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The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782; Part IV: State Papers, Foreign, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/state-papersonline-eighteenth-century-part-iv.

The article reviews the website database "The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990" from the Gale firm Cengage Learning, located at http://www.gale.com/moml-aclu-papers.

The article focuses on the results of a survey of undergraduates that found most students would start their research process on the Internet using internet search engines, while 20 percent would utilize a library catalog, and mentions library databases were considered the most valuable resource.

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 development of a Web site by Procter & Gamble Co. which is dedicated solely to their product, Bounty paper towels. Details regarding the site which is aimed at customer service; Debate regarding specific sites and strategies that would link several brands together under one location; Interest of other companies in the use of specific Web sites.

The article evaluates various databases and online products released in 2016, including "American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990," from Gale, "The Criminal Justice & Criminology Video Collection," from SAGE Knowledge and "Cancer Biology," from Annual Review.

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.

Offers news relating to online databases as of December 1, 2001. Collection of BioMed Central of online meeting abstracts to aid librarians and researchers; Creation of a service for research scientists by BioMed which evaluates papers published in the biological sciences; Creation of a reference package by EBSCO Publishing; More.

Discusses how newspapers are coming up with ways to integrate their Web sites into their organizational setup. Creation by newspapers such as `The New York Times' of online divisions distinct from the print product; Establishment by `Houston Chronicle' of a separate division with its own budget that is then integrated into the newsroom; Recruitment of staff to oversee only the Web site at `The Free Lance-Star' newspaper.

Focuses on the effect of providing Internet access to newspapers. Percentage of surveyed newspapers that reported revenue from Internet access services; Marketing value of the Internet; Entry of InfiNet in the business.

Reports submission of over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific research papers to BioMed Central Journals. BioMed Central's commitment to free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research articles; Support of BioMed from scientists; Concerns over the profit and control that the commercial sector exercises over the scientific community.

Announces that Questia Media, Inc. has launched Questia, as of March 2001, a service that offers students access to a large collection of quality, credible content via the Internet to research and compose papers. Availability of the service; Number of titles available in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, with plans to expand further; Cost.

Reports on the effort of the National Cartoonists Society and I-Pipe Internet services firm to offer free cartoons to newspaper Web sites. Number of sites that are already running the cartoon pages; Main gaol for the move.

Announces the launching of NewcityNet, a network of urban alternative papers in Chicago, Illinois. Network's sale of national advertising across the Real Media network or in combinations of sites dictated by advertisers; Young adults as a key advertising target on the Web; Sites that have joined the network.

Focuses on the efforts of newspapers to make their help-wanted advertisements competitive with online recruitment sites. Example of Career Builder, a Web site on which Knight Ridder and Tribune Co. post their combined recruitment ads; Fact that classified ads produce a large portion of a daily newspaper's revenue; Competition from online services such as Monster.com and Hotjobs.com.

Reveals that daily newspaper Web sites are outperforming other local media in nearly two-thirds of United States markets covered in the telephone survey conducted by The Media Audit. Comparison to consumers' use of Web sites of local television and radio stations; Ranking of newspaper Web sites by number of visitors in one month.

Reports on the Physical to Electronic mail service offered by Royal Mail, the United Kingdom postal service, that lets businesses have their regular mail go directly into their computer systems via the Internet or dedicated networks. What Royal Mail claims about the service; Benefits it can provide.

Reports on the results of a survey conducted by `Editor & Publisher' periodical on the volume of online purchases made by newspaper Web site users. Average amount spent by the Web users annually; Practice by users of bookmarking a newspaper Web site; Economic engine driving revenue to online papers; Impact on advertising revenue of online papers.

Reports on the Editor & Publisher Online Classifieds Industry symposium in Austin, Texas on September 12-14, 1999. Discussion of issues on how newspapers are defending their turf from Internet competitors; Comments of attendees that included Yankee Group senior analyst Michele Pelino; Challenge faced by newspapers with the emergence of online auctions.

Reports on the partnership among New Hampshire newspapers to launch a Web site devoted to the state's presidential primary. Features of the site aimed at collating information about the presidential election in 2000.

Reports on the trend among newspaper chains in the United States of getting involved in portal strategy even if they have to team up with their competitors. Announcement by Knight Ridder New Media that it will partner with A.H. Belo Corp and Central Newspapers Inc. to create regional portals; Creation of Dfw.com by Texas newspapers; Tribune Co.'s creation of Tribune Interactive as a separate line of business.

Reports on the policy of `The Chanute Tribune' newspaper of charging Web surfers who access its online version. Backlash to editor and publisher Dwayne Scharg's decision to impose a monthly fee on users; Drop in hits since policy was announced; Other newspapers that have dropped their policy of charging surfers.

Deals with the hacking of the online automotive section of Indiana's `The Evansville Courier & Press' newspaper. How access to the database of automotive ads can be gained; Remarks from computer security analysts; Case of computer hacking in the `New York Times.'

Reports that Iowa daily newspapers are opposing a taxpayer-supported Web site that is posting job advertisements they claim is unfairly competing with the newspapers' print and online employment advertising. Features and aim of the state-backed Web site, called smartcareermove.com; Development of the Web site by the state Department of Economic Development and the Iowa Human Resource Recruitment Coalition.

Reports that `American Banker' periodical is planning for its distribution on the Web. Advantages of delivering the product on the Web; Profitability of the Web site.

Reports that `The Detroit Free Press' newspaper's Auto.com Web site for automobile news has added news feed from Reuters Holdings PLC.

Reports on the launching of A/V DailyNews, owned by Dynamic Imaging Systems, as the first fully multimedia news site on the Web.

Focuses on the unionization of online newspaper providers in the United States. Conventional wisdom that the very nature of online newspapers would provide difficulties for labor; Newspaper industry's consent to allow unionization of online workers at `Providence Journal' newspaper's Web site, projo.com.

Announces the unveiling of the WineToday.com site by the Santa Rosa `Press Democrat,' in California. Focus on the site on California wines.

Reports on the deals signed by the `Washington Post,' `The Detroit Free Press' and `Detroit News' to become news channels on the PointCast Business Network online service.

Reports that Gannett Suburban Newspapers has redesigned and expanded its Westchester Today Web site.

Reports on the `Seattle Times' opening of a classified advertising Web site. Offer of online advertisements from the `Times' and `Seattle Post-Intelligencer'; Features of the site.

The article discusses the Electronic Health Record (EHR's) focusing on benefits and suggests ways to help transition from paper records to EHR easier. Topics discussed include Meaningful Use policy by U.S. federal government for doctors while using the EHR, initial steps in transition to EHR system, and details of the auto-coding feature of the EHR. INSETS: Taking the First Few Steps Without a Giant Leap;Auto-Coding Doesn't Mean Correct Coding;A Crash Course on Meaningful Use;Achieving Meaningful Use Through Team Meetings

The article offers tools and tips to prevent digital content plagiarism. Digital tools cannot stop plagiarism before it happens. The good news is that certain tools can tap the power of automated search and the depth of digital content databases to make the same standard process faster and more thorough. PlagiatInform allows professors to cross-check student papers against the university's submission database and returns an estimate of what percent of the work has been lifted from another source. Another option is Turnitin, iParadigms' anti-plagiarism tool and digital assessment suite. It operates either as a standalone application or as an integrated part of the school's content management and communications systems.

Focuses on the growth of Englishtown Reinsurance, highlighting the need of the company to speed up claims or lose profit. Comments by Tammy Alberto, head of the company's information technology department; Details on the company's paper-process operation; Computer automation goal of the company; Views of several individuals on the claim-processing efforts. INSETS: Destroy that paper chase.;If you shop for an imaging system.;Alternatives..

The article reviews several academic databases including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers from Proquest, Silent Film Online from Alexander Street Press, and Britannica Library from Britannica Digital Learning.

The article discusses research into the use and integration of the original research organization platform NoodleTools to teach students about how to organize a research paper. It addresses faculty development to better train teachers with using educational technology, embedding the platform into pre-existing educational practices, and cooperating with the English language arts teachers.

The article discusses the use by airline cockpit crews of iPads and other tablet computers in place of paper documentation. The reduced weight of iPads has helped airline United Airlines and parcel-delivery firm FedEx save millions of dollars in fuel costs. In 2014 United is preparing to buy tablets capable of linking to aircraft data, and which it can integrate into its satellite connectivity.

A white paper from "Billboard" magazine's 2012 FutureSound Conference is presented on the economic aspects of digital music sales and music marketing on the Internet. Advice for musicians to find new fans is presented, such as completing a band profile on the social media website Facebook, creating a band website, and offering free information to encourage interest. Conference attendants such as Tim Quirk from Google Music and Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures are quoted. INSETS: Discovery Channel;Friending The Band.

The article discusses library automation papers or demonstrations offered at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference held March 30-April 2, 2011. Presentations on the use of technology offered by Internet industry firm Google Inc. for reserving electronic resources and an automated equipment reservation system are discussed. A presentation on creating a library catalog which can be accessed by mobile computing is considered.

Reports that EBSCO Publishing is marketing SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text. Statement that the index features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus; Report that the full text edition includes full text for 241 core journals, 72 priority journals, 545 books and monographs, and 6,711 conference papers.

Examines how Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is using Web technology and the company's intranet to more efficiently manage the paper and processes involved in procurement. Efforts to give employees direct acces to an online catalog of products; The popularity among companies of Web-based procurement; Why Pacific Gas is using an incremental approach to providing the catalog; Products it is using to implement its projects.

Reports that Columbia University Press has launched an online publication including working papers, reports and conference proceedings from more than 40 participating institutes around the world. Participating institutes including Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Palestine Studies and London School of Economics; Funding for the service; Selection of material.

Reports Columbia University Press' creation of Columbia International Affairs Online. Publication of journal articles and electronic monographs, conference proceedings, working papers from 40 institutions and books in full text; Use of the technology to help solve the crisis in scholarly publishing; Comments from editor Kate Wittenberg.

The article presents several news briefs in information technology. An Annual AOC Online Election for new presidents and regular and regional board members will be held on July 1, 2006. AOC members are asked to provide their email addresses so that through it, they will be sent instructions regarding the online election. The AOC has decided to implement both paper ballot and online on 2006 for the reason that those that do not have internet access should use the traditional paper ballot.

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.

The article focuses on MyAchoo.com, a Website created by the paper products company Kimberly-Clark Corp. as part of marketing for Kleenex brand tissue paper which will offer forecasting on common cold and influenza outbreaks in the U.S. in 2013-2014.

The author reflects on the role of blogs and electronic content in journalism. He comments having discussions with his daughter, who is taking a journalism course, and her professor's use of WordPress blogs by students as a teaching tool. He talks about the changing role of journalism and whether the nonprofit organization WikiLeaks stepped over the line when it released top secret documents. He mentions the historical relevance of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers in 1972 with WikiLeaks.

The article reports on the innovative use of information technology towards the learning of British history in Great Britain. Accordingly, readers and researchers can have online access to a wealth of British history, specifically in the 18th century parliamentary papers, through a public/private cooperative venture. Moreover, the collection of 18th century papers will be full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting, bibliographic data and subject indexing.

The article focuses on Bioline International, a pioneer in open access (OA) initiatives. It states that the company was launched as a service to distribute scientific papers online, and became an aggregator that provides free platform for 70 periodicals from various nations. It mentions that Bioline also faces problems such as the misunderstanding that it is cost free, and the focus on high-impact factor metrics which increases library spending and decreases diversity in knowledge dissemination.