One of the great pleasures of attending ScienceOnline earlier this year was that I finally got to meet Sol Lederman of the Federated Search Blog. During our chat (which came about via the gentlemanly assistance of Walter Jessen) Sol mentioned that his brother Abe Lederman of Deep Web Technologies was working in conjunction with the [...]
Archive for the ‘Search Engines/Databases/Web Tools’ Category
Multilingual WorldWideScience: Accelerating Scientific Research, Empowering Researchers
July 6, 2010
DeepDyve Does It Again: Fascinating Developments in Scholarly Publishing and Scientific Communication
February 11, 2010
I have been meaning to write about the latest quite fascinating doings at DeepDyve for several weeks. They are of interest to all of us who follow the news in research methods, scholarly publishing, e-content, online publishing, librarianship, Web matters and so on. Not to mention intriguing business models and interesting alignments of search/Web companies [...]
The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider
January 9, 2010
Before we begin, Dr. Williams, I would like to give readers a bit of background on why those of who are not chemists should know who you are and why ChemSpider is important. I came to learn of you as I have been trying, as the saying goes, to “wrap my head around” the concepts [...]
Federated Search Writing Contest–Learn as You Write and There is a $1,000 Prize to Boot
December 8, 2009
Listen up, info pros. Here is a chance for library science students, librarians in many fields, and those in the search industry and in the field of information science to not only win as much as $1,000 but to get their travel and lodging expenses covered for a trip to Computers in Libraries 2010 and [...]
A TRIP Down Database Lane: A Talk With Jon Brassey
October 29, 2009
Before we begin, Jon, I’d like to give readers a bit of background on how I came to learn about the TRIP Database and why they should know about it. I envision the readers of this interview as most anyone in medicine and healthcare who needs to search for medical information as well as non-medical [...]
