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Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Searching the net is an essential component of ones online life and a variety oftools meant for it are in place.The distinct feature of the search tools arena is the incessant inflow of new tools. Before settling down with a tool, one finds another one appearing on the scene. Even savvy netizens find it challenging to keep up with the developments in this realm. This edition of NetSpeak provides a brief description of the latest products in this genre.SearchMash .Anyone dealing with websearch products has to make sure that any new offerings from Google are explored. One will never be disappointed.Google has recently launched (http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html) a test search service called SearchMash(http://www.searchmash.com/). Alongside the usual searchoutput (results are similar to those of Google, but each is numbered), the service provides options to get searchoutput from blog, image and video sites as well. An advantage of Search- Mash is the More Resultsoption available at the bottom of the output page forshowing the next set of results in the same page.Another notable feature is Hide Details, which lets you hide the details displayed along with each web page thus helping you to view more results per page. Google Notebook search Google Notebook helps us easily clip web content, add notes or comments and store\it online. Also, one can make her notebook public and share the contents with others. Now, Google has started a search service for finding information available on publicnotebooks.With Google Notebook search service (http://www.google.com/notebook/search), you may find lots of valuable information.However, this search service has generated some controversy as many people store private information on notebooks and share it without realising the implications.Decipho (http://decipho.com/) is another search service explored by this author.Besides the normal web search, this service has additional features contributed byits users. When you invoke a search,you can specify whether it is for shopping or research or both. Another feature is the subject-specific clustering of the results. For instance, if you start a search on statistics,the service presents you categories such as Statistics online, Glossary of statistics, Stats and Math Statistics. The search engine Hakia(http://www.hakia.com/),scheduled to activate its full operation sometime in 2007, seems to be a promising search tool. The beta version is available for testing its potential.One distinction of this service relates to question/answer facility. By framing good questions, you could obtain appropriate answers. In this regard, you can use the service along with other question/answer services such as Brainboost. Also, for certainqueries, Hakia providescategorised results. CometQuery (http://www.cometquery.com/) is yet another addition to the search tool landscape.With each of the links in the output, the service displays its screenshot as well.Open source journals As mentioned in the past,lots of open access repositories on a range of subjects that include Science, Medicine,Engineering and Business are in place.An open access repository permits anyone to access and use its content for free. Open- DOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (http:// www.opendoar.org/index.html) is a good place to locate several such open content sources.To help you access the content stored on various repositories available on its list, OpenDOAR has recently assembled a search service using Googles new search tool, Google CSE.For more details: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php. Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php