Online articles from July 2008

Online archives from July 2008

Search is not static.(home page)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2008... When I contemplate the phenomenon of search, which I do frequently, it's usually in the context of research using resources external to the enterprise. Even extending my contemplations to enterprise search, I am still struck by its dynamic...

Dow Jones acquires Generate.(industry news)(Dow Jones & Company Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Dow Jones acquired Generate, Inc. for an undisclosed price and placed it in a new business unit, Business & Relationship Intelligence, which is part of Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group (EMG). Generate's technology uses next-generation social...

InfoUSA name change.(industry news)(infoGROUP)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... To reflect its growing international focus, infoUSA has changed its name to infoGROUP in June 2008. The company now has offices in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai (China), complementing its U.S....

AP links to iCopyright.(industry news)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Online users of AP content now have links to iCopyright at the top and bottom of every AP-hosted story so they can easily use, share, and license content instantly. iCopyright is the exclusive licensing agent for AP's hosted content...

2010 Library spending forecast.(industry news)(Outsell, Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Outsell, Inc. forecasts that libraries worldwide will spend $24.7 billion for content by 2010. "The 2008 Library Market Size, Share & Forecast Report," which is the first to analyze the global market for all types of libraries (from traditional...

Thomson Reuters announced the addition of business and news content to Thomson Innovation.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters announced the addition of business and news content to Thomson Innovation. Combining business and news information with patent data and scientific literature, it provides a resource for prior art and competitive intelligence...

LinkedIn.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... LinkedIn introduced a new Company Profile feature within its professional networking platform. The result of a partnership with BusinessWeek.com and Capital IQ, members can now see more than 160,000 profiles of companies on LinkedIn, ranging...

Hoover's, Inc., a D&B company, announced the launch of HOOV Lane, an interactive microsite designed to introduce prospects and existing customers to Hoover's new features and content.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Hoover's, Inc., a D&B company, announced the launch of HOOV Lane, an interactive microsite designed to introduce prospects and existing customers to Hoover's new features and content. Described as a marketing communications portal, it has a...

Thomson Scientific.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific announced that 162 regional social science journals have been added to Web of Science. The newly identified collection contains journals that typically target a regional rather than an international audience by approaching...

Credo Reference has signed an agreement with New York University Press to integrate The New Encyclopedia of Judaism into the Credo General Reference collection.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Credo Reference has signed an agreement with New York University Press to integrate The New Encyclopedia of Judaism into the Credo General Reference collection. This is the first NYU Press title to be available on Credo (www.credo...

EBSCO Publishing released Canadian Points of View Reference Centre, which covers 100 topics presenting an overview, a point, a counterpoint, and a Critical Thinking Guide for each topic.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EBSCO Publishing released Canadian Points of View Reference Centre, which covers 100 topics presenting an overview, a point, a counterpoint, and a Critical Thinking Guide for each topic. The database also includes research material to help...

Berkshire Publishing is now using Exact Editions for immediate online digital access to some of its reference books.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Berkshire Publishing is now using Exact Editions for immediate online digital access to some of its reference books, such as Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports With Supplementary Documents and Statistics...

Elsevier has added new intuitive reference and navigational features to its online STM platform, ScienceDirect.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Elsevier has added new intuitive reference and navigational features to its online STM platform, ScienceDirect. The new features were developed in cooperation with researchers, and they aim to deliver clearer results with fewer clicks....

Association for Computing Machinery.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) introduced several advances to its Digital Library. The new features include detailed Author Profile Pages and citation and usage statistics that provide a snapshot of an individual author's...

Knovel.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Knovel has added 120 new titles to 10 subject areas this year from publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, and NCRP. Twenty-one titles were added to Electrical and Power Engineering; 28 titles were added to Safety and Industrial...

BioMed Central.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... BioMed Central has added the journals Biotechnology for Biofuels, which provides insights into efficient biofuel production, and International Archives of Medicine, an independent journal encompassing all aspects of medical science and clinical...

CAB eBooks.(Biomedical)(CABI Publishing)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... CABI's book collection can now be purchased digitally with the launch of CAB eBooks. Through developing its own web-based portal, CABI can now provide customers with digital copies of its publications dating from 2000 to 2008. More than 140...

Premerus.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Premerus launched a web portal to help patients and their families address the impact of medical misdiagnosis. Billed "as the nation's only company dedicated to advancing clinical accuracy through diagnostic excellence," Premerus provides a...

SearchMedica.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... SearchMedica added electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) data to its GP section. This provides a direct link to eMC above the main SearchMedica results when the search is for either a brand or a generic name (www.search medica.co.uk).

ProQuest.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... ProQuest has appointed John Law to the newly created position of vice president of discovery services. He will oversee business, technical, and project leadership for information solutions aimed at librarians and end users.

BCR.(Peopleware)(Liz Bishoff)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... BCR announced the appointment of Liz Bishoff as director of its newly created digital and preservation services division.

AAP.(Peopleware)(John Tagler is leaving Elsevier )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... John Tagler, who is leaving Elsevier after 30 years, is now AAP's professional and scholarly publishing division's vice president and executive director.

Swets.(Peopleware)(John Dobson)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Swets announced the appointment of John Dobson as national sales manager for the U.S. academic market. He will be developing and executing sales strategies and leading customer relations activities in this market.

Publishing Technology.(Peopleware)(Randy Petway)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Publishing Technology, formed by the merger of VISTA and Ingenta, promoted Randy Petway to executive vice president, strategy and business development. He also joins the executive management team.

The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.(Peopleware)(Ken Garrison)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) announced the appointment of its new executive director Ken Garrison, CAE. Garrison was president of the federation of credit and financial professionals.

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning announced an agreement with VoiceCorp to implement ReadSpeaker for text-to-speech capability within Gale's online databases.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Gale, a part of Cengage Learning announced an agreement with VoiceCorp to implement ReadSpeaker for text-to-speech capability within Gale's online databases. Being used for the first time in the education space, this text-to-speech feature...

EBSCO Publishing has expanded its Shibboleth authentication service to Germany.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EBSCO Publishing has expanded its Shibboleth authentication service to Germany. EBSCO worked with the German Research Network (DFN) to enable universities to access its EBSCOhost research databases via the DFNAAI (Authentication Authorizing...

EBSCO A-to-Z.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... EBSCO also recently strengthened its EBSCO A-to-Z web-based resource locator tool with the addition of a Knowledge Base Change Reports feature, which allows librarians to instantly see titles that have been added or removed from their...

RefWorks announced enhancements to RefAware, its online personal research assistant and monitoring service, and to RefWorks, its web-based research management, writing, and collaboration tool for the academic and research communities.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... RefWorks announced enhancements to RefAware, its online personal research assistant and monitoring service, and to RefWorks, its web-based research management, writing, and collaboration tool for the academic and research communities. RefAware...

H.W. Wilson announced a new guide for librarians concerned with building a collection of materials beyond the bookshelves.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... H.W. Wilson announced a new guide for librarians concerned with building a collection of materials beyond the bookshelves. Nonbook Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide highlights more than 2,300 electronic resources, videos, sound...

Fetch Technologies introduced Fetch Footprint, a new service that leverages the web to help vet employment candidates.(Online Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Fetch Technologies introduced Fetch Footprint, a new service that leverages the web to help vet employment candidates. Using advanced artificial intelligence and deep web extraction technologies, Fetch Footprint will access candidate data from...

PatentCafe.(Legal)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... PatentCafe introduced a new line of patent quality evaluation reports for U.S. patents in patent infringement litigation cases decided by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) following the April 2007 Supreme Court decision in KSR...

Thunderstone Software, LLC announced the availability of new Thunderstone Search Appliance Connectors.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thunderstone Software, LLC announced the availability of new Thunderstone Search Appliance Connectors. Developed in partnership with Persistent Systems, the connectors make it easy for Thunderstone's Search Appliance customers to create...

MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions will partner to deliver the first federated search solution for the Google Search Appliance.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions will partner to deliver the first federated search solution for the Google Search Appliance. Called the All Access Connector, it will enable organizations to search hundreds of millions of content pages from more...

Socialtext.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Socialtext launched two product innovations--Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People--that extend its wiki platform within the enterprise and adapt social networking techniques for business solutions (www.socialtext.com).

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) will provide free access to more than 65 NPG journals for a number of developing world countries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) will provide free access to more than 65 NPG journals for a number of developing world countries. NPG will make its biomedical...

Agricultural publisher CABI has appointed publishing consultancy firm Semantico to redevelop its flagship CAB Direct online delivery platform.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Agricultural publisher CABI has appointed publishing consultancy firm Semantico to redevelop its flagship CAB Direct online delivery platform. Further, CABI has selected Collexis to develop an application to provide expert profiles and trends...

ProQuest and Springer Science+Business Media will collaborate to incorporate deep indexing from Springer journals into CSA Illustrata resources.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... ProQuest and Springer Science+Business Media will collaborate to incorporate deep indexing from Springer journals into CSA Illustrata resources. As a result, researchers will be able to pinpoint relevant research through the indexing of tables,...

Altarama Information Systems has acquired the VRLplus business from the Docutek division of SirsiDynix, Inc. Altarama, a pioneer in digital reference tools, assumed day-to-day responsibility for customer support and product development, aided by former Docutek technical experts.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Altarama Information Systems has acquired the VRLplus business from the Docutek division of SirsiDynix, Inc. Altarama, a pioneer in digital reference tools, assumed day-to-day responsibility for customer support and product development, aided...

OCLC and Google signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google Book Search service.(Alliances & Deals)(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... OCLC and Google signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google Book Search service. The agreement means that OCLC member libraries participating in Google Book Search can share...

Ingenta, a division of Publishing Technology plc, announced a new agreement with Ringgold to license institutional IP data from Ingenta's global access control system, enhancing the 100,000 records in Ringgold's Identify database of institutional identifiers.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Ingenta, a division of Publishing Technology plc, announced a new agreement with Ringgold to license institutional IP data from Ingenta's global access control system, enhancing the 100,000 records in Ringgold's Identify database of...

Financial news and opinion content provider 24/7 Wall St. has acquired two blogs authored by Hisham Ayoub, DMD, a practicing dentist.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Financial news and opinion content provider 24/7 Wall St. has acquired two blogs authored by Hisham Ayoub, DMD, a practicing dentist. At BioHealth Investor he blogs about biotechnology companies, while Volume Spike Investor, now blogged by 24/7...

Search engine update.(Google Inc.)(Yahoo! Inc.)
July 1, 2008... As the corporate side of the search engine world continues to explore mergers, search technology continues to innovate. Microsoft withdrew its offer to buy Yahoo!, although further negotiations may still continue. Yahoo! tried an experiment...

The elements of advanced search.(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'D GUESS that most ONLINE readers consider themselves advanced searchers and take advantage of advanced search options and techniques. However, even (especially?) for those well-versed in a topic, it is useful to...

Researching the current banking and lending crises.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "RUN ON THE BANK": It seems like a phrase that would only be searched by academic librarians doing research on the Great Depression. However, a search of all publications on Factiva reveals at least 450 mentions of...

Applying Google Mini search appliance for document discoverability.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INNOVATION in the workplace doesn't necessarily presuppose having a large budget and a detailed strategic plan. Both are undoubtedly helpful, but sometimes simply being alert to unanticipated opportunities is every...

Scitopia: worthy effort; worth your effort?
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scitopia.org is a freely available, web-based federated search portal. It is focused on discovering the peer-reviewed intellectual capital (publications, conference papers, technical reports, and patents) of some of...

Bringing the past to the present.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Newspaper digitization is exploding. As we move through the first decade of the 21st century, the number of digital newspaper initiatives is growing rapidly, which brings the past firmly into our electronic present....

Investigating outsourcing and offshoring research.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The question of whether or not to outsource research is hardly new. A hot topic of discussion in the early 1990s, it seemed to be the new direction for large U.S. and global companies. Some companies have been...

Searching the twitter realm.(on the net)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Since the early days of the internet, technology has developed in one of two areas: enabling communication and providing information resources. For all the wonders of the many net communication options, from email to Facebook and ytalk to...

Winning the commodities research game.(the dollar sign)
July 1, 2008... Commodities have been in the news a lot lately. Some of the stories are overtly about commodities--the high price of gasoline and grocery stores' rice rationing are two that come to mind. Thoughtful opinion pieces consider whether scientific...

Information literacy meets adult learners.(infolit land)
July 1, 2008... A phone call, out of the blue, from a 52-year-old woman finishing a bachelor's degree in a night program at an unspecified institution brought the issue of information literacy for adult learners to my attention. She was taking a course for...

OECD.Stat, Astrophysics Data System, Wiley-Blackwell.(peter's picks & pans)
July 1, 2008... The picks include the new, promising OECD.Stat, which functions not merely as a portal but as a sophisticated, state-of-the-art federated search engine for the many statistical data sets created by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation &...

Open access: it's never simple.(crawford at large)(Column)
July 1, 2008... I'M assuming you know what open access (OA) is--or at least you think you do. If not, this column isn't the best place to start. Peter Suber offers a good overview (www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview .htm)--it's 11 print pages long, but it...

Recommended reading on training, virtual reference, and web design.(hard copy)(The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries)(Teaching Information Literacy: A Conceptual Approach)(Virtual Reference Service: From Competencies to Assessment)(Visual Design for the Modern Web)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... This month I look at books on training for both technology and information literacy, on virtual reference, and on visual web design. *** 1/2 The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries by Stephanie Gerding ISBN:...

From buggy whips to 'transportation enhancement technology'.(online spotlight)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2008... I spent this spring going to a lot of info pro conferences and talking to a lot of people who feel that their jobs--if not their profession--are in jeopardy. The economy is tight, jobs are tighter, and no one understands why the information...