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Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites.   |
Information Today
November 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
Information Today
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Over Our Dead Bodies When it comes to the information professional market, there's at least one eternal truth: Info pros support good data, even when it's not to their advantage. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
Information Today
December 6, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Factiva's North American Customers to Access Full NY Times Archive... Critical Mention Releases New TV Enterprise Version... New Google Groups Beta Launches... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
Information Today
April 2002
Barbara Quint |
Tasini Damage-Reporting Decisions Buyers of full-text services are now struggling with the aftermath of Tasini, and many vendors are not being forthright about what's been lost... |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Google As News Archivist Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search. |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2005
Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services. |
Information Today
August 22, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Alacra Opens E-Commerce Site for Business Professionals The company, which previously focused on selling business information to enterprise customers, has decided to open its content to on-demand purchasing by individual business professionals. The store is currently in beta. |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
Searcher
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Vendor Knowledge Management Even intermediary searchers these days find themselves doing primarily, if not exclusively, Web-based searching. So how does the dot-com burnout affect us? Well, it increases the critical need for knowledgeable and aggressive vendor management... |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
Information Today
November 21, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Marydee Ojala |
ONLINE's Got a Brand New Tag: Exploring Technology & Resources A publication for information professionals changes its tag line to include technology and resources. |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Introduces New Web Search Engine Amazon.com's technical research subsidiary, A9, has released a new search engine that combines Google searching of the Web with searches of Amazon's own full-text collection of books and site information from Amazon's Alexa service. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Booksellers Move to Pay-Per-View Random House and Amazon will let readers buy only the pages they want. |
Searcher
April 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - `Look, Ma, No Hands!!' Consumer-based information professionals will blend services from multiple suppliers and educate clients both in how to search effectively themselves and how to recognize when they need the help of professional searchers. |
Information Today
April 1, 2002
Barbie E. Keiser |
EIU Introduces Risk Alert Service, New Look for Its Online Store Risk and uncertainty are quickly becoming the theme for the business climate this decade. The Economist Intelligence Unit has responded by introducing new risk services and opening up its existing (internal) country sovereign risk model to its global clientele... |
Searcher
October 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Unknown Known Problems for searchers and info pros due to new content and new readership and new distribution channels are good problems. These are problems worth investing the sweat equity it will take to solve them. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Is Amazon Connect a Page Turner? Will authors' blogs help Amazon sell? For now, the most compelling content for many investors is going to be the company's earnings announcement. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Searcher
May 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Amazon's Video Rumors The online retailer seems to be taking some major steps into streaming video. Netflix and Blockbuster needn't be in panic mode just yet. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
April 12, 2004
Keiser & Quint |
WorldData Introduces Near-Real-Time International Economic Data Three international economic and financial database powerhouses have joined forces to produce a new high-level service called WorldData. |
Searcher
January 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk. |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Google Beta Tests Book Search Service "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible." Such conservative goal-setting has now led the world's busiest search engine to a new set of content -- books in print. |
Searcher
April 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Success and Failure We librarians, we intermediary searchers, kept on amazing clients, one search at a time. We librarians kept pushing vendors to give us databases, not just print tools. |
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
Information Today
October 2001
George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim? |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders. |
Wired
December 2003
Gary Wolf |
The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Amazon Gets Wikified Amazon has taken its ProductWikis feature out of beta, in the hopes that community intelligence can help its customers make more informed purchasing decisions -- and of course, increase customer interest and loyalty. |
Searcher
September 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - That Windblown Look Now that the Supreme Court has made its decision in the Tasini case, one which confirms the copyright ownership of freelance authors in full-text material currently online, our world trembles as it waits to learn how publishers, database aggregators, search services, and authors will work out their ownership problems. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Watching Amazon's Want Ads More and more signs point to Amazon's entry into digital music and DVDs by mail. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Jeremy Bowman |
Amazon's Dance With the Devil The retail giant's shady business practices go well beyond its recent price comparison offer. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2005
Anne Kennedy |
What Clicks with Web Searchers How do searchers find what they want online? Not the way most people might think, studies show. For example, more than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms. |
Information Today
August 8, 2005
Chuck Hamaker |
OCLC and Amazon: A Connection Revealed OCLC, a cataloging source and bibliographic utility for thousands of libraries worldwide, has apparently become one of the many streams feeding into Amazon's book title database. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Back in Time With Google Google connects searchers to history and might even make a buck doing it. |
