Article on impartiality of search engines

I knew there was a good reason to use Google..

We Get What They Pay For

Good article on the impartiality or not of search engines. I knew there was a good reason to use Google..
www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020225-88465531.htm
Good article by Nat Hentoff on the effect of the Patriot Act on Libraries.

The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals
By Mary Minow
www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm

An article on the legal and technical problems for US libraries after 9/11.

COMPLETELY UNRELATED DIVERSION
For when your brain hurts from writing, reading and thinking. Go to Google.
Enter two English words. Get one and only one result. It's called googlewhacking.
Examples
eutrophication beneficence
fleecy schadenfreude

There are web sites where you can post these and see others but that seems unnecessary.
Richard

Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear
Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear
The article talks about 'your' data but it could be the libraries data just as easily.

This is quite an insightful article on the changing academic library from the SF Chronicle. Has some good points

A new chapter for libraries: Preference for online research has its price

From Ebsco Academic.
"Assessing the Functionality of Web-Based Versions of Traditional Search Engines
Online 25.2 (Mar/Apr 2001), p18, 7p.
Available in full-text in Ebsco.

"Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright"
a becoming famous article on Open Source. Moglen was a IBM Systems programmer for decades before becoming a Law Professor, so when he talks about software, you know he's seen both sides. When I read this at the gym on the bike, I got looks, then questions, then a lending list! I thought it would be dry, au contraire!
"Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright"
"The spread of the Linux operating system kernel has directed attention at the free software movement. This paper shows why free software, far from being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the vital first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system. ."

Quill & Quire (Feb. 2002, 68:2, p. 18). It is titled: The
Crisis in School Libraries: How did we fall so far so fast? - Devastated
budgets, outdated collections, untrained staff: a decade of neglect takes
its toll.

This is not strictly related to LIBR1111 but it is big news for any of you who are or will be working in the Medical field.
This site organizes journals by when they become free (some after 2 years, some immediately) and by subject. If you are searching
in PubMed, you can keep this source in another window and do instant checks from your citations.

I've seen these sites develop, this looks to be the biggest one yet.

Free Medical Journals