Search

Reports on the number of online sites which offer term papers to students. Estimated number of these sites as of March 1999; Prices per page which custom written term papers sell for; Use of credit cards; Subjects covered by the term paper sites such as current affairs, social sciences, and literature. INSET: Online Term-Paper Mills.

Reports on the launch of a Web site and digital services by the California Digital Library. Idea to store and distribute academic research results and working papers; Role of Berkeley Electronic Press in the development; Inclusion of papers authored or sponsored by the University of California.

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.

The article offers some tools for organizing information. The Paper Tiger software is a combination of proven methodology for personal organization and effective paper management. By using the software, a user can retrieve files from the database just by assigning keywords. For users seeking to increase their personal productivity, they can access the site http://www.43folders.com, founded by Merlin Mann. Others may consider signing up for a free online course called Get Organized:Tips and Tools for Managing Time, Space, and Paper, offered by Hewlett-Packard. For home organization ideas, the following sites may be helpful: Home Organization, Storage, Moving, and Cleaning Tips, OrganizedHome.com and Always Organized.

The article focuses on the online version of newspapers in the U.S. Newspapers continue to morph into online services. Not only do almost all newspapers today have Web sites, but most of them regularly produce Web-only content, and many have begun networking to content flows from beyond the paper's own staff and control. And this trend seems set to grow. The nation's leading papers continue to report steady annual declines in print circulation, while a Newspaper Association report shows a 24-percent increase in Web readers on newspaper Web sites.

Announces that the Library of Congress has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site. How the Jefferson papers include correspondence, memorandum, notes, and manuscript volumes; Consideration of how the local link resolver can link from the HLAS Online records to the Web resources.

This section provides news briefs on the information services industry as of December 2007. Accessible Archives Inc. debuted its revamped Web site with enhancements to its databases of 18th- and 19th-century U.S. newspapers. Wiley-Blackwell and the International Society for Autism Research will launch a journal called "Autism Research." Infosolve Technologies introduced OpenDQ V2.0, a data quality solution for both structured and unstructured data.

Reports that a United States congressional subcommittee on energy and water development has threatened to constrict the budget of PubSCIENCE, a Department of Energy information service. Declaration that PubSCIENCE is a duplication of activities carried out by the private sector; Efforts of publisher groups to challenge the existence of alternative distribution channels for scholarly papers; Details of Articles in Press and the Faculty of 1000 services.

The article examines alternative visions for the future of newspaper publishing. The industry has expressed concern over the implications of the decision of Knight Ridder to liquidate in March 2006 due to declining profit margins. The problems faced by the newspaper industry include circulation reductions and declining public respect. The industry is exploring alternative visions for its survival, such as partnering with competitors, developing newspaper Web sites and creating tailored and hyper-local newspapers.

The article reviews several web sites that offer information and services related to making business cards, including Staples Custom Printing, Office Depot and IPrint.com.

This paper presents an update on the information industry as of February 2005. The biggest news that rocked the information world in late December 2004 and January 2005 was the digitization project of Google with libraries. Some media outlets and even several of the research libraries involved in the project, called the potential impact revolutionary. Yahoo! has enhanced Yahoo! Maps to include real-time traffic information for 70 U.S. cities. Data is gathered from various government agencies responsible for traffic. A small start-up company called blinkx introduced what it claims is the first search engine for television content. GuruNet, which formerly offered a subscription reference product, has launched a new free site called Answers.com that includes information on more than one million topics drawing from a database of more than 100 reference sources. Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, has introduced a new version of its downloadable toolbar. The toolbar includes new functionalities for finding scientific information on the web. Microsoft announced the beta release of its own enhanced desktop search product as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. Users can search a wide variety of local desktop content and web content, but the results are not integrated.

Reports the announcement of the United States Library of Congress that it has added to and expanded collections available online from its American Memory Web site. The site as a project of the National Digital Library Program; `American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920,' a collection from the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; George Washington Papers; Other materials.

This article presents information on the online newspaper service Vu/Text. Vu/Text went commercial with the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News in 1982. Since then Vu/Text has steadily expanded its range. It now carries three dozen city newspapers from every region of the country. Supplementing these with other databases containing regional, state, and local information, Vu/Text reaches farther into the nations heartland than anyone else in the online business. Although still best known for its newspapers, Vu/Text has accumulated a diverse set of databases that has redefined it as a comprehensive news and business information service: newswires, fulltext magazines and financial services, among others. INSET: Vu/Text: Local Newspapers.

The article provides information on several movie review Web sites. Roger Ebert's Web site, at www.rogerebert.com, offers an archive of reviews dating from 1967, along with reviews of Great Movies ranging from Birth of Nation (1915) to Fargo (1996). If you want to search an archive of more than 15,000 reviews, visit the Movie section of the online version of The New York Times, at movies.nytimes.com. The archive includes the reviews published in the paper since 1960 as well as selected reviews dating from 1913. For an overview of critical reaction from print and online critics, visit Rotten Tomatoes at www.rottentomatoes.com.

The paper reports that CrossRef now has more than 700 participating publishers and societies and has been adding an average of 9,000 digital opportunity initiative (DOI) per day to its system in 2004. Of the more than 12 million DOI now registered with CrossRef, 850,000-plus are assigned to books and conference proceedings. CrossRef recently began offering discounted registration for components and multiple entries in large reference works. It has also moved to admit other types of original research content such as working papers. Among the organizations that joined CrossRef in recent months are GeoScience World, Social Science Research Network, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

This article comments on the press releases issued by several organizations in the U.S. Press release is defined as a paper or electronic document submitted to the media with the intent of gaining media coverage. One of the basic rule in news writing is never to bury the lead. A classic news story is written in an inverted pyramid style, which means that the key points are at the top, followed by information of decreasing significance. One press release that the author found as annoying presented findings from a study but offered no link to the report or source information.

This article focuses on the things that online users hate about Web sites and the Internet. Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor at Columbia University, wrote a column titled Stuff I Hate, for PoynterOnline in 2005. He wrote a similar piece in 2003. In each, he asked readers to tell him what they hated online. Responses to his most recent article indicate that things haven't really improved. For example, there are still plenty of Web sites that don't include easy-to-find contact information. One person complained about going to a newspaper Web page and not being able to figure out where the paper is located. A medical writer said he was frustrated by Web stories without a date because he can't tell how fresh or how stale the information is. Other peeves included slow-loading home pages, often due to promiscuous use of music or graphics; pages that mess with a user's browser; Web sites that require downloading special software in order to access content; sites that present a seizure-inducing Flash introductory page; and links that start the download of unexpectedly large portable document format files without warning.

This article provides information on the Web portal, DocuTicker. In 2004, Gary Price planned to spin off a new Weblog from his popular ResourceShelf. This one would be devoted, purely and simply, to identifying new reports from government agencies, trade associations, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and other organizations that releases research studies, and position papers. Since then, DocuTicker has taken on a life of its own. DocuTicker is never lacking for sustenance. Substance, on the other hand, is a separate issue. Substance, like beauty, is definitely in the eye of the beholder. This can be heard from journalists who have gotten story ideas from things they have seen on DocuTicker. From people who latch onto an interesting item and wonder where they can find similar material. And also from folks who feel that there are too much liberal stuff or too much conservative stuff posted at the site. DocuTicker does not have an ideological slant. Basically, they post anything that someone might want to read because the topic is current, it contains potentially useful statistics, and a helpful bibliography is included. However, DocuTicker does not include commentary from its contributors Internet.

This article reports that Readex has announced the creation of a Web-based Archive of Americana as of December 2004. It will feature fully text-searchable facsimile images. This resource, comprising four major primary source collections, provides online access to printed record in the U.S. The cornerstone of the Archive of Americana is Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography. This collection contains nearly every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the U.S. from 1639 to 1800. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker continues the Evans bibliography and includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the U.S. between 1801 and 1819. Complementing Early American Imprints is Early American Newspapers (1690-1876), based on Charles Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers. The largest collection of its kind, Early American Newspapers presents cover-to-cover reproductions of rare newspapers and issues. The fourth collection in the Readex Archive of Americana is the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) with American State Papers (1789-1838). Revealing events as they unfolded and decisions as they were made, these volumes of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives also include color maps, illustrations, and non-congressional publications.

The author focuses on the status of the newspaper. She cites some of the problems faced by newspaper companies, including financial turmoil because of declining advertising revenues. She mentions the impact of the green movement on the newspaper. She also cites the efforts of the web site Helium to partner with newspapers in an effort to fill the void that will be left by many newspapers.

The article explains the source of blogs posted on the Web site DocuTicker. According to the article, the site offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks and other public interest organizations. It is clarified that no commentaries were added to the postings. People who react to certain blogs are advised against directing vigorous objections to whoever posted the materials because they are just the messengers.

This article recommends reading materials on technology. People who would like to know more about digital audiobook (DAB) should read the paper An Overview of Digital Audiobooks for Libraries by Tom Peters, Lori Bell, Diana Brawley Sussman and Sharon Ruda, published in the July/August issue of Computers in Libraries. The paper focuses on the four major suppliers of DAB: Audible.com, OverDrive, netLibrary and Recorded Books, and Tumble Books, which has two offerings--TumbleBooks and TumbletTalkingBooks. Meanwhile, those would like to visit museums across the U.S. can visit the web portal Museums in the USA at the American Association of Museums web site. It serves as a gateway to more than 1,400 American museums of any kind. Ever wondered what is the difference between instant messaging and online chat? Read the article Web-based Chat Vs. Instant Messaging: Who Wins? by Sarah Houghton and Aaron Schmidt, published in the July/August issue of ONLINE. Finally, librarians who need help in enabling their patrons to find materials on the Web should get a copy of the article Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools by Laura Gordon-Murnane in the July/August issue of Searcher.

This paper presents an update on the information industry as of February 2005.. Although normally a time for reflecting on the past year and making resolutions for the next year, this new year, like no other, is dominated by one catastrophic event: the devastation around the coast of the Indian Ocean caused by the tsunamis generated by the December 26, 2004 earthquake. Post-disaster blogs and other news sources proliferate, but no information channel was capable of preparing communities for the approaching calamity. In the aftermath, however, online services and information providers are finding new ways to help. Google quickly changed a strict policy and added a link to relief aid sources on its otherwise minimalist search page. Perhaps one of the most comprehensive site is provided by Wikipedia. Five new laws came into effect on January 1, 2005 in Great Britain, providing the British public with rights to access official information. Members of the public can now apply for any information held by public authorities on any topic and on any medium. VNU Exhibitions Europe has released the final data on attendance at the London Online meeting: more than 10,600 attendees, approximately 900 conference delegates and 230 exhibitor stands.

This article features the Web site 1919blacksox.com, which is designed to offer information on the Black Sox scandal, or the scandal involving the 1919 Chicago White Sox, the team accused of throwing the World Series. First of all, the site explains that the Black Sox incident didn't just come out of left field. Baseball had been trying to deal with gambling, with little success, for many years before the 1919 World Series. There are special features on each of the eight players implicated in the Black Sox scandal, including nicely done photo galleries, links to images of baseball cards, and career stats. The site also offers a historical perspective that includes mention of the Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit on the incident and the documents from that era that have forever been sealed by the hall's monitors. subject. It details some of the Black Sox memorabilia, including a ball autographed by the entire team and dated the final day of the World Series and a ticket stub. Ever the well-designed site, 1919blacksox.com also has a nice collection of links, including one for blackbetsy.com, the virtual hall of fame for Shoeless Joe Jackson; a law school paper on the Black Sox trial; and another Web site which is trying to restore the reputation of another player, third baseman Buck Weaver.

This article deals with the proliferation of Weblogs in the U.S. as of 2004. According to a blogging history on Yahoo!, some people consider Mosaic's 1993 What's New page to be the first blog. In 1997, the term Weblog was coined by Jorn Barger with his Robot Wisdom Weblog. Only a handful of blogs existed in 1998. In 1999, the number began to grow dramatically after the proliferation of free Weblog-creation programs such as Blogger. These programs made it easy for anyone to create a blog, a process that has been called push-button publishing. By October 2000, bloggers were creating 300 new blogs a day. Whether or not bloggers are luring people away from words on paper is debatable, but there is strong evidence that bloggers are, in other ways, having a genuine impact on the world. Blogs brought former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's endorsement of Strom Thurmond's 1948 pro-segregation platform to the attention of the traditional media. Blogs raised the first questions concerning documents about President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service aired by CBS News and sparked the media firestorm that led to the network's admission that the documents were, in fact, questionable. Bloggers are not threatening traditional media, nor replacing it--bloggers are enhancing it, adding additional voices, another check and balance. And bloggers are having an impact in many fields besides journalism and politics. Teachers are using blogs to educate. Scientists use them to share information and ideas. Photographers use them to offer their views and get people to see the world around them in new ways. Group blogs allow large numbers of people worldwide to create the feel of a community gathering. A skilled blogger can guide us to or through the information we need, whether we knew we needed it or not. But now, with so many skilled and unskilled bloggers, we are creating a vast, unknowable blogosphere that cannot be mastered.

The article presents an international update on the information technology industry as of March 2004. IGroup, a distributor of databases, e-journals, and library automation systems, has contracted CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, a consortium of Australian universities to prepare a report on the feasibility of developing a new international certificate and diploma course for Asian librarians and information professionals. The feasibility study will seek to establish which skills employers are looking for and how knowledge management techniques and new library technologies and standards can be incorporated into a new curriculum. The National Library of Malaysia has launched a new Web site to help improve knowledge of Islam and Muslim communities. The International Islamic Digital Library is a Web-based collection of digital books, manuscripts, theses, journal articles and working papers. Also, in Australia, a new search engine has been launched that claims to offer more precise and personalized searching. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works that are free to be copied and reused, has announced that it's information discussions to expand its International Commons project to China and Taiwan.

Presents an interview with Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank. History of Haank with the company; Acquisition of Harcourt by Elsevier; Number of journal titles owned by Elsevier; Competition of the company; Comments on exchange-rate profits; Outlook for the integration of the IDEAL online service with ScienceDirect; More.

The article presents information about the launch of Software Information and Technology Exchange (SITE). The Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu, a new site on the World Wide Web that will serve as a worldwide showcase and repository for information on digital libraries, has been unveiled by officials from Sun Microsystems and the University of California at Berkeley. Some of the offerings available for free on the Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE include access to numerous text and image-based digital library collections from around the world. At the site, experts like those from the Association of Research Libraries offer insights on critical issues such as copyright and intellectual property laws involved in creating and maintaining a digital library, and there are guides to imaging, searching, cataloging, and browsing tools and techniques and to software and hardware products being deployed within digital library projects around the world. Web4Lib, an electronic discussion group for library-based World Wide Web developers, can be accessed as can updates on digital library conferences, papers and events.

This article presents information on several Web sites and various recent developments in the Internet industry of the U.S. It is reported that the information related to various events of the 87th Special Libraries Association Conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 8-13, 1996 is available online at the URL, http://www.delphi.com/Sla96/sla96.html. This site is available to the users in preparation for their trip to Boston as well as when they arrive. Microsoft Corp., reportedly, has announced to launch a new version of Windows operating system on August 24, 1996. One way to get the latest information, suggestively, is to use the Net to visit the Microsoft Windows 95 home page at URL: http://www.windows.microsoft.com/windows/. One will find launch information, technical information including data sheets and white papers, third-party product information, and other information. The Superintendent of Documents for the U.S. has launched a home page at URL: http:I/www.access.gpo.gov/sudocs/. Here one will find government information, including: about the U.S. General Printing Office (GPO) Access Online Services; the GPO Access Federal Locator Services; and other related information.

Presents information on building Internet Web online sites. Functions of a Web site; Statements from Ajez Ahmed, managing partner at AKQA Web design company located in the United Kingdom; Marketing on cyberspace.

The article reviews the Financial Times Historical Archive web site from Gale Cengage Learning.

The author comments on various issues related to information resources in the U.S. Reporters discovered that a local political candidate listed what looked to be phony campaign contributors on his official website, which disappeared when a report on the matter was published. When the popular Scrabulous game was removed from the social networking site Facebook due to intellectual property issues with Hasbro, its creators almost immediately reworked the game and released it as Wordscraper.

The article ponders on the problems in the open-access movement. If self-archiving produces an environment where information is free and often available months in advance of print publication dates that also determine online availability from publisher Web sites, then the less-evaluated content may reach more users than the official versions. The same prohlem occurs in news coverage. When a hot story breaks, hundreds of news sources covering the saga, and the substantial majority of those sources will be repeating the same Associated Press stories with different titles. And then there are e-commerce problems that can snag money from everyone's wallets.

Discusses the distribution of news and information on the Internet, and the implications for print, broadcast, and electronic media. Fall in advertising revenues for news services; Decline in readership for newspapers; Use of Web sites to read news stories.

Discusses a Web site designed by a teenager which offers links to homework help online. Links provided to sites with information on topics in subjects such as English; Resources for students on the Internet; Discussion of the Yahooligans! Web site for children.

States that there are still Web sites which offer free products although e-commerce is increasing. Variations of shareware which can be found on the Internet; Web sites which offer free products to children. INSET: Other great Web freebies.

Presents information on the online service, Christian Science Monitor Electronic Edition (CSM-ED), in light of the fact that it is the winner of the 1997 Best Unknown Database (BUDDIE) award. Criteria for winning a BUDDY award; Reasons for giving CSM-ED the BUDDY award; Information on CSM-ED. INSET: Previous BUDDIE winners..

The article focuses on the new electronic journal venture called The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (CCT), a joint undertaking of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general science organization and the Non-profit Organization Online Computer Library Center. It will be the first journal to make immediately available findings that could save or extend the lives of critically ill patients. The CCT will use sophisticated charts and graphics as well as typeset quality text as part of the project. The journal allows authors of research articles to communicate with the editors and the AAAS electronically and links the editors with peer reviewers electronically. This electronic process will eliminate the delay that occurs in publication of research articles. The CCT will provide the latest findings directly to its subscribers. The annual subscription fee charged by the AAAS for the journal is $110, which includes unlimited online access to research findings. Subscribers will be able to search the database of articles by keyword, subject, author, or title.

The article reviews the web site EventWines.com.

The article reviews several Web sites concerning tailgating, including www.atatailgate.com, http://theultimatetailgater.com and www.tailgating.com.

The article offers a look at the emerging trends and innovations in web content that are having a significant effect on Internet use. One Internet trend is analytics-driven content where topics that are likely to attract a large number of search hits are posted on Web sites. Another innovation is the Goggle TV platform which has the potential to allow certain Sony television sets to access the Internet. The advantages and disadvantages of niche social networking sites such as UniPHY and BiomedExperts are also mentioned. INSETS: Apple Updates Its Own Set-Top Box;On the W3C's Agenda.

This section offers news briefs on new products of the information services industry as of May 2010. Safari Books Online plans to add over 700 titles to its Short Cuts category in 2010. The Web site Nature Middle East, which showcases scientific and medical research from Middle Eastern and Arabic-speaking regions, was launched by Nature Publishing Group. The databases Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide and Waters & Oceans Worldwide have been revealed by EBSCO Publishing.

This section offers news briefs related to information technology. Silobreaker Ltd. released the Silobreaker Enterprise Software Suite, a software suite that lets users monitor and analyze news on an internal platform, rather than through external third-party news aggregation sites. The "Scientific American" magazine has been added to Nature.com's collection of publications for its institutional customers. IREX Technologies established agreements with digital content distributors LibreDigital and NewspaperDirect.com.

The article focuses on a study, titled "The Power: Most Influential Blogs," which analyzed the citations of blogs in traditional media. Among those included in the list are "The Wall Street Journal," Google, and "The Economist." The study also looked into the threat to traditional print media as well as the checks and balances of traditional journalism. Also considered is the potential of traditional media to go online.

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 offers updates on research-sharing tools and search engine improvements. Fred Howell, co-founder of software Textensor Ltd., a software company based in Scotland, wrote about two collaborative solutions that the company provides for working with online documents, including A.nnotate, an online web service for sharing notes on documents and webpages that lets users attach notes to precise places in the text. Textensor is also involved with the Enhanced Metadata (EM) Loader project in collaboration with EDINA. Bay Arinze, senior editor of MyNet-Research, wrote about the project's rapidly growing global collaborative research website that currently has more than 1,500 individual researchers from 95 countries and 17 participating universities.

The article evaluates several products and computer programs, including an updated Credo Reference platform, FindWhere's Web-based precision tracking system, and the Engineering Conferences Online from Professional Engineering Publishing.

The article announces product releases in the information technology sector, including the Enterprise Portal Solution program from SirsiDynix, the Knol web site from Google, and the TX Text Control word processing component from Imaging Source.

This section offers news briefs concerning the information technology sector in the U.S. as of May 2008. Dow Jones acquired the business intelligence company Generate Inc. MySpace is expanding its MySpace Latino web site. The Wikimedia Foundation received a donation from philanthropists Vinod and Neeru Khosla.

This section offers news briefs concerning the information services industry in the U.S. as of December 2007. FT.com, the Internet site of the newspaper "The Financial Times," announced that articles and data will be free for users. The Boston Library Consortium Inc. announced a major partnership with the Open Content Alliance to build a freely accessible library of digital materials. Columbia Law School in New York City and the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder launched a Web site called AltLaw.org.