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Search Engines for Tomorrow's Scholars
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Fagan, Jody Condit – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
Today's scholars face an outstanding array of choices when choosing search tools: Google Scholar, discipline-specific abstracts and index databases, library discovery tools, and more recently, Microsoft's re-launch of their academic search tool, now dubbed Microsoft Academic Search. What are these tools' strengths for the emerging needs of…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Search Engines, Databases, Online Searching
Redundancy and Replication Help Make Your Systems Stress-Free
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Mitchell, Erik – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
In mid-April, Amazon EC2 services had a small problem. Apparently, a large swath of its cloud computing environment had such substantial trouble that a number of customers had server issues. A number of high-profile sites, including Reddit, Evite, and Foursquare, went down when Amazon experienced issues in their US East 1a region (Justinb 2011).…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Computer System Design, Online Systems, Gateway Systems