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Tuesday, 18th December 2001

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Web Search--Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves Announces Most Popular Questions for 2001
What do the masses want to have answered?

News Tools--NewsNow
Google Adds Top News Headlines
Find headlines for top stories, updated hourly, from over 100 open-web news sources. Categories include World, US, Business, Entertainment, Technology and Sports. Another excellent news compilation resource is NewsNow. This site compiles stories from many open-web sources in hundreds of different catagories. You can find a list of categories via the pull-down menus on the right side of the page. New content is addded every five minutes. Open windows will auto refresh. For a "virtual news ticker" check out the NewsNow Live Feed which places all headlines on a single page that updates automatically. NewsNow is also keyword searchable.

Online Information--Hoover's
Hoover's Adds New Search Functionality To Subscription Product
From the annoucement, "The new search technology gives Hoover's Online users rapid, comprehensive results from Hoover's proprietary database, plus non-U.S. companies from Mergent, as well as company, subsidiary and branch locations covered by D&B. Hoover's new search technology also paves the way for future enhancements, including additional advanced search fields and capabilities...Hoover's new search technology allows Hoover's Online users to search for companies using a number of criteria, including company name, ticker symbol, keyword, and D&B D-U-N-S Number."

Document Delivery
"Article Economy"
Outsell/Infotrieve Place $ Value on "Article Economy"
A recently released survey from Outsell (commissioned by document delivery vendor Infotrieve) set the value of the "article economy" at 1.6 billion. From the news release, "The results of the survey of both corporate and academic librarians and end users show a growing demand for electronic delivery of journal articles using the Pay-Per-View model. Increases in print journal subscription prices, advances in online document delivery technology, and the growing sophistication of users and librarians account for this shift in emphasis toward document delivery, particularly electronic delivery...For the purposes of the study, Outsell defined the Article Economy as including published journal articles, self-published articles, papers from conference proceedings, and chapters from monographs and books. Document delivery was defined as including inter-library loan."

Online Information--BioMed Central
Scholarly Publishing
Source: Managing Information
"Biomed Central Adopts Processing Charge for Articles"
From the article, "BioMed Central will introduce a processing charge for articles published in its online journals beginning on January 1 2002. The decision to introduce processing charges is apparently the result of a consultation process across the scientific community and with representatives of key funding bodies...BioMed Central believes that the payment of a small processing charge in return for immediate and permanent free access to published research will become a widely accepted and standard part of science funding policy. Preliminary discussions with funding bodies and research institutions suggest that payment of processing charges from research grants and infrastructure funding will be allowed. With this in mind, it has been decided that from January 1 2002 there will be a US$500 processing charge for any article accepted for publication in BMC journals."
Update: More On This Topic from The Chronicle of Higher Education

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (3 Items)
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ERIC (Education Resource Information Clearinghouse)
ERIC Annual Report 2001
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Government Records--United States
Source: NARA
Full-Text Report, Current Recordkeeping and Records Use Within the Federal Government
See Also: Report Also Available in PDF
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E-Books
Source: JISC/DNER
Full-Text, "Shaping A Strategy for E-Books: An Issues Paper"
This September, 2001 report was written by Hazel Woodward and Louise Edwards.

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