Online articles from May 2007

Online archives from May 2007

Web 2.0 and value-added indexing.(homepage)(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... When information professionals justify the cost of premium content databases and combat the notion that everything is available at no charge on the Internet, they frequently point to the value add of indexing. However, the companies that create...

Keesing's Web 2.0 world news archives.(industry news)(World News Archives)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Keesing's Worldwide, Ltd. introduced its Keesing's World News Archives, which uses Squiz's open source content management system, MySource Matrix, to bring historical information into a Web 2.0 world. The content comes from the company's 76...

Finding development information online.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online is a free 86-page PDF book, targeted to libraries and resource centers in low- and middle-income countries to locate online information on...

New advisory tool for nonfiction titles.(industry news)(announcement of new service for librarians)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... R.R. Bowker announced Nonfiction Connection, the library industry's first comprehensive readers' advisory tool for nonfiction titles. The new electronic offering, for sale to those with a Books in Print subscription, either on a population...

OCLC will host the Consortium of European Research Libraries' CERL Hand Press Book Database.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... OCLC will host the Consortium of European Research Libraries' CERL Hand Press Book Database, a collection of more than 2 million catalog records from libraries, representing items of European printing from the 15th century through the 1830s...

H.W. Wilson announced enhancements to its WilsonWeb interface and the WilsonWeb Administrators and Statistical Reports modules, including enhanced search results displays.(publishing industry announcing enhancements for its WilsonWeb product)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... H.W. Wilson announced enhancements to its WilsonWeb interface and the WilsonWeb Administrators and Statistical Reports modules, including enhanced search results displays; PDF page images of results that can be emailed as attachments; a...

Xrefer will integrate 11 Routledge encyclopedia and reader's guide titles.
May 1, 2007... Xrefer will integrate 11 Routledge encyclopedia and reader's guide titles into the Xreferplus Ready-Reference collection (www.xrefer.com).

SkyMinder.com.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... SkyMinder.com announced new online reports on companies in five eastern European countries. Sourced from Graydon, a U.K. supplier, clients can now access this new content covering more than 50,000 companies in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,...

Alacra has integrated Experian U.K. business information content into the Alacra Data Warehouse.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Alacra has integrated Experian U.K. business information content into the Alacra Data Warehouse. This is accessible through Alacra Premium and the Alacra Store, providing pay-per-view access to Experian's business information reports and...

infoUSA.(Business & Finance)(restructuring of infoUSA)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... A reorganization at infoUSA will result in three segments: the Data Group (Donnelley Marketing, which will change its name to infoUSA National Accounts, OneSource, Database License, and the Small Business Group), the Services Group (Yes-mail,...

Engineering Information.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Engineering Information announced the introduction of record tagging to Engineering Village. Tagging allows Engineering Village users to apply meaningful keywords to database records to facilitate sharing records and retrieving documents based...

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) digital collection of computing literature passed the 1 million mark in February. The collection includes all of the Digital Library (DL), with the full text of everything ACM has published, and the...

AIP Publishing Services.
May 1, 2007... AIP Publishing Services announced RSS Saved Search, which allows users to save their search criteria as an RSS feed based on any search performed across the Scitation database or from AIP's SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database...

CABI.(contracts)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... CABI announced contracts with ebook distributors MyiLibrary (www.myilibrary.com), Dawson Books (www.dawsonbooks.co.uk), and ebrary (www.ebrary.com). CABI currently supplies content to ebook company NetLibrary and participates in the Google Book...

PinHawk, LLC introduced Law Librarian NewzDigest, an electronic newsletter that aggregates news from traditional sources, law library blogs, and legal vendors.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... PinHawk, LLC introduced Law Librarian NewzDigest, an electronic newsletter that aggregates news from traditional sources, law library blogs, and legal vendors. It is distributed at no charge to all qualified legal professionals and contains...

Thomson West announced a new product for environmental attorneys titled Westlaw Practitioner: Environmental Library on Westlaw.(product information of database industry)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Thomson West announced a new product for environmental attorneys titled Westlaw Practitioner: Environmental Library on Westlaw. It covers environmental law on topics such as compliance in manufacturing and construction, land redevelopment, and...

Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) from Thomson Scientific/Dialog is now available under a DWPI "Open Access License.".(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) from Thomson Scientific/Dialog is now available under a DWPI "Open Access License." All charges are included in a one-time annual fee (http://scientific.thomson.com/products/oal).

Loislaw will add Federal Circuit Court unpublished opinions.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Loislaw will add Federal Circuit Court unpublished opinions. Loislaw has also created a dedicated FRAP (Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure) 32.1 page on its Web site. Access to the unpublished opinions will be offered at no additional charge...

Inxight Software, Inc. announced the availability of Inxight Smart-Discovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, as well as its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Inxight Software, Inc. announced the availability of Inxight Smart-Discovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, as well as its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. Powered by Inxight's ThingFinder entity...

Access Innovations, Inc. announced customer relationships with the Discovery Channel and The Weather Channel to improve searching and retrieval of information housed on their Web sites.(contracts between IT services industry and Weather channel)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Access Innovations, Inc. announced customer relationships with the Discovery Channel and The Weather Channel to improve searching and retrieval of information housed on their Web sites. For the Discovery Channel, AI supplied two Desktop...

Inmagic announced a partnership with WebFeat to enable Inmagic Presto users to conduct federated searches across internal and external data sources.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Inmagic announced a partnership with WebFeat to enable Inmagic Presto users to conduct federated searches across internal and external data sources. By partnering with WebFeat, the number of external sources that Presto customers can search and...

Exalead.(Peopleware)(appoints David T. Lingley )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Exalead appointed former Autonomy senior executive David T. Lingley as vice president of services.

H.W. Wilson.(appoints Frank Daly )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... H.W. Wilson announced the appointment of Frank Daly to the position of director of marketing.

SirsiDynix.(Peopleware)(acquired by Vista Equity Partners)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Following the sale of SirsiDynix to Vista Equity Partners, Patrick Sommers resigned from his position of CEO.

CISTI.(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Bernard Dumouchel, director general of CISTI, retired in February after 36 years of service. Pam Bjornson is the new director general. She comes to the position following 5 years as its director of business affairs.

Copyright Clearance Center.(appointment of Tracey Armstrong as new CEO)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Joseph Alen, president and CEO of Copyright Clearance Center since 1992, will retire at the end of the company's fiscal year in June, closing out a 25-year career at CCC. The board of directors named Tracey Armstrong, currently CCC's chief...

CrossRef.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... CrossRef announced that more than 25 million content items were registered in the CrossRef system since its inception in early 2000. Although the majority of these digital object identifiers (DOIs) are assigned to online journal articles, more...

Dialog.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Dialog released a new version of DialogClassic Web, providing access to the 600-plus informational databases in the Dialog content collection. Enhancements to postprocessing tools have also been introduced for Microsoft Word, HTML, Text, and...

Answers Corp.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Answers Corp. is offering its latest Webmaster tool, AnswerTips, which allows sites to provide visitors with instant access to Answers.com information on 4 million topics without leaving the site or blog. The free content in an AnswerTip comes...

OCLC announced the launch of the WorldCat Registry, a comprehensive directory that will help librarians.(Online Services)(Online Computer Library Center Inc)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... OCLC announced the launch of the WorldCat Registry, a comprehensive directory that will help librarians and consortia manage and share data that defines their organizations, such as institution type, location, URLs for electronic services,...

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) selected Vivisimo to enhance searching on its Web site and to enable search functionality for NLM's consumer health Web sites, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and MedlinePlus en espanol (http://medlineplus.gov/spanish).(contracts)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... The National Library of Medicine (NLM) selected Vivisimo to enhance searching on its Web site and to enable search functionality for NLM's consumer health Web sites, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and MedlinePlus en espanol...

Ovid Technologies.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer Health company, added the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive databases, both produced by Thomson Scientific, to its collection of historical information (www.ovid.com).

Elsevier, through its subsidiary MDL Information Systems GmbH, acquired the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Elsevier, through its subsidiary MDL Information Systems GmbH, acquired the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts and the premier database in the field of organic chemistry dating from 1771 (www.elsevier.com).

Thomson Scientific added a new ASEAN module to its IDRAC database of regulatory information.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific added a new ASEAN module to its IDRAC database of regulatory information. It includes details of planned harmonization schemes for the pharmaceutical industry in the 10 ASEAN countries...

VISTA International, a provider of software systems and support services for the publishing industry, and Ingenta will merge to create Publishing Technology, PLC, becoming the largest provider of publishing-specific software solutions.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... VISTA International, a provider of software systems and support services for the publishing industry, and Ingenta will merge to create Publishing Technology, PLC, becoming the largest provider of publishing-specific software solutions. By...

The Bayerische Staatshibliothek.(Alliances & Deals)(Bavarian State Library)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) joined Google Books Library Project and will add more than a million out-of-copyright non-English language books to the database (http://books.google.com).

An agreement was reached between Wombat Financial Software, Inc., a provider of low-latency technology.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... An agreement was reached between Wombat Financial Software, Inc., a provider of low-latency technology, and Thomson Financial to create a Thomson Data Feed (TDF) of low-latency access to exchanges with multiple deployment options, including...

Scopus.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Scopus announced strategic content deals with a string of publishers and societies including Springer, Nature Publishing Group, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics (www.info.scopus.com).

The National Library of New Zealand intends to add some 8 million records.(Alliances & Deals)(Online Computer Library Center Inc)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... The National Library of New Zealand intends to add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to OCLC WorldCat (www.oclc.org).

Two academic publishers selected Thomson Scientific's ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review system.(Alliances & Deals)(Emerald Group Publishing and Multilingual Matters)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Two academic publishers selected Thomson Scientific's ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review system. The new customers are Multilingual Matters, an international social sciences publishing house that focuses on...

Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, was acquired by TNS Media Intelligence, a provider of advertising data and intelligence on marketing activities, in February.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, was acquired by TNS Media Intelligence, a provider of advertising data and intelligence on marketing activities, in February. The acquisition integrates Cymfony's expertise in tracking and...

Wiley-Blackwell.(Open Access)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Wiley-Blackwell launched Archives of Drug Information, a new open access, freely available, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the results of drug studies. It has articles on inconclusive and/or negative clinical trials, early drug...

The Danish Research Database, a collaborative effort of universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg.
May 1, 2007... The Danish Research Database, a collaborative effort of universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, and Roskilde along with the Technical University of Denmark and Riso National Laboratories is being added to Google Scholar...

Answers.com.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Answers.com introduced AnswerTips, which allows reference content to be built into other Web sites and blogs. Sign up for the free service, add the JavaScript into the heading of each page, and then double-click on any word on the Web page to...

Ask.com.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Ask.com has a new feature on its local search product, Ask-City. For U.S. locations, searchers can use new "searchenabled drawing tools." Use these drawing tools to define the boundaries of a specific geographic region, which limits the search...

Exalead.(Search engine update)
May 1, 2007... Exalead is pushing its shortcuts, which are bookmarks to Web pages that can be personalized and displayed as thumbnail screen shots on exalead's home page. It has bookmarklets for adding new shortcuts (www.exalead.com/download/book marklet),...

Google.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Google has made several processing changes. Google defaults to personalizing search results when searchers log in with their Google accounts. The more search history and bookmarks a user has saved at Google, the more likely the search results...

Google Book Search.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Google Book Search has been expanding its library and commercial publishing partners. On the library side, more German-language books will be coming from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the Princeton University Library will be adding more...

Microsoft Live Search.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Microsoft Live Search has been busy expanding its coverage in Live Local. High-resolution aerial imagery is increasing for 400,000 more square miles in the U.S. The even higher resolution bird's-eye imagery has also extended to more than 100...

New Search approaches.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... New search approaches have been much discussed and analyzed lately. One of the major foci has been that of social search. Wikia Search, from the founder of Wikipedia, has frequently been in the press, although no functioning search tool is...

Yahoo!(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Yahoo! is updating its MyYahoo! personalized pages with a new look, more Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), easier editing, and additional content modules. It also enables sharing of the whole page or selected modules via IM and email....

Information professionals in the text mine: as information delivery via email, blogs, wikis, and alerts expands, information consumers turn to the information professional with different demands.
May 1, 2007... Text mining is growing rapidly as a technology for analyzing large volumes of unstructured textual documents. With the "information explosion" an accepted fact of living in the 21st century, those charged with maintaining awareness of...

Looking beyond search to provide effective online search tools.(PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P)
May 1, 2007... THE ubiquitous nature of the Web, Web searching, and Google gives knowledge workers an inflated sense of their abilities when it comes to conducting online research tasks. Just ask some colleagues if they are interested in going to training to...

Online strategic intelligence: five companies to consider.
May 1, 2007... Geopolitical strategic intelligence is no longer the domain solely of governments, transnational corporations, and well-moneyed nongovernmental organizations. Nor do you need to work for the CIA, the MI6, or any other country's intelligence...

Stick it in your ear: keeping current with podcasts.(business podcasts)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... When the State Farm Corporate Library began adding audiobooks to its collection a few years ago, the response was phenomenal. Employees, especially commuters, loved being able to get quality material in an audio format. It allowed many people...

Web of science, Scopus, and classical online: philosophies of searching.(Product/service evaluation)
May 1, 2007... Elsevier's introduction of Scopus in November 2004 clearly had Thomson's Web of Science in its sights. As direct competitors, the two products share interesting features, probably because of Elsevier's "user-centered design" approach to...

Baking up a technology pie.(technology application in libraries)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... Librarians have a special seat at the table of the 21st century, now that we live in the age of information. Librarians have traditionally been the keepers of society's knowledge. While the challenges are considerable, the tools that are...

Switching your search engines.(on the net)
May 1, 2007... For many information needs, a simple search at any Web search engine will find at least a few pages with the desired answers. Sticking with just one search engine--whether it is Google, Yahoo!, Live, or Ask--can work well as long as that search...

Vertical search for business.(the dollar sign)(new trend in web searching)
May 1, 2007... Search engine pundits periodically proclaim vertical search to be the hot new trend that's about to revolutionize Web searching. I suspect one reason why this continues to surface as a trend rather than a fait accompli is a lack of clarity...

A champion of information literacy.(infolit land)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... Somebody once opined, on the Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy list, that "Federated searching is as dumb as a bag of hammers." It unleashed a storm of protest, all of it directed at me, the author of the...

CSA Illustrata, gale virtual reference library, and Cambridge journals.(peter's picks & pans)(pros and cons of database software)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... One of my picks is the innovative, cutting-edge CSA Illustrata database, launched at Midwinter ALA, with nearly 1 million illustrations extracted from more than 165,000 scholarly articles. Enhanced by a variety of illustration- specific index...

How social is your Web site? Top five tips for social media optimization.(intranet librarian)
May 1, 2007... With all the hype and buzz around Web 2.0 concepts permeating the technology, business, and marketing news, it's easy to start to tune it all out-to think that Web 2.0 is only about the big social networking sites or new startups. Surely it's...

Recommended reading on information trapping, blogging, Web design, and information architecture.(hardcopy)(Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web)(A Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide)(Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design)(Information Architecture for the World Wide Web third edition)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... This month I look at a couple of books on finding and using information with blogs and RSS feeds, along with two others on ways to present information by improving Web design and information architecture. **** Information Trapping:...

SearchMash.(online spotlight)(google's gained unbranded site)
May 1, 2007... All of the major search engines have beta sites where they test out new interfaces, new features, and sometimes entirely new services. It took Google 3 years to officially move Google News from "beta" to mainstream--long after everyone and...