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Articles in May 2005 issue of Online

• The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a nonprofit membership institution devoted to the study of birds, announced the launch of The Birds of North America Online (BNA Online).(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• LexisNexis U.S. expanded its collection of Dun & Bradstreet content with the addition of the enhanced D&B Business Information Report and the Comprehensive Report.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Baker & Taylor and OCLC NetLibrary announced an agreement to facilitate delivery of a broader range of e-content to the library market.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Gigablast.(growth)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Techstreet offers free, unlimited standards tracking at its Online Standards Superstore.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Yahoo!(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• National Academies Press collection, ELPUB Digital Library, Columbia University Press.
  by Jacso, Peter
• H.W. Wilson added full-text and indexing coverage for 49 journals, 38 of them peer-reviewed, open access, to Education Full Text.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Thomson Financial launched Thomson Financial News, a tailored online news service delivered via the Thomson ONE solution suite.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• R.R. Bowker announced Ulrich's Resource Linker, a tool that integrates all of a library's periodicals through a single service and allows library patrons to click through to those holdings.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Google Desktop Search.(services)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• LexisNexis unveiled LexisNexis Market Intelligence, which allows law firm marketers and business development professionals to track litigation trends and evaluate growth or decline in their client and prospect markets.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Keeping up with the news: Web clipping and media analysis for competitive intelligence.(Cover Story)
  by Clegg, Helen
• Understanding your Web hosting options.
  by Guenther, Kim
• URL correction.(Correction Notice)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• ProQuest Information and Learning launched Curriculum Match Factor analysis, a new service to identify and incorporate the most-respected journals and the most-cited articles from its ABI/INFORM databases, to match up with the most-used textbooks in the m
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Seven publishers have signed agreements to add their journal content to MetaPress, the online hosting platform service that is part of EBSCO's Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Google News.(services)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• ISI Emerging Markets expanded its geographic coverage of Africa and Asia in its flagship Emerging Market Information Service (EMIS).(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Studying Google Scholar: wall to wall coverage?
  by Wleklinski, Joann M.
• Recommended reading on metadata, business intelligence, virtual reference, and hardware problems.(hardcopy)(Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval)(The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites,
  by Wiley, Deborah Lynne
• Price correction.(Correction Notice)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• The Knowledge Base Editor's Digest.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced a new sales model for its online book platform, Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Google Scholar.(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced the launch of the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Mapping solutions under $500.
  by Cline, Michael E.
• Furl it!(online spotlight)
  by Bates, Mary Ellen
• CSA and GeoScienceWorld (GSW).(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Swets Information Services.(appointments)(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Ingenta plc announced a new suite of services available as Ingenta-Connect Premium.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Lycos has dropped its previous underlying database from Yahoo! and switched to the Ask Jeeves database.(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Healthnostics, a medical and bioscience information analytics and patient care improvement company, has linked up with Reuters Health to provide a locally archived news database in conjunction with Reuters' archive distribution partner Valeo IP.(Brief Art
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Copyright clearances: first sale's slow fade.
  by Dames, K. Matthew
• Thomson Scientific announced the availability of Zoological Record on ISI Web of Knowledge.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Thomson Scientific & Healthcare.(appointments)(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• The Thomson Corporation and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division will provide ISI Web of Science subscribers who also subscribe to American Chemical Society Publications with links to the full text of articles from ACS Web editions an
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Factiva acquired the business and assets of 2B Reputation Intelligence Limited and Benchmarking Solutions Limited, a London-based technology and consulting business specializing in media monitoring and reputation management.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• The many faces of Edgar.(Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval)
  by Kassel, Amelia
• CrossRef announced the addition of the Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) as a content provider.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Scholastic.(appointments)(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• A9 and Amazon introduced "Find it on the Block," connected with their Yellow Pages sections.(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Northern Light deployed the first of a series of Market Intelligence Centers on its Business Research Engine.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Searching books between the covers.
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Opening up Google Scholar.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Questel Orbit announced the release of FamPat, its new international patent family database.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced the availability of FAST ProPublish, a complete enterprise search-based publication production management and delivery solution for professional and business publishers.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Ask Jeeves.(Ask Jeeves Inc. acquired Bloglines)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Blackwell Publishing announced the launch of Online Open, which offers authors the opportunity to make their articles freely available to Internet users in perpetuity on payment of a publication fee.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Resuscitation of a salesman: resources for sales professionals.
  by Ojala, Marydee
• Thomson Gale added more than 3,000 new entries and more than 1,100 full-entry updates to Contemporary Authors online.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Gale)(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• LexisNexis introduced PatentOptimizer, a software application for the drafting and analysis of patent applications and granted patents.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• iUpload, a content management and corporate blogging solution provider, announced a partnership with Pheedo, a company offering tools to create, promote, analyze, and optimize advertising in Weblogs and content feeds.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Copernic.(product enhancements)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• All generalizations are false, including this one.
  by Ojala, Marydee
• Google.(service introduction)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Library funding and the Foundation Center.
  by Plosker, George
• ProQuest Information and Learning will digitize the full run of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers as part of its program to support 19th-century scholarship.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Thomson West announced Information Technology (IT) Management Services to provide law firms and legal organizations with secure, guaranteed storage and access to critical legal and business data, applications, and archives.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Microsoft acquired peer-to-peer collaboration software company Groove Networks.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• Exalead.(growth and services)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Linking up with dialog.(Brief Article)
  by Sabroski, Suzanne
• MSN Search.(Microsoft Network L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
  by Notess, Greg R.
• Ten ways to foster better online writing.
  by Fichter, Darlene