Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items)
Information Retrieval
Source: SearchTools.Com
Full-Text, Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
A new report from Avi R. that, like all of her work, is worthy of your attention.
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Journal Abbreviations
Source: NLM
Fact Sheet, Construction of National Library of Medicine Title Abbreviations
“This fact sheet discusses the rules currently used by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to construct title abbreviations for items cited in NLM’s online services. The majority of these items are journals indexed for MEDLINE� in the PubMed� database.”

Library and Information Science
Digital Library With Library and Information Science Material Now Online
From the announcement, The School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona have launched DLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. DLIST is available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu. The objective of DLIST is to serve as a repository of electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). DLIST is running on Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant Eprints v.2 software developed at the University of Southampton.”
See Also: Direct to the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology
See Also: Direct to the “About” DLIST Page

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Homeland Security
Documents in the News
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Task Force Report, America Still Unprepared – America Still in Danger
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text (HTML) ||| Direct to Full-Text (PDF)
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Individual Wealth–China–List and Rankings
Source: Forbes
2002 China Rich List
“China’s 100 Richest”. List can be sorted using seven different criteria.
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Health Information
Source: MEDLINEplus
New Health Topic Compilation, Calcium

Web Search–The Wayback Machine
A Bookmarklet For The Wayback Machine
Last week I mentioned a quick-click tool for Google News. It allows you to quick locate material related to the story currently on your screen. Today, word of something similar which will allow you to quickly check for archived material in The Wayback Machine without having to open another browser window and copying the URL.
What You Need to Do
1) Visit the “What’s New” page at Bookmarklets.Com
2) Scroll to the May 16th Entries.
3) Drag and Drop the Link Labeled “Go Wayback” To Your Links Toolbar. They’ll Work With IE and Netscape.
4) That’s It! From Now On, Whenever You Want to Check and see If An Archived Versions are Available, Click the “Go Wayback” Button.
See Also: Many More of these “Bookmarklets” are Available
I’ve found several Bookmarklets in the “Page Data” Category to be Very Useful

Web Search–Daypop
Daypop to Go Offline for A Few Weeks
The search engine will go offline for “a few weeks” in the next day or so as its founder and sole proprietor Dan Chan makes a move to the Bay Area. Daypop is an excellent tool that searches both news and weblog content.

Online Industry–Dialog
Enhancements Made to DialogPro
DialogPro, a service aimed at the small business market, has made a few enhancements to the service including new flat-fee pricing options. Additionally, four new “content channels” are now available. They are biotech, competitive intelligence, consulting and defense.
See Also: Direct to the DialogPro Web Site

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents
Children–Video Games–Fact Sheets
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
New, Fast Facts, Children and Video Games
From the blurb, “…facts on the amount of time young people spend using video games, how use varies by age, gender and ethnicity, and the best research on the impact of video games on young players.”

Web Resources of the Week
1) Country Information
Country Profiles (via Eldis)
Eldis, a gateway to development information, has several resources that could be of interest to all researchers. Included on the list of tools is the Eldis Country Profile directory. You’ll find a one-stop shop that contains links to many country information resources. You’ll find profiles with information on 12 topics including agriculture, poverty, gender, trade, and economics. Data comes from sources including The World Bank, Amnesty International, CIA, and UNIDO.
See Also: Country Profiles from BBC Monitoring
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2) U.S. Government–Directories
Federal Toll-Free Phone Numbers (Various Consumer Oriented Services)
Compilation of Various Federal Government Lookup/Locator Tools (Various Consumer Oriented Services)

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Business–North America–Lists & Rankings
Deloitte Touche Technology Fast 500, North America, 2002
“500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America”
See Also: Search Database of Fast 500 Companies (Includes Material from Past Lists)
See Also: List of “Rising Stars”
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Legal Industry–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Law.Com/NLJ
Who Defends Corporate America, 2002
See Also: Overview Article and 2001 List
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Business–United States
Accounting
Source: GAO
Full-Text, Financial Statement Restatements: Trends, Market Impacts, Regulatory Responses, and Remaining Challenges

Web Search–Google
Source: News.Com
“Google Excluding Controversial Sites”
From the article, “Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google’s French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion. Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The removed sites continue to appear in listings on the main Google.com site.” “To avoid legal liability, we remove sites from Google.de search results pages that may conflict with German law,” said Google spokesman Nate Tyler. He indicated that each of the sites that were delisted came after a specific complaint from a foreign government.” It will be interesting to see the complete list of sites and determine if they’re still available from other general search engines.
See Also: You Can Find Additional Information and a List of Sites from the Berkman Center Site

Libraries and Librarians
Source: The Washington Post
“Librarian Looks for Clues In Mountains of Old Maps”
Meet R. Lee Hadden. “[He's] a reference librarian at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who started indexing USGS’s vast catalogue of Afghanistan-related resources soon after the 9/11 attacks. The USGS library, a scientific warehouse in Reston that collects journals and data about national resources, has 12 miles worth of books and 26 tons of maps.”

Information Industry–Yahoo
Hoover’s
Yahoo Introduces “Industry Center”
A new section of Yahoo Finance organizes resources, news, calendars, market info, and additional info by industry. Fee-based research reports are also available. You’ll also find lists of the Top 10 Companies in each industry ranked by market cap. Overviews for each industy are provided and feature content from Hoover’s. “Centers” are currently available for:
Aerospace & Defense
Automotive
Biotechnology & Drugs
Chemicals
Computer Hardware
Computer Software
Construction
Energy
Financial Services
Healthcare
Internet
Media & Advertising
Retail
Semiconductors
Telecommunications
Transportation
Utilities

Professional Reading Shelf (2 Items)
ASIST
October/November Issue Now Online, Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science and Technology
Articles Include:
“What Can You Do with XML Today?”
“Automatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree”
“It’s Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby!” (Paul Dillon on IA)
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Librarians–United States
Source: Library Journal
Results from the LJ 2002 Salary Survey Now Available
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Institutional Respositories
Source: SPARC
SPARC-IR, SPARC’s new online discussion list on institutional repositories, by sending an email message to sparc-ir-feed@arl.org. Archives of the postings can be found on this web page.

Online Industry–Emerald
Source: Managing Information
“Emerald Strikes Intelligent Partnership Deal With Economist”
From the article, “International management information publisher Emerald, has struck a content partnership agreement with the Economist Intelligence Unit for its new, web-based Executive Briefing service. Under the terms of the agreement Executive Briefing will include selected articles from Emerald�s management journals, which can be accessed by the service�s subscribers.”
See Also: Direct to the EIU Executive Briefing (Fee-Based)

Music
Source: IDG
Learn About: Shazam
From the article, “Let me start off by asking two questions: Have you ever been in a car or bar and heard a great tune but don’t know or remember the name of the artist or the title? And have you ever been genuinely ticked off at the broadcaster or DJ for rattling off artists’ names like a machine gun or, even worse, saying nothing at all? If so, don’t despair. I can recommend a new service that delivers this information — within seconds — to the screen of your mobile phone and PC. Not only does the technology work, but it’s also reasonably priced. The service, called Shazam, is believed to be the world’s first real-time song identification service. Currently available in the U.K., it could be coming soon to a market near you.”
See Also: Learn More from the Shazam Web Site

Library Technology–Talking Books
Source: AP
“Library Shows Digital Talking Book”
From the article, “It will be a talking book that even looks like a book, although most of its users will never see it. Instead of a cassette tape, it will have no moving parts but will read a volume digitally from a card smaller than a credit card. The dull silvery cover folds on a hinge to the size of a normal book from a library shelf. The section of the Library of Congress that circulates talking books for the blind exhibited on Monday the winning model among 146 entries from 28 design schools. It came from Lachezar Tsvetanov, a 23-year-old student of industrial design from Sofia, Bulgaria, studying at the University of Bridgeport, Conn. He won a $5,000 (U.S.) first prize.”
See Also: Learn More About and View Images of the Digital Talking Book
See Also: LC Online Audio Magazines Offered for Blind, Handicapped (via LJ)

Resources, Tools and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Emergency Management–Webliography
Source: College & Research Libraries News
“Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Management: Web Sites for Researchers”
A new resource by Martin P. Courtois and Claire B. Rubin of The George Washington University.
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Small Business–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
New, Nonemployer Statistics: 2000
“Businesses with no paid employees grew 2.3 percent between 1999 and 2000 from 16.2 million to 16.5 million, according to the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau.”
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text

Awards
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Award for Museum Service and the National Award for Library Service Winners Announced
2002 National Award for Library Service Recipients:
Boundary County District Library (Idaho)
Hartford Public Library (Connecticut)
Southwest Georgia Regional Public Library System (Georgia)
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2002 National Award for Museum Service Recipients: Bronx Zoo (New York)
Please Touch Museum (Pennsylvania)
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Pennsylvania)

Fee-Based Content–eLibrary
eLibrary Content Now Available Via MSN and Other Portals
Word from Alacritude today that links to full-text content (fee-based) from the eLibrary database of material (about 2 million documents) are now indexed in the Inktomi database and available from MSN Search, Hotbot, and others. Accessing via the primary eLibrary interface provides access to about 13 million documents. Once you find an article of interest in a result set, the link points you to a very brief article summary and sign-up page for the eLibary service. A monthly subscription (unlimited retrieval) to the full database (13 million docs) is available for $14.95. You’re also able to subscribe at a yearly rate of $79.95 Documents are not available on a pay-per-article basis. A free 7 day trial is available but you must first register for the service (a credit card number is required) and then contact eLibrary once the trial period is over if you don’t want to continue.
*Northern Light’s Special Collection is still available to the general public and provides pay-per-article access. You don’t need to register to search (the same is true at eLibrary.Com). Additionally, many of the large info vendors also offer pay-per-article options. For example, Factiva allows free searching of about 6000 titles with individual articles priced at $2.95.
*Including some of eLibrary’s content in the Inktomi database is an interesting promo idea. However, it could again illustrate the poor job libraries do in marketing the services that they already offer for free! As I’ve said on this site numerous times, most public libraries in the U.S. and a growing number of libraries in Canada offer, AT NO CHARGE, full-text access to one or many databases (no need to go to the library) using any web browser. These databases contain massive amounts of high quality data that an unknowing patron might be paying for from eLibrary or a similar service. For the “power searcher” they also provide much more robust interfaces and search options. Of course, this also is true for patrons with access to a school, academic or special library. Additionally, many of these library accessible databases provide full-image (.pdf) of the document so graphs, charts, and some images are also viewable.

Web Search
Source: Search Engine Showdown
Notess Releases New Search Engine Freshness Study
Like of all of Greg Notess’s work, this new “Freshness Showdown” is interesting and important reading. Greg writes, “All search engines are pictures of the past, but which search engine has taken its picture most recently? This comparison tries to begin to answer that question.” I would like to add a comment. While you’re be seeing more and more “current” material searchable via web engines, rapid recrawl and refresh doesn’t not guarantee that each and every new web page is added to the database as soon as it’s discovered. Here’s an example. The American Express home page is being recrawled and refreshed in the Google database every 24 to 48 hours. However, new links included on the page and elsewhereon the site (not already in the Google database) might not be searchable for several weeks.
Another Example: A search for “Natural Resources Canada” via Google. The organization’s home page was last refreshed about a day ago. However, a news release placed online about 5 days ago and linked from a page “inside the site”, is not yet searchable/accessible from Google.