Online articles from July 2000

Online archives from July 2000

Changing Roles at Online Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The March 2000 issue of ONLINE covered the changing roles of information professionals and vendors in the online information world. At the same time you are coping with the challenges of your changing roles, we've been evaluating our roles and...

Data Downlink Launches New Business Information Service.(Portal B)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Portal B (http://www.portalb.com), Data Downlink Corporation's new business information portal, offers a single, advertising-free point of access to business information. Users will be able to seamlessly combine search results from the Web,...

Management Buyout at Questel*Orbit.(France Telecom to sell to Intellectual Property Group)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Questel*Orbit has announced a planned management buyout in which France Telecom will sell 80% of Questel*Orbit equity to Intellectual Property Group, a company established by Acting Chairman, Jean Besson. France Telecom will retain a 20%...

New Search Engine from AltaVista.(Raging Search)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Raging Search (http://www.raging.com) is a new AltaVista search tool that lets users search a variety of online content, including Web pages, news, images, audio, video, discussion groups, directories, and shopping information. The tool is...

Gale Group Data Goes Up an LookSmart.(Gale Group partners with LookSmart to provide content)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Under an exclusive partnership between LookSmart and the Gale Group, business and magazine and periodical content from publications in the Gale databases will be available free to users who search the LookSmart directory. Under the agreement,...

Thomson Purchase of Dialog Approved.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Dialog Corporation's Information Services Division, including the complete Dialog, DataStar, and Profound services, has been sold to The Thomson Corporation for $275 million. The division will become a business unit of Thomson, joining...

infoUSA.(acquires idEXEC)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... infoUSA, a proprietary business and consumer database provider, has acquired idEXEC, a Thomson Financial company that provides a worldwide database of large businesses and executives for business-to-business prospecting, marketing and research...

Northern Light Technology Inc.(Fidelity Investments uses its web technology)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Northern Light Technology Inc.'s search and classification technology will be used on Fidelity Investments' Web site (http://www.fidelity.com). Fidelity is the first financial services company to integrate Northern Light's technology.

NetZero, Inc.(acquires Simpli.com)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... NetZero, Inc., an advertising and commerce-supported Internet access provider, has signed an agreement to acquire Simpli.com, Inc., a marketing infrastructure and search technology company, in a stock and cash transaction. Simpli.com developed...

PATEX.(Internet patent exchange)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... PATEX (CorporateIntelligence.com) is a new Internet exchange for licensing of patents and technologies. Through PATEX, licensors and licensees can identify opportunities, communicate, and complete online transactions or receive traditional...

VerdeSearch.(new search service on Verde Media's web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... VerdeSearch is a new search feature on the Verde Media, Inc. Web site that lets users search environmental topics across Verde.com and the Web sites of leading environmental Verde Network members. Network members include non-profit...

Electronic Journals.(service on the Institute of Physics Publishing's web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Electronic Journals service is now live at the Institute of Physics Publishing's Web site (http//www.iop.org). The new re-engineered service gives user faster access to journal content. Additional features include enhancements to on-screen...

MicroPatent Materials Patents.(database available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... MicroPatent Materials Patents database is now available through Cambridge Scientific Abstract's Internet Database Service (IDS), at no charge to customers subscribing to any materials science database on IDS. Searches on corresponding materials...

ISI Web of Science Proceedings.(database available online)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... ISI Web of Science Proceedings database is now available via the Internet, offering access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at international conferences. The database is updated...

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Over 25,000 biographies have been added to Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated database (H.W. Wilson), to increase coverage of black people, art figures, women, international headliners, and other notables. The new entries have been licensed...

Art Abstracts and Applied Science & Technology Abstracts.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Art Abstracts and Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) are now available via EBSCOhost Web. Art Abstracts provides abstracts covering diverse specialties from 377 journals back to 1994 and indexing back to 1984. Applied Science...

Black Issue Book Review.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Black Issue Book Review has been added to the Ethnic News Watch database (SoftLine Information). Another recent addition to the database is Chicago Defender, which provides coverage of news and features of importance to the African-American...

Trademark.com.(new search service of CorporateIntelligence.com)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Trademark.com (CorporateIntelligence.com) is a new trademark search system that includes federal, state, and common law searching in one integrated system. The service is powered by MicroPatent, and includes all pending U.S. federal trademark...

Skyminder.com.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Skyminder.com (CRIBIS Corporation) has announced an expanded distribution agreement with Dun & Bradstreet to offer global D&B credit information. In addition to currently distributed D&B U.S. marketing records, skyminder.com users may now...

Business Browser.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Non-U.S. company data from Mergent FIS is now available at no additional charge through Business Browser, from OneSource Information Services, Inc. Mergent FIS data is presented "as reported" in native currencies using country-specific...

BVD Suite.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... First-time users of BVD Suite (Bureau van Dijk) may now register for 200 Free Credits applicable on all data modules, including the amadeus and BankScope databases. Users must complete a brief one-time registration form on the BVD Suite Web...

Data Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) and Dell Computer Corporation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Data Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) and Dell Computer Corporation have formed a partnership under which DBC's eSignal service will provide real-time market data to Dell's new Precision Online Trading Workstations. eSignal delivers streaming...

EMBASE.com, Version 2.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... EMBASE.com, Version 2 (Elsevier Science) incorporates the content of the EMBASE database with MEDLINE citations to offer over 12 million biomedical and pharmacological information records. The service covers articles found in more than 5,000...

e-Skolar Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... e-Skolar Inc. (Stanford University) provides an online medical search engine that lets physicians perform simultaneous searches across multiple databases, including textbooks, medical journals, drug databases, clinical guidelines, and the...

EBSCOmed.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The latest release of EBSCOmed (EBSCO Publishing) offers several new features and enhancements, including persistent linking, page estimation, Spanish-language reports, and page navigation.

BioMedical FullTEXT Collection and Health Business FullTEXT Elite.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... BioMedical FullTEXT Collection and Health Business FullTEXT Elite (EBSCO Publishing) are two new databases available via EBSCOmed. BioMedical FullTEXT Collection gives users access to nearly 550 full titles for journals covering a range of...

Clinical Evidence.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Clinical Evidence (Ovid Technologies) is an exclusive searchable electronic database of clinical questions and evidence-based answers produced by BMJ Publishing Group, publisher of British Medical Journal. This database augments existing...

MedCases.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Ovid Technologies and MedCases, Inc. have reached an agreement to distribute and integrate the MedCases medical educational product with resources on Ovid Online. The resulting system combines interactive, problem-based instructional methods...

Peopleware.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Bill Mickey, formerly Associate Editor of ONLINE, has been named the Editor. Read THE HOMEPAGE on p.6 for more details on changes at Online Inc. Willem Noorlander, formerly Global Market Data Manager of Deutsche Bank (Banker's Trust), has...

AltaVista.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... AltaVista has made several changes in the past few months. First, it has combined the full content from both the Open Directory and the LookSmart directory to create what it calls the largest directory, with over two million entries. The...

Excite.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Excite now has an Excite Photo Search at photosearch.excite.com. Excite says that the database includes over 400,000 online photos, with the images coming both from member photo collections and news photos. Greg R. Notess is a reference...

Google.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Google also has been busy. It has added a directory to its search engine. Like several competitors, it now uses the Open Directory. It is available for browsing and is included in search results. Google sorts the Open Directory entries within a...

Inktomi.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Inktomi has announced a significant size increase for its search engine database. From one billion documents, it has extracted a 500-million-record database called GEN3 which weeds out duplicates and spam. According to the announcements, of all...

IntelliSeek.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... IntelliSeek has acquired ProFusion, the online metasearch engine. IntelliSeek also released version 2.5 of BullsEye, its desktop metasearch engine. Greg R. Notess is a reference librarian at Montana State University.

Lycos.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Lycos will become Terra Lycos as the European Terra Networks buys the well known portal property. This should increase the global reach of both services, but no other direct impact to their search engines has been announced yet. Greg R....

Northern Light.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Northern Light has launched a new search option: Geo Search. Using technology from Vicinity, the Geo Search enables limiting a search to a specific geographic region within the United States or Canada. The limit is based on geographic...

PortalB.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... PortalB is a new subscription-only business search engine from Data Downlink. This commercial site offers both a directory and a search engine for business-related Web sites. Sites are indexed in the directory by librarians or library school...

Raging Search.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Raging Search is AltaVista's new site for the "search enthusiast." Available at raging.com, this site offers access to the same AltaVista database with several search options available under the "customize" option. The only new option is the...

Search.com.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Search.com is now a metasearch engine. The CNET-owned site searches several directories and search engines including Snap, Direct Hit, Lycos, Yahoo!, and GoTo. The results are divided into directory hits, search engine results, headlines, and...

WebTop.com.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... WebTop.com now gives the counts for its results and has added follow-up domain and language limits. The language limits are available for 14 languages. Greg R. Notess is a reference librarian at Montana State University.

Electronic Books.
July 1, 2000... A Major Publishing Revolution part 1 General Considerations and Issues Even in Biblical times, books were a major way to record, store, and transmit information, and it was clear to the preacher of Ecclesiastes that the book business...

DemystiFying intranet design 5 Guidelines for Building Usable Sites.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... It was at an industry conference in Boston in June of 1996 that I remember first hearing serious talk of intranets. Presenter after presenter hailed intranets as the next really big thing. As it turned out, they were right. Within six...

HUMANS DO IT BETTER Inside the Open Directory Project.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2000... Webs fascinate us. Just as Odysseus' men were dazzled by the allure of Circe's web, so are we powerfully drawn to understand and map the varied and intricate strands of the World Wide Web. Virtually all who come in contact with the Web find...

NorthStarNet: A Model for Community Information.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2000... All libraries face a great challenge in the age of the Web: how do you respond when you've lost your monopoly? The Web now does very well many of the things that libraries once did alone. How do you justify yourself when millions of people have...

Spotlight on the INVISIBLE WEB.
July 1, 2000... InvisibleWeb.com represents a magnificent idea--the potential of which has yet to be fully realized. The idea is simple, but beautiful: provide a searchable, browsable guide to the "invisible" content on the Web. Here, "invisible" describes...

Content Asset Management: Managing Your Investment.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... One of the main reasons that organizations over-spend on content is that buying decisions are most often made by decentralized business units throughout an organization. Organizations spend billions of dollars annually on the acquisition...

Small Library, Big Service: Ford Motor's Lean Resource Center.
July 1, 2000... What do you do when your company begins a new production system that fundamentally changes the way it interacts with and buys from its suppliers? Open a learning institute and library. That's what Andy Benedict and Carlos Mazzorin did when the...

Give the People What They Want: Adding Search to Your Site.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Search has become one of the killer apps of the Web: everyone from my nine-year-old son to professional information brokers uses search engines. In addition to the large portal search services, such as AltaVista, Excite, and HotBot, many other...

Server Side Includes for Site Management.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2000... As the Web becomes more ensconced in libraries of all types, issues of Web site design and maintenance become increasingly important. Even for searchers, knowledge of some of the current issues, techniques, and approaches to Web design can aid...

Marketing and Communicating Web Development Efforts In-House.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Managing a Web site is a challenge for even the most seasoned Webmaster, who must act as project manager, information architect, mediator, publicist, and teacher. It seems Ringmaster would make a better title. With so much going on at the same...

Managing Up.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... In my January column ("Choose Your Future," January/February 2000, pp. 64-66), I mentioned characteristics of individuals who are successfully navigating the changes surrounding their information centers. You'll recall: 1. They go through...

Making Your Library Web Site Sticky.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Web site development is growing more complex. Just when we finish organizing, labeling, and laying out sites for efficient delivery of content, along come a series of new considerations. One of these considerations--a buzzword called...

Film Industry Information.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Once a year, I am immersed in the film industry. I mean this quite literally. I do not go out of my way to come into contact with film people, hear about deals, listen to screenwriters discuss plots, learn about agents, or explore marketing...

Distance Learning and Libraries.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Distance learning is a very big trend, and is steadily and quickly growing. Distance learning--taking courses and training over the Internet and other media--is radically altering the ways in which all sorts of education are delivered. Today, a...

Boringly Good: Today's Printers.(Column)(Statistical Data Included)(Evaluation)
July 1, 2000... Is your current printer more than three years old? Four years ago, when I last wrote about printers in the March 1996 ONLINE, I could safely suggest that you should be looking for a new printer if it was more than three years old. But by 1996,...

Recommended Reading.(Column)
July 1, 2000... This issue's column offers four books to help you lead your organization into a new future--whatever that future might be. The books examine how to manage change and create a learning organization--designing an organization with the flexibility...

Ebooks? E-ventually.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Thank you, Stephen King. I've never been a big fan of his writing, but I admire the man's ability to accomplish what dozens of hardware and software producers, plus faceless legions of hard-working public relations functionaries and amateur...