Online articles from March 2004

Online archives from March 2004

Information creation.(the homepage)
March 1, 2004... Most information professionals, when asked what they do, respond with a variation on an information retrieval theme. Boiled down to its essence, it says that an information professionals' mission in life is to provide the information you need,...

Alacritude focuses its high beam; stays in the FAST lane.(Industry News)(HighBeam Research, LLC)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... A new name for Alacritude debuted the end of January. The company responsible for eLibrary, Encyclopedia.com, and Researchville is now HighBeam Research, LLC. Calling its new incarnation a "research engine," HighBeam is designed for individuals...

Three science sites eliminated.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Elsevier plans to close its three end-user portals--BioMedNet, ChemWeb, and ElsevierEngineering. Although these have been very popular with scientists and scientific researchers over the 6 years of their existence, Elsevier doesn't feel the...

Groxis announces Grokker 2.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Visualization of search results got a big boost when Groxis shipped its second version of Grokker, a visual search tool. The desktop search product groups search results in a dynamic contextual setting using a map metaphor. Grokker also...

Census data from GeoLytics.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB), mentioned in ONLINE's May/June 2003 "Industry News section," is a proprietary product of GeoLytics, Inc. and was developed in conjunction with the Urban Institute and Rockefeller Foundation....

LookSmart re-launched its large full-text article search capability, delivering access to 3.5 million articles from more than 700 publications.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... LookSmart re-launched its large full-text article search capability, delivering access to 3.5 million articles from more than 700 publications. The service, FindArticles publication database, provided to LookSmart by Gale Group, is available...

Dialog.(Online Services; Dialog Corp. upgrades Dialog NewsEdge service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Dialog announced a series of upgrades to Dialog NewsEdge, its industry-specific, personalized current-awareness and news alerting service for corporations. The upgrades include improved methods for printing, saving, and sharing multiple...

Northern Light Group.(Online Services; introduces Business Research Library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Northern Light Group announced the introduction of the Northern Light Business Research Library, a paid service for enterprise customers containing a collection of Web content specially selected to be of high value to business professionals as...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(Online Services; to distribute Oxford Analytica's OxResearch database)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced a distribution agreement for Oxford Analytica's OxResearch database. The new contract with the U.K.-based international consulting firm gives ProQuest exclusive worldwide distribution rights for the...

STN Easy for Intranets, which enables information professionals to integrate online databases and full-text supply systems into their company or campus intranet, is now available.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... STN Easy for Intranets, which enables information professionals to integrate online databases and full-text supply systems into their company or campus intranet, is now available. The system provides numerous sophisticated administration...

PubMedCentral has made available the full text of the complete volumes of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, now published as Journal of the Medical Library Association online.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... PubMedCentral has made available the full text of the complete volumes of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, now published as Journal of the Medical Library Association online. The archive begins with Vol. 1, 1911. The full-text...

images.MD.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... images.MD, the first-of-its-kind online encyclopedia that compiles continuously updated, annotated images from all aspects of medicine, is available for a free institutional trial. Over 48,000 medical images ranging from allergy to urology make...

EDGAR Online.(Business & Finance)(CallStreet LLC ,OpenCompany.info.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... EDGAR Online announced the addition of a complete collection of conference call transcripts, company Webcasts, and an events calendar to its flagship EDGAR Online Pro service. The conference call content is provided in partnership with...

PR Newswire added several new features to eWatch, its leading Internet news and public discussion monitoring service for tracking news clips, rumors, reputation, and references.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... PR Newswire added several new features to eWatch, its leading Internet news and public discussion monitoring service for tracking news clips, rumors, reputation, and references. Enhanced reporting capabilities, improved clip management, and...

EBSCO Publishing.(Social Sciences & Humanities; new service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing announced that H.W. Wilson's Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984, a database of citation information covering more than 55 years of art journalism from nearly 600 publications, is now available via EBSCOhost. The database...

Expert Information.(Social Sciences & Humanities; enhances Web-based services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Expert Information, publisher of Index to Theses, announced a significant enhancement to the coverage of its Web-based service, with expanded coverage of the online backfile of theses. It now dates back to 1716, making Index to Theses the only...

Classical International, Inc.(Social Sciences & Humanities; closes Classical Music Online service)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Classical International, Inc. closed its consumer-oriented Classical Music Online service in January. The company says it will focus attention on services for libraries and institutions, including its Classical Music Library, which offers...

Tim Berners-Lee.(Peopleware; made a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), was made a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (KBE), by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the 2004 New Year's Honours list.

Gartner, Inc.(Peopleware; Bill Pardue replaced by Kurt Sanford at LexisNexis )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Bill Pardue resigned as CEO and president, LexisNexis Corporate & Federal Markets, to take a high-level position at Gartner, Inc. His replacement is Kurt Sanford, who moves to the U.S. job from his present position as CEO and president of...

Thomson Gale.(Peopleware; names Ray F. Lowrey executive VP and chief technology officer )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Ray F. Lowrey was named executive vice president and chief technology officer for Thomson Gale. Lowrey came to Thomson Gale from his current position as vice president of strategic product technology for Thomson Learning.

MuseGlobal.(Peopleware; Kristina Bivins and Jeff Hammond promoted)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Kristina Bivins has added the title of chief operating officer to her SVP of business development title at MuseGlobal. Jeff Hammond was promoted to SVP of product management.

Thomson Financial.(Peopleware; Thomas Aubrey promoted)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Thomas Aubrey was appointed to head the development of Datastream, Research and Economics, at Thomson Financial. Previously, Aubrey spent 4 years at FT Interactive Data.

Database License Division, infoUSA, Inc.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... George Plosker is now senior account executive, Database License Division, infoUSA, Inc., based in the San Francisco Bay area. He was formerly with Thomson Gale, joining Gale when it acquired Information Access Company.

Questel*Orbit.(Legal)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Questel*Orbit announced the addition of French full-text patents to its expansive collection. Called FRFULL, the file covers French patent applications dating back to 1980 and is updated weekly. Univentio, a patent information service company...

LexisNexis.(Legal)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... LexisNexis announced that Zimmerman's Research Guide is available exclusively through the LexisNexis InfoPro Web site and through the lexisONE portal for solo and small-firm attorneys. Zimmerman's Research Guide is an extensive listing of...

FreePint launched its VIP service, which will consist of a monthly publication, VIP, and a supplemental semimonthly titled VIP Eye.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... FreePint launched its VIP service, which will consist of a monthly publication, VIP, and a supplemental semimonthly titled VIP Eye. Targeted at information professionals and content managers in the international business information community,...

xrefer.(Portals & Intranets)(announced that its xreferplus service is fully integrated with Ex Libris' SFX and MetaLib systems)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... xrefer announced that its xreferplus service is fully integrated with Ex Libris' SFX and MetaLib systems. Mutual customers of both companies will benefit, as these libraries will be able to seamlessly incorporate xreferplus into their online...

The British Library launched its new Secure Electronic Delivery Service.(Portals & Intranets)(service introduction)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The British Library launched its new Secure Electronic Delivery Service. Harnessing the strength of The British Library's collections, the service gives customers fast access to over 100 million items, providing one-step shopping for...

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI).(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) announced Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD) as a new document delivery method. This makes it possible for CISTI to deliver copyright-cleared documents to its customers in...

eMeta Corporation.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... eMeta Corporation announced that Ovid Technologies, the medical information solutions provider, has implemented eMeta's eRights Suite into the Ovid platform to support its PayPerView service. eRights enforces Ovid's PayPerView policies,...

Ingenta.(Alliances & Deals)(introduces e-library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Ingenta announced the launch of The World Tourism Organization's (WTO's) e-library, offering a hilly indexed and cross-searchable database of more than 250 full-text reports published by the WTO. The e-library is free to its 142 member states,...

Ingenta now joins the multitude of sources accessible via WilsonWeb's WilsonLink service.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Ingenta now joins the multitude of sources accessible via WilsonWeb's WilsonLink service. Customers can click from article citations on WilsonWeb to the full text on Ingenta, courtesy of the SFX-powered open-URL linking technology, at no...

Froogle.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Google's still-in-beta product and shopping search engine)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Froogle, Google's still-in-beta product and shopping search engine, was featured prominently throughout the Christmas shopping season. Google advertised Froogle directly on the main Google page. At the top of some search results, Google listed...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(enhancements)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Gigablast added spelling suggestions for correct or alternate spellings of unusual query terms. These suggestions are displayed after a "Did you mean..." message at the top of a results page. Sometime in the next year, Gigablast also plans to...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Google has started doing some automatic stemming of certain search terms. Some words in a query may have their grammatical variants (including singular or plural forms) searched along with the version entered in the query. This seems to occur...

Google's Deskbar.(Internet Search Engine Update)(functions independently of the browser)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Google's Deskbar is now available. Rather than a browser add-on, the deskbar appears in the Windows taskbar and functions independently of the browser. It can be used for many Google functions, including the calculator, definitions, Web...

Google Print.(Internet Search Engine Update)(beta testing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Google Print [http://print.google.com/print/faq.html] is now in beta. This project includes records and extracts from published books in Google's Web database. While not including the full text, as does Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" program...

Google Shortcuts.(Internet Search Engine Update)(direct access to Web numeric databases)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Google Shortcuts [www.google.com/help/features.html] has expanded with direct access to Web numeric databases. Shortcuts are available for U.S. Patent Numbers, UPS Tracking Numbers, FedEx Tracking Numbers, USPS Tracking Numbers, FCC Equipment...

LookSmart.(Internet Search Engine Update)(relaunched FindArticles)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... LookSmart has relaunched FindArticles, expanding coverage to 700 full-text publications (from Gale), which is several hundred more periodicals than its previous version. Along with the expansion, the FindArticles database is now accessible as a...

MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(introduces Search Engine )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MSN Search is exploring launching a news search engine. It has already launched beta versions in the U.K., France, Spain, and Italy. Powered by the 4,000+ sources from Moreover, the U.K. version is available at http://uk.newsbot.msn.com....

Northern Light.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Northern Light is set to return, but not as a free Web search engine. It will be launching the Business Research Library available by subscription, first to businesses in January and then to individuals in March. While Web searching of millions...

Federated search engines: federated searching aggregates multiple channels of information into a single searchable point.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... Does information in your organization reside in silos? Do you have to remember multiple database search protocols and passwords? Do you send students to the OPAC terminal to find books in your collection but to another computer to look for...

Metasearching in an academic environment.
March 1, 2004... The idea of being able to search a wide range of library resources in one easy step--what's known as federated search, broadcast search, or metasearch--is more than a little compelling to me in my position as systems librarian at a university...

Custom content delivery: taking the next step: delivering the right information to the right people at the right time has become a complex challenge in the fast-paced world of corporate libraries.
March 1, 2004... At Hewlett-Packard Company, the Global Library & Information Services (GLIS) group has incorporated the phrase "Making HP Smarter, Faster" into our logo to highlight this critical mission. GLIS delivers information to HP employees via a number...

Amazon.com opens the books: ask serious, long-time researchers to name the most valuable benefit of Web access and they'll cite the ability to search the content of books, periodicals, newsletters, and newspapers. Such access has eliminated untold hours of paging through hardcopies and greatly enhanced information gathering.
March 1, 2004... Of the categories of text publications made available online, books have lagged behind magazines and newspapers in full-text availability. While full-text encyclopedias were a common offering of pre-Web services such as DELPHI, CompuServe, and...

Making money as an aggregator.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2004... When confronted with the history of online, what surprises people the most is its longevity--the online news and magazine aggregator business has been around for approximately 30 years. Dialog celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2002; LexisNexis...

Fiddling with file types.(on the net)
March 1, 2004... It's obvious that information is stored and communicated in many ways, which has ramifications for its retrieval. In the computer age, each software program seems to have one or more distinct file types in which it saves individual documents....

Statistically speaking.(the dollar sign)(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... Numbers, numbers, numbers: The business world revolves around numbers. Sales figures, production metrics, economic data, market share, market size, prices, demographic indicators, import and export measures, ratios, indexes-there's an...

Web site champions.(web site management)
March 1, 2004... Two essential ingredients in developing a successful Web strategy and, more importantly, successfully implementing this strategy, are advocacy and support from influential colleagues. These thought leaders fit the role of "champion." In my...

Introducing the information strategist.(The Information Strategist)(Column)
March 1, 2004... Welcome to the new ONLINE column, "The Information Strategist." You may ask yourself, "What is an information strategist and what does that have to do with me?" It's a fair question, so let's first look at what this column will be about and...

Keeping up as a solo Webmaster.(intranet librarian)
March 1, 2004... Many intranet Webmasters have the luxury of working in a team environment with a visual designer, human computer interaction specialist, writers, and few programmers. When you are a solo Webmaster, you need to wear all these hats, learn about...

WorldCat, Sociological Abstracts, and e-psyche.(Peter's picks & pans)
March 1, 2004... One of this issue's picks is the WorldCat catalog of OCLC, which I have been using and praising (in my "Digital Ready Reference Shelf" column) as a unique feature long before it got worldwide attention by virtue of making a deal with Google....

Paranoia strikes deep even dial-up users need firewalls.(PC monitor)
March 1, 2004... You have high-quality antivirus software installed on your PC. The virus definitions are auto-updated every time you're on the Internet. You run full system scans at least once a month (once a week for your work PC to supplement full-time...

Recommended reading on technology.(hardcopy)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Technology rules! This month, I look at four books to help you move forward in the world of technology. The first is a basic guide to wireless networking, then come some solutions to those nagging PC and budding Internet problems, and finally a...

Mooter.(online spotlight)
March 1, 2004... Have you Mooter'd that yet?" You probably haven't heard that question as often as "Have you Googled it?," but Mootering just might become part of Web searching vocabulary. Mooter [www.mooter.com] is a new search engine, developed by Liesle...