Searcher articles from July 2003

Searcher archives from July 2003

IPI? Yippee! (Searcher's Voice).(Information Professionals International)(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... A year ago, Searcher magazine ran a special issue on "The Third Millennium Information Professional: Tasks, Tools, Triumphs." We are still rather proud of that issue. (To scan and read several major articles from that issue, go to...

Can be built by engineers. (The Better Mousetrap).
July 1, 2003... "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." Don Marquis (1878-1937), U.S. humorist and journalist As a scientist, I find drumming up ideas for a journalistic column particularly challenging and writing them up equally...

International ocean science web resources part 1. (Information on the Seven Seas).
July 1, 2003... Asked to name an oceanographer of international stature, many of us might name Jacques Cousteau, Robert Ballard, or Sylvia A. Earle. Since the death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1997 and the 1998 International Year of the Ocean...

The privilege of ranking: Google plays ball. (Behind the Screen).
July 1, 2003... Here's a riddle: What do undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan (UM), the college football Bowl Championship Series, and Google have in common? Lately, I've been springing that riddle on people when we talk about searching....

The top 100 newspaper archives (or lack thereof). (Tribunes and Tribulation).(Illustration)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2003... The newspaper industry has finally figured out a way to join the digital world...and not lose print subscribers. How? Make it more cost effective to get the paper delivered than to use an archive online! Let me prove my thesis. I...

Peace at last! Eliminating telemarketing calls, spam, junk faxes, sweepstakes, and "pre-approved" credit offers. (The Sidebar).("do not call" list)
July 1, 2003... Imagine a dinner hour without some telemarketer calling. Imagine opening up your e-mail and discovering not one unsolicited offer. Well, if state legislatures and the federal government have their way, that happy Eden may be coming. Peace! It's...

Small content providers. (Emmerce).
July 1, 2003... When you think of content providers on the Net, you're probably thinking about the big guys: Ancestry. corn. Gale. The Wall Street Journal. As paid content has nudged its way into the online consciousness as an acceptable practice, lots and...

Digital dissertations from ProQuest. (Leading Libraries).
July 1, 2003... ProQuest Information and Learning (formerly University Microfilms Inc.) has indexed and published dissertadons since 1939. The Dissertation Abstracts database, which now contains more than 1.7 million entries, is the central and only...

Business Statistics on the Web: find them fast--at little or no cost. (Leading Libraries).
July 1, 2003... By Paula Berinstein; foreword by Charles Cotton Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more--yet good statistics are notoriously hard to...

What's what with Who's Who on the Web. (Internet Express).(Reed Elsevier/LexisNexis Group Marquis Who's Who on the Web)
July 1, 2003... See them lined up on the reference shelf: Who's Who in Ameri Ca, Who's Who in 20th Century America, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who Was Who in America, and, of course, my personal...

Early pioneers tell their stories part 2: growth of the online industry. (Online Before the Internet).(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2003... In Part 1 of this series, published in the June 2003 issue of Searcher, Roger Summit (Dialog), Carlos Cuadra (ORBIT), and Dick Kollin (Pandex, Magazine Index, Telebase, and EasyNet) described the initiation of the ORBIT Search Service at System...