Comparing Citation Indexing

An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment. Kathleen Blaur and Nisa Bakkalbasi. D-Lib. September 2005.
In addition to traditional journal articles, the new technology has made more kinds of documents accessible to researchers. These include preprints, technical reports, books and conference proceedings. The authors of this report compare citation counting in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.

Community Resource Sharing Via Broadband

The Dream of OneCleveland. Sari Feldman and Lev Gonick. Library Journal. September 1, 2005.
The Cuyahoga County Public Library (Parma, OH) and public ISP OneCleveland are making the resources of area academic and cultural institutions available to library users via an ultrabroadband network, thereby helping to meet the educational needs of the new century.

Is Google Building Own Internet?

Google Building Alternative Internet. Jim Hedger. Search Engine Journal. September 22, 2005.
Some Google observers are speculating that the search engine giant is planning to build its own private Internet.

Legality of Google Library Project

Google Takes On Copyright Laws. Associated Press (via Wired News). September 18, 2005.
While Google is planning to resume its scanning of library books, publishers are still concerned over its approach to copyright issues and won't rule out a lawsuit.

Measuring Relevance

Relevance Similarity: An Alternative Means to Monitor Information Retrieval Systems. Peng Dong, Marie Loh and Adrian Mondry. Biomedical Digital Libraries. July 20, 2005.
The authors of this research study propose a new method of measuring relevance,"Relevance Similarity." The method relies on comparing a group's assessment of search results with that of a subject expert, or "gold standard."

Google/s New Blog Search Tool

Google Unveils Blog Search Engine. AP (via CNN.com). September 15, 2005.
Google has created a new blog search engine which is expected to spark a new round of competition among its rivals.

Wikipedia Gaining on News Sites

News Junkies Find Wikipedia More than Encyclopedia. Eric Auchard. Reuters. September 6, 2005.
Research firm Hitwise reports that traffic to Wikipedia and its news site has increased 154 percent over the past year and is overtaking popular news sites such as New York Times on the Web and Drudge Report.

Digital Rights Management Restrictions

The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music. Electronic Frontier Foundation. September 2, 2005.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a guide that shows how, through digital rights management, the music that customers purchase online is not always theirs to use as they wish. A list of music services that do not use DRM is also provided.

Quantum Computing Advance

Researchers Clear Crucial Step to Quantum Computing. Emma Jolliff. PM (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). August 30, 2005.
Physicists in Australia have invented a way of briefly storing light inside a crystal.

Google Resumes Library Project

Google Extends Book Scanning Operation. Susan Kuchinskas. Internetnews.com. August 31, 2005.
Amid the protests of publishers, Google has resumed its book digitization project.