Tuesday, 27th November 2007

Briefs: Database: Jisc (UK) provides multiple text comparison; U.S. online shoppers set record on Cyber Monday; New 2collab, Research 2.0 Tool Now Live; Google's results lead to massive malware attack, security researchers say

+ Jisc provides multiple text comparison (via Kable's Government Computing)
he Academic Database Assessment Tool (Adat) is designed to help libraries make informed decisions about future subscriptions to online resources. It provides access to detail information and title lists from a number of bibliographic databases owned by publishers and content suppliers. By using Adat, librarians can quickly compare and contrast key items to help them decide which online resources to purchase. These include: a list of titles included in each database; search features available; linking methods, such as full text linking; metadata standards and methods of access provided to these resources, such as IP access. The dbase is sponsored by IBSS, ProQuest, Scopus, Engineering Village and EMBASE (Elsevier), Thomson Scientific. Email alerts are available.

+ New, 2collab Research 2.0 Tool Now Live
Think digg or to be more precise, Connotea from Nature Publishing. More from the developers here. 2collab comes from Elsevier.

+ Google's results lead to massive malware attack, security researchers say (via Computerworld)

+ U.S. online shoppers set record on Cyber Monday (via Reuters)
Read the complete news release from Comscore.

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• Search News (ResourceShelf)
• Source File (ResourceShelf)

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