Online articles from May 2009

Online archives from May 2009

Everything E: ebooks, electronics, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasm.
May 1, 2009... Years ago I ran into Jean Bedord at a conference. She was carrying a rather large, bulky, contraption that looked like a thick binder. It was an early ebook reader. Since then, readers have shrunk to the size of a thin paperback, more titles...

Alacra pulses with company information.(industry news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Alacra introduced a new platform, Alacra Pulse, and its first product on the platform, Street Pulse. The platform is built on a proprietary technology called Applied Knowledge Extraction that uses a combination of semantic analysis and...

Tasini resurrected.(industry news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... In its 2001 Tasini decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of freelance writers wanting payment for articles republished in online databases. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in November 2007 rejected a proposed settlement...

Attributor gives its FairShare.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... In a collaboration with Creative Commons, content monitoring and monetization company Attributor launched FairShare, a free service that allows bloggers and other individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the...

Atlantic Media Co.(appoints Matt Dunie as publisher)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Matt Dunie joined Atlantic Media Co., publisher of The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive, as general manager of its government executive media group.

H.W. Wilson Co.(Peopleware)(appointment of John Regazzi )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... H.W. Wilson Co. named John Regazzi to the newly created position of chief strategy officer, reporting to president and CEO Harold Regan. Regazzi retains his position of full professor at Long Island University.

Center for Intellectual Property.(Peopleware)(appointment of Peter Jaszi )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The Center for Intellectual Property announced that Peter Jaszi is the CIP's 2009-2011 intellectual property scholar. In that capacity, he will be moderating the CIP's (C)ollectanea blog. Jaszi is faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson...

Shore Communications, Inc.(Peopleware)(appointment of Laurie Webster and John Buckman)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Shore Communications, Inc. announced the hiring of Laurie Webster, a market assessment specialist and designer of sales and research systems, and John Buckman, a marketing and communications consultant.

Ithaka's Strategic Services.(Peopleware)(Kate Wittenberg appointed as project director)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Kate Wittenberg has joined Ithaka's Strategic Services group as project director, client and partnership development. Wittenberg will focus on building partnerships and promoting the development of digital scholarship and learning.

ProQuest released Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
May 1, 2009... ProQuest released Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000, a collection of primary source documents from the U.S. embassy in Lima, U.S. military officials, and U.S. intelligence. The documents provide a portrait of Peru's civil war...

More than 152,000 images from cinema, television, and entertainment are now available on WilsonWeb via Cinema Image Gallery.(Social Sciences & Humanities)
May 1, 2009... More than 152,000 images from cinema, television, and entertainment are now available on WilsonWeb via Cinema Image Gallery, H.W. Wilson's newest image research tool. Based on the Kobal collection, the tool weds still image archives to...

LexisNexis announced the release of the Serial Set Digital Collection Part II.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... LexisNexis announced the release of the Serial Set Digital Collection Part II. This second installment captures key aspects of American life dating from 1970 to the present, complementing prior coverage that began with 1789. Part II contains...

Credo Reference signed an agreement to integrate five M.E. Sharpe encyclopedias into the Credo General Reference collection.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Credo Reference signed an agreement to integrate five M.E. Sharpe encyclopedias into the Credo General Reference collection: Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World; Encyclopedia of Intelligence &...

ProQuest and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) are offering digital access to a new collection.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... ProQuest and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) are offering digital access to a new collection, American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries, which contains full-text and full-color scans of nearly 3 million pages of...

The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced that EndNote X2 for Mac now integrates with Pages '09.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced that EndNote X2 for Mac now integrates with Pages '09, the word-processing application in Apple's office productivity suite. Users can now automate the citing and formatting of references for...

Nature Publishing Group(NPG) is expanding open access choices for authors in 11 more NPG journals in 2009.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Nature Publishing Group(NPG) is expanding open access choices for authors in 11 more NPG journals in 2009, through both "green" self-archiving and "gold" author-pays open access publication routes. NPG has also expanded its Manuscript...

Nature Network has launched a "hub" dedicated to New York City.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Nature Network has launched a "hub" dedicated to New York City, featuring a dedicated blog, forum, jobs, and event listings for the city's thriving scientific community. It joins London and Boston as the third Nature Network city hub and is the...

D&B increased its minority ownership stake in Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India, Pvt. Ltd.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... D&B increased its minority ownership stake in Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India, Pvt. Ltd. (D&B India) to a direct majority ownership stake. D&B India is the premier provider of credit information and sales and marketing solutions in...

LexisNexis announced the addition of EASI Market Planner to its interactive database.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... LexisNexis announced the addition of EASI Market Planner to its interactive database, LexisNexis Statistical DataSets. A visual consumer demographic tool, it was designed for entrepreneurs and business students working on business plans or...

A-Team Group, specialists in publishing, research, and strategic marketing in financial information technology, announced the launch of the Risk & Regulation IT online news service.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... A-Team Group, specialists in publishing, research, and strategic marketing in financial information technology, announced the launch of the Risk & Regulation IT online news service. It covers regulations impacting global financial information...

Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced the launch of the world's first hydrogen fuel knowledge dashboard.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced the launch of the world's first Hydrogen Fuel Knowledge Dashboard through a partnership with Thomson Reuters and the University of South Carolina. It brings together the Collexis proprietary technology, Web of...

Wiley-Blackwell announced the online launch of the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs).(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Wiley-Blackwell announced the online launch of the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), a new type of hybrid publication that combines the features of review journals and online reference works. Individual WIREs titles will cover a broad...

The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, copublishers of the Virtual Journals in Science and Technology series, released a completely redesigned website.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, copublishers of the Virtual Journals in Science and Technology series, released a completely redesigned website that introduced a tabbed environment, breadcrumb links,...

Scitopia.org, a federated vertical search engine for science and engineering powered by Deep Web Technologies, added an alerting feature.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Scitopia.org, a federated vertical search engine for science and engineering powered by Deep Web Technologies, added an alerting feature (www.scitopia.org).

OCLC has released CONTENTdm 5.(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... OCLC has released CONTENTdm 5, the CONTENT Digital Collection Management software that fully supports Unicode, the industry standard used to recognize text in most of the world's non-Western languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek,...

OCLC launched a pilot program to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices.(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... OCLC launched a pilot program to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices. The WorldCat Mobile pilot allows users to search for and find books and other materials available in libraries near them through a web application...

Further, OCLC's NetLibrary will offer libraries five Sony Reader Mobile Collections.(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Further, OCLC's NetLibrary will offer libraries five Sony Reader Mobile Collections--groups of ebooks which can be read on Sony's Reader Digital Book. The program includes a Reader model PRS-505, a collection of titles from leading publishers,...

SirsiDynix announced the release of Enterprise 2.0.(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... SirsiDynix announced the release of Enterprise 2.0, a search solution with capabilities that help people discover what they are looking for. High-tech logic and reasoning functionality ("fuzzy logic") allow for successful results regardless of...

WebJunction, an online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies.(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... WebJunction, an online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, a resource to help current and aspiring library managers become more successful in their work. It includes links to...

Ingram Digital now offers a premier ebook collection branded by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).(Libraries)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Ingram Digital now offers a premier ebook collection branded by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international trade association comprising journal publishers, book publishers, learned societies and...

The Health Service Executive (HSE) recently launched LENUS.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The Health Service Executive (HSE) recently launched LENUS, Ireland's comprehensive, online repository of health-related reports, research, and official publications. Taking its name from Lenus Mars, the Celtic god of healing and well-being, it...

Atypon Systems, Inc. and Allen Press, Inc. announced the launch of the BioOne epublishing site.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Atypon Systems, Inc. and Allen Press, Inc. announced the launch of the BioOne epublishing site hosting both full-text journals and books. BioOne's new platform is serviced by Allen Press and powered by Atypon's online publishing technology....

A new alternative to international news reporting was launched in January.(Newsroom)(GlobalPost )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... A new alternative to international news reporting was launched in January. GlobalPost has 70 correspondents, with specific knowledge of individual nations, based around the world. GlobalPost brings the perspective of American correspondents to...

Readex now provides online access to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports.(Newsroom)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Readex now provides online access to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports published between 1941 and 1974. Full-text-searchable for the first time, it offers online access to international news and broadcasts from around...

ProQuest has added The Baltimore Sun(1837-1985) to its collection of historical newspapers.(Newsroom)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... ProQuest has added The Baltimore Sun(1837-1985) to its collection of historical newspapers. Its current news program has also expanded its international and national scope with the launch of ProQuest's Middle East Newsstand, a collection of...

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced the launch of its Federal Digital System (FDsys).(Newsroom)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced the launch of its Federal Digital System (FDsys), providing a one-stop site for published government information. FDsys allows GPO to receive information from federal agencies in all three...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced a new agreement with YBP Library Services.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced a new agreement with YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company and the world's largest provider of materials to academic libraries. Nearly 7,000 online books will be available on YBP's main collection...

Baker & Taylor also partnered with ebrary.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Baker & Taylor also partnered with ebrary to develop its own digital content product and services and to integrate its ebooks with those already aggregated by ebrary. This is the first phase of B&T's integrated digital media distribution...

Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection with Portico.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection with Portico in a long-term strategy to preserve electronic scholarly content. Duke University Press will be the second publisher, after...

EBSCO Publishing has acquired Salem Press.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... EBSCO Publishing has acquired Salem Press, combining its reference publishing brand with a leading database producer. An extension of a longtime relationship, Salem Press content has been a mainstay in EBSCO database offerings including various...

The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters announced that ISI Web of Knowledgenow includes Global Health and the Global Health Archive from CABI.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters announced that ISI Web of Knowledgenow includes Global Health and the Global Health Archive from CABI. The comprehensive database of public health information will provide users with global...

JSTOR and Ithaka announced the merger of their organizations.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... JSTOR and Ithaka announced the merger of their organizations. The new combined enterprise will be called Ithaka and will be dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching and to reducing...

Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced that Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has put the institution's Collexis Expertise Portal online as a public website.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Collexis Holdings, Inc. announced that Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has put the institution's Collexis Expertise Portal online as a public website where individuals can search, sort, or view compiled views of the research conducted by JHU and...

Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand offerings.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand offerings to more than 80,000 titles. All of the books are in the public domain in the U.S., and many are currently out-of-print. A...

Westlaw PeopleMap is a new public records research tool.(Legal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Westlaw PeopleMap is a new public records research tool that helps attorneys quickly find relevant information about people and their connections. It comes with deep cross-referencing and smart-linking technology that makes connections between...

Kluwer Law International has enhanced its KluwerManualIP.com service.(Legal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Kluwer Law International has enhanced its KluwerManualIP.com service, an online resource for intellectual property law in 200 countries, with the addition of KluwerManualIP.com Smart Charts and KluwerManualIP.com News Alert. The two new...

Several search engines have adopted a new standard and tag URLs.(search engine update)(Uniform Resource Locator )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Several search engines have adopted a new standard and tag URLs to help with the problem of multiple URLs pointing to the same page with identical content. In the past, search engines would find separate URLs for the exact same page, such as...

Ask.com has changed the order of results--the first web result.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Ask.com has changed the order of results--the first web result, assumed to be the most relevant by Ask, shows up at the top of the page above the ads. If Ask finds a factual answer from its collection of sources (identified with its Answer...

Cuil updated its search results display.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Cuil updated its search results display. Maintaining the three-column "magazine style" display, the first several results now span two columns. The next eight results show up in the first two columns below the top three results. The third...

Google has canceled or stopped development on several lesser-used projects.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Google has canceled or stopped development on several lesser-used projects, mostly nonsearch-related. Google Catalogs, which has only been updated infrequently, if at all over the past few years, has been retired, and the content has been...

Google Book Search added ISBN and ISSN limits to its advanced search page.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Google Book Search added ISBN and ISSN limits to its advanced search page. These limits are also available just by using the prefix of isbn: or issn: followed by the number directly from the main Google Book Search page. Greg R. Notess...

Google Image Search has a new Advanced Image Search limit for Exact Size.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Google Image Search has a new Advanced Image Search limit for Exact Size. Searchers can specify the width and height of the requested image in pixels. The limit is available with the prefix of imagesize: followed by the width and height. For...

Google News now shows ads.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Google News now shows ads, at least in the U.S. The ads show up not on the main Google News page but on search results pages. Located in the right-hand column, the traditional Google text ads are listed under the heading of Sponsored Links....

Hakia released a new version of the Hakia Scoopbar for both Internet Explorer and Firefox.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Hakia released a new version of the Hakia Scoopbar for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. The new version has a highlight button that can be used after clicking on a result from Hakia, Google, Yahoo!, Live, or other search engines. Once the...

Live Search has expanded the drop-down list of search suggestions to its search box for Firefox users.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Live Search has expanded the drop-down list of search suggestions to its search box for Firefox users. Firefox users will see the suggestions appear on the Live.com page as query words are typed, with a link at the bottom offering the option to...

Live Search News has added email alerts.(search engine update)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Live Search News has added email alerts available from its main page, subtopics, and any news search. Click on the "News Alerts" link, log in with a Windows Live ID, and set the email alert for Once a day, Twice a day, or Weekly. Live News has...

Conference swag, goodies, tchotchkes, and collateral materials: marketing information, services, and products.
May 1, 2009... Trade show giveaways are big business. In his article "Trade Show Promotional Items Add Impact," R.J. Williams writes that "event attendees are 52% more likely to stop by your exhibit if you have an appealing promotional item to give them."...

Tapping into your entrepreneurial side.
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What skills do you think you have in common with entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson or Donald Trump? Think carefully about this question. Was "none" your answer? Are you sure? Richard Branson believes that...

Writing for obscurity.(crawford at large)
May 1, 2009... Most of us, most of the time, aim for clarity in our writing--we'd like to be read and understood. That's not always easy (particularly for arcane topics and philosophical discussions), and we may not always hit the target, but that's the aim....

Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit From Change.(hard copy)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... [EXCELLENT] Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit From Change by Adam Gordon ISBN: 978-0-8144-0912-1 Published: 2008 Pages: 294 pp.; hardcover Price: $24.95 Available from:...

Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries: Librarians and Educators in Second Life and Other Multi-User Virtual Environments.(hard copy)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... [MOSTLY GOOD] Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries: Librarians and Educators in Second Life and Other Multi-User Virtual Environments edited by Lori Bell and Rhonda B. Trueman ISBN: 978-1-57387-361-1 Published: 2008 Pages: 234 pp.;...

Designing the Digital Experience: How to Use Experience Design Tools and Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love.(hard copy)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... [ADEQUATE] Designing the Digital Experience: How to Use Experience Design Tools and Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love by David Lee King ISBN: 978-0-910965-83-5 Published: 2008 Pages: 182 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95...

Global Information Inequalities: Bridging the Information Gap.(hard copy)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... [WELL DONE] Global Information Inequalities: Bridging the Information Gap edited by Deborah H. Charbonneau ISBN: 1-84334-361-4 Published: 2008 Pages: 210 pp.; softcover Price: 39.95 [pounds sterlings] (about $56.45 U.S.) Available...

Not quite lost in translation?(online spotlight)
May 1, 2009... AS a native English-speaker, I always get nervous when I need to search content that's presented in a foreign language. In the past, I simply relied on the value-added online services, which often add English-language abstracts or subject terms...