It’s an often overlooked source, but libraries frequently have access to a lot of databases and research that can cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy. Most channels have a non-profit industry association designed to educate and promote, which...
Info Pros Are SearchingThis week, the Special Libraries Association held its annual confab in Denver. IDC Predicts Beginning of End for Search DominanceAccording to a new report from research analysts at IDC, search is about to lose its dominance...
Info Pros Are SearchingThis week, the Special Libraries Association held its annual confab in Denver. Measuring an SEM's Job PerformanceA new study from iProspect and Jupiter Research finds that more search marketers are able to measure ROI than...
OAIster is an index to academically-oriented "digital resources" available for free from close to 600 libraries and other organizations. Other examples of free, high-quality publications include the IBM Journal of Research and Development and JAMA...
As a librarian, I'm thrilled that the potential for people to make better use of their libraries could be made possible by Google's Library Program. Coleman points out libraries and others have been digitizing books in one form or another for many...
The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis (via Association of Research Libraries) It's November 1st, the day Google said they would resume scanning books of all types (including in-copyright materials) from the five libraries they're...
The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis, via Association of Research Libraries For now, Google Libraries is a research tool in a general sense (it's also a tool to sell books) but not a research tool where the full text is available...
Libraries from the Association of College Research Today's search podcast covers Google considering buying a piece of AOL, spellchecking with the Google Toolbar, Google's onsite dentist being a hoax, mixing Google Maps and Wikipedia geographical...
The Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) is one organization that's part of the American Library Association. Each month, on our ResourceShelf site, I do my best to post a regular feature from their monthly, College & Research Libraries...
Breaking Down The Google Print 5 Libraries - If you're interested in learning about the print book collections of the five libraries Google plans to scan/digitize (assuming all goes as planned), a new article in Digital Libraries: "Anatomy of...
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Carol Brey-Casiano, the current president of the American Library Association, is correct with what she has to say in the article. Librarians are trained researchers and...
Postscript 2 (from Gary): In the post I mentioned that libraries offer free access to lots of databases from many providers. Just in, news that one of the companies that Yahoo will be providing some content from, Thomson Gale, has just announced an...
Full Text Databases That are Just a Click or Two Away - I'm always mentioning the specialized databases often containing the full text of articles, reference books, etc.that libraries make available for free.
It also offers truncation, and this isn't just the word stemming that many search engines employ behind the scenes (a search for "pencil" will also retrieve "pencils") but true truncation, where you can search for "librar" and retrieve library...
Europe rallies against Google library from AFP notes that 19 major European libraries are backing a plan to put European books online, in reaction to Google's project to digitize books. European Libraries Back Alternative To Google Library Project...
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the...
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. In the SearchDay article about Google working with libraries, I mentioned Project...
The US Geological Service asked depository libraries to destroy a CD-ROM database on surface water (as a result, University of Michigan researchers lost access to information vital to their three-year study of hazardous waste facilities, and...
