Indexing

My Kind of Library

By |May 24th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on My Kind of Library

I love books, don’t get me wrong. But a library of wine? That is the newest library on the Cornell campus and it contains […]

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Preserving Time and History

By |May 24th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Preserving Time and History

The Associated Press (AP) has turned to digital preservation specialist Preservica to safeguard its corporate records and news wire services. CMS Wire brought this interesting information […]

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Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access

By |May 19th, 2016|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly […]

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Strengthening the Data

By |May 12th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on Strengthening the Data

A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came […]

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Finding the Data

By |May 3rd, 2016|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding the Data

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has acquired GlobalSpec, a leading source of news, data and analytics for the global engineering and […]

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One More Time With Feeling

By |May 2nd, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on One More Time With Feeling

In keeping with the music theme from last week’s post about naming music groups, and in light of recent events associated with Prince’s death, as well as the American Libraries Associations Preservation Week, let’s discuss what happens when archival and general search produces bad results. […]

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EBSCO and A New Open Source Project

By |May 2nd, 2016|News|Comments Off on EBSCO and A New Open Source Project

A new initiative is underway to create open-source software for academic libraries. The project is in collaboration with Index Data and Kauli OLE, and […]

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New Additions to EBSCO’s Digital Archives

By |April 28th, 2016|indexing, metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on New Additions to EBSCO’s Digital Archives

Digital magazine archives from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) are now available for five Time Inc. brands, including the complete, extensive and searchable digital versions […]

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Thinking Outside the Words

By |April 21st, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Thinking Outside the Words

With necessity being the mother of invention, this particular blogger/developer created a tool to serve the purpose of a thesaurus construction application. You may […]

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Recording History for Future Searchers

By |April 19th, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Recording History for Future Searchers

Recording history is just one use of indexing data, but it is a pretty important one. Seventy years after World War II and the […]

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