Week 5: Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk,

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The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk, 
New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the 
Info Professional.


4/4/01

Hello from Washington!

Quite a week for new documents, sites, and news!

Your weekly highlight list follows. Please stop by throughout the week for new
resources and news of interest to the information professional.

The Usual
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cheers,
gary



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Weekly Highlights #5
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com


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Wednesday, April 04, 2001
Higher Education
"MIT To Post Most Course Materials On The Web"


Web Tools--Updates
Quickbrowse & EQuill

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Tuesday, April 03, 2001
New Database--Science
Web Search--Science
Focused Crawler--Science
Elsevier Science Officially Launches Scirus.Com

Web Portals--Business
Business.Com Version 2.0 Launched

New Database--Invisible Web
Agriculture--Imports/Exports--United States
U.S. Trade Internet System

Future Search
P2P Search--Infrasearch
Learn More about Infrasearch
Recently, this p2p search technology was acquired by Sun.

http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com

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Monday, April 02, 2001
Education--Directory
The Education Resource Organizations Directory has been updated.

Full-Text Document Shelf
Electronic Dissemination of Information--U.S. Government
Electronic Dissemination of Government Publications GAO-01-428


Higher Education--Graduate Schools--United States
Higher Education--Graduate Schools--Rankings
U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools 2002 Now Online

http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
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Sunday, April 01, 2001
Web Searching--Semantic Analysis
"Can Computers Understand the Meaning of Words? Maybe, in the New World of
Latent Semantic Analysis"

Web Search--AltaVista
Langauge Translation
AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service Now Offers Translation for Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean Languages

Sports--Baseball--Team Values--Lists
Source: Forbes
Major League Baseball Team Values

http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
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Saturday, March 31, 2001

Info Industry--CorporateAffiliations.Com
A Reference Classic, The Directory of Corporate Affiliations Now on the Web
via CorporateAffiliations.Com

Info Industry--Hoover's
Hoover's Adds Dun & Bradstreet Lookup Service

Numerous New Canadian Government Documents

http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
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Friday, March 30, 2001

Energy--Outlook
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
International Energy Outlook 2001

Business--United States--Rankings
The Business Week 50

Full-Text Document Shelf
Census--United States
Population--United States
Population Profile of the United States: America at the Close of the 20th
Century

http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
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Wednesday, March 28, 2001

Cool Tools
Need to Create a Simple Graph? Here is an Interactive Online Tool

Info Industry News--Hoover's
The Wireless Librarian
The Birth of Hoover's Wireless

Canada--Parliament--Lists
Two historical lists from the Canadian Library of Parliament in Ottawa.
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Weekly Highlights #5
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com





Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
George Washington University
Virginia Campus Library
Gelman Library
Ashburn, VA and Washington, D.C.
gprice at gwu.edu

Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
George Washington University
Virginia Campus Library
Gelman Library
Ashburn, VA and Washington, D.C.
gprice at gwu.edu

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