Celebrating Reference Extract

Reference Extract is a new, driving, mandate that we fully support in every ken and yaw:

Reference Extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, Reference Extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe.

Users will enter a search term and get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the University of Washington, the State of Maryland, and over 1,400 libraries worldwide. This grant will support planning for Reference Extract and building the foundation necessary to implement it as a large-scale, general user service.

We appreciate the effort to give some sort of watchdog form to expressionless online portals like Wikipedia that are user-provided and self-regulated and librarians are the obvious, magnificent, minds we need providing direction and light.

We need outside, critical, cogent, analysis of any research source, and Reference Extract is an excellent effort forward.