Information Industry–Factiva
Information Industry–IBM
Source: InfoToday NewsBreak
More on WebFountain from Factiva and IBM
Last Thursday we featured several items about Factiva’s announcement that they will use IBM’s WebFountain data mining software in a new products. A very interesting move and one to watch. Today, Barbara Quint offers more detail in her IT NewsBreak. BQ asks if WebFountain might be the next big thing.
See Also: More From ResourceShelf (9/18/03)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items)
Campaign Disclosure–United States
Source: California Voter Foundation, the Center for Governmental Studies and the UCLA School of Law
New, Full-Text Report, Grading State Disclosure
From the announcement, The Campaign Disclosure Project evaluated four areas of campaign finance disclosure: state campaign disclosure laws, which set the disclosure requirements about what campaign data must be publicly disclosed; electronic filing programs, which enable states to publish accurate, timely and comprehensive data online; the degree to which the public can access campaign finance information; and the usability of state disclosure web sites.
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Information Technology–Lists & Rankings
Source: Information Week
New, 2003 Information Week 500
“…of the nation’s largest and most innovative companies.” Numerous background articles and a company comparison tool.
See Also: Direct to Complete List ||| Also Available as a PDF
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Contractors–United States–Lists & Rankings
Retail–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Retail Traffic
Top Retail Contractors
“Retail Traffic’s 2003 Top Contractors rankings are based on retail square feet built in the past year, and the total amount of space currently under construction.” Link contributed by SDK.
See also: Top 50 Retail Property Owners 2003
See Also: Top 50 Retail Property Managers 2003
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Population–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
New, County Population Estimates
Highlights ||| Highlights (Race and Ethnicity News Release) ||| Tables
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New, Highlights (Growth of School-Age Population by County)
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Hispanics–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Fact Sheet About Hispanics in the U.S. (Hispanic Heritage Month 2003)
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Health — Tutorials
Source: National Cancer Institute
Science Behind the News
Detailed educational tutorials covering cancer; estrogen receptors, tamoxifen, and raloxifene; gene testing; the immune system; cancer genome anatomy project (CGAP); nanodevices and cancer; single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and cancer.

Banned Books
Source: ALA
Banned Books Week 2003
Banned Books Week runs through next Saturday.
1) The Most Frequently Challenged Books for 2002
2) The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990�2001
3) The Most Frequently Challenged Authors of 2002
See Also: Additional BBW Materials From ALA

Citation Analysis–Lists & Rankings
Scholarly Publishing
Source: ISI
� Top 10 Cited Journals (in all fields), 2002
� Norwegian Science, 1998-2002
� Science in Sweden, 1998-2002
� Chemistry: Most-Cited Institutions, 1993-2003

Professional Reading Shelf
Source: FreePint
Full-Text article, “Tips on Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products”
10 tips from Paul Pedley.

Briefly
ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service |||(More Background Here)

OCLC
Dewey Decimal Classification
Source: AP
Forest Press/OCLC Sue NY City Hotel Over Use of Dewey Decimal Classification
We report, you decide. From the article, The Library Hotel, which overlooks the New York Public Library, is divided according to the classification system, with each floor dedicated to one of Dewey’s 10 categories. Room 700.003 includes books on the performing arts, for example, while room 800.001 has a collection of erotic literature. In the lawsuit filed last week, lawyers for the Online Computer Library Center said the organization acquired the rights to the system in 1988 when it bought Forest Press, which published Dewey Decimal updates. The center charges libraries that use the system at least $500 per year.
See Also: Forest Press Began Publishing DDC in 1911. In 1988 FP became a division of OCLC.
UPDATE (9/24) OCLC Posts Their Side of the Story in News Release

Briefly (2 Items(
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Database Moving to ProQuest Interface
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National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central agree to open access archive

Briefly (2 Items(
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Database Moving to ProQuest Interface
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National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central agree to open access archive

Web Search–Gigablast
Gigablast Now Supporting the Use of Geo Sensitive Meta Tags
Matt Wells, Gigablast’s sole proprietor, is on a tear lately adding new features. This page explains how these meta tags work. Wells also reports that he’s planning on to “significantly” improve the Gigablast update cycle and double the size of the index in the next few months. Great news!!!

Web Search–Google
Source: ChillingEffects.Org
Sharman Networks (KaZaA) File Another DMCA Complaint Report With Google
You can read about the first complaint in this article from News.Com

Dissertations–Lists & Rankings
ProQuest Publishes List of the Best-Selling Dissertations of 2002
As many of you know, ProQuest (formerly UMI) is the proprietor of Dissertation Abstracts International, the largest database of this type of content in the world with bibliographic information dating as far back as 1861. ProQuest also sells individual copies of dissertations via their Dissertation Express service. They have about one million titles available.
ProQuest Information and Learning Best Selling Dissertations of 2002
1. The uncivil war: Irregular warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865 (Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia)
by Mackey, Robert Russell;, PhD
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 2000, 468 pages

2. Using culturally relevant literature and discourse to support literacy learning among ‘at-risk’ English-language learners
by Herrero, Elba Alicia;, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 1999, 162 pages

3. The problem of ‘world order’ when the world is your village versus your globe
by Tanner, George Lewis, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, 1996, 345 pages

4. Assessing knowledge management initiative successes as a function of organizational culture
by Ribiere, Vincent Michel;, DSc
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2001, 158 pages

5. The Coos and Coquille: A Northwest Coast historical anthropology (Oregon)
by Tveskov, Mark Axel;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2000, 537 pages

6. An analysis of the political and economic viability of community health centers: Implications for their future
by Reynolds, David A. V.;, DrPH
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 1999, 147 pages

7. Factors affecting retention of customers who are users of computerized applications on the Internet: The case of online banking
by Vatanasombut, Banphot;, PhD
THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2001, 115 pages

The relationships between emotional intelligence, personality, critical thinking ability and organizational leadership performance at upper levels of management
by Murensky, Catherine Lynn;, PhD
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, 2000, 152 pages

8. Sharing knowledge through a knowledge management system: The relative effectiveness of formal control and organizational support
by Marks, Peter Vincent, Jr.;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2001, 146 pages

An empirical study of factors affecting successful implementation of knowledge management
by Choi, Yong Suk;, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA – LINCOLN, 2000, 140 pages

9. A roadmap for successful e-business
by Chuang, Ming-Ling;, PhD
FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2001, 159 pages

Transformational leadership: A cross-cultural study of the moderating effects of culture on perceived leader behaviors
by Sosa-Fey, Josephine;, DBA
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, 2001, 160 pages

10. Management control and the Balanced Scorecard: An empirical test of causal relations
by Malina, Mary Ann;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2001, 111 pages

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Trademarks
Source: WIPO
New, Full-Text Document, “Making a Mark: An Introduction to Trademarks for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”
19 pages .pdf.
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Privacy–Canada
Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (OPC)
Just Released, Full-Text, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (OPC) 2002-2003 Annual Report
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
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Firearms–United States–Statistics
Source: BJS
New Report, Background Checks for Firearm Transfer, 2002

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
Real Estate–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes/DataQuick
New, The Most Expensive ZIP Codes
The list is based on median home prices. Uses data from 2002. This article has additional background.
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Wealth–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
The Forbes 400, 2003
23rd annual. The 400 wealthiest citizens of the U.S.
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Business–Lists & Rankings
Source: Business Week
The e.biz 25
Profiles of 25 e-biz leaders. Eric Schmidt from Google and Terry Semel from Yahoo are on the list.

Web Search–Google
Source: Reuters
“Microsoft Throwing Its Weight Behind Web Search”
Nothing all that new in the article. It discusses what we’ve read about numerous times, Microsoft is getting “more” into search. No specific dates as to when their new projects will go live. Key quotes, “The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to innovate. Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the platform,” he added, a clear sign that Microsoft thinks it can only beat Google if it owns the technology…Search engines are doing a good job but not a perfect job,” said Koenigsbauer, adding most search results today “don’t deliver the results people are looking for.”
–Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft’s MSN Internet portal.
The article also mentions that Microsoft will continue its relationship with Overture and Inktomi for the “medium-term”.
See Also: If you would like to take a look at some of Microsoft’s search related patents, this page from ResourceShelf Extra contains a list.

Web Resources of the Week
Two entries for you this week!
WHOIS Databases
Source: The Information Advisor
Full-Text Article: “Knock, Knock! Whois There…To Help Researchers”
Once again ResourceShelf is delighted to provide access (free) to a full-text article from Bob Berkman’s highly respected subscription based, Information Advisor newsletter. This article offers several search strategies and offers info about several WHOIS databases. Bob’s pick for the best free WHOIS service (for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us domains) is what we also recommend, www.whois.sc. The article also lists other services that offer info for other domains. Btw, Bob Berkman is also the author of a forthcoming book from Information Today titled, The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor’s Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources. Bob has informed us that if you decide to subscribe to The Information Advisor (access to the article linked above is completely free) between now and October 30th he will also send you a copy of his new book at no extra charge as soon as it’s published. Simply add the word “ResourceShelf” to the comments line on the order form.
See Also: Two Full-Text Articles from The Information Adviser That ResourceShelf Has Made Available in the Past
1) “Digging for Data on Subsidiaries”
2) “Searching for Company Data”
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Legal Research
Legal Pathfinders
New Resource, Law Scout Takes to the Web
This “just announced” resource is the work of law librarian and law professor, Paul Richert, at the University of Akron Law School. It uses software from the Internet Scout Project’s Portal Toolkit. Law Scout provides access (direct links) to pathfinders from law schools and other institutions. New material is being added on a regular basis. More information and a few caveats can be found in the announcement section at the top of the site. Kudos to Paul on a job well done. This site and the materials it provides access to has the potential to save you a great deal of time when doing legal research.
See Also: Direct to Law Scout
See Also: Richert’s Original List of Pathfinders (by Source) Remains Available

Information Industry–Factiva
Information Industry–IBM
Factiva Announces It Will License WebFountain Text Mining Software from IBM
Big news in the info industry. WebFountain is IBM’s text mining software ResourceShelf ran plenty of background on in August. Forbes published the following quote, “The company has high hopes for Web Fountain, which was originally developed for a record company. The technology reads and understands text, and uses natural language to make correlations between words. Unlike traditional search, Web Fountain searches everything on the Web, including chat rooms, when set to that parameter.” Again, much more background in the August post. Here are a few key points from the announcement.
* Factiva is the first company to license IBM’s WebFountain.
* Factiva’s first application on the WebFountain platform will track corporate reputation, offering an external view of a company’s reputation by analyzing information from a comprehensive collection of Factiva sources, Internet pages and newsgroups. The resulting analysis will be presented in a report that clearly shows the information in context, providing a view on relevant business issues, showing new industry trends, and exposing relationships. In other words the product will take both open web content and Factiva’s licensed content, analyze it, and deliver it in report form. From the sounds of it this means answers NOT just links to potential answers.
* Will be on-demand service offered by Factiva and IBM consultants.
* More on Factiva’s use of WebFountain next week.
See Also: Background About WebFountain in this August Post on ResourceShelf

Reference Tools–Spanish Language
Jacso Introduces Another PolySearch Tool: Search Multiple Spanish Language Reference Tools with PolyBuscadores
It was about three weeks ago when we had news about Jacso’s PolySearch Dictionaries tool that allows the user to simultaneously search up to 20 web-based English language dictionaries. Today, yet another release from Dr. Jacso. Hola to PolyBuscador! Peter tells us that 15 open access (free) and 5 subscription-based ready reference sources are available including the Enciclopedia Universal and the Collins Concise Spanish-English-Spanish dictionary. To access:
1) Go to http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/
2) Select the PolyBuscadores link at the top of the page
3) Select the Dictionarios and Enciclopedias Link
(You’ll also see what other modules Peter is working on)
4) Select the Resources You Want to Search, Enter Your Query, Click Search.
5) Make sure to review the help page that includes info about the use of diacritics.
See Also: “Jacso Unveils Tool To Search Multiple Dictionaries Simultaneously”

Patriot Act
Source: New York Times
“Ashcroft Declassifies Some Patriot Act Records”
From the article, Under pressure from lawmakers and civil rights groups over the Justice Department’s antiterrorism initiatives, Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed course today and agreed to declassify data showing how often federal agents had demanded records from libraries and other institutions…Department officials said that in the next several days they would make public data showing how often agents had examined library records, business documents, computer data and other material in investigations. Section 215 of the antiterrorism act , which gave the department expanded authority to demand such records, has drawn strong objections from many librarians, civil rights advocates and community groups who say it gives the government too much power to spy on private activities of Americans….Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the [ALA's] association’s Washington office, said, “I think the Justice Department was taken by surprise by the negative reaction that his attack on librarians had.”
See Also: “Ashcroft: U.S. to declassify library data” (via AP)

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
Technology–Lists & Rankings
Source: Technology Review (Free Registration Required)
Full-Text: The TR 100, 2003
The Top 100 innovators (35 and under) in the fields of computing, biotech and medicine, Internet and nanotech as determined by a panel of judges.
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Workplace–Statistics–United States
Source: BLS
National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2002
Summary ||| Full-Text
15 pages .pdf.