by John Blossom
reprinted from www.shore.com/commentary
The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) is an interesting collection of institutions and publishers joining to tackle […]
by Alice Redmond-Neal
Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing
I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended […]
December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – […]
Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.
ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.
A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.
A law firm in Texas sough to create a virtual law firm that would leverage a Web-based practice management system and extensive use of social media. This goal of going paperless was made possible with Fortis.