Searcher articles from January 2002

Searcher archives from January 2002

Now or never! (Searcher's Voice).
January 1, 2002... The trouble with lemons-to-lemonade advice is that it assumes everyone getting the advice has a ladder and the will to climb a tree. Actually, the ladder is optional. If you can find a long stick, you can swing at the lemonladen branches until...

When Image is Everything: Finding and Using Graphics from the Web.
January 1, 2002... The Internet's major attraction, apart from information shared among authors, scientists, government agencies, and businesses, is its rich offerings in terms of sounds and graphics. Although looking at the original (or even a copy) of the "Mona...

The Scholars' Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting.
January 1, 2002... In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have...

The Perfect Storm: Seybold San Francisco 2001 Conference Report.
January 1, 2002... Produced by Key3Media Group, the Seybold San Francisco 2001 conference was held from September 24-28th. It was billed as a conference where the publishing, design, and media technology communities could learn about recent developments, exchange...

"Keep Me Posted...But Not Too Much": Challenges and Opportunities for STM Current-Awareness Providers.(Column)
January 1, 2002... Do your clients complain that half their e-mail volume consists of messages resulting from some keep-me-posted feature they are signed up for? Do they race through weekly tables of contents or topical alerts that they requested ages ago and...

My Rules of Information.
January 1, 2002... A few years back, just before doing my first bibliographic instruction session for a class of freshmen, I had to figure out what the few, most important things were we could teach them, the things we information professionals knew and the...

The Web as Safety Net: Weather-Related Catastrophes and Other Natural Disasters.
January 1, 2002... While the entire world is consumed with grief over the losses resulting from the 9-11 acts of terror, natural disasters take a toll each and every year. Indeed, as final edits are being made to this article, a rare, late season hurricane has...

Using the Web to Overcome Terror. (Internet Express).
January 1, 2002... It has been said that new media came of age during our recent wars. In the 1960s, television defined Vietnam. I know that I grew up on Walter Cronkite and the war on the evening news. CNN brought us around-the-clock coverage of the Gulf War in...

Correspondence.
January 1, 2002... MEDLINE Certification I just finished your article "The Blame Game." It seems to me that NLM or another appropriate outfit might want to set up a MEDLINE searching certification program--something to distinguish those with appropriate...