Online articles from January 2006

Online archives from January 2006

Rethinking collections, libraries, and information.(homepage)
January 1, 2006... Flying across the U.S. Midwestern states, particularly in late summer and early autumn, I'm always struck by the green circles of irrigated land scattered among brown rectangles of farm fields. These are not as obvious when you're on the...

Aging gracefully.(industry news)(Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, 8th ed.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... AARP announced the publication of the 8th edition of its Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, produced by the AARP Research Information Center for use with AARP's AgeLine Database. AARP's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology is the definitive taxonomy for...

National Archive Publishing Company formed as a buyout.(industry news)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Long-time ProQuest executive, Dan Arbour, is now founder, president, and CEO of National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC), a company newly formed to acquire three businesses from proQuest--UMI Periodicals in Microform, XanEdu, and ProQuest's...

Rare and out-of-print films digitized.(industry news)
January 1, 2006... Thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana University's Digital Library Program has digitized more than 125 rare and out-of-print films from the Lilly Library's historic David S. Bradley Film Collection. Most of the...

Factiva moves ahead with Systems Integrators, reputation monitoring.(industry news)(Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Factiva introduced its Systems Integrator Partner Program, an expansion of its Partner Network. The first partner will be Quilogy, which has collaborated with Factiva on several Microsoft Office 2003 projects, for both Factiva Portal Services...

FindLaw.com.(Legal)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... A new FindLaw.com interface features two distinct home pages; one page is tailored to consumers/ small-business owners, and the second page is for legal professionals. Each page features an improved interface that helps users find the specific...

As a public service, LexisNexis will provide technology for Special Investigation Resource and Intelligence System (SIRIS) to corporate insurer members of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) and to law enforcement and regulatory agencies.(Legal)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... As a public service, LexisNexis will provide technology for Special Investigation Resource and Intelligence System (SIRIS) to corporate insurer members of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) and to law enforcement and...

Each corporate insurer member can enter its case information, including the nature and evidence of suspected fraud.(Legal)(LexisNexis Group)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Each corporate insurer member can enter its case information, including the nature and evidence of suspected fraud. Participants who are also LexisNexis subscribers will have access to public records data sets and link analysis tools.

Additionally, LexisNexis and the American Arbitration Association (AAA).(Legal)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Additionally, LexisNexis and the American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced a strategic relationship to deliver a new electronic collection of searchable Labor Arbitration Awards exclusively via LexisNexis [www.lexisnexis.com;...

CSA is sponsoring complimentary access to the new Scholar Universe: Social Science service for all customers of CSA social science databases delivered through the CSA Illumina platform.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2006... CSA is sponsoring complimentary access to the new Scholar Universe: Social Science service for all customers of CSA social science databases delivered through the CSA Illumina platform. These records of more than 100,000 verified author and...

The Scientific World Ltd. (TSW) announced an agreement with Swets Information Services to participate in SwetsWise Online Content.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Scientific World Ltd. (TSW) announced an agreement with Swets Information Services to participate in SwetsWise Online Content. Through this electronic service, libraries and information centers are able to access TSW publications, including...

Thomson Gale added 14 new peer-reviewed journals to Science Resource Center.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson Gale added 14 new peer-reviewed journals to Science Resource Center, bringing the total number of full-text, peer-reviewed titles to 167 [212/367-6837; www.thomson.com].

YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor Company, entered into a collaborative venture with the Library of Congress Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT).(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor Company, entered into a collaborative venture with the Library of Congress Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT). BEAT expanded its "reviews" project to include E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of...

Knovel Corp. announced the addition of the DIPPR database, the leading source of physical, thermodynamic, and transport property data, published by the Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR) of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Knovel Corp. announced the addition of the DIPPR database, the leading source of physical, thermodynamic, and transport property data, published by the Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR) of American Institute of Chemical Engineers...

Dialog is now offering Alerts subscriptions to the CSA research databases, beginning with CSA Technology Research Database (File 23) with others to be added later.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Dialog is now offering Alerts subscriptions to the CSA research databases, beginning with CSA Technology Research Database (File 23) with others to be added later. Information specialists in the Dialog Alerts Bureau will develop the search...

Thomson Scientific announced that mutual subscribers to the Web of Science component of ISI Web of Knowledge and ISTOR can now link directly from Web of Science.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific announced that mutual subscribers to the Web of Science component of ISI Web of Knowledge and ISTOR can now link directly from Web of Science to full-text articles in the JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive [www.thomson.com]

D & B.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... D & B announced that its global commercial database now contains 100 million business records. Since 2000, the number of records in the D&B database has grown by nearly 60 percent, largely attributed to the growth in D&B's global coverage. Also...

Thomson Financial announced that ABN AMRO will distribute its embargoed investment research through Thomson Financial on an exclusive basis.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson Financial announced that ABN AMRO will distribute its embargoed investment research through Thomson Financial on an exclusive basis. ABN AMRO, which has been contributing research reports since 1983, becomes the 29th firm to sign an...

Internet Archive.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Internet Archive launched Archive-it, a subscription-based service that allows users to create, manage, and search their own Web archive of an institution's own site or to build a new collection. The Internet Archive hosts the service and...

Swets Information Services launched SwetsWise Searcher.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Swets Information Services launched SwetsWise Searcher, a new federated search engine powered by Vivisimo and featuring its clustering technology [www.swets.com; www.vivisimo.com].

Thomson Gale announced the addition of podcast feeds to InfoTrac on Thomson Gale PowerSearch and its Student Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and History Resource Center databases.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson Gale announced the addition of podcast feeds to InfoTrac on Thomson Gale PowerSearch and its Student Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and History Resource Center databases. Weekly presidential radio addresses by...

KnowNow, Inc., a provider of notification services and RSS content delivery, has made its KnowNow eLerts service available as a hosted solution for businesses.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... KnowNow, Inc., a provider of notification services and RSS content delivery, has made its KnowNow eLerts service available as a hosted solution for businesses. For employees and partners, access to KnowNow eLerts allows time-sensitive...

Factiva announced licensing agreements for 10 Congressional Quarterly (CQ) titles in full text.(Current Awareness)(Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Factiva announced licensing agreements for 10 Congressional Quarterly (CQ) titles in full text. Availability of content varies from same day to 4 days following the issue date, depending upon individual publication [www. factiva.com].

FIND/SVR Inc.(appointed Marc Litvinoff)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... FIND/SVR Inc. announced the appointment of Marc Litvinoff as president of the company. He will also continue as chief operating officer, reporting to David Walke, chairman and CEO.

Feedster.(Peopleware)(promoted Chris Redlitz )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Feedster promoted Chris Redlitz from vice president sales and marketing to president.

LexisNexis.(Peopleware)(appointed Christopher Ainsley)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... LexisNexis announced the appointment of Christopher Ainsley as senior vice president, strategy and business development, LexisNexis Group. Previously, he was president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health. Ainsley will report to Andrew Prozes, CEO,...

OCLC Online Computer Library Center.(Peopleware)(appointed Ching-chih Chen)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Ching-chih Chen, professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, has joined OCLC Online Computer Library Center as consultant to the president for global digital initiatives among libraries, museums, and archival...

Thomson West.(Peopleware)(promoted Elizabeth Psihos )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Elizabeth Psihos was promoted to vice president of customer relationship management and ecommerce for Thomson West.

Goizuetta Business Library.(Peopleware)(appointed Susan M. Klopper)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Susan M. Klopper is now the executive director of the Goizuetta Business Library, Emory University.

Nexidia.(Peopleware)(appointed Drew Lanham )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Drew Lanham has joined Nexidia as senior vice president to lead its newly formed media business unit.

Dialog is now offering its Dialog Choice pricing plan, featuring unlimited access to key research databases at fixed annual rates, to academic institutions worldwide.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Dialog is now offering its Dialog Choice pricing plan, featuring unlimited access to key research databases at fixed annual rates, to academic institutions worldwide. With Dialog Choice, graduate schools, universities, and other academic...

Twelve new publishers signed agreements with EBSCO-host Electronic Journals Service Enhanced (EJS).(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Twelve new publishers signed agreements with EBSCO-host Electronic Journals Service Enhanced (EJS). The content is accessible at the article level and automatically included in EBSCO SmartLinks. Additionally, six publishers signed agreements to...

Teragram announced Direct Answers, available both as a hosted service and as software installed on the servers of Internet portals or large enterprises.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Teragram announced Direct Answers, available both as a hosted service and as software installed on the servers of Internet portals or large enterprises. Already in use at AOL, Direct Answers taps into established Web sites to provide answers...

ebrary OnDemand platform.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The ebrary OnDemand platform, which enables libraries and publishers to distribute their own PDF content online, is now available, ebrary OnDemand is powered by the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP) and features all of its functionality,...

AbsoluteWord.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... AbsoluteWord released a new version of its English dictionary based on WordNet 2.1, a lexical database for the English language that provides access to owners of Pocket PC and Palm OS handhelds. The dictionary core and interface were rebuilt to...

QUOSA, Inc., developer of full-text article retrieval, organization, and searching software, is partnering with Ovid.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... QUOSA, Inc., developer of full-text article retrieval, organization, and searching software, is partnering with Ovid to offer QHOSA Information Manager, a complete desktop environment allowing users to query, update, organize, share, and...

Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, is collaborating with the California Institute of Technology.(Enterprise Search)(Caltech Collection of Digital Archives )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, is collaborating with the California Institute of Technology to index the Caltech Collection of Digital Archives (CODA), its institutional repository, and to power a...

Elsevier also announced a partnership between Scirus and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Elsevier also announced a partnership between Scirus and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus. In addition to indexing the...

U.K.-based Autonomy Corp. PLC announced that it will acquire the larger, U.S.-based Verity, Inc. for approximately $500 million.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... U.K.-based Autonomy Corp. PLC announced that it will acquire the larger, U.S.-based Verity, Inc. for approximately $500 million. The combined entity will be branded Autonomy and will maintain global headquarters in Cambridge, England. Mike...

Inxight Software and Kapow Technologies together now offer an integrated Web content collection and text analytics tool.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Inxight Software and Kapow Technologies together now offer an integrated Web content collection and text analytics tool. Each company will integrate, jointly market, and sell the product that automates collecting content from the Web, then...

Questel*Orbit will acquire Edital in a merger agreement that allows two complementary companies to join forces in both the trademark and patent markets.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Questel*Orbit will acquire Edital in a merger agreement that allows two complementary companies to join forces in both the trademark and patent markets. Questel* Orbit's patent expertise will be joined with Edital's in trademark...

Oxford Journals will be preserving its content in Stanford University's LOCKSS Program.(Alliances & Deals)
January 1, 2006... Oxford Journals will be preserving its content in Stanford University's LOCKSS Program. The LOCKSS Program (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a community-based, open source, persistent access digital preservation system. It enables publishers...

OCLC PICA acquired Fretwell-Downing Informatics, an information discovery, library management, and knowledge delivery organization, to strengthen and extend its combined worldwide network for information delivery to libraries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... OCLC PICA acquired Fretwell-Downing Informatics, an information discovery, library management, and knowledge delivery organization, to strengthen and extend its combined worldwide network for information delivery to libraries. OCLC PICA, based...

Knovel Corp. announced a partnership with GlobalSpec, the specialized search engine and online community for engineers.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Knovel Corp. announced a partnership with GlobalSpec, the specialized search engine and online community for engineers. Knovel's collection of interactive reference books from over 30 publishers is now indexed within The Engineering Web,...

A report from Consumer Reports WebWatch, "Leap of Faith: Using the Internet Despite the Dangers," is based on a poll conducted for it by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.(Research Perspectives)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... A report from Consumer Reports WebWatch, "Leap of Faith: Using the Internet Despite the Dangers," is based on a poll conducted for it by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The report emphasizes the public is becoming less...

Thomson Gale released the second edition of The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer: A Guide to Cancer and Its Treatment, the first major update since its original publication in 2002.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thomson Gale released the second edition of The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer: A Guide to Cancer and Its Treatment, the first major update since its original publication in 2002. New to this edition is its availability in eBook format through the...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. acquired InfoPOEM, Inc., a leading provider of evidence-based medicine (EBM) content and Web-based search tools.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. acquired InfoPOEM, Inc., a leading provider of evidence-based medicine (EBM) content and Web-based search tools. Founded in the early 1990s, InfoPOEM, Inc. delivers daily e-mail summaries of medical evidence and provides...

Ovid Technologies.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Ovid Technologies announced the addition of more than 160 medical, scientific, and engineering titles from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Pharmaceutical Press, McGraw-Hill, and other leading publishers to Books@Ovid, its integrated e-books...

A9.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... A9 improved and updated its toolbar, which now runs on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape. Version 1.3.1 allows Web site publishers to provide a menu of information to toolbar users via an XML file. This data is then displayed...

Ask Jeeves.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Ask Jeeves Spanish and Japanese sites are out of beta. Ask has upgraded its desktop search product with new features including improved PDF and Zip file indexing, the ability to specify folders, search term highlighting, indexing of iTunes...

Exalead.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Exalead is out of beta and has a redesigned front page. Its claimed size jumped from 1 to 2 billion pages and still includes truncation, proximity, and other specialized search and display features. Exalead also offers a multilingual desktop...

Feedster.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Feedster has added a few new sections. Its podcast search is in beta and offers a choice of searching either shows or episodes. The news search breaks out the official news media results from blog feeds. These two options join Feedster's...

Google.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Google has added Creative Commons limits to its advanced search page. This works like the Yahoo! creative commons search limits but adds the modify option. At Google, the limit is labeled "usage rights" but has no link to the Creative...

Google Local.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Google Local has subsumed Google Maps and combined the map and satellite imagery with local searching. In addition, Google Local is now available on some Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones. This mobile version of Google Local displays Google...

Google Personalized Search.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Google Personalized Search is no longer just a lab project. It combines search history, a personalized portal, and personalization of results into one service. The results ranking is adjusted based on previous queries and which results were...

Google Book Search.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Google Book Search has finally begun to show more out-of-copyright titles from the Google Library scanning project. These have a vertical "Google Print" note in the right margin of each page. The easiest way to find some is to search for books...

MSN Search.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... MSN Search has joined with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) and will be scanning and digitizing about 100,000 books from The British Library. The books to be scanned are older, out-of-copyright works and should be available sometime in the...

Open Library.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Open Library [www.openlibrary.org] from the OCA [www.open contentalliance.org] is an impressive demonstration site that shows how digitized books from the OCA will be viewable and searchable. Several titles are available with a user interface...

Topix.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Topix has added thousands of blogs to its coverage. The blog records have a tan background to separate them from the news search results. Greg R. Notess [greg@notess.com; www.notess.com] is a reference librarian at Montana State University...

Yahoo!(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Yahoo! has added blogs to its news search. The blog hits are displayed in a separate box to the right of the news results. When expanded, the blog results may also include images from Flickr that match the search terms. Yahoo! has a new podcast...

Yahoo! Desktop Search.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Yahoo! Desktop Search is now out of beta with a new LiveWords button. Select some words on a page and click the button for a contextual search based on the selected words. The new Desktop Search also includes a battery saver mode especially for...

Yahoo! Instant Search.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Yahoo! Instant Search [http://instant.search.yahoo.com] is a new service in beta that displays a quick answer or the first result in a balloon below the search box even as the search is typed. This can also be turned on for the general Yahoo!...

XML: even if it is snake oil, you'll still feel pretty good.
January 1, 2006... If this were a "spaghetti Western" movie instead of an information professional journal, the opening scene might look like this: The trail of dust from a wagon forms a sinewy, sinister ribbon across the prairie. The leather creaks; the horses...

Educational Web resources for teachers and librarians.(Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Research)(Column)
January 1, 2006... Since becoming an elementary school teacher, my"second career" after librarianship, I look at everything with fresh eyes. I can't throw away an empty yogurt cup, 2-liter bottle, or cardboard tube without thinking of how I could use it in my...

Where's Waldo? A primer on people-searching online.
January 1, 2006... Remember the movie The Net? Sandra Bullock plays the role of Angela Bennett, a software analyst who stumbles upon a disk belonging to cyberterrorists. Jeremy Northam plays one of the terrorists, Jack Devlin, who tries to romance the disk out of...

Small-town newspapers online: smaller newspapers have been slower to jump on the online bandwagon, largely due to the high cost of converting pages to digital format and extracting text with OCR software.
January 1, 2006... FOR several years now, students, writers, researchers, librarians, and others with a need, or simply a desire, to look into the past have enjoyed increasing access to both contemporary and archival editions of the country's largest newspapers....

Information ethics in the business research environment.
January 1, 2006... From the sidewalk lemonade stand to an online stock trade, there are few business transactions that do not either generate information or rely upon an exchange of information. It might be information that is brought to a transaction, is created...

Top 10 tips for ensuring content integrity.
January 1, 2006... THE role of the information professional is changing. Increasingly, the emphasis is more on managing information than searching for and finding it. In today's world, the Web and software programs such as Microsoft Word make it easy for anyone,...

Re-evaluating Web evaluation.(on the net)(Column)
January 1, 2006... With the start of yet another semester on campus, the library assignments begin to roll in again. I have observed a positive trend in my little corner of academia: More instructors are emphasizing the evaluation of Web resources. Perhaps they...

The new life cycle of business information.(the dollar sign)
January 1, 2006... Ten years ago, the life cycle of business information was more predictable and less chaotic than it is today. You could trace the development of a news item about a company, industry, or product with a fair amount of certainty as to where you...

Making your intranet live up to its potential.(intranet librarian)
January 1, 2006... Most intranet Webmasters frequently hear stories about intranets that limp along or are dismal failures. At conference coffee breaks and on discussion lists, you'll sometimes hear intranet managers wondering why their intranet is underused,...

Wayfinding on the Web.(website management)
January 1, 2006... "What is more annoying than the feeling of having wasted time and energy in a futile attempt to reach a destination?" --Romedi Passini, Wayfinding in Architecture Just as some people have perfect pitch, others enjoy an innate sense of...

STN AnaVist.(the picks)
January 1, 2006... I must admit that I am no expert in searching STN. I used it a long time ago, and even then only when I needed some special features of the STN implementation of Science Citation Index, such as the occurrence count of search words in the...

Book review digest retro.(the picks)
January 1, 2006... I have always thought that H.W. Wilson takes an excessively shy approach to public relations and advertising its products. It resembles the blushingly modest attitude of a choir girl from Saint Andrew Elementary after a perfect rendition of...

Some pans of the past.(the pan)
January 1, 2006... It tells you something about the indifference of content providers and online services that they are not bothered to correct obvious, large-scale, and, in some cases, expensive errors--expensive that is, for the end users. I like to believe...

Recommended reading on Web content, design, podcasting, and Google.(hard copy)(Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers)(Cashing in With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers)(Secrets of Podcasting: Audio Blogging for the Masses)(The Google Legacy: How Google's Internet Search is Transforming Application Software )(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... This month, I look at books that tell you how to get more from or do more with your Web pages by focusing on content, design, podcasting, and following in the footsteps of Google. Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use...

Tag--you're it!(online spotlight)
January 1, 2006... Most of us are familiar with the idea of tagging content--blog entries, saved URLs, photographs, and so on. Sites such as Technorati, Furl.net, Del.icio.us, and Flickr have either made their reputation or significantly enhanced their following...