Online articles from July 2003

Online archives from July 2003

Moving offices, reassessing technology. (The Homepage).
July 1, 2003... First, the facts. The editorial office of ONLINE moved from Park City, I Utah, to Indianapolis, Indiana, the beginning of May. This meant physically packing up the office and driving 1,600 miles. Many readers have undergone similar moves, both...

Nstein expands product lines. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Several recent deals made by Nstein add considerable new functionality to three well-known online databases. Nstein will provide a custom Nfinder to D&B (the new name for Dun & Bradstreet) that will use linguistically based extraction software...

Open source in Sweden. (Industry News).(Lund University Libraries launches Directory of Open Access Journals )
July 1, 2003... Lund University Libraries have launched the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAG) supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). The Directory...

LexisNexis. (Legal).(LexisNexis Matthew Bender enters into publishing agreement with IndexMaster)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... LexisNexis Matthew Bender has entered into a publishing agreement with IndexMaster, a content archiving system. IndexMaster is a compilation of the indices and/or tables of content of more than 8,000 legal titles from at least 65 legal...

Anderson Publishing. (Legal).(LexisNexis announces that 26 Anderson Publishing titles for Ohio are now available)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... LexisNexis has also announced that 26 Anderson Publishing titles for Ohio are now available, including Anderson's Ohio Jury Instructions, Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated, and Ohio Civil Practice with Forms. LexisNexis has also announced the...

LexisNexis' Shepard. (Legal).(product enhancements)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Enhancements to LexisNexis' Shepard's include a summary of legal case histories, extensive intra-document hyper-linking, and a navigation bar at the bottom of the screen (www.lexisnexis.com).

Andrews Publications. (Legal).(West buys Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... West has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications. Andrews is a 30-year-old publisher of litigation reports, newsletters, special reports, and online services for assisting attorneys, paralegals, law librarians, and...

CRIBIS Corp. (Business & Finance).(enhanced the international coverage of its SkyMinder database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... CRIBIS Corp. has enhanced the international coverage of its SkyMinder database. New agreements with local, country-specific information providers allow SkyMinder users to access credit reports on companies based in areas such as South & Central...

Correction.
July 1, 2003... In the article "Using Pharmaceutical Development Product Databases for Competitive Intelligence," published in the May/June 2003 issue of ONLINE, the URL for the Pharma Documentation Ring was incorrect. The correct URL is www.p-d-r.com.

Art Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(H.W. Wilson announces that WilsonWeb databases Art Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text are enhanced )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson has announced that WilsonWeb databases Art Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text have been enhanced with increased journal coverage, new treatment of key specialties, and broader international scope. Fifty-one periodicals have...

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Database published by Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale is now available via Internet Database Service (IDS) from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, published by Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM), is now available via the Internet Database Service (IDS) from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). The database covers all areas of music...

ProQuest's Digital National Security Archive. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Five new collections have been added to ProQuest's Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) Web-based resource. The National Security Archive and ProQuest Information and Learning have teamed to expand their collection of primary documents...

Derwent Innovation Index version 4.0. (Sci-Tech).(Thomson Derwent)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Thomson Derwent has released Derwent Innovation Index version 4.0, featuring enhanced chemistry content and search functionality. Merging the Derwent World Patents Index database with Derwent Patents Citation Index, the index now offers...

APOLLIT. (Sci-Tech).(FIZ Karlsruhe makes Polymer Database APOLLIT available on Web as flat-rate subscription)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe has made the Polymer Database APOLLIT available on the Web as a flat-rate subscription. Its focus is on polymer technology and on the applications of plastics, fibers, and rubber. APOLLIT covers all aspects, from industrial...

Chemical Abstracts Service. (Sci-Tech).(STN Easy for Intranets now has variety of features to accommodate workgroups)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that STN Easy for Intranets now offers a variety of features to accommodate workgroups. Information administrators can set up workgroup names, logos, and welcome text; review monthly usage by...

Moody's Investors Service. (Business & Finance).(Ratings from Moody's Investors Service are added to Thomson Financial's Thomson ONE Analytics product)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ratings from Moody's Investors Service have been added to Thomson Financial's Thomson ONE Analytics product. Aimed at investment managers, the addition of Moody's ratings significantly enhances the volume of content from independent...

LexisNexis CourtLink. (Business & Finance).(Distributes its Corporate Reports through Alacra Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... LexisNexis CourtLink now distributes its Corporate Reports through Alacra, Inc. These litigation summaries, usually covering cases that don't go to trial and are unpublished, will be available for most publicly held U.S. companies [CourtLink:...

Wall Street Journal Online Vertical Network. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Wall Street Journal Online Vertical Network has formed an alliance with SmartMoney.com to add content to its CareerJournal.com site, aimed at career-minded college students. Articles on finding a job, writing a resume, career management,...

Inmagic, Inc. (Portals & Intranets).(Offers BiblioTech PRO v2.5 software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Inmagic, Inc. has releases BiblioTech PRO v2.5, aimed at giving corporate library and information centers the enhanced ability to customize resources to local standards. It is being released in conjunction with BibSpeed v2.5, a Web-enabling...

ManagementFirst. (Portals & Intranets).(Management information portal produced by Emerald)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... ManagementFirst, a management information portal produced by U.K.-based information science publisher Emerald, has updated and enhanced content aimed at information professionals seeking management information. ManagementFirst features...

Southern African Online Information. (Peopleware).(Marydee Ojala gives keynote address at Southern African Online Information Meeting )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Marydee Ojala, editor of ONLINE, gave the keynote address at the Southern African Online Information Meeting in June 2003. She spoke on pricing and payment trends in the online information industry.

Comtex News Network. (Peopleware).(Raymond P. Capece named president and chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Comtex News Network appointed Raymond P. Capece to the position of president and chief executive officer. Charles W. Terry, former CEO, has resigned from the position and from the board of directors, but will remain available to the company on...

Scholastic Inc. (Peopleware).(Joe Reynolds named as president of Scholastic Library Publishing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Scholastic Inc. chose Joe Reynolds as president of Scholastic Library Publishing. Mr. Reynolds will report directly to Scholastic's chairman, CEO, and president, Richard Robinson. Most recently, Mr. Reynolds was president and CEO of ProQuest...

American Psychological Association. (Peopleware).(PsycINFO department appoints Leslie Kent Kunkel to position of Customer Relations Manager)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The PsycINFO department of the American Psychological Association (APA) appointed Leslie Kent Kunkel to the position of Customer Relations Manager. She will be APA's primary liaison between the library community and the PsycINFO management...

Thomson Financial. (Peopleware).(Sarah Dunn named as executive vice president and chief content officer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Thomson Financial selected Sarah Dunn as executive vice president and chief content officer, Thomson Financial Research. She will replace former president Bob Bulik and will be responsible for acquiring and adding value to the content used by...

Innovative Interfaces. (Peopleware).(Appoints William Ho as director of sales, Australia and New Zealand)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Innovative Interfaces appointed William Ho as director of sales, Australia and New Zealand, to be based in Sydney. Ho was previously director of iGroup (Australasia) Pty. Ltd.

Knovel Corporation. (Peopleware).(Mark Sauter as director of North American sales)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Knovel Corporation chose Mark Sauter as director of North American sales. Sauter will look for new opportunities in the North American academic and consortia market for Knovel's products and services and to further expand its sci-tech reference...

SwetsWise. (Online Services).(Concludes agreements with publishers of professional titles to provide access to their online journal content via SwetsWise)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell recently concluded agreements with several publishers of professional titles to provide access to their online journal content via SwetsWise. Agreements have been reached with Australian Academic Press, Boom Publishers, Central...

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. (Online Services).(New enhancement to Version 6.0 of Internet Database Service (IDS) )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A new enhancement to Version 6.0 of the Internet Database Service (IDS) from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has been released with the addition of a new "Global Marking' capability. This feature allows users to collect marked records from...

WilsonWeb. (Online Services).(H.W. Wilson announced enhancements to its redesigned WilsonWeb reference database service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson has announced enhancements to its redesigned WilsonWeb reference database service, reflecting customer and reviewer feedback since its release in January 2003. The new features include All-Smart Search Query, Keyword search...

Dialog. (Alliances & Deals).(National Health Service incorporates Dialog as lead information provider in the NHS's new extranet serving users in England)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Dialog has announced that the U.K.'s National Health Service (NRS) has incorporated Dialog as a lead information provider in the NHS's new extranet serving users in England. The NHS's contract with Dialog, with an initial phase of 3 years,...

FluentMedia. (Alliances & Deals).(Enhances offering of deep industry and specialized content with addition of Primedia Business Magazines & Media and Thomson Media)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... FluentMedia has enhanced its offering of deep industry and specialized content with the addition of Primedia Business Magazines & Media and Thomson Media. The licensing agreement includes Primedia journals such as Telephony, American School &...

Cost-Per-Click search technology. (Alliances & Deals).(Searchfeed.com announces incorporation of its paid keyword content onto Addresses.com)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Searchfeed.com, a leader in Cost-Per-Click search technology, has announced the incorporation of its paid keyword content onto Addresses.com, the largest e-mail address database and directory on the Web. With the addition of Addresses.com,...

Thomson Corporation and Elite Information Group, Inc. have signed an agreement. (Alliances & Deals).(Thomson will buy Elite)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Thomson Corporation and Elite Information Group, Inc. have signed an agreement under which Thomson will acquire Elite, and join West as part of the Thomson Legal & Regulatory market group. Elite's management team, led by Christopher K...

ToxFile. (Biomedical).(Dialog enhances its ToxFile database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Dialog has enhanced its ToxFile database by integrating additional material to its range of articles, reports, and proceedings related to toxicology. Previously, ToxFile on Dialog consisted of only journal materials provided by the U.S....

ProQuest Company. (Biomedical).(ProQuest Co's Information and Learning unit signed limited exclusive agreement with Kluwer Academic Publishers)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... ProQuest Company's Information and Learning unit signed a limited exclusive agreement with Kluwer Academic Publishers that will bring the full text of 63 medical journals to the company's ProQuest online databases, including ProQuest Medical...

PCTGEN. (Biomedical).(FIZ Karlsruhe releases PCTGEN database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe has announced the release of the PCTGEN database, a new source of nucleotide and amino acid sequence information. Containing sequence and patent application information submitted electronically to the World Intellectual Property...

Fast Search & Transfer. (Search Engines).(Unveils FAST Data Search 3.2)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has unveiled FAST Data Search 3.2, an advanced version of its real-time search solution designed for organizations seeking departmental or enterprise-wide solutions. Offered as FAST Data Search Professional, FAST...

MuseGlobal, Inc. (Search Engines).(Announces new authentication option to MuseSearch)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... MuseGlobal, Inc. has announced a new authentication option to MuseSearch, providing more flexible alternatives for retrieving data from subscription-based HTTP sources. The new feature eliminates the need to configure individual browsers and...

All the Web. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Adds dictionary look-up)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... AlltheWeb has added a dictionary look-up. The search words on a results page are hotlinked to definitions at Dictionary.com. It has also added a "search spy" that shows 10 recent queries. Click on an empty search screen to see latest queries....

Personas: setting the stage for building usable information sites.
July 1, 2003... Not long ago, I found myself at a newspaper with a Web team who wanted my usability services for a new entertainment site they were building. Our first meeting involved a spirited discussion about the site the team had long envisioned. As the...

Thomson research: combining global access with research web bank.
July 1, 2003... Even in an age when megamergers and near-monopolies are everyday occurrences, the ever-expanding reach of the Thomson Corporation has raised more than a few eyebrows in the information community. Thomson has positioned itself as the proverbial...

Nanotechnology, Genomics, and Biological Computing: the 21st century world of computers.
July 1, 2003... What you do think of when you think of a computer? The computer of your desk? The PDA of laptop in your briefcase? The question of how we define and conceptualize these machines is central to understanding the evolution and role of computers in...

Open access and the Case for Public Good: the Scientists' perspective.(Keynote speech to International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science is discussed)
July 1, 2003... "WHO SHOULD HAVE CONTROL over access to scientific knowledge? Who will determine the shape of the future?" In his keynote speech to the International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science,...

Manipulating forms to improve research.
July 1, 2003... The Internet is resplendent with technologies well developed from a computing perspective but incompletely applied from an information/library perspective. Consider field searching. The role of field searching in quality assessment and...

Bookmarklets, favelets, and keymarks: shortcuts galore. (On the Net).
July 1, 2003... Shortcuts can help expedite searching and other common online activities, important given the countless hours spent online each day by most searchers. Since specific computer set-up and work patterns vary tremendously, each individual has very...

Online relevance for competitive intelligence. (The Dollar Sign).
July 1, 2003... When I think about business research, I include competitive intelligence as a subset, just as I include market research and company financial investigations. My seminars on business research concentrate on finding information on companies,...

Why Web projects fail. (Intranet Librarian).
July 1, 2003... Managing a Web project is a challenge. Any new intranet or Web area that rolls out on time and on budget-and works well for the users-has had hours of careful planning and management behind the scenes. As intranet Webmasters, we are often the...

What's changing in news deployment. (Industry Insights).
July 1, 2003... To explore how news information is being deployed across desktops inside corporations and academic institutions, Outsell interviewed decision makers charged with distributing news content in the financial services, pharmaceutical, chemical,...

Book review digest plus battles Amazon for title. (O'Leary Online).
July 1, 2003... One of the Web's great wonders is its enormous amount of free reference and research content. Whatever your information needs-academic, technical, professional, business, how-to, consumer, or personal-there are vast quantities of legitimate...

Creating a Web publishing guide. (Web Site Management).
July 1, 2003... Any team-oriented approach to Web site development requires standards and guidelines. These keep large-scale Web development efforts consistent and scalable. It's particularly important in environments with decentralized Web authoring and...

AIP OJPS. (Peter's Picks & Pans).(American Institute of Physics Online Journal Publishing Service )(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2003... AIP OJPS Metapress American Library Association Web Site This month the picks include two digital facilitators that provide services to publishers by bringing their journals to the Web for subscribers and pay-per-view customers....

Losing the legacy of drives and ports. (PC Monitor).
July 1, 2003... When was the last time you used a diskette? Does the term "floppy disk" strike you as meaningful? Do you know how many serial ports your PC has--and do you remember using any of them? If the drive and the ports disappear, will you care? Some...

Recommended reading on the library field. (Hardcopy).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... This month I look at the past, present, and future of the library field. Two books focus on the evolution or revolution of librarianship, from two very different perspectives. Then I look at Google--which the uninitiated feel is a very real...

Net snippets. (Online Spotlight).(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2003... In the old days, all it took to wow patrons was to hand them a printout with a list of bibliographic citations on a topic. "Value-added" meant getting the online system to sort the citations in chronological order. We would bask in the...

Ask Jeeves. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Launches Ask Jeeves 5.0)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ask Jeeves has launched Ask Jeeves 5.0. Changes include a new image database (from Picsearch) that is available from the main page as well as from a radio button after the search box. It is automatically invoked when the query includes...

Daypop. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Daypop expands to include 19,000 more blogs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Daypop has expanded to include 19,000 more blogs, bringing its total to about 35,000 news sites, Weblogs, and RSS feeds. Daypop also now offers Blogstats, a service that shows a blog's Daypop score, number of citations, rank, last time cached,...

Gigablast. (Internet Search Engine Update).(One-person operation expands)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Gigablast has been a one-person operation for some time. Recently Gigablast has expanded to include a chief management officer and a chief scientist. Hopefully, this will lead to a larger and fresher database and continued expansion of search...

Google. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Buys Applied Semantics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Google has purchased Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo). While this purchase appears to be more related to Google's role as an advertising agent, particularly for its content-targeted advertising, there may be some future impact on the search...

OpenFind. (Internet Search Engine Update).(OpenFind, search engine from Taiwan, is no longer available with English-language interface)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... OpenFind, the search engine from Taiwan that became available in summer 2002, is no longer available with an English-language interface. The Chinese and Taiwanese versions still work for Chinese searchers, but the English-language version...

Overture. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Completes acquisition of Web search portion of FAST and AltaVista)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Overture has completed the acquisition of the Web search portion of FAST and AltaVista. So Overture now owns both AlltheWeb and AltaVista. About 100 jobs from the AltaVista side are being eliminated and a press release includes the following...

WiseNut. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Promotes use of Grub, project in distributed Web crawling)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... WiseNut is now promoting the use of Grub, a project in distributed Web crawling, to help its crawling. Grub distributes a screensaver that uses a computer's spare clock cycles to do Web crawling. LookSmart, the owner of WiseNut, bought Grub in...

Xrefer. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Xrefer will discontinue free xrefer showcase)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Xrefer has announced that its free xrefer showcase, which has provided searchable access to dozens of subject dictionaries and other reference books, will no longer be available after June 17, 2003.

Yahoo! (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Yahoo! now has direct access points for Yahoo! as a portal, search engine, or directory. The portal version is at the classic www.yahoo.com. The Yahoo! search engine is directly available without the surrounding portal content at...