Professional Reading Shelf
Digitization Projects–Books
Source: SEW Blog
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
“MSN will launch MSN Book Search (MSNBS) sometime in first half of 2006. In the early stages, MSNBS will be found as a separate vertical on the MSN Search page (just like Image, News, etc.) but eventually MSN hopes to include book results in web results pages. The material that MSNBS will provide will come from the Open Content Alliance (OCA) that Microsoft is formally joining today.
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Information Science–Conferences
Source: ASIST
International Calendar of Information Science Conference
Sponsored by the New England chapter & SIG III
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Web Search–Google
The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography
A new bib by Charles W. Bailey Jr.
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Google Scholar
Source: Dr. Peter Jacso, University of Hawaii
Peter Jacso: Google Scholar and The Scientist
“This is a background piece for the interview made with Jeff Perkel for the article in The Scientist. Considering the limitations of the print edition, it is understandable that only a small part of my argument could be included. I provide here some background illustrations and comments to my correctly quoted remark that Google Scholar (GS) does a really horrible job matching cited and citing references.”
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Wikipedia
Source: The Guardian
Subject Experts Review Wikipedia Entries

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