News Search–Yahoo
Yahoo News Adds Business Content
Yahoo News continues to add feeds from various news oriented sites. Unlike other news engines, Yahoo licenses and obtains a feed of the material from each publisher. Other news engines like AltaVista and Google send their crawlers (several times an hour) to each news site looking for new material. Here’s a list of the new material accessible via Yahoo News:
* Technology News from SiliconValley.com
* Business News from Motley Fool
* Business News from The Daily Deal
See Also: Yahoo News Advanced Interface
Four Things You Can Do With Yahoo News Search
* Limit By Dateline
* Use an * as a Truncation Symbol
* Limit with Author’s Name
* Limit Your Search To Words in the Story Title (Also Available via pull-down)

Briefly
Web Browsers…New Version of Opera for Mac (6.02) is Available

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Digital Copyright
Source: USPTO
New, Full-Text Report, Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
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Journalism
The New York Times
Full-Text Access to Jayson Blair Archive
From the page, A team of Times editors, reporters and researchers have reviewed 73 articles by Jayson Blair since late October and are continuing to examine his work. This archive also includes articles by Jayson Blair dating back to June 9, 1998. Readers with information about these or other articles by Mr. Blair that may be false wholly or in part are asked to e-mail The Times: retrace@nytimes.com. The page contains full-text access to 73 articles by Blair beginning in 1998. A page where, “falsification, plagiarism and similar problems were discovered in a review of articles written by Jayson Blair” is also provided. Thanks to P.J. for the news tip.
See Also: “Poisoning the archival wells” (via Fort Worth Star Telegram)
From the article, As journalists dissect the epic scandal at The New York Times, their findings have troubled a key group of specialists: news researchers and newspaper librarians. They tend archives, the treasure trove of information from which they pull all manner of data to help journalists examine trends and developments. They groom databases to yield impeccable details for current and future generations. They have no tolerance for inaccuracy because, like the news staff they support, their credibility is forever at stake. Count them among those who were angered to learn that former Times reporter Jayson Blair had committed extensive plagiarism and falsification of facts.
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Health–United States
Source: National Library of Medicine
New Web Site, Asian American Health
“An Information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the United States.”

Patriot Act
Source: New York Times
“Justice Dept. Lists Use of New Power to Fight Terror”
From the article, And agents have contacted about 50 libraries nationwide in the course of terrorism investigations, often at the invitation of librarians who saw something suspicious, said Viet Dinh, an assistant attorney general who briefed members of the House Judiciary Committee on the findings at a hearing today. Librarians, concerned about the government’s ability to pry into the public’s reading habits, have said they believe libraries have been contacted much more frequently.
See Also:
Full-Text of DOJ Report Discussed in the Article (Press Release ||| Full-Text of Report, 60 pages)

Briefly
Dialog…More Content Added to InSite Service ||| New Content for DialogPRO
GPO…Printing Office Completes Budget Request Before Congress

Web Search–Google
Source: Library Journal
Google Guy: Reference Librarians Can Keep Jobs
A very brief report about Craig Silverstein, Google’s CTO, presentation at the Info Today 2003 Conference. From the article, The Holy Grail, for Google–to act like a reference librarian in responding to these queries–is “hundreds of years away. Silverstein realizes this, we know it, but does the public? If the public doesn’t understand that Google isn’t THE solution, let’s not blame Google, web search engines in general, or super bookstores. Another question to ask is will “all” information be available for Google to crawl and add to their index? What do info vendors think? Will a one-stop interface provide the usability that users and professionals want?
See Also: Google Will Not Separate Weblog Content (via SiliconValley.Com)

Reading List (3 Items)
E-Mail
Source: Computerworld
The Cost of an E-Mail Hoax
Douglas Schweitzer attempts to monetize in the cost of an e-mail hoax in a corporate setting.
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Plagiarism
Source: Syllabus
“Probing for Plagiarism in the Virtual Classroom”
Note: This article is not available in the print version of Syllabus.
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Information Overload
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
“Spinning Around”
A look at info overload.

Information Industry–ProQuest
ProQuest Completes Digitizing 110 Years of The Washington Post
Exactly two years after it was first announced, the digitization of the Washington Post from 1871-1987 is complete. It joins the other newspapers in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program. Every word on every page is now searchable. Material is viewed/printed in pdf. Additionally, each article has been indexed using ProQuest’s controlled vocabulary. The archive contains over 2.6 million pages of articles. The Post joins the completed digital archives of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor. Content from The Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) and Chicago Tribune (1849-1984) is coming soon. Cold North Wind is in the process of digitizing the Washington Star beginning in 1852.
See Also: Canadian Projects, ProQuest/Micromedia’s Digital Archive of The Globe & Mail and Toronto Star
See Also: Cold North Wind’s “Paper of Record” Digitization Project
See Also: Gale Provides A Digital Archive of The Times (London) Beginning in 1785.

Privacy–United States
Source: AP
DoD Renames Total Info Awareness Project to Terrorism Info Awareness Program
From the article, The Pentagon assured Congress that its planned anti-terror surveillance system will only analyze legally acquired information and changed the name of the project to help allay privacy concerns that prompted congressional restrictions. The Total Information Awareness program now under development by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, will henceforth be named the Terrorism Information Awareness program.
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The Full-Text of the Report Submitted to Congress Today (and noted in the article) is Available Online.
(FAQ ||| News Release ||| Summary ||| Full-Text).
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See Also: Full-Text, Center for Democracy and Technology Report, Privacy’s Gap: The Largely Non-Existent Legal Framework for Government Mining of Commercial Data
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See Also: More Info in this Wired News Story

eBooks–Library Usage
New, Special Interest Group About Library Use of eBooks
From the announcement, “The Open eBook Forum (www.openebook.org), the trade and standards association for the eBook industry, today announced the creation of a Library Special Interest Group (SIG). The group was formed to enable publishers, eBook resellers, DRM, software and hardware companies to communicate directly with librarians to better appreciate the opportunities and challenges of service for libraries and their patrons. The group meets on a weekly basis via conference calls and maintains communication through an email list. Participation in the group is currently open to the public and further information can be found on the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) website at: http://www.openebook.org/oebf_groups/library.htm

Public Libraries–United States
Source: Puget Sound Business Journal
“Gates program to wire libraries continues to evolve”
From the article, The five-year, $250 million effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring computers and Internet access to libraries in poor communities is drawing to a close, with the last equipment to be installed by October.

Professional Reading Shelf
Web Search–Research
Source: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Full-Text Article, Topic-Sensitive PageRank: A Context-Sensitive Ranking Algorithm for Web Search

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items)
Older Americans–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Full-Text Report, The Older Population in the United States: March 2002
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
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Population–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
New Report, New Residents of Metropolitan Areas
Referred to as “in-migrants”. A detailed table of stats is also available in Excel format.
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Philanthropy–United States–Statistics
Source: Foundation Center
2001 Tables Now Available, Detailed Breakdowns of 2001 Foundation Giving Patterns
These free statistical tables are based on individual records of grants of $10,000 or more awarded by approximately 1,000 of the largest U.S. private and community foundations. Information is provided on funding by subject area, recipient organization, type of support, population group served, domestic geographic focus, top funders and recipients, and domestic vs. international focus. You’ll also find Top 50 U.S. Foundations by Giving (Info for 50 States). Tables for 1998, 1999, and 2000 are also available.
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Business–Massachusetts–Lists & Rankings
Source: Boston Globe
The Boston Globe 100, 2003
Public companies in Massachusetts. Numerous rankings and breakdowns are available.

A Couple of Items from the GooglePlex
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Web Search–Google
1) Google Catalogs Reaches 6,000 Catalog Mark
This interesting, useful, and dare I say, fun, demo from Google allows you to keyword search (and/or browse) of over 6,000 catalogs from U.S. businesses. What makes this so interesting? It’s one of the best demonstrations of optical character recognition (ocr) searching. In other words, Google is taking the catalogs, scanning them in page by page, and saving each page as an image file. Ocr allows you to search words “inside” each of these images. You can enlarge each page, view multiple pages, and more. Google Catalogs is NOT the same as Froogle.
See Also: Amazon Restaurants
A similar beta resource using ocr to search restaurant menus.
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2) News Search–Google
Google Starts Adding Non-English Language News to Country Web Sites
From the announcement, Users who search the web using Google.com.mx, Google.com.ar, Google.cl and Google.co.cr, Google.it and Google.ch as well as other Google sites that offer Spanish and Italian interfaces, will often see links at the top of their search results marked “News.” These news story headlines connect users to articles from a number of Spanish and Italian language news. News links appear only if the search term entered includes a word(s) currently in the news. For instance, a search for “Vicente Fox” on Google.com.mx will return not only pages related to “Vicente Fox,” but a list of news headlines related to the Mexican President. The primary Google News interface still only returns English language content.
See Also: AllTheWeb News and AltaVista News Germany, and Net2One Contain News in Languages Other Than English

Quote of the Week
In an article about dorm rooms and the “housing crunch” at several universities in New Jersey the following quote:
“The library is really in their room, on their computer.”
—-Nancy Mackin, Dean of Students, Ramapo College
Electronic resources are crucial and a major focus of what we talk about on ResourceShelf. Nevertheless, I would hope that the Dean of Students at a highly rated liberal arts college understands that all of the material in the Ramapo College Library is not accessible electronically. Unfotunately, these types of comments in the mainstream press reinforce the idea that it’s ALL online.

National Libraries
Digital Archives
National Library of the Netherlands and Kluwer Academic Publishers Agree on Long-Term Digital Archiving
From the announcement, Peter Hendriks, CEO of Kluwer Academic Publishers, and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, today signed an agreement on long-term digital archiving of the electronic publications of Kluwer Online. Under the terms of this agreement, Koninklijke Bibliotheek will receive digital copies of all Kluwer journals and books made available on its web platform, Kluwer Online. The web platform now contains 235.000 articles from 670 journals and more than 600 e-Books covering the areas of science, technology and medicine. In 2003 alone more than 70.000 articles and 400 e-Books will be added.”
See Also: Last August (8/02), the National Library of the Netherlands Announced an Agreement with Elsevier To Create a Digital Archive for Elsevier Science Content

Reminder
Starts Today: Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
This Natational Academy of Science Symposium is scheduled to take place in D.C. on Monday and Tuesday. If you can’t attend in person, you can watch the symposium online and submit questions via e-mail. You’ll find more info here and the final program on this web page Listen Here.
NOTE: An Archived Copy of the Webcast Will Be Available Soon. Stay Tuned

Image Archives
Source: Washington Post
“Buried Treasure”
The article asks the question, “Why has Bill Gates stashed millions of the greatest images of the 20th century under a mountain in Pennsylvania?” From the article, Welcome to Iron Mountain, the largest commercially owned underground storage facility in the world. This is where Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has deposited his huge and growing collection of historical photographs — approximately 11 million negatives, prints, slides — a cache that represents a culturally significant chunk of the visual history of the 20th century. Down here, underneath the far reaches of western Pennsylvania, in a cold and gleaming vault big enough to stage a Busby Berkeley dance number, a Gates-owned company called Corbis has constructed a home that includes the storied Bettmann Archive, with its sprawling collection of photos and illustrations (film director Martin Scorsese drew on it heavily for “Gangs of New York”); the archive of United Press International, including its vast array of photographs from the Vietnam War; and more than a dozen smaller photo collections.

Professional Reading Shelf (3 Items)
PubMed
Updated Training Manual Available: PubMed
Training materials for the NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.Gov are also available.
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Library Technology
Selected Full-Text Articles from the March, 2003 Issue of Information Technology in Libraries is Now Online
Articles Include:
“The Impact of Information Technology on Job Requirements and Qualifications for Catalogers”
“Subject Web Page Management without HTML Coding: Two Approaches”
“HERMES: The Hopkins Electronic Resource Management System”
“Remote Observation Strategies for Usability Testing”
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Free Full-Text Access This Week Only:
Campus Wide Information Services
Vol. 11-20 available in full-text.

Resources, Reports, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Nursing Homes–United States
Source: Gannett News Service
Rating America’s Nursing Homes
This “special report” includes a searchable database of “patient care” quality ratings of 16,000 nursing homes in the U.S.
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Digitization Projects
Online Today: Einstein Papers to Be Published on Web
From the article, A collaborative effort of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Web site will allow users access to 3,000 digitized images of the Nobel prize winner’s writings, Einstein Papers editor Diana Buchwald said. Among them are papers on the special theory of relativity, his never-published travel diaries, various humanitarian statements, and his frequent pleas for peace. Einstein Archives Online will be launched on Monday during a daylong symposium on Einstein’s life and work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The Site is Set to Go Live at 3 PM EDST Today.