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Tuesday, 21st December 2004

Internet Archive to build alternative to Google

Professional Reading Shelf
Online Information
Source: Emerald
This Week Only: Free Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of Online Information Review
Articles include:
+ Date-restricted queries in web search engines (Vol. 28 No. 6)
+ The unintended effects of hidden assumptions: biases on the internet
(Vol. 28 No. 6)
+ Citation searching (Vol. 28 No. 6)
+ A social science gateway in a shifting digital world: shaping SOSIG for users' needs of the future (Vol. 28 No. 5)
+ Citedness scores for filtering information and ranking search results (Vol. 28 No. 5)
+ Web users' information retrieval methods and skills (Vol. 28 No. 4)
+ Combining article content and Web usage for literature recommendation in digital libraries (Vol. 28 No. 4)
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Digitization Projects
Source: VNUNet
Internet Archive to build alternative to Google
We posted about this project last week. Btw, The New York Times about the Google project today.
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Digital Preservation
Source: New York Times News Service (via San Diego Union-Tribune)
PCs, CDs, DVDs full of e-files that need preserving
"America's 115 million home computers are brimming over with personal treasures -- millions of photographs, music of every genre, college papers, the great American novel and, of course, mountains of e-mail. Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages. Like junk e-mail, the problem of digital archiving, which seems straightforward, confounds even the experts."
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Scholary Publishing
Open Access
Source: BBC
BBC Radio 4 Airs Program About Open Access
The 37 minute program aired on Tuesday. An archived version is available on the web. "Scientific publishing is undergoing a revolution, with scientists and policy makers fed up with valuable research being denied to the public domain. Richard Black investigates"

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