Online articles from May 2008

Online archives from May 2008

Love those LiveLinks.(home page)(Column)
May 1, 2008... The fee/free debate shows no signs of abating. In recent months, some radical changes in digital content financial models have surfaced--with the NYTimes.com last August moving its Times Select to the free world from behind its fee-based...

EPA accountability.(industry news)(Environmental Protection Agency )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report analyzing the reorganization of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) library network. Titled "Environmental Protection: EPA Needs to Ensure That Best Practice and...

GPO's ask a librarian.(industry news)(United States. Government Printing Office)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), with the University of Illinois --Chicago (UIC) and federal depository libraries around the country, now provide online reference service to the American public. This free, web-based Ask a Librarian...

QUAERO funded.(industry news)
May 1, 2008... The European Commission authorized aid of 99 million [euro] to France's QUAERO research and development program. QUAERO, which focuses on technologies for the automatic processing of words, language, music, images, and video, involves a...

Elsevier acquired MEDai, Inc., a healthcare predictive analytics and data mining solutions provider.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Elsevier acquired MEDai, Inc., a healthcare predictive analytics and data mining solutions provider. MEDai's solutions combined with Elsevier's existing evidence and experiencedbased medical content will enable Elsevier to provide integrated...

Wolters Kluwer Health acquired a minority interest in Logical Images to integrate its VisualDx system with Wolters Kluwer Health's Clin-eguide clinical decision support tool.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Wolters Kluwer Health acquired a minority interest in Logical Images to integrate its VisualDx system with Wolters Kluwer Health's Clin-eguide clinical decision support tool. Clin-eguide helps physicians and other healthcare providers make...

Springer Science+Business Media has announced the release of Springer Protocols, a database of more than 18,000 searchable online protocols in life sciences and biomedicine that provide step-by-step recipes that can be executed in a controlled laboratory environment.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Springer Science+Business Media has announced the release of Springer Protocols, a database of more than 18,000 searchable online protocols in life sciences and biomedicine that provide step-by-step recipes that can be executed in a controlled...

MEDLINE databases have been reloaded on Dialog with the 2008 MeSH headings.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... MEDLINE databases have been reloaded on Dialog with the 2008 MeSH headings. In addition, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has added an extra year to the MEDLINE archive, with data from 1949 now included. In addition, 334 MeSH headings...

CrossRef announced a strategic partnership with Sermo, the largest online physician community that will enable DOIs (digital object identifiers) to link real-time physician discussions about current research to the source medical journal articles.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... CrossRef announced a strategic partnership with Sermo, the largest online physician community that will enable DOIs (digital object identifiers) to link real-time physician discussions about current research to the source medical journal...

Readex, a division of NewsBank, Inc., announced the release of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, a fully searchable digital resource for students and scholars.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Readex, a division of NewsBank, Inc., announced the release of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, a fully searchable digital resource for students and scholars. This collection was selected from the Archive of Americana and...

ProQuest's Literature Onlinenow offers enhanced research capabilities through the addition of more than 65 volumes of poetry from Faber and Faber, Ltd., an independent London publishing house.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest's Literature Onlinenow offers enhanced research capabilities through the addition of more than 65 volumes of poetry from Faber and Faber, Ltd., an independent London publishing house. The Irish Times (1859--2007) and The Weekly Irish...

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is now available on WilsonWeb as part of the Wilson Art Suite.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is now available on WilsonWeb as part of the Wilson Art Suite. It covers more than 700 periodicals in architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and...

OCLC NetLibrary is now offering individual ebook titles from Oxford Scholarship Online.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... OCLC NetLibrary is now offering individual ebook titles from Oxford Scholarship Online, which covers scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that is published by Oxford University Press (www.oclc.org).

Thomson Scientific added Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and scientific literature, including Web of Science and Inspec, to Thomson Innovation.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomson Scientificadded Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and scientific literature, including Web of Science and Inspec, to Thomson Innovation, its new intellectual property research and analysis solution (www.thomsoninnovation.com).

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched Nature India, a website highlighting scientific research from researchers based in India.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched Nature India, a website highlighting scientific research from researchers based in India. Nature India aims to be a one-stop site for information on Indian science, and it is the first website dedicated to...

SequenceBase Corp. and FIZ Karlsruhe announced that the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, on STN is now the timeliest source of USPTO patent and published application sequence data.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... SequenceBase Corp. and FIZ Karlsruhe announced that the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, on STN is now the timeliest source of USPTO patent and published application sequence data. USGENE provides weekly updates on Friday that comprise...

Thomson Scientific.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific announced that file histories can now be ordered directly through patent and trademark databases on Dialog, giving researchers complete information on a patent or trademark in one place. File histories are up-to-date accounts...

Thomson Scientific and Collexis Holdings, Inc. plan to join Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard with Thomson Scientific's Web of Science to create a custom data mining solution for the research community.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific and Collexis Holdings, Inc. plan to join Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard with Thomson Scientific's Web of Science to create a custom data mining solution for the research community. Called the Thomson Collexis Dashboard, it...

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced that The Cochrane Collaboration, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare decision-making...

Dow Jones & Co.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Dow Jones & Co. introduced a new "text-to-speech" capability in Dow Jones Factiva that allows users to listen to business news articles. Currently available in beta format, a "Listen to Article" link appears at the top of any full-text article...

H.W. Wilson announced a new reference database that brings together decades of content from Applied Science & Technology Index and Business Periodicals Index.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... H.W.Wilson announced a new reference database that brings together decades of content from Applied Science & Technology Index and Business Periodicals Index. The new database, called Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective:...

The I.I.I. Store of the Insurance Information Institute has released the 2008 Insurance Fact Book, the almanac of the insurance industry.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The I.I.I. Store of the Insurance Information Institute has released the 2008 Insurance Fact Book, the almanac of the insurance industry. It covers the dollars and cents of the business, factors affecting costs (including major catastrophes),...

Jan Velterop, formerly Springer's director of open access, has left Springer to become CEO of Knewco, Inc.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Jan Velterop, formerly Springer's director of open access, has left Springer to become CEO of Knewco, Inc., a new company whose mission is "to deploy its advanced semantic technology to accelerate key elements of the scientific process... to...

ProQuest.(Peopleware)(Ron Clowney)(Dave Leach)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest has appointed Ron Clowney vice president, U.S. higher education & government sales. Dave Leach has been appointed director, strategic account management. Both will report to Simon Beale, senior vice president of global sales.

Inmagic, Inc.(Peopleware)(David Golan,Ron Benanto,Tony Florence)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Inmagic, Inc. announced the appointment of David Golan as VP of sales. Ron Benanto and Tony Florence have joined the company's board of directors.

Hitwise.(Peopleware)(Heather Dougherty)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Hitwise announced that veteran online analyst Heather Dougherty joined the company as director of research.

The H.W. Wilson Co.(Peopleware)(Gray Young )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The H.W. Wilson Co. announced the appointment of Gray Young to the position of director of special accounts and new content management.

BioMed Central.(Open Access)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... A recent enhancement to BioMed Central's journal publishing system allows authors to submit additional collections of files alongside their manuscripts in the form of "miniwebsites." Readers of the published articles can view or download any of...

ProQuest launched ProQuest Central.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest launched ProQuest Central, which will serve as the foundational research collection for academic libraries, offering more than 11,000 titles (8,000 in full text) and more than 160 subject areas covering core academic disciplines...

Thomson Scientific launched ResearcherID.com, a web environment that enables researchers to create stable personal identifiers to present their works and manage public presentation of their personal metrics.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific launched ResearcherID.com, a web environment that enables researchers to create stable personal identifiers to present their works and manage public presentation of their personal metrics. Each individual identification (ID)...

EBSCO Information Services broadened the offerings of EBSCONET to provide information about publisher license agreements. While following the e-resource management initiative (ERMI) guidelines in collecting license data, EBSCO has identified, with input from customers, a manageable list of 50 key data elements to display on EBSCONET.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... EBSCO Information Services broadened the offerings of EBSCONET to provide information about publisher license agreements. While following the e-resource management initiative (ERMI) guidelines in collecting license data, EBSCO has identified,...

EBSCO announced that it is the first vendor to provide Express Content for subscriptions and publications as part of the Express Content program offered by Ariba, Inc., the spend management solutions provider.(Online Services)(EBSCO Information Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... EBSCO announced that it is the first vendor to provide Express Content for subscriptions and publications as part of the Express Content program offered by Ariba, Inc., the spend management solutions provider. EBSCO Information MarketPlace will...

NetLibrary, OCLC's platform for econtent, announced agreements with 21 leading publishers.(Online Services)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... NetLibrary, OCLC's platform for econtent, announced agreements with 21 leading publishers that will add thousands of new ebooks and e-audiobooks to NetLibrary's growing catalog of more than 160,000 titles (www.oclc.org).

Swets announced the release of SwetsWise 5.0.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Swets announced the release of SwetsWise 5.0, adding additional functionalities to SwetsWise Subscriptions, including the introduction of License Bank, a functionality that makes the largest collection of publisher license conditions in the...

Scopus introduced TopCited.com, which offers users the top 20 cited articles across 26 subject areas using the Scopus search API.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Scopus introduced TopCited.com, which offers users the top 20 cited articles across 26 subject areas using the Scopus search API. It also mashes up authors, their affiliations, and cited-by counts with Google maps.

The Thomson Corp. announced the addition of Boston-based Contact Networks and its enterprise relationship management (ERM) product.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Thomson Corp. announced the addition of Boston-based Contact Networks and its enterprise relationship management (ERM) product, ContactNet, to its portfolio of business intelligence and relationship management services for legal and other...

Thomson/West released Westlaw Legal Calendaring, a new online tool to give litigators assistance in managing critical trial dates and filing logistics.(Legal)
May 1, 2008... Thomson/West released Westlaw Legal Calendaring, a new online tool to give litigators assistance in managing critical trial dates and filing logistics. It automatically calculates litigation dates from the first complaint filed through the...

West km offers new productivity capabilities in the West km 4.0 platform.(Legal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... West km offers new productivity capabilities in the West km 4.0 platform. It features enhanced search and classification functionality by making institutional knowledge and expertise broadly available to legal professionals within an...

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRSA) is now available through EBSCOhost.(Legal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRSA) is now available through EBSCOhost. It contains summaries of more than 190,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources covering corrections, courts,...

PinHawk, LLC, a publisher of news for professionals, has expanded its services to deliver customized electronic newsletters for specific law firms.(Legal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... PinHawk, LLC, a publisher of news for professionals, has expanded its services to deliver customized electronic newsletters for specific law firms. Law firm management members can now receive emails which combine their favorite sections of...

Eduventures, a higher education learning collaborative research and consulting company, and Outsell, Inc. jointly announced Outsell's acquisition of Eduventures' business research division.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Eduventures, a higher education learning collaborative research and consulting company, and Outsell, Inc. jointly announced Outsell's acquisition of Eduventures' business research division. Under the terms of the agreement, Outsell will assume...

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) is expanding the availability of its Annual Copyright License for academic institutions to colleges and universities of all sizes. The move follows strong initial reception to the licensing program, which...

ProQuest acquired WebFeat, a pioneer of federated search that enables simultaneous search of all an organization's databases to increase research productivity.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest acquired WebFeat, a pioneer of federated search that enables simultaneous search of all an organization's databases to increase research productivity. ProQuest plans to merge WebFeat with Serials Solutions (www.proquest.com).

Elsevier acquired Windhover Information, Inc., a healthcare business intelligence company and publisher of journals for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Elsevier acquired Windhover Information, Inc., a healthcare business intelligence company and publisher of journals for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Windhover will operate within Elsevier's Pharma Business Intelligence...

EZproxy, a software solution for serving library patrons remotely, has been acquired by OCLC from Useful Utilities of Peoria, Ariz.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... EZproxy, a software solution for serving library patrons remotely, has been acquired by OCLC from Useful Utilities of Peoria, Ariz. Useful Utilities founder Chris Zagar will join OCLC as a full-time consultant. Zagar, a librarian at the...

Vivisimo completed its first institutional investment round of $4 million funding by North Atlantic Capital.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Vivisimo completed its first institutional investment round of $4 million funding by North Atlantic Capital, which will strengthen sales and marketing support for its Velocity enterprise search platform (www.vivisimo.com).

Thomson Scientific introduced ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific introduced ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis. It combines the newest Science Watch newsletter material and regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary that had been...

ProQuest is launching the largest digital collection of U.S. Hispanic newspapers available on a single interface.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest is launching the largest digital collection of U.S. Hispanic newspapers available on a single interface. ProQuest U.S. Hispanic Newsstand will aggregate content from the nation's premier Hispanic publishers, with content in English and...

RefWorks released RefAware, a new online personal research assistant and monitoring service.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... RefWorks released RefAware, a new online personal research assistant and monitoring service. It covers more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals and other nonrefereed sources for academics and researchers (www.refaware.com).

Silobreaker, the search service for news and current events, was selected to join Microsoft's Startup Accelerator program.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Silobreaker, the search service for news and current events, was selected to join Microsoft's Startup Accelerator program. Launched in January 2008, Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and...

Search engine update.
May 1, 2008... After several years of covering a relatively stable group of global web search engines, 2008 began with corporate news that could reduce the main four search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live, and Ask.com) to two--or not. Much is still up in the...

Managing social network tools.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IS this your day? You walk into your office, turn on the computer, grab coffee, and start checking your email. A few messages are really group discussions disguised as email. There's a policy thread concerning...

Using e-government websites for research: content and quality.(Column)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Before relying on the material in any important matter, you should carefully evaluate its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance for your purpose, and obtain any appropriate professional advice relevant to...

Everybody's an expert: finding business experts online.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN Aweb-enabled world where everyone sounds authoritative and where expertise may be devalued, locating a real expert can seem more impossible than finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. When anyone can claim...

Looking for answers in all the wrong places, or possibly some correct places.(Everybody's and Expert)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her article,"Everyone's an Expert," Roberta Brody notes that a web-enabled world makes everybody look like an expert. She then describes resources that help us identify true experts. Meanwhile, the idea of...

Leveraging clouds to make you more efficient: how saas-y are you?
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Microsoft understands the value of clouds. Do you? Why would Microsoft want to pay more than $40 billion dollars for Yahoo!--a big, sick, purple giant? Might it have something to do with Yahoo!'s recognizing the...

The royal society of chemistry: harboring the genius of innovation.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An Interview With Richard Kidd by Svetla Baykoucheva (Svetla Baykousheva) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has always had some interesting, innovative ideas (www.rsc.org). I remember how we were fascinated...

Multilingual searching: search engine language tools.(on the net)
May 1, 2008... The World Wide Web may not cover the entire globe, but it certainly has a presence in most populated places throughout the world. With such an international scope, the "multilinguality" of web content continues to increase. For savvy searchers,...

Reeling in real estate information.(the dollar sign)
May 1, 2008... AS recent developments demonstrate, the real estate industry has a profound effect on markets, economies, and daily life. It's also got global implications. When real estate values implode in the U.S., credit markets in other countries contract...

Information literacy and faculty.(infolit land)
May 1, 2008... Information literacy (IL) professionals have long felt the disconnect between their mission and the goals of the average subject faculty member. IL people know from their experience in the trenches that most students don't know how to do...

Boss, E-LIS, and Haworth press.(peter's picks & pans)
May 1, 2008... The first pick is BOSS, the online public access catalog of the Oklahoma State University Library. It is based on the reasonably priced, state-of-the-art, smart and cool Aquabrowser software. It runs circles around the traditional online...

Wiki while you work.(intranet librarian)
May 1, 2008... What if you had access to a tool that would allow a group of people to quickly create and edit a website together--upload, store, and edit documents and notes on anything they wanted, at any time, without the need for any special skills or...

Publishing it yourself: experiences with PoD.(crawford at large)
May 1, 2008... Does it make sense to "publish it yourself"--produce your new book using PoD? As one who's done it more than once, and also published a dozen books traditionally, I can unequivocally say yes. And no. And maybe. To my mind, PoD stands for...

Recommended reading on intranets, business investigations, ROI, and tagging.(Intranets for Info Pros)(Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web)(Business Background Investigations: Tools and Techniques for Solution Driven Due Diligence)(Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads )(Book review)
May 1, 2008... This month I look at intranets for information professionals, business investigations for due diligence, ROI for your website, and the mysteries of tagging. Intranets for Info Pros edited by Mary Lee Kennedy and Jane Dysart ISBN:...

Gigablast blasts off again.(online spotlight)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2008... I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Gigablast... maybe it's that retro rocket logo it used to sport. Gigablast has distinguished itself, at least in my eyes, by being one of the longest-lasting search engines to provide on-the-fly...