Read Richard Poynder in conversation with Subbiah Arunachalam, a member of the dLIST Advisory Board and well-known OA advocate. While the conversation is about OA in India, many of the reasons advanced for the importance of OA apply to fragmented disciplines like Library and Information Science as well. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-india-needs-open-access.html

A warm welcome to the newest dLIST Editor Dr. Paul Horng-Jyh Wu, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Paul will serve as the Editor for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Recent research by Paul and his team can be found in their forthcoming paper, deposited in dLIST, and titled A Hybrid approach to fuzzy name search incorporating language-based and textbased principles.

Anselm Spoerri would like to draw our attention to searchCrystal - which lets you search and visually compare multiple engines in one place. You can embed a customized searchCrystal on your blog and use this search visualization tool to compare, remix and share results from web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines as well as Flickr images or RSS feeds.