The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 26, June 26, 2005, Article 3

LIBRARY ARTICLE ACCESS SERVICE ON THE WAY

"Thomson Gale, which provides online access to articles
found in newspapers, journals and magazines, unveiled on
Friday a service that's meant to drive more web traffic to
local libraries, which are often discounted in the digital age.

The AccessMyLibrary.com service steers people using
general search engines, such as Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.,
to digitized articles available through their local public libraries.
People also can go directly to AccessMyLibrary.com to
access the material.

The service is scheduled to be officially announced in beta
next week at the American Library Association conference
in Chicago."

"Content owned by Thomson Gale, one of the largest
providers of library reference information, had been available
only through local libraries' websites. To help boost traffic, the
company has made its content searchable by web crawlers,
so it can be displayed among general search results.

People who click on the links will be directed to AccessMyLibrary.com,
which will authenticate that they are members of a library
before retrieving the information. The library must be a customer
of Thomson Gale, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich."

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[This could be useful for numismatic researchers. Many
publishers such as The New York Times move articles off
the web into archives. Those researching modern issues,
such as U.S. commemoratives and the state quarter series
quickly lose access to great information, which would become
searchable and accessible again with this new service.
-Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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