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Deals with the University of California's Social Sciences eScholarship Repository of working papers which eases the editorial and administrative labor of creating e-print repositories. Preservation strategies of librarians in the university; Technique used by the university to stimulate interest in the repository; Strategic value of repository.

Reports that the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released 'The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper,' which examines the strategic roles institutional repositories play for colleges and universities. Impact on change and the scholarly communication process of university-based digital collections that preserve faculty research; Repository implementation.

The article describes the paper-to-microfilm-to-portable document format (PDF) conversions at Millipore Corp. The information group at Millipore has been successfully using a digital rights management tool to secure the electronic mail distribution of their archived laboratory notebooks. Consisting of four full-time professional information specialists, the information group performs scientific and technical as well as business and market research, publishes several current-awareness products, offers document retrieval services, and handles interlibrary-loan lending. The information group is also responsible for the issuance and archival of Millipore's laboratory notebooks.

Reports that Caere Corp. announced the release of its OmniPage Web, the first computer application to automatically convert long-paper documents into hyperlinked Web sites. Details of the product; Use of Logical Structure Recognition technology; Contact information.

Explores the possible effects of an electromagnetic pulse on the files stored in PC disk drives and servers. Highlights of the information storage survey conducted by the University of California's School of Information Management and Systems; Percentage of information stored in magnetic storage media; Implications of electronic filing on the filing system.

This paper provides answers to questions concerning technology issues. Storage capacity depends on what one is putting into the repository and how big it is going to get. Note that prices vary wildly. For instance, Geek.com claimed that 1 terabyte drives were going for $1,2000 in January 2005, but Computerworld magazine claimed IBM would be selling 67 terabyte drives at $7,000 per terabyte. The laptop invented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a project called The $100 Laptop, which has great goal--to provide underprivileged children with portable computing. It turns out that one of the hardest obstacles to overcome when trying to accomplish this is not the display. It is the power source. MIT is using something called magnetic induction to charge a battery. One may remember Faraday's law by the same name, which basically states that when a magnet passes through a coil, it produces electricity. The same principle is applied to the laptop battery, which needs to be cranked in some way to build power.

Reports on the enhanced features of the ACM Portal, the gateway to the Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature of the Association for Computing Machinery, as of January 2004. Revision of the full text collection of the published papers of the association; Internet protocol used by the association.

ebrary, a provider of information distribution and retrieval services, has announced the availability of unique database collections that combine more than 20,000 books and other documents from more than 150 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. These collections are categorized into Aggregated Collections, which span academic and general subject areas, and Publisher Collections, which feature highly specialized content from individual academic and professional publishers. Publisher Collections are from Byron Hoyt (more than 5,000 classical sheet music titles), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (over 4,000 books, journals, and technical papers), and Octavo (30-plus rare and original manuscripts). ebrary charges an annual subscription fee based on library type and size.

Reports that Factiva announced Factiva Fusion, a content enhancement tool that categorizes and creates relationships between business content sets according to a taxonomy. Features, including a single search mechanism and entry point to all information stores for knowledge-intensive organizations; Ability of customers using Factiva Fusion to integrate internal content such as research papers, presentations, proposals, and customer records with Factiva's news and business information and other external content; Incorporation of an editorial interface for content collection and taxonomy management, and a predefined search interface for out-of-the-box access to unified content.

The article presents the author's insights on the value of conference of publishers of paper directories data, which will protect publishers from native Website competitors. He mentions that once the data is out of its box, it will create links which begin to open new data to new users and applications. Moreover, the author notes that Linked Data standards turns data into links, wherein it can get expressed with metadata.

The article evaluates information technology products including Global CONNECT print-on-demand technology from Ingram Content Group, Inc., PaperStream cloud based app from Pubget, Inc. and iPeerReview app for mobile access for submitted papers to AIP Publishing.

The article reports on the highlights of the 13th Search Engine Meeting that was held in Boston, Massachusetts from April 28 to 29, 2008. The event was organized by Infonortics, Ltd. Three key topics were addressed during the conference, including extensible markup language (XML) retrieval, visualization of search results, and federated or enterprise searching. INSET: Two Everett Brenner Awards Given for Best Papers.

This article features Answers.com, an online information service created by GuruNet. Answers.com is a re-launch of a service formerly called GuruNet which has been in existence since 2000. Along with improving the service's depth of information and ease of use, GuruNet is bravely bucking the free-to-fee trend. Instead of charging fees and shrinking its userbase, it has changed Answers.com from a $30-per-year service to a free, advertising-supported service in the hope of making money through volume. According to GuruNet CEO Bob Rosenschein, Answers.com is a one-stop source of information on more than a million topics drawn from a database of 100-pIus reference sources including dictionaries, thesauri, specialized glossaries, encyclopedias, atlases, magazines, and other references. Answers.com doesn't compete with search engines such as Google or with reference sites such as Ref-Desk, both of which return links that one has to click through to get information. It is closer to an almanac site such as Infoplease or an encyclopedia site such as Britannica Online. It shines in providing with answers quickly, offering the most important information first and supporting details second. As with an encyclopedia, on shouldn't expect cutting-edge research or the kind of authority one can cite in a scholarly paper.

This section presents case studies on the deployment of Google Search Appliance in various companies. As medical technology leader with $8 billion in annual revenues, Medtronic enables medical professionals to develop comprehensive solutions to chronic conditions such as heart disease, neurological disorders, and vascular illnesses. Medtronic's 30,000 employees, especially research scientists and engineers, must be able to access each other's internal information such as published papers, recent medical journal abstracts and presentations. Another company in which the Google Search Appliance was deployed is Xerox Corp. The global leader in document management, the company generated $16 billion in revenue in 2003. The company offers an innovative array of color and black-and-white digital printers, digital presses, multifunction devices as well as a broad range of services, solutions, and software. At another company, USATODAY.com, more than 35 million people depend on the company each month for the same breaking news and informational graphics they find in each printed issue of USA TODAY. This award-winning news and information site delivers more than 250,000 pages of breaking news, updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Discusses and announcement by IEEE that it will add thousands of technical papers from certain IEEE journals to its databases. Information that will be available through the IEEE Xplore delivery platform; Periodicals that are currently available through the service; Information that will be available to customers at no extra charge.

The article focuses on the technology used by the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis for searching and managing their big computer files. Attenex Patterns helps employees search and sort up to 20,000 documents at a time. Employees can search for key nouns and noun phrases, and Attenex's visualization capabilities create clusters out of related keywords. Instead of having to sift through boxes of paper manually, document analysis technology group workers perform simple searches to locate important paperwork and literally see the connections between the documents. This process enhances the company's ability to perform a consistent search across a variety of formats for material relevant to a specific subject.

This paper reports that the new version of NewsGator Online from NewsGator Technologies Inc. will be free to consumers via its web site. NewsGator has added a number of innovations to its existing web-based aggregator and users can now track all their Rich Site Summary and newsfeeds online at no charge. New features and functions in the updated online platform include the following: Folders, Per-post Rating System, Recommended Feeds, My Clippings and Smart Feed Enhancements. The free edition also includes subscription synchronization capabilities with NewsGator Outlook Edition.

The article reports on the partnership between Google and 17 schools for a pilot program to enable searching among DSpace repositories, in July 2004. DSpace is an open-source software designed to assist colleges and universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital repositories. There are currently about 125 schools using this software, but no tool existed that enabled searching across repositories instead of just within them. The number of documents available for searching has been one point of contention for DSpace. Each of the 17 participants had an average of 1,000 papers in its digital archive. While some universities had considerably more than 1,000 documents, most hovered around 100 and many had considerably fewer. Universities involved in the project are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Australian National University, Canberra; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Cranfield University, England; European University Institute, Domenico DiFies, Italy; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; Minho University; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of Calgary, Atlanta; University of Oregon, Eugene; University of Parma, Italy; University of Rochester, New York; University of Toronto, Ontario; University of Washington, Seattle; and University of Wisconsin.

Reports an alliance between Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI) and LexisNexis through which LexisNexis will offer GSI's LIVEDGAR product. Terms of the alliance, including the capability of LexisNexis subscribers to access LIVEDGAR from within LexisNexis; Description of LIVEDGAR, which provides online access to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission information and filings that were made electronically or on paper.