Online articles from January 2003

Online archives from January 2003

Life without Google. (The Homepage).(what would be the search engine of choice without Google)(Column)
January 1, 2003... Is there anybody who doesn't use Google as their primary Web search engine these days? Excluding employees of competing Web search engines, of course. In discussions leading up the Internet Librarian 2002 conference's "Super Searcher" panel,...

Health info from dot-edu sites. .(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... To the Editor: Mick O'Leary ("O'Leary Online: Major Life Moments," ONLINE, September/October 2002, pp. 86-87 and the Web) mentioned health information and suggested it was available from dot-com, dot-org, and dot-gov sites. That's really...

Bowled over by Boolean. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... To Edward Proctor: I enjoyed your article ("Boolean Operators and the Naive End-User: Moving to AND," ONLINE, July/August 2002, pp. 34-37) and can relate to your frustration with teaching the function of Boolean operators. For 6 years I...

Climbing the value chain. .(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... To the Editor: Just a note to tell you that I very much enjoyed Sinead Williams' article "Teaming for Research Excellence" (ONLINE, November/December 2002, pp. 31-35). My experience as an external partner to corporate libraries convinces...

Reviews.com alternative. .(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... To the Editor: I read Susan Fingerman's article on Computing Reviews ("Reviews.com: Comprehensively Covering Computer Science," ONLINE, September/October 2002, pp. 44-47) and wanted to point out another resource. Fm a computer scientist...

Putting paid to information management. (Letters to the Editor).
January 1, 2003... To the Editor: With interest I have read your "Homepage" of the July/August 2002 issue of ONLINE. Coming more from the computer science side of the arena, I absolutely share your opinion that the skills of information management...

Corrections.(November/December 2002)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The correct e-mail address for Sinead Williams ("Teaming for Research Excellence," November/December 2002) is DSCK@bigpond.com. The correct URL for the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), mentioned in Martin White's article...

Inktomi's new frontier: Web search 9. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A bit like Deep Space 9, Inktomi's Web search engine is not as visible in the Web universe as its more public brethren since its business model lies in supplying search capabilities to other Web sites rather than having a branded search engine...

EDGAR flies free again. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The official repository of U.S. corporate financial filings, EDGAR has long been available on various platforms, many of which have moved from free to fee-based. A new version of the EDGAR database comes from Inverito, Inc.--EDGAR IQ. It...

LexisNexis and Anderson Publishing Company. (Alliances & Deals).(announced a merger agreement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... LexisNexis and Anderson Publishing Company have announced a merger agreement, further marking LexisNexis' efforts to reach legal professionals practicing in small firms. Anderson is the publisher of Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated and other...

Vivisimo. (Alliances & Deals).(High Wire Press Clustering, Verity)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Vivisimo has announced that Stanford University's High Wire Press has licensed its Clustering products for use with their Verity search engine. Vivisimo has also opened an office in the Washington, D.C., area to better meet demand from the...

Infotrieve. (Alliances & Deals).(link with Institute of Physics Publishing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Infotrieve has announced a linking agreement with Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP). Customers will be able to link from IoPP Electronic Journals Services to Infotrieve's database and document delivery services. Infotrieve has also signed...

Dialog. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Dialog has announced file enhancements and additions, including market research from Adis International, and content from BMJ Publishing, Catfile Plus, Controlled Trials Register, HealthScout, National Patent Databases from Germany, France and...

FIND/SVP. (Alliances & Deals).(Hoover's Online contract )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIND/SVP has announced it will provide Hoover's Online users with online, on-demand custom inquiry and research services in addition to the prepackaged business information available though Hoover's. As part of the agreement, FIND/SVP industry...

ProQuest's Information and Learning division has announced an agreement with the National Library of Scotland. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ProQuest's Information and Learning division has announced an agreement with the National Library of Scotland to include 2,350 newly identified works in the Early English Books Online database and Early English Books microfilm collection. The...

ProQuest's Information and Learning division has completed publication of Chadwyck-Healey's Acta Sanctorum database. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ProQuest's Information and Learning division has completed publication of Chadwyck-Healey's Acta Sanctorum database, covering early European social history and the development of Christianity. Available via the Web and on CD-ROM, the collection...

Swets Blackwell. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Will link ABC-Clio's Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life with SwetsnetNavigator)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell has announced it will link reference publisher ABC-CLIOs Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life with its e-journal access service SwetsnetNavigator. Users will have access to over 70,000 journals through both long...

EBSCO. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(MetaPress division will handle electronic publishing services for Raywood Publishing Co. journals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... EBSCO has announced that its MetaPress division will handle electronic publishing services for journals published by Raywood Publishing Company. Content management and Web hosting services are provided through the Metapress service, with...

BioMed Central. (Biomedical).(With California Digital Library, announces that 10 University of California campuses join BMC's Institutional Membership program)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BioMed Central (BMC), the "open access" publisher, and the California Digital Library have announced that the 10 campuses of the University of California have joined BMC's Institutional Membership program. Under terms of the agreement,...

Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases. (Biomedical).(Upgrades EMBASE.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases (ESED) has announced an upgraded version of EMBASE.com. The new Version 3.0 has enhanced functionality and expanded linking capabilities, allowing users to search over 15 million EMBASE and MEDLINE...

EditorsWeb. (Biomedical).(Portal adds Federal Register and the Congressional Record to daily alert service)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... EditorsWeb, a portal to U.S. government and congressional press releases, has announced the addition of the Federal Register and the Congressional Record to its daily alert service. EditorsWeb monitors over 850 Web sites maintained by federal...

Thomson Publishing Group, Inc. (Biomedical).(Its FDA library offers CLINLAW, which monitors state and federal clinical trial requirements)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson Publishing Group, Inc.'s FDA Library has announced the offering of CLINLAW, which monitors state and federal clinical trial requirements. Published and updated monthly, CLINLAW E-mail Update service is available to notify subscribers...

Vickers Stock Research Corporation. (Business & Finance).(Announces Web-based stock holdings product)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Vickers Stock Research Corporation has announced a new Web-based stock holdings product. The re-engineered collection offers Insider Trading Reports, 5% Holders, Institutional and non-U.S. Institutional Holders, complete stock holding reports,...

FluentMedia. (Business & Finance).(Expands international content with addition of COMTEX News Network)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FluentMedia has expanded its international content with the addition of COMTEX News Network, Inc. FluentMedia customers will now have access to full-text stories from over 70 global news outlets covering Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa....

FluentMedia has also added daily economic, political, and market-development reports from the Economic Intelligence Unit ViewsWire. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FluentMedia has also added daily economic, political, and market-development reports from the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) ViewsWire. ViewsWire covers 16 global industry groups in over 100 countries [323/660-9004; www.fluentmediainfo.com].

Dialog. (Business & Finance).(announces various enhancements)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Dialog has announced the following enhancements: an expanded roster of content channels is now available through its DialogPRO small business service. Biotech, competitive intelligence, consulting, and defense join the original channels in...

LexisNexis. (Business & Finance).(announced enhancements to its Business Intelligence Content)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... LexisNexis has announced several enhancements to its Business Intelligence Content. In the financial sector, new content from Multex, numerous Kiplinger reports and letters, CBS MarketWatch, EfinacialNews.com (covering Europe's investment...

Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing. (Business & Finance).(announces two enhancements to its OSIRIS database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD) has announced two major enhancements to its OSIRIS database. Multex Fundamentals will supply annual and quarterly financial data on 10,00) U.S. companies going back 20 years. Additionally, EDGAR...

Factiva has announced the Factiva Quotes Module. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Factiva has announced the Factiva Quotes Module, the third product in the Factiva Modules product suite, which enables companies to place a customized quotes list in their intranet or portal, providing users with access to financial data from...

Thomson Derwent. (Legal).(launches Derment Web of Software patent information software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson Derwent has announced the launch of Derwent Web of Software, a Web-based patent information tool to assist in the patent process for software-enabled business methods. With recent court decisions upholding patents on software programs,...

Thomson ISI. (Legal).(Derwent Innovations Index 3.0)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson ISI has announced the release of Derwent Innovations Index 3.0, a component of IST Web of Knowledge. Derwent Innovations Index is a Web-based resource that merges the Derwent World Patents Index and the Derwent Patents Citation Index....

FIZ Karlsruhe. (Legal).(launches enhanced version of JAPIO Japanese patent database)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIZ Karisruhe, European partner of STN International, has made an enhanced version of the JAPIO Japanese patent database available. Bibliographic data from the European Patent Office's INPADOC records is now included, as well as images from the...

Cypheron Systems, LLC. (Legal).(launches Rapidpat Complete)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cypheron Systems, LLC has announced the availability of Rapidpat Complete, featuring a digital copy of the complete U.S. patent collection. Delivered on DVD or online, Rapidpat Complete allows for network applications and is targeted toward law...

LexisNexis. (Legal).(launches practice-management product)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... LexisNexis has released a practice-management product designed specifically to help New York trial lawyers organize their practices and research using the LexisNexis edition of Time Matters software. The LexisNexis New York Feature Package...

British Library's Head of Publisher Relations. (Peopleware).(David Brown gets appointed)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... David Brown has been appointed as the British Library's Head of Publisher Relations. He will be developing the U.K. national library's strategy in relation to the long-term in-licensing and access of published materials. Brown was formerly the...

Ingenta, plc. (Peopleware).(names chief operating officer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In line with a major reorganization, Ingenta, plc has named Simon Dessain as Chief Operating Officer and William Finlay as Finance Director.

ProQuest. (Peopleware).(Joe Reynolds leaves company's Information and Learning division)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ProQuest has announced the departure of Joe Reynolds, who served as president of the company's Information and Learning segment. A new business unit, ProQuest Education, will be overseen on an interim basis by ProQuest's president and chief...

Fast. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FAST has announced that its showcase site AlltheWeb.com has become the first major search site to fully adopt XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). These new developments will facilitate faster loading...

Convera. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Convera has announced that its RetrievalWare technology has been embedded into Five ProQuest products, covering three of ProQuest's core markets. RetrievalWare now is used to power ProQuest Reference Asia, the ProQuest Learning brand of...

Thompson ISI and the Institute of Electrical Engineers. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson ISI and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE) have announced a linking agreement that will provide ISI Web of Knowledge and IEEE subscribers with links to the full text of articles from IEEE journals and conference proceedings....

STN International. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe, European partner of STN International, has announced the launch of the AQUIRE database, containing international papers about the toxic effects of chemicals on aquatic animals and plants. AQUIRE covers both freshwater and...

Competitive Analysis Technologies. (Sci-Tech).(launches new portal for oil, gas and power utility industries)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A new portal for the oil, gas, and power utility industries is now available from Competitive Analysis Technologies, an energy industry intelligence-gathering firm. CATSites Energy Portal includes over 10,500 information resources in 16...

Factiva. (Online Services).(launches Factiva Fusion content enhancement tool)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Factiva has announced the release of Factiva Fusion, a content enhancement tool that categorizes and creates relationships between business content sets according to a taxonomy. Internal content can be integrated with Factiva's news and...

H.W. Wilson. (Online Services).(launches updated version of its WilsonLink service)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson has launched an updated version of its Wilson Web database service, with the addition of WilsonLink, SFX-powered software for searching beyond WilsonWeb. Additional enhancements include multiple search and display options,...

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. (Online Services).(launches version 6.0 of its Internet Database Service)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (GSA) has released version 6.0 of its Internet Database Service (IDS). Enhancements include an updated interface, full-text availability noted in citations, unlimited downloads, advanced search capabilities,...

RefWorks. (Online Services).(launches new Write-N-Cite utility software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... RefWorks bibliographic software has released a new Write-N-Cite utility that allows users to insert references from their personal Web-based RefWorks database. The feature allows users to access and insert citations without leaving a Microsoft...

ProQuest. (Online Services).(announces deal with Tribune Publishing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ProQuest's Information and Learning Division has announced an agreement with Tribune Publishing to distribute premium and historical content from the Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. ProQuest will digitize content from each paper's...

InMagic. (Portals & Intranets).(launches D/B Textworks WebPublisher PRO)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... InMagic has announced the release of D/B TextWorks WebPublisher PRO, a new read/write XML-enabled interactive Web publishing tool. These products provide a fully integrated database system with the capability to store, search, and obtain text,...

Convera. (Portals & Intranets).(launches domain-specific semantic network cartridges)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Convera has announced the release of 20 domain-specific semantic network cartridges to enhance enterprise search accuracy, relevancy, and personalization. The plug-and-play cartridges, which capitalize on Convera's recent acquisition of...

PaperThin, Inc. (Portals & Intranets).(launches CommonSpot Content Server 3.1)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PaperThin, Inc. has announced the release of CommonSpot Content Server 3.1, a browser-based content management solution. This latest version supports Macromedia's J2EE-based application server, ColdFusion MX, and includes enhancements for...

Alacritude, LLC. (Portals & Intranets).
January 1, 2003... Alacritude, LLC has announced an agreement with All Effort, Inc. and Inktomi to optimize and index the full text of its 2-million eLibrary documents. Through Inktomi's Index Connect, eLibrary content is now available on leading portals and...

Opencola, Ltd. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Opencola, Ltd. has released Opencola PRO 1.0, a personal knowledge manager that allows individual desktop users to collect relevant information from a diversity of sources, including news sites, search engines, blogs, and other peers' publicly...

Internet search engine update.
January 1, 2003... All the Web now uses a keyword-in-context (KWIC) display in their search results. It also has a new field search command of site:. This is an easier-to-remember version of the older url.host: and url.domain: field searches and can be used for...

The evolution of internet research: shifting allegiances.
January 1, 2003... It has taken me several years to grasp just how vast a gulf lies between searching and researching the Internet. Searching the Internet is computer science. We practice our understanding of search technologies and search engines. Researching...

Going online on the road.(multiple products)(Column)
January 1, 2003... When I'm outside my own country, combining work with pleasure is not a problem--when I do that, I am able to stay longer! While trying initially to run my independent information business while on the road, I found that having access to a cyber...

After the research: information professionals' secrets for delivering results.
January 1, 2003... Are you challenged by effectively communicating research results to clients and end-users? Do you find it difficult to effectively post-process and creatively package your findings while staying within budget parameters? Creating value-added...

What's the big I-DEA? Research presentation tips.
January 1, 2003... Presenting your research results to a client is a little like buying a birthday present for your best friend. You not only want to get her something she will really like, but you also want to wrap it up in a pretty package and tie it with a...

Content management's new realities.
January 1, 2003... Content management touches virtually every aspect of an organization. The shift from proprietary network architectures to the Internet means that text, PowerPoint presentations, customer support records, and audio-visual data have to be...

True Query: a phoenix rises from the ashes.
January 1, 2003... True Query [www.truequery.com], which describes itself as "a subscription-based online technology and communications market information service," is basically a specialized search engine with some important value-added features. True Query...

Corporate watch dogs online: as recent tales of corporate misdeeds emerge.
January 1, 2003... Questions about who knew what, how much they knew, and when they knew it make us wonder why alarms did not sound sooner. It seems as if everyone who should have known, or might have known, didn't know or didn't say. Or did they? While the...

Think global, search local for business information.
January 1, 2003... If you're researching dentists, power plants, or milk, you might want to find out more about these stories: In an effort to lure more patients, Portland-area dentists are providing movies, juice bars, and warm hand waxes in their waiting rooms....

History lesson: Magazine Index & Magazine Database.
January 1, 2003... It was 1976 when four entrepreneurs--Brett Butler (who died earlier this year), Dick Kollin (the only person to grace the cover of ONLINE twice), "Buster" Spiwak, and Lyle Priest--unleashed Magazine Index into the burgeoning online world....

The UCE [Spam) war and its impact on e-mail: This essential foundation of the Internet is under attack. (On the Net).(unsolicited commercial email)
January 1, 2003... The Internet's killer application is not Web browsers. It is e-mail. Communication capabilities have become so interwoven into most of our work--and home--lives that it is sometimes difficult to remember how we managed to function without it....

When bad searches happen to good searchers: The one we generaly hate to admit is bad searches due to operator error. (The Dollar Sign).
January 1, 2003... Think of all the times you just knew you had the perfect search strategy, I only to find out that it didn't work. The answer that you thought would be so easy to locate turns exceedingly elusive on you. The database you were sure covered the...

Blogging software for intranet applications: You can put your own creative juices to work thinking up ways to use Weblog software. (Intranet Librarian).
January 1, 2003... As librarians, we know the value of asking good questions. Skipping over the reference interview usually leads to finding the "right" answer to the "wrong" question. As a Data Librarian, I sometimes joke, "First tell me your life history and...

Publishers forge new access tool with crossRef:... there is no comprehensive and efficient method for getting all the full-text content across a broad discipline or topic. (O'Leary Online).(electronic publishing work to manage digital content)
January 1, 2003... Electronic publishing has long been a solution in waiting. Since its advent, the world's publishers have created a vast mass of digital content, but, in general, it sits there on the publishers' Web sites, underutilized and awaiting...

Ten steps to intranet success: The most successful intranets acts as the nervous and circulatory systems for a company, supporting business processes as well as the flow of information. (Web Site Management).
January 1, 2003... Corporate intranets offer new ways to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge. Generally following on the heels of deployment of the corporate Internet, intranets exist for company employees and internal processes. Unlike the...

Peter's picks & pans.(Jasco, Peter)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2003... The picks include two databases that are equally good or better substitutes for two services that were, or are likely to be, discontinued. One is (in spite of its deficiencies) the BizTech Library, because it provides a lot of bang (50...

Library of the future: by and large, users prefer to use online sources to find their information, while a visit to the physical library is well down the list. (Industry Insights).
January 1, 2003... In the fall of 2002 we were deluged with client inquiries about "the library of the future." What would it look like? How would it evolve? What will become leading edge? Our analysts who work with, track, and analyze content deployment...

Recommended readings on digital resources, the internet economy, and the dangers of cyberspace. (Hardcopy).
January 1, 2003... This issue I look at two resources that will help you use digital resources by learning how to create digital libraries and to use digital resources at the reference desk. Then it's on to a book that debunks some myths of the Internet economy...

Dialog's domain names database. (Online Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... One indication that an information technology has grown beyond the gee-whiz stage is when we try to incorporate it into our research toolkit. The domain name look-up tools have moved into the category of must-have resources for many info pros;...