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The article provide examples and instruction on how to make acquisitions process of libraries more efficient with the use of technology-driven acquisitions model as compared to paper-driven acquisitions model. Topics discussed include retrieving the desired record in the cataloging module, using Google tools for filing, tracking and filtering and implementing time-saving strategies at one time.

Recommends several online resources for kite and airplane papercraft for elementary students. Virtual Kite Zoo; Kite Flying; Amazing Paper Airplanes; Beginners' Guide to Aerodynamics.

The article provides information on the pledge of the Gerstein Science Information Centre or Gerstein Library at the University of Toronto to practice reducing, reusing and recycling paper. Members of the Gerstein Library and the campus sustainability have observed that a large quantity of paper is being used for printing materials and the staff decided to practice printing double-sided. Several posters have been done on recycled paper and were exhibited as part of the information campaign. The posters explained the reasons of the regulation.

The article focuses on the reconsideration of paper-based knowledge management (KM), acknowledging past successes and advocating for a more selective approach to data accumulation. Topics discussed include the limitations of digital KM, the need for quality over quantity, and the importance of human oversight in assessing data integrity and relevance.

The article focuses on SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION. Topics discussed include COVID-19 has taken commodity prices and availability on a roller coaster ride that is only in the nascent stages of its journey; and the views of " Diana Haytko, professor and chairperson of the department of marketing and sup ply chain management at the East Carolina University College of Business, on it.

The article offers information on the intersection of AI, research, and its impact on scientific literature. Topics include concerns about the ethical implications of AI-generated content, fraudulent research papers created by paper mills, and the increasing retractions of scientific literature. The author reflects on the potential consequences of the rise in spurious publications on research impact metrics and raises concerns about research integrity.

Deals with the University of California's Social Sciences eScholarship Repository of working papers which eases the editorial and administrative labor of creating e-print repositories. Preservation strategies of librarians in the university; Technique used by the university to stimulate interest in the repository; Strategic value of repository.

The article discusses academic cheating and plagiarism. It states that students have always found ways to cheat on exams and term papers. Sharing papers and paying other students to do the work are some forms of cheating. The internet have made academic dishonesty easier and faster, the author says. According to the article, it is simpler than ever before to find other people's words on a topic and pass them off as your own with a simple copy-and-paste maneuver. Many sites offer off-the-shelf and ready-to-go term papers. In combating plagiarism, faculty are asking students to show their progress by requiring students to submit outlines, research notes, and drafts. These can demonstrate that the papers are indeed their own original work, the author adds.

Reports on the number of online sites which offer term papers to students. Estimated number of these sites as of March 1999; Prices per page which custom written term papers sell for; Use of credit cards; Subjects covered by the term paper sites such as current affairs, social sciences, and literature. INSET: Online Term-Paper Mills.

Features Kiplinger's Taming the Paper Tiger, a software/filing system tool kit created by Barbara Hemphill to organize paperwork and graphic information hassles. Approach of Hemphill in the software; Advice of Hemphill in implementing the system; Information on how the database interface is presented.

Presents information on the services offered by Researcha company for information professionals. Information on the Researcha Report Database which offers free research reports on a wide range of topics; Focus of the reports covered by the Researcha Report Database; Cost of subscribing to the database.

The article reports on the author's initiative to design and share fun, paper-based math games for diverse age groups, utilizing tools like LibreOffice Calc, and details the evolution of the Pairs Math Game, its varied versions, and potential uses in educational and community settings. The author also emphasizes promoting playful conversations about numbers and fostering a sense of agency in students to invent their math questions.

The article focuses on how to build a the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) library to support student research. Topics inlcude the role of bibliometrics in evaluating resources and building a STEM library collection in school libraries, the collection being to reflect the year long STEM Fair initiative for 4th–6th grade talented students, and the STEM special collections should support students being the result of the scientific method of systematic investigation.

The article offers information on the limelight video platform and discusses the features of the platform.

The article focuses on the challenges and complexities associated with citations in research papers. It highlights the importance of citations in validating information and guiding further research, but acknowledges the confusion and difficulties students face in understanding different citation styles and formats. It also discusses the role of citation generators in helping students create accurate citations and mentions several popular citation generator tools.

The article offers information on the legendary Eugene Garfield who set out to "propose a bibliographic system for science literature that can eliminate the uncritical citation of fraudulent, incomplete, or obsolete data by making it possible for the conscientious scholar to be aware of criticisms of earlier papers." It highlights that Garfield goes so far as to advocate for a metric that never gained much traction: the lifetime-citation count per paper.

Presents the author's views on the use of electronic paper or e-paper. Speculations on the merger between Adobe and Macromedia; Definition of e-paper from the Wikipedia; Forecasts on the use of e-paper and e-ink technologies.

The author cites and reflects on the research challenges faced by sophomore student Liw Ekdab in doing his research paper. A letter from Ekdab stating his sentiments over the lack of information sources libraries provide for the topic of his research paper which is about the looting of the Iraq National Museum of Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2003 and the limited availability of data Google Scholar and Google Books provide. The author also cites some of the lessons learned from the experience of Ekdab.

The article explores Conal Conference Alerts (conferencealerts.com) allows for searching academic conferences by topic (social sciences and humanities, mathematics and statistics, physical and life sciences, business and economics) and by country. AllConferences.com (www.allconferences.com) is a global online conference directory that includes conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, expos, and seminars. It is searchable by category, date, country, and venue.

The article discusses the use of called the Collaborative Category Normalized Citation Impact, or Collab-CNCI proposed by Clarivate. Topics include that it has qualities of the research landscape that hinder comparative analysis such as publications with multiple authors and publications with authors from multiple countries.

The article reports on the continued increase in electronic billing activity. The 2007 Consumer Bill Payment Survey showed that the volume of online billing activity exceeds the volume of paper bills paid by households that have Internet access. Even as consumers embrace the security, convenience and environmental-friendly assurances that e-billing affords them, billers do enjoy significant cost savings over paper-based billing, particularly when the value of customer relationships is factored in.

Reports on the launch of a Web site and digital services by the California Digital Library. Idea to store and distribute academic research results and working papers; Role of Berkeley Electronic Press in the development; Inclusion of papers authored or sponsored by the University of California.

The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

Offers tips on choosing a printer. Features; Applications; Performance; Print quality and speed; Power consumption; Cost issue; Noise, vibration, weight and size; Maintenance concerns. INSET: Printers: Editors' choices for 1995..

The article reviews the Royal's MultiValue application which provides a wide range of janitorial and cleaning supplies, support, and training for the industry.

The article offers information on increasing trends of genealogy with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions that Genealogy depends heavily on newspaper research to peel back the many layers of what makes up a life. It discusses that Newspapers.com has claimed to be the largest online newspaper archive.

The article discusses the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into publishing and database systems, focusing on Digital Science's approach. Digital Science has incorporated AI into its platforms, employing natural language processing to identify research themes like the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, enhancing user search experiences with AI-driven tools, and developing AI-powered summarization and answering systems .

Discusses the electronic book and its future as of September 1998. The electronic book as the paperless model; Distribution; Feature comparison for three electronic books; The question of who will read them; The initial marketplace; Company contact information.

This article focuses on the emergence of digital paper or epaper. The foundation of epaper is based upon the idea that it is easier for your eyes to read text from reflective surface than backlit displays. The broader, long-term goal is to develop a display technology that parallels paper in its readability, familiarity and portability while incorporating the ability to update the display wirelessly. The U.S. Army has established the Army Flexible Display Center to test the variety of existing epaper technology possibilities. Early in 2004 Gyricon announced that it had begun trial testing of its rigid-backed SmartPaper technology for use in grocery and retail stores. Replacing static pricing and unintelligent cash registers, Gyricon's system allows stores to update price displays wirelessly, simultaneously doing the same at the checkout lanes.

This article highlights several implementations of the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) archive, which is being implemented with different features by talented economists and programmers in many countries as varied as Sweden, Russia, Britain and the U.S. IDEAS is one of the many excellent implementations of the RePEc collection of free abstracts for more than 200,000 journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters and software. Over half of the abstracts have links to the full-text digital version. The other pick is a spectacularly well-implemented bibliometric service that delivers very informative statistics about the papers, journals, series and authors in RePEc. The pan is the American Economic Association's EconLit database, which is widely licensed by many college libraries and research centers, but is becoming increasingly less and less state of the art. The popularity of the RePEc archive and its services is superbly illustrated by the LogEc service, run by Sune Karlsson at the Economic Research Institute of the Stockholm School of Economics, which analyzes the server logs of the participating RePEc servers. EconLit is produced by the American Economic Association and available on many commercial online services, including CSA, Dialog, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, Science Direct and Silver Platter.

Comments on the features of the Common Ground software for prunting formatted files in computers. Easy conversion of formatted documents; Components of the software; Security feature of the software; Uses of the software's MiniViewer feature; Other capabilities of the software. INSET: Portable document formats..

Presents information on the SET commands of DIALOG. Advantages of SET commands; Example of using the commands; References.

The article discusses the webinar held by Database Trends and Applications in which scaling data policy management in the cloud was discussed. It mentions an explosion of data policies, sources, and users. There are five critical steps for data access management using a modern approach with automation, including facilitating stakeholder alignment, assessing data protection requirements, and designing the data access solution.

The article discusses that the punch line in the strip harkens back to when Richard Nixon was able to estimate a "collectable" value of his prepresidential personal papers and claim a charitable donation for a $500,000 deduction off of his tax bill.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that researchers using its Internet Database Service (IDS) can now link their search results to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Meeting Papers. More than 25,000 papers published since 1996 and abstracted in the CSA Aerospace & High Technology Database on IDS are linkable with the AIAA Meeting Papers service. According to the announcement, AIAA is the world's largest professional society devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation and space.

Comments on the call for a book on the future of medical libraries by the American Library Association. Details on the date which the book is expected to appear; Speculation on the reaction anticipated from `ONline' readers; Details on the future of the concerning PowerPoint.

The article offers a look at the problems associated with the efforts of small newspapers to publish their online versions. The costs associated with electronic publishing hinder the efforts of small newspapers to take advantage of the popularity of the Internet. There are Web sites that publish papers online for free. Such Web sites do not charge the publishers but charge the users a fee for access. These sites ask a publisher to send a microfilm containing the papers to be published online. Since most small newspapers do not have microfilm, entrepreneur Paul Jeffko thought of digitizing as a method of online publishing. In May 2005, SmallTownPapers was launched by Jeffko providing an area for small newspapers to be published online by digitizing original pages.

Focuses on the increased use of library electronic reference sources. Advantages of such reference sources; Impact on the use of paper reference tools; Discussion on maintenance and management issues on electronic sources.

The article reports that reference manager ReadCube purchased Papers from Springer Nature, where the deal sought to combine Papers reference manager into products like ReadCube Connect.

The article offers information on the responsibilities for engaging the research community, discussions of findings and conclusions online, and responses to comments on social media. It mentions that scholarly communication librarians (SCLs) partner with researchers in the scholarly publication lifecycle; and also mentions researchers are search engines specifically designed to find scientific papers and digital platforms for sharing the data behind the experiments they describe.

The article discusses concerts, festivals, and in-person gatherings for 2020, has plenty of pent-up demand for large-scale events as head to 2021. Topics include Algorithm Series delves to the math and workflow decisioning used to finetune live video event delivery at scale; and live-streaming solutions focus on unicast delivery, in a single connection between the video streaming server and the end user's streaming player.

Offers guidelines for purchasing color printers. Advantages and drawbacks of color printers; Description of several color printers including Hewlett-Packard's DeskJet line, Epson Stylus Color and Apple StyleWriter.

Mentions three books on electronic publishing. `The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats,' by Karen Butter, Robin Chandler and John Kunze; `Libraries, Educational Institiutions, and Copyright Proprieters: The First Collision on the Information Highway,' by Laura N. Gasaway; `The Librarian as Publisher: A World Wide Web Publishing Project,' by Mark Stover.

Reports on the decisions made by the Academic Library of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas to replace printed indexes with electronic ones. Options; Indexes cancelled; Things considered in the selection.

The article explores Clarivate's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) proposed a new Collaborative CNCI (Collab-CNCI) indicator to analyze the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In its report, "Making It Count: Research Credit Management in a Collaborative World," ISI confirms that highly collaborative papers can distort summary results at a national and institutional level.