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Press release: House Appropriations Committee Directs NIH to Ensure Tax-Funded Medical Research is Freely Available in Agencys Online Archive Related references and sources: Proposal to Expand Free Electronic Access to All Research Funded By NIH Chronicle of Higher Education (sub. req’d), House Committee Would Require Open Access to NIH-Backed Research : “A little-noticed provision in …
Reports on monitoring of employee website usage are not uncommon, but today’s New York Times article highlights how blocking specific sites can impede work product. This can certainly be the case not only in the newsroom but in law firms and other corporate environments where competitive intelligence monitoring has become increasingly important.
The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center [4800 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, Phone: (410) 624-2090, Fax: (410) 764-7664]: “The Center will search the world over for information leading to the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and World War II. Nearly every inquiry that is processed by the Center is forwarded …
Following up on previous postings, Authority of Vast Collaborative Online Encyclopedia Questioned and Wikipedia Continues to Confront Controversy and Wikipedia Continues to Generate Headlines, related news today from the New York Times: Growing Wikipedia Revises Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy
Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly, by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, June 15, 2006.
Press release: “Google today announced Google U.S. Government Search, a new search product that will make it easier to find U.S. government information and keep up to date on government news. With Google U.S. Government Search, millions of U.S. government employees, various contractor organizations, as well as the general public can easily search across content …
Press release: “Americans prize public library service in the Internet Age, a new research report released today by the nonpartisan public opinion research organization Public Agenda concludes. As local communities and states contend with tight budget constraints for public services, the public sees libraries as potential solutions to many communities’ most pressing problems, from universal …
“The Competitive Intelligence Foundation’s State of the Art: Competitive Intelligence Research Report ($) helps chart the progress of the competitive intelligence (CI) field. This report provides CI practitioners significant information on how competitive intelligence can support their organizational environment information that can be used by all practitioners to improve their effectiveness.” Free executive summary …
The programmer as journalist: a Q&A with Adrian Holovaty – Washingtonpost.com’s Web tech guru answers questions about programming’s role in news reporting and presentation.
From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey …
Press release: “The study presents data from a survey of 84 law libraries; data is broken out for law firm, university, government and private company law libraries, and by size of the librarys content budget. The study has approximately 300 tables of data summarizing a broad range of developments in law library policies regarding personnel …
AP reported that JFK archvist Allan Goodrich announced a huge digitization project to be completed by the end of 2007, which would provide web access to “48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video..” NARA press release: “Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and …
