Online articles from March 2006

Online archives from March 2006

The rise and fall of the letter e.(home page)(naming trends )(Column)
March 1, 2006... Pity the poor letter e. Once a symbol of all things modern, it has fallen on hard During the dot-com era, putting the letter e in front of a word showed how "with it" you were. We had e-commerce, e-library, e-book, e-learning, e-mail,...

Factiva jumps on the 2.0 bandwagon.(Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive L.L.C. released Factiva Search 2.0 beta version)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Factiva released its beta version of Factiva Search 2.0 in preview mode in mid-January. Designed for enterprise end users, the interface to Factiva and Web content features visual navigation, uses relevance algorithms with proximity boosting,...

Infotrieve frees ArticleFinder.(no charge for searching)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Infotrieve has reversed its June 2003 decision to charge for searching its ArticleFinder service. Even with 26 million articles and 13 million abstracts, ArticleFinder, as a search engine, apparently wasn't worth the price of admission.

How do they view us?(Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report on Online Computer Library Center's web site)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources," a new OCLC report based on surveys of information users across six countries, was released at the end of 2005. This report is a follow-up to "The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern...

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution from the NewsGator suite of Private Label products to provide their readers with RSS aggregation service.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution from the NewsGator suite of Private Label products to provide their readers with RSS aggregation service. Built on the industry's only...

ProQuest Information and Learning's Chadwyck-Healey product line has launched a resource to record and illuminate the African-American experience.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning's Chadwyck-Healey product line has launched a resource to record and illuminate the African-American experience, from ancient Africa through modern times. Black Studies Center is a digital resource developed in...

CrossRef announced two initiatives to enhance the way search engines index scholarly content: CrossRef Web Services and the Search Partner Program.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... CrossRef announced two initiatives to enhance the way search engines index scholarly content: CrossRef Web Services and the Search Partner Program. CrossRef Web Services creates a tool for authorized search and Web services partners to gather...

CSA acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community providing grant funding opportunities and researcher expertise information.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... CSA acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community providing grant funding opportunities and researcher expertise information. A spinoff of Johns Hopkins University, COS represents more than 1,300...

Elsevier announced that its free science search engine, Scirus, has partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its journals.(and also with DiVA Academic Archive On-line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Elsevier announced that its free science search engine, Scirus, has partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its journals. The addition of IOP's 200,000 full-text articles and journals dating...

Biz360 and Feedster, Inc. announced a partnership to gather intelligence from blog and wild content discussing a particular company, its products, and competitors, along with trends that may impact the business.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Biz360 and Feedster, Inc. announced a partnership to gather intelligence from blog and wild content discussing a particular company, its products, and competitors, along with trends that may impact the business. The new service, BlogView, will...

Dialog has extended chemical structure searching functionality to its Alerts system.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Dialog has extended chemical structure searching functionality to its Alerts system. Alerts by Chemical Structure are available in three databases of chemical and pharmaceutical research: Derwent Chemistry Resource (File 355), Pharmaprojects...

eMolecules, Inc. announced the launch of Chmoogle.com, an open access chemistry search engine.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... eMolecules, Inc. announced the launch of Chmoogle.com, an open access chemistry search engine. Chmoogle's mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information in the world and make it available online free of charge....

Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Web Citation Index, the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Web Citation Index, the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories. Web Citation Index provides users with a citation-based discovery...

Thomson Scientific and Thomson ResearchSoft announced the development of EndNoteWeb, a bibliographic tool for managing and citing scientific references.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific and Thomson ResearchSoft announced the development of EndNoteWeb, a bibliographic tool for managing and citing scientific references. Annual EndNote Web subscriptions support a variety of users on campus--from students...

Questel*Orbit announced the release of QPAT v4.0, with improved navigation and additional searching power for Questel*Orbit's FamPat and PlusPat databases, as well as its full-text patent collection.(Sci-Tech)
March 1, 2006... Questel*Orbit announced the release of QPAT v4.0, with improved navigation and additional searching power for Questel*Orbit's FamPat and PlusPat databases, as well as its full-text patent collection. Enhancements include a redesigned search...

Standard & Poor's released a new version of the Capital IQ Platform, featuring a range of fixed income and event-driven data as well as related analytics and usability enhancements.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Standard & Poor's released a new version of the Capital IQ Platform, featuring a range of fixed income and event-driven data as well as related analytics and usability enhancements. This completes the first phase of a long-term plan to...

ISI Emerging Markets announced a distribution agreement with FactSet for the distribution of ISI's CEIC databases on the FactSet research platform.(Internet Securities Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... ISI Emerging Markets announced a distribution agreement with FactSet for the distribution of ISI's CEIC databases on the FactSet research platform. CEIC databases, compiled from over 500 primary sources, including national statistical offices,...

EMBiology is a new bibliographic database from Elsevier.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... EMBiology is a new bibliographic database from Elsevier. Targeted to academic institutions and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, EMBiology focuses on basic and applied biological literature not covered in EMBASE: two substantial...

Elsevier also launched EMCare, a new bibliographic database drawn from over 2,700 international source titles including nearly 2 million records from the nursing.(Biomedical)
March 1, 2006... Elsevier also launched EMCare, a new bibliographic database drawn from over 2,700 international source titles including nearly 2 million records from the nursing, allied health, and biomedical literature. EMCare is targeted to professionals...

Thomson Gale announced the addition of more than 700 medical-related videos to its Health and Wellness Resource Center in partnership with Healthology, Inc.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Thomson Gale announced the addition of more than 700 medical-related videos to its Health and Wellness Resource Center in partnership with Healthology, Inc., a physician-founded health media company and a wholly owned subsidiary of iVillage...

Wolters Kluwer Health announced the introduction of PubFusion, an online content management solution to streamline the scholarly publishing process.
March 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer Health announced the introduction of PubFusion, an online content management solution to streamline the scholarly publishing process. PubFusion enables publishers to reduce production cycle times and increase quality by enhancing...

Defense Technical Information Center.(R. Paul Ryan appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... R. Paul Ryan was named administrator of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), having been acting administrator since November 2004.

CSA.(Boe Horton appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... CSA announced the appointment of Boe Horton to chief operating officer and general manager.

Alacra.(Barry Graubart appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Barry Graubart joined Alacra as VP of product management.

Factiva.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Factiva announced the following management appointments: Karin Borchert as chief operations officer; Dennis Cahill as vice president, product; Arthur Rassias as director of sales and services for North America; LeeWood as sales director for...

Chemical Abstracts Service.(Dr. Catharina Maulbecker appointed )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) appointed Dr. Catharina Maulbecker vice president, marketing and sales.

NetLibrary.(first e-content platform to give access to e-book and e-audiobook titles)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, became the first e-content platform to offer academic, public, special, and school library users access to more than 100,000 full-text e-book and e-audiobook titles. NetLibrary's catalog includes information...

Elsevier announced that EMBASE.com is available to faculty, students, researchers, and physicians.(online services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Elsevier announced that EMBASE.com is available to faculty, students, researchers, and physicians affiliated with 11 of Chinas major universities as the result of a new consortium licensing agreement [31 20 485 3091; www.embase.com].

Ulrich.(CSA online services)(serials)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... The Ulrich's serials product line, previously produced and distributed by R.R. Bowker, CSA's sister company within the Cambridge Information Group, has transitioned to CSA. Included in this transition are the Ulrich's editorial team and its...

EOS International announced the latest release of EOS.Web Express and EOS.Web Enterprise.(online services)
March 1, 2006... EOS International announced the latest release of EOS.Web Express and EOS.Web Enterprise. Based on Microsoft .NET technologies, EOS.Web is a library information system developed for special libraries that enables librarians and knowledge...

EBSCO announced the release of an enhanced LinkSource, EBSCO's OpenURL link resolver.(EBSCO Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... EBSCO announced the release of an enhanced LinkSource, EBSCO's OpenURL link resolver. Included is integration with EBSCO A-to-Z and the A-to-Z knowledgebase, enabling integration with library holdings that have already been configured with...

A9.(OpenSearch standard)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... A9 published a second draft of the OpenSearch standard [http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/], a set of simple formats that is used to share search results such as those in A9's collection of over 200 databases. The 1.1 drafts further simplify and...

AOL.(America Online Inc. announces expanded partnership with Google Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... AOL announced an expanded partnership with Google. While much of the expansion deals with investment and advertising, the search-related aspects include allowing more AOL content to be found by Google's crawlers, closer collaboration in video...

Ask Jeeves.(to expand its non-English-language coverage and plans opening European versions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Ask Jeeves is expanding its non-English-language coverage and plans to open European versions. Along with this expansion comes a translation feature that shows up on certain non-English search results. In the results list, a "translate this...

Google.(announces a librarian center)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Google announced a Librarian Center [www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html], which has a newsletter and an e-mail address for submitting lesson plans. The first newsletter contained a brief explanation of how Google collects Web pages...

Google Book Search.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Google Book Search originally included some full-text magazine articles along with books. The magazine articles are gone, and the database now focuses exclusively on books, some of which are out of copyright and fully viewable, while the...

Google Personalized Search.(search options)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Google Personalized Search users can now view their top searches, top sites, top clicks, and other statistics based on the items within their search histories and bookmarks. Available within the Personalized Search under "Trends," the new...

Google Video.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Google Video announced its expansion into pay-for-view content from a variety of sources, including CBS, the NBA, and Charlie Rose. The content will be viewable on a new Google Video player, iPod Video, and the Sony PlayStation Portable. Some...

MSN Search.(search engine update)(launched Windows Live Local)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... MSN Search launched Windows Live Local in beta version [http://local.live.com], an extension of the older Virtual Earth from Microsoft. Like Google Maps, it includes both map information and imagery. The aerial view has added bird's-eye images...

Omgili.(a new search engine)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Omgili [www.omgili.com] is a new search engine for searching Web-based discussion forums. This beta search engine includes a somewhat limited collection of forums at this point, but does have a rather interesting approach to advanced searching....

Yahoo!(search engine update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Yahoo! opened up its search shortcuts [http://shortcuts.search.yahoo.com] so that users can create their own shortcuts. Yahoo! shortcuts have an exclamation point prefix and serve to jump quickly to other parts of Yahoo!. The personalized...

Yahoo! Answers.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Yahoo! Answers has launched in beta as a free service for users with a Yahoo! account [http://answers.yahoo.com]. Open questions and resolved questions are grouped in hierarchical subject categories that can be browsed. The full questions and...

Reviewing Google Book Search.
March 1, 2006... GOOGLE'S desire to extend its reach into library book stacks and publisher backlists has generated a firestorm of opinion and debate, some based on misperceptions, some on facts, and some on general angst. ONLINE's discussion of what is now...

An author looks at Google Book Search.(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2006... AS a reader and researcher, I've found Google Book Search to be very useful. It's convenient, saves time, and has more than once steered me to books I might otherwise have missed. But as a nonfiction book author, I'm less than enthusiastic...

Librarians, jelly beans, and Google Book Search.(indexing)(Column)
March 1, 2006... UNTIL relatively recently, researchers needed to memorize or tediously record the key resources and places within sources that held valuable information vital to their work. Reference librarians made mental notes or kept card files of vital...

Web-presence and impact factors for Middle-Eastern countries.
March 1, 2006... QUESTIONS can arise about how global the World Wide Web really is. Particularly for Middle Eastern countries, it is important to know whether Web presence and Web Impact Factor (WIF) attract the attention they deserve from the World Wide Web...

When search engines play at maps: visualization technologies.(online services)(Column)
March 1, 2006... A detailed examination of search engine results is often tedious. It can be difficult, from a results list, to quickly grasp the relevance of the contents of identified pages. That's why most searchers stick to reading the first page of...

Be careful what you wish for: do more resources and tools make a web site better?(web site of Health Sciences Library of McMaster University )(Column)
March 1, 2006... LIKE many other academic libraries, the Health Sciences Library (HSL) at McMaster University initially developed and maintained its Web site in house, on a shoestring budget, with limited technical expertise. It wasn't perfect, but it did the...

"Celebrating Knowledge: The Power and Potential" brings powerful speakers to Singapore.(National Library Board of Singapore)
March 1, 2006... "CELEBRATING Knowledge: The Power and Potential," organized by the National Library Board of Singapore, caught ONLINE editor Marydee Ojala's eye because of its two keynote speakers, Paul Saffo and Michael Keller, and because I was around to...

Tracking your search history.(on the net)(web search engines)(Column)
March 1, 2006... Over the past year or so, search engines have begun exploring personalized searching. For the search companies, personalization offers the opportunity to build user loyalty by more effectively targeting advertising and search results. The...

Due diligence research.(the dollar sign)(importance of information professionals)(Column)
March 1, 2006... In increase in merger and acquisition activity, coupled with evolving government legislation in many countries, has given due diligence research new weight and increased its scope. Ironically, as the requirements for doing due diligence grow in...

Thomson Pharma and Infotrieve life science research center: new directions for online aggregators.(information strategist)(Thomson Scientific of Thomson Corp)
March 1, 2006... Pundits from the information industry as well as the broader media have spent hundreds of hours discussing the emerging information-based world and its composition of knowledge workers. Despite the emergence of a new, information-based economy...

Getting a handle on content.(intranet librarian)(content management solution)(Column)
March 1, 2006... What's the number-one asset your intranet possesses? A Word document with valuable library secrets? A spreadsheet with earnings forecasts for Google for the next several years? (If your intranet does indeed have such an object, please contact...

What's wrong with your PC?(problems with personal computers)(Column)
March 1, 2006... The title for this column probably doesnt stoke you as unusual if you regularly read the PC magazines. Sometimes it seems as though these publications spend as much time telling us what's wrong with computers and how to work around those...

USGS Publications Warehouse, Transportation Research Information Services, ASIST Digital Library.(peter's picks & pans)(U.S. Geological Survey)(Column)
March 1, 2006... My two picks are government (and therefore open access) databases: the Publications Warehouse of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Both are...

Recommended reading on web search, distance education, computer protection, and branding. (hard copy).(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2006... This month I look at strategies for searching the Web and providing resources for those at a distance, protecting your PC from malicious intruders, and mBranding and wireless communication. *** 1/2 Super Searchers Go to School: Sharing...

Truth and fiction on the web.(online spotlight)(Wikipedia)(Column)
March 1, 2006... As I write this, the library e-mail discussion lists and blogosphere are atwitter with the latest flapdoodle about Wikipedia. In May of 2005, a Nashville man created an entry in Wikipedia about John Seigenthaler, an administrative assistant to...