Daniel Griffin reports from the Information Retrieval Facility Symposium 2008
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Google looks to have cleared the legal challenges to its digitisation of millions of out-of-print books for its Book Search Project. We report on the industry's reactions
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Online legal references linked back to source Daniel Griffin delivers his verdict on a tool that knits legal researchers and web together
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NLA believes that ClipSearch, its online newspaper clippings archive, can carve out a niche, in particular for small and medium-sized businesses looking to monitor their rivals’ media activity as well as their own press coverage.
Perhaps some creases need to be ironed out before the platform can excel, but Symphony e-Library has enormous potential
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Reviewed by Peter Williams
Editors: David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands
