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The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Update Week 19 http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the Info Professional. 7/12/01 Hello from Washington D.C. It=92s been both a busy and eventful week! I feel quite sure that you will find several new resources and news stories worthy of your attention. Pay special attention to the search engine stories added on Sunday and Monday. Under the Sunday header you=92ll find a few details about an upgrade AllTheWeb.Com. Under the Monday header, read about and find links to an exciting new/newly discovered general search resource, WISEnut. The Usual: This email update is *ONLY A SAMPLE* of what you will find on the actual weblog site. http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com The weblog is updated daily. --------- If you have any questions or comments, just drop me a note. Cheers, gary gprice@gwu.edu p.s. Thank you for continuing to let others know about the site. Feel free to forward this post. ---------------- Weekly Highlights #19 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com Thursday, July 12, 2001 Company News--Europe Press Release Services Source For European Company News: hugin From the site, "...financial press releases, reports, financial calendars and company profiles." Searchable. Material can also be sent (free) directly via e-mail. Information Technology--Lists and Rankings Source: Interactive Week Fast 50 From the page, "...Interactive Week's ranking of fast-growing, publicly held Internet product and services companies." --- Wednesday, July 11, 2001 Education--News and Information Current Awareness Tools Source: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse "Education Headlines" A very useful compilation (updated daily) with links to news articles about education from U.S. sources. NOTE: This service can also be delivered to you as a daily e-mail message. Full-Text Resource Shelf Human Development--Worldwide Source: United Nations Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work For Human Development Note: The "Indicators" Database for Fast Access To Stats --- Rail Safety--United Kingdom Source: Health & Safety Executive The Ladbroke Grove Train Inquiry 268 page .pdf --- Food Consumption-Worldwide Source: USDA Changing Structure of Global Food Consumption and Trade 111 page .pdf --- Envrionment--Canada--Statistics Source: Enviroment Canada Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-1999 --- Tuesday, July 10, 2001 Education--Database Testing--Database ERIC/AE Abstracts in Progress Database Now Available Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation "The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (ERIC/AE) now offers an experimental database of abstracts of the most recent articles and papers on assessment, evaluation, research methods, and learning theory. The database is updated weekly and enables you to search for recent materials not yet posted to the ERIC database." Info Industry--Dialog Research Tools--Add-Ons Hello to Dialog IQ From the site, "The Dialog IQ application is an easy-to-use desktop search application..." It's free to download and use. You do need to be a Dialog, DataStar, NewsLine or Profound customer. --- Monday, June 9, 2001 Web Search=97WISEnut Something New To Try A General Web Search Engine: Query-Sensitive Searching With WISEnut So, you want another general web search tool to try and make use of? WISEnut maybe worth some of your attention. A Very Quick Overview --The WISEnut spider creates the WISEnut database. They do not purchase a database from a third party --No Boolean, + and =96 signs can be used --Searches 25 Languages --Common Stopwords Searchable with A + in front of the term(s) --Provides an =93adult=94 content filter, =93WISEwatch=94 --Site clustering, number of results presented, languages searched can be set by user --Currency: I found several pages that were about 3 weeks old ---- Sunday, July 8, 2001 Web Search--AllTheWeb New Interface, Features Now Online Reference Tools--Dictionaries Source: AP Early Review of Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, "Inconsistent Definitions" --- Saturday, July 7, 2001 Business--International--Lists and Rankings Forbes International 500-2001 --- Friday, July 6, 2001 Invisible Web Coursey Tackles the Invisible Web ZDNet columnist David Coursey with another column about the Invsible Web. I am thrilled to see that the "direct search" resource I compile is mentioned. Remember, I do my best to add new and newly discovered IW resources to this weblog. Business--Sports Web Compilation: Sports Business Resources Compiled by Rodney Fort, a member of the Econonics Dept. faculty at Washington State University. If your looking for numbers involving the business of sports (college, pro, or stadiums) this is a great place to begin. Many of the specific numbers are available in a spreadsheet format that includes a full bibliographic citation. Scroll the left frame to get a sense of what is available. Very useful if you are looking for older data. -- Thursday July 5, 2001 Web Search--FirstGov Source:GovExec "FirstGov Web Portal Deluged With Citizen E-Mail" It seems that people think FirstGov is more of an online reference service and not a directory/search resource. From the article, "Many citizens just don=92t know where to go for answers to their questions about the federal government,=94 said [Deborah] Diaz [Deputy Associate Administrator of the Office of FirstGov]. The number of feedback e-mails has diminished, while the number of queries looking for responses has increased.=94 Web Directories--JoeAnt Source: SearchDay An Introduction to JoeAnt A few weeks ago we included a link to JoeAnt, a new web directory. Today, Chris Sherman, our friend and co-author, provides us with a complete review. ---- Weekly Highlights #18 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University gprice@gwu.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. 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