Professional Reading Shelf
Federated Search
Source: The Exponent
Federated Search Comes to Purdue University
“Michael Fosmire, associate professor of library science, said that the lack of depth and reliability in Google’s search results should make students wary. To help give students access to information that has gone through some process of peer review, Fosmire assisted the library in creating a ‘megasearch’ tool.”
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Online Information
Source: Science Advisory Board
Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents
“While scientists often cite staying abreast of developments in their field as the most common reason for reading scientific literature, it is by far from the only reason. ‘Scientists perceive their ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an unalienable right of their profession,’ observes Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The Internet has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease by which these searches can be conducted.” Thanks to OCLC Abstracts for the news tip.
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Digital Preservation–United Kingdom
Source: JISC
JISC Announces 1 Million Pounds Digital Preservation Programme
“The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announced today that it is making grants totalling more than 1 million pounds to nine UK educational institutions and their partners to support digital preservation and asset management in UK Higher and Further Education institutions.”
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Divine
Andrew ‘Flip’ Filipowski
Source: The Business Ledger (IL)
The Rise and Fall of a Dot-Com Pioneer
From the where-are-they-now file. “In the 18 months since Andrew ‘Flip’ Filipowski’s watched as his high-tech incubator-turned-integrator, Divine Interventures Inc., was sold in pieces at a bankruptcy auction, he has regained several of his former companies, created a new entity — SilkRoad Technologies, Inc. — and found new challenges and success in North Carolina…. RoweCom, Inc. sued Divine in early February 2003, charging that Divine had fraudulently transferred $73.7 million from RoweCom into its own accounts, according to court documents filed in Boston. RoweCom claimed that those transfers forced it to default on its duties to pay for magazine and journal subscriptions that its customers — many of them universities and libraries — had ordered and paid for. Both RoweCom and Divine were facing lawsuits at that time from a group of libraries and publishers and the New York attorney general. A settlement is now being hammered out in bankruptcy court. Divine has consistently denied any charges of fraud or mismanagement.”
See Also: Citing divine, AIP Wants Payment On Time (via LJ)

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