Online articles from March 2005

Online archives from March 2005

Ownership, access, retrieval, and sharing.(the homepage)
March 1, 2005... To research a school project when I was a teenager, I traveled across town to the "big" public library (as opposed to my school and local public libraries). There, I was astonished to encounter closed stacks. It had never before occurred to me...

Grokking education.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... For those with a visual bent, who prefer search results as colorful, circular maps rather than results lists, there's Groxis' Grokker. Its newest offering, Groxis E.D.U. (Explore, Discover, Understand) is an optimized version of Grokker 2.2,...

SLA Legislatiue Action Center, Government Information Division.(Industry News)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Special Libraries Association (SLA) launched its Legislative Action Center. [www.sla.org/act], a grassroots advocacy service for SLA members to use in learning about, and acting on, public policy matters affecting information professionals....

Current awareness.(Industry News)(Rocketinfo)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Rocketinfo has added content from hundreds of local affiliates of the four major U.S. broadcast networks--ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC--to its database. This expands Rocketinfo search engine coverage of over 13,000 categorized news and business...

LexisNexis AlaCarte.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Reaching out to small and medium-sized businesses, LexisNexis introduced LexisNexis AlaCarte, a pay-as-you-go service that allows access to a subset of the full LexisNexis offerings, which represents more than 20,000 sources containing more...

Cambridge Information Group released CSA Illumina, its new platform for online bibliographic and full-text searching.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Cambridge Information Group released CSA Illumina, its new platform for online bibliographic and full-text searching. It features a redesigned user interface as well as enhanced search capabilities. More than 100 bibliographic and full-text...

Elsevier.(Sci-Tech)(Elsevier Information Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, has partnered with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to index its content. The addition of the IUCr's collection of abstracts and fulltext articles adds to...

FIZ Karlsruhe, European partner of STN International, has added KOREAPAT, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FIZ Karlsruhe, European partner of STN International, has added KOREAPAT, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents. KOREAPAT, produced by the Korean Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) on behalf of the Korean Intellectual Property...

Dialog has added about 3.1 million German patent records starting in 1967 from Univentio as File 324.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Dialog has added about 3.1 million German patent records starting in 1967 from Univentio as File 324. The full-text file is in German with English language translations of abstracts, specifications, and claims [www.dialog.com].

Questel*Orbit and The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced the release of the Markush Darc Software on a Unix Platform, dedicated to the Merged Markush Service (MMS), to offer faster and more flexible searches and to open new intranet and in-house capabilities.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Questel*Orbit and The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced the release of the Markush Darc Software on a Unix Platform, dedicated to the Merged Markush Service (MMS), to offer faster and more flexible searches and...

CriticalEYE, the European center for strategic thought leadership, launched CriticalEYE RESEARCH.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CriticalEYE, the European center for strategic thought leadership, launched CriticalEYE RESEARCH, an online reference source offering business executives access to strategic research that brings together academia, strategy houses, and...

Kompass Extranet was released as a customized portal to the Kompass database for business.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Kompass Extranet was released as a customized portal to the Kompass database for business. Accessed through an organization's intranet facility, the Kompass extranet is for companies that operate from multiple locations. The advanced search...

Thomson Tax & Accounting.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Roy Martin, Jr. has left his position as president and CEO of Thomson Dialog to become president and CEO of Thomson Tax & Accounting. He succeeds Peter Warwick, who has been named president and CEO of Thomson West, replacing Mike Wilens, who...

Thomson West.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Thomson West also announced several appointments in Strategic Marketing. The Large Law Firm segment will continue to be led by Tony Abena as vice president; Tim Blevins has been named vice president of the Medium Law Firm Segment; Chris Morton...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(appointed Stuart Woodring )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Nstein Technologies Inc. announced the appointment of Stuart Woodring, formerly with Forrester Research, as advisor to the CEO. Mr. Woodring's professional experience has focused on analyzing growth and opportunities in the technology markets.

Cambridge Information Group, Inc.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Cambridge Information Group, Inc., parent company of CSA, announced the promotion of James P. McGinty to vice-chairman and Andrew M. Snyder to president.

Information Handling Services Inc.(appointed Jeffrey R. Tarr as president)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Information Handling Services Inc. (IHS) named Jeffrey R. Tarr as the new president and COO of the Engineering division of IHS Group. Tarr replaces Charles Picasso, who was recently appointed president and CEO of IHS Group.

Emerald Group Publishing.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... U.K.-based Emerald Group Publishing announced two new appointments to oversee its U.S. sales operation. Matthew Drury was named business manager: Southern States, and Shariq Mumtaz, business manager: Northern States.

MediaFinder.(Online Services)(Oxbridge Communications)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... MediaFinder, produced by Oxbridge Communications, announced a new site license program for libraries that provides access to its media database of 72,000 print and online titles including 15,300 magazines, 11,000 catalogs, 13,000 newsletters,...

Ingenta plc.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ingenta plc announced new publisher customers via IngentaConnect, while the Institute of Physics became one of the first customers for Ingenta's new information commerce system. Ingenta has recently signed major deals with the Joint Commission...

Swets Information Services.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Swets Information Services signed seven new publishers and hundreds of new journals to SwetsWise Online Content. SwetsWise now carries a total of 8,553 full-text e-journals from 323 publishers, with more than 90 percent of the top STM...

Net Snippets.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Net Snippets announced the first free post-search information management tool for everyday Internet users that saves and organizes Web results in one easily accessible location. The new Free Edition provides Web surfers with a simple and...

LexisNexis U.S. acquired Interface Software, Inc., a provider of client relationship management (CRM) products to legal and professional services firms in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S. acquired Interface Software, Inc., a provider of client relationship management (CRM) products to legal and professional services firms in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Current officers, the management team, and employees...

CSA acquired the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), publishers of the PAIS International and PAIS Archive databases, from OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CSA acquired the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), publishers of the PAIS International and PAIS Archive databases, from OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. CSA will continue to publish the products in print and make the...

Six Apart, developer of Movable Type and TypePad, acquired Danga Interactive Inc., the operator of the blogging service LiveJournal.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Six Apart, developer of Movable Type and TypePad, acquired Danga Interactive Inc., the operator of the blogging service Live Journal. The acquisition gives Six Apart a combined 6.5 million blogs [www.sixapart.com].

Innovative Interfaces has partnered with RLG to facilitate connections from RedLightGreen to Innovative customer libraries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Innovative Interfaces has partnered with RLG to facilitate connections from RedLightGreen to Innovative customer libraries. RedLightGreen is a free Web tool that lets students search millions of relevant scholarly items from RLG's Union...

FactSet Research Systems Inc. has acquired TrueCourse, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FactSet Research Systems Inc. has acquired TrueCourse, Inc., the producer of the SharkRepellent database [www.factset.com].

Ovid announced a partnership with MuseGlobal, Inc. to offer academic and medical institutions as well as corporations an alternative federated search solution.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ovid announced a partnership with MuseGlobal, Inc. to offer academic and medical institutions as well as corporations an alternative federated search solution. This ASP packaged solution will be scalable to incorporate a range of content...

Find.com.(Alliances & Deals)(ThomasB2B.com, LLC )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Find.com announced a content alliance with ThomasB2B.com, LLC that will give searchers access to the business listings of more than 550,000 industrial suppliers from 29 countries. Find.com will combine free company listings with ThomasB2B's...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ProQuest Information and Learning announced several additions to its ProQuest online information service in response to user interviews and customer feedback. New features and functionality include ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Author...

Project MUSE.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Project MUSE announced the selection of 26 new scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and seven new publishers for 2005. The new publishers are The African Studies Association, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The Australian and...

Innovative Interfaces will offer Baker & Taylor's Content Cafe to Millennium libraries.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Innovative Interfaces will offer Baker & Taylor's Content Cafe to Millennium libraries. This add-on service will offer patrons enhanced and continually updated bibliographic information, delivered through the library's OPAC. Along with almost...

Blackwell Publishing.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Blackwell Publishing has added 37 new publishing partnerships, many with scholarly societies, and 65 journal titles to its list [+44 (0) 1865 476425; www.blackwellpublishing.com].

Entopia.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Entopia has established Entopia Sweden, a wholly owned subsidiary, in Stockholm, to be headed by Gustaf Nordenhok. It has also opened a U.K. office in London to offer sales, marketing, business development, consulting, and customer support...

WebFeat.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... WebFeat, the original federated search engine, was granted a patent for its federated search technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers WebFeat's method and technology for managing the authentication...

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST).(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that Verizon Information Services has deployed FAST AdVisor to enhance the search capabilities of Verizon SuperPages.com's expanded site [www.superpages.com].

Mondosoft.(Enterprise Search.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Mondosoft announced the availability of a new Web Service Search Kit that facilitates the deployment of search through Web services. It has a new programming interface that enables companies to use MondoSearch with other software applications...

Database Link Packages.(Biomedical)(Ovid)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ovid introduced Database Link Packages, which offers one-click access to hundreds of e-journals and subject-specific Web sites, and the availability of Communities@Ovid, a service designed to allow society and publishing partners to develop...

BioMed Central.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... BioMed Central announced that the new Web site for The Scientist is available on the BioMed Central platform, providing access to 18 years of content, with the added benefits of online usage statistics, customer support, and 24/7 service...

patientINFORM.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... A pilot version of patientINFORM has been launched as a free online service dedicated to disseminating original medical research directly to consumers. A collaborative effort of leading voluntary health organizations, scholarly and medical...

A9.(Internet Search Engine Update)
March 1, 2005... A9's toolbar now runs in Mozilla Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. The toolbar has the ability to keep notes about Web pages, store bookmarks online, and provide site information. Use of the toolbar requires a free Amazon account.

Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ask Jeeves offers some cached copies of Web pages. Not all pages have cached copies, but an increasing number display a "cached" link. The cached page header includes the date and time the page was last crawled by Ask Jeeves and highlights the...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Gigablast has quickly expanded its database, which now contains over 1 billion records. It is also offering some innovative tools for advanced users. Its Custom Topic Search lets anyone with a Web site create a subject search engine by...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Google has been busy in its labs and with library agreements. Two recent Google labs projects are Google Suggest and Google Scholar. Google Suggest provides a drop-down list of suggested search terms that show up below the search box as you...

MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... MSN Search includes site limits, link searches, selected country and region limits, 12 language limits, and three slider bars for ranking adjusting. The beta includes cached pages, with headers that note the date the page was last indexed, but...

Teoma.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Teoma Technologies)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Teoma now has cached copies of Web pages, as does Ask Jeeves, with whom it shares its database. It uses the same language of "cached." However, not all results have cached copies. The cached page header includes the date and time the page was...

Yahoo!.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Yahoo! has launched a new video search, traffic reporting in its maps, a WorldCat toolbar, and a desktop search client. The video search is in beta [http://video.search. yahoo.com/]. It includes updated content formerly at the video search of...

Instant recall: thanks to Google Desktop Search.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a particularly good memory. This affliction did not descend upon me at the onset of middle age. It was obvious, at least to me, even as a mere youngster in my 20s. That may explain why I took so...

Company research using U.S. federal government sources.
March 1, 2005... There's a long-standing myth in the field of librarianship: When collecting competitive intelligence on a company, no company-specific information is available from the U.S. federal government. This article hopes to dispel that myth. The...

Copyright clearances: navigating the TEACH Act.
March 1, 2005... This article is the second in a series that is reviewing several legal ways to use copyrighted works freely--without getting written permission from the copyright owner, negotiating or signing a license, or working with a third-party publisher...

Open access or differential pricing for journals: the road best traveled?
March 1, 2005... Open access (OA) is becoming a reality, with new cost models under development. The various cost models will have serious short- and long-term implications for libraries and dangerously impact the scholarly communication network. I believe that...

Scopus: profusion and confusion.
March 1, 2005... SCOPUS, Elsevier's widely hyped new search product, with access to 14,000 peer-reviewed journal titles, launched in November 2004 [www.scopus.com]. The PR folk worked overtime throughout its development; the content coverage page contains such...

Locating uses for local search.(on the net)
March 1, 2005... In Web searching, trends come and go. Several years ago, local search was hot, and Internet start-ups hoped to find a gold mine in creating online yellow pages. However, Internet stocks crashed, and the local search market failed to deliver a...

Searching for economics; joking with economists.(the dollar sign)
March 1, 2005... The mantra "It's the economy, stupid!" from the Clinton-Gore 1992 election campaign is still widely quoted, although not always as it was originally meant. Now it's sometimes a critique of the Clinton administration's economic policies;...

Where have all the Webmasters gone?(web site management)
March 1, 2005... In the early 1990s, the role of Webmaster generally encapsulated all things Web. The title was unique and somewhat mysterious. Had any of us ever heard of anyone with "master" at the end of their title? Plus, what were we the master of, anyway?...

Revisiting library funding: what really works?(The Information Strategist)
March 1, 2005... The weekend of Nov. 20, 2004, brought bad news to library users and aficionados in the San Francisco, Bay Area. Salinas would become the first city in California to close its public libraries. David L. Beck, writing in the San Jose Mercury...

Planning for the unexpected.(intranet librarian)
March 1, 2005... No one wants to be in the Web manager's shoes the day the Web site goes down. Careful planning up front can help prevent and head off down times, but, invariably, disaster will strike. As an intranet manager, it is your responsibility to have a...

Little things mean a lot.(PC monitor)
March 1, 2005... Moore's Law doesn't matter as much as it did a decade ago. You probably haven't seen revolutionary new uses for a PC in the last year or so--and you certainly haven't seen revolutionary advances in operating systems. Your personal...

ITI InfoCentral, clusty, ArticleFinder 2.0.(Peter's picks & pans)(Information Today, Inc.)
March 1, 2005... My first pick requires a disclosure: ITI InfoCentral Digital Archive derives all its content from Information Today, Inc. (ITI), which in turn owns the periodicals that have published most of my columns and feature articles for the past 15...

Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... *** Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager by Lorna M. Hughes ISBN: 1-85604-466-1 Published: 2004 Pages: 327 pp.; hardcover Price: $85.00 Available from: Facet Publishing, Ridgmount St., London WC1E 7AE U.K.,...

PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... **1/2 PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Sid Steward ISBN: 0-596-00655-1 Published: 2004 Pages: 278 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway N, Sebastopol, CA 95472, (707)...

Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... **1/2 Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon ISBN: 1-55570-493-X Published: 2004 Pages: 266 pp.; hardcover Price: $75.00 Available from: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.,...

Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... *** Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society by Anthony G. Wilhelm ISBN: 0-262-23238-3 Published: 2004 Pages: 161 pp.; hardcover Price: $27.95 Available from: The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142; (617)...

Squishy Boolean.(online spotlight)
March 1, 2005... Dialog was one reason that I was drawn, back in the 1970s, to the library profession. I graduated from college with a B.A. in mathematical philosophy, then stumbled into a job in a law firm library, where the librarians taught me the rudiments...