patents
Source: American Chemical Society
Full-Text: What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents
A very useful, even if you’re not a chemist, 15 page overview of the U.S. patent system. Thanks P.S.
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Software–Piracy
Source: Business Software Alliance
New, Software Piracy Statistics
Includes list of Top 10 Countries with the Highest Piracy Rates.

News Briefs
Makeover Time: Coming Soon for the Yahoo Home Page (Source: News.Com)
From the article, “The simplified home page is meant to accentuate advertisements, the source said.”

Audio Mining
Source: Smart Business
“Dig Deeper”
From the article, “If you think it’s hard to find your wedding tape in a box of unlabeled cassettes, imagine you’re CNN and you’re searching for a specific 1998 news segment in which Barry Manilow was mentioned in passing. It’s a task that could take an intern all summer. But when CNN completes its massive audio mining project the task will take only seconds.”

FBI
Source: NY Times
“Computer System That Makes Data Secure, but Hard to Find”
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt with a few comments on the problems at the FBI. From the article, “Mr. Schmidt of Google said that government had characteristically been slower than industry to adopt new information technology and to link its multitudinous information networks. This leads to a condition that the industry calls “stovepiped” information, which means that data is warehoused in separate, unconnected silos. That is partly by design, Mr. Schmidt said, as a precaution against wandering hackers. “They don’t want a network interloper to come in on one side and do a lot of damage to other computers.” Even within those various troves, Mr. Schmidt said, information is rarely stored in a way that makes open-ended searches easy. Although companies like his offer products that can be added to such networks to allow only authorized users to search the data, he said that those products cannot readily work with systems that do not conform with the industry standards.”

Information Sharing
Source: Smart Business
“Bringing Order to the Information Explosion”
Several tools to assist in info organization and presentation are mentioned in this article.

Law Libraries
Source: Am Law Tech
“Incredible Shrinking Library”
From the article, “Libraries are shrinking. And technology is to blame.”