Online articles from November 2000

Online archives from November 2000

Swapping Files, Swapping Editors.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Steve Arnold, in his keynote speech at ONLINE WORLD 2000 last September remarked that "the record industry should have just bought Gnutella. They should have just shown up one day and said 'Good news! We love what you're doing, here's a billion...

New LEXIS-NEXIS Flagship Product.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... LEXIS-NEXIS recently released nexis.com as a new flagship Web-based information service for business professionals. Incorporating the LEXIS-NEXIS SmartIndexing Technology for finding more relevant search results, nexis.com features the ability...

CatchTheWeb Player.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... CatchTheWeb Player is a Windows application for viewing presentation archives created within the CatchTheWeb service by permitting users to archive their CatchTheWeb database to a local disk. Archives can be uploaded back to the service or...

URL Organizer 2, version 2.4.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... URL Organizer 2, version 2.4 has been released by Edward Leigh. URL Organizer is a Windows utility for storing, organizing, annotating, and backing up large or multiple collections of URLs. The new version lets users import AOL Favorite Places...

iBistro.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... iBistro (Sirsi Corporation) is a new Internet portal designed to help library users personalize Web searches via a special Web site for individual libraries. The site offers lists of latest titles, best sellers, popular Web sites, and library...

K.G. Saur Verlag.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... K.G. Saur Verlag, a Reed Elsevier company, has been acquired by the Gale Group, an operating unit of the Thomson Corporation. Saur, a Munich-based publisher of reference material primarily for the academic library market, publishes nearly 2000...

MindBranch, Inc.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Publications Resource Group (PRG, Inc.) has changed its name to MindBranch, Inc. The company also announced that it has received $18.5 million in financing from a group of investors led by Village Ventures, Inc....

Northern Light Technology.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Northern Light Technology (http://www.NorthernLight.com) has formed an alliance with Deja.com to bring Northern Light's search capabilities to Deja.com's Precision Buying Service (http//www.deja.com) and its Usenet Discussion Service...

Convera Corporation.(Intel Corp., Excalibur Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Convera Corporation is a new publicly-traded company formed by Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies Corporation to deliver interactive media services from organizations online. The transaction is subject to regulatory review, with...

Barnes & Noble.com.(Fatbrain.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Barnes & Noble.com announced plans to buy Fatbrain.com, paying $4.25 a share for the approximately 15 million outstanding Fatbrain shares. Shareholders will receive 25% of that amount (about $1.06) in cash and 75% in Barnes & Noble.com stock...

Fatbrain.com and netLibrary Inc.(netLibrary eBooks)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Also recently announced is an eBook alliance between Fatbrain.com and netLibrary Inc., where Fatbrain will add netLibrary eBooks to solutions currently provided to its customer base of 350 Fortune 1000 companies. netLibrary will host, manage,...

LEXIS-NEXIS.(Press Access Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... LEXIS-NEXIS has acquired Press Access, Inc., which delivers media intelligence and automation solutions for public relations and marketing communications professionals. Features will include one-click access to recent articles by a selected...

Internet Law Library Inc.(Compass Data Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Internet Law Library Inc. has acquired a major controlling interest in privately-held Compass Data Systems, which provides electronic information publishing services in a searchable electronic infobase to a wide variety of industries and...

kinkos.com and DigitalOwl.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... kinkos.com and DigitalOwl have formed a partnership under which they will implement a way for publishers to ensure control of copyrights, while allowing consumers the flexibility to have content which has been purchased digitally via the...

Global New Issues.(Thomson Financial Securities Data, Data Downlink Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Thomson Financial Securities Data (TFSD), a Thomson Financial group company, has agreed to license TFSD's Global New Issues and Venture Economics' Venture Capital Financing databases to Data Downlink Corporation. Global New Issues provides...

Intellifolders.(Intellifact International)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Intellifolders (Intellifact International) delivers information on clients, prospects, and competitors to users when and wherever they need it. The subscription-based service offers precise, real-time, user-requested information on any public...

Mergent Inc.(DataDownlink, Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Data from Mergent Inc., a source for international financial data and publisher of Moody's Manuals, is now available through DataDownlink, Inc.'s Portal B and .xls services. The data is updated daily and encompasses 22,000 companies in 90...

Northern Light Technology.(adds more than 140 titles to Special Collection)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Northern Light Technology has announced agreements to add over 140 new titles to its Special Collection, now numbering over 7,000 journals, periodicals, and research reports. Additions include the Washington Post, over 40 new McGraw-Hill trade...

XanEdu MBA ReSearch Engine.(Bell and Howell Information and Learning Co. XanEdu Div.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Bell & Howell Information and Learning and its XanEdu division have launched the XanEdu MBA ReSearch Engine to help college students and faculty obtain information from credible sources for course work, term papers, business cases, discussions,...

Panic Button.(DeepCanyon personal research service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Panic Button (DeepCanyon) is a personal research service for high-tech professionals. DeepCanyon specialists will review research requests within minutes and decide the best and most cost-effective way to find the required data. A research plan...

Ultimate Report.(SkyMinder.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Ultimate Report feature of SkyMinder.com (CRIBIS) has been improved in response to customer requests and suggestions. Ultimate Reports may still be retrieved with a single search request using company name and country or ticker symbol....

EBSCO SmartLinks.(EBSCOhost Web, EBSCOmed, Health-Source Plus)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... EBSCO SmartLinks (EBSCO Publishing) is a new feature on EBSCOhost Web, EBSCOmed, and Health-Source Plus. The feature lets users follow an article citation in one database to the corresponding full text of that article in another database. EBSCO...

EBSCOhost Espanol.(EBSCO Publishing, multilanguage versions of EBSCOhost)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... EBSCO Publishing is currently developing multilanguage versions of EBSCOhost, with EBSCOhost Espanol the first version to be released featuring a Spanish login screen, Spanish instructions on all search and help screens, and database...

Art Abstracts and Applied Science & Technology Abstracts.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Two H.W. Wilson databases--Art Abstracts and Applied Science & Technology Abstracts--are now available via EBSCOhost Web and Z39.50, including he new EBSCO SmartLinks feature.

Wilson Select Plus.(Distributes data base OCLC First Search)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Wilson Select Plus (H.W. Wilson), a database of approximately 500 more full-text titles than the Wilson Select database, is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. The additional periodical titles have been selected by subscriber vote...

PlusPat.(Database distributes patent information from Europe and Japan)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... PlusPat, announced by Questel*Orbit at the recent ONLINE WORLD Conference & Expo, combines the European Patent Office collection with U.S. and Japanese patent information, and is presented as the only service to offer merged European and U.S....

ChemPort Connection.(Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and MicroPatent have signed an agreement to provide patented document delivery through the ChemPort Connection)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and MicroPatent have signed an agreement to provide patented document delivery through the ChemPort Connection feature of CAS research services (http://www.chemport.org). The agreement enhances ChemPort's...

CA Lexicon on STN.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... CA Lexicon on STN is a new Chemical Abstracts Service thesaurus capability intended to guide searchers through intricate scientific vocabulary. Scheduled for release in December of this year, the tool organizes scientific concept families,...

ScienceDirect and SwetsnetNavigator.(Database distribution to UK colleges)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... ScienceDirect and Swets Blackwell have signed an agreement to establish linking between ScienceDirect and SwetsnetNavigator for U.K. universities participating in the U.K.'s National Electronic Site License Initiative (NESLI), for which Swets...

Aerospace Database.(Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has acquired the Aerospace Database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Under a recent agreement with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has acquired the Aerospace Database and its corresponding print product, International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA)....

Aqualine Abstracts.(Acquired by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has acquired the publishing rights to the Aqualine Abstracts journal and database from the Water Research Centre, and will continue to publish the journal with plans to make the database version available...

WTEXTILES and ALUMINUM.(New databases)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... WTEXTILES and ALUMINUM are two new databases on FIZ Karlsruhe (STN International European division). WTEXTILES is produced by Elsevier Science B.V. and includes citations to worldwide literature on the science and technology of textile and...

Peopleware.(Ovid Technologies appointments)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Ovid Technologies has appointed Dean M. Vogel as President and Chief Executive Officer, and Leo L. Rios as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Vogel succeeds Debbie Hull as President and CEO. Debbie Hull, former President and CEO of Ovid...

e-Sense 2.0.(Upgrade of database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... e-Sense 2.0 is a major upgrade to Vigil Technologies Inc.'s flagship service, which lets companies continuously and automatically capture relevant business information from Internet sources and then deliver this information directly to an...

eContent Publisher.(Upgrade)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... eContent Publisher from NewsEdge Corporation is a new econtent tool for corporate intranets, extranets, and public Web sites that lets companies choose targeted content from over 1,500 reviewed business topics and seamlessly integrate it into...

eTopics.(New database distribution)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NewsEdge has announced several new eTopics customers who are using the service to provide customized, industry-specific econtent on their sites. New customers include Thehealthchannel.com (http://www.thehealthchannel.com), hrVilage.com,...

All the Web.(Filters to block inappropriate sites)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... All the Web now offers a Customize option that includes a family filter, language limit, character encoding, and the number of word filters.

AltaVista.(Upgrade)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... AltaVista has made several significant changes in the past several months. For years, it has offered an advanced search which supported full Boolean searching, the NEAR operator, and other advanced search features. It has now introduced a Power...

Power Search.(feature options)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Also, after many years of displaying a penurious 10 hits at a time with no option for more, the Power Search features options for retrieving up to 50 hits at once. While that option is not available on the Simple or Advanced Search pages, it...

Deja.com.(partners with Northern Light)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Deja.com has lost much of its older Usenet archives. Currently, the Usenet search only goes as far back as May 1999. Deja.com has also partnered with Northern Light and features a Northern Light search box on many pages.

Excite.(site modification)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Excite has modified its results display. If a result from the Excite search engine is also included in Excite's version of the LookSmart directory, the directory category is also listed. This listing is included as part of the record and is...

FindArticles.com.(service introduction)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... FindArticles.com, the partnership between LookSmart and Gale, has launched with free access to articles from more than 300 periodicals.

FirstGov.(service introduction)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... FirstGov, the Inktomi-powered search engine and directory for U.S. government information, has formally launched at www.first.gov. A quick comparison with usgovsearch from Northern Light and Google's Uncle Sam shows that FirstGov has a...

Google.(service introduction)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Google has continued to make many changes, often at a rather rapid rate. It now offers an Advanced Search as well as a Language, Display, and Filtering Options page. The Advanced Search does not add many new features, but like AltaVista's Power...

The Language, Display, and Filtering Options.(offers language limits)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Language, Display, and Filtering Options page also offers language limits and the ability to display up to 100 hits, along with a family filter and an interface language choice. But from this page, these options can be selected and saved as...

HotBot.(product upgrade)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... HotBot has added customization capabilities again. Last available several years ago, HotBot now has a Personalize These Settings button which controls what search options appear. These include most of its advanced search options. HotBot has...

Northern Light.(product upgrade)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Northern Light has redesigned its main page. Once again, it has removed the option to limit a search to just the Web or its Special Collection on that main page. Instead, a searcher must use the Power Search screen for those options. In...

RemarQ.(closed as a search engine)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... RemarQ has disappeared, leaving Deja.com as the sole search engine for Usenet news postings.

Snap.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Snap has been renamed and integrated into other NBC Web properties under the new name of NBCi. The search side of the service retains the Live Directory as well as an Inktomi-powered search engine.

NAPSTER Copyright Killer or Distribution Hero?
November 1, 2000... "We didn't get into this 'space' cuz we're Internet gold seeking cockos. We're legitimate nihilistic media terrorists as history will no doubt canonize us." Near the turn of the century, a new technology quietly emerged that enabled music...

Documents, Data Information Retrieval, & XML.(document retrieval:difficulties of retrieving information from document repositories)
November 1, 2000... If you ask a hardcore systems engineer what's harder--retrieving information from documents or databases, the immediate answer would probably be databases. Surrounded by silos of data that are often not linked or standardized in any way, it's...

Grading the Library Portals.
November 1, 2000... One of today's biggest Web trends is the portal. Whether it's the battle for the top consumer portal, the portal as the medium of B2B ecommerce, or the proliferation of vertical market portals (or vortals), there is constant buzz about portals...

The myth of Intelligent Agents.
November 1, 2000... Technology seers love to prophesize about the marvels of human ingenuity the future has in store for us. Indeed, the advances we have made over the last century stand as an impressive tribute to humanity's perseverance in the effort to improve...

A Plain Text Metamorphosis: [Less than]Converting Search Results to HTML [greater than].
November 1, 2000... "Change is inevitable, except from vending machines." Anonymous As information specialists, we often focus on the quality of the information we deliver. We select the most appropriate databases, formulate optimal search strategies, and...

The Revenge of the Library Scientist.
November 1, 2000... It's not the title of the latest Hollywood movie. Not yet. Much like the work of aircraft mechanics, library scientists don't get enough respect. Twenty years ago, library scientists ruled the information retrieval world; they just didn't...

Searching Beyond Text: Multimedia Search Tools.
November 1, 2000... There are plenty of specialized search tools, some of which cover several types of multimedia content while others focus just on images or only on MP3 clips. In the September 2000 ON THE NET column, we explored some of the complex issues...

What's in a Name?(Database planning)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Names in general are a major part of your branding strategy whether you plan it this way or not. Many of you are in a heavy planning cycle as you head into the new year. During this time, we get a lot of questions about average budgets and...

The Dogs That Did Not Bark.(database planning)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... It's been a surprisingly calm year for personal computing because many of the developments haven't mattered all that much. Since this is the last PC MONITOR for 2000, I planned to discuss the year's hot topics in personal computing--or,...

Business Information Goes Local.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Most companies now train field personnel in the perils of the regional press. Serious researchers figured out some years ago that regional business publications provided a unique perspective on companies, industries, and business climate....

Web Goes Mainstream for Everybody.(More women than men on Internet)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The democratization of the Web is not just an occasion for diversity high fives. It is critically important to all sorts of people. What is the most significant Internet statistic for 2000? Here's my vote: for the first time, Internet users...

Building Web Sites Using Dynamic Templating.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Dynamically templating saves a lot of time, especially in redesigns. Remember the excitement of publishing your first Web page and your first site? It was a chance to be creative--to apply a new skill. You probably made each page one after...

Effective Use of Consulting Services.(For Web sites)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... One reason to use a consultant is to buy a service that your own staff can't deliver in a reasonable amount of time. At some point during your company's Web development efforts, you may wish to consider hiring a consultant. This may be to...

Recommended Reading.(Digital libraries)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... For this issue we look at a few books that define our progress into the digital age, covering the broad topics of digital libraries and organizing information. Then in cyberspace, we get inspiration by stories of folks on the Net, and learn how...

It's a (W)rap.(Internet usage)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Mothers of the world, I salute you. Mothers of toddlers, mothers of twins, mothers of twin toddlers--the mind reels--I applaud you from the depths of my frazzled being. We have a pair of new kittens. Our blended feline family now numbers...