| FEATURES |
Market Research Aggregators
Marsha Fulton reviews three market research aggregators, ECNext, MarketResearch.com,
and MindBranch, through taxonomy testing and content comparisons. |
Page 10 |
The
Environment, Part 3
In her last installment of this series, Barbie Keiser focuses on environmental
science and research, covering the collection and analysis of data and
the reports influencing national and international policies. |
Page 16 |
Linking
Services Unleashed
Jill Grogg and Christine Ferguson highlight four services that offer
content- sensitive linking through the OpenURL framework: SFX, LinkFinderPlus,1Cate,
and Journal Finder. |
Page 26 |
National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science: Why
Not?
Each year the NCLIS seems to have to fight for its mere existence. Miriam
Drake makes a case for why this commission needs to be fiscally supported
and promoted. |
Page 32 |
So You Want to Start a
Syndicated Revolution: RSS News Blogging for Searchers
What's a blog? And what does RSS stand for? David Mattison answers these
questions and more as he provides an overview of the software, tools, editors,
aggregators, and search engines that are needed in this "brave new blogging
world." |
Page 38 |
From Bright Idea to Beta
Test: The Story of LOCKSS
Chris Dobson tells the story of how HighWire Press' Vicky Reich found a
way to keep online content from becoming "unpublished" through the creation
of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). |
Page 50 |
A Primer in Information
Economics
Through a multitude of perspectives, Daphne Raban traces the growth of
information sharing, copying, and distribution, which has led to the
expectation that what's on the Internet should be free. |
Page 54 |
Content Analysis, Part
2
Marc Solomon continues his series by discussing how the value of the content
analysis being sought does not easily fit into standard "value add" formulas,
but needs to follow a different approach. |
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| COLUMNS |
Searcher's
Voice
"What the 'L?'" bq asks, wondering how information professionals can impact what
the word librarian will come to mean in the years — and technology advances — ahead. |
Page 6 |
Tools of the Trade
Sheri Lanza tells how a new piece of software, WinDates, will keep you
from ever again missing an important business meeting, date, or doctor's
appointment. |
Page 60 |
Leading Libraries
Doris Helfer updates the status and issues involved in the evolving virtual
reference aspect of libraries. |
Page 63 |
Web Wise Ways
Jill Ann Hurst and David Oldenkamp review the Ethnic NewsWatch database,
designed to meet the information needs of Americans from a variety of
ethnic, minority, and native backgrounds. |
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