Online articles from January 1999

Online archives from January 1999

Intranets: Another Frontier for Information Professionals.
January 1, 1999... Intranets are "the next big thing" for librarians and information centers. Both vendors and information professionals have recognized that intranets are the wave of the future and offer a chance to reinvent themselves. Intranets have become...

AOL Buys Netscape.
January 1, 1999... America Online announced on November 24,1998, that the company would pay $4.21 billion to buy Netscape, Microsoft's competitor in the Internet browser market. Included in the deal is an agreement for Sun Microsystems Inc. to distribute...

Dow Jones Backtracks from Total Web Commitment.
January 1, 1999... Acknowledging the limitations of current Web browser technology, Dow Jones has announced it will launch a Windows-based interface for the Dow Jones Publication Library on April I, 1999, simultaneous with its shut-down of dial-up access to Dow...

WavePhore Acquires eWatch.
January 1, 1999... WavePhore, Inc. has acquired eWatch Inc. a monitoring service for Web sites and online public discussions. eWatch is used to uncover insider trading, stock manipulation, rumors, and anti-corporate activism originating on unregulated message...

UMI Closes InfoStore.
January 1, 1999... UMI closed its document delivery service, UMI InfoStore, in December. Formerly the UMI Article Clearinghouse, and then the UMI InfoStore when the company purchased The Information Store from Georgia Finnegan, InfoStore is only the latest of...

Shopping with Dialog.
January 1, 1999... Expanding its interests in ecommerce, Dialog announced in mid-November its acquisition of Write Works Ltd, an Oxford, U.K.-based company that has developed a business-to-business ecommerce procurement system with internal finance management...

IQ Alerts.
January 1, 1999... IQ Alerts is a new Information Quest current awareness module (Dawson Information Services Group). IQ Alerts gives users the option of email notification when new content of interest is added to the IQ database. Alerts may be based on topical...

InternatianalTimes.com.
January 1, 1999... InternatianalTimes.com is a free daily newspaper on the Web that can be downloaded in PDF format in less than a minute for printing and review. It is published seven days a week and offers daily updates on news, business, technology,...

NewsEdge Live 4.0.
January 1, 1999... NewsEdge Live 4.0 from NewsEdge Corporation delivers streaming news feeds and business alerts to Web browsers. Users may establish personalized profiles to track news and receive alerts of interest, and also individually customize their user...

Ultraseek Server 3.0.
January 1, 1999... Infoseek has simultaneously released Ultraseek Server 3.0 and its new add-on, Ultraseek Server CCE (Content Classification Engine). The Ultraseek Server 3.0 is intended for intranet and Web site search and navigation, arid enhancements include...

Data Harmony.
January 1, 1999... Data Harmony is a new suite of document management software from Data Harmony, Inc. (an Access Innovations company) that consists of modules to help publishers, corporate libraries, and records centers create, store, update, and reuse their...

NetMind Webmaster Program.
January 1, 1999... The NetMind Webmaster Program offers NetMind's Change Detection software free of charge to Webmasters to help target and retain Web site traffic through customized messages and reports. The program is built around NetMind's free Mind-it service...

WebPublisher.
January 1, 1999... WebPublisher and the Web Research Distribution Database System are Web-based versions of Blitz Systems' financial research publishing automation and distribution systems that help users publish, manage, and retrieve time-sensitive financial...

Information Please LLC.
January 1, 1999... Information Please LLC has announced a partnership with Ask Jeeves, where Ask Jeeves will guide some of its users to relevant facts in the various Information Please Almanacs on sports, entertainment, and general knowledge. The Information...

ChemInform and Plastics Rubber Fibers.
January 1, 1999... According to an agreement between FIZ CHEMIE BERLIN and ChemWeb, the ChemInform and Plastics Rubber Fibers databases will be available on the Internet via ChemWeb. Plastics Rubber Fibers is a large bibliographic database abstracting all...

ChemGuide.(Search engines addes to local Web servers)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... FIZ CHEMIE BERLIN is also now offering its ChemGuide search engines on its Web server. ChemGuide UK, for example, lists all British Web sites offering chemistry-related information and stores the contents of all pages. The first ChemGuide...

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and BioScience.(To be published online by Ovid Technologies)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Ovid Technologies has reached agreements with the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Institute of Biological Sciences to electronically publish these organizations journals, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and BioScience....

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library.(Releases subscribtion-based Internet version of archives)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL Online) has been released to subscribers via the Internet (http://www.ieee.org/ielonline). It was previously available only on a 400-disc set of CD-ROMs. Using local university and research libraries'...

ISI Web of Science.(To create links to Academic Press IDEAL collection)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The institute of Scientific Information will create links between bibliographic and abstract information in the ISI Web of Science and full-text articles in the Academic Press IDEAL collection of journals. The links will be available to...

EBSCO Online.(Licenses Royal Society of Chemistry online journals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Royal Society of Chemistry and EBSCO Subscription Services have signed an agreement to offer EBSCO Online subscribers access to 15 existing RSC online journals and two new journals for I 999, Green Chemistry and Journal of Environmental...

PatSearch FullText.(patent database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... PatSearch FullText is a full-text patent database from MicroPatent, which includes patent specifications of the PCT (http://www.micropat.com). PatSearch FullText is designed for legal and scientific researchers and now includes all current year...

Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews.(Latest Ovid Technologies' health information product)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) is Ovid Technologies, Inc.'s first Clinical Information Product. EBMR lets users tap into the international healthcare movement of "evidence-based medicine," which strives to make available the best...

Directory of Health and Medical Resources.(Online licensgin available)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The contents of the Detwiler Group's Directory of Health and Medical Resources are now available for licensing to electronic information providers. This licensing lets information providers offer subscribers access to profiles of 2,000 health...

STN International.(Adds databases to pharmacology offerings)
January 1, 1999... STN International has extended its pharmacology cluster to include the ADISINSIGHT, ADISALERTS, and MEDICONF databases. ADISINSIGHT is the online version of the Adis R&D Insight information service for international information on current...

Current Controlled Trials.(New online venture from Current Science Group)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Current Controlled Trials is a new Web-based publishing initiative from the Current Science Group, which will provide a range of databases, journals, and services for users interested in controlled trials. The initiative includes a Web site to...

Shepard's Citations Service.(To be available on Lexis-Nexis)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Shepard's Citations Service will release its next-generation citations service this spring and will be available exclusively to LEXIS-NEXIS users beginning July 2, 1999. LEXIS-NEXIS' parent company, Reed Elsevier Inc., purchased Shepard's in...

LEXIS-NEXIS Xchange.(licenses Bureau of National Affairs Inc. publications)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... LEXIS-NEXIS and the Bureau of National Affairs Inc. have signed an agreement to provide access to more than 60 BNA publications through LEXIS-NEXIS Xchange. BNA titles have long been part of LEXIS-NEXIS legal news offerings available through...

LawTrack.(New software designed to access legal information from the Internet)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... LawTrack is an Internet knowledge management application for the legal profession now in pre-release form on the Web from PeakSoft (http://lawtrack.peak.com). Using Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, users may access...

Research Resource.(WinStar Telebase and Business Week Online combine on small business database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Research Resource is the result of an agreement between Winstar Communications' WinStar Telebase Inc. unit and Business Week Online to launch a resource Web site for entrepreneurs and small business executives...

Thomson Investors Network.(Enhanced investors website)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Thomson Investors Network has enhanced its individual investors' Web site (http://www.thomsoninvest.net) to include a new portfolio management tool, enhanced company reports, a First Call Center, Reuters news, expanded mutual fund screening,...

Thomson Financial Services.(Acquires Rainmaker Information Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Thomson Financial Services has acquired Rainmaker Information Services, a Sydney-based provider of client management tools, contact information, and investment management performance data. The acquisition will expand TFS' geographical coverage...

PEOPLEWARE.
January 1, 1999... Netscape has hired Maria Wilhelm as Senior Vice President of Programming for its Netcenter portal site, where she will be responsible for development of Netcenter's programming, services, and content. SilverPlatter Information has named...

Internet Search Engine Update.
January 1, 1999... The past several months have seen a flurry of partnerships, buyouts, and new features. The Web search engines have been busy reinventing themselves. Several of these changes have direct impact on searches. Lycos has bought Wired Digital,...

METADATA - Cataloging by any other name.
January 1, 1999... Jessica Milstead, Principal, The JELEM Company Susan Feldman, Principal, Datasearch Editor's Note: Be sure to take a look at this article's companion piece, also by Jessica and Susan, entitled "Metadata Projects and Standards," for an...

METADATA Projects & Standards.
January 1, 1999... Jessica Milstead, Principal, The JELEM Company, Susan Feldman, Principal, Datasearch, In the last five years, we have seen the rise of conflicting standards and projects for standardizing electronic resources. Some come from the library...

meta data for Corporate Intranet.
January 1, 1999... Kelly Doran, Electronic Information Specialist, Weyerhaeuser Company, In a high-tech company, employees might have taken this as a challenge, but Weyerhaeuser is a forest products company. Approximately 10,000 employees are concentrated in...

Lessons Learned Designing a Second-Generation Intranet.
January 1, 1999... Information Specialist / Research Library & Information Services, Ford Motor Company Corporate intranets have reached the same stage as the Internet--too many sites are published by too many organizations for end-users to find what they...

Online Citation Verification using STN.
January 1, 1999... Robyn Goldstein. Outside Sources Manager, Information. Retrieval, Information Express; Fax 650/812-3575; lorin@express.com. Lorin Hawley, Consultant, Bibliographic and Reference Services, Information Express; Fax 650/812-3575;...

ENTER, FIND, AND SHARE ENFISH TRACKER PRO.
January 1, 1999... Chris Sherman is the Web Search Guide for The Mining Co. Internet Guide network, http:/ /websearch.miningco.com. He holds an MA from Stanford University in Interactive Educational Technology, and has worked in the Multimedia / Internet industry...

A Report from 1998 ONLINE WORLD.
January 1, 1999... The ONLINE WORLD Conference and Exhibition, held last October at the Washington Hilton and Towers, offered attendees a tightly packed three-day program with a solid assortment of six conference tracks. Most notably, each day featured an...

Minimal Intranets for Libraries.
January 1, 1999... If truth be told, how many libraries actually have an intranet? For some of us in academic, public, school, and even small special libraries, intranets are just not a part of the networked landscape. Offering a private network within the...

Portal Wars.
January 1, 1999... Web Portals. You've undoubtedly heard this phrase, and may be grumbling about having to get up to speed on yet another Web craze. But relax, you're already on top of this one. Web portals are old wine in new bottles. Web denizens regularly get...

We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Conferences Online.
January 1, 1999... When putting together a list of conferences and trade. shows that librarians and information professionals might attend, I suddenly realized how different my approach was from what it had been several years ago. In a DOLLAR $IGN column that...

Copyright Web Sites.
January 1, 1999... In our daily work and in writing this column, we often have a need to research copyright issues. We may wish to review parts of the U.S. Copyright Act; advise a client about how to seek copyright permission from a publisher; read up on the...

Information Visualization: Don't Tell Me, Show Me!
January 1, 1999... InfoResources Corporation The human eye interprets visual data much faster and more effectively than text. A picture or diagram can be assimilated at a glance, and our understanding of the subject is greatly enhanced by the image. Most of...

Bookmark Central.
January 1, 1999... Intranet Resources Purdue University In keeping with the focus of this month's issue, BOOKMARK CENTRAL is spotlighting intranet resources on the Web. The sites predominantly consist of full-text articles, lists of companies and tips,...

Understanding Intranets.
January 1, 1999... Understanding Intranets by Tyson Greer. (ISBN 1-57231-702-7; softcover; 1998; 378pp.; $22.99) Available from Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052. 800/677-7377. http://mspress.microsoft.com. Although this book claims to be...

Building & Managing the Corporate Intranet.
January 1, 1999... Building & Managing the Corporate Intranet by Ronald L. Wagner and Eric Engelmann. (ISBN 0-07-066939-2; softcover; 1997; 321pp.; $34.95) Available from McGraw-Hill Computing, 11 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011. 800/722-4726....

Intranet Document Management.
January 1, 1999... Intranet Document Management by Joan Bannan. (ISBN 0-201-87379-6; softcover; 1997; 295pp.; $29.95) Available from Addison-Wesley, One Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867. 800/238-9682. http://www.aw.com/devpress. If it is your responsibility to...

Corporate Intranet Development.
January 1, 1999... Corporate Intranet Development by Steve Griswold. (ISBN 0-7615-0849-X; softcover; 1997; 552pp.; $45.00) Available from Prima Publishing, P.O. Box 1260BK, Rocklin, CA 95677. 916/632-4400 http://www.primapublishing.com. This book comes...

Web Security: A Step-by-Step Reference Guide.
January 1, 1999... Web Security: A Step-by-Step Reference Guide by Lincoln Stein. (ISBN: 0-201-63489-9; softcover; 1998; 436 pp.; $29.95) Available from Addison-Wesley, One Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867. 800/238-9682. http://www.aw.com/devpress. Web security...

User-centered Information Design for Improved Software Usability.
January 1, 1999... User-centered Information Design for Improved Software Usability by Pradeep Henry. (ISBN 0-89006-946-8; 1998; 273pp.; $59.00) Available from Artech House, 685 Canton Street, Norwood MA 02062. 781/7699750. http://www.artech-house.com. I'm...

Back to the Future.(Column)
January 1, 1999... Reva Basch promises to wipe that smirk off her face before it freezes that way. She is a writer and consultant to the online industry, and the author of Researching Online For Dummies and Secrets of the Super Net Searchers. Every year...

Intranets: New Opportunities For Information Professionals.
January 1, 1999... Howard McQueen and Jean E. DeMatteo are CEO and Director of Educational Programs respectively at McQueen Consulting, which provides consulting and integration services for intranet development. Howard and Jean also edit the bimonthly...