Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Business–Lists & Rankings–Europe
Source: Bureau van Dijk (AMADEUS)
Full-Text, Top 20 Companies in Europe
In addition to the list, a basic report for each company is available at no charge from Bureau van Dijk.
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Freedom of Information Act–United States
Source: GAO
Full-Text Report, Update on Implementation of the 1996 Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendment
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Military–Australia
Source: Department of the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia
Full-Text Research Note, Scenarios for Australian Military Contributions to the Probable war in Iraq

Citation Rankings
Source: Institute for Scientific Information
Citation Report/Impact Factor Briefs
Science in Denmark, 1997-2001
Science in Mexico, 1997-2001
Science in Sweden, 1997-2001
Journals Ranked by Impact: Chemistry (general)
Journals Ranked by Impact: International Relations
Highly Cited Authors in Plant & Animal Science, 1992-2002
U.S. Universities with Highest Concentrations in Food Science & Nutrition, 1997-2001
Psychiatry: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1997-2001
Sociology & Anthropology: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1997-2001
See Also: Many Other Reports From ISI’s SCI-BYTES

Web Search
USGovSearch is No More
After a brief online discussion mention several weeks ago and then noticing many dead links on library web sites, I asked divine/Northern Light about the status of USGovSearch. USGovSearch searched material from NTIS and started with a bit of controversy. (See Paula Hane�s 1999 article). Today, a conversation with divine�s Susan Burke provides us with official word that USGovSearch is no more. In fact, it hasn�t been online for about six months. Ms. Burke writes, �Since divine’s acquisition of Northern Light we have changed the business model a bit and are currently focusing on the areas where we provide the most value to our customers such as merging technology and content to provide complete information delivery solutions. Northern Light was acquired by divine in January of 2002. Time to change a few web pages.
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More News From divine
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Yahoo’s Research Documents (Fee-Based Content) No Longer Available
On Sunday, Greg Notess’s Search Engine Showdown had an item about “Research Documents” (fee-based, full-text articles) no longer being available on Yahoo. Greg’s keen eye was clearly focused because he is correct. Susan Burke confirms that the fee-based material from divine/Northern Light has been removed from Yahoo. She was unable provide any additional information. In late January of this year this divine/NL/Yahoo “premium service” was unveiled to a fair amount of media attention and info industry discussion. Northern Light’s pay-per-article service (Special Collection) continues.
(Updated 9/27 “Yahoo shelves for-fee research service” via News.Com)

Research Skills
Source: Columbia Journalism Review
On the Research Skills of Journalism Students
No surprises here but still 100% worthy of your attention. Journalism students at Harvard learn that it’s not all on the web. A good article for your bibliographic instruction file. It’s sad but but true what this article documents, Web Search = Research for many students. Kudos to the author for teaching his students an important lesson.

Web Search–Google
One More Thing Re: Google News
A quick note about an issue with Google News and other news search engines. Multiple versions of the same wire service story. It’s not a question of it being good or bad but something you might want to be aware of and share with users. Content from the major wire services, Associated Press and Reuters, often appear in Google News multiple times. In other words, although the story might have a different headline and time stamp, the underlying content is identical or very close to identical because different news organizations might edit the story for length. Here are a few examples:
1) An AP story, approx. 60 entries
2) A Reuters story, approx. 5 times
3) Another Issue with Reuters, Material Labeled as an “Update”. As new facts and reaction come in portions of the story are updated and released. Excellent for research but in other instances make sure you’re looking at the most current update. Example: Here’s A Story that’s Been Updated 5 Times.

The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive Bookmobile Hits the Road on Monday
The Bookmobile departs next week. From the announcement, “In a celebration of the Public Domain, starting September 30, 2002, the Internet Archive’s Bookmobile will be coming to a town near you, bringing with it the ability to access, download, and print one of the almost 20,000 public domain books currently available online.” Also from the site, So what is the Bookmobile? “It is a mobile digital library capable of downloading public domain books from the Internet via satellite and printing them anytime, anywhere, for anyone. It will be traveling across the country from San Francisco to Washington D.C., stopping at schools, libraries and retirement homes; places where people understand the value of a book. After the bookmobile leaves, each library will understand what it would take to make print and bind public domain books for their patrons.” Much more info on the site.
See Also: Direct to the Internet Archive and The Wayback Machine

News Briefs (2 Items)
* Oldest Known Copy of Sikh Scripture outside India found in the British Library
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* “The Royal Library of Sweden Preserve Archived 17th Century Newspapers” (via Managing Information)

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
Business–Lists & Rankings
New, 2002 ed. 17th ed. 100 Best Companies for Working Women
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Poverty–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Full-Text Report, Poverty in the United States: 2001
Full-Text Report, Money Income in the United States: 2001
See Also: News Release with Summary Info From These Reports
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Health–Schools–United States
Source: EPA
New Web Portal, Healthy School Environments
From the site, “EPA’s new Healthy School Environments web portal will help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, and teachers find the resources they need to address environmental health issues in schools.”
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Internet Usage–United Kingdom
Source: National Statistics Office
Full-Text Report, Internet access – Households and Individuals

The Internet Archive
Source: The Internet Archive
“Net Archive Silences Scientology Critic”
From the article, “The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as “a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form,” no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down “per the request of the site owner.”
Also from the article, “A representative of the Internet Archive said the organization, which is run mostly by volunteers, took the pages down after lawyers for the Church of Scientology “asserted ownership of materials visible through” the site. He said the group replaced the links with a generic error message about blocked sites.” Much more in the article.
See Also: Official Internet Archive Statement
See Also: Official Internet Archive Statement (in Plain English)
See Also: Discussion in The Wayback Machine Forum

Web Search–AlltheWeb
Source: Search Engine Showdown
New KWIC from AlltheWeb
Greg Notess reports that AtW is beginning to offer KWIC (keyword-in-context) view. Greg writes, “This is the kind of display Google usually provides where the extract contains the actual search terms along with some of the surrounding text.” He also notes that it’s now possible to limit by site using site: Previously the syntax was a clunky url.host and/or url.domain.

Web Search–Daypop
Daypop is Back Online
After running out of hard drive space Dan Chan has brought Daypop, a search tool for weblog and news content, is back online.

Librarians
Source: Federal Computer Week
“E-Learning aimed at Librarians”
From the article, “The Maryland Library Partnership, a coalition of public libraries, is developing an e-learning course that it hopes will help libraries across the country provide better service.” Also, from the article, “A test of the new course is planned for January and should be available to libraries in Maryland in spring 2003. It will then be offered for sale to libraries in the rest of the country later next year.”

News Search–Google
Source: The New York Times
“All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print”
Key Quotes from the article:
*”We are trying to leverage the experience of all the editors out there,” said Larry Page
*”For now, Google’s service has no advertising or other revenue source. But Mr. Page said the service, which is still considered a beta � or trial � offering, will easily accommodate the text advertising that Google sells on other areas of its site. The company is also exploring syndicating the news service to other sites and possibly offering a version of it for a fee to its users.”
*”Yahoo is said to be seriously considering switching its Web search to Inktomi, a Google rival that does not run its own Web site.”
*”Their front page is not too far off from what is on the Post site at the moment,” said Douglas B. Feaver, the executive editor of washingtonpost.com. “It’s a useful service, but it’s not going to drive me to the unemployment office tomorrow.”

Information Industry–Factiva
Formal Launch: Factiva Public Figures & Associates
From the announcement, “Factiva Public Figures & Associates identifies individuals who may require enhanced scrutiny due to their political connections, a major focus of recent anti-money laundering legislation, including the USA Patriot Act, and established benchmarks such as the Customer Due Diligence for Banks from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It also includes lists of specially designated nationals such as those produced by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control and the European Union.” Note: This database is not available to current customers or potential Factiva customers. According to this page, the sale of Factiva Public Figures & Associates is limited in all countries to companies or institutions that fall within one of three categories defined below:
* Companies who would use the services to comply with legal duties and regulations. The only legal duty currently recognized is that of �know your customer� specifically in relation to protection against money laundering. Other duties may be added.
* Governmental organizations that would use the services in performing their statutory duties.
* Organizations that would use the services in performing law enforcement duties.
See Also: Learn More About Factiva Public Figures & Associates

Information Industry–Factiva
Formal Launch: Factiva Public Figures & Associates
From the announcement, “Factiva Public Figures & Associates identifies individuals who may require enhanced scrutiny due to their political connections, a major focus of recent anti-money laundering legislation, including the USA Patriot Act, and established benchmarks such as the Customer Due Diligence for Banks from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It also includes lists of specially designated nationals such as those produced by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control and the European Union.” Note: This database is not available to current customers or potential Factiva customers. According to this page, the sale of Factiva Public Figures & Associates is limited in all countries to companies or institutions that fall within one of three categories defined below:
* Companies who would use the services to comply with legal duties and regulations. The only legal duty currently recognized is that of �know your customer� specifically in relation to protection against money laundering. Other duties may be added.
* Governmental organizations that would use the services in performing their statutory duties.
* Organizations that would use the services in performing law enforcement duties.
See Also: Learn More About Factiva Public Figures & Associates

Online Industry–LexisNexis
News From LN: LexisNexis Country Analysis Product for Academic Market
From the announcement, “…news, analysis, in-depth reports and statistics on 190 countries including emerging markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. LexisNexis Country Analysis was designed with sophisticated subject and industry indexing for effortless searching through more than 300,000 documents for specific country information in an easy to use format.”

Online Industry–Dialog/Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
“CSA Beefs Up Service, Will Remove Its Files from Dialog”
From Paula Hane’s article, “Searchers who logged on to Dialog Classic last week were greeted by a surprise announcement: The abstract databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) will no longer be available through the Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. According to Dialog: �Dialog and CSA have jointly decided to change the nature of our relationship in order that we may each pursue different strategic interests. With the change in the relationship, CSA databases will no longer be available through Dialog and Dialog DataStar services after September 30, 2002.� “ONLINE magazine editor Marydee Ojala, who first noticed the Dialog announcement, wondered about this. She said, �Why wouldn�t they cite Wilson�s Library Literature (File 438) as an alternative to LISA?� Was this just a simple oversight or could it be that H.W. Wilson will be the next database producer to exit Dialog? Searcher editor Barbara Quint commented that perhaps Dan Wagner�s prediction (from �The Shooting of Dan Wagner� on p. 1 of the September issue of Information Today and http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep02/Poynder.htm) that Dialog will become just a platform for Thomson content is coming true.”

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Health–United Kingdom
New Content Added to National Electronic Library for Health
From an announcement, “Guidelines Finder for health clinicians has been added to the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH), it was announced on 18 September 2002. The resource has been developed in collaboration with the Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge (SEEK), and holds details of 447 UK national guidelines with links to downloadable versions.” Also, all U.K. based users now have free access Cochrane Library and Clinical Evidence.
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Documents in the News
Source: Prime Minister’s Office, U.K.
Full-Text, Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction – The Assessment of the British Government
See Also: Executive Summary
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Documents in the News
Terrorism–United States
Full-Text, The FBI’s Handling of the Phoenix Electronic Communication and Investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui Prior to September 11, 2001
23 pages. Presented at a House and Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today by Eleanor Hill, Director, Joint Inquiry Staff.

Professional Reading Shelf
XML
Source: Journal of Digital Information
Full-Text Article, “XML: One Input–Many Outputs“

Google News Gets A New Look, More Content
Today, Google has announced several major changes and updates to the Google News Beta. Some of you began seeing the changes last week.
What’s New?
* Over 4000 English Language Sources. This is a MAJOR Increase to the List of Crawled Sources. Previously at about 100-150.
* Database Refreshed Every 15 Minutes. Previously About Once or Twice an Hour.
* Tab to Google News Listed With the Other Google Tools (Web, Images, Groups, Directory)
* Layout Of Google News Home Page
What Continues?
* Clustering of Headlines on Similar Topic From Various Sources
* Ability to Sort Results by Relevance or Date
What’s Not Available?
* Advanced Interface
* Non-English Language Content
*Ability to Limit from a Specific Source
Other Things To Know
*You Can Limit To Terms in the Title or Headline by Using the Syntax intitle:
*Inurl: Also Available To Limit to Terms in the URL (Use to Limit to a Specific News Site, Thanks T.C.)
*From the site, “Google News includes articles that appeared within the Past 30 Days”.
I’m awaiting details about this statement from a Google representative. It doesn’t make sense to me. Also,
Why? Previously, Google kept material in the News database for 5 days. This makes sense since a great deal of “freely available” news material is only available for a 5-10 days after publication. 30 days is a long time in the online news world and Google has no control as to how long a specific site might make it available. Exceptions do exist.
Other News Engines Worthy Of Your Attention
See Also: AlltheWeb News (Includes Non-English Language Content, Advanced Interface)
See Also: Northern Light News
(Sources Not Available Elsewhere on the Open Web For Free. Free E-Mail Alerts)
See Also: Rocket News
See Also: NewsNow
See Also: NewsSeer
(An Adaptive Engine, From the People Behind Research Index, More on this One in the Next 10 Days)
See Also: NewsBlaster (A Demo from Columbia University)
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