Online articles from May 2003

Online archives from May 2003

Empowering researchers. (The Homepage).(Column)
May 1, 2003... Librarians who aren't the least bit threatened by office workers consulting a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a map become worried when it's the more advanced forms of research that are made readily available to the world at large. A word I've...

Library of the Future challenged. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... To the Editor: I am appalled by the title and implicit content of the January/February 2003 "Industry Insights"-that is, "Library of the Future" without the qualifier "Corporate" or "Special." As it stands, this column can serve as...

Library of the Future defended. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... To Walt Crawford: We clearly stated, "... libraries that have 'gone virtual' have moderately higher budgets than those that haven't...," so it's unclear why an administrator would cite our article as a reason, let alone the sole reason, to...

Show me the numbers. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... To the Editor: The "Library of the Future" article by Anthea Stratigos and Roger Strouse was very interesting. The authors refer to the opinion of percentages of some survey that I assume they conducted. While I think most of their...

Numbers revealed. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... To Virginian Bowden: There are actually three studies cited in the article. All are quantitative with large samples and represent research we designed and fielded and now have in databases. The data was pulled from: Our annual Content...

Microsoft recognizes research. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In its newest implementation of the immensely popular Office Suite, as released in beta 2, Microsoft has added research functionality, drawing on resources from Alacritude's eLibrary, Factiva's Publications Library, and Gale Group's Company...

Google acquires Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Pyra Labs, Inc., San Francisco, has agreed to be acquired by Google Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Blogging, the online journal publishing phenomenon, makes information available from individuals in real time. Pyra's main product is Blogger,...

Short takes. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March, based on the shareholders' vote. Austin Ventures and Marathon Partners withdrew their competing bid. In February, Reuters announced its intention to acquire Multex, thus giving the...

LoisLaw Public Records. (Legal).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records, an online database that contains searchable and cross-referenced public information on approximately 98 percent of the adult population in the U.S. It enables subscribers to conduct searches for...

Questel*Orbit has enhanced QPAT. (Legal).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Questel*Orbit has enhanced QPAT, its online patent search tool. Users can now create alerts, access full-text patent applications back to 1978, display results with an ordering capability toolbar, and display patent families [703/556-7493;...

LexisNexis has made available Practice Commentaries from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). (Legal).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... LexisNexis has made available Practice Commentaries from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). NITA's Practice Commentaries for the United States Code assist practitioners with interpreting the meaning of federal statutes and...

CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB). (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Census Bureau released the CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) that presents 4 decades (1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000) of tract series data. Information can be presented with either year-specific boundaries or weighted and...

FluentMedia broadened its supply of international news and commentary with the addition of the Financial Times. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FluentMedia broadened its supply of international news and commentary with the addition of the Financial Times to its list of information providers. Financial Times content will be included as part of FluentMedia's premium daily filtered news...

OneSource Information Services announced major enhancements to its Business Browser product line. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... OneSource Information Services announced major enhancements to its Business Browser product line. The new Find Executives module allows OneSource subscribers to locate and research prospects and colleagues by searching a database of over 6...

Reuters and Factiva have announced an expanded relationship that will increase customer access to Factiva's content through Reuters' financial products. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Reuters and Factiva have announced an expanded relationship that will increase customer access to Factiva's content through Reuters' financial products. The agreement covers two types of Factiva services: Global Press Watch will be integrated...

Applied Psychology Research Ltd (APR) has signed a product development agreement with Yell.com. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Applied Psychology Research Ltd (APR) has signed a product development agreement with Yell.com, a U.K.-based online classified directory service, to build a thesaurus management solution, SmartlogikThesBuilder. Under the agreement, APR will...

BASF Corporation, the North American affiliate of leading chemical company BASF AG. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... BASF Corporation, the North American affiliate of leading chemical company BASF AG, selected EasyAsk to develop its search and navigation corporate portal. Of particular interest to BASF were the natural language query abilities of EasyAsk's...

Libraryevents.com launched a new Web site that provides details on news and events of interest to the library community. (Portals & Intranets).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Libraryevents.com launched a new Web site that provides details on news and events of interest to the library community. A current awareness database, monthly newsletter, training courses, exhibitions, and conferences and library association...

ProQuest Information and Learning announced the addition of the full text of The Wall Street Journal to its family of ABI/INFORM business databases. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the addition of the full text of The Wall Street Journal to its family of ABI/INFORM business databases. However, the archive will only be available through ProQuest directly. Searchers who access...

ProQuest selected Innodata Corporation to provide ongoing content product manufacturing services on an extensive list of periodical titles. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ProQuest selected Innodata Corporation to provide ongoing content product manufacturing services on an extensive list of periodical titles. Under the agreement, Innodata will provide XML conversion and transformation services, digitization and...

WilsonWeb database service is now offering enhanced sharing of resources through WilsonLink. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... WilsonWeb database service is now offering enhanced sharing of resources through WilsonLink, powered by EX Libris's SFX technology. Researchers and library patrons can click from citations on Wilson Web databases to the full text of articles...

Xrefer announced the availability of a new content selection system for xreferplus, its digital reference library. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Xrefer announced the availability of a new content selection system for xreferplus, its digital reference library. All subscribers will now be able to choose the subscription option and content selection that best suits their needs, as well as...

Biz360 and Dialog have announced a partnership to help corporate executives manage their company's public perception. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Biz360 and Dialog have announced a partnership to help corporate executives manage their company's public perception. The effort will involve integrating Dialog's NewsEdge services with active market intelligence provided by Biz36O's media...

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has commissioned Snapshots International Ltd. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has commissioned Snapshots International Ltd, a publisher of top-line market research overviews, to supply tailored industry data for its Country Indicator Products and for use in its Executive Briefings....

E-centives, Inc., a provider of interactive direct marketing technologies and services. (Alliances & Deals).(acquires ConsumerREVIEW.com)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... E-centives, Inc., a provider of interactive direct marketing technologies and services, has acquired ConsumerREVIEW.com, a producer of online consumer product reviews and vertical Web communities. ConsumerREVIEW.com will be run as a separate...

Thunderstone Software LLC has introduced the Thunderstone Search Appliance that can reportedly handle 10 times the load of other turnkey search solutions. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Thunderstone Software LLC has introduced the Thunderstone Search Appliance that can reportedly handle 10 times the load of other turnkey search solutions. As a complete Web-search or intranet-search tool, it serves 1,000 typical searches per...

Atomica released GuruNet 4.0, an advanced version of its Atomica Slingshot application. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Atomica released GuruNet 4.0, an advanced version of its Atomica Slingshot application, which delivers real-time and reference information by a single click on a word or phrase. GuruNet operates in any Windows environment, providing an instant...

Specializing in visual investigative analysis software, anacubis. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Specializing in visual investigative analysis software, anacubis, a division of the Washington, D.C.-based i2 Group, has announced the availability of the anacubis Viewer for online information portals. As a Web-enabled visualization product,...

Sirsi Corporation, a provider of library management software. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Sirsi Corporation, a provider of library management software, has announced that MuseGlobal technology will be incorporated into the release of Sirsi SingleSearchT, version 2. SingleSearchT allows users to search multiple network-accessible...

Gale Group. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... George Plosker has left Gale Group to start his own consulting company, George Plosker and Associates (650/631-9251), aimed at helping publishers and libraries develop marketing, product, and service programs that improve alignment with their...

FIZ Karlsruhe. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe has named Sabine Brunger-Weilandt as managing director, succeeding Professor Georg Friedrich Schultheiss who retired in April 2003. A management and marketing expert, Ms. Brunger-Weilandt has held senior management positions and...

Knovel Corporation. (Peopleware).(appointed Delores Meglio editorial director and Glenn Pagan vice president of sales)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... knovel Corporation has named Delores Meglio as editorial director, overseeing publisher contract negotiations and content aggregation for corporate and academic markets. Ms. Meglio has held executive positions at Ziff-Davis, Thomson...

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Patrick Julius has been promoted to vice president of licensing and publishing operations at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). He will be responsible for managing CSA's relationships with information industry organizations and leading...

Alacritude, LLC. (Peopleware).(appointed Rich Kreisman vice president of business development)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Alacritude, LLC has announced the appointment of Rich Kreisman as vice president of business development, responsible for all revenue-generating activities. Previously he held posts with Thomson's Gale Group and Bell & Howell, as well as...

West Publishing. (Peopleware).(appointed Debbie Monroe, Ph.D., senior vice president/general manager of FindLaw)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... West Publishing has named Debbie Monroe, Ph.D., as senior vice president/general manager of FindLaw. She will continue to oversee the strategic direction and growth of the West Client Development Services business. Ms. Monroe has led the...

Dow Chemical Intellectual Asset Management (IAM). (Peopleware).(leader forms team to provide best practives guidelines services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Gordon Petrash, former Dow Chemical Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) leader, and Delphion chief IP strategist Rob Williamson have formed a team of IAM experts to provide IAM best practices guidance services. Petrash-Williamson has developed...

Thomson Legal & Regulatory. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Somia Mourad has been promoted to director, global strategy, for Thomson Legal & Regulatory, the lead market group of The Thomson Corporation.

MARC Link. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... MARC Link has named Maritta Coppieters as vice president, sales, and marketing, filling the position vacated by retiring Sharon Cline McKay. Ms. Coppieters will lead a library sales group for worldwide sales and take responsibility for the...

EOS International. (Peopleware).(appointed Salvatore Provenza director of sales and marketing for the Americas and the Asia Pacific regions)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... EOS International has announced the appointment of former Microsoft executive, Salvatore Provenza, as director of sales and marketing for the Americas and the Asia Pacific regions.

Innovative Interfaces. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Innovative Interfaces has announced the appointment of Sharon Hurd as director of sales, Digital Solutions. Ms. Hurd has held senior management positions with Northern Light Technology and EBSCO.

NewsRX. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Former WebMD executive producer Dominique Walton Brooks, M.D., has joined NewsRX as senior medical editor. In addition, three board-certified life science editors have joined the team as senior medical writers: Janet L. Tremaine, Nancy S....

ProQuest Company. (Peopleware).(appointed Ron Klausner president, ProQuest Information and Learning)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ProQuest Company announced the appointment of Ron Klausner as president, ProQuest Information and Learning.

FindLaw has agreed to provide a comprehensive collection of law-related content and resources to Clear Channel Television Interactive. (Legal).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FindLaw has agreed to provide a comprehensive collection of law-related content and resources to Clear Channel Television Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of Clear Channel Television. Under the agreement, FindLaw will provide law-related...

Thomson Patent Store, offering users the ability to order any patent document from anywhere in the world through a single interface. (Legal).
May 1, 2003... Thomson Derwent launched the Thomson Patent Store, offering users the ability to order any patent document from anywhere in the world through a single interface. Over 40 million patent documents can be ordered through the Direct View one-click...

Internet search engine update.(AlltheWeb)
May 1, 2003... AlltheWeb has been busy, adding full Boolean searching, redesigning its site, and looking towards a new owner. It added full Boolean searching capability on the advanced search page using AND, OR, and ANDNOT. These operators, and nesting with...

Planning your way to a more usable Web site.
May 1, 2003... Books and articles abound on the topic of developing Web-u sable sites. In fact, there was one in the last issue of ONLINE (Thomas Pack, "Fiddling with the Internet Dials: Understanding Usability" March/April 2003, pp. 36-38). Many of us have...

Topic mapping for context, searching for content: graphical approaches in the new generation are almost "meta"-topic/concept maps.
May 1, 2003... COMBINE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS with visionary entrepreneurs and what do you get? The development of new and exciting ways to retrieve, organize, visualize, and comprehend information graphically and intuitively. Companies are springing up to...

Who was, whols, and who will be: domain name ownership research tools.
May 1, 2003... Brands and organizational identities have traditionally been defined and protected by copyright and trademark registration as well as their common public use. In cyberspace, domain names have become the real deeds to your virtual real estate...

Analyze that: LexisNexis Media Analyzer.
May 1, 2003... EXPERIENCED BUSINESS researchers know how difficult it is to track press coverage of companies. Getting an overall count of how many times the company was mentioned in the press has been getting steadily easier as more publications appear in...

Using pharmaceutical development product databases for competitive intelligence.
May 1, 2003... Information sources available about pharmaceutical products under development are essential for competitive intelligence, part of the heterogeneous pieces of the mosaic that contribute to forming a full, known picture of a competitor...

No more waiting for Dialog alerts enhancements.(Illustration)
May 1, 2003... WHEN it comes to multifile alerts on Dialog, many information professionals felt like poor Ralphie Parker from the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, endlessly waiting for his Little Orphan Annie secret decoder. Maybe it got lost in the mail? ...

Unlocking URLs: extensions, shortening options, and other oddities; as pages change, understanding more than just the basics can help track down new locations and find older information. (On the Net).
May 1, 2003... Yes, I know, for those on the Net for years, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) seem pretty obvious and self-explanatory. URLs are now so prevalent in all kinds of media that it is easy to get rather blase about them. Yet as the Web matures, the...

Resourceful business and company research. (The Dollar Sign).
May 1, 2003... Gale's recent introduction of Business & Company Resource Center 2.0 and EBSCO's enhancements to Business Source Premier, Business Source Elite, Business Source Corporate, and Corporate ResourceNet provide more choices for business research....

Managing electronic content logjams: these logjams are the result of outdated publisher and vendor business models. (Industry Insights).
May 1, 2003... Web-based technology is enabling content deployers to meet users' needs more efficiently and to create new models for valuing information. Yet these deployers frequently bump up against e-content logjams in the sell-side of the distribution...

Protecting your Web site, protecting your users: when I consider the many areas of Web site management, it is the issue of security that has literally kept me up nights. (Web Site Management).
May 1, 2003... Web security, whether Internet or intranet, is a confusing and difficult issue for Web managers. When I consider the many areas of Web site management, it is the issue of security that has literally kept me up nights. I worry about whether we...

The whys and hows of intranet marketing: your marketing efforts should be akin to Chinese water torture--unrelenting and continuous. (Intranet Librarian).
May 1, 2003... Want to ensure your intranet is used to its full potential? The answer lies in marketing. Your marketing strategy needs to employ a mix of sober selling techniques devoid of hype, as well as those with some zing to grab attention. The key is to...

QuestionPoint fortifies libraries in Internet age; online library reference presents the same advantages as does online library content: it's authoritative, reliable, professional, and free. (O'Leary Online).
May 1, 2003... The proliferation of virtual content is an important trend for libraries in recent years. It's instructive to recall your library of 15, 10, or even 5 years ago: a physical collection in a physical location. Now, almost every library has a Web...

Peter's picks & pans: Consulta; Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography; JournalSearch.com.
May 1, 2003... This month, the two picks include an impressive Spanish-language reference collection from the Gale Group (for which I write monthly reviews, one of which was on this product), and an excellently edited and presented bibliography about...

Recommended reading on the technical aspects of librarianship. (Hardcopy).
May 1, 2003... This month I look at books to help librarians in the technical aspects of their jobs. Read these books to learn about the principles of computer-based training, develop Web pages using database technology, demystify and apply P3P technology,...

That darned L-word. (Online Spotlight).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... One of the fascinating things about having been a librarian (or now, perhaps, a lapsed librarian) for a quarter-century is that I have watched our profession try to figure out who the heck we are for a long time. Back when I attended graduate...

Factiva and divine, Inc. have announced Factiva's offer of a replacement product for customers of divine's discontinued Special Collection service. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Factiva and divine, Inc. have announced Factiva's offer of a replacement product for customers of divine's discontinued Special Collection service. At no additional charge, qualified customers will receive access to a special version of Factiva...

Elsevier, Inc., The MIT Press, Sage Publications, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. have announced a settlement in the Westwood Copies copyright infringement suit. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Elsevier, Inc., The MIT Press, Sage Publications, and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. have announced a settlement in the Westwood Copies copyright infringement suit. The defendants have agreed to pay an undisclosed amount in damages for past...

EBSCO Information Services, partnering with ExLibris. (Alliances & Deals).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... EBSCO Information Services, partnering with ExLibris, now provides the invoice data and format specifications that allow libraries using the ALEPH500 system to load EDIFACT serials invoices from EBSCO. An interface between the two systems...

Blackwell Publishing announced the addition of over 250 social science and humanities journals to its online research tool Blackwell Synergy. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Blackwell Publishing announced the addition of over 250 social science and humanities journals to its online research tool Blackwell Synergy. Many of the articles are available in full-text HTML and PDF formats and contain CrosRef links to...

Gale added the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography to its Infotrac search platform. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Gale added the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography to its Infotrac search platform. This literature and humanities reference tool includes 1.5 million citations from 8,000 journals, dating from 1963 to the present, and is...

Gale also unveiled its first Spanish-language Resource Center, Consulta. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Gale also unveiled its first Spanish-language Resource Center, Consulta, as the centerpiece of a growing line of products for the Spanish-speaking community. Through a partnership with Barcelona-based Oceana Grupo Editorial, Consulta includes...

H.W. Wilson enhanced its WilsonWeb databases Art Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson enhanced its WilsonWeb databases Art Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text. The additions feature peer-reviewed journals and core sourcebooks in their respective fields, bringing total content to over 550 periodicals. Art Full...

Thomson Derwent announced the development of Derwent Web of Nanotechnology. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Thomson Derwent announced the development of Derwent Web of Nanotechnology, the only Web-based resource that delivers nanotechnology-related patent records from Derwent, Thomson ISI, and editorially approved Web sites. Over 35,000 patent...

knovel Corporation. (Sci-Tech).(adds chemistry references)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... knovel Corporation announced the release of six new chemistry references from major publishers within their online offerings. Content now includes 66 interactive cross-searchable books and databases totaling 285,000 records and is growing at a...

Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. will add additional databases to ChemVillage. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. will add additional databases to ChemVillage. Access is now provided to Bretherick's Reactive Chemical Hazards Database, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts (CEABA), Advanced Chemistry...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Information noted that links to the Chemical Registry System (CRS) and the Biological Registry System (BioRS). (Sci-Tech).(changed to the Substance Registry System part of the EPA web site)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Information noted that links to the Chemical Registry System (CRS) and the Biological Registry System (BioRS) have been changed to the Substance Registry System (SRS). Old...