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EndNote X3 offers the option to find the full-text of the references downloaded to your EndNote library. I’ve had excellent results with this feature for references downloaded from PubMed.

Before trying to find the full text you have to set your preferences in EndNote. Choose: Edit/Preferences/Find Full Text.

Check all four of the boxes on the preferences box, if they are not already checked.

Two URLs need to be added to the preferences box.

Google announced on December 17, 2009 an online transliteration tool that enables users to type phonetically in Roman characters to generate vernacular scripts in the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.  This tool is embedded in Google products like gmail, but they have also provided bookmarklets for each language that let you type in any text box on any web site.

In 2009 the Georgia Department of Education began to offer grants for schools to "pioneer the use of “handheld computing” to see if it engages students better than traditional book-and-paper methods."  Does this mean the next net gen -- perhaps even the current net gen -- expect to access and display all online resources for their classes on their smartphone/ipod touch/netbook?

Searching for reliable information at this stage of the digital evolution is not yet a seamless process. Not everything is digitized.

 LibX @ Emory is a Firefox extension that provides direct access from text you select on a web page to Emory University Library resources, WorldCat, and Google Scholar. Use the toolbar or right-mouse-click to search EUCLID, Databases @ Emory, eJournals @ Emory, WorldCat, or Google Scholar.