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Google Bits: Japan’s #2 Portal to Use Gmail Tech; Trade Association Not Happy With Google’s Wireless News

Monday, July 30th, 2007

+ KDDI To Offer Email Service Based On Google Email (via Dow Jones)

The email service, which will be free with registration from the end of September, will be branded by KDDI and work on the “auone.jp” domain via both mobile phones and PCs. It will use Google’s backend technology to offer two gigabytes of mail storage with the PC-based search functionality found in Google’s Gmail offering.

+ CTIA blasts Google spectrum pitch (via GCN)

+ Gates sees no Google threat in phone software: report (via Reuters)

+ Google: Speech One of Two Big Research Projects (LocalMobileSearch)

Posted in Information Industry, Search News, Web Search | No Comments »

State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2007…and other full-text reports on DocuTicker

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Posted 29 July 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2007 (Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University)
+ Nonfatal Traumatic Brain Injuries from Sports and Recreation Activities — United States, 2001–2005 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
+ Consumers and Businesses Must Brace Themselves for Higher Parking Rates (Colliers International)

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Grub, Distributed Crawling Will Be Used to Build Wikia While LookSmart Will Power Wikia Advertising; Other Open Source Crawling Tools

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Grub distributed crawling technology is now being tested for use to to build Wikia after being acquired from Looksmart. This news came via comments from Wikia/Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales on Thursday.

Distributed crawling? Well, the concept has been around for web search for more than seven years. After a client is placed on your computer and during down time, you’re computer will be one of many to crawl the web that will then build the overall database. See also the SETI@Home project.

More on that in a moment.

It’s important to point out that advertising on the Wikia site will be delivered via a white-label ad serving platform from LookSmart.

This announcement was made two weeks ago.

It will handle both display and text-based ads and Wikia will be the first organization to use LookSmart’s technology for the, “management/serving of display ad units utilizing CMP-based pricing.”

“We did a lot of due diligence to find a flexible and intuitive ad serving technology that nets the highest revenue and yield,” said Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia. “We discovered in the process that LookSmart’s platform and services not only provide dynamic optimization of both our advertisers and backfill networks, but the white label aspect of it fits perfectly with our brand strategy.”

Now, back to the Grub crawling story.

Grub technology (the company’s exec summary from 2001) was acquired by Looksmart in January, 2003) and is now in early testing for the Wikia project. LookSmart stopped using the technology in 2005 as mentioned in the annual report from April, 2006:

We discontinued the use and support of the Grub distributed crawling technology in 2005 in order to reallocate development and support resources to other revenue-generating initiatives in search technology.

Via a recent News.com item:

It’s [Grub] meant to operate through open protocol and community collaborative added functions combined with the wiki.

+ Learn More About Grub ||| Monitor the Grub Wiki

History
“Help Grub Search the Past” by Chris Sherman, April 2003
&
LookSmart bets on distributed computing by Stefanie Olsen, News.com
See Also: Chris with more on Grub/Wikia in this Search Engine Land item posted the other day.

Blasts from the Past
Grub FAQ (12/09/2000). ||| Grub executive summary (April 2001)

Grub Home Pages (Back to 2000)
December 6, 2000 ||| January 30, 2003 ||| June 14, 2004

See Also: A Few Other Open Source Crawling/Search Tools

+ Nutch
Nutch (part of the Lucene project) is used several places including the massive U.S government web harvests containing terabytes of data. Another example is at UtilitySearch.info.

+ Heritrix

Heritrix is the Internet Archive’s open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler.

+ Avi Rappaport’s essential SearchTools.com site lists many other open source crawlers and search engines.

Reading
Numerous projects are or have been tackling web search by building distributed and P2P tools
+ Emerging Semantic Communities in Peer Web Search

+ Scalable Hybrid Search on Distributed Databases

+ “Challenges in Distributed Information Retrieval” (PDF), From Yahoo Research

+ MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search

+ Chora: Expert-based P2P Web Search

+ ODISSEA: A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Scalable Web Search and Information Retrieval

+ Distributed Search in P2P Networks – Internet Computing, IEEE (PDF)

+ Evaluation of Peer Based Web Search

+ Webcast: Social Web Search (Part 2) ||| Slides
Held at Indiana University

Abstract: This talk will present two research projects under way in the Network and agents Network (NaN), which study ways of leveraging online social behavior for better Web search. GiveALink.org is a social bookmarking site where users donate their personal bookmarks. A search and recommendation engine is built from a similarity network derived from the hierarchical structure of bookmarks, aggregated across users. 6S is a distributed Web search engine based on an ad adaptive peer network. By learning about each other, peers can route queries through the network to efficiently reach knowledgeable nodes. The resulting peer network structures itself as a small world that uncovers semantic communities and outperforms centralized search engines.

See Also: Learn More and Demo Here

Posted in Databases, Directories, and Guides, Info Management and Retrieval, Information Industry, Search News, Technology and Internet, Web Search | 1 Comment »

Research Paper: Rethinking the catalogue

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

New Online: Rethinking the catalogue
26 pages; PDF.
by Alison Dellit and Kent Fitch
Paper delivered to the Innovative Ideas Forum, National Library of Australia, 19th April 2007.

From the intro:

In this paper we propose four basic strategies based around re‐imagining library catalogues, the arterial systems of our libraries. We discuss some of the thinking that the National Library has done, and some of the steps that we are now taking. Be warned: what follows is not all ʺbuild on what weʹve gotʺ and ʺembrace and extendʺ; as with most revolutionary endeavours, plenty of creative destruction is required.

The catalogue is the arterial system of the library. We use it, we expect our users to use it, and its existence and structure is the difference between a collection and just a big accumulation of data. The goal of these strategies is to re‐equip the library catalogue to meet our aims of providing access to information ‐ from ours and others collections ‐ into the future.

1. Rethinking cataloguing: describe better and cheaper. The data that we collect about resources determines to a large extent what our users can discover through the catalogue. At the moment, resource description is time‐consuming (and hence expensive) and requires interpretation from a trained professional to understand. A rethink of cataloguing standards and
better systems can help fix this, but a shift in attitudes to resource description is also required.

2. Creating an interactive space. Knowledge is created through conversation. We need to make our online spaces as interactive as possible, facilitating engagement with our collections, better decision‐making by our patrons, and the creation of new knowledge based on our collections.

3. Unify information resources. Neither a single library nor even a large national union catalogues have enough ʺgravitational pullʺ to attract searchers. The solution is to augment the catalogue with a very large and highly dynamic set of metadata managed by a large number of separate
entities external to the library.

4. Improve access. Library systems are notoriously unfriendly, seemingly designed for the expert librarian user rather than the general public. We now know how to transform these systems and must plan for the next step: the embedding of library interfaces in external systems.

Source: National Library of Australia

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Quickly Move from Search Tool to Search Tool with Intelways (Formerly CrossEngine & MrSapo)

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Having the best name possible for your site or service is so important. Let’s review this point by reviewing three name changes (in about 3 years) at a useful web research tool?

+ First, in 2004, their was MrSapo, a site that allowed users to quickly move around and search various databases organized by categories. The service was developed and maintained by Juan Sosa. Note that the page is copyright Intelways.

+ Second, in early 2007, MrSapo changed it’s name to CrossEngine. This SEL report documents the change.

During this time, the site was constantly under construction with new looks and new search tools being added.

Now, the name has changed again to IntelWays (the name of it’s parent company).

Search Tools are Listed in 11 Categories:

+ General (Ask, Google, Exalead, Live, Yahoo, etc.)
+ Images
+ Video (A Few Suggestions for New Entries Here)
+ News
+ Social
+ Files
+ Reference
+ Academic (These posts 1 ||| 2 list a few more that deserve a place)
+ Business
+ Tech
+ Shopping

Btw, also note the box in the upper right hand corner to have results pages open in a new browser window and icons for the most popular engines now remain constant on the interface. Look for the icons directly to the right of the search box.

We’ve become regularly users of Intelways. It can not only make comparison searching and web search training easier but it also is useful to learn about new specialty tools. Kudos to the Intelways team and keep up the good work.

Update: It’s important to remember that Intelways is NOT a meta or federated search engine where results from disparate databases are merged together into one results list. Vivisimo’s Bio-Meta Cluster would be an example of meta/federated search tool.

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Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone Profiled in NY Times

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone Profiled in NY Times
The head of Ask.com* tells his story (aka bio) to Patricia Olsen at The Times. You’ll learned about Jim going to Emory Law School and clerked for Justice Hugh P. Thompson at the Supreme Court of Georgia. As far as the information industry is concerned:

I interned at Information America, which was owned by Westlaw, a division of the Thomson Corporation and a competitor of LexisNexis. Information America was starting a division called KnowX, the first online seller of public records.

* Gary is Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com.

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Laws and Regulations: Privacy Library

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Privacy Library
This apparently went live in May, but we just spotted it.
From the press release

Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce the launch of its Privacy Library. This free resource…provides links to privacy laws, regulations, reports, multilateral agreements, and government authorities for more than 90 countries around the world, including the United States.

This Privacy Library is the most comprehensive collection of privacy laws and regulations ever assembled, the result of years of research and experience working with clients around the world. The website provides companies with an essential tool to help them navigate the privacy labyrinth.

Miriam Wugmeister, head of the privacy practice at Morrison & Foerster, said, “Morrison & Foerster has more than 60 attorneys around the world addressing privacy issues, several of whom were instrumental in the drafting of key pieces of legislation in the field. Our clients often ask us for copies of the relevant laws and regulations. We realized that given the depth of our global practice, we had assembled a vast resource of privacy materials, and it seemed a natural progression to make this available to our clients and friends via our website.”

Source: Morrison & Foerster LLP

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Ready Reference: Fast Facts: Chronologies and Timelines of Key Events for Most Nations and Territories of the World

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

We’re not going to compile direct links to each and every country chronology/timeline of key events that the BBC and BBC Monitoring provides. They are east to find and access. You’ll find direct links to all of them in the right column of each country, territory, or International Organization profile the BBC provides. All profiles are found here. Another plus is that many timelines contain audio and video content.

Here are a few examples:
+ Andorra
+ Bhutan
+ Cayman Islands
+ Greenland
+ Iran
+ The Gambia
+ The Netherlands
+ North Korea
+ Palau
+ Peru
+ Togo

++ Arab League
++ NATO

Source: BBC and BBC Monitoring

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Public Health: United States: Emergency Preparedness Atlas, U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Atlas: United States: Emergency Preparedness Atlas, U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored preparation of this atlas to support local/regional planning and response efforts in the event of a bioterrorism or other public health emergency. In the atlas, case studies in six areas illustrate the location of nursing homes relative to population and various emergency preparedness regions. There are also maps of the location of hospitals and nursing homes in all 50 States and the District of Columbia…The atlas includes State-specific maps and case studies.

See Also: Nursing Homes in Public Health Emergencies: Special Needs and Potential Roles

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Thanks to Pete Weiss for the news tip.

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Survey: Washington D.C. Metro Residents “Lead the League” with Multiple Email Accounts; More than Half of those Surveyed (Nationwide) Check E-Mail in Bathroom

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

According to a new survey by AOL, Washington D.C. metro residents “lead the league” in multiple email accounts.

Top 10 Metro Areas Where People Have Multiple E-Mail Accounts
1) Washington D.C., 82%
2.) Atlanta
3.) New York
4.) San Francisco
5.) Houston
6.) Los Angeles
7.) Seattle
8.) Orlando
9.) Denver
10.) Miami

Fast facts from survey:

Polled 4,025 people age 13 and up in 20 U.S. cities between June 9 and June 19.

The survey found that 82 percent of Washingtonians have multiple e-mail accounts, compared with 76 percent in Atlanta and 73 percent in New York.

59% check e-mail from portable devices are checking email in bed while in their pajamas

53% of those surveyed check their e-mail in the bathroom

37% check while they drive

12% percent check it in church.

Sources: Washington Business Journal and AOL News Release

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UK’s 192.com Now Home to Updated and Enhanced Maps and Aerial Imagery

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Word from the well-known UK directory, mapping, and local data services, 192.com, that in the past few days they’ve added some new features and enhanced their map and aerial imagery data.

Sources of the map and aerial imagery include GetMapping.com and Overview Group.

What’s New:
192.com Street Maps ||| 192.com Journey Planner (Both Beta Releases)

Features:

++ Interact between directions & map
++ Customise display window
++ Identify turns, roads and major stretches
++ Drill down for more detail & aerial photos
++ See UK styled maps
++ 100% of streets labelled
++ Create map links for your own site

192.com has also posted a List Aerial Imagery of Five UK Landmarks:
1. Stonehenge
2. Kildale White Horse
3. Hampton Court
4. Brighton Pier
5. The Eden Project

And a few more:
+ A United Airlines aircraft parked at Heathrow
+ The British Library
+ The British Museum
+ The London Eye

In other 192.com news:
+ The Electoral Databases have been updated with:
++ 250,000 new Electoral Roll records
++ 80,000 new Property Prices
++ 110,000 new Directors just added.

+ and Real Estate and Local Searching:
You can find all the residents and property prices for any street in the UK by searching by address.

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Podcast: The Future of Library Science

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

The Future of Library Science (Podcast)

The new president of the American Library Association is a professor in a college not of library of science, but of information.

Loriene Roy, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has served as a reference librarian, a research associate, and a professor, and brings that varied background to the leadership of the ALA. In this podcast interview, she discusses the evolution of library science programs (including for some the evolution away from the “library name”), the role of professors within the association, and the growing role for library programs in training paraprofessionals who are taking on a growing number of roles in libraries.

Source: Inside Higher Ed

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Briefs: Maggie Wilderotter to Yahoo Board of Directors; Images and Film from .AU

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

+ SnapShots Add-On for IE Now Available

+ Maggie Wilderotter Named as Member of Yahoo Board of Directors
Ms. Wilderotter is currently the CEO of Citizens Communications Company, a “full-service communications provider and the second-largest local exchange telephone company in the country.”

With more than 25 years of experience in telephone, wireless, cable television, computers and interactive media, Maggie’s broad range of leadership qualifications and proven track record make her an extremely valuable addition to our team,” said Jerry Yang, chief executive officer, Yahoo!. “Her unique and in-depth understanding of consumers, business, and technology will make her instrumental in helping to provide valuable insight for Yahoo!’s key initiatives across the entire organization. We’re excited to welcome her to the Board.”

Before her job at Citizens Communications, Wilderotter served as senior vice president of the worldwide public sector division at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to Microsoft, Wilderotter was president and chief executive officer of Wink Communications Inc., executive vice president of national operations for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and chief executive officer of AT&T’s Aviation Communications Division. She also served as senior vice president of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. and was a regional president managing the company’s California, Nevada, and Hawaii region.

+ Australia Film Archive Launched (via Tara Calishain’s Research Buzz
See Also: For Static Imagery, Visit/Search Browse Picture Australia
Including their many subject-based “Picture Trails.”

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MSN’s Live Image Search Adds “Face” Search

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

MSN Live Search has joined both Exalead (Powered by LTU Technology), Google, and Freenet.de offering “face” search. As this Live Search blog entry points out, you can limit your image searches to those that contain a human face. They syntax is face:. You can also limit to portraits (filter:portraits) and (filter:bw) for black and white imagery. Yahoo has offered the black and white filter in a search string for some time, no syntax required. Another Yahoo example: Wallpaper Beatles.

As we note in this extended post about image searching, Germany’s Freenet.de has offered face recognition search for years. Freenet.de also offers OCR search that allows the searcher to find words “inside” of an image. Much more about these and other forms of image searching in this post (lots of demos, too!).

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New/Updated Maps and Current/Historic Flooding Info (Worldwide)

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

2007 Global Register of Major Flood Events (via Dartmouth Flood Observatory)
See Also: Maps and Tables for Previous Years (back to 1985)Available Here
+ Map: World Flooding Underway (via Hews)
See Also: Iraq: Locations of Groups of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iraq, July 2007
+ Reference Map of Gambia
+ El Salvador: Location Map
+ Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Location Map
+ Hungary: Location Map
+ Haiti: Location Map
+ Croatia: Location Map
+ Honduras: Location Map
+ Guatemala: Location Map
+ Grenada: Location Map
+ Guyana: Location Map
+ Greece: Location Map
+ Equatorial Guinea: Location Map
+ Guinea-Bissau: Location Map
+ Ghana: Location Map
+ Georgia: Location Map (JPG, 22k)
+ Georgia: Location Map
+ Fiji: Location Map
+ Ethiopia: Location Map
+ Eritrea: Location Map
+ Cuba: Location Map

Source: ReliefWeb, UNHCR, MapAction, Others

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Annual Report: BBC Monitoring Service & a Few Free Services from BBCM

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

BBC Monitoring Service Annual Report 2006-2007
20 pages; PDF
A look back at the achievements of world-famous organization that monitors and reports on what’s being reported in the mass media around the world.

Free Services from BBCM:
++ The Week Ahead
Weekly calendar of upcoming events taking place around the globe.

++ Country Profiles

++ Selected Media Reports via the BBC Web Site

+++ Web access to the BBC Monitoring Database (fee-based)
Learn More About Fee-Based Services
++ BBC Monitoring Online
++ Media Industry News
++ International Reports
++ Newsfile

+++ Search BBC Monitoring Archives
Content dates back to 1998. Document summaries are free, full-text is fee-based.

See Also: Brief History of BBC Monitoring

See Also: World News Connection (USA (FBIS) Monitoring Service) ||| Additional Information #1
Additional #2 on the WNC, Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the CIA.

See Also: CIA’s World News Connection Database Will Now Be Maintained and Hosted by Dialog (2003)

See Also: New Web Database of Archived Open Source Content Coming Soon from Readex: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Reports

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Economic Mobility of Immigrants in the United States…and other full-text reports on DocuTicker

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Posted 27 July 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ Economic Mobility of Immigrants in the United States (Economic Mobility Project/Pew Charitable Trusts)
+ YouTube Traffic Characterization: A View From the Edge (HP Labs)
+ Where Does the Nano Go? End-of Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies (Environmental Law Institute)

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Resources: All Politics, All the Time

Friday, July 27th, 2007

All Politics, All the Time

If you’ve read ResourceShelf for even a short amount of time you know that we’re big fans of
NewsNow.co.uk. This news site culls material from close to 30,000 news sites and blogs. While the search is poor (only one word at a time unless you purchase their service), the pre-built “newsfeeds” are excellent for browsing and “keeping an eye on” throughout the day.

These pages, if left open in a browser window will automatically refresh every five minutes. All newsfeeds are listed in the left rail and look for new feeds when major stories are breaking around the world. Make sure to also note how each article has a flag to identify where the news source is coming from.

Today, we want to point out the U.S. Politics Newsfeed. It is an excellent one stop for U.S. political news. A must bookmark for the policy wonk, academic, news geek, or concerned citizen, anyone interested in U.S. politics.

Again, all of the pre-built Newsfeeds are listed in drop-down menus on the left side of the page. On a related note, here are a couple of other feeds that might be of interest. We will continue to feature NewsNow feeds in future posts.

+ U.S. Current Affairs

+ US/Iran News

+ Guantanamo

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New Specialty Database: Science: ChemxSeer to Hunt Molecules Online; Also Say Hello to TableSeer

Friday, July 27th, 2007

The exciting and pioneering work of Dr. C. Lee Giles and his students/colleagues (more about Dr. Giles here) at Penn State University continues. We have background about his past work following today’s news.

Today’s news is on the release of ChemxSeer. Giles is the codirector of the project.

What is it?

From the news release:

ChemxSeer, the first publicly available search engine designed specifically for chemical formulae, can sort out when “He” refers to helium and not a person more than nine times out of 10, according to the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) researchers who created the tool.

With the new engine, scientists searching for research on CH4 or methane no longer have to wade through search results about Channel 4 or Chapter 4 as ChemxSeer will only return documents with references to the chemical formula. “Results from our search engine are much more relevant than results returned by popular search engines,” Giles said. “It is one of several cyber tools under development in our lab which will enable better access to and sharing of information and data among scientists and scholars.”

So, targeted web searching with a focus on chemistry.

One of many interesting features that make-up ChemxSeer is TableSeer.
From the web site:

This tool automatically identifies tables in digital documents and extracts the contents in the cells of the tables. The contents are stored in a queryable table in a database. TableSeer extracts table metadata, and uses a novel ranking function to search for tables relevant to user queries.

Cool! More about TableSeer in this 2007 paper by Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, and Giles.

Learn More About ChemSeer in these papers including:
“Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web” (10 pages; PDF) by Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

As many of you know, Dr. Giles is one of the developers of ResearchIndex/CiteSeer), a targeted search engine for “scholarly” information (on the open web) and citation information in the areas of computer science, info tech, etc. It predates Google Scholar by several years and continues to offer several features not available elsewhere. Links to CiteSeer can also be seen via Microsoft’s Live Search Academic where some articles list and link to “Citeseer citations.” Here’s an example as seen in the first result.

Dr. Giles is also involved with SmealSearch (scholarly business material) and eBizSearch (no longer online, redirects to SmealSearch). It’s hard to tell if SmealSearch is still being updated but it’s still worth a look when searching for older material.

See Also: In 2004, the technologies that power CiteSeeer (autonomous citation indexing, for example) was licensed by the Institute for Scientific Information (Web of Science) .

See Also: 2003 Interview with Dr. Giles

See Also: As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago in this post about science search on the web, Dr. Steve Lawrence (now at Google) and Dr. Gary Flake (now at Microsoft), and Kurt Bollacker worked at NEC Research with Giles.

Thanks to Pete W. for his help with this post.

Posted in Cataloging and Metadata, Databases, Directories, and Guides, Info Management and Retrieval, Resources for Educators, Science, Search News, Source File | 3 Comments »

New Web Research Tutorials for Health and Life Sciences from Intute’s Virtual Training Suite

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Intute, the essential non-commercial web directory from the United Kingdom, is also home to valuable Virtual Training Suite (VTS). New at VTS are several tutorials that deal with searching/researching for health and life science information. As you’ll see the tutorials are created by experts.

+ Internet for Dentistry and Oral Health

By Claire McCarthy, Lecturer in Dental Hygiene & Research Hygienist, The Dental Institute, Kings College London and Laurian Williamson, Content Coordinator, Intute: Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham

+ Internet Pharmacist

By Robert Abbott, an information scientist based at Intute: Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, building on the original tutorial by Fawz Farhan, Editorial Director, Mediapharm, consultant to HEA Health Sciences and Practice, and visiting lecturer in pharmacy practice at King’s College London.

+ Internet for Allied Health
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/allied

By David Brunt, Intute Service Officer for Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health, University of Nottingham and Nicola Smart, former Service Officer, Intute Health and Life Sciences, University of Nottingham UK.

The complete list of all Virtual Training Suite tutorials can be found here.

Access to both the Intute directory and the Virtual Training Suite is free.

Source: Intute

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