Online articles from March 1999

Online archives from March 1999

The New Database Aggregators.
March 1, 1999... ... the library reorganizes and integrates information from various providers to create dynamic new resources. This involves not only customizing and reformulating off-the-shelf databases, but also loading information from primary...

Faster Access. Plus Content.
March 1, 1999... The January $6.7 billion purchase of Excite Inc. by high-speed Internet service provider AtHome Corporation indicated that AtHome expects the combination of access and content will be a winning combination. AtHome is just one of several...

A Pause in the Rush to the Web.
March 1, 1999... On April I, Dow Jones Interactive will become entirely Web-based and dial-up access to the service will end. However, the company backtracked from its earlier full commitment to a Web-only service and will introduce Windows software that will...

Business Information Market Expands.
March 1, 1999... The business information services market expanded dramatically between 1993 and 1997, according to the latest Veronis, Suhler & Associates Communications Industry Report. It stated, "The networking of computers, the emergence of the Internet,...

KnowledgeLink Becomes Powerize.com.
March 1, 1999... KnowledgeLink Interactive, Inc. has changed its name to powerize.com and has also upgraded its corporate intranet Powerize Server, formerly called the PerSavant Server. With the Powerize Server, a company can create a secure in-house...

Construction Criteria Base.
March 1, 1999... The Construction Criteria Base system has been redesigned by the National Institute of Building Sciences. Published on CD-ROM since 1987, revisions include a new interface and structure for the CD-ROM version, a new DVD option, and a new Web...

Intellectual Property Solutions.
March 1, 1999... Intellectual Property Solutions is a new addition to LEXISNEXIS' intellectual property products. The package offers four new searchable files from the European Patent Office, search enhancements to the LEXIS-NEXIS archive of U.S. Patent Office...

FROSTI.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... The FROSTI database is now part of STN International's Food and Agriculture cluster. Content includes published information on worldwide food science and technology, covering all aspects of the food and drink industry. Key journals are...

Emerald Intelligence and Fulltext.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... MCB University Press is offering its Emerald Intelligence and Fulltext database of management articles to U.S. libraries for subscription at $18,000, including unlimited access for all members of a subscribing organization. To celebrate the...

BankBoston Robertson Stephens.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... BankBoston Robertson Stephens is now an additional contributor of business intelligence to The Investext Group. The firm is ranked among the top 20 research providers by Institutional Investor magazine, and specializes in growth industries such...

PointCast Network.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... PointCast Network users now have access to free real-time quotes from Thomson Investors Network via the Resources section in the Companies channel of the PointCast Network. Realtime quotes can also be accessed on PointCast's Web-based business...

Securities Data Publishing.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Securities Data Publishing, a unit of Thomson Financial Services, has signed an agreement with LEXIS-NEXIS to provide the content of its publications for distribution via the LEXISNEXIS online services and Web products. This increases the...

iSyndicate and theglobe.com.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... iSyndicate and theglobe.com are partnering to give theglobe. com's members the opportunity to select branded articles, photos, and other products from Syndicate's network of Web media companies that provide free content and features for...

NetBrief.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... NetBrief is a customized service from InGenius Technologies, Inc. that automatically monitors, extracts, and reports relevant text changes in Web pages and sites based on individual user priorities. The service begins with an in-depth interview...

Mind-it.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... NetMind Technologies, Inc. has announced that its free Mind-it service (http://www. mindit.netmind.com) is now actively used by over five million individuals, thus adding over one million users in less than six months--an estimated 5% of Web...

Financial Times.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Abstracts from the Financial Times are now available on Dialog, with selected abstracts for 50 to 60 stories per issue loaded for next-day availability to Dialog customers. Abstracts range from three to six lines in length, and abstracted...

dot.Com.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... dot.Com is an online news service from Business Communications Company, Inc. that offers fast and unlimited access to Internet business information (http://bus.com/dotcom/) for an annual fee of $185 per year. BCC editors sift news information,...

American Journey Online.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Seven more titles in Primary Source Media's American Journey Online series are now on the Web (http://www.americanjourney.psmedia.com). The collections include The Civil War, Westward Expansion, Women in America, The American Revolution, The...

Encyclopedia of World Biography.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... The CD-ROM version of the Encyclopedia of World Biography is now available from The Gale Group, offering access to up-to-date biographical information on 7,200 people from all time periods and walks of life. Users may create customized...

International Trademark Search.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Thomson & Thomson has announced free, computer-generated translations of goods and services descriptions in International Trademark Search reports, available for Benelux, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, International Register (WIPO), and...

Business Collection and Electronics and Telecommunications Collection.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... The Business Collection and Electronics and Telecommunications Collection are two new Current Contents Collections available from the Institute for Scientific Information through its Web-based Current Contents Connect service. Both collections...

JCR Web.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... JCR Web is a Web-based version of ISI's journal Citation Reports that is under development and planned for availability for site-wide purchase during the first quarter of 1999. All data in the JCR is drawn from the multidisciplinary ISI...

Dialog for Lotus Notes.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Dialog for Lotus Notes is now available, letting Lotus Notes users send Dialog search and Alert output to Notes applications using DialogClassic and DialogWeb. Once set up, Dialog Alerts can flow automatically into a Lotus Notes database,...

ScheduleOnline.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... ScheduleOnline is Jintek's free, calendar and scheduling Web site for small to mid-sized businesses and non-profit organizations (http://www.scheduleonline.com). The site can be used to maintain personal calendars and schedule meetings within...

iSleuth.com.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... iSleuth.com, home of the Internet Sleuth search engine, is planning upgrades to its Web site to include free email and expanded news, weather, and financial information, while also developing various co-branding and marketing partnerships to...

The Paramount Pictures.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Still images, line art, and other graphical content from The Paramount Pictures image library will be marketed via the Internet by Picture Network International, Ltd. PNI will market the images through PictureQuest, an Internet store housing...

Information Please LLC and Lycos, Inc.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Information Please LLC and Lycos, Inc. have launched a co-branded Web site (http://infoplease.lycos.com). Lycos.com visitors will now be able to access facts from the various Information Please Almanacs on general knowledge, sports, and...

GrantSelect.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... GrantSelect is a Web version of the complete Grants Database from Oryx Press that gives grant seekers up-to-date information related to current funding programs from thousands of sources. Information is available under five special segments...

1999 Library Technology Award.
March 1, 1999... UMI is now accepting nominations for the 1999 Library Technology Award, which honors librarians who develop systems that make it easier for patrons to find and use information. The winner will receive $1,500 from UMI at the National Online...

BIOCOMMERCE.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... The BIOCOMMERCE database has been added to STN International to provide information on the business aspects of biotechnology and biological sciences worldwide. Coverage includes fields such as genetics, immunology, microbiology, and molecular...

STN.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Literature references in STN databases are now linked to electronic full text of scientific articles from nearly 800 journals published by Springer Verlag. Using this single source, STN users no longer need to subscribe individually to...

FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Technik.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Technik, Frankfurt/Main are collaborating to establish and operate two databases related to energy and information technologies, combining the FIZ Karlsruhe ENERGIE and COMPUSCIENCE databases with the FIZ Technik...

STN Easy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... STN International's STN Easy service has been enhanced to facilitate scientific searching for users without prior experience (including a search inter-face available in four languages), permit online ordering of full-text articles, and provide...

STN Express 4.lb with Discover!(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... STN Express 4.lb with Discover! is the latest version of STN Express, and includes a link to the automated full-text delivery services of the two STN partners, FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Services. The service also includes Discover!...

Institute of Physics Publishing.
March 1, 1999... Institute of Physics Publishing has announced plans to launch a 30-year online abstract archive back to 1969 for its scientific journal titles, complementing the Institute's full-text archive, which will also be extended back to 1991 this year....

CoDAS Web.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Institute of Physics Publishing and Elsevier Science B.V. have discontinued their online alerting service, CoDAS Web, which offered desktop access to abstracts from 57 journals in condensed matter and materials science. CoDAS began as an FTP...

Axiom.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Axiom is a new Web-based research service featuring the INSPEC Database from the Institution of Electrical Engineers, developed and tested under the auspices of the Institute of Physics Publishing. Beta-testing began in October, with major...

Institute for Scientific Information and HighWire Press.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Under the ISI Links initiative (http://www.isinet.com/isilinks/isilinks.html), the Institute for Scientific Information and HighWire Press of the Stanford University Library are collaborating to build links between their electronic resources....

Derwent Innovations Index.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... ISI has announced an anticipated launch this year of Derwent Innovations Index, a Web-based resource for searching patent literature from more than 41 industrialized countries, with coverage for many source patents beginning in 1963. The index...

Web of Science Corporate Editions.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Web of Science Corporate Editions is a new series of scientific and technical citation databases from ISI tailored for biopharmaceutical and chemical researchers. The first three corporate-focused indexes are available for trial and...

Chemical Abstracts Service and Academic Press.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Chemical Abstracts Service and Academic Press have signed an agreement in which GAS will receive files of bibliographic and abstract source material from the Academic Press journals in electronic form. Under the agreement, GAS will acquire the...

Investigational Drugs database.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Version 3.0 of the Investigational Drugs database has been released by Current Drugs Ltd. Upgrades include new Alerts, Competitor Analysis, Library, and Personalize sections. Additional features are new search facilities, plus the ability to...

Nutrition CABWeb.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... CABI Publishing plans to release the content of six leading titles in nutritional science on its new Internet service, Nutrition CABWeb (http://nutrition.cabweb.org). The service now offers access to full-text articles from the British Journal...

BioBridge to Entomology.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... BIOSIS and CABI Publishing are partnering to offer BioBridge to Entomology on the Web (http://www.biobridge.org). The service will combine pure and applied entomology and other arthropod information, and content will be derived from the...

INSPEC Thesaurus.
March 1, 1999... The INSPEC Thesaurus has been revised to incorporate developments in terminology and now includes 563 new preferred terms ($105). The 1999 INSPEC Classification scheme has also been revised to include the latest developments in many areas of...

BIOtech.
March 1, 1999... The BIOtech Web site is a free gateway to information about Elsevier Science's scientific publications and databases in biotechnology and related disciplines, which also gives access to a bibliographic database of biotechnology articles....

ProLaunch Internet.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... According to a six-month study of over 100,00 people conducted by JuxtaNet Corp.'s ProLaunch Internet service (http://www.ProLaunch.com), the majority of Net surfers search for sites offering cyber-based amusement and diversion, with eight out...

Primark.(acquires EDGAR Direct)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Primark has acquired EDGAR Direct, the Dow Jones' real-time delivery service for SEC filings about U.S. public companies. EDGAR Direct will become part of Global Access, which is Primark subsidiary Disclosure's flagship product.

OCLC and WLN.(merger)
March 1, 1999... OCLC and WLN have merged, effective in January. The merger of the two nonprofit corporations combines service to WLN's libraries in the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. and Canada with OCLC's 33,000 libraries in 65 countries and territories...

Amazon.com and Hoover's Online.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Amazon.com and Hoover's Online have announced an agreement naming Amazon.com the exclusive bookseller on Hoover's Online. Under the agreement, Amazon will receive promotional placements on Hoover's homepage, on 13500 Hoover's Company Capsules,...

Lycos Bertelsmann.(launched web service in Europe)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Lycos Bertelsmann, a joint venture between Lycos Inc. and Bertelsmann AG, has launched Tripod in the U.K. and across Europe as part of the company's pan-European strategy to become Europe's number one online network. Tripod is a fast-growing...

AltaVista.(adds new Related Search suggestion feature)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... AltaVista has added a new Related Search suggestion feature. Only available from the Simple Search, AltaVista will now display suggested searches right below the search box after a search has been entered. Choosing one of the listed Related...

Excite.(teams up with Real Networks)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Excite has teamed up with Real Networks to embed an audio and video search capability in Real Networks RealPlayer G2. From within the player, users can enter terms in the search box. The results will be displayed in a Web browser window. The...

Go.
March 1, 1999... Go, the new portal site from Walt Disney and Infoseek, was in beta test until officially launched in mid-January. Located at , Go combines several Disney sites such as ABCNews.com, Disney.com, and ESPN.com with the Infoseek search engine....

HotBot.(sort service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... HotBot now sorts all its results by site, joining Infoseek, and Lycos. Every hit is followed by a "See results from this site only" link. There is no way to ungroup the results in the way that Infoseek does, nor is there any notification if the...

Pre-millennium tension Information Vendors and Y2K Compliance.
March 1, 1999... Bill Mickey is associate editor of ONLINE magazine. Communications to the author should be addressed to billm@onlineinc.com. A computer will only do what a user or programmer tells it to do--as every searcher who has misspelled a search...

Spotlight on Y2K Resources.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Hal P. Kirkwood, Jr., Purdue University, Management & Economics Library, West Lafayette, IN 47907; 765 /494-2921; kirkwood@purdue.edu; or http://bounce.to/hal/. Maybe it's just me, but...

a harbinger of change the cutting Edge Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
March 1, 1999... Communications should be addressed to Thomas Pack, 8525 Confederate Place, Peewee Valley, KY 40056; 502/241-3182; thomaspack@aol.com; and/or to Jeff Pemberton, Online Inc., 213 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897-4007; 203/7611466;...

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DIGITIZATION.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to David R. Majka, Electronic Resources Librarian, Robert Morris College Library, 881 Narrows Run Road, Moon Township, PA 15108-1189; 412/262-8359; majka@robert-morris.edu. We are bombarded...

Bridging the Browser Gap LEXIS-NEXIS Universe.
March 1, 1999... Reva Basch is a writer and consultant to the online industry. Her latest book is Researching Online For Dummies. She writes the REVA'S (W)RAP column for ONLINE magazine. Communications to the author should be addressed to P.O. Box 116, The...

Dow Jones Web Center Clean and Simple.
March 1, 1999... Michelle Bing has more than ten years experience managing special libraries; she currently is a freelance writer, covering the information industry and other subjects. Communications to the author should be addressed to Michelle Bing, 1063...

Library space: the next frontier?
March 1, 1999... Walt Crawford is the 1998 winner of The Gale Group Information Authorship award for the best article in ONLINE between July 1997 and June 1998. His award-winning article was in the January 1998 ONLINE, entitled, "Paper Persists: Why Physical...

New search tools for multidisciplinary digital libraries.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Terence K Huwe, Director of Library and Information Resources, Institute of Industrial Relations Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2521 Channing Way #5555, Berkeley, California...

Internet Current Awareness.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Greg R. Notess, MSU Library, P.O. Box 173320, Bozeman, MT 59717-3320; 406/9946563; align@montana.edu; http://imt.net/notes/. Keeping completely current with all the changes on the Web is...

Web Personalization Does It Your Way.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Mick O'Leary, 10230 Harmony Road, Myersville, MD 21773; 301/846-2585; 71735.2401@compuserve.com. When the Internet began its dizzying evolution into a mass medium a few years ago,...

Privately-Held Company Directories.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Marydee Ojala, Editor, DATABASE, P.O. Box 70, Park City, UT 84060; 435/649-7652; marydee@xmission.com. The naive observer might believe that the Internet has solved one of the more...

Do You See What I See? Image Indexing Principles for the Rest of Us.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be addressed to Paula Berinstein, Berinstein Research, P.O. Box 1305, Woodland Hills, CA 91365; 818/865-0523; Fax 8181865-1543; pberinstein@worldnet.att.net. How would you describe the picture in Figure...

Cheaping Out: When a Bargain isn't.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the author should be sent to Walt Crawford, Information Architect, Research Libraries Group, Inc.; br.wcc@rlg.org. Editor's Note: Unfortunately, due to his increasingly busy work schedule at the Library of Congress, Erik...

Finding Online Information.
March 1, 1999... Communications to the HARDCOPY editor should be addressed to Deborah Lynne Wiley, Next Wave Consulting, Inc., P0. Box 8, Deale, MD 20751; deb@consultnw.com. This issue's topic is finding online information, with a selection of four types...

Honoring Our Ancestors.
March 1, 1999... Reva Basch cops to her old hippie credentials, but she never inhaled. She is author of Researching Online For Dummies and editor of the forthcoming Super Searchers book series. Contact her at reva@well.com Doug Engelbart isn't exactly a...