Legal Research
Source: The Virtual Chase
“Lexis, Westlaw … or Google?”
Genie offers several on target comments.

Music Search
Source: Reuters
“Song Search: A Real Humdinger”
From the article, “Query by Humming,” a type of melody-recognition software program on display at this week’s Midem music conference in Cannes that identifies a song by title and composer based on a person humming a few bars into a microphone.” Thanks to J.D. for the news tip.
See Also: Learn About Another Product, Shazam
(via IDG) “The service works like this: When you hear a song you like but can’t identify, you simply dial a short code (2580 in the U.K.), hold your handset up to capture the music, wait 15 seconds while Shazam’s patent-pending technology listens to the music and then receive an SMS (short messaging service) identifying the track and artist. Shazam refers to the identification process as “tagging.”

Unstructured Information Management Architecture
Source: News.Com
IBM Aims to Get Smart About AI
From the article, “The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is an XML-based data retrieval architecture under development at IBM. UIMA will greatly expand and enhance the retrieval techniques underlying databases, said Alfred Spector, vice president of services and software at IBM’s Research division.”

Librarians
Source: Boston Herald
Meet the Librarian: Radcliffe’s Barbara Haber
Tasty work! “The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study houses 16,000 cookbooks, and its collection is growing all the time. Chefs and scholars – and the curious – know it as an invaluable resource for information on cooking, food and social history…What they may not know is that one person is largely responsible for the collection, and along with it, for helping to make culinary history an accepted academic discipline. Barbara Haber came to the Schlesinger right out of library school, 34 years ago; she retired at the end of last month, having changed the landscape of culinary, social and women’s history.”
See Also: Take a Look at the “Guide to the Culinary Collection” at the Schlesinger Library

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Consumer Fraud–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Federal Trade Commission
New List, Top 10 Consumer Complaint Categories in 2002
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Health Information–United States
Source: National Health Information Center
New Edition, 2003 Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses
A .pdf version is also available.
See Also, 2003 Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information ||| .PDF Version

Web Search–Teoma
Source: Search Day
Teoma Unveils Version 2.0
Most of what makes up today’s “official” launch has been covered on the ResourceShelf over the past few months. Nevertheless, take a look at the article that I co-authored with Danny Sullivan for a review (or an intro) to all of the new goodies from Teoma. As I’ve said on many occasions Teoma offers great possibilities for the web searcher. I’m thrilled to see that the product continues to develop into a useful resource. The Search Day article also contains links to a few articles that will offer you background about how Teoma works and what makes it different from other web search tools.

Web Search–AlltheWeb
AlltheWeb Online With New Advanced Search Options and Tools
We have several things to report from ATW today.
1) Boolean Ready!
Hooray, ATW now recognizes Boolean! To use it, go to the Advanced Search page and select “Boolean Expression”
from the pull-down menu located to the left of the search box. Here’s the syntax (lower case only): and, or, and not. Nested searching also works.
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2) “Rank” a Search Term
If you use the Boolean search option another term is available, “rank”. Using rank at the end of a Boolean strategy gives another term a higher weighting in the result set. For example, florida and golf andnot “Arnold Palmer” rank LPGA. At this time you’re only able to rank with a single term. Very similar to AltaVista’s “Sorted By” capability.
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3) Language Options
Below the search box you’ll now notice two “radio” buttons. ATW now recognizes your IP and determines where you’re located. You’re offered two language limit options. The first “radio button” allows you to search all languages while the second button limits your search to the language or languages spoken in your country plus English. For example, a searcher from Germany would see “Search All Languages” or “Search German and English”. Btw, language options can be changed by simply making choices from the customize preferences section.
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4) Long Overdue: An ATW Examples Page
Learn about the entire array of ATW’s advanced query syntax. Search syntax continues to be updated and made easier to use. For example, title: (terms in the title tag), link: (pages linking to a specific page), and url: (terms in the url) now work.
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5) AlltheWeb Bookmark Buttons And More
Run an ATW search by highlighting a term(s) on any web page and clicking the button you’ve added to your toolbar.Tools are available for IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, and Apple’s Sherlock. Look for the links under the “AlltheWeb Search Tools” heading.

Web Search–AlltheWeb
AlltheWeb Online With New Advanced Search Options and Tools
We have several things to report from ATW today.
1) Boolean Ready!
Hooray, ATW now recognizes Boolean! To use it, go to the Advanced Search page and select “Boolean Expression”
from the pull-down menu located to the left of the search box. Here’s the syntax (lower case only): and, or, and not. Nested searching also works.
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2) “Rank” a Search Term
If you use the Boolean search option another term is available, “rank”. Using rank at the end of a Boolean strategy gives another term a higher weighting in the result set. For example, florida and golf andnot “Arnold Palmer” rank LPGA. At this time you’re only able to rank with a single term. Very similar to AltaVista’s “Sorted By” capability.
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3) Language Options
Below the search box you’ll now notice two “radio” buttons. ATW now recognizes your IP and determines where you’re located. You’re offered two language limit options. The first “radio button” allows you to search all languages while the second button limits your search to the language or languages spoken in your country plus English. For example, a searcher from Germany would see “Search All Languages” or “Search German and English”. Btw, language options can be changed by simply making choices from the customize preferences section.
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4) Long Overdue: An ATW Examples Page
Learn about the entire array of ATW’s advanced query syntax. Search syntax continues to be updated and made easier to use. For example, title: (terms in the title tag), link: (pages linking to a specific page), and url: (terms in the url) now work.
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5) AlltheWeb Bookmark Buttons And More
Run an ATW search by highlighting a term(s) on any web page and clicking the button you’ve added to your toolbar.Tools are available for IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, and Apple’s Sherlock. Look for the links under the “AlltheWeb Search Tools” heading.

Information Industry–Factiva
Factiva Announces “Replacement” Service for divine’s Special Collection Customers
Details are spelled out in the press release. This “replacement” service is NOT for former users of Northern Light’s pay-per-view document service but for enterprise customers only. It would be great to see Factiva begin to offer pay-per-view search services. Btw, two of Factiva’s competitors, LexisNexis and Dialog do offer pay-per-document services where searching is free and you pay for documents as needed. These services are open to all searchers. Of course, many searchers will be able to access full-text content from their local public library without having to visit the library.

Searching
Enterprise and Intranet Search
Source: Information Week
“Search On”
Some of the issues with operating search services in an intranet and enterprise setting.The article focuses on the pro’s and cons of the Google Search Appliance. After sharing positive examples of Google Appliance deployment at Bank One and Kaiser Permanente (they gave up on Verity), the author asks, “is giving them Google enough.” He quotes an info architect from KPMG in the U.K. who says, “We want to move from connecting people to content, to connecting people to people,” says Iain Simpson, U.K. information architect. “Had we not been thinking about two years from now, I could easily have been seduced by Google’s capabilities.” Products from iPhrase, Recommind, and Verity are also noted. Bottom Line? One stop searching for all users isn’t as easy as it seems. Again, more opportunities for the well trained librarian and information professional. Questions. Are the people who make the purchasing decisions considering the knowledge and skills an info pro can offer? Or, do they think that it’s as easy as turning on the product and forgetting about it?
See Also: (UPDATED 1/22) “CareerBuilder Passes Up Google For Another Search Engine” [FAST Search & Transfer]
See Also: Learn More About Enterprise and Intranet Search Products via SearchTools.Com

Information Industry–ebrary
ebrary Launches New Database Collections for Libraries
From the announcement, “database collections which combine over 20,000 books and other documents from more than 150 leading academic, trade and professional publishers. The company now offers a rich set of Aggregated Collections that span academic and general subject areas and Publisher Collections, which feature highly specialized content from individual academic and professional publishers.” “ebrary�s Aggregated Collections now cover individual subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. The company also offers a strong collection of Spanish language titles and aggregated collections specifically for both academic and public libraries.” In other ebrary news the company announced that they’re launching a program where libraries can purchase individual e-books.

Information Industry–divine
Source: Library Journal
“No Buyer Yet for RoweCom/Faxon; NY AG Gets $500K From divine”
From the article, “No resolution yet has been reported from the meeting that took place last Tuesday and Wednesday that included representatives from RoweCom/Faxon, possible purchasers, the ad hoc Steering Committee of publishers and librarians formed to investigate the crisis, and the parent company, divine, Inc.”
See Also: Links to Additional Coverage of the divine/RoweCom Story

Information Industry–Infotrieve
Scholarly Publishing
Infotrieve Acquires Assets of TheScientificWorld
From the announcement, “Launched in 2000, TSW pioneered a new business model for scientific publishing. The company built a multidisciplinary editorial structure that moved beyond the constraints of traditional paper-based journals. It created a unified online environment for peer-reviewed articles and proceedings that allowed one published paper to appear in multiple subject domains. Its scholarly articles were published on its network of Web sites and in its e-journal TheScientificWorldJOURNAL…Infotrieve said it will reactivate TSW’s publishing program, its alerts service (called scienceTracker, enabling user-defined automatic alerts to be created and e-mailed when appropriate new research becomes available), and two of its database products: sciBASE (scientific, technical and medical research literature) and methodsBASE (methods and protocols literature in the life sciences).”
(Updated 1/22) Other News… “In Coup, Editor Bolts Prestigious Journal For PLoS” via Library Journal

Professional Reading Shelf
Public Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: Resource
Full-Text Report, The People’s Network: A Turning Point for Public Libraries: First Findings
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Population Estimates–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Updated, Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin
“They are the first such estimates released by the Census Bureau since Census 2000.”
See Also: Additional Tables and Data Sets
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Population–Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
New, Full-Text, Canada’s Ethnocultural Portrait: The Changing Mosaic, 2001 Census

National Libaries–Canada
Archives–Canada
Canada: Help Name a New Institution
From the announcement, “On October 2, 2002, the Minister of Canadian Heritage announced the creation of a new knowledge institution, bringing together the National Archives and the National Library of Canada. This new institution is designed to offer Canadians throughout the country greater access to the diverse experiences and voices of Canada. To describe this new entity, the name Library and Archives of Canada is currently being used. We are seeking your input on a new name for this innovative and forward-looking institution.” More info and deadlines can be found in the announcement.
See Also: “The Creation of the Library and Archives of Canada” from the ResourceShelf (10/3/02)

National Libraries–British Library
Integrated Libary Systems
British Library Signs Deal with ExLibris
From the announcement, “The British Library and library software experts Ex-Libris have recently signed a contract to provide the UK national library with an integrated solution to many of its major information systems requirements. The Integrated Library System (ILS) will replace the Library’s main existing systems for acquisition, cataloguing and catalogue access for both reading rooms and remote users. Based on Ex-Libris’s ALEPH and MetaLib software, it will also support other services such as remote document requesting.”

Information Industry–netLibrary/OCLC
e-Books
NetLibrary Now Offering Full-Text Content from More Than 50 Gale Reference Titles
Titles include, Directory of American Scholars, Encyclopedia of Education, The Weather Almanac, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

Web Search–AltaVista
Source: Search Engine Showdown
New Truncation, Proximity Options with AltaVista
Greg highlights a few new things you can do with the * symbol. AltaVista is the only general web engine that offers truncation.

Professional Reading Shelf
Training Tools
Update, PubMed�, NLM Gateway, and ClinicalTrials.gov Training Manuals Now Available
From an announcement, “The January 2003 editions of the training manuals are now available for downloading from the NLM Web site. The workbooks were updated to reflect changes since August 2002…” Materials are available in pdf and doc formats. Finally, this note, “These workbooks are not copyrighted. Feel free to use any part of the workbooks – you may customize parts for training programs, demonstrations, or workshops you conduct.”