Online articles from May 2006

Online archives from May 2006

Innovation starts here.(homepage)
May 1, 2006... Does it startle you that more people can identify Google than EBSCOhost; mention Yahoo! in casual conversation than Factiva; or think search couldn't possibly pre-date the Internet, having never heard of Dialog? I thought not. Web search...

Reed Elsevier unveils new Nexis.(new interface is tabular in design)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The "new Nexis" debuted in the U.S. in early March, heralded by LexisNexis as having a "new look, new features, and new functionality." Initially rolled out in Europe in February, the new Nexis reflects LexisNexis' development of a global...

Connotea software supports institutional repositories.(institutional repositories running EPrints)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) released new software that enables institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us. Content within institutional repositories can be bookmarked,...

FRANCIS, the international humanities, social sciences, and economics database, is now available on CSA Illumina.(Social Sciences and Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... FRANCIS, the international humanities, social sciences, and economics database, is now available on CSA Illumina. This multilingual database includes a particular emphasis on European publications [301/961-6761; www.csa.com].

Play Index has been added to Wilson-Web.(Social Sciences and Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Play Index has been added to Wilson-Web. It covers some 30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. Play Index includes links to hand-picked Web sites that often feature the full text [800/367-6770;...

ProQuest reveals financial problems.(plans to restate its earnings)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ProQuest Company delayed filing its annual financial report (10-K) for 2005 with the SEC because it plans to restate its earnings. According to the company, material irregularities in its accounting were found during an internal controls...

LexisNexis U.S. and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that LexisNexis Taxonomy Solutions will be offered through the FAST Enterprise Search Platform.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that LexisNexis Taxonomy Solutions will be offered through the FAST Enterprise Search Platform. FAST customers will be able to leverage proprietary taxonomies to dramatically improve...

Nexidia announced the availability of Nexidia Developer Edition, the company's new software development platform, which enables content creators and aggregators to deliver rich media search capabilities through the Web.(phonetic search engine)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Nexidia announced the availability of Nexidia Developer Edition, the company's new software development platform, which enables content creators and aggregators to deliver rich media search capabilities through the Web. The software is built...

Thomson West introduced Westlaw RegulationsPlus, covering all sections of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, as well as past versions, amendments, pending changes, and citing court documents.(historical Federal Register content)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Thomson West introduced Westlaw RegulationsPlus, covering all sections of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, as well as past versions, amendments, pending changes, and citing court documents--plus editorially created federal case law...

Wolters Kluwer announced that its legal and compliance businesses Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International, and Loislaw are now aligned under the new brand name Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer announced that its legal and compliance businesses Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International, and Loislaw are now aligned under the new brand name Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. The well-known names of each of these...

The Elite Business Intelligence solution from Thomson Elite now offers enhanced capabilities and additional ways to retrieve and share performance data for law firms and other professional services organizations.(business intelligence platform )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Elite Business Intelligence solution from Thomson Elite now offers enhanced capabilities and additional ways to retrieve and share performance data for law firms and other professional services organizations. Elite Business Intelligence...

LexisNexis U.S. announced the launch of the LexisNexis Toolbar, available via a free download to lexis.com subscribers.(latest version of the company's award-winning information)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. announced the launch of the LexisNexis Toolbar, available via a free download to lexis.com subscribers. The toolbar provides access to more than 32,000 sources of legal, news, and business information. It also introduced...

ChemTable Software announced the release of PL Table 4.0, a tool for receiving quick and accurate data on all chemical elements.(electroconductivity, electronegativity, density)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ChemTable Software announced the release of PL Table 4.0, a tool for receiving quick and accurate data on all chemical elements. In development for 6 years, PL Table provides more than 20 various data types on each element, including atomic...

Questel*Orbit announced the addition of an SDI feature for new chemical structures in the Merged Markush Service (MMS).(enhancement of an SDI feature)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Questel*Orbit announced the addition of an SDI feature for new chemical structures in the Merged Markush Service (MMS). These SDIs will extract new compound number (CN) results from updates of MMS that match an SDI query. SDI results can in...

Questel*Orbit also announced that it will distribute Bayer Business Services' Wistract information management software designed for researchers, patent attorneys, and information professionals.( information management software)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Questel*Orbit also announced that it will distribute Bayer Business Services' Wistract information management software designed for researchers, patent attorneys, and information professionals. It extracts business-related knowledge from a...

Fifteen peer-reviewed journals published by the National Research Council of Canada.(covering scientific fields)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Fifteen peer-reviewed journals published by the National Research Council of Canada, covering most scientific fields, are now available in full text on WilsonWeb [800/367-6770; www.hwwilson.com].

Swets Information Services.(Swets Information Services contracts with publishing industry)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Swets Information Services announced the signing of five new publishers in the scientific area to SwetsWise Online Content: American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists; e-Med; Haeceitty, Inc.; LibraPharm Ltd; and TheScientificWorld Ltd [+31...

Checkpoint RIA expanded its strategic partnership with BNA.(Business and Finance partnership with BNA)(Checkpoint RIA )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Checkpoint RIA expanded its strategic partnership with BNA. Subscribers to Checkpoint will have access to BNA tax content, including BNA Portfolios, which include transactional analysis on topics such as income, estate, state, and international...

EDGAR Online, Inc. now delivers Chinese company fundamental data from both the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format.(Business and Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... EDGAR Online, Inc. now delivers Chinese company fundamental data from both the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. It includes current financial filings...

LexisNexis U.S. announced the availability of the RecoverScore solution for its collections customers.(Business and Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. announced the availability of the RecoverScore solution for its collections customers. It uses advanced data mining and modeling techniques to identify the most collectible accounts and rank order them, analyzing accounts based...

Silobreaker.(Silobreaker joint venture with Infosphere)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Silobreaker, a current awareness service focused on analysis of global instabilities, announced its formal launch into the U.S. marketplace following its introduction into the European market last year. The service is a joint venture of...

PR Newswire and del.icio.us announced a partnership to allow visitors to PR Newswire's public Web site to tag individual news releases and post them into their personal profiles on del.icio.us.(partnerships)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... PR Newswire and del.icio.us announced a partnership to allow visitors to PR Newswire's public Web site to tag individual news releases and post them into their personal profiles on del.icio.us, along with links to blogs, articles, Web sites,...

EBSCO Publishing announced the release of Executive Daily Brief (EDB) in partnership with the Content Analyst Company.(Content Analyst Company partnerships)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... EBSCO Publishing announced the release of Executive Daily Brief (EDB) in partnership with the Content Analyst Company. EDB combines Content Analyst's patented Concept Search engine with premium content offered by EBSCO to create a customizable...

HighBeam Research, Inc.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... HighBeam Research, Inc. announced a series of upgrades to its free content collection, offering more than 1.5 million full-text free articles from more than 200 sources to individual researchers. Additionally, HighBeam has begun spidering and...

National Archive Publishing Company.(service introduction of new NAPC Content Solutions service )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC) announced its new NAPC Content Solutions service to support libraries with content management options for their imaging and digitization projects [800/420-6272; www.napubco.com].

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).(service introduction of websites)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled an updated version of its Web site, featuring enhanced navigational tools and search capabilities, and educational resources for parents, teachers, and students. Additionally, new state-by-state...

Bowker announced the debut of Fiction Connection, a new readers' advisory tool for BooksInPrint.com customers.(service introduction of Fiction Connection)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Bowker announced the debut of Fiction Connection, a new readers' advisory tool for BooksInPrint.com customers. Fiction and biography books published in the U.S. can now be identified, thereby enabling patrons or librarians to search similar...

H.W. Wilson announced a round of improvements to WilsonWeb.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson announced a round of improvements to WilsonWeb. The new WilsonWeb 2.6 includes more versatile searching of the journal directory; clickable images in results lists on biography databases; more navigable results on periodicals...

Kanoodle, a provider of sponsored links to many popular Web sites, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with MSN.(Kanoodle distribution agreement with MSN)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Kanoodle, a provider of sponsored links to many popular Web sites, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with MSN. Kanoodle will provide its content targeted sponsored links to MSN Spaces [212/367-6920; www.kanoodle.com].

Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group.(new appointments)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Clare Hart, formerly Factiva president and CEO, was named executive vice president, Dow Jones, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. Hart was also named chair of Factiva's six-person board of directors. Claude Green, former deputy...

Ask.(Search Engine Watch news editor)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) announced the appointment of Gary Price, former Search Engine Watch news editor and creator of ResourceShelf, as director of online information resources. Price will lead Ask's outreach efforts within the library...

Scirus.(appointed Sharon Mombru as a managing director )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Scirus appointed Sharon Mombru managing director with overall responsibility for Scirus, including the development of new product concepts and market strategy, as well as management of the team.

Thomson Corporation.(MichaelWilens as executive vice president)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Thomson Corporation announced the appointment of MichaelWilens as executive vice president, corporate chief technology and operations officer, and Richard Benson-Armer as senior vice president, corporate chief strategy officer. These are...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(promotion of Simon Beale to senior vice president)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the promotion of Simon Beale to senior vice president, Global Sales.

Wolters Kluwer.(appointment of Deidra D. Gold to executive vice president)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer announced the appointment of Deidra D. Gold to executive vice president and general counsel for its corporate activities in North America.

OCLC purchased the assets of Openly Informatics, a leading provider of linking software and services for the library market.(electronic books)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... OCLC purchased the assets of Openly Informatics, a leading provider of linking software and services for the library market. Openly Informatics' 1.2 million-record database of linking metadata for electronic resources will be used within OCLC...

MPS Technologies has appointed Swets as the first Global Channel Partner for ScholarlyStats, the new service from MPS Technologies for libraries that is designed to assist in the managing and evaluating of usage statistics from multiple sources.(MPS Technologies)(Global Channel Partner for ScholarlyStats)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... MPS Technologies has appointed Swets as the first Global Channel Partner for ScholarlyStats, the new service from MPS Technologies for libraries that is designed to assist in the managing and evaluating of usage statistics from multiple...

EBSCO and WebFeat announced a partnership that will allow the federated search engine WebFeat Express to be sold as an add-on product to EBSCO's online title listing service EBSCO A-to-Z.(handle federated search configuration )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... EBSCO and WebFeat announced a partnership that will allow the federated search engine WebFeat Express to be sold as an add-on product to EBSCO's online title listing service EBSCO A-to-Z. Designed to appeal to small to medium-sized libraries,...

Teragram, a provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, was selected to provide categorization and entities extraction technologies to Reed Business Information (RBI).(Reed Business Information)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Teragram, a provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, was selected to provide categorization and entities extraction technologies to Reed Business Information (RBI). Teragram technology will power information retrieval...

Thomson Scientific announced the new Thomson Pharma Brand Management Module.(pharmaceutical industry)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific announced the new Thomson Pharma Brand Management Module, a strategic tool designed to help executives in the areas of product, brand, and franchise management in the global pharmaceutical industry to develop effective...

Wolters Kluwer Health introduced an enhanced version of its Adis Clinical Trials Insight database of global clinical trial data.(Adis Clinical Trials Insight database)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer Health introduced an enhanced version of its Adis Clinical Trials Insight database of global clinical trial data. Providing ongoing and published trial data in a single searchable database, Adis Clinical Trials Insight assists...

ChoiceMaker Technologies, Inc.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ChoiceMaker Technologies, Inc., a supplier of record-matching software, announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected its software for use with the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)...

Groxis and EBSCO Publishing have partnered to deliver a visual search feature as part of several other enhancements to EBSCOhost.(Grokker display features)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Groxis and EBSCO Publishing have partnered to deliver a visual search feature as part of several other enhancements to EBSCOhost. Using Grokker display features, Visual Search is an alternative to EBSCO's Basic and Advanced search modes. Search...

ClearStory Systems, Inc. divested its Radiant Document Solutions to Datawatch Corporation for $4.3 million plus an earn-out structured over 18 months.(management solutions for digital media businesses )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ClearStory Systems, Inc. divested its Radiant Document Solutions to Datawatch Corporation for $4.3 million plus an earn-out structured over 18 months. This will let ClearStory focus on its core content management solutions for digital media...

The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., received a grant of $4.45 million from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to make learning material free on the Internet.(William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., received a grant of $4.45 million from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to make learning material free on the Internet. Its "Open Educational Resources," which will select and make available...

Complinet uses Factiva data, not vice versa.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... I read Marydee Ojala's recent compliance article ("Due Diligence Research," ONLINE, March/April 2006, pp. 44-46) and wanted to bring to your attention that Factiva Public Figures & Associates (PFA) does not leverage Complinet content, but that...

Another source.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Just a quick note to let you know I read your recent article ["The New Life Cycle of Business Information," January/ February] and appreciate it both as a human "information aggregator" and one who is frustrated by the current level of...

Ask.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Ask is the new name for Ask Jeeves. With the departure of its butler mascot, the Jeeves part of the name is gone, and the search engine has significantly changed the layout of its front page. Many of Ask's additional databases are now linked in...

Ask Image Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Ask Image Search has launched its own image search database and no longer relies on Picsearch for the underlying data. Apparently, image searching at Ask accounts for 16 percent of its total searches. Ask has also introduced "Zoom related...

Exalead.(growth)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Exalead has grown again. Back in October, Exalead launched out of beta and jumped from covering 1 billion pages to 2 billion pages. That has now doubled yet again to more than 4 billion. The company credits the use of 64-bit indexing technology...

Feedster.(service introduction of Feedster )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Feedster relaunched with a new design. In addition, Feedster claims to have improved speed and simplified searching. It has also reworked the core search technology to scale with growth and to handle new kinds of feed types and searches. New...

Google.(service enhancement of google)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Google added related phrases to its definition results that are available when using a define: prefix. Google is also focusing on moving many of its services to mobile device accessibility Google Mobile Personalized Home, Google News for mobile...

Google Book Search.(services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Google Book Search has a limit for finding free, fully viewable books. The Google Advanced Book Search page gives the option to search "All books" (the default) or "Complete books only." Choose the latter to limit the search to fully viewable...

Google Desktop.(service introductions)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Google Desktop version 3 includes a number of new search features. Sidebar usability has been improved; it has the ability to drag panels elsewhere on the desktop and to send sidebar content via e-mail or chat to other users. It indexes zipped...

Google Scholar.(service introduction of international libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Google Scholar expanded its links to library holdings to include more international libraries. Library union lists in Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland are now available. Enabling any of these adds links from Scholar...

MSN Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... MSN Search changes are mostly cosmetic. The site now has a gray rather than blue background. The search box has been lengthened to allow more of the search query to be seen. In search results, hits now have search words highlighted in the title...

Teoma.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Teoma is no more. With the relaunch of Ask and the disappearance of the Jeeves butler, Teoma has also vanished. While most of its features have long ago been incorporated into parent Ask's search engine, its identification of metasites is the...

Yahoo!(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Yahoo! added "quick links" to Wikipedia entries within its results. When a Wikipedia result is listed, it often includes several links (just above the URL) that go directly to main sections of the Wikipedia entry. Yahoo! also has a few new...

Yahoo! Answers.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Yahoo! Answers added several new features. For quick links, it offers RSS feeds by keyword, toolbar buttons, and badges that can be placed on other Web pages. Another addition is an Ajax widget that searches previously asked questions and...

Intranet 2.0: fostering collaboration.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... HOW time flies! July 2001 saw the birth of the Jenkins Law Library intranet. The staff was thrilled--an actual Web-based intranet. Prior to 2001, the "intranet" was a shared folder on the network. Now the staff could download important HR...

Framing the scholarly communication cycle.
May 1, 2006... SCHOLARLY communication is evolving from a buzzword into a discipline. Before exploring the intricacies of open access, institutional repositories, license infringement, journal pricing, and authors' intellectual property rights, I'll take a...

XSLT: the genie inside the bottle.
May 1, 2006... YOU may already be familiar with the open standard known as eXtensible Markup Language, or XML [http://www.w3c.org/xml], which provides tools to preserve metadata, or data about the data. An analogous example is the library catalog, which...

Cacturing metrics for undergraduate usage of subscription databases.
May 1, 2006... Reliable and accurate statistics of database usage are critical for justifying library expenditures and helping librarians make decisions for future subscriptions and renewals to premium content, subscription-based databases. Capturing metrics...

The terrible twos: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and more.(on the net)
May 1, 2006... Parents often describe the trials and tribulations of raising 2-year-olds as "the terrible twos." Movie sequels, although not called the terrible twos, rarely equal and even less frequently exceed version 1.0. So what is a searcher to make of...

Intranet applications for tagging and folksonomies.(intranet librarian)
May 1, 2006... An explosion of metadata, created by users of social software applications in the past year, suggests that it's definitely time to take a careful look at how to harness the power of tagging and folksonomies inside the firewall. Tags and...

Global information flows.(the dollar sign)
May 1, 2006... We'd all like to believe that information flows effortlessly around the globe, traversing national boundaries with the ease that water flows downhill. Increased Internet access has opened up an enormous number of resources that come in many...

Where we are now with content and technology.(information strategist)(Column)
May 1, 2006... As I write this in late January 2006, Bay Area media are buzzing about the past week's decline in tech stocks such as Yahoo!, eBay, and even Google. Indeed, local news leader KRON TV Channel 4 ran an ongoing crawl, "Google Reels From Biggest...

GeoScienceWorld, OpenDOAR, and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.(peter's picks & pans)
May 1, 2006... The picks include the GeoScienceWorld (GSW) database/portal, which shows the future of integrating traditional tools (thesaurus, A&I database) with digital archives and offers a lot on an open access basis, and the OpenDOAR directory about open...

What's wrong with your PC, Part 2.(pc monitor)(Column)
May 1, 2006... In my previous column, published in the March/April 2006 issue of ONLINE, I considered the first five of 10 "problems" identified and discussed by PC Magazine in the cover story for its Aug. 23, 2005, issue. The title of the article, which...

Developing a Web culture.(web site management)
May 1, 2006... Looking back at the 1990s, we're likely to recognize it as the decade when the Internet changed everything and the idea of a Web culture surfaced. However, not all organizations noticed or adapted to the new options and possibilities created by...

Enterprise Search Guidebook.(book review)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Enterprise Search Guidebook by Martin White ISBN: 1-904769-10-1 Published: 2005 Pages: 41 pp.; PDF file Price: $70 Available for download from: Free Pint Limited, 4-6 Station Approach, Ashford, Middlesex,-TW15 2QN, UK; +44 870 141 7474;...

Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences.(book review)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff and Darrel Rhea ISBN: 0-321-37409-6 Published: 2006 Pages: 146 pp.; hardcover Price: $24.99 Available from: New Riders, 1249...

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML.(book review of Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman ISBN: 0-596-10197-X Published: 2006 Pages: 658 pp.; softcover Price: $34.95 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472;...

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design.(book review )(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jennifer Tidwell ISBN: 0-596-00803-1 Published: 2006 Pages: 331 pp.; softcover Pdce: $49.95 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA...

Factiva Search 2.0.(online spotlight)
May 1, 2006... Users of Factiva [global.factiva.com] may have noticed a newlink at the top of their search screens, inviting them to "Try Factiva Search 2.0 Beta." Click there and you're pointed to preview.factiva.com. The first time you try out Search 2.0,...