Online articles from May 2001

Online archives from May 2001

Landscaping the Enterprise.(managing corporate intranets)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Spring is as good a time as any to examine the information resident on your organization's intranet. As the snow melts around my house, signs of spring attract my attention. Gardening supplies fill the stores and advertisements for...

Letters to the editor.
May 1, 2001... MORE ON OPEN SOURCE to the editor: I read the article by Howard Richardson, "Solving Access Problems with Open Source Software," in the January/February 2001 issue of ONLINE. He touched upon the advantages of open source tools, so I...

Scientific Reports on Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... BiblioAlerts.com from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, is a new service that lets individual researchers acquire scientific and technical reports at a fraction of the cost required for researching large amounts of scientific data. Users can...

Finding Data on Your Desktop.(PC Data Finder 5.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... PC Data Finder 5.5 (Silverlake-Tech. corn) can search your desktop for keywords, emails, Outlook, PST, Adobe PDF, ZIP Compressed Files, and HTML. The tool can also do Boolean, proximity, phrase, wildcard, and complex queries using AND, OR, NOT,...

Schmidt Takes Google Chairmanship.(Eric Schmidt)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Novell's CEO Eric Schmidt has been named chairman of Google, replacing Sergey Brin, who will remain as president. Schmidt will stay on as chairman and chief strategist for Novell in addition to his Google duties. Formerly chief technology...

Social Sciences & Humanities.(Gale Group's General Reference Center Gold database)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Gale Group's General Reference Center Gold database now includes 45% more content, with the full text of more than 1,600 magazines and journals. Also added are new business/vocational periodicals designed for students in high school Advanced...

PAIS International.(online information service upgraded)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... PAIS International on OCLC's FirstSearch service has been enhanced to feature links to full text in other databases and electronic journals within FirstSearch. Users may also access library holdings information and limit searches to items held...

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.(from EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and Sociological Collection are two recent releases from EBSCO publishing. Both are designed for four-year colleges and universities, junior and community colleges, and biomedical libraries, and...

ATLAS Full Text Plus.(SilverPlatter's database launched)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2001... SilverPlatter has released ATLAS Full Text Plus, the 1949-present version of the ATLA Religion Database with added links from bibliographic records to the full text of cited articles. The American Theological Library Association (ATLA),...

SwetsnetNavigator.(Swets Blackwell's electronic journal service)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... OpenURL has been implemented within Swets Blackwell's electronic journal service, SwetsnetNavigator. Users will have more than one single point of entry and broader access to relevant resources and services. EDI serial invoicing has also been...

IDdb3.(Current Drugs' IDdb3 Investigational Drugs database - information)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Subscribers to Current Drugs' IDdb3 Investigational Drugs database now have access to comprehensive and current scientific meeting report services. Before a meeting, Current Drugs publishes topical highlights, and afterwards, summary reports...

Platts.(contract with Oilspace Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Platts, the energy market division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, will offer its real-time price assessments, market data, and news services to customers of Oilspace Inc., which provides the Collaborative Commerce environment for global trade of...

DocuSeek.(database - information on product)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... DocuSeek (http://www.docuseek.com) is a searchable database for documentary, social issue, and educational videos. It is designed with the needs of video users in mind, and lets users search for videos by grade level, length, filmmaker, and...

Smartlogik Inc.(to offer search capabilities for ISI)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Smartlogik Inc. will provide search capabilities for ISI--whose platform includes the ISI Web of Science and Current Content Connect--plus the Derwent Innovations Index and BIOSIS Previews. The ISI solution will include Smartlogik's...

EBSCO Subscription Services.(contracts with BMJ Publishing Group and PubMed)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Under an agreement between EBSCO Subscription Services and BMJ Publishing Group, EBSCO Online will link to the full text of 26 BMJ journals. Founded in 1840, BMJ is the commercial division of the British Medical Association and publishes...

BIOSIS Previews.(CABI Publishing's database to be launched on ISI Web of Science)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Extended back-years for BIOSIS Previews will soon be available via ISI Web of Science. BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive database for life science research, covering original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas....

NewsML.(standard for management of multimedia news adopted by COMTEX News Network)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... COMTEX News Network has adopted NewsML, the standard for management of multimedia news based on the World Wide Web Consortium's Extensible Markup Language (XML), thus ensuring COMTEX compatibility with other NewsML-powered news sources so that...

MondoSearch.(Mondosoft Inc.'s search engine software - information)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Mondosoft Inc. will provide its MondoSearch search engine software and services for the ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC) Web site. The service will permit nonmembers of the consortium to navigate public areas of the Web site and give members the...

Inktomi.(Inktomi Search/Web service - information)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Inktomi Search/Web service has been enhanced to incorporate new relevance modeling, content blending, and content discovery technologies into its Web search platform. Inktomi's content discovery uses Internet crawling technologies to...

Northern Light Technology, Inc.(to add 100 newspaper titles to online business library)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Northern Light Technology, Inc. has formed agreements to bring over 100 new newspaper titles to its online business library, now numbering more than 7,100 publications. This expansion includes The New York Times, plus more than 100 newspapers...

Chronolog.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Dialog's print Chronolog publication has moved to monthly publication, except for July/August and November/December (nine issues in 2001). The print version will be shorter in length, but additional details will be available in the online...

CI Center.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... CI Center (http://www.factiva.com/Cicenter) is Factiva's new portal developed with the competitive intelligence consulting firm, Fuld & Co. Users have access to the latest CI trends through monthly interviews with CEOs, monthly tips from Fuld &...

Factiva Track Module.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Factiva Track Module is a new current awareness tool that displays filtered content within an intranet or portal. It is the latest tool in Factiva Integration, Factiva's suite of products that integrates Factiva's news and business information...

Congressional Quarterly.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Congressional Quarterly has launched a new, interactive home page (http://www.cq.com) that provides continuously updated Congressional news and analysis, plus CQ insights on Capitol Hill people, events, and ideas.

LEXIS-NEXIS Group.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... LEXIS-NEXIS Group has formed an alliance with Semio Corporation, a content-categorization software provider, to give its users the opportunity to use Semio Tagger, a taxonomy system that organizes large amounts of unstructured information...

U.K. Patent Office.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The U.K. Patent Office has decided not to allow patents on computer software or business methods. According to an Industry Standard report, a "business method" is basically just an abstract idea. The patenting of business methods achieved legal...

WestFind&Print.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... WestFind&Print gives Westlaw subscribers enhanced document delivery options by letting them retrieve as many as 18 Westlaw cases, statutes, or other documents at once, and send the results to any email address or download them to Word,...

SkyMinder.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Content from the Investext, MarkIntel, and Industry Insider collections from Thomson Financial is now accessible through SkyMinder (CRIBIS). Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database Plus was also recently integrated into SkyMinder, giving...

CreditModel.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... CreditModel, Standard & Poor's proprietary series of credit scoring models for public and private companies, now offers new Japanese models developed with a larger database of Japanese companies and more recent financial parameters....

A Census Bureau.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... A Census Bureau notice in the March 14, 2001 Federal Register mentions that certain manufacturing or retailing industries will soon be dropped from the "Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations." The...

U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, has announced it has no plans to issue a 2001 edition of U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook. The 2000 printed and CD-ROM versions are available for purchase from the NTIS Web site...

OzSoft.com.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... OzSoft.com has introduced a new investment article email alert service, which alerts investors to investment articles with analysis and insight of interest. The new email service is free and available from http://www.ozsoft.com. (888/841-2746)

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an enhanced Web site featuring streamlined images, two new search engines, and improved layout to speed navigation. The site offers public access to information about SEC actions,...

TheBankingChannel.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... TheBankingChannel (Thomson Financial) aggregates Thomson Financial's news, data, statistics, and research, and supplements it with pertinent third-party content from companies such as Dow Jones and Screaming Media. The site features searchable...

Globaltechnoscan.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Globaltechnoscan has launched an online mergers and acquisitions marketplace on its Web site (http://www.globaltechnoscan.com), which contains mergers and acquisitions opportunities from high-technology companies all over the world. The site...

Hoover's Online Europe Limited.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Hoover's Online Europe Limited has expanded its European presence to four additional countries by launching new foreign language Web sites in French (http://www.hoovers.com/fr), German (http://www.hoovers.com/de), Italian...

Alt-PressWatch.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Alt-PressWatch (SoftLine Information) is a new full-text database comprised of alternative and independent press newspapers, journals, and magazines. Content covered includes news, as well as national and international political, cultural, and...

Peopleware.(Intraware has promoted Larry Shoup to senior vice president)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Intraware has promoted Larry Shoup to senior vice president of product strategy, Dave Dunlap to senior vice president of business development, Kathy Shoop to vice president of marketing, and Brenda Everett to vice president of content asset...

Swets Blackwell.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Swets Blackwell and IBM have announced an agreement to develop and build a portfolio of Web-based information management products and services, which will allow corporate clients and end-users to purchase and manage their subscriptions online....

ScreamingMedia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... ScreamingMedia and Lucent Technologies have announced an agreement under which ScreamingMedia will integrate technology and content services with Lucent's MiLife Media Platform, a new product that lets mobile operators quickly launch...

NewsEdge Corporation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... NewsEdge Corporation has formed an alliance with Data Downlink Corporation, a provider of Internet-based online information services. Under the terms of the agreement, Data Downlink will add syndicated news from NewsEdge to its Portal B service...

Business.com.(NewsEDGE Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... NewsEdge Corporation has signed an agreement with Business.com (http://www.business.com), under which NewsEdge will license NewsEdge Refinery, NewsEdge's proprietary indexing technology and human review process, to Business.com. NewsEdge will...

bizjournals.com.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... bizjournals.com has entered into an alliance with Microsoft's bCentral to bring together local business news and bCentral's online business services in a single location for small businesses. bCentral provides technology tools such as an...

Deja.com.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... With the crash of the dot com economy, it is perhaps no surprise to see some search engines disappearing from the scene as well. This month's update notes the death of both the Infoseek Web search engine and the Deja.com Usenet search engine.

News Search Center.(AltaVista Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... AltaVista has gone through another facelift. Most of the portal content is gone, and the site loads faster. The Power Search and Raging Search are now linked under the Search Tools page rather than from the top page. AltaVista has added news...

AltaVista.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The regular or simple search box now processes a multiple word search using an automatic AND if the search query has four words or less and if none match a phrase in its common phrase database. If there are more than four search terms or if...

AltaVista simple search form.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Unfortunately, with this change, there was the unintended side effect of turning off phrase searching on the simple search. At the time of writing, using quotes to designate a phrase search did not work on the AltaVista simple search form....

Google Groups.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Deja.com is dead. The former DejaNews site, which provided searchable access to five years of Usenet news postings and the ability to read and post news, is gone. It now redirects to Google Groups (http://groups.google.com), since Google has...

Google.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Google had a backlash of negative feedback from some longtime Deja.com users, and while its Google Groups is a long way yet from the functionality of the old Deja.com site, it intends to load the whole archive and expand features. Since this is...

Excite.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Excite has added a new button after the search labeled "Zoom In." It causes another window to pop up which gives suggestions for ways to refine the search, in particular by adding more precise search terms.

Portable Document Format.(Google Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Google has expanded its Web index to begin including full-text indexing of over 13 million Web-accessible Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These are identified in Google search results with a [PDF] designation before the title....

Phone directory feature.(Google Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Google has also introduced a phone directory feature. Entering a person's name or phone number can pull results from its phone database above the regular search results. The database is U.S.-focused and is updated monthly.

Infoseek.(Walt Disney Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Infoseek, one of the earliest Web search engines, is dead. Purchased by Disney back in the summer of 1999 as the central search engine and directory part of the Go.com portal, Infoseek/Go had been languishing for some time. With Disney deciding...

Index Connect.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Inktomi has launched a new pay-for-inclusion program called Index Connect. For paying partners, it allows the submission of meta information about multimedia and other files via an XML interchange format. On some Inktomi partners, previously...

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT benefits of intranets.
May 1, 2001... THE FIRST GENERATION INTRANET WILL MAKE AN EASIER TRANSITION TO THE SECOND GENERATION IF STANDARDS GO INTO PLACE EARLY. What makes an intranet useful as the basis for Knowledge Management (KM)? Are there hints to be gathered in...

BUILDING bridges Among Intranet Cultures.
May 1, 2001... The increasing trend towards the globalization of businesses results in intranets established by offices in individual countries that are increasingly being integrated. There are two objectives for this integration: to provide either one...

INFORMATION SECURITY AND SHARING.
May 1, 2001... The role of information specialists has broadened in recent years, and, for many, it now includes shared responsibility for the security of the intellectual property of the organization. Information security is a responsibility that, broadly...

The "Ultra-Intra-Content-Knowledge-Net Management Portal Solution" Online's New Buzzword.
May 1, 2001... To understand any of the latest buzzwords describing intranet portals, ask the person who built an in-house system on-time and on-budget. To be confused about what an "Ultra-Intra-Content-Knowledge-Net Management Portal" solution might be, ask...

Making Content Findable.
May 1, 2001... How to Help Your Intranet Search Engine Do a Better Job Most online users have, at some point, experienced the frustration of searching in vain for a specific piece of information. Unsuccessful searching is especially frustrating when...

Researching News and Narratives for Public Companies.
May 1, 2001... Fueled by low interest rates, a 19-year bull market, and the acceptance of the Internet as a legitimate research tool for individuals and companies alike, business portal developers have recognized that there is a growing consumer demand for...

Bluetooth Bites Information Retrieval.
May 1, 2001... The Internet world is replete with buzzwords, trends, and rumors about the latest technologies coming to the fore. Ask anyone these days what the new darling of the Internet is, and they will tell you without a doubt that it's wireless...

European Macroeconomic Data in a Marketing Context.
May 1, 2001... To survive in today's global business environment, companies need to be market-driven, determining what it is that their customers want before providing it. Market-driven companies spend time researching their potential target markets and the...

DESIGN Searching: The Forgotten Corner of Intellectual Property.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Registered designs, also called industrial designs outside the U.K., rarely fall within the responsibilities of the average online searcher, even those who specialize in intellectual property. Yet they are increasing in importance for all...

Web Presence Indexing Software.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Internet is truly astounding for many reasons. Its sheer size and incredible rate of growth boggle the mind. The way it has changed how we communicate and how we gather information is amazing. Consider also its diversity. Seemingly...

Blogging Your Life Away.
May 1, 2001... Some people believe Weblogs represent a revolutionary new means of communication, comparable in some ways to the creation of the World Wide Web itself. A Weblog is an online journal--a Web page with a series of short entries in reverse...

Tracking Title Search Capabilities.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems. Since the dawn of online bibliographic searching, the title search has been an...

Quality Control in Business Research: Deja Vu All Over Again.
May 1, 2001... There are just too many wrong answers out there waiting to be found. Sometimes, I become discouraged about the role of quality control in online information for business research. There are just too many wrong answers out there waiting to...

Creating Cross-Functional Web Teams.
May 1, 2001... How you staff your Web team will depend on the priorities identified for the site, the time you have to execute these, and the amount of resources allocated to its development. The Web team. Not so long ago this was the group of techies...

Big Databases Pose Big Questions.
May 1, 2001... We may be at the point of diminishing returns with these mega-databases; they stretch the envelope so far that we may be better off contracting it instead of expanding it further. A new breed of giants is lumbering about our highways. They...

Being Inside-Out.
May 1, 2001... I value doing things inside-out, not because I want to create reaction in others but because it's congruent with my values. Aside from being steadfast and firm about my core values, there's not much else I'm particularly committed to. I'm...

Peters picks & pans.
May 1, 2001... German Medical Forum's MEDLINE CAM Citation Index Thereference.com The picks include a MEDLINE version from Germany and a topical MEDLINE subset covering alternative medicine. Ever since the launch of the very impressive and free PubMed,...

Recommended Reading for Expanding Your Knowledge Base.
May 1, 2001... This month we look at some books that I can't categorize with any one theme, except perhaps expanding your knowledge base. The guide to government Web sites will help you learn what's available, while the other three books are great references...

Eurostat.
May 1, 2001... The ability of governments to make statistics, reports, white papers, and other material available to the public is one of the most significant changes wrought by the Web. We don't have to stand inline at the information counter, or play...