Online articles from November 1998

Online archives from November 1998

I Never Wear My Sandals in the Snow: Local Knowledge on the Web.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Roberta Brody, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367; 718/997-3796 Fax 718/997-3797; BobbyBrody@aol.com. The...

The Gale Group Formed by IAC, Gale, and Primary Source Media Merger.
November 1, 1998... Thomson Business Information announced that three of its business units, Information Access Company (IAC), Gale Research, and Primary Source Media (PSM), have merged to form a new company called The Gale Group. The Gale Group will be...

The Dialog Corporation Moves to North Carolina.
November 1, 1998... Cary, North Carolina will be the new U.S. headquarters for The Dialog Corporation. Dialog will relocate approximately 150 positions in customer service, marketing, finance, and administration, leaving about 200 technology and content...

Derwent To Provide International Patent Data to PT0.(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office )
November 1, 1998... Derwent Information Ltd. has announced an agreement to lease the World Patents Index (WPI) to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). WPI covers patents from 40 issuing authorities worldwide and will be available as an in-house database for...

ISI Creates New Division to Develop Corporate Market.
November 1, 1998... The Institute for Scientific Development has created a new division to produce a portfolio of value-added products for the corporate market. The new division will move beyond the traditional development of databases and concentrate on...

PsycINFO.(loaded on OCLC FirstSearch)
November 1, 1998... PsycINFO has been reloaded on OCLC FirstSearch and now indexes almost 1,400 periodicals in 30 different languages, with chapter and book coverage including English-language material published from 1887 to the present. In August 1998, PsycINFO...

OCLC FirstSearch Collections Online.(increased number of medical titles)
November 1, 1998... Recent agreements with the BMJ Publishing Group, Marcel Dekker, Project HOPE, and the Royal Society of Medicine have increased the number of medical titles available through OCLC FirstSearch Collections Online. New titles include BMJ's British...

MD Consult Express Pass.(online service)
November 1, 1998... MD Consult Express Pass is a new one-day access plan that lets physicians, healthcare professionals, and others access and retrieve MD Consult information on an intermittent basis. Users receive up to 24 hours of access for $6.95. The pass...

WEFA.(offers economic research online)
November 1, 1998... Economic research from WEFA, a Primark Corporation subsidiary, is now available through Multex, where WEFA will supply research for institutional investors and analysts plus its comprehensive Y2K study. Multex is the first online distribution...

Multex.
November 1, 1998... Multex has secured over 180 international research providers since opening its London office a year ago, bringing the total number of investment research providers to over 300, with more than 50% international firms. Recent additions include...

InfoGate.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1998... InfoGate is a real-time Internet-delivered software and information service, which receives and distributes proprietary information at up to four times the speed of the Web. Recently launched by the Internet Financial Network, InfoGate provides...

LEXIS-NEXIS.
November 1, 1998... Six key business journals from Elsevier Science are now available on LEXIS-NEXIS. The journals cover marketing, general business development, and the social and technological environment. Later additions will include journals on accounting,...

D&B Intranet Gateway.
November 1, 1998... D&B Intranet Gateway is a Web-based access system from Dun & Bradstreet that offers companies secure, enterprise-wide access to D&B products and services. Other features include report archiving of previously ordered D&B information for shared...

Integra Information, Inc.
November 1, 1998... Integra Information, Inc. has introduced Inc.'s Business Profiler Valuation and Benchmark Reports on the Inc. Business Resources Web site (http:llwww.inc.com/products). Integra Information is a source for intelligence on privately-held...

OCLC FirstSearch.
November 1, 1998... French and Spanish interfaces have been released for the OCLC FirstSearch service-its first non-English interfaces. Users may now choose an English, French, or Spanish interface, and all screens, including help screens, appear in the language...

Special Collection.
November 1, 1998... Northern Light Technology, LLC has added 1,100 new business, health, and publication titles to its online Special Collection research library, increasing the collections coverage to detailed segments of business, contemporary life, health,...

WebSPIRS 4.0.
November 1, 1998... WebSPIRS 4.0 is now available from SilverPlatter Information in general release. The service combines traditional SPIRS functionality with the Internet and offers Web access to SilverPlatter databases loaded locally on a customer's ERL network...

EBSCO.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1998... EBSCO announced its departure from the traditional document delivery service in an unexpected letter to its customers in September. The letter informed customers that it would not accept new orders after September 25 and would ship or cancel...

Adis R&D Insight.
November 1, 1998... The pharmaceutical files Adis R&D Insight (ADISINSIGHT) and Adis Drug Alert (ADISALERTS) have been added to STN International. ADISINSIGHT is updated weekly and reports on the latest developments of drugs in active research, with records from...

SciFinder Scholar.
November 1, 1998... More than 20 U.S. universities, including Harvard, Emory, Stanford, and Ohio State, have signed on with CAS to acquire SciFinder Scholar, a product that gives chemistry faculty and graduate students point-and-click access to CAS databases....

CAS SciFinder.
November 1, 1998... In an independent survey of CAS SciFinder users, scientists who have used SciFinder gave four areas of performance exceptionally high marks--improving scientists' productivity, offering high quality information, enabling more creativity in the...

Chemical & Engineering News.
November 1, 1998... The American Chemical Society's weekly news magazine, Chemical & Engineering News, is now available online (http:// pubs.acs.org/cen). Unlimited free access to the online edition is available through 1998, with later subscriptions to cost an...

Web of Science Version 4.0.
November 1, 1998... Web of Science Version 4.0 is now available from The Institute for Scientific Information. Enhancements include the ability to link to the full text of an article if a user is a mutual subscriber to the Web of Science and the publishers online...

ISI Chemistry Server.
November 1, 1998... ISI Chemistry Server is a new interface available from 151 that gives researchers access to scientific information using their Web browsers, eliminating the need to store and maintain databases and software locally and, because Web-based,...

WebScience.
November 1, 1998... WebScience is a new subscription-based search engine from Technical Database Services, Inc. that provides direct access to free scientific information from university, government, and industry sources that may be difficult to locate in other...

Associated Press State Wire.
November 1, 1998... The Associated Press State Wire archive is now available on LEXIS-NEXIS Web products and traditional online service--offering content currently not on any other online service. The wire includes news covering a variety of regional topics from...

Newscast 4.5.
November 1, 1998... Newscast 4.5 is a new release of WavePhore Newscast's business information service accessible via the Web, corporate intranets, and extranets, and customizable for enterprise or individual users. New features let users organize business...

WebReports.
November 1, 1998... WebReports is an Internet delivery service from the TransData Corporation that provides historical coverage from the mid-I 980s of all Australian companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Features include notes to the accounts included...

NewsTrawler.
November 1, 1998... NewsTrawler is a new search tool that lets users select from a list of over 200 sources, then sends the search words out simultaneously to search each one. When the results are collected, they are collated and displayed. Despite the fact that...

The Learning Network.
November 1, 1998... The Learning Network (http://www.nytimes.com/learning) is a new education Web site and online resource for educators, parents, and students grades six through 12 from The New York Times Electronic Media Company. The site provides free daily...

WebExpress.
November 1, 1998... WebExpress is an online packaged software solution for publishers and online content providers from Excalibur Technologies. The software accesses and retrieves different document formats on the Internet, intranets, relational databases,...

Pitney Bowes Inc.
November 1, 1998... Pitney Bowes Inc. and Tumbleweed Software Corporation have created the iSend service that lets businesses of all sizes securely send and track delivery of any file to anyone with email and Web access. The service is available on the Web...

kStore 3.0.
November 1, 1998... kStore 3.0 is a new release of RoweCom, Inc.'s enterprise business-to-business Webbased service that lets corporations securely acquire, pay for, manage, and control more than 42,000 magazines, journals, and newspapers, and over one million...

OCLC NetFirst Calendar Planner.
November 1, 1998... The OCLC NetFirst Calendar Planner provides a free list of holidays, current and historical events, and activities that will occur in the next 90 days, with links to related Web sites. The planner is available from the OCLC News page...

siteDirector 4.2.
November 1, 1998... Folio siteDirector 4.2 is a an enhanced version of Open Markets solution for publishing large amounts of professional information on the Web for Internet commerce. The upgrade supports information commerce with rights management features. Other...

Wilson Biographies Plus.
November 1, 1998... Wilson Biographies Plus (planned for release in February 1999) is a new biographical product from H.W. Wilson that gives users access to up-to-date information from 38000 articles on people from antiquity through today. Searches retrieve...

Art Index Retrospective.
November 1, 1998... Also new from H.W. Wilson is Art Index Retrospective--a conversion to electronic format of the print volumes of Art Index published before 1985. The database will be released in two phases, with the first in September 1998, providing indexing...

Major Authors Online.
November 1, 1998... Major Authors Online is a Web site from Primary Source Media (http://www.majorauthors.psmedia.com) that showcases the lives and works of leading literary figures profiled in the Major Authors on CD-ROM research series. The complete content of...

AltaVista.
November 1, 1998... AltaVista now can be found at both its old URL of http:// altavista.digital.com/ as well as at a new URL of http://www. altavista.com/. Also, a recent article ("Compaq Strikes an Alta Tude," Business Week, Sept. 28, p. 6) reports that Compaq,...

DejaNews.
November 1, 1998... DejaNews (http://www.delanews.com/) introduced a new interface and appearance in August, including the return of some older features. While most of the changes are in design, it has added a language limit for 18 different languages. This limit...

The Go Network.
November 1, 1998... The Go Network (http://www.go.com/), a cooperative effort between Disney and Infoseek, is scheduled to be available sometime in November. Current reports portray it as a major portal contender, but the searching will rely on the Infoseek search...

HotBot.
November 1, 1998... HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com/) has countered AltaVista's use of RealName links at the top of its results with links to Direct Hit results. These appear at the top of a HotBot results display in a line reading something like "Get the Top Ten...

Inference Find.
November 1, 1998... Inference Find, a meta-search engine, has a new URL. Look for it now at http://www.infind.com/. It searches WebCrawler, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Infoseek, and Excite.

Lycos.
November 1, 1998... Lycos has joined Infoseek in providing search results grouped by site. Unlike Infoseek, Lycos does not provide an option to ungroup the results. Lycos has also acquired Who Where which provides free online telephone number and email address...

Microsoft.
November 1, 1998... Microsoft has a beta version of its long-awaited search engine available at http://search.msn.com/. It is based on Inktomi and is very similar in function to HotBot: however, it does add a language limit in the advanced search that is not (yet)...

NewsBot.
November 1, 1998... NewsBot (usually available at http://www.bewbot.com/ or http://www.newbot.com/ or http://www.wired.com/newbot/), HotBot's tool for searching news and formerly also available as a downloadable client that would also search for new Web sites, is...

Northern Light.
November 1, 1998... Northern Light (http://www.nlsearch.com/) has added truncation to its automatic plural recognition. It joins AltaVista as one of the only two major Web search engines that support truncation. More sophisticated than AltaVista, Northern Light...

Size.
November 1, 1998... Size: In my August statistical comparison at Search Engine Showdown (http://imt. net/notess/search/), Northern Light moved into second place behind AltaVista while HotBot dropped into third place followed by Infoseek Excite, and then Lycos.

Intranet Management, Content Development, and Digital Gift Shop.
November 1, 1998... The Cutting-Edge Library at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, writing ad copy, selling T-shirts and coffee mugs for a Web photo store, and trying to predict the next natural disaster are all in a day's...

Internet in the Workplace.
November 1, 1998... Managing the Unmanageable The Internet is the world's largest research library. In formation is available free at the click of the mouse. With more information at their fingertips, organizations have increased their efficiency at...

Benchmarking the Information Technology Analysts.
November 1, 1998... Carol Beckman is a Technical Information Specialist and manages the In formation Systems Library in RLIS (Research Library & Information Services) at Ford Motor Company. Robert Schwarzwalder is the Head of RLIS, a network of corporate libraries...

BullsEye Taking Aim at the Internet.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Phyllis Smith, In the Know, 2 James Young Drive, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada L7G 5S6; 905/877-8139; psmith@in-the-know.com; http://www.in-the-know.com. BullsEye is a new desktop megasearch...

Maximizing Relevant Retrieval.
November 1, 1998... Packer, Joan Communications should be addressed to Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo and/or Joan Packer, Central Connecticut State University, Elihu Burritt Library, New Britain, CT 06050; 860/832-2068; Fax 860/832-3409; tomaiuolon@ccsu.edu;...

HEAD to HEAD for Competitive Intelligence.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the authors should be addressed to Marydee Ojala, Editor, DATABASE, P.O. Box 70, Park City, UT 84060; 435/649-7652; marydee@xmission.com; and/or Jesper Vissing Laursen, jul@sigma.ou.dk. Editor's Note: Do you have a good...

Filtering the Email Storm.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Greg R. Notess, Montana State University Library, P0. Box 173320, Bozeman, MT 59717-3320; 406/994-6563; align@montana.edu; http./ /imt.net/notes/. For all of the attention to the Web,...

LifeCenter Challenges Web for Consumers' Favor.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Mick O'Leary, 10230 Harmony Road, Myersville, MD 21773; 301/846-2585; 71735.2041@compuserve.com. Online databases have been long and justifiably criticized for not providing answers, for...

Royalty Fees Part IV: Authors' Rights.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the authors should be addressed to Stephanie C. Ardito, Ardito Information & Research, Inc., 1019 Sedwick Drive, Suite G, Wilmington, DE 19803; 302/479-5373; sardito@ardito.com; http://www.ardito.com; and/or Paula Eiblum,...

Matter, Energy, and Chaos: Physical Science Picture Sources on the Web.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Paula Berinstein, Berinstein Research, P0. Box 1305, Woodland Hills, CA 91365; 818/865-0523; Fax 818/865-1543; pberinstein@worldnet.att.net. One of the great things about living in the...

The Impact of Digital Reference on Librarians and library Users.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the authors should be addressed to Carol Tenopir, School of Information Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; 423/974-2148; Fax 423/974-4967, ctenopir@utk. edu; and/or Lisa Ennis, Mercer University, Macon, GA...

Thin Clients and Network-Centric Computing.
November 1, 1998... Mark Sheehan is director of the Information Technology Center at Montana State University- Bozeman. He writes and speaks frequently about topics in information technology management. He received the UMI Excellence in Writing Award in 1995 for...

Searching for Images by Similarity Online.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be sent to Peter Jacso, Associate Professor, Department of In formation and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii, 1030 Aoloa Place 207-A, Kailua, HI 96734; Fax 808/956-5835; jacso@hawaii.edu. ...

Spotlight on Submissions.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the author should be addressed to Hal P. Kirkwood, Jr., Purdue University, Management & Economics Library, West Lafayette, IN 47907; 765 /4942921; kirk wood@purdue.edu; or http://bounce.to/hall. This issue's column...

Reviews of Recent Writings.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the HARDCOPY editor should be addressed to Deborah Lynne Wiley, Next Wave Consulting, Inc., P0. Box 8, Deale, MD 20751; deb@consultnw.com. How to Find Market Research Online by Robert I. Berkman. (ISBN 1-56241-536-0;...

Recommended Reading.
November 1, 1998... Communications to the authors should be addressed to Bruce Connolly, Schaffer Library, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308; 518/388-6281; Fax 518/388-6641; connollb@union.edu and/or Gail M. Golderman, Schaffer Library, Union College,...

In Your Dreams.
November 1, 1998... Reva Basch may need to go back into therapy. She is author of Secrets of the Super Searchers, Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, and Researching Online For Dummies. Communications to the author should be addressed to Reva Basch, Aubergine...

search engine help.
November 1, 1998... Chris Sherman is the Web Search Guide for The Mining Co. Internet Guide network, http://websearch.miningco.com. He holds an MA from Stanford University in Interactive Educational Technology, and has worked in the Multimedia/Internet industry...

finding the light.
November 1, 1998... Your personal computer has an optical drive--a drive that uses at least one laser to record or retrieve data stored on a rotating medium. That's almost a given in 1998, and seems likely to continue for at least another decade. Five years ago,...