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Monday, 11th March 2002

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Library Literature
This Week Only: Free, Full-Text Access to Reference Services Review
This week only the Emerald service is providing free, full-text access to the last 5 years of RSR. Specifically, you can find material from Vol. 25 No.1 (1997) through Vol. 30 No. 1 (2002). Happy Reading!
See Also: Every week Emerald provides free access fo 2 journals. Here's a list of upcoming titles.

Web Search--Statistics
Must Read: Notess Posts Web Search Statistics
Librarian and Search Guru, Greg Notess, has posted updated statistics to his site.
What You'll Find:
1) Web Database Relative Size
Surprising? WiseNut finishes in 2nd place.
2) Total Database Size
3) Database Size Changes Over Time
Greg has also posted new pages that discuss Google's "Database Components" and indentifying and understanding Google's "Unindexed"content.

News Alerts--New York Times
New York Times Keyword News Alerts Via E-Mail
We were informed by to the NewsTracker service by G.T. late last week. You will need to be registered with the NYT to access and set-up the alerts. Alerts can be sent immediately as the news breaks or at regularly scheduled times including a weekly news digest. Users are limited to 3 alerts. However, if you head to the College Times section of the paper you can develop 5 more alerts. You'll be asked for your school affiliation or simply select "other". Btw, make sure to take a look at the College Times "Articles by Subject" directory. It's a useful browsing tool for NY Times content. Some of the full-text articles found in "Subject Directory" are still accessible for free long after the 2 week free limit found on most NYT material has expired.

Librarians
UCLA Writer Sends An Apology To LISNews.Com
Sony Bari, the writer of the column of a recent UCLA Daily Bruin column that blasts librarians and library science, has sent an apology to LISNews.Com. At the moment the LISNews.Com site is down. With the permission of Blake Carver, LISNEWS publisher, I'm posting the apology/explanation here.
UPDATE (3/13/02): Letters to the Editor Appear in the UCLA Daily Bruin

The Semantic Web
Source: Business Week
"The Next Web"
"The ultimate goal: to turn the Web into a gigantic brain. Every computer connected to the Internet would have access to all the knowledge that humankind has accumulated in science, business, and the arts since we began painting the walls of caves 30,000 years ago."
See Also: Table, "What Is the Semantic Web?"

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