Online articles from January 2002

Online archives from January 2002

Search Soirees. (The HomePage).(Online search engine features)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused. It is the age not only of the one word search...

User Rights: An additional perspective. (Letters to the Editor).(Customer rights in regard to Internet information)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... To the editor: Willem Noorlander's article ("Rights and Obligations of Information Users," ONLINE, November/December 2001, pp. 22-27) presents a very thorough and balanced summary of the interrelated rights and obligations of information...

Scientific World Disputes Jacso's Views. (Letters to the Editor).(Online database of scientific information)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... To the editor: I am writing to you in response to Peter's Picks and Pans (September/October 2001). Peter Jacso reviewed sciBASE, a database of scientific information (www.thescientificworld.com). Unfortunately, much of the information...

Online: Sold to Information Today, Inc. (Industry News).(Information Today Inc. acquires ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals, from Online Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Online Inc. sold its flagship magazine, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals, to Information Today, Inc. Yes, the magazine you're reading is now owned and published by Information Today, which also publishes Computers in...

Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Harris InfoSource; Changes Name to D&B. (Industry News).(Manufacturers' database company)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Dun & Bradstreet has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Harris InfoSource International Inc., a privately-held company that produces a database of manufacturers. Harris' information forms a component of OneSource; its Lead Finder is...

Factiva Adds Harvard Business Review. (Industry News).(Factiva adds full text)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Libraries needing the full text of the Harvard Business Review will soon have an option in the form of Factiva. Through an agreement reached with Harvard Business School Publishing, Factiva will add the full text of this very important...

RocketNews. (Search Engines).(Online news search engine)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... RocketNews (Rocketinfo Inc.) is a current news search engine and news distribution service that continuously searches every link on thousands of news sources. The RocketNews Enterprise Server can also search companies' proprietary content,...

CSIRO. (Search Engines).(Rating of online search engines and directories)(International Pages)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CSIRO, Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, tested search engines and directories and found that the most relevant results for Web users were returned by Google, alltheweb.com, and northernlight.com. Rather...

Dialog has added the full text often Australian newspapers and periodicals published by John Fairfax Holdings Limited. (Online Services).(New titles include The Australian Financial Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Dialog has added the full text often Australian newspapers and periodicals published by John Fairfax Holdings Limited. New titles include The Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun...

InfoTrac. (Online Services).(Online content exceeds 7,000 periodicals)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... InfoTrac OneFile (Gale Group) content now exceeds 7,000 periodicals. Released in May 2000, OneFile has experienced a 40% increase in full-text coverage, and a 144% increase in titles with images. More than 3,700 publications are full text and...

More than 5,000 journals containing more than 1.6 million articles are now viewable via EBSCO Online. (Online Services).(New version of EBSCO Online)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... More than 5,000 journals containing more than 1.6 million articles are now viewable via EBSCO Online. Development began in May 2001 for a new version of EBSCO Online, with planned availability for early 2002. Features will include improved...

The OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online database now provides access to more than 3,500 journals from 60 publishers. (Online Services).(Offers enhanced ArticleFirst database)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online database now provides access to more than 3,500 journals from 60 publishers. OCLC has commingled the OCLC ArticleFirst database with its ContentsFirst database and added bibliographic records...

Gale Group has acquired the Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriften/International Bibliography of Periodicals (IBZ). (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Zeller Verlag sells huge database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Gale Group has acquired the Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriften/International Bibliography of Periodicals (IBZ) list from Zeller Verlag and the biographical directory American Men and Women of Science from Information Today. The IBZ...

Historic Events of the 20th Century. (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Reference tool provides Web resources)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Historic Events of the 20th Century (Greenwood Electronic Media) is an online version of the print series of the same name initially released in 1997. The reference tool provides Web resources, hyperlinks, timelines, and multimedia links, along...

Peopleware.(New CEO at Infotrieve)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Wes Crews is the new President and Chief Operating Officer of Infotrieve, moving there from his position as COO of the Gale Group. * Catherine De Rosa has been named OCLC Vice President Corporate Marketing, a newly created position that...

Bio-Terrorism.Info. (Biomedical).(new database from NewsRx)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Bio-Terrorism.Info is a new database and weekly report from NewsRx. Publishing of the weekly report began in December 2001. More than five years of NewsRx reporting on chemical and bioterrorism with hundreds of records are available in the...

West Group and NextPage. (Legal).(enter content distribution agreement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... West Group and NextPage have announced an alliance that will help NextPage users retrieve and display Westlaw content and services within the NextPage framework and associated applications. Under the alliance, users can retrieve documents from...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 6,289,450 for Authentica, Inc.'s Active Rights Management (ARM) technology. (Legal).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 6,289,450 for Authentica, Inc.'s Active Rights Management (ARM) technology. This information security technology gives organizations secure content delivery, plus the...

Under a partnership between SkyMinder (CRIBIS) and Standard & Poor. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Under a partnership between SkyMinder (CRIBIS) and Standard & Poor's, SkyMinder will provide access to Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, and Stock Reports. S&P's Register of Corporations and the Register of Executives and...

Esmerk Information. (Business & Finance).(new investment plan to enhance content and grow its sales and marketing capacity in the North American market)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Esmerk Information has announced a new investment plan intended to enhance content and significantly grow its sales and marketing capacity in the North American market. The first phase of the plan, backed by parent company Sanoma WSOY, will...

ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit has announced an agreement with MarketResearch.com. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit has announced an agreement with MarketResearch.com, under which ProQuest will deliver the full text of more than 600 key market research studies and MarketLooks reports via ProQuest in a new...

Under an agreement with Nichols Publishing. (Business & Finance).(ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit will bring the CHILTON online auto repair database to libraries)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Under an agreement with Nichols Publishing, publishers of CHILTON auto repair manuals and other automotive information, ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit will bring the CHILTON online auto repair database to libraries around the...

ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit has completed an initiative to digitize its collection of Sanborn Insurance Maps. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ProQuest Company's Information and Learning Unit has completed an initiative to digitize its collection of Sanborn insurance maps, valuable to users interested in the history, growth, and development of U.S. cities, towns, and neighborhoods....

Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. and COMTEX News Network, Inc. (Business & Finance).(enter distribution agreement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. and COMTEX News Network, Inc. have signed an agreement to make Stockgroup's financial tools and content available to COMTEX users reaching over 1,000 distribution points. Stockgroup's financial tools will be...

ContentCompare. (Business & Finance).(new service that combines customer research with competitive intelligence)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ContentCompare (The Detwiler Group) is a new service that combines customer research with competitive intelligence to help companies analyze their product offerings against the marketplace. The service was developed based on experience in the...

Hotel Freedonia. (Business & Finance).(Web-based product offering customized Freedonia Group content to corporations)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Hotel Freedonia (The Freedonia Group) is a Web-based product co-branded and customized for each corporate client to provide unlimited access for employees to the Freedonia studies owned by the organization. As a result, the product helps the...

LexisNexis will acquire CourtLink Corp. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... LexisNexis will acquire CourtLink Corp., subject to, among other things, approval by CourtLink shareholders. CourtLink provides Web-based services for electronically filing legal documents, and for accessing and monitoring court records. ...

OCLC has made an offer to purchase substantially all the assets of netLibrary. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... OCLC has made an offer to purchase substantially all the assets of netLibrary and assume certain netLibrary liabilities, subject to the approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado.

Bankrupt ExciteAtHome Corp. has agreed to sell certain assets related to its Excite.com portal to Internet and wireless services provider InfoSpace. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Bankrupt ExciteAtHome Corp. has agreed to sell certain assets related to its Excite.com portal to Internet and wireless services provider InfoSpace for $10 million. The sale is subject to bankruptcy court approval and a bankruptcy...

Intelliseek, Inc. and PlanetFeedback.com, Inc. (Alliances & Deals).(to provide intelligence and feedback tools for customer relations and corporate intelligence)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Intelliseek, Inc. and PlanetFeedback.com, Inc. have joined forces to provide intelligence and feedback tools to help businesses strengthen consumer relations and deepen corporate intelligence. The merger combines Intelliseek's business...

TheScientificWorld has acquired and will merge its operations with ScienceWise, Inc. (Alliances & Deals).(Huge scientific and medical literature database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... TheScientificWorld has acquired and will merge its operations with ScienceWise, Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed. The merger will provide online access to a large aggregation of scientific and medical literature. Users will also receive...

Financial Times Group Pearson, the parent company of The Financial Times, plans to take full control of online financial news site FTMarketWatch.com. (Alliances & Deals).(Buys 50% stake)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Financial Times Group Pearson, the parent company of The Financial Times, plans to take full control of online financial news site FTMarketWatch.com by acquiring 50% stake presently owned by MarketWatch.com. The company will integrate the site...

Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. (ASI) has released Visual Net 2.0. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. (ASI) has released Visual Net 2.0 and developed a new personal visualization tool. Visual Net provides a unique Graphical User Interface by placing data on visual maps so that users can search and navigate more easily....

Interwoven, Inc. has announced integration between the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) and Interwoven TeamSite software. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc. has announced integration between the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) and Interwoven TeamSite software, to give users the ability to aggregate, manage, and distribute content for business-critical Web sites. Among the...

New versions of the SemioTagger categorization engine and the Semio Plumtree Integration Module (Semio Corporation) have been released. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... New versions of the SemioTagger categorization engine and the Semio Plumtree Integration Module (Semio Corporation) have been released. SemioTagger 4.2 enhancements include support for Oracle databases and the ability to crawl data stored by...

Direct support for the International Press Telecommunications' Council's (IPTC) subject codes has been added to Applied Semantics, Inc.'s Auto-Categorizer. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Direct support for the International Press Telecommunications' Council's (IPTC) subject codes has been added to Applied Semantics, Inc.'s Auto-Categorizer enterprise software product. The enhancement helps electronic publishers automate the...

Entopia. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Entopia is a new knowledge management company offering the Quantum software suite, which unites advanced semantics with knowledge management and everyday human work patterns. By collecting information and sharing it with others, the software...

eKnowledge Infrastructure. (Portals & Intranets).(From Hyper-wave Information Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... eKnowledge Infrastructure (Hyper-wave Information Management Inc.) is a suite of modular collaborative knowledge management systems that integrates content and document management, information search and retrieval, workflow, collaboration, and...

Molecular Biology & Genetics. (Sci-Tech).(ISIHighlyCited.com, ISI's free, online gateway to scientific authors)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Molecular Biology & Genetics has been added to ISIHighlyCited.com, ISI's free, online gateway to scientific authors. Besides this new category, ISIHighlyCited.com covers neuroscience, engineering, physics, and chemistry, with the total number...

ISI introduced its Web of Knowledge. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ISI introduced its Web of Knowledge, a Web-based resource that delivers essential information for all levels of research and scholarship to the desktop. Features include CrossSearch natural language search capability; the ISI Links seamless...

Softbase. (Sci-Tech).(A subscription-based search and display Web application from Guide IT)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... New to the Web is Softbase (GUIDE IT LLC), a subscription-based search and display Web application available to research professionals for in-depth IT analysis. Softbase links companies, their products, and markets in a collection of IT events,...

PolyVoc Version 2.4. (Sci-Tech).(From Fiz Chemie, Berlin)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... PolyVoc Version 2.4 (FIZ CHEMIE Berlin) has been released with more than 100,000 terms. First published in 1995, the PolyVoc system translates technical terms commonly used in plastics and macromolecular chemistry and related fields. The system...

Scirus. (Sci-Tech).(Elsivier Sciences search engine in a new release)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The scope of the Scirus search engine (Elsevier Science) has been widened in a new release to include searches for patents from the databases of the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO). Under the relationship with the USPTO, Scirus...

TheScientificWorldJOURNAL. (Sci-Tech).(A new multidisciplinary online publication)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (www.thescientificworld.com/publications), a new multidisciplinary online publication for the life and environmental sciences, has reached agreements with more than 350 scientists to serve as principal editors,...

AllTheWeb. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AllTheWeb has made several significant changes, adding a news database to its Web, image, multimedia, and FTP databases; dynamic clustering; and dynamic query modification. The searchable news database covers more than 3,000 Web news sources....

AltaVista. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AltaVista has several undocumented proximity and order operators available on its advanced search. To specify proximity other than ten, use the "WITHIN" operator followed by a space and the number. Alternatively, the symbol for 'WITHIN' is a...

CompletePlanet. (Internet Search Engine Update).(From Bright Planet)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CompletePlanet, BrightPlanet's directory of Invisible Web databases and search engines, announced that it now has nearly 90,000 entries in its listings, which is about triple what it used to have. These resources are organized by subject using...

Excite. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Excite@Home sells some online assets but keeps search engine technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Excite is undergoing a major transition. The bankruptcy of parent company Excite@Home has led to a possible purchase of the Excite domain name, trademarks, and traffic by metasearch engine InfoSpace. If this purchase goes through, traffic to...

Google. (Internet Search Engine Update).(added features)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Google has been busy in recent months introducing several new features. Most significantly, Google has again expanded what it indexes. The first of the search engines to move beyond Web pages, Google added full-text indexing of PDF files in...

Lycos. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Lycos has launched a major redesign of its home page and changes can be seen on the results page and throughout the site. The search changes include moving the Open Directory category matches to the bottom and raising the prominence of the Fast...

Yahoo! (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Yahoo! has changed the way that its results are displayed, reducing the number of category matches displayed to just a few with links to the other category matches. This ensures that entry matches will be displayed on the first page as well. In...

Knowledge Management Lessons from the Document Trenches. (Features).
January 1, 2002... As an information professional working for a large, high-tech company (Hewlett-Packard), I was approached with just such an opportunity. An informal contact at our Information Desk with a manager in a large R&D lab developed into a query about...

Image Searching Across the Web.
January 1, 2002... "At four o'clock in the morning the Mona Lisa is wasting her enigmatic smile on an empty room," notes Hilary Evans in the foreword to Finding Images Online (Paula Berinstein, CyberAge Books, www.infotoday.com). "Pictures are created to be...

Auditing Accounting Databases.
January 1, 2002... Could a thorough literature review have saved a life? This is not a question most librarians face in their daily work lives. However, the death of a volunteer in a medical study at Johns Hopkins University raised that very issue. In her...

IDdb3: Pharmaceutical Intelligence for the Third Millennium.(Investigational Drugs Database)
January 1, 2002... are you looking for many types of drug pipeline information in one place? Interested in locating current pharmaceutical patent, company, or conference information? Do you need quick and easy access to this information? If you have answered yes...

Creating a Truly International Web Site.
January 1, 2002... While most of us are comfortable bandying about catch phrases like "global economy," corporate intranets are still playing catch-up when it comes to offering a truly international Web presence. Too often, such intranets are rendered in the...

More Tips for Enhancing the Value of your Web Site.
January 1, 2002... the key to enhancing value is adding content that is relevant and useful to your target audience. In the November/December 2001 issue of ONLINE, I presented several tips that I learned from my experiences at the Kathryn & Shelby Cullum Davis...

History Lessons: ABI/INFORM.(ABI/INFORM has about 2 mn online documents)
January 1, 2002... EDITOR'S NOTE: This History Lesson is the first of a series on the background of some of the longest-lived and most prominent online products that shaped the information professionals' world. Many readers of ONLINE doubtless feel themselves...

The Top-Level Domain Game. (On the Net).(New top-level domains on Internet)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2002... The history of the Internet is in many ways a story of developments in directions that no one ever foresaw. Certainly in the early days, when Internet pioneers came up with the .edu, .gov, .mil, .com, .org, and .net top-level domain names, they...

Threading Between the Web and Traditional Business Sources: The Web is seen as an end-user delivery mechanism, one where the finely crafted nuances of database design are unappreciated and under-used. (The Dollar Sign).(Choosing which online source to use)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2002... When a database moves from a traditional online host to the Web, or replicates itself as a Web-based product in addition to remaining on a traditional online host, information professionals worry about functionality. The Web is seen as an...

Intranets and ELearning: A Perfect Partnership; On the job learning is a survival skill as tools change and product cycles shorten. (Intranet Librarian).(Web-based training tools)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2002... Intranets are a natural vehicle for supporting and delivering elearning. The spectrum of elearning activities is diverse, ranging from simple tutorials in Flash to enterprise-wide learning portals. These portals may offer pre-packaged and...

"Semi-Aggregation" from ingenta: As an online search service for scientific and technical journals, ingenta harks back to the origins of online information retrieval. (O'Leary Online).(Web aggregation trends)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2002... As the Web has flourished over the past few years, we've heard talk about the end of aggregation. Publishers, authors, researchers, and readers would all interact directly with each other, and the middleman role of the online service, and...

The Picks: Sperling's Best Places Columbia World of Quotations Brainwave. (Peter's Picks & Pans).
January 1, 2002... The picks include the spiffy Sperling's Best Places site that offers highly customizable ranking of cities based on the users' preferences, and Columbia World of Quotations, the largest quotations dictionary, made available free of charge by...

The "R" Word: ...business ebbs and flows, moves and shakes, gets done or not, because of people--real life, honest to goodness people, who must communicate and be in relationship with one another in order to be successful. (Industry Insights).
January 1, 2002... When 2001 has come and gone, it'll be a year to remember--and one to forget Never has our industry, or the world for that matter, seen a year and an economy in such tumult. I'm writing this article just two weeks after September 11 and nothing...

Ton Ten Rules for Pushing Web Standards: If you are coordinating many departments and individual Web developers, pushing standards can be analogous to herding cats. (Web Site Management).
January 1, 2002... One of the many challenges of managing and developing a large Web site is trying to facilitate the adoption of standards--standards both for navigation, branding, "look and feel," content quality, and for back-end programming of Web pages. If...

The Digital Enterprise: How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World. (Hardcopy).(book review)
January 1, 2002... **** edited by Nicholas G. Carr ISBN: 1-57851-558-0 Published: 2001 * Pages: 249; hardcover * Price: $29.95 Available from: Harvard Business School Press, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163; 17/783-7500;...

E-Writing: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication. (Hardcopy).
January 1, 2002... *** by Dianna Booher ISBN: 0-7434-1258-3 Published: 2001 Pages: 387; softcover Price: $14.95 Available from: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020; 800/456-6798;...

Pushing the Digital Frontier: Insights into the Changing Landscape of E-Business. (Hardcopy).
January 1, 2002... *** by Nirmal Pal and Judith M. Ray ISBN: 0-8144-0644-0 Published: 2001 Pages: 330; hardcover Price: $27.95 Available from: AMACOM, American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019; 212/903-8316;...

International Business Information on the Web. (Hardcopy).
January 1, 2002... *** by Sheri R. Lanza edited by Barbara Quint ISBN: 0-910965-46-3 Published: 2001 Pages: 396; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: CyberAge Books, Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ...

Amazon.com's e-Books and e-Documents. (Online Spotlight).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I'll admit it--I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon.com. I love its Wish List feature, which lets me build up a virtual pile of to-read books, thus saving my bedside table from toppling over. I like the "Customers who bought this book...