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The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

The article reviews several web sites that provide statistics and data for ebooks including Aptara (aptaracorp.com/resources/category/ebook-surveys), Book Industry Study Group (bisg.org), and Bowker Market Research (bookconsumer.com).

The article focuses on librarians who initiate book clubs at their libraries that are always looking for recommendations. Topics include examines this is not restricted to public libraries and special libraries, particularly medical libraries are regulars at forming book discussion groups and considered being a member of a neighborhood book club, the selection of the next book is to read and discuss likely falls since the resident librarian.

The article focuses on ProQuest's latest attempt at creating a one-stop shopping business portal is called ProQuest One Business. Topics include the librarians are accustomed to hopping from one online resource to another, and the search interface will be familiar to anyone who has used other ProQuest products.

The article offers industry news briefs as of September-October 2017.Topics discussed include introducing next generation of Citeline's Sitetrove and Trialtrove solutions by Informa Pharma Intelligence, collaboration of PaperHive with Ingent and announcement made by SAGE Publishing regarding the expansion of partnership with EBSCO Information Services.

The article focuses on Sci-Hub, a free download site that offers easy and free access to scholarly resources. Topics included the description and overview of Sci-Hub, its ethical context, its content of copyrighted articles, its association with information literacy, and its significance in academic publication.

The article explores During the pandemic, students and scholars spent more time online than they perhaps ever wanted to. Beyond synchronous and asynchronous courses delivered within universities' learning management systems (LMS), students had additional opportunities to view educational videos, possibly on YouTube or PBS Online.

The article presents updates from the publishing industry as of January 2015. Topics discussed include the decision of Nature Publishing Group to make all of its 48 journals free to read in the proprietary screen view format in ReadCube, the acquisition of Moreover Technologies by LexixNexis Legal & Professional, and the acquisition of Infotrieve by Copyright Clearance Center. The addition of 250 American Psychological Association ebook titles to the ProQuest ebrary platform is mentioned.

The article discusses librarians have starting instruction sessions for decades by saying, "Don't start with a Google search." Topics include to address hybrid article OA discovery and access, library resolvers integrated OA-finding indexes such as Cross- Ref and Unpaywall; and traditional library resolver tools have based upon journal subscription metadata.

The article offers a review of the online scholarly literature database and search engine Google Scholar at www.scholar.google.com.

The article focuses on market research reports, sometimes known as market studies, have long been a staple of business research. Topics inlcude the market for market research reports being strong, the academic libraries rely on well-known market research firms when adding reports to their database collection, and the comparison of toothbrush purchases with automobile preferences being not particularly illuminating.

Information about the session "Artificial Intelligence Tools for Information Discovery" of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2018 is presented. The discussion looked specifically at the experience of Stanford University with integrating artificial intelligence (AI) research tool Yewno into its discovery interface. Speakers included Ryan Mayfield of Yewno and Mimi Calter of Stanford University Libraries.

The article offers information on the digital library JSTOR founded in 1995.

The article offers industrial; news brief as of September 2022. Topics include Oxford University Press (OUP) is migrating its books content to Oxford Academ; Elsevier launched a Monkeypox Information Center, which will be continually updated and provide free access to relevant research and clinical information on the monkeypox virus; and Wolters Kluwer, Health expanded Ovid with SRI International's BioCyc.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of developing the Research Genius mobile application to guide students of Georgetown College in academic research.

Information about several papers discussed at the 2013 conference of the Medical Library Association (MLA) with three other conferences held in Boston, Massachusetts in May 3-8, 2013 is presented. Topics include trustworthy and authoritative publicly available information, methods of publishing, and environmental aspects of global health. The conference featured Richard Besser, the senior health and medical editor of ABC News who emphasized the importance of storytelling to communicate.

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 author discusses three conundrums about information literacy (IL) that preoccupy her and many information professionals. Topics mentioned include the reasons why IL remains a low priority in higher education, the failure to resolve the IL standards and framework controversy, and the lack of recognition of IL by academia.

The article discusses the different aspects of open access repositories. Topics covered include the interoperability of the repositories and the systems' ability to gather, save and share various kinds of data. Also mentioned is the need for the core processes of the repositories to be aligned with the mission of institutions that are using the systems.

The article focuses on the Summa system which started after a group of dedicated in-house developers based their system on the Lucene search and indexing systems. It indicates that the system is currently in use as a search system and provides several features including integrated search, modular design and scalability. It notes that Summa demonstrates how a European library embraced the Lucene open source search toolkit and includes a workflow component. INSET: Statsbiblioteket in Aarhus.

The article discusses what librarians can do when people start keying words into an electronic screen and storing them in the ether for readers to call up at will. Google and Amazon offer large collections and with the book scanning project, Google will become the largest library. It discusses the role librarians will play in a fully digital information and library services. It notes that digitization will allow librarians to get rid of buildings to house books.

The article reports on digital textbook options for students. It states that the print versions of textbooks are so expensive that its not affordable for students to buy them. It also mentions about the selection criteria for the use of open educational resources (OER) which include being licensed under an open license, and being relevant to disciplines of focus.

The article offers May 2015 news briefs related to search engines. The information include the collaboration of ProQuest with Google Scholar, association of the Worldcat Discovery Services of OCLC with LexisNexis Academic database, and digitization of around 2.5 million pages from Arabic books by Gale.