Online articles from May 1997

Online archives from May 1997

Pushing the Web to the next level. ('pull' and 'push' Internet content delivery methods) (Online on Point)(Editorial)
May 1, 1997... It's been just two years since the World Wide Web burst on the scene and revolutionized information delivery. Today, no knowledgeable person doubts that there are some pockets of high-quality, important information on the web (even though we...

Economist Intelligence Unit. (launches financial online service on America Online) (International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has launched a new business and financial online service exclusively on America Online for the small office and home market. EIU on AOL provides alerts, analysis, and background information on 35 key world...

Channel A. (electronic commerce initiative)(International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Channel A has introduced an electronic commerce initiative to bring unique Asian products and services to its Web site (http://www.channelA.com), including vendor, content, and advertising agreements. Products and services cover Arts &...

AFX News. (independent agency for Asian and European news)(International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... AFX News is new on Quote.com, Inc.'s QNews customized news service. AFX News is an independent agency for European and Asian news and market coverage. QNews provides information and updates on U.S. financial news from leading sources. QNews also...

CDMEX. (Contactos De Mexico CD-ROM about Mexican services and manufacturers)(International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Contactos has released its CDMEX (Contactos De Mexico) CD-ROM, which provides specific information about Mexican manufacturers and services. This information is also available on the CDMEX Web site (http://www.cdmex.com), where it is updated...

Russian Story Inc. (Press Rover search engine on Web site)(International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Russian Story Inc. now offers the Press Rover search engine on its Web site (http://www.russianstory.com/rover/) to provide free, full-text searches of its archives of Russian periodicals and top newspapers. Press Rover permits Cyrillic character...

Easy Translator. (Transparent Language's translation software)(International Business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Easy Translator, from Transparent Language, translates text, email, and Web pages in Spanish, French, and German to and from English. The translation for Web pages appears on-screen, preserving original formatting. A text or email translation...

Knight-Ridder Information Inc. for sale.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. For Sale As ONLINE went to press, Knight-Ridder Inc. announced that it plans to divest itself of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., operator of the DIALOG service. Analysts quoted in the Wall Street Journal estimate...

Dialog Select. (Knight-Ridder Information Inc. offers end-users easy Web access)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... In other KRI news, Knight-Ridder announced DIALOG Select which will offer easy Web access for end-users to more than 250 DIALOG databases. At first glance, two stumbling blocks could be the need to have a contract (thwarting the instant...

Amulet Inc. (launches InfoWizard automated research service)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Amulet Inc. launched its automated research service, InfoWizard, in April. InfoWizard, which was previewed at the 1996 ONLINE WORLD Industry Announcements, lets users submit queries, then filters information on the Web and in databases to provide...

Dun & Bradstreet. (expands D&B Internet Access Web site offerings)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Dun & Bradstreet has expanded the products and capabilities on its D&B Internet Access Web site (http://www.dnb.com). The site now lets U.S. contract customers access additional U.S. credit and global information, create customized reports,...

Knight-Ridder Information. (introduces table function to Dialog's market research files)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Knight-Ridder Information has responded to the free previews of tables in the LEXIS-NEXIS Market Research Library with the introduction of the SF=TABLE to DIALOG's market research files (Files 761-766, 768, 770). Searchers can't preview the...

Burrelle. (transcripts available on Lexis-Nexis News)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Burrelle transcripts from television, radio, and cable news and public affairs programs, supplied by Burrelle's Information Services, are now in the LEXIS-NEXIS News (NEWS) Library. Transcripts include those from CNN's "Crossfire," "Evans &...

DataTimes EyeQ. (UMI updates electronic clipping service)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... UMI has released Version 1.4 of DataTimes EyeQ service and updated software was distributed to subscribers in mid-March. In the update the electronic clipping service has been enhanced with email alerting features and email delivery of headlines...

Gale Research. (updates Gale Business Resources CD-ROM)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Gale Research has published current domestic and international business intelligence on a newly updated, Windows-format CD-ROM, Gale Business Resources. The CD-ROM integrates data from Gale business reference works and includes industry...

The Investext Group. (adds The Wall Street Transcript and Bankers Trust to contributors list)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The Investext Group has added Bankers Trust and The Wall Street Transcript (TSWT) to its list of contributors. Bankers Trust provides research on many domestic and international companies, countries, and markets, and also reports on several...

Find/SVP MarketLooks. (available on Lexis-Nexis)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The FIND/SVP MarketLooks reports of market research information are now available on LEXIS-NEXIS in the Market Research (MKTRES) Library. These reports are developed specifically for the online environment and provide market summaries drawn from...

West InsureOne. (insurance-oriented database on WestLaw)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... West InsureOne on WESTLAW is a source for information about insurance law and related issues for attorneys and insurance professionals. The service includes more than 200 databases and covers material for all 50 states, the District of Columbia,...

Industry Week. (established Web site)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Industry Week (IW) has established a new Web presence (http://www.industryweek.com) that offers news, features, and interactive options. The site offers three searchable databases of information about technology and innovation, best manufacturing...

Manufacturing Marketplace. (Cahners Publishing Company's Web site for engineering and manufacturing professionals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Cahners Publishing Company has launched Manufacturing Marketplace (http://www.manufacturing.net) on the Web as a site for manufacturing and engineering professionals. The site includes Your Page for personalized news and information, an improved...

American Business Information. (introduces List Wizard on LookupUSA Web site)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... American Business Information (ABI) has released List Wizard on its LookupUSA Web site (http://www.LookupUSA.com) to give users immediate access to information on the ten million U.S. businesses in ABI's database. Users can build sales leads and...

Trademarkscan-Canada. (available online via Dialog)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... TRADEMARKSCAN-Canada offers information previously only accessible through manual, on-site searching at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Available on DIALOG as File 127 or as part of research from Thomson & Thomson, the file...

NewsNet. (allies with Knowledge Express Data Systems) (Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... NewsNet has formed an alliance with Knowledge Express Data Systems, to exchange information and technology for their respective clients. Knowledge Express customers will receive NewsNet's NewsFlash clipping service as a new feature of their...

NewsNet. (allies with SilverPlatter) (Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... NewsNet has also teamed up with Silverl-Platter to offer NewsNet's NewsFlash service over the Web to SilverPlatter customers, as well as scientific and medical segments from NewsNet's archives. (617/769-2599)

Reed Elsevier. (acquires MDL Information Systems Inc.) (Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Reed Elsevier has acquired MDL Information Systems Inc., a U.S., scientific information company for about $320 million. MDL sells specialized databases and software for pharmaceutical and chemical scientists. It will become part of the Elsevier...

Top 100 Electronic Recruiters Website. (Internet Business Network's Web site) (Human Resources)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The Internet Business Network has launched the Top 100 Electronic Recruiters Website (http://www.interbiznet.com/eeri) to provide a list of top sites for online employment advertising and recruiting. Included are newspapers, college placement...

HeadHunter.NET. (Software Technology Corp.'s job search and recruiting Web service) (Human Resources)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The Software Technology Corporation (STC) now offers HeadHunter.NET on the Web (http://www.HeadHunter.NET) as a free job search and recruiting service. The site features Instant Job Bank for participating organizations, cross-postings to Internet...

workindex.com. (Cornell University's School of Industrial Labor Relations' and Human Resource Executive magazine's Web site) (Human Resources)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Cornell University's School of Industrial Labor Relations and Human Resource Executive magazine have developed the workindex.com Web site (http://www.workindex.com) to provide links to hundreds of key work-related resources for Human Resources...

Institute for Scientific Information. (provices Ovid Technologies, Inc. with document delivery services) (Document Delivery)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... The Institute for Scientific Information (151) has reached an agreement with Ovid Technologies, Inc. to offer Ovid users document delivery service from ISI. Requests for full-text articles originating from Ovid databases are now fulfilled through...

SilverPlatter Information. (document delivery supplied by Knight-Ridder Information Inc.'s KR SourceOne service) (Document Delivery)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Document delivery services are now provided to Internet subscribers of SilverPlatter Information's electronic databases through Knight-Ridder Information Inc.'s KR SourceOne document delivery service. As part of SilverPlatter's Internet...

Peopleware. (includes multiple corporate appointments and resignations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Heinz Ochsner has retired as Knight-Ridder Information's European co-managing director. With Rolando Henrich, Oschner was the founder of Data-Star in 1980. * BiblioData has appointed Susan M. Fingerman as editor of The CyberSkeptic's Guide...

A question of interface design: how do online service GUIs measure up?(includes related article on new version of DataTimes EyeQ)
May 1, 1997... The first time I used Data-Times, we were on deadline at a mid-sized daily newspaper and a reporter needed a background story about a large company that was on the verge of going belly-up. A co-worker in the news library walked me through the...

Surfing corporate intranets; search tools that control the undertow. (includes related articles on searching databases via an intranet and intelligent search agents)
May 1, 1997... Intranets consist of web pages, documents, databases, and other information that sit on a web server or web servers behind an Internet firewall. THE INTRANET EXPLOSION The growth in popularity of corporate intranets over the past...

'Computes great - less filling.' (network computers) (includes related article on search strategies for network computing updates)
May 1, 1997... The driving concept behind the NC is that all software resides on the server side, with the device delivering application as needed. In January 1996, computer and electronic industry representatives gathered at a conference session on "The...

Dishing out the data: is there a satellite in your future? (direct broadcast satellite connections to the Internet) (includes listing of related Web sites and related article on Hughes Network Systems' DirecPC satellite Internet access service)
May 1, 1997... The DBS [Direct Broadcast Satellite] industry sees Internet access and data delivery as key future services for users. Today's satellite dishes largely connect home users to entertainment services in direct competition with cable providers....

Web-based training for online retrieval: an idea whose time is coming. (includes related article on Engineering Information Inc.'s Compendex Plus database) (Technotrends)(Column)
May 1, 1997... Inerest in using the Internet and its GUI-based World Wide Web for training has grown rapidly in recent months. In this and the next Technotrends, I will explore issues and considerations surrounding Web-Based Training (WBT) and review some...

Dow Jones Publications Library on the Web - save it for the end-user desktop. (Dow Jones' News/Retrieval Publications Library online information service)(Evaluation)
May 1, 1997... Dow Jones has made its entire News/Retrieval Publications Library available directly on the World Wide Web. Account holders may search through a rich array of sources (over 3,600 at last count), using only a web browser. For end-users...

Getting to the Point of 'push.' (PointCast's Pointcast Network 'push' information delivery)
May 1, 1997... In the very near future, the PointCast Network and the "push technology" that it uses could be extremely important to information professionals as an information delivery model. However, at the present time, PointCast is a product that...

The IBM Patent Server. (Web site)
May 1, 1997... A new and valuable patent site has appeared on the Web. The site provides searchable access to over 26 years (from January 5, 1971) of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office patent descriptions, including complete images of patents from the last ten...

Bridging to the Net. (coordinating Internet access and commercial online services) (The Dollar Sign)(Column)
May 1, 1997... Professional information managers--and those who've been thrust into managing information for their organizations--encounter the challenge of choosing products that will deliver the most value for money. When it comes to online research,...

Copyright in a digital age: practical guidance for information professionals in the midst of legal uncertainty.
May 1, 1997... From its earliest origins, the subject of copyright has generated controversy. Thomas Cahill, in his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, tells the legend of a sixth-century Irish monk who, loving nothing more than beautiful books,...

Ten ways to gain management support for key projects. (The Successful Manager)(Column)
May 1, 1997... Several years ago, Robert Fulgham wrote a book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten [1]. In a light-hearted and humorous way the book distills some basic guidelines for life. For example, "Always clean up your own...