Online articles from July 2006

Online archives from July 2006

Customer service, information professionals, and Library 2.0.(homepage)
July 1, 2006... There is nothing more disconcerting than walking into your office first thing in the morning and discovering that your Internet connection has vanished. This happened to me the other day, and, I confess, I felt a moment of panic. I don't even...

Historical annual reports on ProQuest.(financial report)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... ProQuest has digitized the annual reports for more than 700 top U.S. companies, dating back to the mid- 1800s. This 160 years of historical data not only provides financial information but insights into corporate name changes, mergers and...

Rightsphere from CCC.(industry news)(Copyright Clearance Center)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The Copyright Clearance Center now offers an information management tool to help organizations' employees determine what reproduction rights they have for particular titles. Rightsphere delivers this information directly to the desktop so that...

Vivisimo, Inc. announced the release of Velocity Universal Connect.(plug-and-play connectivity)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Vivisimo, Inc. announced the release of Velocity Universal Connect, which provides plug-and-play connectivity to third-party search and content application connectors [www.vivisimo. com].

Internet Archive announced the latest release of Archive-It 1.5, a subscription-based archiving service geared toward a broad range of institutions.(Web sites)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Internet Archive announced the latest release of Archive-It 1.5, a subscription-based archiving service geared toward a broad range of institutions. Archive-It enables subscribers to capture, categorize, and preserve online material from their...

RLG and OCLC merge.(industry news)(Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Research Libraries Group)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... OCLC and RLG announced their intention to merge. However, as many observers have noted, the merger is more a case of OCLC's taking over RLG. RLG's online products and services will be integrated with OCLC products and services, and RLG's...

H.W. Wilson's Art Full Text now features full-text coverage back to 2000 for Art in America, Antiques, and five Oxford University Press journals.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
July 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson's Art Full Text now features full-text coverage back to 2000 for Art in America, Antiques, and five Oxford University Press journals. Full-text coverage for additional journals, including six titles from Intellect, Ltd., has been...

The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available in full text back to January 2001 on WilsonWeb's Education Full Text database.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available in full text back to January 2001 on WilsonWeb's Education Full Text database. Content is supplemented with page images. The Chronicle has also been added to Thomson Gale's InfoTrac service,...

Westlaw Graphical Statutes from Thomson West features a display of a statute's history.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Westlaw Graphical Statutes from Thomson West features a display of a statute's history that will help researchers, including law students, more easily see a statute's past, present, and proposed changes [651/ 848-7576; www.thomson.com].

A new strategic content-sharing agreement between Thomson West and ALM, a legal journalism and information company, will bring content from ALM's publications, newsletters, and litigation resources exclusively to Westlaw.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A new strategic content-sharing agreement between Thomson West and ALM, a legal journalism and information company, will bring content from ALM's publications, newsletters, and litigation resources exclusively to Westlaw. LexisNexis no longer...

Shin Nippon Hoki Shuppan K.K. and The Thomson Corp. have signed a joint venture agreement establishing Westlaw Japan K.K.(state-of-the-art online service )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Shin Nippon Hoki Shuppan K.K. and The Thomson Corp. have signed a joint venture agreement establishing Westlaw Japan K.K., a business that will develop a new, state-of-the-art online service created expressly for the world's second-largest...

LexisNexis Canada announced a new version of the LexisNexis Quicklaw online legal research service.(provide access to collections of court )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... LexisNexis Canada announced a new version of the LexisNexis Quicklaw online legal research service. Combining comprehensive content with an updated look and feel, it will provide access to collections of court and administrative tribunal...

DialogLink 5.(Sci-Tech)
July 1, 2006... DialogLink 5 now allows researchers to conduct a chemical structure search in multiple drug pipeline files simultaneously. This chemical structure searching also includes substructure highlighting in retrieved records, as well as the ability to...

Questel*Orbit announced the release of FamPat Plus, a full-text key content enhancement to its international patent database.(linguistic technology)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Questel*Orbit announced the release of FamPat Plus, a full-text key content enhancement to its international patent database, FamPat, offering users more focused, searchable, and displayable content. It uses Lingway's linguistic technology...

The American Institute of Physics (ALP) announced the launch of the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL).(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The American Institute of Physics (ALP) announced the launch of the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL), which consolidates the core publications of ECS into a single resource [516/576-2440; www.aip.prg].

LexisNexis U.S. and REEDFAX announced that Patent File Histories can now be ordered directly from lexis.com.(lexis.com patent search results)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. and REEDFAX announced that Patent File Histories can now be ordered directly from lexis.com patent search results [www.reedfax.com; www.lexisnexis.com].

Blackwell Publishing announced the launch of its Journal Backfile Digitization Program.(issues will be digitized)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Blackwell Publishing announced the launch of its Journal Backfile Digitization Program. All issues will be digitized for at least 500 journals over the next 2-1/2 years, comprising approximately 6.5 million pages [www.blackwell.com].

NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, has signed a distribution agreement that will make all Springer Science+Business Media journal titles available.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, has signed a distribution agreement that will make all Springer Science+Business Media journal titles available through NetLibrary's Electronic Collections Online service [www.netlibrary.com/...

AsianCIS credit reports, previously only available through the Consultancy service, are now available on SkyMinder in the Credit Info function.(Business & Finance)
July 1, 2006... AsianCIS credit reports, previously only available through the Consultancy service, are now available on SkyMinder in the Credit Info function. Asian Company Profiles Ltd. provides online business information, specializing in credit reporting...

Jupitermedia Corp. sold its JupiterResearch division for $10.1 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities, to JupiterKagan, Inc.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Jupitermedia Corp. sold its JupiterResearch division for $10.1 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities, to JupiterKagan, Inc., a portfolio company of MCG Capital Corp. [www.jupitermedia.com].

Thomson Pharma.(Supplementary Protection Certificate)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Thomson Pharma will now display comprehensive Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) expiration dates. Considered the European equivalent of Hatch Waxman, the U.S. law that allows patent extensions to compensate for time lost while a...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(launch of Communities@Ovid)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of Communities@Ovid--a Web development service focused on providing medical specialty societies with a comprehensive suite of organization-building online tools, content, and functionality....

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. and i-Upload announced a new partnership enabling publishers, corporations, and other organizations seeking to use social media technologies to build communities, increase revenues, and allow users to create, capture, and share information.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... NewsGator Technologies, Inc. and i-Upload announced a new partnership enabling publishers, corporations, and other organizations seeking to use social media technologies to build communities, increase revenues, and allow users to create,...

RefWorks.(Current Awareness)
July 1, 2006... Recent enhancements to RefWorks now enable its use as a tool to organize RSS feeds from multiple sources. In addition, RefWorks provides integration with PubMed [301/961-6700; www.refworks.com].

LexisNexis announced that blog content via Blogs on Demand from Newstex will be available on a licensed basis.(Newstex Blogs On Demand)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... LexisNexis announced that blog content via Blogs on Demand from Newstex will be available on a licensed basis. Separately, Newstex added blog content from Gawker Media and Corante to Blogs On Demand, which offers blog networks and individual...

EBSCOhost Search and Journal Alerts are now available as RSS Enabled Alerts.(Current Awareness)
July 1, 2006... EBSCOhost Search and Journal Alerts are now available as RSS Enabled Alerts. Printing, e-mailing, and saving in standard industry citation formats is also available [800/653-2726; www.ebsco.com].

ProQuest Information and Learning will bring the full text of The Globe and Mail to the company's online databases.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning will bring the full text of The Globe and Mail to the company's online databases, including ProQuest Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, International Newsstand, and eLibrary Canada Curriculum Edition...

CABI announced the launch of CAB Abstracts Plus, which expands researchers' access to online information on animal science, nutrition, plant science, agriculture, and the environment by bringing together a range of full-text material.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... CABI announced the launch of CAB Abstracts Plus, which expands researchers' access to online information on animal science, nutrition, plant science, agriculture, and the environment by bringing together a range of full-text material, including...

EBSCO.(library to display virtually any customized content )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... EBSCO announced the availability of EBSCO A-to-Z in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Latin American Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. EBSCO A-to-Z has also been enhanced with a new feature, allowing a library to display...

MSN.(senior vice president)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Previously the CEO of Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz joined MSN's online business group as its senior vice president.

Marketresearch.com.(new presidents)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The new president of Marketresearch.com is Charles W. (Charlie) Terry, previously CEO of Comtex.

LexisNexis.(promoted Michael Walsh to president)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... LexisNexis promoted Michael Walsh to president and CEO of LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets.

Ingenta.(Louise Tutton to the newly created head of client management position)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Ingenta named Louise Tutton to the newly created head of client management position, reporting directly to IngentaConnect vice president Douglas Wright.

National Archive Publishing Co. (NAPC) announced that Bennett Lovett-Graff joined the company as publisher.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... National Archive Publishing Co. (NAPC) announced that Bennett Lovett-Graff joined the company as publisher for the NAPC Content Solutions service.

American Psychological Association.(Peopleware)(appointed Janice L. Fleming)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The psycINFO unit of the American Psychological Association appointed Janice L. Fleming to the position of director of business and planning, reporting to senior director Linda Beebe.

Public Printer of the United States Bruce James will retire from his post as head of the U.S. Government Printing Office, to be effective when a new Public Printer is chosen.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Public Printer of the United States Bruce James will retire from his post as head of the U.S. Government Printing Office, to be effective when a new Public Printer is chosen. The U.S. Government Printing Office is creating two new business...

Factiva and ProQuest Information and Learning have expanded their existing partnership into Latin America.(channel partner to the corporate and government sectors )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Factiva and ProQuest Information and Learning have expanded their existing partnership into Latin America, where ProQuest will now serve as Factiva.com's channel partner to the corporate and government sectors [www. factiva.com;...

Knovel Corp. announced a new partnership with World Scientific Publishing that includes its medicine, science, and technology publications.(World Scientific Publishing)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Knovel Corp. announced a new partnership with World Scientific Publishing that includes its medicine, science, and technology publications. Some titles will De made interactive using Knovel's analytical tools that calculate data, resolve...

Information Today, Inc.(Corporate Giving Directory and Foundation )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Information Today, Inc. acquired Corporate Giving Directory and Foundation Reporter from Thomson Gale.

A9.(Web database from Google to MSN)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A9 changed its Web database from Google to MSN (although it is labeled Live.com, which is more of a different front end to the MSN Search database than a different underlying database). The image search, also formerly powered by Google, has...

AlltheWeb.(Livesearch technology on AlltheWeb)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... AlltheWeb has been dormant since it was bought by Yahoo! Now Yahoo! is experimenting with its new Livesearch technology on AlltheWeb [http://livesearch.alltheweb.com]. Based on the Instant Search experiment at Yahoo! and somewhat similar to...

Ask.(Ask.com site)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Ask expanded its European presence with country-specific sites for the U.K., Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany. Ask also added Japan. The country versions have fewer features than the main Ask.com site, but each has a language...

Exalead.(Web search engine)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Exalead, the only Web search engine with proximity searching, added greater flexibility to its NEAR operator, which allows for terms within 16 words of each other. To get more specific proximity, use NEAR followed by a slash and then a more...

Google Desktop has been updated to version 4 and includes greater personalization options.(Google searches by popularity and to view statistics on volume, news, geography, and language)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Google Desktop has been updated to version 4 and includes greater personalization options. Google Co-op lets searchers and organizations label Web pages and create specialized links focused on particular subject areas. Google Notebook can be...

Google Book Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Google Book Search has changed its results display. Each record now lists the type of viewing restrictions for the book. At least four options are being used. Full View covers books that can be viewed in their entirety, presumably...

Google Maps.(search engine)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Google Maps is back under the name of Google Maps. Merged several months ago into Google Local, the map function remained available but with local search branding. Due to the popularity of the map function, Google retreated and brought back the...

Google News.(search engine update)
July 1, 2006... Google News now has the ability to add Google Suggest. To try it, go to http://news.google.com/news?complete=1 to see dropdown suggestions specific to the news database as you type. Currently, this works only in the English-language Google news...

Google Scholar.(search engine update)
July 1, 2006... Google Scholar added a limit for "recent articles." Unfortunately, it is not precisely a date sort or limit. Instead, it uses several criteria to rank articles from the past 5 years or so. Given the way the criteria are ranked, it is easy for...

Windows Live.(Microsoft Corp. new brand for its next generation search engine)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Windows Live, Microsoft's new brand for its next-generation search engine, continues to add experimental features. Search macros let users create specialized search operations and limits and then save them as macros. Searchers can also look for...

Windows Live Academic.(http://academic.live.com )(Live.com)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Windows Live Academic from Microsoft has launched at http://academic.live.com and as a tab at Live.com. This competitor to Google Scholar is only in its early stages. At this point, it is focused on journal articles from CrossRef and other...

Yahoo!(Babel Fish translation service available from Yahoo)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Yahoo! has ported Babel Fish from AltaVista, where it has resided for years, and the Babel Fish translation service is now directly available from Yahoo! [http://babelfish.yahoo.com]. It is also available as a button on the Yahoo! toolbar and...

Yahoo! Maps.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Yahoo! Maps added global satellite imagery to its Maps beta. The map view now gives options for maps, satellite, and hybrid. The satellite imagery is more detailed in the U.S. lower 48 states, but there is worldwide coverage at less-detailed...

Virtual reference: in the age of pop-up blockers, firewalls, and service pack 2.
July 1, 2006... Real-time virtual reference (VR) has been around for several years. Although it has become standard in our libraries and widely discussed in the professional literature, the evidence indicates that libraries are not satisfied with the service....

Getting the lead (information) out! Lead poisoning: It's a preventable environmental disease--and information about it is both readily available and free.(children affected by lead poisoning)
July 1, 2006... Children, especially the youngest ones, do not show any overt symptoms or signs that they have been exposed to chronic, low levels of lead from the environments where they live or play. Medical surveys estimate that about 3 million children...

Anthropology, taxonomies, and publishing.(classification of words)
July 1, 2006... Anthropologists are exceptional taxonomists: They classify not butterflies or minerals, but human cultures. To do this, they need to identify and understand the concepts people use to order their world, observe how those concepts are used in...

Web citation: a proposal standardized specification: this paper proposes a new standard in HTML/XHTML for creating accurate citations. This is an original proposal by the authors, who are requesting comments for review.
July 1, 2006... AS every librarian knows, it is difficult for students and scholars alike to cite Web pages accurately in their footnotes and bibliographies. It is not for lack of trying. The multitude of citation styles--AP, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian--and...

Choosing databases for sociology studies: SocINDEX or sociological abstracts?(SocINDEX(new database))
July 1, 2006... When EBSCO announced its new database, SocINDEX, in April 2005, it complicated librarians' lives by adding a competitor to CSA's Sociological Abstracts, a long-standing favorite in university libraries. EBSCO's new product presented librarians...

Web-based software and the new deskstops on the Web.(desktop accessories on the net)
July 1, 2006... One outcome of the Web 2.0 movement and its Ajax offspring (discussed in my May/June 2006 ONLINE column) is that a number of Web sites now offer Web-based software. These products are surprisingly easy to use, include collaborative features,...

Finance portals and their impact on information professionals.(the dollar sign and dollar effect on information professionals.)
July 1, 2006... That the Internet has democratized information is not in doubt. It's the enormous promise that the Web brings to ordinary people--no barriers between them and information. Information professionals sometimes react to this promise with...

The time has come for visual search.(information strategist)
July 1, 2006... Visual search, the ability to review results graphically, has been on the horizon for quite some time. Industry prophets, those who stay awake until 2 or 3 a.m. exploring the most esoteric Web sites, have been pointing to graphical results as a...

Doing the monster Mashup.(services of mashup(remixed websites))
July 1, 2006... Mashups are springing up like mushrooms all over the Internet. The term mashup originated in the world of pop music to describe remixing two or more tracks to create a new song. Mashups for the Web combine two or more independent, possibly...

Standards and "standards"--where would your PC be without them?(pc monitor,computer peripherals standards)
July 1, 2006... Did you use a USB flash/key/thumb drive today? If so, you probably plugged it into your running computer; saw the new drive letter appear; read from, wrote to, or operated programs from the drive; and then removed it. Maybe you used the...

Content management systems as "silver bullets".(website management)(Column)
July 1, 2006... Many years ago, when tasked with implementing a Web content management system (CMS), my marching orders were clear: Put in place a system that makes Web page development/management easy, makes adoption of the brand via a standard template...

ebrary Discover, LISTA, Information World Review archives.(peter's picks & pans)(Library and Information Science and Technology Abstracts(database))
July 1, 2006... One of the picks is the ebrary Discover service, which offers the option of free reading (viewing) of nearly 30,000 books from renowned publishers. The other pick is the entirely open access LISTA (Library and Information Science & Technology...

RFID Essentials.(book review)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... **** RFID Essentials by Bill Glover and Himanshu Bhatt ISBN: 0-596-00944-5 Published: 2006 Pages: 260 pp.; softcover Price: $39.99 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N., Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/998-9938 or 707/827...

Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections.(book review)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... *** Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections by Audrey Fenner ISBN: 978 0-7890-2834-1 Published: 2006 Pages: 204 pp.: softcover Price: 829.95 Available from: Haworth Information Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY...

Blogosphere: Best of the Blogs.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... **** Blogosphere: Best of the Blogs by Peter Kuhns and Adrienne Crew ISBN: 0-7897-3525-3 Published: 2006 Pages: 320 pp.; softcover Price: $14.95 Available from: Que Publishing, 800 East 96th St., Indianapolis, IN 46240; 800/382-3419;...

Web Site Cookbook.(book review )(Book review)
July 1, 2006... *** Web Site Cookbook by Doug Addison ISBN: 0-596 10109-0 Published: 2006 Pages: 261 pp.; softcover Price: $39.99 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N., Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/998-9938 or 707/827 7000; www.oreilly.com...

When short-term memory isn't enough.(National Security Agency)
July 1, 2006... As I write this, there is much Sturm und Drang over the fact that several telecom companies gave out records of telephone calls to the National Security Agency. And the Transportation Security Agency has started offering its Registered Traveler...