Online articles from July 1998

Online archives from July 1998

A Venn Diagram of Search Choices.
July 1, 1998... Do you search (Dialog AND Dow()Jones) OR Internet? Or do you search NEXIS OR Internet? Or maybe you use a more complicated strategy like (Papers AND (PROMT 10n Business and Industry)) OR Internet OR Dow()Jones. Most searchers will agree...

Dialog Adopts "DialUnit" Pricing--Tests Show Steep Increases.
July 1, 1998... June 1, 1998--Dialog announced May 1 that it was dropping all connect-time charges from its files; the changes went into effect on June 1. Customers now have a choice of a flat-fee subscription or pay-as-you-go access that is billed by a...

Dun & Bradstreet and Experian Business Reports.(available on LEXIS-NEXIS)
July 1, 1998... Dun & Bradstreet and Experian Business Reports are now available on LEXIS-NEXIS, offering dynamic linking capabilities to help users move quickly between related files and other LEXIS-NEXIS files. They are in the new Business Reports library...

D&B Reports.(available in enhanced Company and Industry area of Dow Jones Interactive)
July 1, 1998... D&B Reports are also available in Dow Jones Interactive's recently enhanced Company & Industry area, through an improved version of Duns Financial Records PLUS. New features include daily rather than quarterly information updates, more detailed...

D&B's International Business Information Reports.(available at Dun & Bradstreet@AOL on America Online)
July 1, 1998... D&B's International Business Information Reports have been added to the Dun & Bradstreet@AOL site established by WinStar Telebase Inc. on America Online (Keyword: D&B). This is the first time these reports have been available on the Web on a...

D&B Supplier MarketPlace.(new CD-ROM for purchasing professionals)
July 1, 1998... D&B Supplier MarketPlace is a new CD-ROM software package from Dun & Bradstreet that helps purchasing professionals locate new suppliers in D&B's database of more than ten million U.S. suppliers. Updated quarterly, the software lets users...

White Pages Database.(American Business Information, Inc. database offers telephone directory-based information)
July 1, 1998... The White Pages Database from American Business Information, Inc. offers telephone directory-derived information for over 100 million residential listings. Individual listings include name, address, and telephone number, plus census-driven data...

Multex.(brokerage research reports from company available through America Online's Personal Finance Channel)
July 1, 1998... Brokerage research reports from Multex are now in the AOL Investment Research area on America Online's Personal Finance Channel. Separately, AOL also announced that Disclosure has been selected as the primary provider of SEC documents, including...

CISource.(http://www.cisource.com)(new Web site for firms that want to use competitive intelligence)
July 1, 1998... CISource (http://www.cisource.com)is a new Web site for businesses who want to learn how to use competitive intelligence. Created and operated by NextStep Communications Group, CISource features include best practices essays by CI practitioners...

PowerPlay SE, NASDAQ Companies Edition.(stock and corporate financial analysis software)
July 1, 1998... The result of a partnership between Cognos and Disclosure, PowerPlay SE, NASDAQ Companies Edition, is intelligence software for analyzing stocks and corporate financials. It is available for download free of charge from the Web...

EIU ViewsWire.(provides electronic delivery of information from The Economist Group's Economist Intelligence Unit)
July 1, 1998... EIU ViewsWire (http://www.viewswire. com) offers daily electronic delivery of country analysis and forecasts from The Economist Group's Economist Intelligence Unit. Information is provided by EIU specialists and also drawn from The Economist...

ProQuest Computing and ProQuest Telecommunications.(new UMI databases provide full-text coverage of computing and telecommunications journals)
July 1, 1998... ProQuest Computing and ProQuest Telecommunications are two new databases from UMI that offer full-text coverage of leading journals in computing and telecommunications that are useful for business and academic researchers. Both databases are...

WEST LAW.(West Group announces availability of Securities and Exchange Commission filings through SEC Electronic Filings database)
July 1, 1998... West Group has announced the availability of Securities and Exchange Commission filings on WESTLAW through the SEC Electronic Filings database (SECNOW). This content enhancement is one of a series resulting from an expanded alliance between West...

PsycINFO.(PsycLIT CD-ROM updated to reflect PsycINFO redesign)
July 1, 1998... The American Psychological Association's PsycLIT CD-ROM has been updated to reflect APA's recent redesign of PsycINFO, featuring a new record structure and integrated formats for journal, chapter, and book references. Retrospective coverage will...

Citizen 1 Software, Inc.(Citizen 1 Software, Inc. releases new version of CiteLineProfessional Internet research software)
July 1, 1998... Citizen 1 Software, Inc. has released its next generation of CiteLine Professional Internet research software, which includes automatic site monitoring and confidential searching. The software compiles and organizes resources for the...

SilverPlatter Information.(BIOSIS databases now available on Web through SilverPlatter)
July 1, 1998... BIOSIS databases are now on the Web through an agreement with SilverPlatter Information. SilverPlatter offers Web access to BIOSIS Previews, Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), Zoological Record, BIOSIS...

Search by Search.(SilverPlatter closes Search by Search service)
July 1, 1998... As of July 1, SilverPlatter has closed down its Search by Search service, pay-as-you- go access to more than 60 of its bibliographic and full-text databases, due to lack of interest from the market. Users could pay per use or establish credit...

Dow Jones Interactive's Publications Library.(expanded publications coverage for six vertical markets)
July 1, 1998... Dow Jones Interactive Publishing has expanded publications coverage in Dow Jones Interactive's Publications Library for six vertical markets, including telecommunications, healthcare, computer hardware and software, financial services, media and...

Industry Search.(Northern Light, LLC unveils enhancement)
July 1, 1998... Industry Search is a new enhancement unveiled by Northern Light, LLC that lets business users search both the Web and Northern Light's Special Collection of more than 3,400 sources for information on 26 specific industries and business functions...

PEOPLE WARE.(Brian L. Hawkins named first EDUCAUSE CEO; author Peter Jacso awarded 1998 Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award)
July 1, 1998... * DATABASE and ONLINE author and columnist, Peter Jacso, has been awarded the 1998 Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award by the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, in recognition of his reviews of...

OneSource Insurance Services.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... OneSource Insurance Services, a division of OneSource Information Services, has been purchased by Sheshunoff Information Services, the preeminent provider of domestic banking information in the U.S. Sheshunoff, based in Austin, Texas, is a unit...

The Dialog Corporation plc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... The Dialog Corporation plc has sold its 2.8% investment in the NewsEDGE Corporation, which Dialog obtained as part of last year's acquisition of Knight Ridder Information Inc. The proceeds from the sale (approximately $6.5 million) will be used...

Lycos.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Lycos has acquired WiseWire for about $40 million in stock, in a move to use WiseWire technology to better compete with Yahoo!. The purchase reunites Ken Lang, the founder and chief technology officer of WiseWire, with Michael Mauldin, who...

Find/SVP.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Find/SVP announced that it has signed a letter of intent to sell various product lines and assists of its Published Research Division. Details were not available at press time, pending due diligence, but the closing was expected by June 15....

BullsEye.(controlled beta access to BullsEye product available at Intelliseek Web site)
July 1, 1998... Intelliseek, Inc. has announced controlled beta availability of its BullsEye product from the intelliseek Web site (http://www. intelliseek.com/be/beincentive.htm). BullsEye helps users find relevant information from anywhere on the Web, manage...

HITS.(Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search program introduced by Cornell Professor of computer science Jon Kleinberg)
July 1, 1998... HITS (Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search) is a program introduced by Jon Kleinberg, Cornell Professor of Computer Science, in a paper presented at the seventh International World Wide Web Conference this year. HITS provides a new method of searching...

Internet Search Engine Update.
July 1, 1998... Watch for this up-to-the-minute news department in each issue of ONLINE. Since Internet search engines have become a way of searching for most online professional today, we've asked Greg Notess to compile this brief, regular report on new search...

Shopping Robots For Electronic Commerce.
July 1, 1998... Electronic commerce has come of age. According to a study by IDC Research, Web commerce will grow from $2.6 billion in 1996 to over $200 billion by 2001. After years of tire-kicking and window-shopping at merchants' Web sites, users have...

The Digital Reference of World.
July 1, 1998... Print is not yet obsolete--it is still the most visible part of nearly every academic library's collection. But, throughout the 1990s, the reference departments of academic libraries have seen a rapid evolution from a print-centered world to a...

Internet Access by Satellite.
July 1, 1998... In 1997, Internet research became a serious necessity in my daily work--a result of extraordinary growth in Web content during the past year. Although I had been slowly adapting during the previous two years, applications and client requests...

New Niches for New (and Old) Media.
July 1, 1998... Over here we have a scholarly article that proclaims we're seeing the "transformation of the book," and that this is generally accepted as true. Over there we have heads of streaming-audio Web companies proclaiming that Web radio is already...

Head-to-Head.
July 1, 1998... Editor's Note: Here is the second of ONLINE's Head-To-Head articles, a series about the trade-offs of searching the Internet versus the traditional services. If you have a search example that might make a good Head-to-Head or a search question...

THE DOLLAR $IGN.
July 1, 1998... One of the best-known company names in business research is Moody's Investor's Services. Almost a century old, the company published the first of the Moody's Manuals, the printed reference books, in 1900. Today these books--separate series for...

Beyond Evaluation.
July 1, 1998... Librarians and information professionals are fully aware of the continuing exponential growth of the Internet and especially the World Wide Web. The constant struggle to keep up with the technology, the frustration of surfing for useful sites,...

ON THE NET.
July 1, 1998... With many search engines, databases, multiple search engines, and general finding aids, the first decision to make when searching the Net is not only which searching tool to use, but also which part of the Internet to search. Many of us...

O'LEARY ONLINE.
July 1, 1998... Let me preface this month's column by stating an enduring principle of online information--the Law of Merging Models. It holds that, over time, online services come to resemble each other. Though they may begin with...

Bookmark Central.
July 1, 1998... This is the first of what I hope will be many Bookmark Central columns. Bookmark Central is planned to be a way for information professionals to help each other cut through the clutter of Web searching by sharing hard-won URLs to sites rich...

CONFLICTED COPY RIGHTS.
July 1, 1998... In recent columns, we have been discussing how copyright royalty fees are established by publishers and distributed to rights holders by the Copyright Clearance Center and document supply clearinghouses. We created a hypothetical scenario in...

TECHNOMONITOR.
July 1, 1998... Recently I received a check and across the top was the legend, "This document contains a watermark. Hold at an angle to view." Water marking--impressing a design into the fibers of paper during its manufacture--has been well-known since the...

FOCUS ON.
July 1, 1998... Information Access Company (IAC) offers three Web-based subscription products. InSite is IAC's answer for the end-user and the focus of this review. InSite Pro is for information professionals and provides Web-based access to some of IAC's...

internet.com.
July 1, 1998... Mecklermedia describes its internet.com Web site as "real-time Internet news and re sources." Formerly called iworld, this metasite can be reached through a button on the Mecklermedia home page or directly at http://www. internet.com. At...

Web-Based Catalogs: is their design language anything to talk about?
July 1, 1998... Integration is the Holy Grail of library system development. As envisioned, the best of these next-generation, computer-based systems will offer a diverse collection of full-text documents, images, and video that are seamlessly merged for...

Netting Your Ancestors.
July 1, 1998... Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research on the Internet, by Cyndi Howells. (ISBN 0-8063-15466; softcover; 1997; 182pp.; $19.95) Available from Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-3897. Cyndi...

The U.S. Military Online.
July 1, 1998... The U.S. Military Online: A Directory for Internet Access to the Department of Defense, by William M. Arkin. (ISBN 1-57488143-4; softcover; 1997; 240pp.; $29.95) Available from Brassey's Inc., Brassey's Order Department, P.O. Box 960, Herndon, VA...

Poor Richard's Web Site.
July 1, 1998... Poor Richard's Web Site: Geekfree, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site, by Peter Kent. (ISBN 0-9661032-8-9; softcover; 1998; 424pp.; $37.95) Available from Top Floor Publishing, P.O. Box 260072, Lakewood, CO 80226; 800/247-6553 or...

Data Modeling and Design for Today's Architectures.
July 1, 1998... Data Modeling and Design for Today's Architectures, by Angelo Renato Bobak. (ISBN 0-89006-877-1; hardcover; 1997; 504pp.; $69.00) Available from Artech House Publishers, 685 Canton Street, Norwood, MA 02062; 781/769-9750 or 800/225-9977;...

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments.
July 1, 1998... Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, by Gary Marchionini. (ISBN 0-521-58674-7; softcover; 1997; 224pp.; $19.95) Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction. Available from Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street, New York,...

Searching Smart on the World Wide Web.
July 1, 1998... Searching Smart on the World Wide Web: Tools and Techniques for Getting Quality Results, by Cheryl Gould. (ISBN: 1-882208-285; softcover; 1998; 90pp.; $40.00) Internet Workshop Series Number 8. Available from Library Solutions Press, 5000...

CyberCareers.
July 1, 1998... CyberCareers, by Mary E.S. Morris and Paul Masie. (ISBN 0-13-7488726; softcover; 1998; 600pp.; $24.95) Sun Microsystems Press. Available from Prentice Hall PTR, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458; 201/236-7141 or 800/382-3419;...

Advances in Classification Research Volume 7.
July 1, 1998... Advances in Classification Research Volume 7: Proceedings of the 7th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, edited by Paul Solomon. (ISBN 1-573837045-5; softcover; 1997; 137pp.; $39.50) Available from Information Today, Inc., 143 Old...

JOURNAL WATCH.(recommeded articles from journals)
July 1, 1998... CATALOGING REMOTE RESOURCES Banerjee, Kyle. "Describing Remote Electronic Documents in the Online Catalog: Current Issues." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 25, No. 1 (1998): pp. 5-20. What are the problems and challenges...

REVA'S (W)RAP.
July 1, 1998... Forget push. This year's buzzword is "portals." Search sites are repurposing themselves as portals in hopes of becoming your home on the Web. Single-mission domains, such as Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, and Infoseek, have expanded to offer...