Online articles from July 2001

Online archives from July 2001

Everything Old Is New Again.(Editorial)
July 1, 2001... developing effective search strategies has long been a professional concern for online searchers. In the early days of online, trainers stressed the power of Boolean logic. They explained how to visualize a research topic, find the facets that...

[leters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... WILSON CORRECTS WEB FUNCTIONALITY STATISTICS To the Editor: This is in reference to the article titled "Assessing the Functionality of Web-Based Versions of Traditional Search Engines" by Luisa Sabin-Kildiss, Colleen Cool, and Hong...

CORRECTION TO WEST URL.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2001... In the News section of the May/June 2001 issue of ONLINE, an incorrect URL for WestFind & Print was given. The correct URL is http://intranetsolutions.westlaw.com. We regret the error.

Elsevier Science Launches Scirus.com.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Vertical search has found the professional search community. Scirus.com is a search engine dedicated to science, and is part of Elsevier's ScienceDirect family of products. Powered by FAST (Fast Search & Transfer, ASA) and the Norwegian...

Dialog Revitalizes Quantum, Reduces Prices.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Reaffirming its commitment to the information professional market, Dialog has relaunched the Quantum professional development program, calling it Quantum [2] (http://quantum.dialog.com). The program will provide tools, training materials,...

Intelliseek.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Intelliseek closed an $8 million Series B Preferred Stock financing. Investors include Ford Motor Company, Nokia Venture Partners, River Cities Capital funds, Intelliseek chairman Mahendra Vora, and other undisclosed participants. Plans are to...

Trellix Corp.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Trellix Corp. plans to license the Blogger online diary publishing tool, in a move to bail out Blogger creators, Pyra Labs, which has run out of funds to operate the free Web publishing and hosting service. Trellix will add Blogger to its line...

CNET Networks, Inc.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... CNET Networks, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire TechRepublic Inc. from Gartner, Inc. for $23 million in cash and common stock. Tech Republic is a Louisville, KY-based online destination exclusively for Information Technology (IT)...

SIRSI Holdings Corporation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... SIRSI Holdings Corporation will purchase all outstanding common stock of Data Research Associates (DRA) for approximately $51.5 million, with plans that the new SIRSI-DRA company will be a leader among library automation industry vendors....

Wolters Kluwer.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Wolters Kluwer will acquire SilverPlatter Information and combine the company with Ovid Technologies to provide research tools for medical and scientific researchers. The acquisition is subject to regulatory clearance, and will more than double...

The Royal Society of Chemistry.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will adopt eMeta's eRights software solution to support authentication, access, and control of its online content, which includes technical journals, library archival services, and Internet publishing. This...

Data Downlink Corporation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Data Downlink Corporation has changed its name to alacra. The company is known for its Portal B, xls, and Prepbook products. (212/363-9620; http://www.alacra.com)

TSNN.com.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... TSNN.com and TSCentral.com, two tradeshow portals for the exposition industry, have merged under the leadership and direction of the TSNN.com brand, with TSCentral continuing to operate the technology platform. The merger is intended to give...

Primedia.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Primedia has made a strategic investment in the Web-based solutions provider, Accumedia. This investment enhances the relationship between the two companies beyond an earlier agreement under which Primedia's Modern Bride Group signed a...

Sopheon and Northern Light Technology Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Sopheon and Northern Light Technology Inc. have formed an alliance to provide access to Sopheon's Intota scientific and technical expert network through Northern Light's search engine. Northern Light searchers can now use specialized Power...

MindBranch, Inc.(buys Intelligex)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... MindBranch, Inc. has acquired Intelligex, adding a range of research services to MindBranch's market research information. Intelligex customers will be able to benefit from MindBranch's one-stop-shop features, customer support, and global...

Esmerk.(introduces pro@ctive software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Esmerk has introduced pro@ctive, a new suite of applications designed to facilitate widespread use of tailored current awareness systems within corporations. The product permits corporate-wide use of essential information, while at the same...

Pressline net-clipping analyzes.(software introduction)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Pressline net-clipping analyzes online media in the U.S., based on a search agent which is able to handle complex combinations of words in a search pattern to obtain high-quality net clippings. Pressline programmers reconcile each search...

EoExchange.(discontinues service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... EoExchange has discontinued its current awareness services EO-Monitor, EgoSurf, Daily Diffs, javElink, and NetBrief to refocus on providing information solutions within enterprises. (http://www.eoexchange.com)

Hoover's Wireless.(Hoover's Online wireless services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Hoover's Wireless service offers Hoover's Online from wireless devices, and is instantly customized to each device's capabilities, taking into account browser type, protocol, markup language, and screen size. Wireless users can now search for...

Reuters Group Plc and AvantGo Inc.(sign content distribution agreement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Reuters Group Plc and AvantGo Inc. have signed a content distribution agreement under which Reuters will supply its Online Reports service to AvantGo. Reuters reports will be available in English and French to AvantGo customers, who may also...

Moody's Investors Service, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.,.(contract with Multex.com)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Moody's Investors Service, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., First Albany Corp., and C.L. King and Associates have been added to Multex.comas original securities research providers.

Harris InfoSource and Mailings Clearing House (MCH), a division of Roxbury Press, Inc.,.(join OneSource Business Browser)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Harris InfoSource and Mailings Clearing House (MCH), a division of Roxbury Press, Inc., have been added to the OneSource Business Browser product line. the Harris InfoSource database provides information on U.S. manufacturing companies, while...

ISIS (Bureau van Dijk and Thomson Financial Insurance Solutions),.(enhances product)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... ISIS (Bureau van Dijk and Thomson Financial Insurance Solutions), a database of information and statistics on global insurance companies, has been enhanced, with the addition of scanned reports, and share holder and ownership details. The...

Enterprise clients who license Northern Light Technology, Inc.'s Special Collection.(new product enhancement)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Enterprise clients who license Northern Light Technology, Inc.'s Special Collection, or other premium content sources, can now include, at no incremental cost, a customized search box on their corporate intranet sites. The feature ensures that...

The Alumni & Friends Library Portal.(from university of Pennsylvania and Northern Light Technology Inc)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Alumni & Friends Library Portal (http://www.library.upen.edu/portal) is the result of the combined forces of The University of Pennsylvania Library and Northern Light Technology, Inc. Penn students and faculty can now search and access...

Factiva Intelligent Indexing.(new company product)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Factiva Intelligent Indexing is a set of news topic, geographic, and company codes developed to categorize Factiva's news and business information in all of its products. Companies can now use this tool to access their internal content,...

Factiva and Inxight Software, Inc.(announce partnership)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Factiva and Inxight Software, Inc. have announced a partnership to give companies the ability to automatically apply Factiva Intelligent Indexing codes with Inxight's Categorizer to their internal content to build a structured collection of...

The Gale Group has acquired online rights to periodicals published the British Medical Association.(brief contract information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Gale Group has acquired online rights to periodicals published by the British Medical Association. Gale will provide online access to titles such as Heart, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Medical Genetics, Occupational and...

FIZ Karlsruhe.(loads STN International database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... FIZ Karlsruhe has loaded two pharmaceutical databases plus the French PASCAL file onto STN International. SYNTHLINE contains informnation on the synthesis of approximately 4,000 pharmaceuticals currently worldwide on the market or under...

Oingo, Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Oingo, Inc. has changed its name to Applied Semantics and has announced an expanded business strategy to deliver products and tools based on its CIRCA technology to the enterprise market. Under a newly formed Enterprise Solutions division,...

Bell & Howell's Information.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Bell & Howell's Information, Learning's ProQuest unit, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive have announced an agreement to bring more than 120 years of the Washington Post to the Web through ProQuest. Issues dating back to the Post's first...

Under a licensing agreement between American Psychological Association (APA) and Ovid Technologies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Under a licensing agreement between American Psychological Association (APA) and Ovid Technologies, the PsycARTICLES database of more than 25,000 articles from leading psychology journals will be available through Journals@Ovid. The articles...

Softline.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Softline is implementing a new platform for Web delivery of its Ethnic NewsWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, GenderWatch, Diversity Your World, and Alt-PressWatch databases. Enhancements include a search feature for the entire Ethnic...

eScience.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... eScience is a new service to help scientists use Web resources to expand results of a search in Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) information products. Scientists can now use STN Easy to search the CAS collection of databases, then use eScience...

ISI Web of Knowledge.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web-based platform that integrates ISI Web of Science and ISI Current Contents Connect with additional sources. The platform integrates journal, patent, proceedings, and life sciences literature with Web resources and...

Platts, the energy market division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Platts, the energy market division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has launched a free energy charting service at http://www.platts.com. The service uses technology from FAME Information Services and charts all Platts price assessments in oil,...

Westlaw Wireless.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Westlaw Wireless (West Group), the wireless version of westlaw.com, now provides full-text wireless access to all Westlaw and West Legal Directory content. Users can find a document, KeyCite a citation, and search Westlaw databases. Users also...

MediConnect.net and lexisONE.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... MediConnect.net and lexisONE (LexisNexis) have announced an alliance to provide instant access to online medical record retrieval services to attorneys via lexisone.com. Small practice attorneys are now able to request and retrieve medical...

Peopleware.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Mike Gruenberg has been named director of Enterprise Accounts, OneSource. Factiva has appointed Chris Pash, formerly with AsiaPulse, director of Asia-Pacific Content Strategy. Gerald Brown has been appointed VP of Business Development...

Visual Net for Libraries.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Visual Net for Libraries (Antarcti.ca) combines a navigation system with visuals to create large-scale data maps, giving students, librarians, and research professionals an intuitive graphical research tool to search, organize, and view large...

The Oslo Stock Exchange board has approved Opticom ASA's FAST Search & Transfer unit's plan.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Oslo Stock Exchange board has approved Opticom ASA's FAST Search & Transfer unit's plan to trade on the exchange's main list. FAST currently trades on the over-the-counter or gray market for unlisted shares. No initial public offering will...

Metasearch site InFind has been shut down.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Metasearch site InFind has been shut down. The spinoff from parent Inference Corporation ran out of capital and ceased operations.

The Internet Scout Project has been unable to secure funding to continue publishing its subject-specific reports.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Internet Scout Project has been unable to secure funding to continue publishing its subject-specific reports. Publication of the Scout Report for Business & Economics was discontinued after the May 31, 2001 issue. The last issue of the...

Greg R. Notess.(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2001... AltaVista continues to make changes to its site. The latest include moving back to a default OR operator between multiple terms for its basic search (but this may change yet again). Power search, now under the name of Search Assistant, shows as...

Greg R. Notess.(Google Inc. offers translation services for Web pages)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Google has added automatic translation capability for Web pages in Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese. This appears next to results that are in one of those languages. Other new features include a preference that will...

Greg R. Notess.(Google Inc. expands search engine services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive, and added posting capabilities. The advanced search now has options to sort by date, and to restrict language, message ID, author, subject, date,...

[0] Greg R. Notess.(iLor adds features to Google)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to the Google database. These work with Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 4.73, or better browsers, and offer a pop-up box with choices to Open in Taskbar, Open in New...

Greg R. Notess.(Inktomi Corp. loses Canada.com contract)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Inktomi lost the Canada.com account. Instead of using Inktomi, Canada.com now uses the metasearch engine, Dogpile, with GoTo results listed first. Ironically, on some searches, GoTo will serve up some Inktomi results. Greg R. Notess is a...

[1] Greg R. Notess.(iWon makes changes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... iWon has made some substantial changes to its search functions. Results from GoTo, the paid-positioning search engine, are now featured under the heading of partner results, while Direct Hit results are harder to find, and Fact City results...

[0] Greg R. Notess.(internet search engines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Magellan, one of the earliest search engines, is now gone completely. Bought by Excite years ago, it had continued to maintain its separate interface until recently. The URL, http:// www.mckinley.com, now simply redirects to Excite. Meanwhile,...

[1] Greg R. Notess.(MSN Search)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... MSN Search has finally moved to the larger Inktomi database that has also been available at iWon, NBCi, and HotBot. At the moment, MSN appears to find slightly more results than any of the other three. Meanwhile, MSN has a beta of a new MSN...

Greg R. Notess.(Raging Search )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Raging Search is dead. Started by AltaVista as an alternative access point to the latter's database, AltaVista has killed it off and integrated some of its features into AltaVista. The old Raging site directs users to the text version of...

[1] Greg R. Notess.(Metasearch Engine Study)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A Metasearch Engine Study has been posted by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch at http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/05-metasearch.html, which does an excellent job of comparing several metasearch engines in terms of how much of...

[0] Greg R. Notess.(internet search engines with largest databases)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Numbers: The April size comparison of search engine databases at Search Engine Showdown (http://searchengineshowdown.com/stats) put Google in the lead with the largest database, followed by Fast (used by All the Web and Lycos), and then by...

Web Search Strategy Development.(navigating the Web's search engines)
July 1, 2001... Surfing the World-Wide Web used to be cool, dude, real cool. But things have gotten hot--so hot that finding something useful on the Web is no longer cool--it's suffocating Web searchers in the smoke and debris of mountain-sized lists of hits....

ONLINE dialogs with Roy Martin, new CEO of Dialog.(Interview)
July 1, 2001... When Roy Martin was named the sixth president/CEO of Dialog in mid-November 2000, he was astonished at the press interest in his appointment. "It told me a lot about how valued the company was in the information industry," he now says. He comes...

Exploring the Invisible Web.
July 1, 2001... Just as the universe has two types of matter--the visible stuff of which stars are made and "dark matter" like black holes--the Web has both visible and invisible components. One of history's delicious ironies is that the man responsible for...

THE UNITED NATIONS on the invisible web.
July 1, 2001... How things have changed since I published an article on Inter-governmental organization (IGO) information on the Internet [1]. In the five years since that article appeared, the scope of World Wide Web-based information from or about IGOs has...

Reference services in the new millennium.
July 1, 2001... automation is not new to university libraries. By the end of the 1980s, virtually all had online catalogs, CD-ROM workstations, and online literature searching. University libraries have pursued aggressive automation plans since the...

Electronic Shoes for the Cobbler's Children Treatment of Digital Journals in Library and Information Science Databases.
July 1, 2001... Electronic journals have become an increasingly important topic since the early 1990s. A simple free-text search for electronic journals (without synonyms like ejournals or electronic periodicals) gives a snapshot of the ten data bases on...

Prescriptions for usable library web sites.
July 1, 2001... A frustrated student came to the reference desk at the academic library where I was working. "I'm having trouble with the home page--I just need to find the library's catalog." Here's the irony: the student was a high-level computer user...

Intranets.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The emergence of a truly global marketplace has driven many organizations, including Factiva, to find solutions that meet diverse global information and communication needs. To accomplish this, it is imperative that organizations have a single,...

SEARCHING FOR NewS Online and on the Web.
July 1, 2001... Nothing changes faster than the news. This makes news searching exciting, but adds difficulty. It also means that for optimum results you usually have to search both the Web and traditional online databases, such as LEXIS-NEXIS, Factiva, and...

On the net.(the importance of the Web browser)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Browser Diversity Consider the Web browser-that essential software for surfing, searching, and browsing on the Web. The "browser wars" have long been considered over, regardless of the final outcome of the U.S. court cases against...

Intranet librarian.(the usage of XML)
July 1, 2001... XML and Intranets: Fact, Fantasy, or Both? How ready is XML for prime time on intranet Web site projects? If XML were Cinderella, the story would be just at the moment where the prince finds Cinderella and is just about to place the shoe on...

O'leary online.(the growth of online academic information services)
July 1, 2001... New Academic Information Model Bypasses Libraries The "New Economy" looks a little like vaporware as the dot coms and their newfangled ways come crashing down. There is one market, how ever, where new, Internet-mediated ways of selling are...

PC monitor.(the sale of PCs versus notebook computers)
July 1, 2001... The Portability Problem What ever happened to desktop computers? According to industry analysts of the early to middle 1990s, they faded away a few years ago, replaced by notebook PCs. Remember when notebooks took off, when notebook sales...

The dollar sign.(Web Search University 2001)
July 1, 2001... New Knowledge at Web Search University Web Search University, held May 5-8, 2001 in Chicago and scheduled for a repeat performance in Reston, Virginia on September 9-11, gave me the rare opportunity to sit quietly, listen, and learn without...

Web site management.
July 1, 2001... What Is a Web Content Management Solution? Thinking back on the time I've spent considering Web content management (WCM) applications for my own institution, my mind is mush as I slog through reams of industry product reviews and my own...

Industry insights.(the online services industry)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Corporate Information Centers in the Year of Accountability What a difference a year makes. The surging economy and thriving dot.coms that marked the beginning of 2000 have given way to what Outsell dubs "The Year of Accountability" for...

Peter's picks & pans.(digital libraries)
July 1, 2001... The digital libraries of ACM and IEEE Computer Society, two of the most respected associations in the field of computer and information science, offer free access for anyone to bibliographic information (often with substantial abstracts) about...

Hardcopy.(suggested book titles on ebusiness)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Recommended Reading on EBusiness Time for some summer beach reading, which may or may not help you to relax and enjoy the surroundings. Since libraries are forced to consider costs and develop business plans and cost centers, it is...

Online spotlight.(online newsletter, "Free Pint")(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... I have participated in online forums since the mid-1980s--yep, way before the advent of the Web-and I have seen virtual communities come and go. What pleasantly surprises me is when an online community emerges and sticks around. Free Pint...