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Thursday, 14th June 2007

Briefs: News from Readex and Dialog; Grey Literature Conference Program Now Available; Snap Shots Improvements - RSS Shot

+ Readex Enhances Access to 50,000 Historical Maps within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set


+ Thomson Scientific Enhances Life Sciences Portfolio on Dialog with BIOSIS and Zoological Record Archive


+ Complete Program Now Available: Ninth International Conference On Grey Literature
The conference is titled, "Grey Foundations in Information Landscape," and will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, December 10-11, 2007.


+ Snap Shots Improvements - RSS Shot (via Snap Blog)
Examples and explanations are included in the post and technical details here.

Note #1: Ask.com has offered RSS Smart Answers for selected RSS feeds since mid-2006. You'll see the last three postings at the top of a web results page. In some cases, links to subscribe to the feed using one or more of several services are listed. New Smart RSS feeds are added regularly.
++ Example #1: Metafilter,. , Searchblog (note the search was not on the title but the publisher, John Battelle), Jessamyn West

+ Example 2: FDA Recalls and Al's Morning Meeting
Note: Some of the Smart RSS results in this category will gradually move the version where you can subscribe to the feed directly from the results page.
Note #2: Gary is Director of Online Info Resources at Ask.com


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