Summary
I recently reviewed Yahooi's Search Subscriptions service (www.search.yahoo.com/subscriptions), which has an interesting twist to the model of providing access to subscription-based content. At the Yahoo! site, you can select to search a subset of the content from Factiva, LexisNexis, FT.com, and several other sources.
I recently reviewed Yahooi's Search Subscriptions service (www.search.yahoo.com/subscriptions), which has an interesting twist to the model of providing access to subscription-based content. At the Yahoo! site, you can select to search a subset of the content from Factiva, LexisNexis, FT.com, and several other sources.It is almost staggering to see how many sources people now have for published articles. Perhaps the highest-profile option is from Google, that 800-pound gorilla dominating desktops everywhere. Google Scholar offers links to both free versions of articles, often pre-prints from the authors' Web sites, and publishers' sites -- requiring researchers to pony up $30 or more to download the article. Another longtime portal for the full text of sci-tech content is Scirus.com, a great example of providing integrated access to both open Web and peer-reviewed articles. This is a real challenge to info pros, and a lot of them are not accustomed to teaching their users about the limitations of consumer-oriented versions of the high-end databases they know and love.See the full content of this document
Extract
You're Searching What?!?
I got a call today from a client who-having already subscribed to a number of professional databases through EBSCOhost-realized that he was not finding what he wanted and asked if I could do his research for him. This is not an unusual conversation for us inf...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
