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'Content Farms,' Information Literacy, and You

At any rate, a link farm is basically just a Web page that is full of links to other Web sites. It's really awful when these sites end up on the first page of Google search results. But Google has become more savvy about this, and it's less of a problem than it once was, as opposed to "content farms," which are turning Web searching into a more frustrating exercise. Basically, these sites analyze search engine data to see what people are looking for, check advertising data to see which keywor...

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Aic Releases Mobile App

B2b Network Launches

Blogging & Rss, 2nd Edition: A Librarian's Guide

Building & Running a Successful Research Business, 2nd Edition: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional

Buy, Buy, Iti Acquisition Pie

Tom Hogan Sr, president and CEO of ITI (Information Today Inc), says the company entered the directory business largely because of R.R. Bowker, which was then owned by Reed Elsevier. Although Reed Elsevier put its directory division up for sale, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts only wanted two "big guns" from the collection: Books In Print and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Three other directories were not part of the R.R. Bowker purchase: The Foundation Reporter, Corporate Giving Directory, a...

Ccc Opens Rightsdirect

Collaboration: What Wikipedia Knows That Businesses Don't

One of the delicious surprises in the short history of the Web has been the emergence of the most successful collaborative writing project in history: a nonprofit, worldwide effort that has produced millions of useful free articles in hundreds of languages. This project is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is easy enough for readers to navigate and easy for writers to elaborate on, in part because the entire site follows a set of structural rules. Wikipedia makes millions of articles look consistent, a fe...

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Conservapedia Is No Pedia

Conservapedia was founded in 2006 by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly started Conservapedia as an avowedly conservative, Christian encyclopedia for home-schoolers and all other right-thinking folks. Conservapedia uses the wiki platform and the wiki principle of multiple contributors (albeit more controlled than Wikipedia), but the resemblance ends there. Conservapedia is small by comprehensive encyclopedia standards; it only has about 34,000 articles. However, it does go...

Copyright: A Partial Victory for Georgia State

In April 2008, a trio of academic journal publishers filed a lawsuit against several officials and the president of Georgia State University (GSU). In the Cambridge University Press, et al. v. Patton, et al case, the suit claimed that GSU had been engaged in "systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying" of the publishers' works. At issue was the copying of excerpts and articles from journals for use as course materials in classes taught by the faculty. The publishers specifically challen...

Credo and Abc-Clio Expand Partnership

Credo Reference Brings Ashgate Collection Aboard

Crgt Acquires Johnston Mclamb

Crusty Memories of Fernandomania and a Famous Chicken

People don't remember who the foils for the Double-A San Antonio Dodgers were or who the straight men were for the chicken who went on to become simply Famous. But they do remember the pitcher: Fernando Valenzuela, who was 1 year away from launching "Fernandomania" with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the major leagues. There was something right about Valenzuela, and it wasn't just that goofy-looking windup or his decidedly nonathletic build. It was his baseball smarts, his tenacity, and his perso...

Deepdyve Focuses On Key Phrase Search

DeepDyve, an online research rental service, was founded in 2005 by two scientists. The algorithm DeepDyve created delivers on a "key phrase," compared to the "key word" algorithm used by popular search engines such as Google. DeepDyve's technology enables users to search for and find their desired content and access it for an affordable price. Users can enter a query of up to 5,000 words long to locate the content they need. They can actually copy and paste an entire article into the search ...

Dialog and Wipo Help Developing Countries

Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology

Digital Library for Life

Ebrary Initiates Pharmaceutical Ebook Program

Ebsco Indexes Economic Content, Adds Databases

Everyone Plays at the Library: Creating Great Gaming Experiences for All Ages

Expert Consult Unlocks Citations

Elsevier's Expert Consult service, an online collection of reference books covering medical and surgical specialties, has been a valuable resource to more than 30 million scientists, students, and other health and information professionals worldwide. This is one of the reasons that a number of US librarians were flummoxed to see the citation pages of several reference works in the Expert Consult catalog behind a protected online wall. Instead of getting print citations in recent books purchas...

Eyeball Retention = Customer Retention

The author promised you the details on how to attract and retain users in an idea so brilliant that it could even excite the clever crew at Netflix. And here it is: Apply industrial-strength social networking to "viewables," which would include everything from streaming video to ebooks to open access (OA) scholarship. Netflix is aggressively promoting its streaming video options. The company has more than 17,000 streaming-video shows with more on the way. It connects its streaming service to ...

Facebook Debuts More Privacy Features

Fcc Streamlines E-Rate, Considers Broadband Access

Filemaker Updates Mobile Apps

Gale Replaces Biography Resource Center with Revamped Service