Online articles from March 2001

Online archives from March 2001

Distributed Librarianship.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... In library terms, distributed librarians within an organization may be in different locations, time zones, and/or disciplines. A growing trend in librarianship is something I like to call "distributed librarianship." I base my definition...

Letters to the editor.
March 1, 2001... to the editor: I enjoyed the article by Bob Ainsbury and Michelle Futornick ("The Revenge of the Library Scientist," ONLINE, November/December 2000). As an employee of AltaVista and a librarian by training, I feel that the skills I learned...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2001... On page 88 in the November/December 2000 issue of ONLINE, Darlene Fichter, in her INTRANET LIBRARIAN column, incorrectly identified ColdFusion as a NetObjects product. It is actually produced by Allaire. NetObjects produces a product called,...

Factiva Releases Search Integration Tool.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Factiva Search Module is a new integration tool that can be embedded in an intranet or portal to link to Factiva's news service, giving users access to Factiva's near-real-time business news from their desktops. The module is the second...

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry Database Introduced.(Bell and Howell Information and Learning Co. offers business database)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry is Bell & Howell Information and Learning's new electronic database of over 700 full-text business publications. Unlike ABI/INFORM Research or ABI/INFORM Global, this database covers day-to-day business issues and...

RivalEye Boosts Competitive Intelligence.(Northern Light Technology L.L.C. introduces new business service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Northern Light has released RivalEye as an advanced competitive intelligence tool for enterprises. RivalEye is a real-time search and alerting service that can be integrated into a corporate intranet, and delivers content selected by...

OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online now offers over 3,000 journals from 55 publishers. The service was launched in June 1997, passed the 1,000-journal mark in October 1998, the 2,000 mark in November 1999, and the 3,000 mark in...

OCLC's WorldCat.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Peninsula Library System (PLS) in California and North Suburban Library System (NSLS) in Illinois will be test sites for enhancements to OCLC's WorldCat database. Planned enhancements include new content, interface features, and database...

SFX Framework.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Bell & Howell Information and Learning division has extended ProQuest's linking capabilities to support the SFX Framework's open linking environment. SFX permits context-sensitive linking between all parts of an electronic collection. [See...

Chrystal Software.(Chrystal Software Inc. announces LEXIS-NEXIS Group agreement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Chrystal Software, a Xerox Corporation New Enterprise Company, and LEXIS-NEXIS have announced an agreement under which Chrystal Software will provide an Astoria content management system for selected LEXIS-NEXIS legal content, and LEXIS-NEXIS...

H.W. Wilson Company.(selects Verity search engine to power web site)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The H.W. Wilson Company has selected the Verity search engine to power the new version of its Web site, Wilson Web, which is due to be deployed in 2001.

Questele * Orbit.(Wila Verlag)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Questele * Orbit and Wila Verlag have announced an agreement whereby Wila Verlag is providing Questel * Orbit with details of over two million German patent documents and utility models from 1968 forward. This German patent file is scheduled...

PASCAL SciTech.(SilverPlatter Information Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... SilverPlatter is releasing the PASCAL SciTech database as both an individual subset and as a package with PASCAL BioMed. INIST, a service unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), publishes the database. The PASCAL...

STN on the Web.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... STN on the Web (Chemical Abstracts Service) has been enhanced with special features, improved transcript features, a choice of transcript formats, and an Alert (SDI) Assistant that helps users set up an automatic current-awareness search for an...

ChemPort Reference Linking Service.(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ChemPort Reference Linking Service (Chemical Abstracts Service) adds free links for users from references in scientific articles to sci-tech databases, and is also free of charge to the articles' publishers. Users may click on references within...

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.(eMeta)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has signed an agreement with eMeta Corporation to use eMeta's eRights software to authenticate its subscriber base of 9,000 individual members and thousands of academic and corporate...

Inmagic.NET.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Inmagic.NET is a new extension of Inmagic's DB/TextWorks product, and soon to be an extension of Biblio-Tech PRO, which helps users speed acquisitions workflow by purchasing, cataloging, indexing, and disseminating information throughout an...

Business Intelligence Solution.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Business Intelligence Solution (Moreover Inc.) provides news, analysis, and information from mainstream and specialist Web sites, message boards, and discussion groups to corporate intranets, extranets, and e-marketplaces. Moreover will also...

Commercial Intelligence Mall.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Commercial Intelligence Mall (ECNext) now includes Thomson Financial's brokerage research, market research, and trade association reports, in addition to information from STAT USA, Canadean, and Reuters. The addition of these four...

Press Access.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Press Access, LEXIS-NEXIS' newly acquired unit, has launched PRanywhere, a Web-based media relationship management tool for public relations professionals. PRanywhere offers publication profiles, journalist contact infonnation, automated PR...

EIU DataServices.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... EIU DataServices is a new service that contains three databases--CityData, CountryIndicators, and CountryData--developed with software from Bureau van Dijk and data from the Economist Intelligence unit. CityData has over 315 price and salary...

Bell & Howell's Information and Learning.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Bell & Howell's Information and Learning unit and Hoover's Media Technologies (HMT) have announced an agreement under which HMT's licensed Hoover's Company Information will be added to key databases, such as ABI/INFORM, and available via the...

eCountries.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... eCountries, a country-based B2B publishing and online marketplace, will provide global news and analysis to Hoover's Online and Hoover's Online U.K Additionally, eCountries has been added to the World News section of My Yahoo!. A team of...

SIRSI Corporation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... SIRSI Corporation and Cahners Publishing Group have announced an agreement whereby users can access Cahners' collection of book reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and School Library Journal through SIRSI's new iBistro e-Library....

Information Science Abstracts.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Information Today's Information Science Abstracts (ISA) now covers ejournals in the information science field, with Volume 35, Issue 8, a special issue covering the complete runs of several ejournals. The selection criteria for ISA to cover an...

Loislaw.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Although Walters Kluwer, the Dutch print and electronic publishing giant specializing in legal, tax, business, health/scientific, and educational information, has been heavily criticized by European analysts for its recent corporate...

Sanborn fire insurance maps.(Bell and Howell Information and Learning Co. to offer digital versions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Digital versions of the Sanborn fire insurance maps--resources for historical information about land use dating from 1867--are now available on the Web from Bell & Howell Information and Learning. These maps provide detailed property and...

Academic Search Premier.(EBSCO Publishing to add more full text)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Academic Search Premier is EBSCO Publishing's largest scholarly full-text reference database, offering full-text coverage for over 2,700 journals, with many sources unique to EBSCO. Over 1,850 of the journals are peer-reviewed, and each is...

e-psyche.(EBSCO Publishing offers e-psyche database)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The e-psyche database is now available from EBSCO Publishing via EBSCOhost, providing journal coverage for more than 3,500 titles, and is updated weekly. In addition to journals, the database also includes newsletters, dissertations, preprints,...

Bibliography of the History of Art.(SilverPlatter Information Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... SilverPlatter plans to publish the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) database from the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The database is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2001...

Journals@Ovid.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Journals@Ovid now offers a page-image PDF format printing and viewing option for some of the journals in its 370-plustitles database. The first 118 PDF versions were offered to Ovid users in October and November 2000, with more added towards...

BioMedNet Reviews.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... BioMedNet Reviews (http//www.hmn.comlreviews) is BioMedNet's new resource offering access to a new life-science database of review articles from 100 Elsevier Science journals, including content from all Trends and Current Opinion titles. The...

LWWoncology.com.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... LWWoncology.com (Lipincott Williams & Wilkins) is an Internet community for healthcare professionals who treat cancer victims. This is LWW's first entry in the Web-based portal arena, and is part of parent company Wolters Kluwer's plan to...

Peopleware.(CEO of Intertec Publishing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Tim Andrews, President & CEO of IndustryClick, has been named CEO of Intertec Publishing. Both are Primedia companies, and IndustryClick will continue to report to Andrews. Andrews will oversee Intertec's 100 magazines, 30 trade shows, and 450...

Primedia Inc.(Brill Media Holdings)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Primedia Inc. has acquired a 49% interest in Steven Brill Media Holdings LP. Financial terms were not disclosed. Steven Brill will become Chairman and Chief Executive of a new Primedia subsidiary called Media Central, which will consolidate...

SilverPlatter.(French National Center for Scientific Research)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... SilverPlatter has formed new partnerships with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) via its documentation center INIST (Institut National Information Scientifique et Technique) for a national server to supply professional...

Data Broadcasting Corporation.(Pearson PLC)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Data Broadcasting Corporation closed the sale of its 34.4% stake in MarketWatch.com Inc. to an affiliate of Pearson PLC (PSO). MarketWatch was formed as a joint venture between Data Broadcasting and CBS Corporation, which holds a 34.4% stake....

ACNielsen.(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Dutch publisher VNU plans to buy ACNielsen in a $2.3 billion cash deal intended to expand its market ratings business. The purchase reunites ACNielsen with sister company Nielsen Media Research, which VNTJ bought in November 1999. The deal is...

DigitalOwl.(finance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... DigitalOwl recently announced its second round of venture capital financing. Noro-Moseley Partners, based in Atlanta, GA., led the $11.1 million investment round with additional investments from Draper Atlantic of Reston, VA. and Owl Ventures,...

Gale Group.(Gannett Company Inc. contract)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Gale Group has signed a contract with Gannett securing rights to distribute the full text of 98 daily newspapers in InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. As of March 1, 2001, Custom Newspapers will search and display current and archived articles...

RoweCom Inc.(line of credit)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... RoweCom Inc. has announced that it has received a commitment for a $25 million line of credit from a lending subsidiary of a major international bank, and has also secured a commitment for a $10 million one-year loan from other sources. RoweCom...

Infogate.(EDGAR Online Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Infogate (http://www.infogate.com), an online news and information alerting delivery service, has announced a sponsorship agreement with EDGAR Online, Inc., under which EDGAR Online will make Infogate available as a free download to its users...

AltaVista.(AltaVista Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... AltaVista introduced a middle path between its simple and advanced search. Originally called the Power Search, it provides a more extensive form that can make the powerful search features of the Advanced Search page available to users who do...

Google.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Google has expanded and improved its Advanced Search page. It now offers form boxes for AND, OR, Phrase, and NOT operations under the labels "with all of the "with any of the words," "with the exact phrase," and "without the words." In...

HotBot.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Greg R. Notess is a reference librarian at Montana State University. HotBot, which used to support front, internal, and end truncation, appears to no longer support any truncation ability. While this may be just a short-term problem, the...

InfoSpace.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... InfoSpace, which bought the metasearch engines MetaCrawler and Dogpile, has launched a redesign of the Dogpile metasearch engine. In addition, the search box on the main InfoSpace page defaults to a Dogpile search. However, results from...

Northern Light.(Sirsi Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Northern Light has announced an alliance with Sirsi, the library online system vendor. Northern Light's Web searching capabilities will be integrated into Sirsi's iBistro Internet Access Center. Northern Light has also released its SinglePoint...

Assessing the Functionality of Web-Based Versions of Traditional Search Engines.
March 1, 2001... Although a great deal of attention has been paid to the search features of Web search engines, far fewer evaluations exist for the features and functionality of traditional online databases that have migrated to the Web. The professional...

The WEB as a Database New Extraction Technologies & Content Management.
March 1, 2001... Information extraction (IE) software is an important part of any knowledge management system. Working in conjunction with information retrieval and organization tools, machine-driven extraction is a powerful means of finding content on the Web....

Tracking Down U.K. Company Information.
March 1, 2001... Company information perennially ranks as the most important type of information demanded in business libraries. Headland's Business Information Resources Survey [1], which has been tracking changes in the use of business information for the...

The OpenURL Possibilities.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Imagine a search result page containing links to hundreds of related items, regardless of location, media format, and language. (Well, OK, maybe not language quite yet.) Your initial item is cross-referenced via hypertext links to other...

Integrated access to Library Resources.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Screens that are cluttered, present long lists of choices, or are confusing to navigate are not effective... for libraries confronting an increasingly electronic information environment, it's a double-edged sword. The quantum leap in the...

distance teamwork.(The Realities of Collaborating with Virtual Colleagues)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The Realities of Collaborating with Virtual Colleagues Your intranet team has been working on a site redesign for months. The new site looks great--it just went live tonight, and you'd really like to take the team out to celebrate. But how...

iWon: What Value for the Information Professional?(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The iWon approach has proved successful for the company, and for those few lucky cash prize winners, but it leads to many questions for the information professional. New search engines and portals no longer pop up so frequently as they did...

Industry Portals.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Industry portals can substitute for the checklist of the experienced searcher and can give a needed nudge to online veterans who suddenly run out of ideas when running into industry research brick walls. Those who research industries on a...

Going Virtual with the Corporate Library.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The shift from a physical/print model to a virtual/digital one creates new opportunities and challenges for delivering information solutions to corporate library users. Corporate libraries and information services are changing...

Effective Web Governance Structures.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Governance structures work best when they represent the constituents of the organization, when membership is limited, and when the group as a whole follows a well-defined business plan or set of strategic initiatives.... Most large Web...

Y2K: Lessons from a Non-Event.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... You must plan for ambiguity in most aspects of personal computing and libraries. Now that the pedantic millennium has begun and the sticklers have celebrated their new century, it's worth looking back at the biggest threat when the...

Ebook Information Web Sites.
March 1, 2001... If you're interested in one type of ebook information--news, publishers, opinions--you can turn to a single site to meet your needs. The ebook race is on. They'll soon be at a bookstore or library near you; they're already on your desktop...

Testing the Web Site Usability Waters.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Three usability tests -- pluralistic walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, and task-based testing--provide examples of different approaches to ascertaining what users actually like. My January column suggested some strategies that Web...

peter's picks & pans.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition Encarta DVD Reference Suite 2001 Restaurant Row Dining Guide Editor's Note: With this issue, PETER'S PICKS AND PANS column moves from EContent to ONLINE. In his column, award-winning...

Recommended Reading on Pleasing Clients and on Super Searchers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This month, we look at a couple of books designed to help you please your clients and patrons, either by designing a better Web site or by creating better products and services. Then we examine the latest in the Super Searcher series--News and...

InfoTrac OneFile.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... I am working on a new Super Searchers book, on international business research. When I asked my interviewees what they found most challenging about global research, several mentioned the frustration of having to look in so many places for...