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The article offers information on increasing trends of genealogy with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions that Genealogy depends heavily on newspaper research to peel back the many layers of what makes up a life. It discusses that Newspapers.com has claimed to be the largest online newspaper archive.

The article discusses dashboards has popular, in part, due to the newer models with plug-and-play design make easier to set up and run. Topics include libraries collect and report numbers regarding resource and physical space usage; and data from integrated library systems have tell the library titles have been circulating and have not moved off the shelf.

The article focuses on the responsibility of fielding legal questions. Topic include the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts found in its 2018 annual report that in this state alone, "over 90,000 cases were filed by SRLs in orders of protection, family/Dissolution, Miscellaneous Remedy, and Law Magistrate (including Landlord-Tenant disputes)".

The article focuses on the professional patent searchers have made gains from improvements in enhanced patent search systems from commercial sources. It mentions patent database producers continue to be challenged by the ever-increasing number of patent documents in a multitude of languages with various types of non-textual content; and also mentions the most economical way to deal with large patent datasets is to use automated processes for gathering patent information from sources worldwide.

The article offers news briefs including the Reuters launched a new fact-checking initiative aimed at identifying misinformation on social media, in partnership with Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program; UNESCO Archives added 5,000 recordings from its heritage collections to its digitization platform; and partnership between Access Innovations, Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory that will help content-centric organizations improve the organization, delivery, and retrieval of content.

The article offers information on Literacy Concepts. Topic include create the impression that the ability to do good research develops easily, even when students have little fundamental understanding of how information works; and it represents an artificial construct of search because it views information.

The article offers information related to the impact and value of bibliometric tools on research activities. It mentions that researchers, funders, publishers, and other entities are under continued pressure to demonstrate the relevance of their activities; and information on primary tools including Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar, that offer cross-disciplinary and in-depth citation tracking on a level to facilitate research impact analysis.

The article focuses on the food safety and food regulations resources implemented in the U.S. Topics include the roles of U.S. Food and Drug Association (FDA) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) in ensuring the safety of food products, the guidelines, labeling regulations, and product standards implemented by USDA related to food safety, and the resources offered by the agencies to guide consumers and businesses to comply on the country's safety standards.

The article offers information on several databases like ScienceDirect, Digital Public Library of America, WorldCat, and Internet Archive. Topics include information on ScienceDirect which is a massive database of solid academic material containing articles are from peer-reviewed, open access (OA) journals; information on WorldCat which itemizes the collections of several libraries; and information on Internet Archive which allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data.

The article offers suggestions for improving research on international business analysis. Topics discussed include use of country profile report to get information on history, culture and politics of the country, risk analysis for government and economic stability provided by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and providing web searching on information from international organizations.

The article discusses ways for academic librarians to support the career success of students. Topics mentioned include use of databases to teach career research skills and enhance students' learning opportunities, attachment in academic departments or learning communities, and creation of some types of workshops to promote career research for students.

The article offers information about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analyses. Topics mentioned include a background on the origin of the SWOT analysis technique, the internal and external components of a SWOT analysis, the business areas in which SWOT analyses are useful including marketing, product research and strategic planning, tips on how to search for SWOT, and the weaknesses of SWOT reports.

The article reviews several mergers and acquisition (M&A) databases. It includes Thomson ONE from Thomson Reuters that covers more than one million deals dating back to the 1970s, and The Deal that consist of daily and weekly reports on sector-specific transactions. Also reviewed are the databases Deal Point Data covering deals at more than one million dollars and Mergermarket that provides M&A intelligence that is segmented in five major regions.

The article offers information on impact of researchers on the increasing open access (OA) publication. It mentions challenges to increasing OA such as breaking down paywalls and difficulty in distinguish an intelligent-looking website from a peer-reviewed article; and also mentions need for focusing on educating databases users and database functioning for researchers.

The article offers information on long-lasting business trends, fads, and rumors for a company. Topics discussed include impact of technology trends on business; information on influencer marketing in which marketing and PR companies pay people to act as influencers, promoting individual products and services; benefits of long lasting trends of a company to distinguish a trend from a fad or a rumor; and importance of trend analysis which is based on survey research.

The article provides an overview of some selected information resources and services for materials searches. Topics discussed include several types of materials, mechanical engineering materials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, and several categories of materials information such as specialized materials properties databases, engineering electronic books and patents databases.

The article discusses the value of citation references for librarians and information professionals. Topics mentioned include an argument by author Nancy Herther about the importance of cited references, the uses of cited references in a litigation setting, and the free academic search services that offer citation searching such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic.

The article discusses opportunities for information professionals in U.S. law firms as of July 2016. Topics covered include law firms' business development through efforts to get to know potential clients, and their need for company and leader profiles for crafting a tailored pitch in specific legal areas. Also noted is the engagement of information professionals to provide topical summaries and monitoring of issues of interest, and inputs on more general projects.

The article offers brief information on open access scientific dataset systems for research work including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Genome Project (HGP), the Data Repositories wiki maintained by Simmons College, and the nonprofit data repository of Dryad.

The article offers suggestions for choosing a streaming video database for adding it to the library's collections. Topics discussed include licensing streaming video content by purchasing the content outright and licensing the content for a specified length of time; taking information on the accessibility features with the products availability; and availability of the usage data.

The article offers information on the STN Version One searching platform from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe.

The article discusses strategic market research firm Northern Light's Millie, a research portal designed for individuals and small enterprises seeking competitive and market intelligence. Topics covered include structure and content of Millie, the structure of Millie's dashboards and Northern Light chief executive officer (CEO) David Seuss' explanation of the idea behind Millie.

The article explores some of the reliable and essential online sources of online about Canada. Topics covered include features of the web sites of private sector organizations, research institutes and government agencies, description of publicly available information and subscription-based databases with Canadian content and Canadian initiatives of interest to online researchers including DNA Barcoding, Arctic Research and Ocean Cable Technology.

The article offers global Internet industry news briefs as of July 2018. Topics include an agreement signed between OCLC and Talis; collaboration between Elsevier and Perkin-Elmer to integrate Elsevier's flagship chemistry database, Reaxys, with Perkin- Elmer's ChemDraw software; and acquisition of Global Village Publishing by SAGE Publishing.

The article offers information on how companies leveraged their histories in transforming corporate culture. It mentions that proposed history might cover the different involvement of the company in an industry where the author is outraged and/or unhappy. It states that approaching company history research having a genealogy mindset that is coupled with skills in business research brings interesting perspectives to the project.

The article offers information on the satellite workshop organized by the Reference Information Services section and the Information Technology section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in the U.S. in 2017. Topics discussed in the workshop include evaluation and implementation of discovery systems.

The article offers 2017 news briefs related to the informations profession in the U.S. A free layer of content called ScienceDirect Topics is being launched by Elsevier. A new online space is being created by the Library of Congress (LC). Michael Rai has been appointed as the new general manager of ProQuest.

The article discusses the challenges and tasks involved in the implementation of a discovery service system tool in the library. Topics include the formation of the working group on the databases as well as the catalogue, partnership with the Gale database and the A-Z periodical service. Also mentioned were the interlibrary loan request (ILL) scheme, the LibGuides library resource and the DatabaseFinder journal listing service from WT Cox.

The article discusses the activities and challenges of Northwestern University Library's migration to the LibGuides 2.0 web-based research guide from Springshare LLC. Topics discussed include the Northwestern University Library's 500 guides as well as the 88 active guide authors, the LibGuides 2.0 Transition Working Group from the Learning Services Unit including other representatives from the Research and Information Services and the usability testing of LibGuides 1.0.

The article discusses how independent information professionals can properly evaluate information products. Topics discussed include evaluations based on pricing, content coverage, and end user satisfaction and reliance of professionals on product demonstrations, reviews, and recommendations. Assessment of interface design and evaluation of search functionality are also mentioned.

The article presents some guidance through the clean technology sector for information professionals including its information sources and pitfalls. Topics include the definition of clean technology, the variety of people that need clean technology information, and clean technology information characteristics and pitfalls. Also discussed are legal and regulatory issues in the clean technology sector and funding programs for clean technology information.

The article focuses on improvement in the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) search tools by introducing new search capabilities for accessing to the latest filings, company filings and mutual funds. Topics discussed include role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and idea of replacing EDGAR with Interactive Data Electronic Applications (IDEA).

The article offers news briefs related to online information industry as of May 2017. Topics discussed include partnership between ProQuest and Gridlogics to provide ProQuest Dialog searchers using the single user interface PatSeer, a web-based platform of Gridlogics; partnership of Emerald Publishing with EBSCO Information Services to develop the new database, the EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS) Emerald Insight; and launch of the Springer Nature SciGraph for researchers by Springer Nature.

The article offers guides to searching for investment information using stock exchange websites. Topics discussed include distinctions and co-dependent relationships between stock market and stock exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Also mentioned are data categories in the NYSE website as example of information guides to searching the website.

This section offers news briefs relating to the Web search engine applications as of November 2016. Science data provider Elsevier has launched a new version of its QUOSA literature management solution designed for monitoring scientific literature for adverse drug effects. The American Chemical Society is planning to form a preprint server for the global chemistry community. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged academic journal publisher OMICS Group for business predatory practices.

The article discusses the choices of online searchers for locating and downloading full market research reports in 2014. Topics covered include the search of readers and searchers for the level of granularity in data provided in reports as well as the importance of background data about the contributors to reports. Also mentioned are the strengths of the online search services provided by companies including ABI/INFORM, EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus and LexisNexis.

The article offers information statistical data and reports collection of European Commission (EU) institution Eurostat. Topics covered include the wide array of research available on Eurostat's website such as those that deal with the fields of social sciences, taxation and economics. Also mentioned is the classification of reports and news releases by themes in various Eurostat databases.

The article presents an overview of the moves to demystify online processes of researching technical and scientific topics. It mentions top scientific and technical literature databases, tools and the other sources. Moreover, factors that must be considered when selecting technological and scientific grey literature are also mentioned.

The article offers tips on how students taking up Masters of Business Administration (MBA) can evaluate business databases. When selecting business databases, the author suggests to consider different elements like content, ease-of-use, and research tone. Moreover, the other tips mentioned include speed, relevancy, and functionality.

The article focuses of signing of contracts with content vendors related to electronic resources. It states that one should read terms carefully and pay attention to capitalized words. It mentions that to know structure of a content license one can download agreements like Pharma Documentation Ring (PDR). It highlights that one should have usage rights for the resources and discusses breach of contract.

The article focuses on creation of a list of companies. It discusses changes in sources for creating a list over a period of time such as Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives and legal and business search services provider LexisNexis. It offers information on several services which make such lists like InfoUSA creates company list for marketing and ThomasNet that makes list for buying a commercial product.

The article focuses on Artemis, a new platform introduced in 2013 by Gale. It cites the available search tools in the Artemis platform namely the Basic search which provides one search box and the Advanced search which provides options for field searching. It indicates that the Artemis platform was created to encourage cross searching of Gale data bases and suggests that the platform will be a more powerful platform it can incorporate non-Gale digitized archives.

The article focuses on the ProQuest Dialog (PQD) and highlights its interfaces as well as provide an overview of PQD content and describe some of its valuable search features from the perspective of a searcher. It notes that PQD interfaces are completely streamlined and user-friendly and makes searching comparatively simple. It points out that the new PQD aggregates and incorporates dozens of databases into one vast system each having a unique underlying database structure.

The article examines the democratization of nuclear information. According to the author, the democratization of nuclear information is based on the growth of a knowledge-based economy, the knowledge worker as a user of nuclear information, developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), and the impact of the explosion of the online community.

The article evaluates the Oxford Economics Global Data and Analysis Workstation.

The article offers information on the Orbit 1.8 search platform service from Questel.

A comparative evaluation is presented of online research services for chemistry researchers, SciFinder from Chemical Abstract Service (CAS), STN Searching, and Reaxys from Reed Elsevier Propersties SA.

The article reviews the scientific video journal "Journal of Visualized Experiments" at jove.com.

Several charts are presented that lists the library and information science (LIS) databases of EBSCO Industries Inc. including the Library Literature & Information Science Index (LLIS), Library & Information Science Source (LISS), and the Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA). INSET: The Strange Case of JASIST.