Online articles from July 2002

Online archives from July 2002

Information professionals as technologists. (The Homepage).(librarians)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 1, 2002... Say to the general public that librarians are the technologists of the present and the future, and you're likely to be greeted with derision. Say the same thing to a group of information professionals, and they'll nod their heads. When I speak...

Information Today, Inc. acquires Online, Inc. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Further consolidating its dominant position as the publisher and conference producer to the information industry, Information Today, Inc. followed its acquisition of ONLINE magazine last October by acquiring the remaining assets of Online,...

Whizbang! Labs goes under. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The information extraction technology company Whizbang! Labs precipitously closed its doors in mid-May, citing a lack of profits and funding. The creator of FlipDog, the fifth-most-visited recruitment site that it sold to Monster.com last year,...

Scholars Portal Project launches. (Industry News).(ARL libraries, Fretwell-Downing Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Seven ARL libraries--University of Southern California, University of California-San Diego, Dartmouth College, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Iowa State University, and University of Utah--in conjunction with Fretwell-Downing...

Smartlogik sold to Applied Psychology Research Ltd.: goes from Dan to Dan. (Industry News).(Dan Wagner, Daniel Brown)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The last remaining vestige of M.A.I.D, Smartlogik plc, has been sold to a privately held U.K. company, Applied Psychology Research Ltd. Founded and taken public by Dan Wagner, M.A.I.D changed its name to The Dialog Corporation when it purchased...

ECNext and content aggregator, Nerac.com. (Business & Finance).(partnership)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ECNext and content aggregator, Nerac.com, have formed a partnership under which Nerac.com will remarket the ECNext Knowledge Center. The ECNext Knowledge Center provides electronic access to thousands of country, company, and market...

Moody's KMV and Bureau van Dijk are partnering to provide a complete risk management solution. (Business & Finance).(link to OSIRIS financial database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Moody's KMV and Bureau van Dijk are partnering to provide a complete risk management solution that establishes a data link from Moody's Financial Analyst to BvD's company financial database, OSIRIS. The OSIRIS database provides quarterly and...

SkyMinder. (Business & Finance).(New Release)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... SkyMinder's New Release offers users enhanced functionalities and features for CRIBIS Corp.'s SkyMinder online business information provider. Enhancements include multiple function searching, simultaneous searching, more news, precise industry...

Business Monitor International. (Business & Finance).(supplies content to LexisNexis)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... LexisNexis has added licensed content from Business Monitor International (BMI). BMI is a source of news, analysis, data, and forecasts on financial, economic, and political developments in emerging markets worldwide. Coverage includes news...

NewsEdge and The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. (Business & Finance).(partnership)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... NewsEdge and The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) have formed a partnership under which NewsEdge intends to make the Chamber's Web site the premier English-language source of Japan-related information for international businesses....

Worldwide Corporate Actions. (Business & Finance).(Exchange Data International product)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Worldwide Corporate Actions is Exchange Data International's (EDT) latest product, designed to take account of 45 crucial events on a daily basis, which are collated through EDI's extensive links with over 130 local exchanges. Information...

Surf3D Web. (Search Engines).(Navagent Inc. introduces Web search tool)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Software start-up, Navagent, Inc. has released its SUrf3D Web search tool that creates animated three-dimensional views of a Web search for users to see an overview and preview of Web destinations. The software works with most search engines...

Databeacon 5.3. (Search Engines).(new software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Databeacon 5.3 is a new release of Databeacon's data publishing, analysis, and reporting software. The new version addresses specific data publishing needs of organizations such as Nielsen//Net Ratings that provide interactive data on the...

TrueSpace5 3D. (Search Engines).(Caligari Corp. authoring software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... trueSpace5 3D is a custom version of Caligari Corporation's authoring software for Adobe Atmosphere. Atmosphere is currently available as a public beta and is a Web tool for authoring, viewing, and interacting with three dimensional worlds....

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has awarded OCLC Online Computer Center. (Portals & Intranets).($9 million grant)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has awarded OCLC Online Computer Center a 3-year, $9 million grant to build a Web-based, public access computing portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information....

Auto-Categorizer. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Four new taxonomies have been added as extensions to Applied Semantics, Inc.'s Auto-Categorizer product. The taxonomies supplement the Open Directory Project (ODP) and International Press Telecommunications Council (ITPC) taxonomy portfolio and...

RetrievalWare 7.0. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... RetrievalWare 7.0, the latest version of Convera's search, retrieval, and categorization system, combines multimedia and cross-lingual search capabilities in a single product. It simultaneously searches and organizes all data types (e.g., text,...

Thesaurus Master and Machine Aided Indexer. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Single-user versions of Data Harmony's Thesaurus Master (TM) and Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.) software are now available. M.A.I. is a natural language processing tool that assigns indexing terms to individual documents. TM helps with creating...

Gale Group. (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Through an agreement with Conde Nast Publications Inc., Gale Group is adding The New Yorker to its InfoTrac databases. This agreement is one in a series that expands coverage in Gale periodical databases, including those with Scientific...

PsycARTICLES. (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The American Psychological Association's electronic journal article database, PsycARTICLES, is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. PsycARTICLES covers general psychology, plus specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical...

Biography Reference Bank. (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... HW Wilson's Biography Reference Bank (BRB) has been enhanced to retrieve data from the full line of WilsonWeb databases, making any article about any individual on any WilsonWeb database accessible. These articles include biographical profiles,...

Coleccion Cineros. (Social Sciences/Humanities).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Fundacion Cisneros has launched the Coleccion Cisneros Web site [www.coleccioncisneros.org], which includes a major collection of modern Latin American art. Fundacion Cisneros is a Caracas-based philanthropic organization dedicated to Latin...

The Thomson Corporation has filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a preliminary prospectus. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Thomson Corporation has filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a preliminary prospectus with securities regulatory authorities in Canada regarding a proposed public offering of common shares by Thomson and...

Dialog and Gale Group. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Dialog and Gale Group have formed an alliance to build new online products and services for worldwide academic and public markets. The first set of products and services is expected to be available mid-2002, when further information will be...

Dialog's family of online services. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The National Post, one of two daily nationwide newspapers in Canada, has been added to Dialog's family of online services. The National Post focuses on news, business, and commentary, with a daily readership approaching 1 million. The...

ProQuest has added Village Voice publications to its Alt-Press Watch Database. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ProQuest has added Village Voice publications to its Alt-Press Watch Database. Included are The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Seattle Weekly, City Pages (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Cleveland Free Times, OC Weekly (Orange County, California), and...

PeopleSoft, Inc. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... PeopleSoft, Inc. has joined the Factiva Partner Network. Under this partnership, Factiva will provide a content solution for the PeopleSoft 8.4 Enterprise Portal application. Through Factiva Search Module and Factiva Track Module, global news...

RefWorks. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' Web-based bibliographic management tool, RefWorks, has been enhanced. The tool helps users create a personal, searchable online database of references. References can be imported into RefWorks from a variety of...

Access Imagery Inc. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Access Imagery Inc. is a new company specializing in digitizing library materials and creating associated metadata. Scott Wheelhouse, creator of the scanning, image handling, and cataloging processes used at MARC Link, has used this experience...

ebrary has partnered with three international resellers--Coutts, iGroup, and E-libro.net. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ebrary has partnered with three international resellers--Coutts, iGroup, and E-libro.net--to distribute its ebrarian for Libraries service to global markets. Under terms of the agreements, Coutts Library Services will resell the ebrarian...

ISI and Swets Blackwell have announced a linking agreement under which the full-text content in Swets Blackwell's SwetsnetNavigator e-journal service will increase ISI full-text links to scholarly journals. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ISI and Swets Blackwell have announced a linking agreement under which the full-text content in Swets Blackwell's SwetsnetNavigator e-journal service will increase ISI full-text links to scholarly journals. Users will be able to link from the...

Beilstein database. (Sci-Tech).(FIZ Karlsruhe, STN)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... An enhanced version of FIZ Karlsruhe's Beilstein database has been reloaded onto the STN service. Beilstein is an organic chemistry database of information from the Beilstein Handbook combined with primary organic chemistry literature. As part...

STN Easy Patent Tab. (Sci-Tech).(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced a new STN Easy Patent Tab feature, designed for those who are not patent search experts but need to access patent records. STN Easy users can now select the Patent Tab and search for patents by...

STN on the Web. (Sci-Tech).(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... STN on the Web users may now apply BLAST searching to sequence information in the CAS Registry file and document records in STN databases. After identifying a sequence similar to a queried sequence, users can view associated published research...

Rightslink Permissions. (Alliances & Deals).(Copyright Clearance Center, Christian Science Monitor deal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Copyright Clearance Center's (CCC) Rightslink Permissions have been added to the Web site for the Christian Science Monitor's online edition, csmonitor.com. Rightslink Permissions will help the Christian Science Monitor instantly license reuse...

SIIA. (Alliances & Deals).(Software and Information Industry Association acquires New York New Media Association)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Software & Information Industry Association, SIIA, has acquired the New York New Media Association, a community of nearly 6,000 professionals from 3,200 New York area companies involved in technology and new media [www.siia.net].

OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources will use Olive Software. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources will use Olive Software to help libraries provide online searchable access to historic newspapers so that these resources can be preserved and Web-accessible. The software builds an index of every article,...

Factiva and MediaMap have expanded their strategic relationship, originally established in 1999, by adding MediaMap to the Factiva Partner Network. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Factiva and MediaMap have expanded their strategic relationship, originally established in 1999, by adding MediaMap to the Factiva Partner Network. Under the agreement, Factiva will provide a content solution for MediaMap's upcoming...

Dialog and BioSpace, Inc. (Biomedical).(content alliance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Under an alliance between Dialog and RioSpace, Inc., Dialog has made part of its content available through BioSpace's public Web site, which provides information and resources in the life sciences arena. From anywhere within the site, users may...

The National Library of Medicine is a recent customer for data visualization company, Antarcti.ca Systems. (Biomedical).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is a recent customer for data visualization company, Antarcti.ca Systems. For the NLM project, Antarcti.ca will build a visual data map for DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online), which...

Ovid Technologies announced it has added electronic versions of 115 leading medical text and reference books. (Biomedical).(McGraw Hill Professional licensing agreement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Ovid Technologies announced it has added electronic versions of 115 leading medical text and reference books, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine to Books@Ovid through a licensing agreement with McGraw Hill Professional...

Anthrax. (Biomedical).(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has posted a free Web site that provides information on the topic of anthrax. The site is part of CSA's Hot Topic series of free informational Web resources. It features an overview of the subject, summaries...

E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information. (Legal).(LexisNexis releases treatise)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... LexisNexis has released a new Matthew Bender treatise on electronic commerce and communications by Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP's Stephen Y. Chow. The treatise, E-Commerce and Communications: Transactions in Digital Information, addresses the...

LexisONE. (Legal).(LexisNexis Web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... LexisNexis has enhanced its lexisONE Web site for solo and small-firm attorneys who need access to legal research material and practice-management services. The site offers an improved layout and design, plus features including an improved Free...

Jordan Libit. (Peopleware).(appointed at Applied Semantics Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Jordan Libit, a former senior executive of FileNET Corp., has joined Applied Semantics, Inc. as chief executive officer.

Daniel Rosensweig was named chief operating officer of Yahoo! (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Daniel Rosensweig was named chief operating officer of Yahoo!, while James Moloshok takes on the position of senior vice president of media and information. Rosensweig comes from CNET Networks and Ziff Davis; Moloshok was previously with Warner...

Fred Bullock. (Peopleware).(AltaVista Co. Internet Division appointment)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Fred Bullock is the new senior vice president and chief marketing officer for AltaVista Company's Internet Division. He previously held marketing positions with Alchemedia Technologies, Inc. and Apple Computer.

Rich Rosy. (Peopleware).(OCLC netLibrary Division appointment)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Rich Rosy has been chosen to lead the netLibrary Davison of OCLC, where he formerly served as executive vice president, sales and publishing. Rosy succeeds Rob Kaufman, who is leaving to pursue other interests.

Rein van Charldrop. (Peopleware).(OCLC PICA appointment)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Rein van Charldorp has been named the new managing director of OCLC PICA. Before joining OCLO PICA, Charldorp spent 20 years at Reed Elsevier in science and business publishing, where he most recently was chief operating officer, Reed Business...

Keith M. Kuperschmid. (Peopleware).(SIIA appointment)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Keith M. Kuperschmid has been promoted to vice president, intellectual property policy and enforcement, by the SIIA.

Wendy S. Braswell. (Peopleware).(receives LexisNexis rewards of working smarter award)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Wendy S. Braswell, a second-year student at the West Virginia College of Law, has won the $20,000 grand prize for the Rewards of Working Smarter with LexisNexis program by using LexisNexis at lexis.com to conduct legal research.

AllTheWeb. (Internet Search Engine Update).(offers fully indexed PDF files)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added. Most significantly, AllTheWeb now includes fully indexed PDF files in its database. The PDF files are usually identified with a .pdf designator after the title. While no direct limit is...

Alta Vista. (Internet Search Engine Update).(tests paraphrase tool)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date, and it has new techniques that aim to discover new, non-commercial sites. AltaVista is testing a paraphrase tool that will provide more robust suggested...

Answer Services. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Google and Yahoo! offer answer services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Answer Services have been popular, with Google introducing in beta form a fee-based service called Google Answers [http://answers.google.com] and Yahoo! changing its Yahoo! Experts site from its own software to one powered by LiveAdvice. Yahoo...

AOL. (Internet Search Engine Update).(announces Google agreement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AOL has announced that its AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer. Paid ads (sponsored links) have already moved from Overture to Google's AdWords database. Similar switches will occur at AOL's CompuServe and Netscape search...

Direct Hit. (Internet Search Engine Update).(no longer a stand-alone search engine)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Direct Hit is no longer available as a stand-alone search engine, and www.directhit.com redirects to Ask Jeeves' new search engine, Teoma. However, Direct Hit results do still show up at several partner sites, including HotBot, MSN, and others....

Excite. (Internet Search Engine Update).(becomes meta-search engine)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Excite, now owned by InfoSpace, has become a meta-search engine. It had been just showing Overture results but it now combines results from several ad databases (Overture, FindWhat, Sprinks) and from others, including AltaVista, Inktomi,...

Fast Search & Transfer. (Internet Search Engine Update).(announces first-quarter net profits)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Fast Search & Transfer, the Norwegian company that builds the database and search interface for AllTheWeb, has announced a net profit for first quarter of 2002. With all the pressure on search engines to show a realistic business model, it is...

Google. (Internet Search Engine Update).(automates spelling corrections)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Google has been busy again the past few months. In addition to the answer service mentioned above, it has now automated some English spelling corrections. When certain terms find no hits, Google will automatically guess the correct spelling and...

InfoSpace. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... InfoSpace has announced an agreement with Fast Search & Transfer to include FAST results on InfoSpace meta-search engines. These include Dogpile, MetaCrawler, and Excite. Greg R. Notess [gres@notess.com; http://www.notess.com/] is a...

Teoma. (Internet Search Engine Update).(relaunches web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Teoma has relaunched its Web site with new graphics, layout, and design. It has added some paid links from Overture at the top under the "Sponsored Results" heading. Suggestions for narrowing a search, formerly in folders, are now on the top...

The Semantic Web: differentiating between taxonomies and ontologies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... There's a new vision of the Web--the Semantic Web--that will dramatically improve Web-based services and products. It creates a setting where software agents perform everyday jobs for end-users. Deploying hierarchies, metadata, and structured...

Monitoring the news online.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Once there was the neighborhood newspaper. It came to our doorsteps once a day and provided a limited amount of information about the world. And it was good. Sure, you could get a little fancy and subscribe to The New York Times or Wall Street...

Plug-Ins for critical media literacy: a collaborative program.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... INFORMATION LITERACY" is today's hot topic in academic libraries-and other types of libraries as well. It seems as if everyone is hopping on this bandwagon, implementing standards for minimum information-literacy skills that students should...

Boolean operators and the naive end-user: moving to AND.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... "The world is full of obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes." SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES According to Dietmar Wolfram in his paper "A Query-Level Examination of End User Searching Behaviour on the...

Distant points of view: International news sites in English.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Web access to news sites all over the world allows us the opportunity to have an electronic news-stand readily available and stocked with a variety of foreign (to us) news sites. A large number of currently available foreign sites are...

Electronic books: reports of their death have been exaggerated.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ONLY 2 YEARS AGO, I characterized electronic books as "A New Publishing Revolution" (ONLINE, July/August 2000, pp. 14-28 and September/October 2000, pp. 18-36). In 2000, the e-book market was awash with a sense of optimism. Rosy predictions...

Triumphing over paperwork Hassles: Taming the Paper Tiger.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Paperwork Hassle: The endless pile of paper and graphic information coming into and obstructing/strangling your business and personal affairs. Generally acknowledged as a critical problem for many information professionals, especially those of...

Free full text: FindArticles and MagPortal; Luckily, free articles remain on the Web and have a variety of finding tools. (On the Net).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Net is an often strange mixture of different kinds of information content. From absolutely meaningless pages to detailed technical reports and from spam e-mail to software source code, the Net offers a broad range of content. Since the...

Adding external knowledge to business Web sites: pursuing internal or external sources for information is not necessarily an antagonistic approach. (The Dollar Sign).(Column)
July 1, 2002... Knowledge management literature concentrates on internal knowledge: sharing stories, turning tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, identifying internal experts, embedding knowledge into business functions, creating communities, and...

Busting the myth of the global user: information professionals, along with content vendors, know that differences exist in user needs and preferences from country to country. (Industry Insights).(Column)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The year 2002 marks a turning point in U.S. history, as more than half of U.S. employees now work for large companies rather than small businesses. It's a world of Wal-Mart, not Mom & Pop shops, and for most workers within large companies, work...

Web site content: build or buy? Publishers are now moving away from offering subpar online content to developing online content that is equal to, or in some cases better than, the offline equivalent. (Web Site Management).(Column)
July 1, 2002... For most large Web sites, purchasing content is becoming a viable option to complement the content created in-house. Whether your Web site serves consumers looking for healthcare, financial, automotive, or other topical information, there is...

Hoover's reshapes as major business portal: hoover's maintains some of its most appealing characteristics, including its distinctive proprietary content and lots of good, free information. (O'Leary Online).(Company Profile)(Column)
July 1, 2002... A mid the many corporate earnings announcements for the fourth quarter 2001, an unassuming release from Hoover's Inc. could be easily overlooked. The company, which went public only in 1999, had its first profitable quarter, with profits of...

Customizing your Intranet: Developing applications for specific audiences; customizing your intranet allows you to serve particular offices, departments, and types of workers better. (Intranet Librarian).(Column)
July 1, 2002... Intranets offer many opportunities for customization. Customizing your intranet allows you to serve particular offices, departments, and types of workers better. The tools, services, and features catering to a particular group are brought...

Thepicks: Xrefer Yahoo! Research Documents Collection Prestige Factor. (Peter's Picks & Pens).(Column)
July 1, 2002... My picks include a long-time fave, the Xrefer.com site, which has an outstanding collection of nearly 50 ready-reference sources in an integratd, not merely aggregated, fashion. The other pick is the Yahoo! Research Documents Collection, a...

Recommended reading for online professionals. (Hardcopy).(includes review of Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Martin R. Kalfatovic)
July 1, 2002... This month I look at creating online exhibitions, searching the invisible Web, basics of mobile technology, and then a thought-provoking glimpse at the future of work. * * * Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries,...

1 Jump. (Online Spotlight).(offers access to business and government information)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2002... Web-based information aggregators are now getting on the invisible Web bandwagon so well articulated by Chris Sherman and Gary Price in their book The Invisible Web (published by Information Today Inc.). Aggregators are beginning to exploit all...