Online articles from March 1995

Online archives from March 1995

A new online world. (access to the Internet becomes easier)(The Inverted File)(Editorial)
March 1, 1995... Revelation. Epiphany. Watershed. Call it what you like, but I couldn't stop talking about my direct connection to the Internet--to the envy of my Internet-impaired friends. After our ONLINE/CD-ROM '94 conference and the success and technical...

Private company information service launched. (Avenue Technologies' new Private Company Profile service. (Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Avenue Technologies, recently acquired by DataTimes Corporation, announced a new service to provide private company information by online (through DataTimes' new EyeQ service), fax, and mail. Launched jointly by Avenue Technologies and FORTUNE...

Butterworth USA and Michie to join forces. (Butterworth Legal Publishers and The Michie Company to combine into Michie Butterworth)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Butterworth Legal Publishers and The Michie Company, two units of Reed Elsevier Inc., jointly announced plans to combine the two legal publishing companies into a new company called Michie Butterworth. The new company, with combined 1995 sales...

Moody's acquires Docutronics. (Moody's Investors Service acquires Docutronics Information Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Moody's Investors Service announced the acquisition of Docutronics Information Services, an SEC, court, library, and federal agency document research and retrieval service located in New York and Washington, DC. Moody's Financial Information...

Electronic newsletters track emerging technologies. (MicroPatent introduces World Patent Alert)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... MicroPatent has introduced World Patent Alert (WPA), a series of 32 electronic newsletters tracking emerging technology developments worldwide. According to MicroPatent, the WPA newsletters offer users fully searchable information on U.S.,...

RLG moving to new network technology. (Research Libraries Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) is moving its online services to Internet Protocol-based networking (TCP/IP). RLG will offer a trio of new options for accessing all of its bibliographic databases and its library support system, the...

Microsoft plans full Internet access through Windows 95. (Windows 95 operating system)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Microsoft Corporation recently outlined plans to offer full Internet capability to customers of the Windows 95 operating system as part of The Microsoft Network, Microsoft's planned online service. As part of these plans, Microsoft has formed a...

New House of Representatives site on Web. (U.S. House of Representatives introduces World-Wide Web information service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The U.S. House of Representatives recently launched an information service on the World-Wide Web (WWW) at http://wwwhouse.gov. At the site, users can search the full texts of the U.S. Code and the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as follow...

Library of Congress puts POW/MIA documents index on Internet. (prisoners of war, missing in action)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Bibliographic records for government documents on prisoners of war and service personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia have been added to the Library of Congress' offerings on the Internet. The records describe bow researchers may obtain...

Lexis Counsel Connect launches LAWLinks. (law materials available on Internet)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Lexis Counsel Connect (LCC), the online service exclusively for lawyers, has launcHed LAWLinks, a collection of law materials available on the Internet. LAWLinks, located on the World-Wide Web, enables lawyers to research law and browse the vast...

West Publishing materials available on WWW. (Internet access available through World-Wide Web) (Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... West Publishing product and company information, some of which is already accessible on the Internet through the West Publishing gopher, is now available on the World-Wide Web. West materials, available with hypertext links on WWW, include the...

Pulling the Internet together with Mosaic. (Mosaic online search software)(includes three related articles)
March 1, 1995... You know the feeling if you've tried it. If you're use to the manicured world of commercial online services, a step onto the Internet is like leaving the garden path and heading off into the wilderness. However, in just over a year, an...

The Draper Gopher. (online searching software developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Library)
March 1, 1995... March 1993...a library staff member comments during a monthly staff meeting about a new computer tool that has been discussed in the professional literature. "Gopher is the name, I think," the staff member mentions... March 1994... a staff...

Travelers on the Internet; a survey of Internet users.
March 1, 1995... Who could possibly have imagined being able to travel on a lunar shuttle to the moon, examine great works of art, view movie clips, market your products to a world of consumers or connect with businessmen, scholars and researchers around the...

Comparing Web browsers: Mosaic, Cello, Netscape, WinWeb and InternetWorks Life. (World-Wide Web Internet searching software)
March 1, 1995... One of the reasons to make the transition from a terminal account to a direct connections account is to be able to run a fully multimedia-capable World-Wide Web client. For most users, until the summer of 1994, that meant running NCSA's Mosaic,...

Net Sitings: a net explorer's log.(Column)
March 1, 1995... Welcome to ONLINE's newest column. NET SITINGS Will appear in each issue, written by the skilled net navigator and trainer, John Makulowich. Each month NET SITINGS will highlight 10 or 12 important or interesting net sites. We hope you will clip...

Seminars for searchers. (professional seminars for online information searchers)
March 1, 1995... When I travel to foreign countries and people ask me where I'm from, I no longer receive quizzical looks when I say, "Seattle." Now everyone seems to know my city well, and I know they've seen Sleepless in Seattle. Seattlites' biggest fear is...

10 ways to control DIALOG Alert costs. (using DIALOG Information Services Inc. Alert features)
March 1, 1995... Current awareness alerts are becoming one of the corporate librarian's most powerful tools. With planning, you can provide this very effective and popular service to a large number of clients. A successful current awareness program depends not...

The two worlds of online.
March 1, 1995... ONLINE is excited to introduce a new column about consumer online services, written by long-time industry observer and searcher, Mick O'Leary. In his first column here, O'Leary sets forth his insights on why searchers need to be cognizant of this...

Database finding tools: the never-ending search for the perfect file.(The Dollar Sign)
March 1, 1995... The biggest challenge facing business searchers is not how to structure a query, but how to identify the best database in which to run that query. When asked a question, searchers need to think about where the information might be found before...

Viewing, downloading and printing online images, Part: 3 using PROCOMM Plus. (includes related article)(Output Options)
March 1, 1995... This column is the third in a continuing discussion of Windows search software that allows images to be viewed online, downloaded and printed. Part 1 appeared in the November 1994 issue of ONLINE. It introduced issues and procedures in...

What is it and are we there yet? (client-server computer architecture)(includes related article)
March 1, 1995... Client-server computing. Client-server architecture. Downsizing by utilizing client-server systems. Client-server is the model for the future. The organization is moving towards a client-server strategy. This is a client-server application. Of...

Online talks with John Jenkins of Questel-Orbit.(Interview)
March 1, 1995... Editor's Note: In March 1994, Questel acquired Orbit Online Information, part of InfoPro Technologies, formerly part of Maxwell Online, and so on back to its origin under Systems Development Corp. [1]. The merged company is known as...

Microsoft Network and Interchange: changing online metaphors. (changes in online services)
March 1, 1995... Microsoft Network borrows much from existing online services, but philosophically its design is very unlike the companies with which it plans to compete. That difference is both the strength and the weakness of Microsoft's recently announced...

Mimicry software; a new option for electronic document delivery and transfer.
March 1, 1995... Don't reach for your computer dictionary. The term "mimicry software" describes a new genre of software that may solve the most nagging problem in electronic document delivery today. Mimicry software mimics--through free viewer programs--the look...

The PC as an asset: tracking your investment. (maintaining inventory records of personal computers)
March 1, 1995... Computers represent a major capital investment for most organizations. Despite the continually dropping cost of megabytes and megahertz, PCs are not cheap. Constant changes in technology, as well as wear and tear, dictate that they be replaced...

CD-ROM at ten years; the technology and the industry mature. (includes two related articles)
March 1, 1995... When CD-ROM was first introduced in the winter of 1985, drives cost $2000 each and only about a dozen titles were available for sale. Believe it or not, most of these were developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation who, along with...

Library of Congress on CD-ROM.(CD-ROM Report)
March 1, 1995... This column continues the theme of "the database is the thing" with a look at two Library of Congress products that combine vast data resources with low price in the first instance and an attractive Windows interface in the second. (See CD-ROM...

IEE develops Internet services. (Institution of Electrical Engineers)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) has developed Internet World-Wide Web and gopher services, offering a range of information including Institution news, events, membership, library services, and details of INSPEC, the IEE's Publishing...

e.World cuts pricing, adds Internet support and Dow Jones business and financial news. (Apple Computer's e.World online service) (Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Apple Computer's online service, e*World, recently announced it is cutting the hourly cost of the service from $4.95 to $2.95, and has doubled the hours subscribers receive for the monthly $8.95 fee to four hours (U.S. and Canada). International...

Business Week Online debuts on AOL.(America Online)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Business Week announced the launch of Business Week Online on the America Online service (AOL). Each week, Business Week Online will provide access to all domestic and international edition content on Thursday night, before the magazine hits the...

Philips and Sony propose specifications for high-density CD. (Philips Electronics, Sony Corp. propose new standards)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Philips Electronics and Sony Corporation jointly have released their official specifications for a 12cm high-density multimedia CD. The Philips/Sony high-density CD will be able to store approximately 3.7GB of data. This storage capacity--more...

CD-ROM for schools: a directory and practical handbook for media specialists. (R
March 1, 1995... This column takes a critical view of publications of interest to ONLINE readers. ONLINE and its sister publications, DATABASE and CD-ROM Professional, are the only magazines in the industry that formally assign ratings to books that are reviewed....

Paperless publishing.
March 1, 1995... Haynes, Colin. Paperless Publishing. New York: Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1994. 370pp. "Now virtually anyone with a computer has the power to publish... . Publish straight from your computer!" promises the wording on the back cover of this book....

The myth of the electronic library:librarianship and social change in America.
March 1, 1995... Birdsall, William F. The Myth of the Electronic Library: Librarianship and Social Change in America. (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, Number 82). Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. 1994.224pp. The author has created a...