Online articles from January 2005

Online archives from January 2005

Introducing InfoCentral.(the homepage)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... With this issue, ONLINE starts its 29th year of publication. When ONLINE started publishing, our online world was rather small--the exclusive province of librarians, mostly corporate and academic. We were the information intermediaries--our end...

Mozilla launches Firefox 1.0.(Industry News)(open source browser )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Firefox 1.0, the free open source browser from The Mozilla Foundation, launched with more than 8 million downloads in pre-release. Although most people in corporate settings can't download the program, home and small business users can...

Free, co-branded toolbar from OCLC and Yahoo!(Industry News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... OCLC and Yahoo! officially launched a free co-branded toolbar that provides one-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search's Web search engine. The free toolbar plugs into Microsoft's Internet Explorer and provides access to a...

ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PQDD), renamed ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), began a phased migration to the ProQuest online information service.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PQDD), renamed ProQnest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT), began a phased migration to the ProQuest online information service. The new name of the database better reflects its long-standing inclusion of both...

Sage Publications and the International Sociological Association are offering free print and electronic access for 3 years.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Sage Publications and the International Sociological Association are offering free print and electronic access for 3 years to Current Sociology (volumes 52-54) and International Sociology (volumes 19-21) to all institutional libraries in Africa...

Google Scholar beta expands content.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Google launched Google Scholar, in beta, expanding its content to scholarly materials. Google Scholar will try to pull together the scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical...

Corrections.(Industry News)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2005... Corrections: The correct URL for the Rakow Research Library, ("Social Sciences & Humanities" news, November/ December 2004, p. 8) is http://rakow.cmog.org, not www.rakow.cmog.org.

Thomson Gale added The Times (London) into InfoTrac Custom Newspapers.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thomson Gale added The Times (London) into InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Researchers can now search 220 years' worth of The Times' content through The Times Digital Archive or InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. The Times Digital Archive is a fully...

Dialog.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Dialog is now offering streaming live news to subscribers of its Dialog NewsEdge service. Based on individual user profiles on up to 10 topics, Dialog NewsEdge filters thousands of wire services, pre-publication newspapers, and other sources of...

Find.com.(Business & Finance)
January 1, 2005... Find.com added PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, IBISWorld, IOMA, Datamonitor, and Mintel as new premium content providers for the business search engine in October. Find.com's existing premium content providers are Frost & Sullivan, Gallup,...

Hoover's, Inc.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Hoover's, Inc. announced the expansion of its offerings in the U.K. and Canada. The new U.K. service features access to more than 4,000 Hoover's and 1.7 million D&B U.K. company records. To complement its database of 1.25 million Canadian...

Factiva and LexisNexis Group announced that LexisNexis will provide Factiva's global content collection to legal professionals at law firms worldwide.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Factiva and LexisNexis Group announced that LexisNexis will provide Factiva's global content collection to legal professionals at law firms worldwide. Beginning March 1, 2005, Factiva content will be provided on an exclusive basis to law firms...

Backstage Library Works, which offers cataloging, retrospective conversion, digital imaging, and other technical services to libraries worldwide, has acquired the MARS authority control service from OCLC.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Backstage Library Works, which offers cataloging, retrospective conversion, digital imaging, and other technical services to libraries worldwide, has acquired the MARS authority control service from OCLC. The acquisition will ensure continuity...

Congressional Quarterly (CQ).(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Congressional Quarterly (CQ) has acquired the political business of Federal Document Clearing House's FDCH e-Media and has re-named it CQ Transcriptions. The database is available through LexisNexis, EBSCO, and Factiva, among others...

The Thomson Corporation is delivering value-added records for all patents from key patenting authorities to Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) within an average of 30 days of the date the patent is published.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Thomson Corporation is delivering value-added records for all patents from key patenting authorities to Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) within an average of 30 days of the date the patent is published. The key patent-issuing authorities...

Access Innovations is now offering its proprietary MAI-Chem & trade chemical name indexing system for chemical research.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Access Innovations is now offering its proprietary MAI-Chem & trade chemical name indexing system for chemical research. MAI-Chem provides new power to find and index documents that contain variations of chemical names and compounds in large...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Jeffery McCaulley is the new CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health, which includes Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. His previous position was VP & general manager, Medtronic.

Factiva.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Factiva appointed Tim Brandner, formerly with OneSource, as director of the North American Integration Practice and Bob De Laney, previously with Alacra, as director of the European Integration Practice. They report to Arthur Rassias, recently...

Dialog has completed a series of enhancements to its family of Dialog DataStar services that help users better focus the search process, stay up-to-date with relevant new content, and integrate research into their work flow.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Dialog has completed a series of enhancements to its family of Dialog DataStar services that help users better focus the search process, stay up-to-date with relevant new content, and integrate research into their work flow. Dialog DataStar...

Plumtree Software and Dialog announced that real-time news, stocks, and weather portlets in the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite are being powered by Dialog.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Plumtree Software and Dialog announced that real-time news, stocks, and weather portlets in the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite are being powered by Dialog. The portlet suite can be used to assemble composite applications with relevant and...

EBSCO A-to-Z.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... EBSCO A-to-Z now includes customization options through a customer-controlled notes and icons feature, and provides more flexibility through enhanced proxy server settings. The notes and icons feature allows the administrator to customize notes...

Entopia.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Entopia announced the launch of K-Bus 3, which captures the essence of enterprise content from both structured and unstructured information sources as well as all employee interaction around the content, such as reading, writing, discussing,...

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Oxford University Press announced an agreement in which Oxford Journals will publish the ESC's European Heart Journal (EHJ) from January 2005.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Oxford University Press announced an agreement in which Oxford Journals will publish the ESC's European Heart Journal (EHJ) from January 2005. This represents a new era in the journal's 25-year...

Thomson announced the availability of Biological Abstracts on ISI Web of Knowledge.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thomson announced the availability of Biological Abstracts on ISI Web of Knowledge. Covering every life sciences discipline, Biological Abstracts offers over 8 million archival records back to 1969. ISI Web of Knowledge now offers new...

LexisNexis.(Legal)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... LexisNexis was selected to develop an information system for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Under the contract terms, LexisNexis will create and maintain a Web-enabled, Web-accessible, fully searchable database for the...

A9.(Internet Search Engine Update: Amazon.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... A9 has been officially launched out of beta by Amazon. A9 does not have its own unique Web search database, since it uses Google results, but it also combines access to other databases and some interesting search capabilities. Web results come...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Ask Jeeves has announced its new MyJeeves service in beta, which, once you have registered, allows for saving and organizing search results (and searches) as well as sharing the results with others. Notes can be added to specific saved pages,...

Clusty.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Clusty is a new search site from Vivisimo that provides another look at Vivisimo's clustering capabilities. The underlying databases are neither new nor original. What is new is the packaging. The new design is appealing, and the results can be...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Gigablast grows yet again. The database now contains more than 640 million pages. It is still significantly smaller than the several billion pages at Google and Yahoo! Search, but it is making progress. Greg R. Notess [greg@notess.com;...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Google now claims over 8 billion pages in its database. Google announced the expansion of its Google Print Program to include many more publishers and more of the full text of the book. At the beginning of this new program, few books are...

Mobile Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Mobile Search is now available from UpSNAP [http://up snap.com], Google [http://sms.google.com], and Yahoo! [http:// mobile.yahoo.corn]. These search tools are designed to be used via a cell phone. The UpSNAP and Google versions use SMS or text...

MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... MSN Search announced its new beta version of MSN Search [beta.search.msn.com]. It has tabs for searching the Web, News, and Images. Its Search Builder allows you to use advanced search features such as adding search terms; limiting to site or...

Teoma.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Teoma Technologies)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Teoma launched an updated version that claims improved relevance for its search results along with an increased emphasis on the freshness of the database. In the past, some records in Teoma had not been updated for several months. Now, many of...

Yahoo!(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Yahoo! has a new design for both the Yahoo! Search page and the main page. Several search features also have changed. After many years of defaulting to 20 search results, Yahoo! now defaults to only 10 results (although searchers can still...

Open access forum: many roads to open access.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... Green roads, gold roads, free roads, toll roads--descriptions of the world's various and sundry open access (OA) initiatives tend to be full of colorful metaphors. But what is open access and what does it have to do with readers of ONLINE...

Swimming through shark-infested waters: electronic discovery in the 21st century.
January 1, 2005... Not too long ago, when lawyers and their clients engaged in litigation, they dealt only with paper documents. After the complaint and answer were filed with the court, litigators would engage in a laborious process called discovery--conducting...

Copyright clearances: copyright limitations & risk analysis for information professionals.
January 1, 2005... Do you have any copy rights left? That's a reasonable question for educators, librarians, and other information professionals to debate, given the legislative, legal, and political environment of the last decade. Beginning in the 1990s and...

dtSearch: the little search engine that could.
January 1, 2005... You've probably heard the old adages about how being the good guy in the white hat pays off and that the world beats a path to the door of the better mousetrap maker. You've doubtless internalized the notion that "doing good" is always rewarded...

Heavy metal: a survey of online sources for metals and materials.
January 1, 2005... In the 1980s, when much of our vocabulary underwent changes required by social phenomena, there was a parallel change in the technological realm: The word "metals" became politically, or rather technically, incorrect. This was due in large part...

Toolbars: reveal Web page relationships.
January 1, 2005... If you are locating online information about a specific topic, doing competitive intelligence, or just surfing the Web, you may have wondered, "Have I done a thorough search?" If you've used popular Web search engines and examined major subject...

SIC those NAICS on me: industry classification codes for business research.(the dollar sign)(Standard Industrial Classification)(North American Industrial Classification System)
January 1, 2005... When asked to research an industry, experienced business researchers immediately turn to industry classification code tables to help define their search strategy. Even when the industry in question isn't technically an industry--frequently it's...

Revisiting past technologies.(on the net)(Column)
January 1, 2005... It is always a guessing game as to which online technologies and products will succeed and which will fail. As an ONLINE columnist, I constantly watch the various Internet-related news that I think might be of interest to information...

Choosing a search engine.(web site management)(Column)
January 1, 2005... Businesses are learning what information professionals have long known: Managing information, including generating, storing, and retrieving it, is a complex process for large organizations. The importance of readily identifying and retrieving...

Is it time to convert? Migrating static pages to database-driven Web sites.(intranet librarian)
January 1, 2005... Those who create and regularly maintain static HTML Web pages on sites with a few dozen pages are doubtless aware of how repetitive this work can be. An update to an A-Z database listing page will also require updates to three or four subject...

PILOTS, RedLightGreen, Kluwer Online Journals.(Peter's picks & pans)
January 1, 2005... The picks include PILOTS, a fine and free indexing/abstracting database of traumatic stress-related documents, including hundreds of full-text articles and thousands of links to open access and subscription-based articles. It features a fine...

Taxonomies: facts and opportunities for information professionals.(The Information Strategist)
January 1, 2005... Ongoing developments combining content and technology continue to provide opportunities for those expert in the core concepts of online information retrieval and library science. Increasingly, areas that were once the exclusive domain of...

Shaping the Network Society: the New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... ***1/2 Shaping the Network Society: the New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace edited by Douglas Schuler and Peter Day ISBN: 0-262-I 9497-X Published: 2004 Pages: 433 pp.; hardcover Price: $45 Available from: The MIT Press,...

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance and Revision.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... *** The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance and Revision edited by Sandra K. Roe and Alan R. Thomas ISBN: 0-7890-1979-5 Published: 2004 Pages: 209 pp.; softcover Price: $19.95 Available from: Haworth Information Press, 10 Alice St.,...

501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google, Amazon, eBay, and More.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... *** 501 Web Site Secrets: Unleash the Power of Google, Amazon, eBay, and More by Michael Miller ISBN: 0-7645-5901-X Published: 2004 Pages: 410 pp.; softcover Price: $35.99 Available from: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd.,...

How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... ** How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware by Ken Feinstein ISBN: 0-07-225655-9 Published: 2004 Pages: 234 pp.; softcover Price: $24.99 Available from: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2100 Powell St., 10th Floor, Emeryville, CA...

A9.com.(online spotlight)
January 1, 2005... Recently, a question asking for the source of a vaguely remembered quote by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (the well-known professor at Harvard Business School) appeared on one of the info-pro e-mail discussion lists I read. It didn't show up in the...