Alacritude Turns a HighBeam on Research by Paula Hane. Newsbreaks (Jan 26)
Alacritude has changed its name to HighBeam Research. This will incorporate its e-Library and Researchville services, and in time include an enhanced version of Encyclopedia.com.
eLibrary has 2600 sources with 28 million articles. Searching is free but viewing articles costs $99.95 US / year. The Web search is a metasearch using several engines. Groups can be modified to have only the engines you wish to your. Together they form a "research engine". The tab for "reference search" will be added in March 2004 (or so).
"Patrick Spain, founder, chairman, and CEO of HighBeam Research, sees the new service as filling an important niche. “Until now, a research service like this was only available to large enterprises—individuals were forced to make do with less effective research options, such as advertiser-driven free online search engines. HighBeam Research helps its members to become effective researchers by bridging the vast gap between free online search engines and high-end information services that large enterprises utilize.”'
Actually, some public libraries offer cardholders online access to e-LIbrary through their web site.
Posted by Gwen at January 26, 2004 03:33 PM