Online articles from January 2008

Online archives from January 2008

ONLINE's got a brand new tag: Exploring Technology & Resources.(homepage)(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2008... Unless you're in the publishing world--or a dedicated serials librarian--you probably don't read the fine print of magazine titles. For the past decade, ONLINE has been "The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals." Starting with this...

New copyright chart from Cornell.(industry news)(www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain)(Cornell University)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A new version of the copyright duration chart, Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, is now available (www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain). Two new sections have been added. The first section is on published and...

GPO opens up Congress.(industry news)(http://member guide.gpoaccess.gov of United States. Government Printing Office)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) created a one-stop website with easily searchable information on all members of Congress (http://member guide.gpoaccess.gov). One click leads directly to a photograph and biography of all current...

New tag line for ONLINE.(industry news)
January 1, 2008... To better describe the mission of this magazine, the full title now reads, ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals.

EBSCO.(Open Access)(EBSCO Book Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... EBSCO has introduced a new series of packages to its A-to-Z service. For its open access journals collection, EBSCO created a series of 15 subject-specific packages and added four language-specific packages (www.ebsco.com).

Nonprofit electronic archiving service provider Portico announced an agreement with STM publisher Springer to preserve 824 titles from the latter's online journals collection.(Open Access)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Nonprofit electronic archiving service provider Portico announced an agreement with STM publisher Springer to preserve 824 titles from the latter's online journals collection. Additional journals published with partner societies and other third...

BioMed Central announced that six BioMed Central titles have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE.(Open Access)(BioMed Central Group)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... BioMed Central announced that six BioMed Central titles have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals were accepted for inclusion following review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, an NIH-chartered advisory...

Northern Light announced the launch of Analyst Direct, providing integrated search of tens of thousands of market research reports from IT analysts including Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and other leading firms.(Business & Finance)(Northern Light Technology L.L.C.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Northern Light announced the launch of Analyst Direct, providing integrated search of tens of thousands of market research reports from IT analysts including Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and other leading firms. It leverages Northern Light's search...

Thomson Financial.(Business & Finance)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Financial)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Financial announced results of a survey that highlights an increase in the use of video as a business communications tool. The study shows that many companies find video enormously helpful for simplifying complex messages directed at a...

Thomson Scientific announced the release of BOND-plus, a web-based data platform for biological researchers.(Biomedical)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific announced the release of BOND-plus, a web-based data platform for biological researchers. Compiled from 15 assembled resources, it allows researchers to move beyond the genome and leverage publicly available biological...

Thomson Scientific has added EMBASE Classic to the Dialog and DataStar platforms.(Biomedical)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific has added EMBASE Classic to the Dialog and DataStar platforms, providing access to more than 25 years of archived life sciences data (www.dialog.com/ embaseclassic).

BioMed Central.(Biomedical)(BioMed Central Group)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... BioMed Central announced the launch of Biology Image Library, an online resource providing access to more than 11,000 biology-related images, movies, illustrations, and animations. Subscribers may make royalty-free use of images in the...

Answers.com has integrated interactive health education videos from HealthiNation.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Answers.com has integrated interactive health education videos from HealthiNation, a digital-health media company. HealthiNation video programs are designed for interactive media, bringing clarity to health topics using 3D bio-animations and...

Thomson Healthcare has updated two content platforms of the NexProfiler Treatment Options Tools.(Biomedical)(Thomson Healthcare)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Healthcare has updated two content platforms of the NexProfiler Treatment Options Tools. Head and Neck Cancers cover more than 30 chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and urologic conditions. Patented technology...

Swets has acquired exclusive rights to ScholarlyStats.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Swets has acquired exclusive rights to ScholarlyStats, a web-based portal for collecting, consolidating, and analyzing ejournal usage statistics from multiple sources. Supplied in COUNTER-compliant format, usage reports may be downloaded by...

EBSCO announced that Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks may now be purchased through EBSCO Information Services.(Online Services)(EBSCO Information Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... EBSCO announced that Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks may now be purchased through EBSCO Information Services. Wiley Interscience OnlineBooks include more than 2,900 online titles in STM, business, the humanities, finance, and others...

ProQuest has added a new copyright permission feature to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences as a free service for subscribers.(Online Services)(ProQuest Co.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... ProQuest has added a new copyright permission feature to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences as a free service for subscribers. It provides instant access to rightsholder information and offers the ability to secure permission to reuse any...

The Association of Rural and Small Libraries.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) is working with WebJunction to create a web community to share best practices, research, ideas, and discussion of issues relevant to rural and small libraries. It combines content from the...

OCLC integrated 12 databases, formerly part of the RLG Eureka service, into the OCLC FirstSearch service.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... OCLC integrated 12 databases, formerly part of the RLG Eureka service, into the OCLC FirstSearch service. The new content includes Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute; Anthropological Literature; Anthropology Plus; Avery...

ProQuest announced the availability of the Digital National Security Archive.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... ProQuest announced the availability of the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), offering access to formerly secret or top-secret documents underlying 60 years of U.S. military and foreign policy. DNSA contains more than 63,000 declassified...

The Guardian and The Observer are the first British titles to become part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service of University of Bristol)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Guardian and The Observer are the first British titles to become part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. ProQuest is partnering with the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS) at the University of...

EBSCO Publishing has made the Christian Periodical Index (CPI) available on EBSCOhost.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... EBSCO Publishing has made the Christian Periodical Index (CPI) available on EBSCOhost. Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI provides access to predominantly English-language articles and reviews from an evangelical...

Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, announced significant updates to The Liberator and African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century, two of its premier collections.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, announced significant updates to The Liberator and African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century, two of its premier collections. William Lloyd...

Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer) and Greenwood Publishing have agreed to integrate eight key Greenwood titles into the Credo General Reference collection.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Credo Reference Inc. and Greenwood Publishing Group Inc)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer) and Greenwood Publishing have agreed to integrate eight key Greenwood titles into the Credo General Reference collection. Greenwood Press provides reference books in all subject areas taught in colleges and...

MuseGlobal announced the adoption of its content integration platform by Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise suite.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... MuseGlobal announced the adoption of its content integration platform by Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise suite. With Muse technology, SharePoint customers are now able to present local and licensed content to their enterprise...

Thunderstone Software LLC.(Enterprise Search)(Expansion Programs International Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thunderstone Software LLC has added customizable "sort by" and "group by" capabilities to the Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance, further enhancing its enterprise search solutions. Parametric, or attribute-enhanced search helps users...

The Thomson Corp. acquired Prous Science, a provider of life sciences information solutions.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Thomson Corp. acquired Prous Science, a provider of life sciences information solutions. The Prous Science Integrity portal provides access to more than 265,000 compounds with demonstrated biological activity and close to 100,000 patent...

Answers Corp. announced a partnership with Automattic, Inc., owners of the WordPress.com blogging service.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Answers Corp. announced a partnership with Automattic, Inc., owners of the WordPress.com blogging service. Bloggers using WordPress.com will be offered an integrated tool to link words in their posts to definitions and explanations from...

Current Issues in Health is now available on WilsonWeb.(Alliances & Deals)(H.W. Wilson Co.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Current Issues in Health is now available on WilsonWeb, offering information on top-of-the-mind subjects in collections of articles hand-picked by Wilson editors (www.hwwilson.com).

ProQuest announced an agreement with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to connect its respective digital research databases of early modern English books via cross-search technology.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... ProQuest announced an agreement with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to connect its respective digital research databases of early modern English books via cross-search technology. In 2008, a search in ProQuest's Early English Books Online...

Ingenta and The Charleston Advisor announced a new partnership to host the online edition of the Advisor, dating back to the first issue on Ingenta Connect.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Ingenta and The Charleston Advisor announced a new partnership to host the online edition of the Advisor, dating back to the first issue on Ingenta Connect. The Advisor's sister publication, The Charleston Report, is also included in the...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(Peopleware)(Gordon Macomber as president and CEO)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Wolters Kluwer Health announced the appointment of Gordon Macomber as president and CEO of its professional and education business unit.

Cengage Learning.(Peopleware)(Patrick C. Sommers)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Cengage Learning has appointed Patrick C. Sommers as president of Gale, reporting directly to Ronald G. Dunn, president and CEO of Cengage Learning.

Jose Luis Andrade.(Peopleware )(Swets Subscription Service)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Jose Luis Andrade is the new president of Swets North America.

Nature Publishing Group.(Peopleware)(Steven Inchcoombe)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Nature Publishing Group announced the appointment of Steven Inchcoombe as managing director.

Andrew Pace joined OCLC as executive director, networked library services from North Carolina State University Libraries.(Peopleware)(Cindy Cunningham joined OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Andrew Pace joined OCLC as executive director, networked library services from North Carolina State University Libraries. Cindy Cunningham joined from Corbis as director, Partner Programs.

Clare Hart.(Peopleware)(Stevie Award for Women)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Dow Jones' Clare Hart won the Stevie Award for Women in Business in the Best Executive--Service Business--up to 2,500 Employees category.

Robert C. Tapella.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Robert C. Tapella became the nation's 25th Public Printer, leading more than 2,200 employees at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Springer Science+Business Media has reorganized into global and local publishing divisions.(Peopleware)(Peter Hendriks,Olaf Ernst,Sven Fund appointed )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Springer Science+Business Media has reorganized into global and local publishing divisions. STM Global Publishing will be headed up by Peter Hendriks. Olaf Ernst will be responsible for all electronic STM products. Sven Fund will manage local...

HighBeam Research, Inc. announced the release of Newser.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... HighBeam Research, Inc. announced the release of Newser, which locates and links to news stories, video, audio, and photos from news resources across the web and supplies concise, editorial summaries (www.newser.com).

Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Enterprise Alert Manager, an integrated RSS management and collaboration solution designed for information distribution, reducing email load, and centralizing content management.(Current Awareness)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Enterprise Alert Manager, an integrated RSS management and collaboration solution designed for information distribution, reducing email load, and centralizing content management. It also provides the...

Comtex News Network announced that video news content is now available to all Comtex clients via ClipSyndicate, a next-generation ad-supported video syndication network.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Comtex News Network announced that video news content is now available to all Comtex clients via ClipSyndicate, a next-generation ad-supported video syndication network. Samples of ClipSyndicate video delivered via Comtex can be seen at...

Corrections & amplifications.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2008... The article "Music to Researchers' Ears" in the November/December 2007 edition of ONLINE gave incorrect information for an online resource on Canadian music. The correct name of the encyclopedia reviewed is the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada....

Scopus.(Sci-Tech)(Scopus Technology Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Scopus added new features to improve research productivity and support workflow, including the ability to search and browse content from cited references, additional and flexible clustering categories in the "Refine Results" feature, the...

Engineering Information announced the expansion of the Referex eBooks database, delivering engineering content sourced from Elsevier's book publishing program.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Engineering Information announced the expansion of the Referex eBooks database, delivering engineering content sourced from Elsevier's book publishing program. It features more than 480 new titles in Electronics and Electrical Engineering,...

IFIS Publishing has announced that Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) is now available on EBSCOhost.(Sci-Tech)(International Food Information Service)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... IFIS Publishing has announced that Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) is now available on EBSCOhost. FSTA, a leading database of information on food science, food technology, and nutrition, provides a rapid way for food professionals,...

Questel announced the release of QPAT 6.0, including a number of new features to increase usability, navigation, user-friendliness, and sharing capability.(Sci-Tech)(Questel-Orbit Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Questel announced the release of QPAT 6.0, including a number of new features to increase usability, navigation, user-friendliness, and sharing capability. PatentExaminer, known in QPAT as Work files, has been fully integrated into the service...

Thomson Scientific broadened its coverage of China's growing patent activity with the addition of English-translated Chinese Utility Model Registrations in Derwent World Patents Index.(Sci-Tech)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific broadened its coverage of China's growing patent activity with the addition of English-translated Chinese Utility Model Registrations in Derwent World Patents Index (DWPISM). Thomson Scientific is the first patent information...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business now offers content from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the form of SEC Staff Comment Letters.(Legal)(Wolters Kluwer N.V.'s services)(United States. Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Wolters Kluwer Law & Business now offers content from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the form of SEC Staff Comment Letters, which provide insights of SEC staffers as they communicate what they expect companies to disclose...

Aspen Publishers acquired two long-established independent study aid lines for law students: Blond's Law Guides and Friedman's Practice Series.(Legal)(Aspen Publishers Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Aspen Publishers acquired two long-established independent study aid lines for law students: Blond's Law Guides and Friedman's Practice Series. Both series will publish under the Aspen brand and begin a regular revision cycle. Aspen Publishers...

The Thomson Corp. announced the acquisition of Deloitte Tax LLP's Property Tax Services (PTS), a national provider of property tax compliance outsourcing and consulting services.(Legal)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Thomson Corp. announced the acquisition of Deloitte Tax LLP's Property Tax Services (PTS), a national provider of property tax compliance outsourcing and consulting services. Its network of more than 420 professionals is now part of the Tax...

Search engine update.(Google Inc.,IAC Search & Media, Yahoo! Inc. updating their service by launching search engines )
January 1, 2008... Ask introduced new map capabilities in its AskCity business search that are not in its Ask Maps product. They include a ZIP code business search with the ZIP code boundaries highlighted on the map, reroutable maps, and an embed option. AskCity...

Mashups as DIY tools: the world of mashups is only just beginning. Librarians and information professionals need to be involved and active in using, sharing, creating, and helping others find the tools they need for personal and professional uses.(Cover story)
January 1, 2008... Content, as every information professional knows, is not only critical to our work but also growing exponentially. Thanks to the web's daily increases in news, blogs, wikis, encyclopedias, databases, audio (music, talk, documentaries, lectures,...

Riding the waves of today's online web tools.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The days of web "surfing," when you went from site to site to check on the latest content updates, are long gone. They have been replaced by RSS feeds and online news aggregators. Now, as more productivity tools...

Getting the money you need: relationships and fundraising.
January 1, 2008... How do all types of libraries find the funds to add new online resources to their collections, among other projects? No standard answer applies; there isn't even a standard definition of what fundraising means. In almost all cases, the response...

Miles to go: a conversation with copyright clearance center's Tracey L. Armstrong.(Tracey L. Armstrong of Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (Danvers, Massachusetts))(Interview)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com), or CCC, is an organization about which many information professionals have formed opinions, varying from positive to negative. CCC also has become--fairly or...

When internet is interNOT.
January 1, 2008... Searching for information in order to solve somebody's information problem requires a wide range of skills, methods, capabilities, and knowledge of sources. In other words, it requires strategy and tactics. Using free sources on the internet is...

Heating up for global warning: research and policy.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the film An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim, won the 2006 Academy Award for best documentary feature, it focused people's attention on the climate crisis (www.climatecrisis.net;...

An about-face on facebook.(on the net)
January 1, 2008... The internet has broken many rules and traditions, confounding conventional knowledge in the business, entertainment, and information spheres. At the rate of change common to the internet, reconsidering a formerly dismissed technology, site, or...

Country background research.(the dollar sign)
January 1, 2008... In an increasingly globalized world, it's not unusual for companies to explore expanding their operations outside the borders of their home countries. Information professionals should have a game plan prepared for the day their clients--or...

If everything is miscellaneous ...(infolit land)(Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Most of us have a "miscellaneous" drawer. We throw all sorts of things into it, leaving us with a jumble of objects that appear to have no clear relationship with one another. In his book Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New...

Terrorism Knowledge Base, International Security and Counter-Terrorism Reference Center, and past pans.(peter's picks & pans)
January 1, 2008... ONE of my picks is the open access Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) from the national Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT). It superbly integrates and makes accessible a variety of different database types related to...

Put the 'service' in self-service.(intranet librarian)
January 1, 2008... Librarians are often on both sides of the virtual service desk. Sometimes we're wearing our professional hat, developing online content, forms, and other objects to support users of our websites and portals. Sometimes, however, we're in the...

Books and the quarter-empty glass.(crawford at large)
January 1, 2008... The average * American adult read 14.9 books between August 2006 and July 2007. That's a pretty impressive figure. Note that asterisk--it's important, even though a fast news report would miss it entirely. Furthermore, 28% more American...

Laughing at the CIO: A Parable and Prescription for IT Leadership.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... ***1/2 Laughing at the CIO: A Parable and Prescription for IT Leadership by Bob Boiko ISBN: 978-0-910965-78-1 Published: 2007 Pages: 195 pp.; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford,...

The Art & Science of CSS.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... **1/2 The Art & Science of CSS by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, and Jonathan Snook ISBN: 978-0-9758419-7-6 Published: 2007 Pages: 213 pp.; softcover Price: $39.95 Available from: SitePoint Pty., Ltd., 424 Smith...

Metadata and Its Applications in the Digital Library: Approaches and Practices.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... ** Metadata and Its Applications in the Digital Library: Approaches and Practices by Jia Liu ISBN: 978-1-59158-306-6 Published: 2007 Pages: 192 pp.; softcover Price: $40.00 Available from: Libraries Unlimited, 88 Post Road West, Westport,...

The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... **** The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times by Marylaine Block ISBN: 978-1-57387-277-5 Published: 2007 Pages: 324 pp.; softcover Price: $39.50 Available from: Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike,...

Dating on the web.(online spotlight)
January 1, 2008... In 2002, Genie Tyburski noted that "It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine" (http://searchengine watch.com/showPage.html?page=2160061). Conducting a date-range search with a web search engine has never been straightforward. In fact,...