Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Health Research
Source: National Library of Medicine
American Indian Health: A New National Library of Medicine Web Site
From the Press Release: “The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, announces a new Web site to address the health concerns of the 4 million Americans who claim American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. The site, ‘American Indian Health,’ is at http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov.
Because special populations have different health needs, the Library has created several specialized sites, for example, for Asian Americans, those living in the Arctic and far north, senior citizens, and Spanish-speaking Americans. (These are all available from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases.)”
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Web Search
Source: ALA Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
“Tired of endless lists of Web search tools that give you no guidance as to which ones to use? Or that were last updated when Gophers were alive? I’m inviting you to look over my shoulder and use what I use every day for Web searching in an academic library. I keep up with this stuff so you don’t have to!” By Pat Ensor — updated and definitely worth a browse.
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Trademarks–United States
Trademark Office Official Gazette
Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
“(W)eekly publication of marks published for opposition & registration certificate.” Available in PDF format. “The Official Gazette – Trademarks is being made available in electronic form for the most recent five issues. The electronic version of the Trademark Official Gazette does not contain Patent and Trademark Office Notices. Patent and Trademark Office Notices can be found at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/index.html.”
See also: Glossary — “an alphabetized, hyperlinked glossary of terms used on the USPTO web site”

Citation Analysis
Scholarly Publishing
Source: ISI
+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Chemical Engineering
+ Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 1999-2003
See Also: Several Open Access Journals Get Impact Factors from ISI

Web Search
Source:Reuters
California Man Indicted on Click Fraud Software Scheme
” A California man was arraigned on Thursday on federal extortion and wire fraud charges arising from a software program he claimed could allow spammers to defraud Web search company Google Inc. of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said.” This article might also be of interest, India’s Secret Army of Online Ad ‘Clickers’ (via The Times of India). From the article, “Here’s how it works: online advertisers in developed markets agree to pay hosting website each time an ad is clicked. With performance-based deals becoming dominant on the Internet, intermediaries have sprung up to ‘do the needful’. Why, type in ‘earn rupees clicking ads’ in Google � you get 25,000 results.”
See Also: Click Fraud: The Google Killer (via WebPro News)

Professional Reading Shelf
Information Science
Source: American Society for Information Science and Technolog
The June/July Issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Museum Informatics: Collections, People, Access, Use Becoming Digital
+ Beyond the Gallery Walls: Tools and Methods for Leading End-Users to Collection Information
+ The Evolving Roles of Information Professionals in Museums
+ Museum Information Professionals as Providers and Users of Online Resources
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Web Preservation–United States
Source: Federal Computer Week
A Crisis for Web Preservation
“The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best.”
See also: Crawling for Content
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URLS
Source: Darwin Magazine
The Legend of Lost Links
“The many issues associated with reliable electronic access to mission critical information are numerous, but the problem of missing and changing URL addresses present a unique problem. It’s been documented time and again throughout the various technology and information journals, but still has no apparent solution on the horizon.” Thanks to Shelf Life for the link.
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Scholarly Publishing
Source: Library Journal
Elsevier Articles Can Be Posted On Personal/Institutional Sites
From the article, “Reed Elsevier will allow authors who submit articles for publication in its STM journals to make the research freely available on their personal or institutional web sites. Papers can appear on such sites, in their final versions as accepted by the journal, before publication in Elsevier titles. However, authors are still prohibited from putting links to their articles from centralized databases. Said Arie Jongejan, CEO, science and technology, Elsevier, ‘Several years ago, we supported the development of pre-print servers by deciding papers posted to such servers would not be viewed as ‘prior submissions.’ Furthermore, following Elsevier’s publication of papers, we have not required the removal of pre-print versions from pre-print servers. But we have gone even further than that: for several years we have permitted authors to post their final version as accepted on secure, internal institutional networks. Today, we have taken an important step, which demonstrates our continued support for scholarly communications.’”
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Digital Rights Management–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
New Report: Digital Rights Management Study
Interim Report, 10 June 2004

Search Engines–Legal Issues
Web Search–Google
Source: Chilling Effects
A Selection of Cease and Desist Notices Recently Filed with Google
+ Game Site Wants Competitor Removed from Google’s Listings
+ Travel Info Site Wants Alleged Infringer Delisted from Google
+ Bond Consultant Asks Google to Delist Competitor
+ Perfect 10 Wants Alleged Infringers Removed From Google

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
E-Learning
Source: The Learning Alliance for Higher Education
Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why
From the site: “A major new study from the University of Pennsylvania answers the question: “Why did the boom in e-learning go bust?” Read the report [PDF]
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RFID
Source: National Retail Federation
RFID Resource Center
Links, news, and reports.
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Aviation Industry
Airports Must Act Now to Meet Growing Demand for Air Travel
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
From the Press Release: “U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta today released a new study predicting which airports and communities will need to expand their capacity by the year 2020. Speaking at a news conference in Atlanta, the Secretary said airports in growing cities like Las Vegas, Tucson, Albuquerque, Birmingham and Palm Beach will need to expand their ability to handle more air passengers over the next 16 years. He also listed dozens of projects underway to meet that growing demand for air travel, and urged more communities to get involved now in the push to add capacity.”
Read the Report
Map: Airport and Metro Areas That Need Additional Capacity by 2013
Map: Airport and Metro Areas That Need Additional Capacity by 2020
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Cancer–United States–Statistics
Source: National Cancer Institute/CDC
Just Released, Number of Cancer Survivors Growing
From the Press Release: “There are 9.8 million cancer survivors in the United States, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). A cancer survivor is defined as anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, from the time of diagnosis through the balance of his or her life. The findings are published in the June 25 issue of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, ‘Cancer Survivorship – United States, 1971 – 2001.’”
Read the Report

Web Search–Yahoo
Yahoo Adds Search Term Suggestions/Refinements
Oops, we missed this one. Yahoo is now offering search term refinements on results pages. You’ll find the suggestions labeled “Also try” the top of the page. Clicking these links will run a new search. More suggestions are often available by clicking the “more” and/or “show all” links. On 6/11 we mentioned that AllTheWeb is now offering search term suggestions.

Web Search–Google
Google’s Flight Tracking Shortcut
Just a brief note on something that I will admit is relatively minor. However, it also illustrates a lack of follow-through on Google’s part to solve a simple problem. In January, Google launched a new shortcut allowing the searcher to enter an airline name and flight number into the search box and receive a direct link to one of two flight-tracking services.
For example: United 121.
The January post mentioned the fact that the shortcut did NOT work for several airlines, including two major carriers in Google’s home state of California. Google was made aware of the problem (both via ResourceShelf and in an email I sent to a company spokesperson). I also mentioned it in a phone conversation I had with a software engineer. All of these people told me that they were aware of the situation and it would be fixed soon. Almost six months later the problem still exists.
Google’s air tracking shortcut still does not work for:
+ Southwest Airlines
+ Jet Blue
+ Air Tran
+ ATA
+ Spirit
+ Aloha Airlines
+ Many international carriers
See Also: Yahoo also Offers a Flight-Tracking Shortcut
The shortcut DOES work for most of the airlines mentioned above.

Resources of the Week
Two items.
1) Refugees–Searchable Database
RefWorld
Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
RefWorld is the content-rich nucleus of the recently updated UNHCR website. Available here is a collection of databases “containing Country of Origin Information (COI) and Legal Information (which) have been compiled by UNHCR and consist of carefully selected reports and documents.” Select a country from the convenient drop-down menu to access all documents pertaining to that country on a single page, along with a picture of the flag and a few basic facts related to population, geography, languages spoken, etc. Choosing Iraq, for example, produces a comprehensive collection of links to full-text country reports (e.g., from Amnesty International, the U.S. Department of State, UK Home Office, etc.), events timelines, think tank papers and research briefs, as well as legal documents such as UN Resolutions, statutes and an interim constitution. Essentially, this is the online version of UNHRC’s Refworld 2004 CD-ROM collection, which “has been referred to as a ‘refugee encyclopedia’ as it contains documents ranging from background country reports to legal position papers and guidelines.”
See Also: UNHCR Library & Visitors’ Centre
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2) Philosophy–Encyclopedias
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Source: Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
“The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is intended to serve as an authoritative reference work suitable for use by professionals and students in the field of philosophy, as well as by all others interested in authoritative discussions on philosophical topics.” Founded in 1995, it currently offers “more than 500 entries in 35 subject areas, including philosophy of science, aesthetics, history of ideas, feminism, ethics (theoretical and applied), social and political philosophy, and logic,” according to a press release from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This week SPARC stepped up to the plate to generate some financial support for this resource. Edward Zalta, its principal editor — a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information — said in the press release that he expects the encyclopedia — which is accessed roughly 300,000 times a week — to grow to more than 700 entries by 2006.

Browse the encyclopedia via an alphabetical abridged table of contents or do a simple keyword search from the same page. An extensive unabridged table of contents is also available. A few advanced search options, such as case sensitivity and partial match, are offered. A What’s New page alerts you to the most recent three months’ entries, or you can browse all of the entries chronologically, according to when they were published.

According to the encyclopedia’s Editorial Information page: “Contributions to the Encyclopedia are normally solicited by invitation from a member of the Board of Editors. However, qualified potential contributors may send a proposal to write on an Encyclopedia topic, along with a curriculum vitae, to an appropriate member of the Editorial Board.”

E-Mail
E-Mail/Storage Wars Continue With Announcements from Ask Jeeves and Microsoft
No slowdown of news from this sector.
+ Ask Jeeves lets us know that their My Way (www.myway.com), Excite, and iWon portals will now provide 150MB of storage space. Excite Gold (their fee-based mail service. 19.99/year) will now offer 2GB of space. Jeeves acquired these sites when the company acquired Interactive Search Holdings in May. I have a few free e-mail accounts with My Way and have found that the service works well. Registration couldn’t be easier. The new service will be available beginning in September. Ask Jeeves will also recycle more than 1 million email addresses to make them available to new users.
+ Microsoft has announced that their Hotmail service will offer 250MB of storage space for free. Its paid service ($19.95/year) will offer 2GB of storage space.
+ Yahoo! announced last week that they will provide 100MB for free. Their paid service ($19.95/year) will offer 2GB along with several other services.
See Also: Lycos Europe Launches 1GB Email Service (5/23/2004)

Web Search–Eurekster
Source: The Guardian
Eurekster Mentioned in Newspaper Article
I haven’t found Eurekster to be of real value. Of course, that’s just my opinion. Perhaps it’s time to take another look. From the article, “Grant Ryan, Eurekster’s chief executive, calls most search engines “all knowledge and no management” because everyone who searches gets the same results. That’s only useful if everyone is looking for the same thing. Eurekster helps users pick people they expect to look for similar results.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries and Librarians
Source: IFLA
Now Available, Full Text, Libraries @ the heart: of the Information Society
Proceedings of the IFLA Pre-World Summit Conference, Geneva 3-4 November 2003. 130 pages; PDF.
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Information Industry–Europe
Source: Managing Information
European Online Information Market Grows 14%
“A new report published by IRN Research, a leading information consultancy, values the European online information market at 2,799m pounds in 2003 showing growth of 14%.”
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Reference
Source: ALA/Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) — Management and Operation User Services Section (MOUSS)
Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Providers (final draft; MS Word; 92 KB)
“The face of Reference Services has changed significantly since the original RUSA Guidelines for Behavioral Performance were first published in 1996…. The original Guidelines dealt primarily with face-to-face interactions between Reference staff and library users. Even at the time, however, the world of Reference was moving beyond the traditional Reference Desk. Email and online chat services have since become popular with both patrons and library staff…. With this in mind, the original format has been rearranged to reflect the changes in our profession.”
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Digital Preservation–Australia
Source: National Library of Australia
Collecting and Managing Web Resources for Long-Term Access : Web Harvesting and Guidelines to Support Preservation
“A paper outlining the National Library of Australia’s recent contributions to the advancement of understanding of international Web archiving issues, which is to be presented at the 70th IFLA Conference in August 2004. The NLA’s work on web harvesting and the preservation of digital materials as part of its ICABS responsibilities are detailed, together with its involvement in the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s (IIPC) Deep Web Working Group.” Thanks to PADI for the link and annotation.
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Digitial Preservation–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
The National Archives (UK) Wins FirstDigital Preservation Award
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Special Collections
Source: Library Journal
+ NYPL Receives Archive of Broadway Musical Greats
+ Cornell Gains Historic Native American Collection
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RSS/Syndication
New Resource, RSS: Rich Site Services: General Bibliography
Yet another wonderful new RSS resource from Gerry McKiernan at Iowa State. We recently featured two other new RSS resources that Gerry has created. Thanks to Library Stuff for the news tip.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Population–United States–Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Just Released, Fastest Growing Cities in the United States
+ Summary
Lists:
+ Top 10 fastest-growing large cities PDF ||| XLS
+ Population Estimates for the 25 Largest U.S. Cities based on July 1, 2003 Population Estimates PDF ||| XLS
+ Population Estimates for the 25 U.S. Cities with the Largest Numerical Increase from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003
PDF ||| XLS
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Health–Children
Source: World Health Organization
Just Released, Full Text, Inheriting the world: The atlas of children’s health and the environment
“Full-colour maps and graphics clearly demonstrate the threats that children face everywhere, and underscore the impact of poverty on children’s health.”
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Legal Industry–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: The American Lawyer
Just Released, Diversity Scorecard 2004
Lists include:
+ The Most Diverse Firms
+ The Partnership Gap
+ Top Firms: African Americans
+ Top Firms: Asian Americans
+ Top Firms: Hispanic Americans
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Sudan
Source: House of Commons Library
New Full Text Research Paper, Sudan: conflict in Darfur
27 pages; PDF

Briefly
+ xrefer Adds More Content to Their Database, New Material from Gale and Merriam-Webster
“xrefer will add a number of best-selling dictionaries and encyclopedias from Merriam-Webster. Thomson Gale will contribute several titles from such subject areas as law, music and criminal justice.”

Unstructured Data
Source: Computerworld
Text mining tools take on unstructured data
Here’s a great quote from the article, “‘We are drowning in information but are starving for knowledge,’ says Mani Shabrang, technical leader in research and development at Dow Chemical Co.’s business intelligence (BI) center in Midland, Mich. ‘Information is only useful when it can be located and synthesized into knowledge.’” Companies mentioned:
+ Clear Forest
+ SAS Institute
+ SPSS
+ Megaputer Intelligence
+ Inxight***
Thanks to Unstruct.org and Intelligence-Center.com for the link.

*** Both Highwire Publishing (in the browse section of their website) and the National Science Digital Library (a brand new visual “browse” option, cool!) use Inxight’s Star Tree technology on their public web sites.

LexisNexis also offers a Star Tree that allows you to visually browse their Directory of Online Sources

See Also: What’s coming for the Internet: Evolution (via GCN)
This article reports on comments from Internet founding father, Vin Cerf. From the article, “The Internet will become a more transactional environment, with transactions taking place between companies and across industry segments, not just between customers and retail businesses. And search engines will continue to become more important as their ability to handle unstructured data improves.”

Briefly
Search engines rethink paid inclusion (via News.com)

eBooks–Lists & Rankings
Source: OverDrive
Top 10 eBooks Library Patrons Are Reading
From the announcement:
The “Most Borrowed eBooks” statistics are from checkout information of tens of thousands of titles for the first half of 2004.
1) Dude, Where’s My Country? — Michael Moore
2) The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People — David Niven
3) The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook — Michael R. Eades, et al
4) The Big Bad Wolf — James Patterson
5) How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle –
William Poundstone
6) 3rd Degree — James Patterson
7) The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold
101 Best Tech Resumes — Jay Block
9) Left Behind – Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
10) 1984 — George Orwell

Search Engines–Yahoo!
Source: CNN
Yahoo! launches ‘Yisou’ search portal
“Yahoo! Inc. launched a Chinese-language search portal on Monday, following Google’s lead in maneuvering for a stronger foothold in one of the world’s biggest Internet markets. The introduction of Yahoo!’s new Web site, http://www.yisou.com, follows Google’s acquisition last week of a minority stake in Baidu.com Inc., China’s biggest independent Internet search engine and one of Google’s strongest rivals here.”

Professional Reading Shelf
Academic Libraries–United States
Source: Daily Illini (University of Illinois)
University holds epicenter for Slavic research
From the article, “On the second floor of the main library lies one of the University’s inconspicuous treasures – the Slavic and East European Library – but an attraction for 150 scholars participating in this year’s Summer Research Lab on Russia and East Europe…Lynda Park, the assistant director of the Russian and East European Center, said the Slavic and East European collection, ranked as the third largest in the United States outside the Library of Congress and Harvard, contains ’such a unique collection that it attracts scholars from all over the world.’ ‘Our library is much easier to use (than the Library of Congress and Harvard library),’ she said. The Slavic Reference Service assists scholars and institutions with their research endeavors in a variety of ways, such as recommending sources for research and locating research material from the University collection or other libraries in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe.”
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PATRIOT Act
Source: ACLU
PATRIOT Act/Section 215 New Documents (obtained via FOIA Request)
From an ALA news release, “Just-released Federal Bureau of Investigation documents indicate that the FBI sought to use Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act less than one month after Attorney General John Ashcroft told American Library Association (ALA) President Carla Hayden and the American public that this power had never been used. The records, turned over to the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and other First Amendment organizations, do not indicate how many times the FBI has invoked Section 215 since October 2003.”
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Search Tools–Open Source
Source: SearchTools.com
New Overview: DataparkSearch
Search guru Avi Rappaport has added an overview of this free open source search engine to her wonderful SearchTools.com site.

and speaking of DataParkSearch…
ResearchBuzz Offers an Overiew of a News Search Tool using this Technology
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Directories–Telephone–United States
Source: AP, via FindLaw
Westerners Shun Listed Phone Numbers
“Slightly more than a third of Americans nationwide have unlisted home numbers, but in California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, about half the people choose not be listed in phone directories.” Map shows percentage of unlisted phone numbers for each state.

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Iraq–Documents in the News
Source: The Washington Post & Findlaw
The Washington Post Makes Available Full Text Copies of Bush Administration Documents Released Yesterday
“The following is a summary of White House, Pentagon and Justice Department documents about interrogation policies. The documents were released by the Bush administration on June 22.”
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Online Freedom
Internet Under Surveillance : Roundup for 2004
Source: Reporters Without Borders
From the Press Release: “Reporters Without Borders has published its annual report on the state of online freedom in more than 60 countries – The Internet Under Surveillance.”
Read the Full Report
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Air Cargo Industry–Statistics
Source: BTS
New Report, Freight Shipments in America
Announcement/Industry Fast Facts ||| Direct to Full Text
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Fires–United States–Statistics
Source: FEMA
New Report, Nightclub Fires in 2000
“The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued a special report today, part of its Topical Fire Research Series, examining the incidence of nightclub fires in the U.S. and the characteristics that may make these relatively rare fires so potentially deadly.”
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text
See Also: Other Reports in this Series
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Congress–United States
Source: Congressional Research Service
Black Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2004
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Same-Sex Marriage–United States
Source: Congressional Budget Office
Just Released, Full Text: The Potential Budgetary Impact of Recognizing Same-Sex Marriages
See Also: Background/Comment in this Article (via GFN)
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Language
Source: National Taxpayers Union Foundation
New, Policy Paper, The Orwellian Language of Big Government
From the paper: “A word or phrase is “Orwellian” when it is impenetrably obtuse or even oxymoronic. Objective truth is eroded by the endless blowing of windy rhetoric. Reality is then constructed to suit the needs of the moment…Listed below are examples of Orwellian words and phrases that proliferate in virtually every policy area of our deliberately dumbed-down democracy.”
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Olympics
Source: Librarians’ Index to the Internet
New, LII Theme Collection: The Olympic Games
See Also: We just linked to several new satellite images of venues.