Online articles from July 2004

Online archives from July 2004

Disruptive? Who you calling disruptive?(Internet as a disruptive technology in the library)
July 1, 2004... Disruptive technologies, those that require a complete rethinking of an existing business model, are endemic to the library and information world. Probably the first technology to affect information acquisition and dissemination was Gutenberg's...

Keeping track of the Blogosphere.(Intelliseeks creates BlogPulse.com)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Intelliseek, capitalizing on the blogging boom, has created BlogPulse.com to track trends, issues, and personalities in the blogging community. BlogPulse is a free online search and tracking tool that measures and ranks "buzz" about key issues,...

OneSource joins the infoUSA family.(accquisition deal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In a deal worth $103 million, infoUSA acquired OneSource for $8.85 per share, higher than the $8.40 per share previously offered by ValueAct Capital Partners. OneSource will keep its Concord, Massachusetts, office, although some back-end...

Starring now on NewsStand.(Stern Magazine now available in digital format via NewsStand, Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Stern Magazine, the most-read weekly publication in Germany, with approximately 7.4 million readers, is now available in digital format via NewsStand, Inc. The electronic edition will place photos, headlines, articles, and advertisements in the...

GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and introduced a specialized search engine called The Engineering Web, which it says provides "engineering context and relevancy" and access to hidden Web resources.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... GlobalSpec, a specialized online resource for engineering, has launched a new interface, added more powerful search functionality, and introduced a specialized search engine called The Engineering Web, which it says provides "engineering...

Google.(Search Engines)(Image Search enhancements)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Google Image Search, featuring more than 880 million images, now displays current news images and links to news headlines related to a user's query. Because news is time-sensitive, images and news articles may appear on any particular day, and...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(Gary Foster named president and chief executive officer of it global Medical Research division)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Wolters Kluwer Health named Gary Foster as president and chief executive officer of its global Medical Research division, which includes Ovid, provider of medical information solutions, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)journal publishing....

NewsStand, Inc.(Richard "Chip" Berry named as director of magazine sales for North America )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Richard "Chip" Berry has joined NewsStand, Inc. as director of magazine sales for North America with the responsibility for expanding the company's inventory of magazine titles for digital delivery.

Dialog.(Craig Lathrop has been appointed chief technology officer )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Dialog announced that Craig Lathrop has been appointed chief technology officer to manage the company's global technology infrastructure. Lathrop originally joined Dialog in 2000 as vice president, new technologies.

HighBeam Research, LLC.(Joseph B. McWilliams, Jr. named vice president of advertising)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... HighBeam Research, LLC, announced that Joseph B. McWilliams, Jr. has joined the company as vice president of advertising. He was formerly vice president of advertising and e-commerce sales for Hoover's, Inc.

The U.S. Dept. of Education awarded a 5-year, $34.6-million contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Rockville, Maryland, to develop and operate a new database system for ERIC.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The U.S. Dept. of Education awarded a 5-year, $34.6-million contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Rockville, Maryland, to develop and operate a new database system for ERIC. During the development and transition to the new ERIC,...

ProQuest Information and Learning and Extenza e-Publishing Services announced a strategic alliance to offer a broad portfolio of e-journal and database services for publishers and libraries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning and Extenza e-Publishing Services announced a strategic alliance to offer a broad portfolio of e-journal and database services for publishers and libraries. It will offer traditional subscriber access to...

U.K.-based i-documentsystems (IDOX) has acquired TFPL.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... U.K.-based i-documentsystems (IDOX) has acquired TFPL, a consultancy and executive search firm focused on the library, information, and knowledge management industry.

Three international economic and financial database powerhouses have joined forces to produce WorldData.(Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has allied with EcoWin and Alacra)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Three international economic and financial database powerhouses have joined forces to produce WorldData. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has allied with EcoWin and Alacra to collect and array economic statistics for 150 countries and 45...

Thomson Derwent World Patents Index First View (DWPI First View), the new alerting companion file to DWPI, launched as WPIFV on STN International and as File 331 on Dialog.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Derwent World Patents Index First View (DWPI First View), the new alerting companion file to DWPI, launched as WPIFV on STN International and as File 331 on Dialog. Searching DWPI First View in combination with Derwent World Patents...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) selected Techstreet to distribute ASCE standards online.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) selected Techstreet to distribute ASCE standards online. ASCE members and customers can now search, order, and download individual ASCE standards in PDF format or sign up for a company-wide,...

Innodata Isogen, Inc. is working with Harvard Business School Publishing to digitize more than 1,000 case studies in the Harvard Business School Publishing Case Collection.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Innodata Isogen, Inc. is working with Harvard Business School Publishing to digitize more than 1,000 case studies in the Harvard Business School Publishing Case Collection. Innodata Isogen will provide digitization, imaging, and other data...

International Interfax Information Services Group announced the formation of Russia's biggest database on companies, which brings together official information on all legal entities operating in the Russian Federation.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... International Interfax Information Services Group announced the formation of Russia's biggest database on companies, which brings together official information on all legal entities operating in the Russian Federation. Company profiles include...

EDGAR News.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A new version of the EDGAR News service will distribute headlines and key disclosures extracted from filings of SEC form 8-K. EDGAR Online corporate customers can incorporate EDGAR News into their own intranet applications. In addition,...

Thomson Gale has loaded more than 500,000 backfile investment reports to its Investext Plus database and added J.P. Morgan Securities as its latest contributor.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Gale has loaded more than 500,000 backfile investment reports to its Investext Plus database and added J.P. Morgan Securities as its latest contributor. This addition expands the backfile to 1982 [248/699-8176; www.thomson.com].

Find Law launched a new version of its FindLaw for the Public Web site with many new features, including a redesigned look and feel and state-specific legal content.(Legal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Find Law launched a new version of its FindLaw for the Public Web site with many new features, including a redesigned look and feel and state-specific legal content. It offers users improved access to lawyers through the West Legal Directory....

Electronic legal publisher Context Limited and The Lawyer Group announced a partnership to provide TheLawyer.com community with access to Context's legal research tool, JustCite.(Legal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Electronic legal publisher Context Limited and The Lawyer Group announced a partnership to provide TheLawyer.com community with access to Context's legal research tool, JustCite, the legal reference search engine providing a fully...

LexisNexis U.S. announced a strategic alliance with Cognistar Corporation, the premier provider of continuing online legal and professional education.(Legal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LexisNexis U.S. announced a strategic alliance with Cognistar Corporation, the premier provider of continuing online legal and professional education. With this alliance, Cognistar and the LexisNexis Mealey Publications business unit will...

Vivisimo, Inc., a provider of clustering and metasearch software for organizing search results, has announced the release of ClusterMed, a new research tool that allows biomedical and life science researchers to search the MEDLINE database.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Vivisimo, Inc., a provider of clustering and metasearch software for organizing search results, has announced the release of ClusterMed, a new research tool that allows biomedical and life science researchers to search the MEDLINE database. The...

Swets Information Services will begin providing the U.K. National Health Service's NHS National Core Content collection with access to Internurse.com.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Swets Information Services will begin providing the U.K. National Health Service's NHS National Core Content collection with access to Internurse.com. Linked directly to NHS's existing bibliographic databases, internurse.com is an online...

Thomson Gale has extended access, updated features, and added new topics to three products.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Gale has extended access, updated features, and added new topics to three products. The Biography Resource Center will feature new people more frequently in "Spotlight On...," its popular home page feature. Included will be individuals...

Author corrections.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2004... Sincere apologies go out to following authors, whose names were misspelled on the May/June 2004 Table of Contents page: Janet Hartmann Sue Henczel Suzanne Sabroski

Ingenta, Inc.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ingenta, Inc. launched two new Web services and expanded the provision of a third for its publisher clients as part of an ongoing program of technical enhancements planned for 2004. Content Tracker is a content monitoring tool that lets...

The Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PP&F) division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. has entered an agreement with The Gallup Organization to promote the launch of Gallup Brain, a centralized database containing every Gallup Poll Public Opinion survey of Americans conducted since 1935.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PP&F) division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. has entered an agreement with The Gallup Organization to promote the launch of Gallup Brain, a centralized database containing every Gallup Poll Public Opinion...

Swets Information Services announced a pay-per-view service for almost 3,500 journals in Swets-Wise, the Web-based modular service for the procurement, access, and management of subscriptions and online information.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Swets Information Services announced a pay-per-view service for almost 3,500 journals in Swets-Wise, the Web-based modular service for the procurement, access, and management of subscriptions and online information. The pay-perview journal...

Databeacon Inc., a leading developer of Web reporting and data analysis software, announced support for Microsoft Analysis Services.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Databeacon Inc., a leading developer of Web reporting and data analysis software, announced support for Microsoft Analysis Services. The new release enables midmarket enterprises to leverage their existing investments in Microsoft Analysis...

Snapshots International has added a new dimension to its market research reports with the launch of The Global Panorama Series, a collection of reports that contain aggregated figures from the single country reports published within the Snapshots Series.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Snapshots International has added a new dimension to its market research reports with the launch of The Global Panorama Series, a collection of reports that contain aggregated figures from the single country reports published within the...

AlltheWeb.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... AlltheWeb and the other FAST Web search engines no longer have their own database. Unfortunately, not only is the database gone, so are many of the unique AlltheWeb search features. The current database being used at the AlltheWeb site appears...

AltaVista.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... AltaVista has also died, at least as a unique search engine database. The AltaVista Web database has been replaced with the same version of the Yahoo! Search database as AlltheWeb. Like at AlltheWeb, many advanced search features have been...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(new shortcut for celebrity searches)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ask Jeeves introduced a new shortcut for celebrity searches. Recognizing the large percentage of searches related to celebrities, Ask will now display some basic information about many celebrities and famous historic personages at the top of...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Gigablast finally made the switch to a default AND operation, joining the same practice of all the major search engines. Entering more than one word now will automatically search for all the query terms by default. When no results are found, as...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Google is finally starting the process of its much-anticipated initial public stock offering. However, for the searcher, the significant changes have to do with Google's new look and new search features. The new appearance has had the negative...

HotBot.(Internet Search Engine Update)(dropped one of its four databases)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... HotBot dropped one of its four databases. Since the Lycos database is no longer from AlltheWeb and FAST Web Search, it became the same as the one labeled HotBot, which is another version of the Yahoo! database. So now HotBot has three database...

Lycos.(Internet Search Engine Update)(search box changes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lycos had to find a new search engine database with the demise of the FAST Web Search (AlltheWeb) database. Despite its new emphasis on social networking, the search box remains. Lycos is now shows an Inktomi logo and uses basically the same...

Yahoo!(Internet Search Engine Update)(drops Google database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Yahoo! dropped another Google database. After switching earlier this year to its own Web database, it now is using its own image database as well. It is based on the image database used at AlltheWeb and AltaVista, although there are some...

"Let's make a deal!" Tips and tricks for negotiating content purchases.
July 1, 2004... Most of us have, at one time or another, spent the better part of a day at our local automobile dealership haggling over high-priced options and monthly payments. We walk in ready to do battle, armed with the latest figures from Edmunds and...

20 questions about enterprise search (with answers).
July 1, 2004... Enterprise search represents a new opportunity for information professionals. Long accustomed to searching traditional online services and Web databases for external information, we are now turning our attention to internal search as our...

High-powered note-taking: with hand-held pen scanners.
July 1, 2004... As library and information professionals, we hear constantly about the growing percentage of human knowledge stored in electronic formats. We also know only too well about the important percentage of selected and filtered information available...

A Web-based database of CIA declassified documents on the Vietnam war: during the Vietnam war years (1960-1975), the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents.
July 1, 2004... The declassification of these documents started with Executive Order No. 11652 signed by President Richard Nixon in 1972 [1]. Part of that executive order is on the Web [www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/ legacy_appendix.html]. Thousands of these...

CIA World Factbook on xreferplus.
July 1, 2004... The CIA World Factbook, which is freely available on the Web [www.cia.gov/cia/publications/f actbook], was added to xreferplus in March 2004. A Web-based collection of reference books with sophisticated searching and mapping features,...

The new Yahoo! Search.(on the net)
July 1, 2004... The first half of 2004 has witnessed major changes in the search engine industry, especially in terms of which search engines still use their own databases and which use one from someone else. Yahoo!, AlltheWeb, AltaVista, and Lycos have all...

Researching the advertising industry.(the dollar sign)
July 1, 2004... Advertising. It's everywhere. It's in places you'd expect--newspapers, magazines, billboards, television, radio--and in some places that are under the radar for ads, such as placement in television shows and movies. Ads pop up on, and under,...

What's your style: organizing information for the Web.(web site management)(Bibliography)
July 1, 2004... Thinking about Web site design usually is limited to the "look and feel" of the site--not necessarily how the words or the content is organized on the pages. It is amazing how many sites score high with regard to appearance, but perform poorly...

Supplying content globally: balance in changing times.(The Information Strategist)(Column)
July 1, 2004... Living on the West Coast brings me in frequent contact with a wide variety of special libraries in technology-based organizations. Continuing with the best practices described in my last column, I recently sat down with three library managers...

Using RSS to create new services.(intranet librarian)
July 1, 2004... Most intranet Webmasters are familiar with RSS (Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Many use newsreaders to help keep up professionally. However, Webmasters may not be as familiar with the multitude of ways...

Metacritic, New York Times Book Review Archive, and booklist archive of ALA.(Peter's picks & pans)(Column)
July 1, 2004... Summer is here again, so I've dedicated my column to databases that can be helpful not only in your reference or collection development work but also in your private life--reviews written by professional critics. My picks include Metacritic, an...

Multifunction printers: custom convergence.(pc monitor)
July 1, 2004... Looked at multifunction printers lately? These combine printing, fax, copying, and scanning capabilities in one machine and have been hovering on the periphery of office gadgetry for some time. You might be pleasantly surprised at new...

Refuge of a Scoundrel: the Patriot Act in Libraries.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... **1/2 Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act in Libraries by Herbert N. Foerstel ISBN: 1-59158-139-7 Published: 2004 Pages: 232 pp.; hardcover Price: $35 Available from: Libraries Unlimited, Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West,...

Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... **1/2 Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers by Pablo J. Boczkowski ISBN: 0-262-02559-0 Published: 2004 Pages: 255 pp.; hardcover Price: $30 Available from: The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1493;...

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... ***1/2 The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources by Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo ISBN: 0-910965-67-6 Published: 2004 Pages: 440 lop.; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: CyberAge Books Information Today,...

Technology Law: What Every Business (And Business-Minded Person) Needs to Know.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... *** Technology Law: What Every Business (And Business-Minded Person) Needs to Know by Mark Grossman ISBN: 0-8108-4738-8 Published: 2004 Pages: 178 pp.; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Rowman & Littlefield...

idEXEC.(online spotlight)
July 1, 2004... Company profiles have almost become a commodity business; you can find basic information on companies at no charge from any number of Web sites. But what do you do when you need in-depth information, particularly on privately held companies or...