+ News Corp. undecided on making WSJ.com free
Although an overwhelming majority of WSJ is fee-based, they do offer many useful freebies. We posted about a few of them the other day. We’re also seeing more and more WSJ/DJ content (as would be expected) on MarketWatch.com. One of our favorite features is the free Wall Street Journal Markets Data Center.
Of course, another question info pros are asking is what, if anything, will happen to Factiva?

+ Answers.com Offers New Word of the Day E-Mail
It’s one of several e-mail resources Answers.com provides. Of course, if RSS is your thing, they can all be accessed using your favorite RSS reader. See Also: New Answer.com Search Boxes

+ A List Without Libraries (via Wired Campus)

But online library resources, which would seem like a good fit for e-learners, are notably absent from the master list. What gives? “It’s not as if the responding experts ignored information-retrieval tools,” writes Steven Bell at ACRLog. “Both Google and Google Scholar are on the top-100 list. And it’s not as if these experts wouldn’t know something about library databases.”

Note: With the reaction we received from this article, we continue to think that it’s first a lack of knowledge about what is and is not available and how to use various resources. Like we say in the article, first people have to know about the resource, then they can make up their mind about it’s usefulness or lack thereof. Btw, the resource doesn’t have to be a book or database. The first resource should be the information professional.

+ Blinkx Adds New Members to Team

+ An Entire Bookshelf, in Your Hands (via NY Times)
Glad to see Project Gutenberg mentioned but why can’t the NY Times include a box of sources for e-Books and mobile e-Books. Oh well. Let’s pretend they did. Here are a few resources we would include:

+ Digital Book Index
137,000 Titles Listed with about 97,000 of them Available for Free

+ International Children’s Digital Library

+ OverDrive’s Digital Media Locator
eBooks, audiobooks, and much more.
+ The World Public Library ($8.95/year)
Hundreds of thousands of titles.

+ The Online Books Page ||| Look How Much is Added Each Week

+ What many libraries of all types offer for free like Safari, NetLibrary, Books24×7, and ebrary. Btw, don’t forget that over 20,000 new books are available online from ebrary for free. Pay only to print or save to your computer.
Thanks to Christina Pikas for the news tip.

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