Online articles from May 2004

Online archives from May 2004

Being virtual.(the homepage)
May 1, 2004... Language is a funny thing. When I first learned about online searching, it was taught as commanding the system to find what we needed to find. Not wanted, needed. Searchers were in charge, controlling the process. The onus of a successful...

Dialog gets SmartTerms, new platform, BillBack.(Industry News)
May 1, 2004... A common taxonomy, intended to work across multiple Dialog products, is now available in Dialog Profound and Dialog NewsRoom. SmartTerms uses over 855,000 terms, including 3,200 for industries, 375 for subjects, 500 for geography, 800,000...

Saving your work with Onfolio.(Industry News)(online information management software company)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Searching is only part of the entire online research process; organizing and presenting results is just as important. Onfolio software, priced at $29.95 for standard and $79.95 for the professional version, allows you to capture content as text...

Dynamic searching of World FactBook using xrefer.(Industry News)
May 1, 2004... The CIA World FactBook is the newest reference work to join xreferplus, but it's implementation adds new dimensions to online research. This is not static data. You can create customized tables that compare one country's data with another,...

Net Snippets released its Professional Edition.(Search Engines)(online information management software company)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Net Snippets released its Professional Edition. Providing the ability to generate reports and create professional documents using Internet data, this new version is geared towards meeting the more specific, multi-faceted needs of various...

The Lycos.com home page relaunched as a hub for personal connections, giving users a single starting place to manage their Internet experience and a way to connect with others.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Lycos.com home page relaunched as a hub for personal connections, giving users a single starting place to manage their Internet experience and a way to connect with others. Lycos Search will anchor the new Lycos home page, with convenient...

Adding to its stable of discipline-specific Dome database products, ContentScan, Inc. announced the launch of CancerDome.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Adding to its stable of discipline-specific Dome database products, ContentScan, Inc. announced the launch of CancerDome. Dedicated to meet the information needs of professionals and students in the field of clinical and research oncology,...

The Thomson Corporation announced enhancements to the BIOSIS Previews database available through Dialog and Dialog DataStar.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Thomson Corporation announced enhancements to the BIOSIS Previews database available through Dialog and Dialog DataStar. Included are abstracts from thousands of sources published worldwide, such as articles from professional journals,...

Scopeware, an information management software company, announced the launch of NewsWatcher, a Windows application for direct feed personalized news.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Scopeware, an information management software company, announced the launch of NewsWatcher, a Windows application for direct feed personalized news. NewsWatcher uses RSS technology to deliver regularly updated feeds from popular sites,...

RushClips, a new high-speed news monitoring and press clipping service from CyberAlert, Inc., delivers news clips throughout the business day from over 3,500 online news sources.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... RushClips, a new high-speed news monitoring and press clipping service from CyberAlert, Inc., delivers news clips throughout the business day from over 3,500 online news sources. RushClips also incorporates once-a-day overnight clip delivery...

Rocketinfo.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Rocketinfo is launching an RSS reader that will provide access to current news and information from over 80,000 RSS and Weblog sources, including the Rocketnews current news database [613/270-0720; www.rocketinfo.com].

Over 150 online journals are now available from Sabinet Online via its SA ePublications Service.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Over 150 online journals are now available from Sabinet Online via its SA ePublications Service. Additionally, Sabinet has introduced six ePublications Collections--Business & Finance, Law, Medicine & Health, Religion, Science, Technology &...

Originating from United Press International, LexisNexis is adding English-language news from Arabia 2000.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Originating from United Press International, LexisNexis is adding English-language news from Arabia 2000, which includes the Iranian News Agency, Saudi Press Agency, and Yemen News Agency, and Spanish-language content from UPI-LatAm News...

Chemical Abstracts Service and CSA have agreed to add eight CSA databases to the STN International online network during 2004.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Chemical Abstracts Service and CSA have agreed to add eight CSA databases to the STN International online network during 2004. With the agreement, STN remains the largest independent online provider of CSA databases. The new databases add...

Swets Information Services will provide access to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Web Editions.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Swets Information Services will provide access to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Web Editions, the current online content of ACS journals, via SwetsWise, which now carries a total of 7,787 full-text publications from 295 publishers, with...

LexisNexis' new release of lexis.com provides links from multiple source material selection locations to CourtLink Strategic Profiles, document retrieval, and tracking services.(Legal)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... LexisNexis' new release of lexis.com provides links from multiple source material selection locations to CourtLink Strategic Profiles, document retrieval, and tracking services. This new connection enables lexis.com subscribers to access the...

Thomson Financial has made infrastructure improvements to Thomson Datastream, increasing capacity by 35 percent and providing improved client query response times.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Thomson Financial has made infrastructure improvements to Thomson Datastream, increasing capacity by 35 percent and providing improved client query response times. Users can now access Thomson Datastream through PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling...

Thomas Industrial Network, Inc. announced the launch of ThomasNet.com.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Thomas Industrial Network, Inc. announced the launch of ThomasNet.com. The new site, powered by Thomas Register and Thomas Regional, offers information on over 650,000 distributors, manufacturers, and service companies within more than 67,000...

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Financial Times now offer FT News on EIU ViewsWire as a premium add-on channel.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Financial Times now offer FT News on EIU ViewsWire as a premium add-on channel. It offers subscribers a continuous news feed with up to 400 articles a day from all eight regional editions of the...

American Psychological Association (APA).(Social Sciences & Humanities)(license agreement with EBSCO)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The American Psychological Association (APA) will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, APA's new gray...

ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde...

H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles. Coming from decades of print indexes, the...

After almost 20 years at Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, Arnoud de Kemp decided to leave the company to pursue new projects.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... After almost 20 years at Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, Arnoud de Kemp decided to leave the company to pursue new projects. As deputy member of the board, he held global responsibility for marketing and sales of both print products...

Thomson Learning.(Peopleware)(Gordon T. Macomber the new president of Thomson Gale)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Thomson Learning, a division of The Thomson Corporation, announced that Gordon T. Macomber will be the next president of Thomson Gale, reporting to Ron Dunn. Macomber replaces Allen Paschal, and comes to Gale from Merriam-Webster. He has also...

EDGAR Online.(Peopleware)(Stefan Chopin, Doug Richardson, Deb Doane, and Liv Watson appointments and promotions)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... EDGAR Online appointed Stefan Chopin chief technology officer and Doug Richardson as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Deb Doane has been promoted to vice president of product marketing while Liv Watson moves into the position of...

YellowBrix, a leading provider of targeted information products and content-customization technology, and FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Media Services, announced the merger of their operations.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... YellowBrix, a leading provider of targeted information products and content-customization technology, and FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Media Services, announced the merger of their operations. The new organization will...

netLibrary and Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced an agreement to release a number of high-demand ITI titles as eBooks through netLibrary, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... netLibrary and Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced an agreement to release a number of high-demand ITI titles as eBooks through netLibrary, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. With several releases planned per month,...

ProQuest Information and Learning has acquired Copley Publishing Group, Inc., which publishes high-quality customized textbooks for academic use.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning has acquired Copley Publishing Group, Inc., which publishes high-quality customized textbooks for academic use. The new product line will become part of ProQuest's XanEdu faculty and student resources for the...

The Thomson Corporation will acquire 90 percent of the privately held CCBN, Inc. (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) it did not previously own.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Thomson Corporation will acquire 90 percent of the privately held CCBN, Inc. (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) it did not previously own. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CCBN's investor relations Web site...

Emerald announced the release of JADE (Journal Article Delivery Engine), an online article submission and peer review system.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Emerald announced the release of JADE (Journal Article Delivery Engine), an online article submission and peer review system. JADE provides a single, end-to-end content management solution for Emerald journal authors and editors alike. JADE...

Verity does federate search.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editor: Contrary to the statement in Donna Fryer's article in the March/April 2004 issue of ONLINE ("Federated Search Engines," p. 16-19), Verity does, in fact, offer a robust Federated Search capability. Using Verity's Federator, a...

AltaVista and AlltheWeb.(services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... AltaVista and AlltheWeb, although now owned by Yahoo!, still continue to have their own, unique databases, plus separate, unique search features. Although their image, news, and media databases have been combined, their main Web page databases...

Ask Jeeves.(purchasing of Interactive Search Holdings)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ask Jeeves has announced that it will be purchasing Interactive Search Holdings, a company that includes the MyWay.com, My Search, My Web Search, iWon, and Excite search sites. These sites currently use either Google results or offer results...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Gigablast continues to add new features. The latest additions are the links to archived pages for each of the URLs in a results list. This is in addition to the cached archive of that page. The new links are labeled as "older copies" and link...

Google.(expansion of web database)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Google announced an expanded Web database (from 3.3 billion to 4.285 billion) and an enlarged image database (doubled to about 880 million images). Google's last announced increase went to 3.3 billion a few days after AlltheWeb announced a...

Lycos.(new services with new features)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Lycos is changing again. Its new interface is designed around the idea of social networking, a recent hot topic on the Internet. While much of the content on the older site remains, including search, the focus is now more on personal publishing...

MSN Search.(ending the collaboration with LookSmart)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... MSN Search no longer includes results from LookSmart. In the past, directory listings from LookSmart came before the Inktomi search engine results. Now, MSN Search uses only the Inktomi results. It has also launched its own toolbar. MSN...

Yahoo!(new search engine database)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Yahoo! launched a new search engine database [http:/ /search.yahoo.com] that no longer uses Google results. Instead, it appears to have results based in part on an Inktomi-based database, but the results differ from other Inktomi-based search...

Dictionary services and spelling aids for Web searching: when entering search terms, not everyone spells correctly. This will probably not come as a great shock to readers of ONLINE, but it does cause aggravation.
May 1, 2004... Today's online researchers, conditioned by general Web search engines like Google and specialized ones like ClinicalTrials.gov, expect spell checking to be in place. They don't consider it an added feature or a special bonus that enhances...

The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on corporate research.
May 1, 2004... For company researchers, Sarbanes-Oxley is the silver lining in the bubble-bursting blitz of corporate scandals that hit U.S. markets in 2001 and 2002. In late 2001, Enron collapsed into bankruptcy, taking Arthur Andersen down with it. Between...

Creating user profiles to improve information quality.
May 1, 2004... It seems a utopian vision: providing the correct information to the right individual at the precise time in the desired format. How can information professionals do that? How can the information professional know what each individual wants and...

ContentScan's CancerDome: the Big C--cancer--is the focus of ContentScan's newest Dome product.(ContentScan Inc.)
May 1, 2004... Adding to its discipline-specific Dome database products in neurology (NeuroDome) and communication disorders (ComDisDome), privately held ContentScan, Inc. has brought its model of expert editorial input to the field of clinical and research...

Facing live reference.
May 1, 2004... Live reference (LR) is growing in popularity--people have discovered the convenience of chatting online with a librarian for their information needs. Almost anyone with access to the Internet can use this service, which is now becoming a...

Search engine prefixes and shortcuts.(on the net)(Column)
May 1, 2004... Shortcuts are the searcher's friend. Anything that saves time during a search helps expedite the entire online process. The quicker the route to the answer, the better. I have written about various types of shortcuts before. In May 1998,...

Taming public and private company research.(the dollar sign)
May 1, 2004... It's a given among business researchers that public company information is vastly easier to come by than private company information. Less understood by novice business researchers are the implications of this duality. What information can you...

Getting your Web site recognized.(web site management)
May 1, 2004... Sounds easy, publicizing your Web site, but in fact it's probably one of the more daunting aspects of any Web development project, particularly for the techies among us. It's an area where project teams spend the least amount of time and...

Learning from best practices.(The Information Strategist)(Column)
May 1, 2004... In last issue's introductory column, I defined the information strategist and provided previews on what the column s focus would be. Based on good fortune, this month's column looks at lessons learned from two leading technology companies and...

Heuristic and cognitive walk-through evaluations.(intranet librarian)
May 1, 2004... Intranet teams must continually evaluate, adapt, and modify their sites. As more features and applications are added to the intranet, the user interface inevitably becomes more complex. To keep pace with the new projects and tools coming...

IDEAS, LogEc, EconLit.(Peter's picks & pans)
May 1, 2004... All three reviews in this issue focus on economic literature databases. Economics has been the turf of the EconLit database for decades. In the past few years, however, there have been many projects to make at least the abstracts of substantial...

The Web Conferencing Book.(hardcopy)
May 1, 2004... **1/2 The Web Conferencing Book by Sue Spielman and Liz Winfeld ISBN: 0-8144-7174-9 Published: 2003 Pages: 256 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95 Available from: AMACOM Books, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019;...

Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: the Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers.(hardcopy)
May 1, 2004... *** Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers by Margaret Metcalf Carr ISBN: 0-910965-64-1 Published: 2003 Pages: 332 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95 Available...

The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication.(hardcopy)
May 1, 2004... ***1/2 The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication by Rachael Singer Gordon ISBN: 0-8108-4895-3 Published: 2004 Pages: 202 pp.; softcover Price: $34.95 Available from: Scarecrow Press, Inc., Rowman & Littlefield...

A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976.(hardcopy)
May 1, 2004... *** A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 by Charles R Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn ISBN: 0-262-02538-8 Published: 2003 Pages: 493 pp.; hardcover Price: $45.00 Available from: The MIT Press, 5...

Factiva's new "experience".(Advanced search interface.)
May 1, 2004... Factiva has seen several iterations of its search interface over the last few years. The old Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing services were folded into Factiva.com back in 2001; a more sophisticated search interface was...