Volume 37, Number 4 - July/August 2013
EDITORIALFrontLines Page 4 Whatever direction search is headed, information professionals need to be there first, waving directional signs and guiding people to the best search and discovery experience possible. By Marydee Ojala Searcher's Voice Page 33 Guest editorial writer Sue Feldman offers her views on InfoApps, drawing from her 2012 book, The Answer Machine. By Sue Feldman DEPARTMENTSPage 8 Search Engine Update New Search Features, Developments, and Content By Greg R. Notess Page 59 Conference Corral Medical Library Association; Association of College & Research Libraries FEATURESPage 10 The traditional metrics for determining journal and article quality—journal impact factor and citation counts—fall short in today's research world. Newer, alternative metrics take into account nontraditional scholarly outputs such as working papers, technical reports, datasets, and conference presentations. By Stacey Konkiel Page 16 Market Moving News via Social Media: Hazards Ahead The SEC recently ruled that public companies can make announcements via social media, specifically Twitter. This has profound implications for researchers who now need to include social media in their search strategies and for aggregators that need to determine how to incorporate tweets and status updates into their products. By Amy Affelt Page 20 Knowledge Management at GE and CCH Companies have different approaches to knowledge management, and a few share their systems outside their corporate walls—notably, General Electric's Access GE and CCH's CCH Knowledge Connect. By Barbie E. Keiser Page 24 Prospect Research  Prospect researchers help fundraisers find people with money and identify the causes they're likely to donate to and the probability that they will give. Marge King provides a wealth of sources or prospect researchers. By Margaret King Page 30 DonorSearch DonorSearch is a robust tool for prospect researchers, revealing not only how much someone is capable of giving but also their actual past philanthropy. By Joann M. Wlekinski Page 49 Open everything collides with information control Robert Steele, a longtime proponent of open source for intelligence research, expounds on his views that open source everywhere will liberate human imagination and create infinite wealth. By Stephen E. Arnold Page 52 EBSCO’s LIS Databases: Curb Your Expectations The opportunities presented by EBSCO to library and information science researchers are great, since EBSCO now offers three databases covering the discipline. Experienced librarian and adjunct faculty member Ruth Pagell explores the databases and comments on their strengths and weaknesses. By Ruth A. Pagell OPINIONMedical Digital Page 45 Do medical websites help people become more informed, proactive patients or paranoid hypochondriacs? To find out, Stephanie Ardito examines the types of consumer health information available on the internet. By Stephanie C. Ardito IN-DEPTH REPORTSPage 38 Goodreads: Social Media Meets Readers Advisory Is social media now replacing the reference role libraries have filled for more than a century? Herther looks at this issue as well as some of the more well-known online services, particularly Goodreads, recently bought out by Amazon.  For more on social media as a readers advisory, as well as a look at Amazon's acquisition history,
see this web-only SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT.
By Nancy K. Herther Page 42 Maps Come in From the Cold Terry Ballard tries out apps from the likes of Google and Bing that purport to help people navigate and find what they're looking for, floor-by-floor, from a painting in an art exhibit to a burger in a shopping center. Libraries are even starting to use them. By Terry Ballard COLUMNSInternet Express Page 35 Free Web-Based Apps for Libraries Irene McDermott wowed the interview panel to win the position of interim city librarian with this response to a question about how to stretch library dollars: "Implement free, web-based applications to improve the library's productivity." Here she shares some of these apps and where to find them. By Irene E. McDermott On the Net Page 61 Search Engine to Knowledge Engine? Recent developments at web search engines capitalize on known data to transform search into knowledge delivery, changing how search looks. By Greg R. Notess InfoLit Land Page 64 Making Connections Information literacy involves a great deal more than search; researchers must make connections to conceptualize a project from its initial stages to completion. By William Badke The Dollar Sign Page 67 The Big Three: Still Relevant? Are the Big Three — Dialog, Factiva, and LexisNexis—still relevant? What alternatives should be in the business researcher's toolkit? By Marydee Ojala EBook Buzz Page 70 What Librarians Need to Know About EPUB3 EPUB3 is a distribution and interchange format standard for ebooks that has ramifications for librarians in their collection development activities. By Sue Polanka Control-Shift Page 73 Making Your Website Accessible The task of creating an accessible site requires thoughtful design, awareness of the issues, appropriate techniques and methods, and consistent employment of these techniques. By Darlene Fichter Hard Copy Page 77 Recommended Reading on Ebooks and Social Media By Deborah Lynne Wiley Online Spotlight Page 80 Discovery Is the New Search The new strategic role for information professionals is to provide clients with something they didn't know or expect. By Mary Ellen Bates |
