Information Industry–Kluwer
Scholarly Publishing
New Product, Kluwer Wireless
“…a new online service devoted to wireless research and development. This digital library offers over 40,000 pages of peer-reviewed research authored by the leading international researchers and scientists in the field of wireless. Information is categorized and sorted by independent wireless consultants according to the needs of research professionals.”

Information Industry–Reuters
Reuters Will Provide Raw Video via Reuters.Com
From the announcement, “Reuters Raw Video: Conflict in Iraq, a streaming video service that offers consumers direct access to front-line footage of the war in Iraq via the Reuters website, www.reuters.com. The service includes natural-sound war-related footage ranging from battlefield images to news conferences available around the clock.”

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
Electronic Commerce–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Full-Text, Electronic Commerce Stats for 2001 Published by U.S. Census Today
The report is formally titled, 2001 E-commerce Multi-sector Report
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text and Charts
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WHOIS–Databases
Source: EPIC
New Web Compilation, WHOIS and Privacy
See Also: Full-Text Report, WHOIS Privacy Issues Report

Information Industry–ProQuest
“ProQuest’s ABI/INFORM Expands to Include The Wall Street Journal“
From the announcement, “ProQuest Information and Learning announced the addition of the full text of The Wall Street Journal to its family of ABI/INFORM full-text business databases. The content will be available immediately through the Web-based ProQuest online information service. The addition of the Wall Street Journal content provides ABI/INFORM users with access to the current full-text file of The Wall Street Journal, covering the years 1986 to present (with daily updates). The Wall Street Journal full text will be part of full-text subscriptions to ABI/INFORM CompleteTM, ABI/INFORM GlobalTM, ABI/INFORM ResearchTM.

Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: BBC
The Library as the “Idea Store”
About a month ago ResourceShelf linked to an article from The Guardian about a new library in London that’s calling itself an Idea Store. Today, BBC Online with another story and a few photos. From the article, “The word library is set to fade from our vocabulary – but not because we’ve fallen out of love with books. Today’s libraries are being made over as “idea stores”, complete with caf�s, cr�ches and multi-media offerings.”
See Also: Direct to The Idea Store Home Page

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (5 Items)
Topics in the News–Iraq
Source: Department of the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia
Full-Text, Iraq: Issues on the Eve of War
From the abstract, “This paper [21 pages] examines the objectives and plan of the US in post-Saddam Iraq and the Middle East. These include the humanitarian and security problems and the regional and wider impact of a war on Iraq.”
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Topics in the News–Iraq
Source: House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
Full-Text, Iraq: developments since UN Security Council Resolution 1441
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Topics in the News–North Korea
Source: Department of the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia
Full-Text, North Korea Nuclear Crisis-Issues and Implications
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Aviation Safety–United States–Statistics
Source: NTSB
NTSB Posts Preliminary 2002 Aviation Statistics
See Also: Summary/News Release
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Internet Censorship
The Internet Censorship Explorer
From the site, “The Internet Censorship Explorer (ICE) is “real time” censorship enumeration software. ICE demonstrates state-sponsored content filtering and blocking by delivering the content of blocked URLs to end users. After completing a query form, ICE will attempt to access the user-specified URL or domain using proxy servers located in the designated country. ICE will then display the results returned by the proxy server.” ICE is based at The University of Toronto.
See Also: Article from Wired

Library Resources
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
“New Allies in the Fight Against Research by Googling”
Those of you who have been able to join me for a training session or presentation know that I’m always emphasizing the need to distinguish the various types of resources available “On” and “Via” the web. This distinction came about several years ago while I was working at George Washington University. Students would say that a faculty member said to simply “go on the net” to find an answer or a full-text article. The students assumed that meant AltaVista or Lycos and paid no attention to the hundreds of resources licensed by the GWU. It’s good to see (as discussed in the article) others making this IMPORTANT distinction. Thanks to Jill O. for the news tip.
See Also: On ResourceShelfPLUS
I’ve Posted A Chart That I Use in Training Sessions to Explain the “On the Web” vs. “Via the Web” Concept

Web Search
More Sources for Cached Web Pages
We’re all aware of the fact that Google “caches” pages each time Googlebot comes through and crawls a web page. Caches are not permanent. The Wayback Machine an archive project does keep pages permanently) . Each page is “recached” each time the crawler visits the page. What gets by many people is that other web engines also cache web pages and could be useful in attempting to find a specific page that’s either been removed from the web or its content has changed. Is any one source perfect? No. However, having multiple sources can be very useful. A few weeks ago I mentioned Fagan Finder’s Page Information Viewer. It’s a great tool to check various page info sources. It’s also useful to check and see if the page has been cached by any/all of the following sources:
* Google
* Google News
* Daypop
* Incy Wincy (A small web engine, many pages cached in November, 2002)
* Yuntis (An experimental engine from State University of New York, Stonybrook)
* The Internet Archive (A PERMANENT source to over 30 billion captured web pages)
–You’ll find direct links to these various sources in the left column of the page.
–One More Point: Gigablast, another general web engine also caches web pages. Simply run your search and press the cache link or enter a url and see if the page is available. Gigablast also does a good job of listing the date the page was cached.
See Also: Fagan Finder Also Makes a Useful Tool “Site Info” Page. Look for the Link Labeled “Bookmarklet”
See Also: Feedster is Another Source for Cached Content

Information Industry
Source: Information Today
“Microsoft Office 2003 Opens New Marke to Fee-Based Information Services”
Last Monday ResourceShelf had a lenghty post and a few comments about MS Office 2003 providing space for fee-based services. Today, Barbara Quint offers more details in an ITI NewsBreak.

Virtual Reference
Source: Washington Times
Maryland Launches Virtual Reference Service Statewide
From the article, “Libraries across the state are starting a free service today called Maryland AskUsNow, which will make librarians available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for online chat sessions.”What we’re really doing is we’re breaking down those barriers of time and space that have existed for hundreds of years,” said Joe Thompson, project coordinator for the service. AskUsNow utilizes technology and librarians from the 24×7 Reference service.
See Also: More from the Baltimore Sun

Professional Reading Shelf
New Web Compilation: Quick and Dirty Guide to Microfilm Digitization Companies
Compiled and maintained by Linda S. Chapman from The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. Posted by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association.
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Digital Libraries
The March, 2003 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Online
Selected Contents:
* “The SCIELO Brazilian Scientific Journal Gateway and Open Archives”
* “Building upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students”
* “Open Archives and UK Institutions: An Overview”
* “The Utah Digital Newspapers Project”
* “Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone”
“In Brief” Reports:
+ “The CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project”
+ “The Australian e-Humanities Gateway
+ “University of Minnesota Electronic Portfolio is Open Source”
+ “Nerdi Web on Science and the Internet”
+ “The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)”
+ “Public Comment Period for OpenURL Standard”
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Libraries and Librarians
Full-Text, The April, 2003 Edition of Walt Crawford’s Cites and Insights is Now Available

Academic Libraries
Source: Iowa State Daily
Clever Library Marketing: Datapalooza Rocks Iowa State University
What a great name for a library orientation program.

Academic Libraries
Source: Library Journal
“The Top Seven Academic Library Issues”

Health Research
New Subsets Available For National Library of Medicine Gateway Searches
From the announcement, “…search subsets will be available in the NLM Gateway. Implementation of search subsets will enable users to limit their searches of PubMed Journal Citations, Books/Serials/AVs, and Meeting Abstracts…Each search subset employs customized search strategies to assist in the retrieval of relevant items in the three collections (PubMed, Books/Serials/AVs, Meeting Abstracts). The subsets will limit searches to items on one of four specialized topics: AIDS, Bioethics, History of Medicine, and Space Life Sciences. The search subsets will be accessed in the Gateway’s Limits.”
See Also: NLM Gateway Search Examples

Digitization Projects–U.K.
Source: Kablenet.Com
Liverpool Library and Info Service to Digitize Millions of Documents
From the article, “Liverpool�s Library and Information Service is planning to digitise millions of archives, including birth certificates, school registers and details of people who emigrated from the city. It will make the documents available on the internet by 2007, the city council announced on 13 March 2003. The �10m digitisation project will also see the downloading of the Central Library’s collection of rare artifacts, such as the city’s historic charters, into one of the world’s biggest virtual archives. To complement the project, the city council is also planning a �30m redevelopment of the library to house a 21st century Heritage Centre.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Newspaper Preservation–Canada
Full-Text Report, Canadian Newspapers Online: A National Consultation
HTML Version ||| PDF Version (10 Pages)
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Newspaper Preservation–Australia
Article, “THE N-Plan: Ten Years of Preserving Australia’s Newspaper Heritage”

Web Search–Google
Source: Chilling Effects
“Microsoft Complains of Product Key in Google Cache”
A DMCA complaint. It appears the cached page has been removed.

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Freedom of Information Act–United States
New, Full-Text: The National Security Archive Freedom of Information Act Audit
From the announcement, “The National Security Archive at George Washington University today released results from the first-ever government-wide audit of federal responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The audit shows dramatic variations in agency reactions to the restrictive FOIA guidance issued by Attorney General John Ashcroft in October 2001.”
See Also: “Fretting About the State of FOIA” (via Wired)
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Higher Education–United States–Statistics
Higher Education–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Council for Aid to Education
New: Contributions to Colleges and Universities in the United States, 2002
The complete report is fee-based but a four page overview is available (free). The free reports contains the “Top 20 Higher Education Institutions in Total Amount Raised, 2002″ list.
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Assistive Technology
Source: MEDLINEplus
New Compilation: Assistive Devices

Web Resources of the Week
1) Academic Info
I’ve done my best to point out some of the great general interest web directories available for researchers in the past two years. I’ve mentioned on numerous occasions the LII, InfoMine, and the Resource Discovery Network. All of these general knowledge directories strive for quality over quantity. They’re also well organized, current, and offer many advanced searching options.
Today, it’s Academic Info’s turn to get the Resource of the Week designation. Academic Info is not a new resource. It’s been around since April, 1998 and is compiled and organized by Mike Madin in Seattle. That’s right, the entire directory is the work of Mike, one paid part-time employee and a couple of volunteers. Before working full-time on AI, Madin worked in the tech services dept of the University of Washington Law Library. For about a year the project has been registered as a IRS 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
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Material is organized into 13 top-level subject gateways. AI also offers a ready reference desk and a great collection of resources of special interest to students (financial aid, job placement, scholarships, etc.). I do my very best to feature new and updated resources on ResourceShelf. However, no one place can even attempt to have it all. Academic Info is also a superb tool to find new documents, resources in the news, etc. On the home page you’ll find a link to subscribe to a monthly e-mail update along with a link to review the latest postings online. Like the directories mentioned at the beginning of this post, Academic Info is not only a great tool with high quality to browse but it’s also a great collection development resource. Use it, the other directories, and ResourceShelf as tools to help build your bookmark file or local collection.
See Also: The Value of Non-Commercial Web Directories
This is an article I wrote about two months ago while guest editing of Search Day.
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2) Pronunciations–Database
The Voice of America Pronunciation Guide
Search or browse this database of names of people in the news. Then, read a phonetic pronunciation and/or listen (online) to the name pronounced by someone at the VOA. Caveat: Some of these names can be pronounced several ways. This dbase is how they are spoken at this one organization.

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
United Kingdom
New, U.K. Gateway Goes Live, Enrich.UK
From the announcement, “The www.EnrichUK.net gateway gives one-stop access to a panorama of culture, history and community resources of museums, archives, libraries and galleries in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It aims to help meet the public appetite for online learning across the UK. The EnrichUK portal draws together 150 websites funded through the initiative into a unique online collection ranging from national centres of excellence to regional ’sense of place’, voluntary and community organisations and small local museums.”
See Also: Full-Text of News Announcement
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Marriage–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Full-Text Report, Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000
Summary ||| Full-Text
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R&D–United States–Statistics
Source: NSF
Updated: National Patterns of R&D Resources: 2002 Data Update (current to October 2002)
“These update tables provide data on U.S. R&D expenditures by source of funds, type of R&D performer, character of work (basic research, applied research, or development), and type of monetary unit (current dollars or constant 1996 dollars), for the years 1953-2002. In addition, data are provided on the geographic location of U.S. R&D, R&D scientists and engineers in the U.S., federally funded research and development centers, and international R&D expenditures.”