Online articles from January 2001

Online archives from January 2001

Online Millennium.(print medium to online format of information retrieval)(Brief Article)(Column)
January 1, 2001... Welcome to the new millennium. Yes, I know, all the celebrations happened a year ago--cities around the world lit up with fireworks and splendiferous events while techies huddled in data centers like they were bomb shelters, waiting for a Y2K...

Hoover's Enhances Intelligence Gathering.(Hoover's Inc. introduces news monitor and information source)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Hoover's Media Technologies (HMT) has released Hoover's Intelligence Monitor (http://www.hoovers.com/enterprise), an online application service that monitors news and information sources' coverage of companies, people, products, and issues. The...

Martin to Head Dialog.(Roy M. Martin, Jr. named President and Chief Executive Officer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Roy M. Martin, Jr., former Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Thomson Legal & Regulatory, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of Dialog. Martin replaces Pat Sommers, who recently resigned. Martin plans to...

UnCover Now Live on ingenta Site.(UnCover Co. database, ingenta inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The UnCover database is now available on the ingenta Web site (http://www.ingenta.com). Users can access over 11 million article citations and full-text articles from journals and publications worldwide, archived back to 1988. ingenta content...

NewsEdge Unplugged.(NewsEDGE Corp. introduces news delivery on wireless communication devices)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... NewsEdge Unplugged (NewsEdge Corporation) is a three-part wireless program for delivering syndicated news content to hand-held devices. The initiative includes Wireless Insight, a content offering for mobile portals, and partnerships with...

MarketResearch.com.(introduces MarketResearch.com version 2.0)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Version 2.0 of MarketResearch.com has been released, offering market research from over 250 leading publishers and 10,000 publications, plus no access fee for searches and instant online delivery of many publications. The new version is...

SageMaker Inc.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Under a partnership between SageMaker Inc. and BiotechWatch LLC, SageMaker users now have access to online information for over 500 biotechnology firms, along with search capabilities. BiotechWatch provides online biotechnology databases for...

TechRepublic Inc.(partnership with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... TechRepublic Inc., an online resource for IT professionals, now offers its members access to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. investment research. The information is delivered via TechMails, TechRepublic's free subscriptionbased, IT-focused...

EIU CountryData.(Economist Intelligence Unit CountryData partners with Bureau van Dijk to provide economy information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In response to client feedback, EIU CountryData through Bureau van Dijk sports a new interface, which offers three "Preset" options with direct access to Key Forecasts, Economic Snapshots, and Latest Data. Data selection has been redesigned to...

IP.com.(partnership with CorporateIntelligence.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... IP.com, an online provider of intellectual property defensive publication services, has partnered with CorporateIntelligence.com to offer its services to CorporateIntelligence.com users. Users may now publish invention details where no patents...

Thomson Financial.(expands international coverage of Investext and adds market research information to MarkIntel database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Thomson Financial has added industry insight from Yankee Group, SEMICO, and the Strategis Group to the MarkIntel database. Thomson Financial has also expanded international coverage of Investext by adding several new sources from various...

The Best of the Business Web.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Best of the Business Web is the first edition of Data Downlink Corporation's new directory. The directory is a condensed, bound representation of Portal B, the company's business information portal (http://www.PortalB.com). The publication...

Peopleware.(appointment and promotions briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Northern Light Technology, Inc. has appointed Robert M. Lemmond Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, responsible for the sales, marketing, and product management of Northern Light's enterprise initiatives. Andy Mitchell, formerly...

Open Text Corporation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Open Text Corporation, provider of collaborative commerce software for e-business, has acquired the product business of LeadingSide Inc., provider of e-business solutions and knowledge-driven solutions for a variety of applications. Open Text...

Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. have acquired Harcourt General Inc. for $4.45 billion. The deal was all cash at $59 a share, and was possible because Reed and Thomson wanted different parts of Harcourt's publishing assets. Reed provided the...

Pearson Education.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Pearson Education has formed a partnership with EBSCO Information Services under which EBSCO will develop customized online research collections for Pearson that provide access to content from selected academic journals and other publications....

Swets Blackwell.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Swets Blackwell has opened North American commercial headquarters in Runnemede, New Jersey. The location consolidates most of Swets Blackwell's North American operations, previously handled from Blackwood, NJ and Exton, PA. Swets Blackwell will...

EBSCO Information Services.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... EBSCO Information Services is working with webMethods, Inc., a B2B integration (B2Bi) solutions provider, to seamlessly integrate EBSCO systems with procurement and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. EBSCO hopes to provide updated...

PsycLIT.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The PsycLIT CD-ROM database of abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, and books has been merged into the PsycINFO database, adding abstracts of dissertations and technical reports to the PsycLIT document set. All access fees for PsycINFO...

ISI and R.R. Bowker.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ISI and R.R. Bowker have announced that bidirectional links between the ISI Journal Citation Reports on the Web (JCR Web) and ulrichsweb.com (version 2.0 of Ulrich's Periodicals Directory on the Web) will be available with JCR Web Version 2.0,...

Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors. While Web searching remains free, more search companies are looking for additional revenue streams. So, as will be seen in the AltaVista,...

Solving ACCESS PROBLEMS with Open Source Software.
January 1, 2001... Due to its versatility and comparatively low hardware and maintenance costs, the Web is fast becoming the de facto standard for delivering database content, taking over from the decade-old CD-ROM as the medium of choice [1]. Furthermore,...

Open Source and Libraries An Interview with Dan Chudnov.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... Open source methods of software development have been around at least since Richard Stallman's pioneering efforts with his GNU Project in 1984--a project that developed the free GNU operating system (http://www.gnu.org). Lately, open source...

UCITA What Does it Mean for Libraries?(Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act )
January 1, 2001... Editor's note: A discussion list for UCITA has just started, designed to include those from the library, consumer protection, contract, UCC, and intellectual property communities. To subscribe, send the message subscribe ucita your name to...

Think Links Full-Text Linking Projects.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Discussion about, and implementation of, links to full text of articles has consumed the Scientific/Technical/Medical (STM) marketplace for some years. Now that the dust is starting to settle, it is time to look at the status of the various...

Click to Talk WEB PHONES SPELL OPPORTUNIPY FOR LIBRARIES.(communications equipment and services)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... Buzz! Buzz! Is that my telephone, cell phone, pager--or Net phone? Everywhere you look these days, there are new Internet telephony products popping up like mushrooms; some have even popped up on librarians' desktops! "VoIP" (voice over IP) has...

Library Marketing Eight Ways to Get Unconventionally Creative.(client development)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... There's no question about it; company libraries are not the only information brokers employees turn to anymore. They are up against a lot of competition from other repositories of information--in particular, the Internet and the variety of...

Customization Options for Web Searching.(Hotbot.com, AltaVista Co., Fast, Google Inc.)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... back in the dim, distant past of Web searching, HotBot reigned supreme as the search engine of choice for scripted power searching features. In one of its earliest incarnations, the searcher could choose which options of the HotBot search form...

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Business Ready Reference Decoded.(online services for area codes, zip and postal codes, conversion tables)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... Often it isn't the huge research projects, the detailed competitive analysis, or the intricate marketing study that perplex business researchers. It's the easy-sounding, fact-based questions that may be more difficult to answer. Some questions...

EBook Scenarios.(Review)
January 1, 2001... If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and read Don Hawkins' excellent "Electronic Books: A Major Publishing Revolution" (a two-part series in the July/August and September/October 2000 issues of ONLINE). With his typical clarity, Don...

Knowledge Management Meets Future Information Users.(increasing need to manage information)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... In my last column, I discussed changes in information functions within today's leading organizations. Information centers, market intelligence, and learning are converging to form knowledge management (KM) functions. Many information...

Designing Usable Sites: A State of Mind.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... Every Web developer wants to create a site that is easy to use. This is harder to do than it looks. The fundamental challenge in developing a usable site is to be able to switch the Webmaster's primary focus from content and Web development...

What's in a Name?(usage and registration of domain names)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... As the Internet continues generating newspaper headlines, at least the hated information superhighway cliche is not prominent, and some of the hype has diminished over dot coms and their instant millionaire employees. What goes up must come...

Recommended Reading on Service, Secrets, and Success.(management of electronic resources)(Column)
January 1, 2001... This month, I focus on service, with a book to help you select and manage electronic resources, and one to improve your customer service. Then research secrets are revealed in the financial area with the latest Super Searchers book, and...

FirstGov. gov.
January 1, 2001... Welcome to the new ONLINE. New editor (well, Marydee's a familiar face to many of you as ONLINE's DOLLAR SIGN columnist, but is new to editing this publication), some new columnists, and yup, a new back page. Reva Basch, the resident pundit of...

Information Management Who's Controlling Who?(managing and purchasing information)(Industry Overview)(Column)
January 1, 2001... It's 7 p.m. on the last day of the month. You have a huge "to do" list and your month-end reports are due to your manager tomorrow. Over the last few days, you've traded six phone calls with the sales rep of one of your information...