Online articles from January 2007

Online archives from January 2007

Time for an anniversary party.(home page)
January 1, 2007... This is an exciting year for ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals. It's our 30th anniversary. Hard as it may be to believe, the information professionals' use of online technologies and electronic content predates the...

Factiva goes all Dow Jones.(industry news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Factiva, a Dow Jones & Co. and Reuters company, is soon to become a one-owner company, as Dow Jones intends to buy out its partner, Reuters, for $160 million. Factiva will be integrated into Dow Jones' Enterprise Media Group, which has Clare...

Thomson plans sale of learning unit.(industry news)(Thomson Corp. will divest its Thomson Learning business)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The Thomson Corp., in what it terms a "strategic realignment," intends to divest its Thomson Learning business, including Thomson Gale. The entire education unit is said to be worth about $5 billion. According to CEO Dick Harrington, "Thomson...

Current awareness.(Senior Newswire)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Savvy Senior, an information service for older Americans, has created a free online newsfeed called Senior Newswire. Targeted for baby boomers and senior citizens, this service works like a search engine, providing readers direct Web links to...

Gates funds OCLC's marketing campaign.(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... OCLC was awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the development of a national marketing campaign to increase awareness of the value of libraries and the need for support at local, state, and national levels. The $1.2...

CNET sells Release 1.0.(O'Reilly Media Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Release 1.0, the technology newsletter edited by Esther Dyson, was sold by CNET Networks to O'Reilly Media, Inc. O'Reilly will rename it Release 2.0 with Jimmy Guterman as editor. Dyson and Tim O'Reilly were keynote speakers at BSEC 2006.

The Thomson Corp. acquired LiveNote Technologies, a provider of transcript and evidence management software for litigators and court reporters.(Legal)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The Thomson Corp. acquired LiveNote Technologies, a provider of transcript and evidence management software for litigators and court reporters. LiveNote, based in San Francisco, will be aligned with Thomson West to complement its suite of...

LexisNexis U.S. launched the Global IP Law Service, powered by Equerion.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... LexisNexis U.S. launched the Global IP Law Service, powered by Equerion. It provides access to up-to-date primary law resources and current news updates on international intellectual-property issues. Global IP Law Service includes coverage of...

Dialog added TRADEMARKSCAN-Australia, further expanding its intellectual-property portfolio and providing greater coverage for the Asia-Pacific region.(Dialog added TRADEMARKSCAN-Australia database )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Dialog added TRADEMARKSCAN-Australia, further expanding its intellectual-property portfolio and providing greater coverage for the Asia-Pacific region. TRADEMARKSCAN-Australia contains more than 482,000 unpublished applications and published...

Legal electronic publisher Justis Publishing, Ltd. has signed an agreement to index Oxford University Press' full catalog of legal journals on its legal reference citator service, JustCite.(Legal)(Justis Publishing Ltd. agreement with Oxford University Press)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Legal electronic publisher Justis Publishing, Ltd. has signed an agreement to index Oxford University Press' full catalog of legal journals on its legal reference citator service, JustCite. This agreement brings 23 new journals to the JustCite...

Elsevier announced that Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to index its two institutional repositories, ePrints@IISc and etd@IISc.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Elsevier announced that Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to index its two institutional repositories, ePrints@IISc and etd@IISc. The former is an eprints archiving...

To help reduce disparities in scientific resources, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and more than 200 science and technology publishers, societies, and associations launched an initiative to make global research in the environmental sciences available online to scientists, researchers, and policymakers in the developing world.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... To help reduce disparities in scientific resources, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and more than 200 science and technology publishers, societies, and associations launched an initiative to make global...

Safari Books Online, a joint venture of O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, introduced Safari Library, an online reference library service that provides unlimited access to more than 4,000 books from technical and business publishers.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Safari Books Online, a joint venture of O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, introduced Safari Library, an online reference library service that provides unlimited access to more than 4,000 books from technical and business...

ProQuest Information and Learning will continue its exclusive distribution rights of Safari Tech Books Online and Business Books Online.(Safari Tech Books Online and Business Books Online distribution rights)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... ProQuest Information and Learning will continue its exclusive distribution rights of Safari Tech Books Online and Business Books Online to academic, public, and K-12 libraries and nonexclusive rights for corporate and government libraries...

Hoover's announced the launch of Hoover's Premium Select, featuring access to more than 4 million additional companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific markets and 10 times as many U.S. companies.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Hoover's announced the launch of Hoover's Premium Select, featuring access to more than 4 million additional companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific markets and 10 times as many U.S. companies. Subscribers can add depth of content to any company...

LexisNexis U.S. introduced LexisNexis Practice Insights for access to state-specific tax analyses.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... LexisNexis U.S. introduced LexisNexis Practice Insights for access to state-specific tax analyses written by practicing tax experts across the country.

Available on the Tax Center product, it provides expertise from tax professionals practicing at leading firms, including Deloitte, Winston & Strawn, Baker & McKenzie, and McDermott Will & Emery, among others.(Business & Finance)
January 1, 2007... Available on the Tax Center product, it provides expertise from tax professionals practicing at leading firms, including Deloitte, Winston & Strawn, Baker & McKenzie, and McDermott Will & Emery, among others. The initial product includes tips...

Company documents filed by organizations in Ireland can now be downloaded from RM Online.(Business & Finance)
January 1, 2007... Company documents filed by organizations in Ireland can now be downloaded from RM Online. The service covers all Southern Irish companies and makes files available as PDFs. Irish companies can be identified by their company registration...

Answers Corp. announced the acquisition of FAQ Farm, a leading wiki-based Web site containing a content-rich, cross-disciplinary library of user-contributed questions and answers.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Answers Corp. announced the acquisition of FAQ Farm, a leading wiki-based Web site containing a content-rich, cross-disciplinary library of user-contributed questions and answers. The acquisition was completed for $2 million in cash in November...

Blackwell Book Services and ebrary announced the launch of ECHO, a new econtent hosting platform for libraries.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Blackwell Book Services and ebrary announced the launch of ECHO, a new econtent hosting platform for libraries. With ECHO, librarians worldwide can purchase and manage ebook and print collections within their current acquisitions workflows....

NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, is now offering subscription services to three Chinese-language databases from airiti, Inc., an aggregator and distributor of Chinese language content.(airiti Inc. )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, is now offering subscription services to three Chinese-language databases from airiti, Inc., an aggregator and distributor of Chinese language content. The new databases will provide libraries with direct access...

WebFeat announced the release of the International Edition of WebFeat Express, providing the ability to dynamically change language displays on both its search interface and administrative console.(International Edition of WebFeat Express ability to dynamically change language displays)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... WebFeat announced the release of the International Edition of WebFeat Express, providing the ability to dynamically change language displays on both its search interface and administrative console. WebFeat also launched WebFeat Enterprise...

Attensity, a text-analytics software solutions provider, will partner with IBM to support the new IBM Information Server to help mutual customers derive more value from information spread across their IT systems.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Attensity, a text-analytics software solutions provider, will partner with IBM to support the new IBM Information Server to help mutual customers derive more value from information spread across their IT systems. Attensity will work with IBM to...

LexisNexis announced the launch of LexisNexis atVantage, a new product within the company's Client Development solutions line designed to help professional services firms analyze and track their firms' growth opportunities with clients and prospects, research and identify industry and market trends, and track the competition.(LexisNexis atVantage)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... LexisNexis announced the launch of LexisNexis atVantage, a new product within the company's Client Development solutions line designed to help professional services firms analyze and track their firms' growth opportunities with clients and...

Ask.com and Lycos, Inc. announced a multiyear agreement whereby Ask.com will be the search and sponsored listings provider for the LYCOS Network, including Lycos.com, HotBot.com, Tripod.com, and Angelfire.com.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Ask.com and Lycos, Inc. announced a multiyear agreement whereby Ask.com will be the search and sponsored listings provider for the LYCOS Network, including Lycos.com, HotBot.com, Tripod.com, and Angelfire.com. Under the terms of the agreement,...

CrossRef released an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface to its Web Services metadata distribution program.(Online Services)
January 1, 2007... CrossRef released an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface to its Web Services metadata distribution program. In addition, the company recently signed both Scirus and the European Bioinformatics Institute...

Dialog How Do I ...?(Online Services)
January 1, 2007... The new Dialog How Do I...? series offers "just-in-time" search aids for patent and pharmaceutical searching. At its launch, 35 solutions for patents research, covering everything from how to find Japanese patents to tracking expiring drug...

Copyright Clearance Center.(appointment of Tracey Armstrong)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) named Trace), Armstrong chief operating officer. She was previously executive vice president.

Health Sciences.(appointment of Jonathan Teich)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Jonathan Teich has been hired by Health Sciences, Elsevier, as chief medical informatics officer. He will translate the company's content and publications into products for clinicians.

Lou Eccleston.(resignation of Lou Eccleston)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Lou Eccleston, president of global sales, marketing, and services at the division, left Thomson Financial in November.

Neural Development.(Open Access)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... A new open access journal called Neural Development was launched by Andrew Lumsden, director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London, U.K. Lumsden previously served as editor of Development, which is published...

Thomson Scientific.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific announced the deposit of 2.2 million chemical structures from Thomson Pharma into PubChem, the free database coveting the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem was developed by the National Center for...

Medstory, Inc.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Medstory, Inc., a provider of intelligent search, announced the launch of a Media Partner Network aimed at delivering a new level of top-quality search results for users seeking in-depth health and medical information. Inaugural partners...

Current issues: Reference Shelf Plus, a new full-text database, is now available on WilsonWeb.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2007... Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus, a new full-text database, is now available on WilsonWeb. It presents selected articles from key publications on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues. Material is selected to support the...

CSA announced the completion of the 2006 PsycINFO reload on CSA Illumina.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2007... CSA announced the completion of the 2006 PsycINFO reload on CSA Illumina. With this enhancement, more than 15,000 new records with cited references are available, along with enhancements to several fields. The new PsycINFO records correspond to...

Project MUSE launched a new server designed to introduce MUSE content to the university community in China.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2007... Project MUSE launched a new server designed to introduce MUSE content to the university community in China. This is the latest development by MUSE in its efforts to expand its international subscriber base. MUSE is working in partnership with...

OCLC and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced that the Getty Vocabularies (The Art & Architecture Thesaurus, The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and The Union List of Artist Names) are now available through the OCLC Terminologies Service, a Web service providing libraries, museums, and archives access to a variety of thesauri through a single interface.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2007... OCLC and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced that the Getty Vocabularies (The Art & Architecture Thesaurus, The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and The Union List of Artist Names) are now available through the OCLC Terminologies...

Literature Resource Center.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... During 2006, coverage of more than 4,000 additional authors was added to the Literature Resource Center, bringing the total number of authors with biographical and bibliographic coverage to more than 130,000. An additional 6,000 biographies...

Autumn 2006 saw two major browser releases: Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Autumn 2006 saw two major browser releases: Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2. Internet Explorer joined Firefox in offering a search box built into the browser in the upper right-hand corner. While Internet Explorer defaults to...

A9.com.(search engine )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... A9.com substantially changed its interface and cut several major features. The search engine has more of a Web 2.0 look and feel and is probably more usable for the general public. The databases are grouped together in the left column and are...

Ask.com.(search engine)(Ask Mobile http://m.ask.com)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Ask.com launched Ask Mobile (http://m.ask.com), a version of the Ask.com Web search designed specifically for cell phones and other online mobile devices. It includes numbered shortcuts for quick access to Ask.com tools, remembers recent...

Exalead.(search engine)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... exalead launched its new interface along with an 8-billion-page database, making it much more competitive among the major search engines. New features include a cleaner results display; moving refine suggestions to the right and thumbnail...

Gigablast.(search engine )(spam reporting option in Gigablast)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Gigablast announced a major increase in size this summer and then rescinded it. In the announcement, Gigablast claimed 10 billion pages. On some searches, Gigablast seems to have comparable numbers of results to the major search engines....

Google.(Google Co-op www.google.com/coop/cse)(Google Custom Search Engine)(Google Code www.google.com/ codesearch)(Google Mobile http:// mobile.google.com)(Google Groups http://groups-beta .google.com. )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Google changed the way it handles diacritics. It used to do an exact match, but now, at least for the U.S. version, a search on a word with accented characters or other diacritics will find pages containing the word with and without the...

Google Book Search.(search engine)(University Complutense de Madrid partnership)(Google Books Library Project)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Google Book Search announced that the University Complutense de Madrid and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined the Google Books Library Project. Digital copies of books from both collections will be available in the future. In...

Live Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Live Search has almost entirely replaced MSN Search. Some users of Internet Explorer 6 may still get MSN results when using the browser's "Search" button, but most of the old MSN Search sites redirect to the new Live Search. For advanced...

Northern Light.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Northern Light (www.northernlight.com) is back as a Web search engine, for business-related pages at least. Searchers can now search the BusinessWeb (100 million pages and 22,000 sites) along with several other databases including journals...

Yahoo!(search engine)(Yahoo! Search Open Shortcuts )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Yahoo! expanded the Open Shortcuts (http://shortcuts .search.yahoo.com) program that provides quick access to various Yahoo! services. These all start with an exclamation point and work from anyYahoo! search box. For example, type !mysp to go...

Changes in search behavior.(1997-2007)
January 1, 2007... A striking thing about the changes in our online world over the past 30 years is how searchers approach a research project. Early articles in ONLINE included elaborate, elegant--and lengthy--search strategies. Sometimes the strategies filled an...

That was then ... this is now.(1997-2007)
January 1, 2007... IT'S amazing to look back 30 years, or even just 20-25--which spans the length of my career with ONLINE magazine and the online industry. What goes around comes around. Does anyone remember Richard Janke writing about end users in the early...

Looking back at ONLINE.
January 1, 2007... Being a part of the Online, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Information Today, Inc.) team from 1981 to 1989 was a unique and wonderful experience. I was a new graduate from Pratt's M.L.S. program in 1981 when I started editing the Directory of...

Where have all the OLUGS gone? As individual OLUGs matured, their efforts extended beyond educating their own members and spreading the gospel about online services.
January 1, 2007... FOR many years, particularly in the 1980s, the back pages of this magazine regularly listed OLUGs and reported on their activities. OLUG is an acronym (an ancient one by online standards) for On-Line User Group, back when the concept of...

Search engines: from Web 0.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond.
January 1, 2007... Web search engines have primarily made incremental changes since they first appeared in the 1990s, building upon and making bigger, better, and faster what was already there. Recent changes actually have little to do with "search" but are a...

The Internet, ARPANet, and consumer online.
January 1, 2007... Quite a few people think the Internet came along sometime around 1990, with the Web hot on its heels. That's a natural assumption, since most people didn't have personal computers until the 1990s. In truth, the Internet goes back a lot...

A reading road trip around copyright: an annotated tour of copyright resources.
January 1, 2007... AS copyright becomes part of the nation's mainstream discourse, more publications are devoting time and space to the topic. This leads to an interesting evolution in publication and viewpoint. Where copyright was once discussed only in...

Looking back from the other side of the pond.
January 1, 2007... TO look back at the highlights of 30 years of online from Europe, I will take some giant steps to walk through history. With hindsight, I can say that I received the most appropriate master's degree for online--a Master's of Divinity from Notre...

Investext: new approaches from an old database.(the dollar sign)
January 1, 2007... The notion of online access to reports written by investment analysts was heady I stuff in the early 1980s when Investext initially launched. The broker research database, which was the brainchild of William Benjamin and Jeffrey Parker,...

Community filtering; digg, Slashdot, and the social Web.(on the net)
January 1, 2007... These days, the buzz on the Net is about the social Web and user-contributed content They are a hallmark of many Web 2.0 offerings. With the proliferation of blogs and online news sites, it is easy to start drowning in the sheer volume of...

Wow!--30 years of ONLINE magazine.(information strategies)
January 1, 2007... I often feel I've led a charmed life. When Marydee Ojala informed me that this issue is the "official" 30th anniversary issue of ONLINE magazine, I could not help but reflect on my own experience with the magazine and the industry it covers....

Separate designs for Internet and intranet pages.(website management)
January 1, 2007... The furniture on my porch doesn't match the furniture I have in my house. What I wear to work is different from what I wear on weekends. This makes sense: different environment, different purpose. Should a corporate Web site provided to the...

Electronic resources won't sell themselves: marketing tips.(intranet librarian)
January 1, 2007... Marketing is more important than ever. Although we've strengthened our collections with electronic resources, we face competition. We're no longer the only game in town. While we can argue that we have unique, high-quality resources that aren't...

Vivisimo, Central Search, TIME Magazine, and the Open Directory Project.(Column)
January 1, 2007... The first pick is a powerhouse combo of a federated search engine enhanced by Vivisimo's clustering technology in the new release of Serials Solutions' Central Search. This will make most library patrons appreciate the quality and variety of...

Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists.(Net Crimes and Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists, 2d ed.)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... *** 1/2 Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists, second edition by J. A. Hitchcock ISBN: 0-910965-72-2 Published: 2006 Pages: 459 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95 Available from: Information...

Search Analytics: A Guide to Analyzing and Optimizing Web Site Search Engines.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... *** Search Analytics: A Guide to Analyzing and Optimizing Web Site Search Engines by Hurol Inan ISBN: 1-4196-2609-4 Published: 2006 Pages: 56 pp.; PDF file Price: $9.95 ($19.95 for print) Available from: Hurol Inan, Suite 3, Level...

Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems by Mark Dahl, Kyle Banerjee, and Michael Spalti ISBN: 1-84334-155-7 Published: 2006 Pages: 203 pp.; softcover Price: $59.95 Available from: Chandos Publishing, Ltd., Chandos House, 5 &...

Real World Research Skills: An Introduction to Factual, International, Judicial, Legislative, and Regulatory Research.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Real World Research Skills: An Introduction to Factual, International, Judicial, Legislative, and Regulatory Research by Peggy Garvin ISBN: 1587330075 Published: 2006 Pages: 116 pp.; softcover Price: $23.97 Available from:...

Google looks back in time.(launches "200-year" News Archive Search)
January 1, 2007... These days, I'm grateful that I don't own a newspaper or an econtent company. Newspapers are struggling to figure out how to counteract their precipitous losses of advertising revenue and subscribers to their hard-copy products, not to mention...