Google offers tool for users to block sites from search results - March 11, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has reportedly unveiled a tool that allows users to block unwanted websites. The move follows the company's recent announcement to improve the quality of its search results. Google has rolled out this new feature on google.com in English for… Read More
Universidad Complutense de Madrid opts for Serials Solutions services - March 11, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has adopted the Summon web-scale discovery service to improve the speed and accuracy of searching the breadth of its… Read More
Credo Reference content now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service - March 9, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and online reference library Credo Reference have extended their partnership allowing the reference content from Credo Reference to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata from Credo General Reference, Credo Topic Pages and… Read More
Università di Palermo opts for Serials Solutions services to simplify research process - March 4, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that the Università di Palermo has selected the Summon web-scale discovery service and 360 Link to further increase the discoverability and access to its library collections.… Read More
Google updates search engine algorithm to weed out low-quality sites - February 28, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced changes to the way the company's search engine algorithm works. The update, designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites and provide better rankings for high-quality sites, is projected to affect nearly 12 percent of search queries. … Read More
Pubget announces availability of latest search solution – Pubget Repositories - February 25, 2011
Pubget Inc, the search engine for life science pdfs, has announced the availability of its latest search solution, Pubget Repositories. Repositories claims to be the first federated search solution for online and locally stored content that uses Pubget's patent-pending Path Engine. It is specifically built for… Read More
Universities in Turkey select Serials Solutions Summon service - February 24, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that three prominent universities in Turkey have chosen the Summon web-scale discovery service to make searching the full breadth of their collections and resources faster and… Read More
Middle East Technical University in Turkey selects suite of EBSCO products - February 16, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the Middle East Technical University (METU) has selected its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). After evaluating a variety of services METU chose EDS based on the discovery service's sophistication and development. EDS was seen as a… Read More
PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS databases now searchable via Deep Web Technologies vertical search portals - February 16, 2011
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that it is providing access to citations in its PsycARTICLES and PsycBOOKS databases through Deep Web Technologies' MedNar and BizNar search portals. PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the… Read More
University of Twente in the Netherlands selects Primo and the Primo Central Index from Ex Libris - February 11, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Twente in the Netherlands has selected the Primo Direct package. Deployed as a cloud-based solution, Primo Direct and the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-content will provide users with a unified search… Read More
