Online articles from July 2005

Online archives from July 2005

Talk about my generation.(the home page)(use of the weblogs)(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... "It's a generation thing." I kept hearing this from bloggers at the Computers in Libraries conference last March, as they convinced themselves that only the young blog incessantly and that older attendees discounted their devotion to newer...

Groxis and Yahoo! Team up.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Groxis, Inc. is bringing visual search to the Yahoo! database, offering a free, Web-based, ad-supported version of its Grokker search engine. Grokker displays results as colorful circles arranged to show contextual relationships. The visual...

Bloggers influence on U.S. politics.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... A new study from Pew Internet & American Life Project and BuzzMetrics, titled "Buzz, Blogs, and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004," suggests that bloggers can shape the political landscape but often simply...

Business & finance.(new software from Thomson Corp. Thomson Financial )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Financial launched Thomson ONE for Investment Management, a new workflow package for portfolio managers, research analysts, and economists. It combines Thomson Datastream's encyclopedic databases with the new interactive portfolio...

CSA sustainability journal.(National Biological Information Infrastructure, partnership)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), in partnership with CSA, launched a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, titled Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. The guest editorial for the premier issue is authored by...

Elsevier's Scirus indexed 13 million patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Elsevier's Scirus indexed 13 million patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of the World Intellectual...

Dialog.(new service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Dialog now offers graphical chemical structure for over 10 million chemical compounds, including drug pipeline databases and patent files. Launched as part of the DialogLink 5 software package, graphical searching allows researchers to use...

Thomson Scientific announced that Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) will now include Indian patents, both pre-grant applications and granted patents, following the culmination of the government's long process of amending India's national patent laws to ensure conformity with Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) norms.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific announced that Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) will now include Indian patents, both pre-grant applications and granted patents, following the culmination of the government's long process of amending India's national...

Ovid Technologies announced the exclusive availability of the Social Policy and Practice bibliographic database on the SilverPlatter platform.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ovid Technologies announced the exclusive availability of the Social Policy and Practice bibliographic database on the SilverPlatter platform. The database will provide academics, researchers, and policymakers with access to evidence-based...

ProQuest introduced the MLA Module for Literature Online, which provides a new look and functionality to the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography--making millions of records instantly accessible and fully searchable online, along with links to full text.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... ProQuest introduced the MLA Module for Literature Online, which provides a new look and functionality to the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography--making millions of records instantly accessible and fully searchable...

Thomson Gale announced enhancements to LitFinder, which guides users through poetry, fiction, drama, and other original literature content.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Gale)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Gale announced enhancements to LitFinder, which guides users through poetry, fiction, drama, and other original literature content. Three titles were added to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center--Drugs and Controlled Substances:...

Westlaw Corporate Litigation package.(new service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... A new Westlaw Corporate Litigation package offers resources tailored to the needs of corporate attorneys who manage outside counsel in litigation or manage litigation in-house. Users can customize Westlaw access to support their company size...

LexisNexis U.S. and The Daubert Tracker announced the establishment of a licensing agreement to provide access for LexisNexis subscribers to The Daubert Tracker database.(Legal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S. and The Daubert Tracker announced the establishment of a licensing agreement to provide access for LexisNexis subscribers to The Daubert Tracker database, the country's largest repository of court decisions and documents...

Thomson launched FirstPoint.(Thomson and Thomson Inc.)(case law research tool for Australian cases)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson launched FirstPoint, a case law research tool offering legal practitioners a single entry point to Australian case law--over 190,000 individual Australian cases--going back to 1825 [www. thomson.com.au/FirstPoint].

Legal electronic publisher Context Limited changed its name to Justis Publishing Limited.(Legal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Legal electronic publisher Context Limited changed its name to Justis Publishing Limited. All contact details for Context Limited will remain the same with the exception of e-mail addresses that now end in @justis. com [+44 (0)20 7284 8080;...

Factiva.(track current awareness searches)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Factiva customers now have an additional option for receiving results from their "track current awareness" searches. An Enterprise RSS feed via NewsGator online and NewsGator Microsoft Outlook requires one to be a Factiva subscriber to receive...

Science.gov, a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy and 11 other federal agencies, now offers a free alert service for its 47 million pages of government R&D results, more than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Science.gov, a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy and 11 other federal agencies, now offers a free alert service for its 47 million pages of government R&D results, more than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases...

Newstex, producer of Content On Demand, announced the availability of full-text newsfeeds from thousands of branded news wires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds, and Weblogs.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Newstex, producer of Content On Demand, announced the availability of full-text newsfeeds from thousands of branded news wires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds, and Weblogs. Publishers for...

Thomson Financial.(Sharon Rowlands appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Sharon Rowlands, former president and chief operating officer of Thomson Financial, was named president and CEO of Thomson Financial and a member of Thomson's management executive committee. Sandy Stevenson was promoted to vice president,...

BioMed Central.(Jan Velterop resigns)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Jan Velterop, former director and publisher of BioMed Central, left this position to pursue independent engagements as an advocate of open access to societies, funding institutions, and publishers. Jan has been a key figure in the development...

Elsevier.(John L. Regazzi retires)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Elsevier president & CEO John L. Regazzi retired and accepted a position as dean, College of Information and Computer Science (CICS) of Long Island University (LIU). He agreed to continue working with Elsevier as an advisor on critical projects...

Special Libraries Association.(appoints Nancy A. Gaffney Sansalone )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced the appointment of Nancy A. Gaffney Sansalone as deputy executive director and chief financial officer. Sansalone has 20 years of association management and higher-education experience.

LexisNexis.(J. Michael Greenwood appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... LexisNexis announced that J. Michael Greenwood, one of the key architects of the U.S. federal courts' e-filing system (CM/ECF) and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system (PACER), has agreed to serve as a senior advisor and...

JSTOR is developing a new Biological Sciences Collection in partnership with the Ecological Society of America and BioOne that will contain the complete back-runs of at least 100 scholarly journals in the field.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... JSTOR is developing a new Biological Sciences Collection in partnership with the Ecological Society of America and BioOne that will contain the complete back-runs of at least 100 scholarly journals in the field. It will introduce titles in...

Thomson Scientific announced that ISI Web of Knowledge content will be enhanced with MEDLINE content.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific announced that ISI Web of Knowledge content will be enhanced with MEDLINE content. MEDLINE through ISI Web of Knowledge will include Citation Alerts that notify users when another author has cited their work, and Unique Cited...

FIND/SVP, Inc. announced the acquisition of two leading business and market research companies.(Atlantic Research and Consulting Inc., Signia Partners Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... FIND/SVP, Inc. announced the acquisition of two leading business and market research companies, Atlantic Research & Consulting, Inc. and, Signia Partners Inc. Atlantic Research & Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Boston, is a growing...

MindBranch announced the addition of a new research partner, The Diffusion Group (TDG).(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... MindBranch announced the addition of a new research partner, The Diffusion Group (TDG). This strategic distribution partnership will allow MindBranch to expand research offerings focused on the growing connected consumer markets [413/662-3758;...

Copyright Clearance Center and Sirsi Corporation announced a partnership to deliver two integrated library solutions to streamline copyright compliance for libraries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Copyright Clearance Center and Sirsi Corporation announced a partnership to deliver two integrated library solutions to streamline copyright compliance for libraries. Direct linking to Copyright Clearance Center's online permission services...

LexisNexis and Weiss Ratings, Inc. announced that Weiss Ratings' independent investment ratings and analyses will be delivered through the LexisNexis services.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... LexisNexis and Weiss Ratings, Inc. announced that Weiss Ratings' independent investment ratings and analyses will be delivered through the LexisNexis services. Customers will have access to Weiss Ratings on more than 6,000 stocks, including...

Elsevier announced xqDoc, an open source cross-referencing tool for XQuery applications, and recognizes Darin McBeath, an Elsevier employee in the company's Advanced Technology Group, as the developer of the code.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Elsevier announced xqDoc, an open source cross-referencing tool for XQuery applications, and recognizes Darin McBeath, an Elsevier employee in the company's Advanced Technology Group, as the developer of the code. XQuery, under development by...

RefShare, a solution for dissemination of research, is available as a new module of RefWorks.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... RefShare, a solution for dissemination of research, is available as a new module of RefWorks, the Web-based bibliographic management service [775/327-4105; www.refworks.com].

Oxford Journals announced its latest open access (OA) project, Oxford Open.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Oxford Journals announced its latest open access (OA) project, Oxford Open. Beginning in July 2005, it will offer an optional author-pays model for a range of Oxford Journals titles. It has also amended its post-prints policy to be compliant...

Swets Information Services announced that CSIRO PUBLISHING's entire electronic journal collection is now available to Chinese users via a rapid broadband connection to SwetsWise Online Content.(China Education and Research Network)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Swets Information Services announced that CSIRO PUBLISHING's entire electronic journal collection is now available to Chinese users via a rapid broadband connection to SwetsWise Online Content. In 2004, Swets forged a deal with CERNET, the...

Mistaken assertions about public library of science.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: In his recent article ("Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled," March/April 2005, pp. 30-35), David Stern makes a number of mistaken assertions about both the Public Library of Science...

Stern's response to PLoS.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: I am impressed that a number of significant funding organizations now endorse direct subsidies by authors and actually provide funding for such peer review and distribution fees. While this demonstrates a trend toward direct...

Open access follies.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: At last, a library director who clearly articulates the folly of hoping that OA will somehow solve the problem of inflated, unsustainable journal costs. The problem for academic libraries is real, but OA is not the answer....

Not Physical Review B: a Stern correction.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: In response to the e-mail from Mark Doyle on Tue, 5 Apr 2005, posted to the LibLicense discussion list [www.library.yale.edu/_llicense/ListArchives/0504/msg00389.html], Mark is correct, the numbers in my ONLINE article for...

A9.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(launch of OpenSearch initiative)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... A9 launched its OpenSearch initiative [http://opensearch.a9. coral, which expands its vertical results column options to include a wide variety of other databases. Knowledgeable users can even create their own. With well over 150 new search...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(new search toolbar)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ask Jeeves now has a search toolbar that works in Mozilla Firefox. Once installed, the toolbar lets a user search Ask Jeeves, save pages to MyJeeves, save locations, and snip content from Web pages. It is also to be bought out by Barry Diller's...

Clusty.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Vivisomo adds political news websites)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Clusty, the clustering metasearch engine from Vivisimo, has added two new tabs: one for government and one for jobs. The government tab includes FirstGov, a collection of think tanks, and U.S. political news sites. Greg R. Notess...

Dogpile.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Dogpile, the metasearch engine, announced that it will be adding MSN Search to Google, Ask Jeeves, and Yahoo! later this year. With that addition, Dogpile will be the only major metasearch engine to include the current four primary search...

Feedster.(enhancement of search engines)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Feedster updated its advanced searching capabilities and revised its help file. It includes full Boolean, four different wildcard characters, proximity searching with the ability to specify how close the terms should be, number range searching,...

FindArticles.(enhanced service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... FindArticles has been redesigned and now includes over 5 million articles from more than 1,000 publications. Some are still free, but many are now fee-based, from Gale's Goliath ($9.95 per article), Highbeam ($2.95 per article), or KeepMedia...

Gigablast.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Gigablast added the Open Directory, along with the ability to search for entries within a category and to search all sites listed within the directory category. Gigablast also added related pages in its results. These appear in a yellow box...

Google.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Google now offers the ability to save a search history. This requires establishing an account and an initial login to www.google.com/searchhistory, after which Google history remembers you. The history keeps a record of searches and the sites...

Google Maps.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Google Maps added satellite photos from Keyhole for the U.S. and Canada, along with the ability to toggle between the street map view and the satellite imagery. The date of the satellite imagery is not included. Google Local and Maps have been...

Google Scholar.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(open uniform resource locator linking academic institutions)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Google Scholar expanded its pilot program and now can add OpenURL linking for many academic institutions. Many OpenURL vendors now offer the Google Scholar configuration that can include the IP addresses for the campus so that users will...

Ixquick.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(redesigned version of metasearch engine)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ixquick launched a redesigned version of its metasearch engine. It offers a re-engineered algorithm, an updated user interface, an international phone directory, and results honing that lets users remove certain results from the list. Ixquick...

Yahoo!(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(enhancing search on the Internet)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Yahoo! now searches stop words within a phrase search so that phrase searches will match more exactly, even on words like "a" and "in." While good for phrase searching, this means that Yahoo! can no longer search for a wildcard word within a...

Yahoo! My Web.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(expansion of specific web pages)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Yahoo! My Web has expanded on the My Yahoo! Search launched last fall. With the new My Web version, you can save a cached copy of specific Web pages. It still includes the search history, an ability to add notes to saved pages, and folder...

Yahoo! Creative Commons Search.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Yahoo! Creative Commons Search is now available [http:// search.yahoo.com/ce]. This searches for Web content that has a Creative Commons license--text, pictures, music, and video that the creator allows others to use without asking for...

Blog searching for competitive intelligence, brand image, and reputation management: do you know what is being said about you in the blogosphere? Should you care? Aren't blogs just for kids, political campaigns, and geeks, of no value in business? If you think this, you're likely missing out on an increasingly powerful information source.
July 1, 2005... Why have blogs, which are simply Web pages with reverse chronologically arranged individual posts, become so powerful? According to David Sifry of Technorati [www. sifry, com/alerts/archives/ 000298.html], the number of blogs has been doubling...

Envisioning the environment: the U.S. EPA Web site.(United States Environmental Protection Agency)
July 1, 2005... As corporate librarians, we've all been there--the vague research request on a scientific topic that is outside the realm of our everyday areas of expertise. But when that request concerns human health and the environment, a seemingly ordinary...

Web-based chat vs. instant messaging: who wins?
July 1, 2005... A lot of people are talking about instant messaging (IM) reference. Heck, we're two of them. The veteran in the arena of real-time online reference is Web-based chat. Many states or other library cooperatives have collaborative Web-based chat...

Copyright clearances: library copying in the digital age.
July 1, 2005... Consider the following scenario. A patron asks you, a librarian, to download a journal article that is part of a database with which the library maintains a license agreement. In the past, the patron has made similar requests. Although you have...

Yeah, but can you search audio?(recent trends in speech analytics)
July 1, 2005... Numerous technological advances over the past 10 to 15 years have allowed information professionals to become quite skilled at organizing and retrieving information--when it's in textual or numeric form. While there will always be room for...

Scholarly Web searching: Google Scholar and Scirus.(analysis)
July 1, 2005... Google introduced a brand-new concept with Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com]--specialized search aimed at finding scholarly information on the Web. With an initial focus on research articles from publishers participating in the...

Flying into aviation information.
July 1, 2005... The aviation industry is ubiquitous. People fly on airplanes. They invest in airline companies. They worry about route changes, the impact of corporate bankruptcies and mergers, security, and whether there will be any food on board. They look...

Firefox and future dangers: the open and closed of it.(pc monitor)
July 1, 2005... What the heck is Firefox? A year ago, that was a reasonable question. Six months ago, it would suggest you didn't spend much time online. Now--well, I suppose there's some of you who don't know that Mozilla Firefox is the hottest Internet...

The many forms of E-collaboration: blogs, wikis, portals, portals, discussion boards, and instant messaging.
July 1, 2005... [The Web is] an information space through which people van communicate, but communicate in a special way: communicate by sharing their knowledge in a pool. The idea was not just that it should be a big browsing medium. The idea was that...

Fast track link resolver at Stanford University: a content engineering success story.
July 1, 2005... Ever in search of library success stories, I found myself on the Stanford University campus on an especially warm, early spring day looking for a parking space. Surely, these are the days that people remember fondly about campus...

SAGE journals on HighWire Press, DLIST, FindArticles.(evaluation of the websites)
July 1, 2005... One of my picks this issue is the SAGE journals archive hosted by HighWire Press. Its outstanding software and free abstracts represent the first significant social science subset amid HighWire's huge science and medicine journal archives. The...

Web site redesign: knowing when it's time.(web site management)
July 1, 2005... How do you know when it's time to redesign a Web site? Is there some magical milestone, at 1- to 2-year intervals? Maybe some tidy equation that can be applied? Similar to when you know it's time to change the oil in your car? Although...

Recommended reading on the Internet, CSS, library management, and human-computer interaction.(Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction)(Internet Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Going Online)(The Accidental Library Manager)(The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Now that it's midway through 2005, I have another eclectic mix of books to tell you about. Most have a technical slant. First, there's how to deal with many of the things that annoy us when we use the Internet, then it's on to CSS (cascading...

Getting directions from strangers.(online spotlight)
July 1, 2005... One of the odd aspects of being a recovering librarian is that I still exude the air of authority that all reference librarians share. People ask me for help at the hardware store. Fellow dog owners ask me for advice in training dogs (and if...