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Search Engines
Some folks e-mailed after last week's column
and complained that there wasn't enough information on how to put a search
engine on an individual site. Okay, we can expand on that a little bit.http://www.searchtools.com/,
put together and maintained by Avi Rappoport, provides tons of information
on search tools you can put on your site.
There are also some software packages that will search individual sites. I didn't mention those because I've never used them myself, didn't want to force you to install massive amounts of software, and wanted to give you solutions you can use even if you're not using your own computer. With that in mind, you can check out SelfSeek (http://www.selfseek.com/selfseek.htm ) for a software-based site search solution.
IDEAL Launches Pay-Per-View Service
IDEALOnDemand is a pay-per- view service that
allows the user to access all articles in Academic Press and Harcourt
Health Services journals on IDEAL. The user must select an article, agree
to its terms of use, and pay for the use by credit card.
The site is available at http://www.idealibrary.com/. If you don't have cookies turned on the first thing you'll get is a "cookie error" page telling you to turn cookies on. Feh. You can browse a (long) list of all the journals available here.
It starts with Advances in Applied Mathematics and ends with the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Browsing is not required, however; you may do a search of all the journals on the front page. Subsonic found 66 results.
Results are giving in slightly-difficult-to-read list. From the results page, you can view an abstract of the article, see related articles, or see the PDF. If you decide to see the PDF, you're given the price of the article (the first subsonic article was $35.00) and the option to purchase 24-hour access to it. (That means you may access it for 24 hours, not that it's accessible 24 hours a day indefinitely.) If you're not sure that the article will be appropriate, you can view a sample issue of the journal from which the article comes. Worth a look.
New Pharmaceutical Site For Healthcare
Professionals
Facts and Comparisons has launched DRUGFACTS.com, a new pharmacy
reference site. The site's content is available on a free and subscription
model basis to registered users.
The site offers free access to the printed content of numerous Facts & Comparisons titles including A-Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and The Guide to Popular Natural Products. On a subscription basis Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Interaction Facts, and the Review of Natural Products are available.
The library is available from the "library" tab at the top of http://www.drugfacts.com. In the case of resources like A-Z Drug Facts, you may search the materials or browse the drug listings by name. The drug facts include actions, dosage, adverse reactions, precautions, and lab test interferences. The other resources look solid, what I could see of them.
The Guide to Popular Natural Products only lists 125 products, but my attempts to stump it failed. Drug Interaction Facts requires registration and subscription. Medfacts (for patient education information -- it looks like the printouts you may or may not get from the pharmacy when you pick up a prescription.)
This site also has a lot of other material, including FDA news and information, several communities, and adverse drug reaction news. I was pleasantly surprised at how much material was available for free (not even requiring registration.) Worth a look.
Fourth
Quarter Update On The Oil And Gas Industry On The Internet
The number of CATSites for the Oil and Gas industries have grown to
more than 5,321. All the databases have been updated and verified for the
Q4 2000. The Upstream database has grown by 40% and the Downstream by 39%.
The new database is available at
Population
Reference Bureau -- Count the World
If you want to know how many and how much,
check out the Population Reference Bureau at http://www.prb.org/.
The Bureau contains lots of information, including a world population data
sheet (with information on infant mortality and projected populations in
the next 25 and 50 years), a U
There's also topical news, related sites, and a list of topics on the right side of the screen. Lots of stuff here; worth a look.
Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL
Syntax
So Google last week sent out this big braggy
press release about how everyone adores them. They skipped the REAL news:
Google now partially supports title and URL special syntaxes.
The title special syntax is allintitle:
. So if you want to find ResearchBuzz in a title, the query looks like this:allintitle:researchbuzz
However, once you've used that special syntax, you can't use anything else. For example, if I tried this query:
researchbuzz allintitle:researchbuzz
it wouldn't work. Now, this query would work:
allintitle:researchbuzz news
But if you look carefully at the results, you'll see why --Google is finding both the words researchbuzz AND news in
the title of the pages returned.Now, there IS one exception to this. You can use a NOT with
this syntax. For example, if you try this query:allintitle:researchbuzz -news
You'll only get a few results. This comes in more handy when
you're restricting your research to an URL. If you want to restrict your search to an URL, you do it this way:allinurl:
That finds your word only in the URL of a page. so you could
do:allinurl:neruda
If you wanted to restrict the kinds of sites you get, you
could do this:allinurl:neruda -com -net -org
That will give you far fewer results.
Infotrieve
Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder
The official release is the first quarter of
next year, but if you're a periodical research junkie you might want to
check out the pre-release version of Infotrieve's new article finder --
you can get to it at http://www4.infotrieve.com/search/ArticleFinder.asp.
The press release mentions that the full release will have over 500 e-journal publications in its database, but I don't know what the pre-release version has. Searching for hypothyroid and adrenal found 4 results (hypothyroid search found almost 900 results.) One twist; phrases are denoted with single quotes or the syntax ADJ, not double quotes. So
synthetic ADJ hormone or 'synthetic hormone' will each find only a few results. "synthetic hormone", on the other hand, will ignore the double quotes and act like the query synthetic OR hormone (you'll get over 30,000 results) so watch your step.Once you've found appropriate results, you can link to a bibliographic record, the table of contents of the journal in which an article is featured, and a link to the entry at PubList! Unfortunately I can't tell you how the ordering procedure went. Every time I tried to order an article I got a "the parameter is incorrect" error. Well, I suppose it's not the official release for a reason. The search facility works fine, anyway, so you can get an idea of what materials are available from ArticleFinder.