Category: Linking
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You can search Google, but only on their terms
The Serials Solutions Blog Libific reports that they’re no longer able to federate any of the Google offerings in their Federated Search product, 360-Search. Apparently the Google TOS states, “You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google,…
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Counterintuitive research on how online articles are cited.
The July 18 issue of Science has an interesting article titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago (Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 – 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473). I’ve seen research or statistics (note to self – go…
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E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use
“There is a danger that research libraries are adding e-books to their collections using agreements that significantly reduce users’ rights. There is some urgency to improve this situation before it becomes a de facto standard. The Task Group on E-Books makes two recommendations to the CARL Copyright Committee: to create or endorse a statement of…
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Google Book Search Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has published version 2 of his Google Book Search Bibliography. From the introduction: “This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where…
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Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition
From their press release: Primary Research Group has published Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition, (isbn 1-57440-101-7). Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and…
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One tough CAPTCHA!
Wow, here’s one of the tougher CAPTCHAs I’ve seen…: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-04-07-what-hath-captcha-wrought.html Technorati Tags: captcha
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‘Abortion’ is no longer a stopword
And now the Chronicle reports, The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has reversed itself and will no longer block searches for the term “abortion” in its popular public health database Popline. Searches for the word had been blocked because of concerns over federal financing. Technorati Tags: censorship, Johns_Hopkins, Popline
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‘Abortion’ is a stop word!
Holy crap! Article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed describing how the word ‘abortion’ is now a stopword in the Popline database. Meaning you can’t search for it. That’s insane! oooh, except if you go now, you CAN search on that word. Yay for the interwebs! Technorati Tags: censorship
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What’s up with Amazon’s Search Inside this Book?!?
Search Engine Showdown posts that Amazon appears to be dropping the Search Inside this Book feature! And the end of the post they note the apparent partial reappearance of the links, but when I went in today, while I could find plenty of logos on the book covers, I couldn’t search inside books that I…