Web Search--Ask Jeeves
Web Search--Teoma Ask Jeeves Completes Integration of Teoma Results
Results using Teoma's ranking and Subject-Specific Popularity(SM)* algorithms are found on Ask Jeeves under the "You may find my search results helpful" header. Teoma's "Pages by Topic" and "Expert Links" sections are not currently available via the Ask interface. They will become available on the Ask.Com site redesign later in the year. According to an Ask.Com spokesperson, the database is currently at about 150 million pages. It's refreshed monthly with more popular sites set for recrawl several times a week. A few sample searches found content from early December, 2001. Good News: Teoma will continue to operate, in beta until Q2 2002, as a stand-alone engine. The beta should be complete when the Teoma database reaches the 250 million page mark. All three types of Teoma's search results will be available. Teoma is also working on implementing cached page and spellcheck features. A few sample searches at Teoma.Com shows that the "beta" dbase is still several months old. We'll be on the lookout for changes.
Reference Linking
PubMed
Source: Several Lists including Web4Lib Learn About: LinkOut
From the LinkOut site, "LinkOut is a feature of Entrez that is designed to provide users with links from PubMed and other Entrez databases to a wide variety of relevant web-accessible online resources, including full-text publications, biological databases, consumer health information, research tools, and more." From the e-mail posting, "LinkOut in PubMed allows a library to choose which full-text providers to link to. This includes publishers of electronic journals and all full-text providers that participate in LinkOut. In addition, a library can supply links to locally-loaded journal collections or any e-journal collection for which the library can provide reliable URLs. Consequently, a library can easily setup an environment for its users that features seamless and appropriate links to its electronic collection." "Libraries provide links to their e-journal collections via the Library LinkOut Files Submission Utility, where holdings are simply checked off. Use of the Utility is free to all libraries. For registration, please send a request to linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and include the name of the library and a contactperson, telephone number, and address." See Also: Read the LinkOut Overview and FAQ
Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items)
Librarians--United States
Source: IMLS News Release/LISNews.Com $10 Million to Recruit New Librarians
From the news release, " Last night Laura Bush announced a proposed $10 million initiative for 2003 to recruit a new generation of librarians. The initiative will be managed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services...Recruiting a new generation of librarians is vital. Research scheduled for publication in the March 2002 issue of American Libraries magazine will show that based on 1990 Census data almost 58 percent of professional librarians will reach the age of 65 between 2005 and 2019." Thanks to M.B. for the news tip.
- Public Libraries
Source: WSJ/MSNBC "Libraries Focus on New Technology"
Thanks to G.T. for the news tip.
- Information Quality--Health Information
Source: The Lancet "Completeness of Web-Based Melanoma Information Questioned" (Registration Required, Free)
From the article, "Bichakjian and co-workers typed the word "melanoma" into six popular commercial search engines and two medical search engines and found 74 sites from various sources (commercial, government, non-profit, medical society, &c) among the first 30 "hits" on each engine that could be assessed against a "gold standard" checklist of 35 factors (eg, included basic definitions, incidence rates, risks, treatment options, &c)."
- Web Search--Google
Source: USA Today "Google's HQ Provides Blast from Silicon Valley Past"
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