Online articles from January 2009

Online archives from January 2009

Question authority.(homepage)
January 1, 2009... IN today's online world, replete with social networks, virtual world avatars, and digitization of almost everything, it's getting harder to sort out who is really who (or whom). Lilly Tomlin's character Ernestine, the telephone operator on the...

Springer buys into open access.(industry news)(Springer Science+Business Media purchases BioMed Central Group)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Springer Science+Business Media has purchased the open access publisher BioMed Central Group. The sale includes all 190 BioMed Central journals except Journal of Medical Case Reports and Cases Journal, which remain owned by Science Navigation...

MetaCarta finds your coordinates.(industry news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... MetaCarta, Inc., a provider of geographic search solutions, announced the release of the MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (MetaCarta GSRP). The new tool identifies places and points of interest in text documents, newsfeeds,...

Google books a legal settlement.(industry news)(lawsuits filed by The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... A settlement was reached in the lawsuits filed by The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google regarding its Google Book Search Library Project. If approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...

New library jobs website.(industry news)(LISjobs.com)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... LISjobs.com has a new look and feel, giving it better integration with the forum, free job ads, new content on education and career development, a more accessible design, updated links to outside resources, and opportunities for sponsorship...

Acxiom Corp. and Loislaw have partnered to provide a new option for public records information.(Legal)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Acxiom Corp. and Loislaw have partnered to provide a new option for public records information. Acxiom offers a national compilation of individual and corporate records information for all 50 states, with access to databases, including contact...

KluwerCompetitionLaw.com, the online service covering competition law in the European Union (EU), now includes e-Competitions, a weekly bulletin written in English on the national implementation of EU law by member states and on national competition laws and regulations.(Legal)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... KluwerCompetitionLaw.com, the online service covering competition law in the European Union (EU), now includes e-Competitions, a weekly bulletin written in English on the national implementation of EU law by member states and on national...

Ovid.(Biomedical)(Wolters Kluwer Health introduces the online universal search)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, announced the introduction of Ovid Universal Search, a cross-platform search solution available on OvidSP, the information precision search and discovery platform. Its development was driven by hundreds of...

In other news, Ovid announced the launch of Nursing@Ovid, a new online portal offering streamlined access to premium nursing and allied health full-text resources.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... In other news, Ovid announced the launch of Nursing@Ovid, a new online portal offering streamlined access to premium nursing and allied health full-text resources. Nursing@Ovid is built on the architecture of OvidSP (www.wkhealth.com).

Global Health Archive.(Biomedical)
January 1, 2009... Global Health Archive, produced by CABI, is now accessible on EBSCOhost. It includes more than 800,000 records and provides information on public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology, and mycology...

The Lancet.(Biomedical)(Lancet Software Development Inc. relaunches its online medical journals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The Lancet relaunched its online medical journals to add value by including Editor's Choices for each journal, additional editorial analysis, recent medical news, videos, and podcasts (www.thelancet.com).

Thomson Reuters announced the launch of Thomson Pharma KOL-experts, a solution designed to help pharmaceutical organizations identify, verify, and develop productive relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and scientific experts.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Thomson Reuters announced the launch of Thomson Pharma KOL-experts, a solution designed to help pharmaceutical organizations identify, verify, and develop productive relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and scientific experts. It is...

Collexis Holdings, Inc.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced its position as the global leader in grant analysis and grant management tools in the sciences. Collexis is analyzing more than $20 billion in grant funds annually in the life sciences alone (www.collexis.com)....

Factiva.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Factiva has enhanced its company snapshot to include multimedia content and performance/ segmentation charts. This enhancement uses the company's Discovery Technologies to help users identify emerging trends and ideas associated with the...

EDGAR Online, Inc.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... EDGAR Online, Inc. launched a new customer-focused corporate website, re-crafted to meet the needs of current and prospective customers and investors. Newly featured on the site are EDGAR Online's XBRL capabilities, including open access to the...

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters announced the integration of its software and service brands for corporate tax professionals under the common name of ONESOURCE.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters announced the integration of its software and service brands for corporate tax professionals under the common name of ONESOURCE. The creation of this single brand encompasses all of the corporate...

IGI Global launched InfoSci-On-Demand, allowing researchers, scholars, and practicing managers to search and purchase full-text PDFs of downloadable research.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... IGI Global launched InfoSci-On-Demand, allowing researchers, scholars, and practicing managers to search and purchase full-text PDFs of downloadable research. The aggregated database consists of more than 25,000 research articles written by...

Business Book Summaries.(Business & Finance)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Business Book Summaries is now available on the EBSCOhost platform. It includes a library of more than 750 book summaries with more than 60 new titles added annually. For each book, experts create 300-word, 650-word, and 4,500-word summaries...

Newser.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Newser, an online news aggregator, reached nearly 1.2 million unique visitors in September 2008, just 11 months after its launch. Newser is an online news aggregation service that identifies popular stories and has editors who summarize and...

The Daily Source.(Current Awareness)(nonprofit organization launches an Internet news and information service)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The Daily Source, an independent nonprofit organization, launched an internet news and information service. Editors scan more than 1,000 publications including daily newspapers, television network sites, news magazines, journals, and blogs. It...

Internet Crimes Group, Inc.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Internet Crimes Group, Inc. (ICG) announced that reports from international affairs intelligence company Stratfor will be integrated into ICG's iThreat Global Intelligence Monitor (GIM) open source intelligence product. As a subscription-based...

CABI.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... CABI launched Environmental Impact, a resource that pools information on the terrestrial and freshwater biosphere, including crop production, plant pests and diseases, human and animal health, natural resources, and tourism. It also covers...

CAB Abstracts.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... CABI's life sciences bibliographic database, CAB Abstracts, now includes fulltext content that was previously available only through a separate subscription. The full-text inclusion has more than 36,000 journal articles, reports, and conference...

The complete journal and proceedings archives of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society were added to the SEG Digital Library on the American Institute of Physics' Scitation platform.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The complete journal and proceedings archives of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society were added to the SEG Digital Library on the American Institute of Physics' Scitation platform. All 13 volumes of the Journal of...

Textile Technology Complete.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Textile Technology Complete is a new full-text database from EBSCO Publishing that provides coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing (www.ebscohost.com).

Wiley-Blackwell announced an enhanced partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Wiley-Blackwell announced an enhanced partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editors will attend quarterly COPE meetings to discuss ethical or other problems that may have arisen during the publication process. They will...

Reed Elsevier.(Peopleware)(appointment of Ian Smith )(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Reed Elsevier announced the appointment of Ian Smith to succeed Crispin Davis as CEO. He joins Reed Elsevier's board as CEO-designate on Jan. 1, 2009, to ensure a seamless transition before Davis retires in March. Smith was most recently chief...

LexisNexis Group.(Peopleware)(appointment of James M. Peck )(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... LexisNexis Group announced that James M. Peck will serve as CEO of the newly expanded LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group.

Lou Celi.(Peopleware)(appointments in Llesiant)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Lou Celi joined Llesiant as president and COO. Llesiant is a leader in on-demand executive intelligence services.

Wolters Kluwer appointed Robert Becker as president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Wolters Kluwer appointed Robert Becker as president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health and Stacey Caywood to the new position of president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (U.S.).

Swets.(Peopleware)(Swets Subscription Service appoints Greg Loxton)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Swets announced the appointment of Greg Loxton as national sales manager for the U.S. corporate, medical, and government markets.

Reprints Desk, Inc.(Peopleware)(appointment of Ian Palmer)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Reprints Desk, Inc. appointed Ian Palmer head of marketing with responsibilities for marketing, communications, customer training, and retention.

Innovative Interfaces.(Peopleware)(appointment of Rebecca Jones )(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Innovative Interfaces promoted Rebecca Jones to vice president, product architecture and Hilary Newman to vice president, implementation services.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has created three new business units to improve service to federal customers and the American people.(Peopleware)(Ric Garcia)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has created three new business units to improve service to federal customers and the American people. As part of these developments, GPO's director of quality assurance, Ric Garcia, is the new managing...

Innodata Isogen.(Peopleware)(appointment of Todd Solomon)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Todd Solomon, founder of Innodata Isogen, was elected to the company's board of directors.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).(Open Access)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) announced its official launch in conjunction with an Open Access Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London. The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of...

Search engine company Infovell changed its name to DeepDyve and announced it has a free version for deep web searching of life sciences, patents, and Wikipedia information.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Search engine company Infovell changed its name to DeepDyve and announced it has a free version for deep web searching of life sciences, patents, and Wikipedia information. It also offers DeepDyve Pro for $45 per month; the Pro version adds...

Publishing Technology integrated its Ingenta and VISTA divisions.(Online Services)(VISTA International (Watford, England))(Publishing Technology PLC)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Publishing Technology integrated its Ingenta and VISTA divisions to create a more unified organization (www.publishingtechnology.com).

OCLC, Syracuse University, and the University of Washington announced their participation in a new international effort called Reference Extract.(Online Services)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... OCLC, Syracuse University, and the University of Washington announced their participation in a new international effort called Reference Extract. Based on input from librarians around the globe, Reference Extract will use librarian...

Infotrieve, Inc. announced Virtual Library 2.0, the second generation of its web-based document sourcing and delivery platform for corporate information centers.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Infotrieve, Inc. announced Virtual Library 2.0, the second generation of its web-based document sourcing and delivery platform for corporate information centers. Enhancements include high-efficacy link-out technology, a new user-friendly...

Serials Solutions developed a new federated search Connection Development Framework for the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat services, to enhance the library of more than 7,000 connections already available in both services.(Online Services)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Serials Solutions developed a new federated search Connection Development Framework for the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat services, to enhance the library of more than 7,000 connections already available in both services. The new...

The Reader is no longer required to view documents in ebrary on Windows or Linux operating systems.(Online Services)
January 1, 2009... The Reader is no longer required to view documents in ebrary on Windows or Linux operating systems. ebrary QuickView enables end users to instantly view documents in many of the leading web browsers as well as the iPhone. No software downloads...

ProQuest.(Online Services)(launch of redesigned websites)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... ProQuest launched a redesigned website that enables customers, partners, end users, and visitors to find what they're looking for with greater ease. The redesigned site is the result of extensive librarian and user feedback, testing, and focus...

International Political Science Association.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The International Political Science Association and EBSCO Publishing now offer all the bibliographic records in International Political Science Abstracts dating from 1951 (Vol. 1) exclusively on EBSCOhost (www.ipsa.org; www.ebscohost.com).

Portico.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(contract with Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Company KG)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Portico announced an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve 61 titles from de Gruyter's online journal collection. Walter de Gruyter has named Portico as a mechanism to fill postcancellation access claims and has also agreed to make an...

Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan are collaborating to offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in humanities, business, and social science.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan are collaborating to offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in humanities, business, and social science. More than 4,000 ebooks will be available in Palgrave Connect,...

Proquest.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
January 1, 2009... Proquest announced that the full backfile of The Spectator dating from 1828 to 2000 will join its Periodicals Archive Online Collection 7 (www.proquest.com).

EBSCO Publishing acquired NISC, Inc. in November; NISC databases include Family & Society Studies Worldwide.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... EBSCO Publishing acquired NISC, Inc. in November; NISC databases include Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Gender Studies Database, Woman's Studies International, and Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (www.ebscohost.com).

ABC-CLIO and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced an agreement granting ABC-CLIO a perpetual license to use the imprints and to publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing Group, including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International, and Libraries Unlimited.(Alliances & Deals)(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... ABC-CLIO and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced an agreement granting ABC-CLIO a perpetual license to use the imprints and to publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing Group, including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security...

Separately, Ingram Digital announced an agreement to resell Greenwood Publishing Group's online databases.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Separately, Ingram Digital announced an agreement to resell Greenwood Publishing Group's online databases. The databases will be made available through MyiLibrary, Ingram Digital's next-generation econtent aggregation platform. MyiLibrary will...

Stanford University and SirsiDynix announced the completion of a project that allows searching and display of the university library's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean holdings in the original scripts.(Alliances & Deals)
January 1, 2009... Stanford University and SirsiDynix announced the completion of a project that allows searching and display of the university library's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean holdings in the original scripts. In a previous related project, functionality...

Semantico, Ltd. announced a partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Semantico, Ltd. announced a partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the implementation of a new bibliographic metadata engine to support OECD's online publishing solutions (www.semantico.com;...

OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat.(Alliances & Deals)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat. A complete list and world map illustrating OCLC's work with national libraries can be...

Corrections & amplifications.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2009... In the article "From Concept to Content: The Genesis of USGENE," by Suzanne Sabroski in the November/December 2008 issue of ONLINE, the captions for the figures on page 41 were inadvertently reversed.

Ask.(search engine update)
January 1, 2009... Ask changed its interface again, jettisoning the additional content in the right column (images and quick answers via a variety of sources) and the narrower, broader, and related queries in the left column. The new interface sometimes shows a...

Exalead.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Exalead image search has an updated interface and more images, including images from the news. The right column narrow options are gone, leaving more space for the images, but they are still available as a JavaScript pop-up by clicking the...

Google.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google has begun to index PDFs more deeply. Previously, if the PDF was created only as an image, no internal text could be searched. Now, Google is starting to run optical character recognition on the PDFs in order to index textual content. New...

Google alerts.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google Alerts are now available as RSS feeds in addition to email delivery. The RSS feed is not yet an option on the Google Alert set-up page, but you can receive feeds by logging in to the Manage Your Alerts page and changing the "Deliver to"...

Google Blog Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google Blog Search relaunched its homepage with subject divisions and featured blog posts. For hot topics, posts are clustered together with featured posts and a timeline graph that shows the recent frequency of posts, primarily over the last...

Google Book Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google Book Search announced a potential settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. If approved by the court, the agreement may provide greater full-text exposure for in-copyright orphan works, new...

Google Custom Search Engine.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google Custom Search Engine has added a "synonym" ability so that custom search engine (CSE) creators can now specify terms that, when searched, will match other terms. For example, a search on epa could also search for environmental protection...

Google News.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Google News is expanding its collection of older newspapers in its News Archive. Working with various publishers and ProQuest, more copyright-free, pre-1922 scans of newspapers are available in a Google News Archive search, via the news...

Hathi Trust.(search engine update)(launch of full-text search of a significant subset of its full collection of books )(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Hathi Trust, a collaborative digital repository supported by a combination of major research libraries, has launched an experimental, full-text search of a significant subset of its full collection of books (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls)....

Live Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Live Search is now the default web search engine at Facebook. Start typing into the search box in the upper right-hand corner and two choices appear in a drop-down menu below the box: Search Facebook or Search the Web. Choosing the latter...

Wikia Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Wikia Search extended its database to others via its newly launched application platform: Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions (WISE). Users can create a WISE application to provide Wikia results "enhanced by the data available across the web."

Yahoo!(search engine update)(Yahoo! Inc. continues to look for partnership)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Yahoo! continues to look for partnerships after losing a deal for sharing Google advertising and finding that Microsoft is disinterested in renewing negotiations to purchase the company. Meanwhile, some of its services, such as Yahoo! Search...

Global Legal Information Network: an interview with Donna Scheeder.(Interview)(Cover story)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I was intrigued by Donna Scheeder's presentation on the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), which she gave during the 2008 IFLA World Library and Information Congress (www.ifla.org) in Quebec City. Not only is...

Wikis for reference, enthusiasts, and government information.(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the last issue of ONLINE, I investigated using wikis to research health topics and community information ("Wikis as Legitimate Research Sources," November/December 2008, pp. 34-37). I found that wikis can contain...

Examining online help features.
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the digital age, when information searching becomes part of everyday life, people cannot find needed information from just one type of information retrieval (IR) system. They search web search engines to find web...

Extreme human-powered web search: Renrou.
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The idea of human-powered search, characterized by humans using their knowledge and skills to help answer questions or discover information for other people in an online setting, is not entirely new. Some might say...

Implementing XBRL successfully by mandate and voluntarily.
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Initial skepticism regarding the utility of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is over, and the time for implementation is here. As one of a family of XML languages, XBRL is becoming a standard means of...

Finding free media.(on the net)
January 1, 2009... As a profession, librarians end up being closely involved with a variety of copyright issues. We try to explain it, teach compliance, help users find copyright owners, and make sure our libraries and information centers do not run afoul of...

Search engines designed for business.(the dollar sign)
January 1, 2009... Every so often, new products designed to enhance the internet research capabilities for business topics appear. I've reviewed several of them in the past, and they haven't lasted (I hope not because I've reviewed them in this column). Either...

Professors and personal information literacy.(infolit land)(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2009... Working in academia, I worry that a whole generation of professors is losing touch with the tools that are the foundation of their own research and growth. Every time the library gets a database makeover or a new web resource (I'm thinking...

ReleMed, GoPubMed, and Cuil.(peter's picks & pans)
January 1, 2009... I have chosen two variations of the PubMed database that have smart interface, search, and display features. They bring out the best from this rich database through their intelligent software that simplifies and, at the same time, enhances the...

Social Media Metrics: tracking your impact.(intranet librarian)
January 1, 2009... IN our previous column (November/December 2008), "Social Media Metrics: Making the Case for Making the Effort," we looked at why it's important to measure your library's social media presence. We noted that it's not enough to simply be on the...

The celestial jukebox and physical media.(crawford at large)
January 1, 2009... Sometimes you'll hear someone ask a question that, to the questioner, contains its own answer: * Why would anyone want to own a book, a CD, or a DVD when you can just get it over the internet (for a slight fee) any time you want it? *...

The Art of Strategic Listening: Finding Market Intelligence through Blogs and Other Social Media.(hard copy)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... ***1/2 The Art of Strategic Listening: Finding Market Intelligence through Blogs and Other Social Media by Robert Berkman ISBN: 978-0-9786602-7-7 Published: 2008 Pages: 264 pp.; softcover Price: $39.95 Available...

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations.(hard copy)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... ***1/2 slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte ISBN: 978-0-596-52234-6 Published: 2008 Pages: 294 pp.; softcover Price: $34.99 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005...

How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn: Making Connections and Capturing Opportunities on the World's #1 Business Networking Site.(hard copy)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... **1/2 How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn: Making Connections and Capturing Opportunities on the World's #1 Business Networking Site by Eric Butow and Kathleen Taylor ISBN: 978-1-57387-333-8 Published: 2008 Pages:...

Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect With Your Whole Community.(hard copy)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... *** Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect With Your Whole Community by Sophie Brookover and Elizabeth Burns ISBN: 978-1-57387-336-9 Published: 2008 Pages: 298 pp.; softcover Price: $39.50 Available...

SortFix.(online spotlight)(online searching methods)(Personal account)
January 1, 2009... IT must be wonderful to be one of the value-added online services. Dialog, Dow Jones, and LexisNexis have those of us who learned about online services before the web as clients. We had such low expectations. Ugly format? Who cares? Cumbersome...