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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.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that researchers using its Internet Database Service (IDS) can now link their search results to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Meeting Papers. More than 25,000 papers published since 1996 and abstracted in the CSA Aerospace & High Technology Database on IDS are linkable with the AIAA Meeting Papers service. According to the announcement, AIAA is the world's largest professional society devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation and space.

Recommends several Web sites that are funny. News of the Weird; WitCity: Where Funny=Good; Weekly World News Online.

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.

Focuses on how librarians are becoming more active in the dissemination of information beyond the walls of their facilities. Paper materials being made available in digital format; Work at the Ford Research Laboratory; Web publishing; Cataloging.

Discusses sources on commercial databases that listed conferences and trade shows. Traditional meeting approach; Associations on the Internet; Internet meeting directories; Seminars and workshops; Conference papers.

The article reviews the online databases PubMed Central (PMC) available at www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov, Royal Society Publishing (RSP) available at http://publishing.royalsociety.org, and the British Library (BL) Direct Service available at www.direct.bl.uk.

Provides information on the venture made by WPVI-TV/6-ABC, a television station, with newspaper companies `The Philadelphia Inquirer' and `The Philadelphia Daily news' to form a Web site. Features of the site; Other services accessed through the site; Significance of the site.

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.

Presents news on online information resources about science and technology in September 1999. Applied Science and Technology Full Text database from H.W. Wilson; Information on Ei Paper Village, a cooperative venture between Engineering Information Inc. and the Institute of Paper Science and Technology; Availability of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Database from SilverPlatter.

Focuses on the evolution of several newspaper Web sites in the United States. Discussion on competition in the newspaper industry; Innovations in content distribution; Features of the Web site of NewspaperLinks, a service of the Newspaper Association of America.

Provides information on several web sites in the United States that can help students regarding term papers. `Best Information on the Net'; `Study WEB'; `Homework Heaven.'

Discusses the evolution and pervasiveness of the Internet in the United States. Percentage of the U.S. population that has access to the Internet as of September 2000; The origin on the Internet; Forecast for the future of the Web; Opinion that most computers in libraries and corporations in the U.S. are underutilized; How computer users can assist the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI); Critiques of other Internet developments.

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 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 examines the usefulness of EBSCO Publishing's SPORTDiscus, a full text source for sports and sports medicines journals, in online sports research. It states that SPORTDiscus has more than 520 journals and 372 of these are not found with full text in any version of Health Source, Biomedical Reference Collection or Academic Search. The database has several sources including videos, trade publications, conference paper collections and gray literature. Comments of several academic business librarians on SPORTDiscus are also provided.

The article discusses sources of information about environmental and alternative energy issues. Useful data on the topics, which are often interdisciplinary, can be found in popular, scholarly and even advocacy sources including databases that index and provide access to information about environmental and alternative energy topics. Google Scholar and Google Books lead the list of web search engines where such topics can be found. Databases described in the article include Academic Search Premier from EBSCO and CAB Abstracts from CABI.

The article reviews the Web sites for Amazon, www.amazon.com; Google Books Library Project, http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html; and Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com.

The article reviews several open access Web sites including the Open J-Gate from Informatics India Ltd., the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) from the Lund University Library, and the Serials Directory from EBSCO Industries.

Focuses on finding and exploring international news Web sites in English. Opportunity offered by Web access to news sites all over the world; Web sites that provide lists of links to world news sites; Limitation to the sources whether on the Web through traditional online services; Use of movie reviews from different foreign papers in teaching media literary or information literacy to adults.

The article reports that the newspaper "Arizona Star" has required its library staff to contribute news to the publication in an effort to counteract diminishing resources brought on by competition from online news sources. Library staff at the publication have contributed by adding "Did You Know?" sidebars and Local Angle boxes, or stories providing a local angle to a national report. A history blog was also launched as part of the effort to give more focus to local news.

This article compares the Internet search tools Google Scholar and Scirus. With an initial focus on research articles from publishers participating in the CrossRef project and several collections of online preprints and other major scholarly sites, Google established a new approach to a broad range of scholarly literature. Google Scholar aims to include peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Basically, Google Scholar includes Web pages that either look like an article or other scholarly document. In 2001, Elsevier launched Scirus as a Web search engine that would search both Elsevier's online journals in ScienceDirect along with selected, science-oriented portions of the Web. Despite all the limitations and problems, both offer some unique reasons to use them beyond just watching their future development. Both of these tools may work better, or at least appear to work better, for the affiliated scholar.

Presents news briefs pertaining to the Internet and the information services industry as of April 1, 1999. Launch of an improved Evaluated MEDLINE by BioMedNet; White paper entitled `Quality within the Quantity: Providing the Best of the Internet Through Content Management' published by Winnebago Software Company; Additional law titles from the American Bar Association added by IndexMaster, Inc.; Contact points.

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.

The author explores his views on the rise of citation information. He explores whether citation information implies no significance. He cites a survey that negates the assumption that citation information can quantify and provide a better view of scholarly research and the spread of ideas and influence of researchers. With the number of articles never cited, the author asks if researchers give up when their work is rejected. Beyond the previous question, he also asks for the other value and the other contributions of research and publication.

The article focuses on the business model of DeepDyve. DeepDyve, which was known as Infovell from 2005-2008, marketed itself as a research engine that catered to a well-educated audience with an interest in Science-Technical-Medical (STM) research. William Park, the chief executive officer (CEO) of DeepDyve, changed the search engine into a rental platform for consumers and a service provider to publishers.

Presents information on several Internet resources for U.S. nonprofit organizations. Guidestar; Strategic Alliance Project Studies; Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest; Independent Sector.

Examines the resistance of scholars against the business practices of scholarly publishers. How and when scholars got involved in the journal publishing issues that concern librarians; Actions taken by scholars to gain free access to scientific, medical and technical literatures in the Internet; Struggles on the free posting of journals on Web sites.

Introduces Kiplinger Online, an online service which offers information concerning newsletters from Kiplinger Washington Letter company. Features; Applications; Types of newsletters it offers; Other information offered by the online service.

Describes how librarians should test online catalogs. Testing user interfaces; Who should test a product; Things to test; Testing for the best results; The usability testing process; Findings of the author about Web searching.

Discusses the advantages of the `Internet' as a source of online database information. Research organized by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) to determine the quatifiability of Internet information; Perspectives of users on Internet searches practice; Variation of search engine preferences among librarians and information professionals. INSETS: When good searchers reach for the Net;Why good searchers stay with the traditionals.

Discusses the growth of the Internet market and its benefits to the modern generation. Background on how the Web market started; Advantages of Web access to archives for researchers; Variety of services available on the Web; Features of meta-search pages. INSET: Battle of the search engines.

Discusses the typical work day of the author, a nontraditional librarian. Her telecommuting; Difficulty understanding her boss' e-mail about her work on a Web services topic area; Her use of MagPortal, Darwin, and Yahoo! to find articles about Web services; Her discovery that IBM, Microsoft Corp, and Sun Microsystems are the leaders in Web services; Helpful reference resources, including O'Reilly's Web Design CD Bookshelf.

Informs that BioMed Central introduced, in January 2002, a processing charge for articles published in its nearly 60 online journals. Belief of BioMed Central that the scientific community feels that processing charges are the best way to defray the cost of maintaining free access to scientific papers; BioMed's stance that subscription charges imposed by traditional sci-tech publishers are hurting the communication of scientific research; Fee charged by BioMed for publishing an article.

This article discusses the benefits of Weblogs for library staff communication, and describes the steps to start an internal Weblog. An Internal Weblogs can be a way to reduce e-mail and paper clutter, a vehicle to share knowledge and experiences, a way to create buy-in for projects, a powerful communication tool, an easy way to create dynamic Web pages, and a method to make searchable archives. The first step in starting an internal Weblog is choosing and installing software, followed by planning and making policies. The third step is to train the staff members who will be using the Weblog. The final step is promoting the Weblog for staff awareness.

The article offers ideas on searching business news in printed materials and via the Internet. According to the author, some Web sites are dedicated to provide business news, which can either be blogs, comments or in traditionally published format. But business news is threatened by the critical situation in advertising. It can be observed that reading business news has been a ritual for many people, and most of them read the news via the Internet. With this, various media and social networks have expanded their definition of new sources and widened their news offerings. However, the author warns that the veracity of search results must be taken into consideration when reading online business news.

The article reviews two Web sites including USGS Publications Warehouse found in www.infotrek.er.usgs.gov/pubs and ASIST digital library from the American Society for Information Science and Technology found in www.asist.org.

Focuses on the popularity of genealogy on the Internet. Large amount of available indexes and online resources dedicated to genealogy; Types of genealogy software available, such as Family Tree Maker and The Master Genealogist; Ease with which the author was able to locate information on his own ancestry; Suggestion that humans are all related to each other in some respect.

The article offers information on the rise of electronic-portfolios (e-portfolios) in schools. It says that employers and admissions departments require online submissions of resume with which applicants must send portfolios accessible to the web. It states that e-portfolios reflect the students' learning and the achievement and work among graduates. It adds that schools manage e-portfolio systems with large video files as it pose challenges.

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.

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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.

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.

The article reviews several library and research Web sites, including Soshiku located at www.soshiku.com, Zotero located at www.sotero.com, and CiteULike located at www.citeulike.com.

Reviews the educational Web site Predictive Assessment Series from ThinkLink Learning. Access fee; Minimum system requirements; Features.

Reports on the decision of TheScientificWorld Inc. to expand the sciBASE database of scientific information. Agreements between TheScientificWorld Inc. and The British Library, IOS Press, and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; Access for TheScientificWorld members.

Presents information resources about futurists and their consulting firms in the United States which can be accessed through the Internet. Techniques being employed by futurists in studying the future; Web sites of futurist organizations; Works of futurists which are featured in the Internet.

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.

Provides an overview of developments related to commercial sites organized by local general-interest newspapers and local business journals in the United States. Pervasiveness of local online services; Popularity of online newspaper editions; Emerging patterns in local online services generated by newspapers.