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D-Lib
March 2003
Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library.   |
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Suzanne Cohen, John Fereira, Angela Horne, Bob Kibbee, Holly Mistlebauer, & Adam Smith |
MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library Library users who are Web users expect customization and interactivity. MyLibrary is a Cornell University Library initiative to provide numerous personalized library services to Cornell University students, faculty, and staff. |
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 . |
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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Rose Holley |
Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries Trove contains metadata for millions of freely accessible items, from more than 1,000 contributing institutions. The focus is on Australia and Australians. |
Information Today
August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010
Peggy Garvin |
GPO Federates Federal Government Catalogs--GPO MetaLib GPO MetaLib simultaneously searches more than 50 federal government publication catalogs, federal library catalogs, and specialized indexes. |
Information Today
March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection. |
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 |
D-Lib
March 2004
Lin Fang |
A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and Retrieval System This article describes two approaches for searching heterogeneous resources, which are explained as they are used in two corresponding existing systems--RIRS (Resource Integration Retrieval System) and HRUSP (Heterogeneous Resource Union Search Platform). On analyzing the existing systems, a possible framework--the MUSP (Multimetadata-Based Union Search Platform) is presented. |
Searcher
September 2000
Amy M. Kautzman |
Virtual Academy: Full Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences A discussion about the commercialization of full-text databases and how well they server the library and research community. Includes a list of free full-text humanities databases on the web. |
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
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
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. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2005
Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
Searcher
February 2003
Grogg & Ferguson |
Linking Services Unleashed How can libraries and information centers offer one link, from any source, to any appropriate other source? Libraries and information centers can offer such dynamic linking through context-sensitive linking by the rather elegant inclusion of a linking technology known as the OpenURL. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
D-Lib
January 2005
Fox, Manduca & Iverson |
Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) educational portals leverage the techniques and tools of the digital library community to bring cohesion and clarity to their presentation of information. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2010
David Stern |
Ebooks: From Institutional to Consortial Considerations It is not too early for academic libraries to begin considering the implementation issues for consortial purchases and/or leases of ebooks. |
D-Lib
March 2000
Karen Coyle |
The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study A Virtual union catalog is a possible alternative to the centralized database of distributed resources found in many library systems. Such a catalog would not be maintained in a single location but would be created in real time by searching each local campus... |
D-Lib
January 2003
Mitchell et al. |
iVia Open Source Virtual Library System iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. |
D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
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. |
Searcher
May 2001
Nicholas Tomaiuolo |
Playing Twenty Questions to Test Low-Cost, Free, or Subscription Databases for End-User Online Service A survey of some low-cost article search engines. |
D-Lib
October 2004
John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
D-Lib
September 2003
Terry Reese |
Aggregate Record Management in Three Clicks The sheer volume of record sets tends to restrict a library's ability to customize the record sets to suit their individual needs. To meet these challenges, the Oregon State University (OSU) library developed an innovative aggregate record management application. |
Information Today
April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
Information Today
October 2003
Paula Hane |
The Truth About Federated Searching WebFeat, a provider of federated search technology to more than 900 public, academic, and corporate libraries, including more than half of the top 10 U.S. public libraries, has compiled this list of the five most commonly repeated misconceptions about federated searching. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
D-Lib
October 2003
Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today
November 30, 2009 |
TDNet Announces New `Discovery to Delivery' Platform For corporate libraries and information centers, the new platform integrates access to all of the internal and external information resources available across the enterprise. |
Information Today
July 5, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
CSA Launches MultiSearch MultiSearch is a quality search solution for libraries. The solution can work with many different servers, gateways, interfaces, databases, and search result types. |
D-Lib
October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2005
Theo van Veen |
Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is engaged in a major renewal of its information infrastructure. |
Information Today
March 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Yahoo! Provides 2004 Election Information... NPG Launches Chinese Edition of Nature... MicroPatent Unveils MPI-INPADOC Plus... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2000
Shelley Cudiner & Oskar R. Harmon |
An Active Learning Approach to Teaching Effective Online Search Strategies The object of our workshops is to teach students how to locate appropriate academic sources on the Web and in library databases, how to create an effective search strategy, and how to use the retrieval features in InfoTrac... |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
Information Today
July 20, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003 |
Industry News Vascoda, the German Digital Library, Debuts... Dialog Enhances Company Profiles; LexisNexis Enhances Company Dossier... Thomson Financial announced that new issues and syndicated loan data are available on Thomson ONE Banker-Deals... etc. |
D-Lib
January 2001
Walter L. Warnick |
Searching the Deep Web Directed Query Engine Applications at the Department of Energy... |
D-Lib
June 2003
Donald Beagle |
Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space The concept of c-space is proposed as a visualization schema relating containers of content to cataloging surrogates and classification structures. Possible applications of keyword vector clusters within c-space and related advantages are discussed in this article. |
D-Lib
November 2001 |
In Brief Solving Long Term Access for Electronic Publications... The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed, Phase 1 Testing... CORDIS - Central Resource on European Research and Innovation Policy Developments... eVALUEd - An Evaluation Model for e-Library Developments... etc. |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
Penn State Visual Image User Study Penn State University is conducting an extensive and systematic assessment of its needs for digital image delivery... |
Information Today
April 5, 2010
Kathy Dempsey |
Serials Solutions Launches SaaS Version of AquaBrowser AquaBrowser is still billed as an "inviting, easy, intuitive" interface that "meets the demands and expectations of today's web-wise user (or impatient novices) who want immediate results and relevant content from a variety of sources |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
