The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Update Week 18 http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the Info Professional. 7/5/01 Hello from Washington D.C. I hope your Summer is off to a great start. Another week of useful and interesting material on the weblog site. Here are a few of the highlights. The Usual: This email update is *ONLY A SAMPLE* of what you will find on the page. http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com If you have questions or comments, just drop me a note. Cheers, gary [log in to unmask] ---------------- Weekly Highlights #18 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ---- ---- Thursday, July 5, 2001 Business-Worldwide--Lists and Rankings Source: Business Week Business Week Global 1000 Companies ranked by market capitalization from 21 countries. Direct to Interactive List Direct to Complete List (.pdf) Direct to Complete List, by country(.pdf) ---- Wednesday, July 4, 2001 Future Events--Database Web Calendars New Service From Reuters: Kalends This link takes you to the free consumer oriented Kalends.Com site (searachable) that features, general interest, business, holidays, and trade show events set to occur in the U.K. and elsewhere. I did note some U.S. material. Reuters is also marketing several fee-based Kalends products to the enterprise market. From the news release, "KALENDS has content agreements with a number of niche event information suppliers including FENS (political dates); TSNN (worldwide conferences information); NetEarnings (US company results); Dynamic Listings (UK entertainment events); and Whereonearth (providing geolocation information to pinpoint event locations)." From a netimperative.com story, "The service makes use of more than 160 bureau diaries operated by Reuters about the world and includes information penned by the company’s journalists to provide up-to-the-minute details on its data service." See Also: WhatsOnWhen.Com ---- Tuesday, July 3, 2001 [7/3/2001 12:02:28 AM | g price] Web Search--FirstGov Source: Federal Computer Week New Search Technology On the Way For FirstGov Let's all hope they make a good choice. FirstGov as a keyword search tool has never lived up to the hype. From the article, "FirstGov has begun searching for a new search engine. General Services Administration officials, who run the governmentwide portal, are asking industry leaders, vendors and researchers to suggest "search service solutions" to power FirstGov in 2003 and perhaps earlier...Requirments include the GSA asking for an engine "that can crawl and index "unstructured government databases," such as large databases of geographic or numeric information that are expected to become accessible via the Internet". Some of this material currently resides on the Invisible Web. See Also: Read FirstGov's RFI from the Commerce Business Daily ---- Monday, June 2, 2001 Reference Tools--Encyclopedias Source: Crain's Chicago Business Meet the New CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ilan Yeshua From the article, "As a first step [in returning the company to profitabilty], Mr. Yeshua is overhauling the print set, the company's core business since 1768. This November, Britannica will release its first updated edition since 1998. And the firm plans to further beef up its publishing effort with a series of one- and two-volume reference books. Information Industry--ProQuest Digitization Projects Source: Chronicle of Higher Education "A Project Seeks to Digitize Thousands of Early English Texts" From the article, "Academic libraries are working with a major corporate partner, ProQuest Information and Learning, to create digital editions of 25,000 early English texts. A new database will hold fully searchable versions of works by Bacon, Galileo, Newton, and others, produced from 1475 to 1700." Web Databases--PubScience Invisible Web Source: Chronicle of Higher Education More on the Possible Elimination of PubScience Lead of Story, "A Web site operated by the U.S. Energy Department that allows scientists to search journals for citations and abstracts in the physical sciences is in jeopardy because of a bill approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill is accompanied by a report that recommends eliminating the service." See Also: "Current Science Group, Elsevier Science Offer New Science Services" (via InfoToday) ---- Sunday, July 1, 2001 Salary Survey--Internet Related Jobs Internet World Salary Survey 2001 ---- Saturday, June 30, 2001 Small Business--U.S.--Lists and Rankings Source: Fortune Small Business The FSB 100 From the article, "...America's fastest-growing small public companies, based on revenue growth, earnings growth and stock return." Direct to the FSB 100 List Archives--U.K. Invisible Web Archives Hub From the site, "The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although where possible they are linked to complete catalogue descriptions." -- Friday, June 29, 2001 Web Search--Google Source: Financial Review Google Grows in Popularity with Australian Searchers Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items) 2 New Reports from the U.S. Census America's Families and Living Arrangements: March 2000. Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Document - The Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States: March 2000 Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text Document Canadian Resource Shelf Source: Health Canada New Edition: 2001 Seniors Guide to Federal Programs and Services ---- Thursday June 28, 2001 Criminal Justice--United States Updated Resource: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online The Sourcebook now includes spreadsheet versions (.xls) of most tables. Direct to a List of Tables and Figures Canadian Resource Shelf Wealth--Lists and Rankings Source: National Post Business 40 Richest Canadians Under 40 Education--Academic Freedom New Web Resource: NEAR (Network For Education and Academic Rights) This organization was just launched. It’s sponsored by UNESCO. The site features background on the organization, alerts about recent incidents, and links to related resources. --- This email update is *ONLY A SAMPLE* of what you will find on the page. Weekly Highlights #18 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian Information Consultant, George Washington University [log in to unmask]