Online articles from July 1999

Online archives from July 1999

A New Look for ONLINE; A New Name for DATABASE.
July 1, 1999... Nancy Garman is Editor of ONLINE, and also Vice President of Publications & Conferences for Online Inc., where she is responsible for the program content for its growing roster of conferences. She has recently moved her virtual office to South...

Dow Jones & Reuters To Combine Forces.
July 1, 1999... Dow Jones & Company and the Reuters Group Plc announced that they have agreed to combine their interactive business services, Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. The agreement will result in the formation of a new joint...

Reuters & Hewlett Packard Invest in Northern Light.
July 1, 1999... Reuters Group Plc and Hewlett Packard Company are leading a $35 million investment in Northern Light Technology LLC to develop professional products focused on vertical information markets. Northern Light will work with HP to incorporate HP's...

ISI Acquires Niles Software.
July 1, 1999... The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has acquired Niles Software, Inc., and formed a new company, ResearchSoft, from the combined forces of Niles and Research Information Systems (RIS), another ISI subsidiary. ResearchSoft will be...

LEXIS-NEXIS & SilverPlatter Offer Support Web Sites.
July 1, 1999... LEXIS-NEXIS has created a new Web site (http://infopro.lexis.com) to give information professionals company news and information, plus tips to help them as organizational librarians and research experts. Features include a monthly column on...

Dialog's Knowledge Center.
July 1, 1999... Consulting Services for specific search projects are now available from Dialog's Knowledge Center (KC). Knowledge Center staff members will implement current awareness projects for users by analyzing issues, selecting files, and developing an...

CustomClips.
July 1, 1999... A new feature in Dow Jones Interactive's CustomClips lets users view headlines that have arrived in a folder since the last time results were reviewed. Users can view all remaining headlines in the folder by clicking All Headlines. Coming soon...

LEXIS-NEXIS.
July 1, 1999... LEXIS-NEXIS has placed the index terms list generated by LEXIS-NEXIS News Indexing on the Internet in two versions--alphabetic and hierarchical (http://www.lexis-nexis.com/business/index/). The alphabetic version lets users quickly find a...

SilverLinker.
July 1, 1999... SilverPlatter Information, Inc.'s SilverLinker database now features a total of 537,646 links from bibliographic records to full-text electronic journal articles. Of the total, more than 100,000 are links from Swetsnet. One recently-added...

OCLC.
July 1, 1999... Effective June 30, 1999, OCLC will discontinue sales of workstations, modems, upgrades, add-ons, and related hardware, because it is moving from a proprietary network to Internet and dedicated TCP/IP links and users are less dependent on OCLC...

OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collection Online.
July 1, 1999... Fifteen publishers have been added to OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collection Online, increasing the total number of titles available via the service to more than 2,100. The new publishers include the American Management Association, American...

FC Search.
July 1, 1999... The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM, Version 3.0 has been released with updated information on the Foundation Center's database of nearly 50,000 foundations and corporate givers and more than 200,000 associated grants. It also includes...

CINAHL Database.
July 1, 1999... SilverPlatter is releasing a new edition of the CINAHL Database, in cooperation with Cinahl Information Systems. The release incorporates several new features, including PDF image files within the database rather than separately stored on the...

BiologyBridge to Entomology.
July 1, 1999... BiologyBridge to Entomology is an entomological resource on the Web derived from the BIOSIS Previews, CAB ABSTRACTS, and Zoological Record databases. It covers information on arthropods, including insects, arachnids, and crustaceans, and...

American Bar Association Standing Committee.
July 1, 1999... An ethics opinion recently published by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, states that barring special circumstances, a lawyer does not violate a client's confidentiality privilege by...

GoTo.com.
July 1, 1999... Following a model initiated by GoTo.com (http://www.goto.com), AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com) is offering advertisers the chance to pay to be posted in the top position in returned search results. The notices will appear on search results...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
July 1, 1999... Chosen by the Clinton administration to stimulate competition in the domain-name market, the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has chosen five companies to initially compete with Network Solutions Inc. Under...

ActiveKnowledge.
July 1, 1999... ActiveKnowledge is a new search service from Autonomy Inc. that will let users track information without stopping work on a document. The service is anticipated to cost $50 to $250 per user and will supplement existing Autonomy software...

Conversa Web 3.0.
July 1, 1999... Conversa Web 3.0 lets users voice-activate elements on a Web page--including check boxes, radio buttons, and drop-down boxes--and also enter URL addresses and text entries by spelling with a pop-up military alphabet list. A "Read me the links"...

EBSCO Publishing.
July 1, 1999... EBSCO Publishing has acquired NoveList, CARL Corporation's electronic readers' advisory resource for fiction readers. NoveList is currently licensed by one out of every five public libraries in the U.S. and provides subject access to over...

SiteScape Inc.
July 1, 1999... SiteScape Inc. has acquired AltaVista Forum groupware software from Compaq Computer Corporation. SiteScape has also announced release of SiteScape Forum 4.0, a new and faster version of its Web-based groupware solution for facilitating...

Hoover's Online.
July 1, 1999... Hoover's Online has entered into an agreement with Reuters where Hoover's Online will research, write, and publish new Hoover's Company Profiles for companies comprising the FTSE 350. Reuters will provide research and financial support to...

No-Action Letters.
July 1, 1999... No-Action Letters are now available on Global Securities Information's (GSI) LIVEDGAR service the same day they are released at the SEC, at no additional LIVEDGAR charges. The letters may be printed and downloaded, and searched in frill text....

MicroPatent.
July 1, 1999... MicroPatent has added over two million Japanese patent documents from 1985 to the present to its Internet Special Collection at http://www.micropat.com. Users may download documents in PDF or MicroPatent's TIFF format. Once downloaded, the...

BankScope.
July 1, 1999... The Internet version of Bureau van Dijk's bank database, BankScope, is now available, including all the analytical functions available on the BankScope CD-ROM. A joint project of Bureau van Dijk and Fitch IBSC, BankScope covers over 10,500...

Securities Data Publishing.
July 1, 1999... Securities Data Publishing (SDP) has extended its agreement with Dow Jones Interactive Publishing to distribute SDP's print publications via Dow Jones Interactive. Now, 22 SDP publications will be available through Dow Jones Interactive...

Business Communications Co., Inc.
July 1, 1999... * The most significant growth in the Internet industry will be in Web sales, or ecommerce, now at $3.0 billion, but projected to grow to $75 billion in 2000. (RDDI98 1998 Online/Internet Industry Review, Business Communications Co., Inc.;...

NFO Interactive.
July 1, 1999... * According to a recent survey, nearly 35% of 2,321 recent online shoppers said they would buy more if they could interact in real-time with a sales person from an ecommerce site. (NFO Interactive; 203/629-4837; http://www.nfoi.com)

The Direct Marketing Association.
July 1, 1999... * Ninety-five percent of direct marketers are using the Web this year for sales or marketing applications, up from 83% in 1998. Ninety percent of the companies maintain Web sites, and companies are using their sites for marketing information...

People ware.
July 1, 1999... Corilee Christou has joined Cahners Business Information as Director, New Media Licensing and Development, on the Cahners Corporate Licensing and Brand Development Team. Her responsibilities will include developing Cahners' strategy for online...

Intranets '99 Attracts Sell-Out Audience.
July 1, 1999... Intranets '99, a brand-new conference produced by Online Inc., attracted a sell-out audience of enthusiastic content and IS/IT technology managers and developers. The conference featured an exhibit hail with more than 30 booths and exhibitors,...

AltaVista.
July 1, 1999... AltaVista's introduction of paid placement set off a storm of controversy, but when it finally came up in April, it turned out to be clearly separated from the general search results. It is only seen on a few search terms such as "weddings" or...

DejaNews.
July 1, 1999... DejaNews has had a facelift and is accessible at a new URL: http://www.deja.com/. The underlying database of Usenet news articles and the arch interface remain basically the same. New additions include Deja Ratings, Deja Shopper, and Deja...

Excite.
July 1, 1999... Excite has added its "answers and options" technology to its directory topics. This means that rather than containing just a list of Web sites on the topic, the subjects within the directory will also provide top news headlines in that area,...

Fast.
July 1, 1999... Fast has introduced a new search engine database from Norway's Fast Search & Transfer located at http://www.alltheweb.com. Fast announced a partnership with Dell Computer to build the search engine service powered by Dell computer systems. Fast...

Infoseek.
July 1, 1999... Infoseek and Go added a translation service between English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Like Alta Vista's translation service, it uses software from SYSTRAN. In May, Infoseek unveiled a new design which offers several new...

Inktomi.
July 1, 1999... Inktomi announced several new search partners: BellSouth, chello broadband n.v., ComBus, CompuServe, Global DataTel, GoProfit, StarMedia Network, ThundaTech, and 4anything. com. While they do not necessarily have exactly the same interface,...

Northern Light.
July 1, 1999... The MarkIntel reports have not yet been added to the Special Collections, but the Gov.search service (at http://govsearch.ntis.gov) in conjunction with NTIS became available on May 17. On the general service, Northern Light is planning to...

URL.
July 1, 1999... Northern Light's URL for its enterprise customers (http://www.nlresearch.com) can he used to preview what is coming for its general users. Their new shopping cart service is available there and may be coming for general users soon. It also...

Open Directory.
July 1, 1999... The Open Directory Project (formerly known as NewHoo) has been getting more attention and is growing quickly. In addition to its availability at HotBot and Lycos (mentioned above), it is accessible via the Netscape home page and directly at...

The Numbers.
July 1, 1999... The May statistical comparison of search engines at my Search Engine Showdown (http://www.notess. com/search/) site found Northern Light still in the lead with over 140 million Web pages. The new Fast Search ranked fourth in its first time...

Faster Faster broadband access to the internet.
July 1, 1999... Mark Sheehan (sheehan@montana.edu; http://www.homepage.montana.edu/sheehan) is Director of the Information Technology Center at Montana State University--Bozeman. He writes and speaks frequently about topics in information technology...

The Cutting-Edge Library at Shell Research.
July 1, 1999... Thomas Pack (thomaspack@aol.com) is a freelance writer based in Peewee Valley, KY. Jeff Pemberton (jeffp@onlineinc.com) is Publisher of ONLINE magazine. Camments? Email letters to the Editor at editar@onlineinc.com. If you see the word...

Searching CAplus: a Cost analys.
July 1, 1999... Tibor Toth (tibor.toth@pliva.hr) and Sonja Katanec Frankovic (sonja.katanec@pliva.hr) are Information Specialists at the Zagreb, Croatia-based Pliva's Research Institute. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. ...

An Industry Analysis with outsell Inc.
July 1, 1999... Jeff Pemberton (jeffp@onlineinc.com) is Publisher of ONLINE magazine. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Founded in 1994 by Greg Chagaris and Anthea Stratigos, Outsell, Inc. began as an alternative...

Digital Signatures: Secure Transactions or Standards Mess?
July 1, 1999... Danielle V. Borasky (danielle_borasky@unc.edu) is Grant Source Librarian at UNC Chapel Hill. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Your signature is a personal thing, a unique notation that indicates your stamp of...

Beyond "Beyond Cool" Reviewing Web Resources.
July 1, 1999... James Rettig (jrettig@richmond.edu) is University Librarian at the Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond. Cheryl LaGuardia (clagnard@fas.harvard.edu) is Coordinator for the Electronic Learning Facility 1, Widener Library, at...

Marketing Web Pay Off: A Research Manager Roundup.
July 1, 1999... Phyllis Smith (psmith@in-the-know.com) is Principal of In the Know. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. For researchers, the Internet is a seemingly infinite source of data. But it can also be a source of...

Intranet in a Box Microtest's WebZerver.
July 1, 1999... Bill Mickey (billm@onlineinc.com) is Associate Editor of ONLINE magazine. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Microtest's WebZerver delivers to the professional market what so many electronic products deliver...

Communications and Community on Web Sites.
July 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com/) is a Reference Librarian at Montana State University. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Given the graffiti-like nature of a guest book, what can be...

Internet Radio: Listening to the Web.
July 1, 1999... Mick O'Leary (71735.2401@compuserve.com) is Library Director at Frederick Community College in Myersville, MD. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Like Web publishers, radio Webcasters are just starting to...

New Roles and Challenges for Info Pros.
July 1, 1999... Anthea Stratigos (astratigos@outsellinc.com) is Co-Founder and President of Outsell, Inc., a Burlingame, CA-based company that provides research and advisory services to the information industry. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at...

Seven Habits for Effective Intranet Project Managers.
July 1, 1999... Darlene Fichter (fichter@lights.com) is a Web Consultant at Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. No matter how skilled or talented you may be, the intranet project is...

Picture the Twentieth Century: Sources for Images of the Last Hundred Years.
July 1, 1999... Paula Berinstein (pberinstein@worldnet.att.net) is Principal of Berinstein Research. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. Another terrific resource representing our tax dollars at work is the National Archives...

Not Just a Box: Building Better PCs.
July 1, 1999... Walt Crawford (br.wcc@rlg.org) is Information Architect at Research Libraries Group, Inc. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineine.com. Even if money isn't an issue, it's nearly impossible to configure a PC to be...

X Marks the BotSpot.
July 1, 1999... Hal P. Kirkwood, Jr. (kirkwood @purdue.edu; http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/7290/) is Assistant Professor of Library Science at Purdue University, Management & Economics Library. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at...

Recommended Reading on Data Warehousing.
July 1, 1999... Deborah Lynne Wiley (deb@consultnw.com) is Principal of Next Wave Consulting, Inc. and HARDCOPY Editor. Comments? Email letters to the Editor at editor@onlineinc.com. featured books Data Warehousing Advice for Managers Data...

My Internet Hype-PO.
July 1, 1999... Reva Basch (reva@well.com) has enough M&A experience to last a lifetime, but will entertain buyout offers. She is author of Researching Online For Dummies and executive editor of the new Super Searchers book series. Comments? Email letters...