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Thursday, 27th October 2005

New Site: OpenLibrary.org; Report from the Internet Librarian Keynote: Tennant vs. Wiggins

Professional Reading Shelf
Journal Prices--Databases
Source: SPARC
New Database, Journal Cost-Effectiveness
Use this search engine to find internationally published journals and rank them by price per article or citation. From Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee."
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Book Digitization
The Open Library
"...check out OpenLibrary.org for a cool bookviewer and the vision book-- it tells the story of what we envision." --Brewster Kahle
See Also: Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
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Web Search
Source: Information Today Blog
Report from the Internet Librarian Keynote: Tennant vs. Wiggins
Marydee Ojala reports. Her article ends with the following comment, "Liz Lawley comments that Microsoft is doing sliders [see the "Search Builder" on the MSN Search page], which are similar to the knobs and dials Rich mentioned. Microsoft research publishes. You can go to the site and read the papers. Google is extraordinarily secretive. "How do you reconcile this with the notion you're doing this for the good of humanity?" Adam [Smith] ducks the question, saying he wasn't around when Google set the policies so he doesn't know."
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MetaSearch
Source: NISO
Metasearch Initiative Reaches Major Milestone
"NISO's Metasearch Initiative has released its first round of documents providing the technical solutions to the challenge of providing federated search services. Just released: a Ranking of Authentication and Access Methods and Metaseach XML Gateway Implementors Guide."

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