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Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way.   |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better. |
Information Today
November 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today
May 3, 2004
Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search Uses Google to Provide Full-Text Access Google will supply the search technologies and CrossRef the reference links to publisher Web sites for the pilot project, CrossRef Search that will enable users to search the full text of scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, and other sources from nine leading publishers. |
Search Engine Watch
April 12, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today
June 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences. |
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. |
Information Today
June 13, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elsevier's free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus. |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service. |
Information Today
August 2002
Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
D-Lib
May 2001
Amy Brand |
CrossRef Turns One What started as a cooperative effort among publishers and technologists to prototype DOI-based linking of citations in e-journals evolved into an independent, non-profit enterprise last year... |
Information Today
August 27, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya For many researchers, faculty, and students, Google Scholar is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed by academic and corporate libraries. |
Searcher
April 2002
Jill E. Grogg |
Thinking About Reference Linking Information professionals need to be aware of the technical and organizational interests and obstacles associated with reference linking in order to better serve their users... |
Information Today
May 28, 2002
Paula Hane |
CrossRef Considering Full-Text Search Service CrossRef, a publisher collaborative that enables researchers to navigate online journals via Digital Object Identifier-based (DOI) citation links, is currently considering the implementation of a full-text search service. |
D-Lib
May 2006
Apps & McIntyre |
Why OpenURL? Here is a look at the evolution of the linking technology OpenURL, now a NISO standard. The implications for stakeholders in the supply chain are explored, including publishers, intermediaries, libraries and readers. |
Information Today
November 7, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Linking Up Bibliographies: DOI Harvesting Tool Launched by CrossRef The reference-linking network of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), has officially launched a free DOI look-up feature called Simple-Text Query where users can enter a citation in any format and receive the matching Digital Object Identifier (DOI). |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Information Today
April 16, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Societies Unite to Create Scitopia.org Search Portal Thirteen scholarly society publishers are working together to create a free federated, vertical search portal capable of accessing some 3 million articles spanning as far back as 150 years, as well as some patents. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today
August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
Information Today
January 23, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
September 5, 2000
Barbara Quint |
CrossRef, CAS, DataStar Announce Links to Scholarly Publications The network of links to and from scholarly publications continues to grow rapidly... |
InternetNews
April 13, 2006
David Miller |
Microsoft Searching in Academia Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft's search service for scientists, scholars and other such studious folks, debuted on Tuesday with the noble aim of providing easy access to information tucked away in specialized pedagogic journals and conference notes. |
Information Today
December 18, 2008
Barbara Quint |
"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Google Graduates to Vertical Search New Scholar service allows searching of peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, etc. that would normally be inaccessible. |
Searcher
October 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOI-Based Prototype Over the past several years, substantial effort has gone into building an environment to support linking between the rapidly growing number of journal articles available on the web. This paper describes one solution that can link to references across multiple delivery systems... |
Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
Information Today
March 13, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
October 25, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today
August 14, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google. |
D-Lib
October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
Information Today
July 16, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. |
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. |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today
January 9, 2006
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Expands Linking Resources with Acquisition of Openly Informatics OCLC, the leading library vendor, has acquired Openly Informatics, a service that supplies linking software and services to libraries through direct arrangements and, especially, through platform services provided to library vendors. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect Elsevier has announced that it will be launching some improvements to its ScienceDirect service, which provides access to the publisher's STM full-text journals and ebooks. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Bauer & Bakkalbasi |
An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment A study comparing the citation counts from three resources for research articles taken from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
