MORE 'ONLINE-RESEARCH-REFERENCE' POSTS
From Computerworld: NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding illegal content on video sharing websites, it said Tuesday. The company’s “Media-Serpla” software makes digital signatures for each frame in a video and stores them in a searchable database. NEC says it allows […]
Database Statistics: Citations Added to MEDLINE Database by Fiscal Year (Updated Chart/Table)
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Via the NLM Web Site Data for Past Three Fiscal Years (Complete Chart Includes Data for FY 1995 – FY 2011) Fiscal Year # Citations 2011 724,831 2010 699,420 2009 712,675 Indexed citations are those citations selected for MEDLINE that have completed processing and indexing with current MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings®). Indexed citations have a […]
A new blog post from Ancestry.com reports that the company has now made all scanned images (more than 3.8 million) of the 1940 U.S. Census available on their platform. The company also points out that they’ve indexed all of the names found in the 1940 Census for two states, Nevada and Delaware, and made those […]
New from the National Council of State Legislatures and the Pew Center on States: From the Database Intro: Current legislation on pensions and retirement is available in a searchable database. You can search 2012 pensions and retirement bills by topic, primary author, state, bill number, status or keyword. The database is updated every two weeks. […]
Information Technology: IT History Society Adds New Research Database
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Preservation
From the News Release: The IT History Society’s (IThistory.org) growing library of databases now includes a hardware database of all information technology hardware ever manufactured. The initial library consists of over 2,000 entries and it is growing by over 100 per day. The database is located on the web at http://ithistory.org/hardware/hardware-name.php “The IT History Society’s […]
From the LinkedIn Blog: Group search helps you search across all the groups on LinkedIn and find the right group for you. We’ve made several improvements to make your search results smarter and more relevant. First, instead of relying on the title and description of the group, we give you the best results based on […]
From the PACER Web Site and the PACER Quarterly Newsletter: Lasting only a few minutes each, the tutorials are a quick and fun way to learn something new about PACER or to brush up on your existing PACER skills. Starring Ms. Gavel and Mr. Sound Block, current topics include the PACER Case Locator, Digital Audio […]
As we pointed out a few week’s ago we haven’t heard a lot from Google Scholar in the past year while Microsoft has been doing great work with the Microsoft Academic Search product. However, in the past couple of days Google has announced a useful enhancement by adding some metrics for publications in GS database. […]
From the New Jersey State Courts: A searchable index of more than 80,000 attorneys licensed to practice in New Jersey is now available on the Judiciary website, njcourts.com. The database includes the date of admission to the bar, the status to practice law in New Jersey, and the county and municipality of the business office […]
Transportation: New Global Database on Bus Rapid Transit Launched
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From Embarq (World Resources Institute): Three global organizations have teamed up to launch the most comprehensive, public database of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world. The new site, BRTdata.org, was created by EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute’s center for sustainable transport, and the Across Latitudes and Cultures – Bus Rapid Transit Centre of […]
