Online articles from November 2002

Online archives from November 2002

Rediscovering new skills and changed roles. (The Homepage).(librarians and information science)(Column)
November 1, 2002... I think I read my first article about the changing roles of librarians before I even was a librarian. My first Special Libraries Association conference, while I was still in library school at the University of Pittsburgh, exposed me to one...

CSA withdraws files from dialog. (Industry News).(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... As of October 1, 2002, all CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) databases were removed from Dialog and DataStar. The 19 files are bibliographic abstract and index databases in the sciences and social sciences, including Oceanic Abstracts,...

Google News expands, adds sources and images. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Although still in beta, Google News has expanded to 4,000, mostly English-language, news sources that it crawls continuously. Since the news is gathered entirely by crawler and analyzed by automated search algorithms, stories are frequently...

Alacritude presents eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... When Patrick Spain left Hoover's, he had no intention of leaving the information industry. He approached Tucows, which had purchased eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com from Infonautics, and offered to buy them. The sites had been languishing under...

Thomson Research combines Research Bank Web and Global Access. (Industry News).(to form Thomson Research)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Two major Thomson Financial products--Research Bank Web and Global Access--are being merged to form Thomson Research. The new Web-based application includes Investext; Markintell; Industry Insider; Extel Cards with data from Datastream and...

Heritage Quest Online. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(from ProQuest)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Heritage Quest Online is ProQuest's new Web-based genealogy resource developed specifically for library patrons. The product combines source materials from UMI Genealogy & Local History Online with resources from genealogy publisher Heritage...

SIRS Interactive citizenship. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... SIRS newest product, SIRS Interactive Citizenship, consists of two online interactive books that link to SIRS databases--What Citizens Need to Know About Government and What Citizens Need to Know About World Affairs. The product addresses the...

ARBA online. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(joint venture between Libraries Unlimited and Paratext L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... ARBAonline offers reviews of print and electronic reference works that help librarians keep library collections up-to-date, maintain quality standards, and ensure depth of coverage. The database is a joint initiative of Libraries Unlimited and...

FIZ. (Biomedical).(FIZ Karlsruhe launches new databases)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe has launched the PHARMAML and NUTRACEUT databases. Both databases provide pharmaceutical and nutraceutical information and are sourced from an international network of correspondents in Europe, America, Asia, and elsewhere....

National Information Services Corporation. (Biomedical).(products add biological abstracts)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... BIOSIS and the National Information Services Corporation (NISO) have announced the addition of Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), and Zoological Record to the NISO platform. BIOSIS will now add these...

Health Language, Inc. (Biomedical).(licensing agreement with Micromedex)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Healthcare terminology tools provider, Health Language, Inc. (HLI), has announced a licensing arrangement for HLI's Knowledge Management tool set for healthcare, Cyber+LE, with Thomson Corporation's MICROMEDEX division. MICROMEDEX provides...

Thieme Publishing Group. (Biomedical).(contract with Swets Blackwell)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Thieme Publishing Group has signed a contract with Swets Blackwell to participate in SwetsnetNavigator. Nineteen titles from Thieme Medical Publishers and 68 titles from Georg Thieme Verlag will be available to SwetsnetNavigator customers, with...

Snapshops International. (Business & Finance).(new information database service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Snapshops International, publisher of international market research overviews, has launched a new Web-based pay-as-you-go service. Users can now purchase individual Snapshots Reports directly from the Snapshops Web site. The Snapshops Series...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and ProQuest. (Business & Finance).(online publishing agreement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and ProQuest have announced a limited agreement permitting ProQuest to distribute journal content from the BoldIdeas Collection of business journals as part of the ABI/INFORM business database. Both indexing and full...

Executive Briefing. (Business & Finance).(from Economist Intelligence Unit)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Executive Briefing is the Economist Intelligence Unit's new Internet service designed to provide industry forecasts and analysis to global executives. The service provides 5-year country-by-country forecasts for eight key...

Alacra. (Business & Finance).(new services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Alacra is now offering several new services. Value Line Company and Industry Reports plus Dun & Bradstreet have been added to its premium content, while SNL Financial content has been added to Alacra's suite of company and financial databases....

Standard & Poor. (Business & Finance).(contract with eMeta)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Standard & Poor's has chosen eMeta technology to enhance and customize its financial data offered over the Web. eMeta will provide Standard & Poor's its eRights solution, an open infrastructure software solution for managing products,...

LexisNexis Country Analysis. (Business & Finance).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... LexisNexis Country Analysis is a new release from LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions. It is designed to aggregate news, analysis, in-depth reports, and statistics on 190 countries. Political Risk Service analyses and Country Risk Guides,...

LookSmart. (Portals & Intranets).(distribution agreement with About Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... LookSmart, a search-targeted marketing company, has announced a distribution agreement with About, Inc., a division of Primedia. Under terms of the agreement, LookSmart will provide search results on About Network below the proprietary...

Opencola Ltd. (Portals & Intranets).(agreement with Moreover Technologies)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Opencola Ltd, a developer of distributed content search technology, has signed an agreement with information management solutions provider, Moreover Technologies. The agreement will enhance Opencola's search application with real-time access to...

iMarkup Solutions Inc. (Portals & Intranets).(collaboration tools provider)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Web-based collaboration tools provider, iMarkup Solutions Inc. has integrated its Content Review Server with Documentum's WebPublisher. The integration provides a solution for companies that want to create a Web content management process...

Convera. (Portals & Intranets).(support for Documentum)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Convera has announced full support for Documentum 5, the latest version of Documentum's enterprise content management platform. Convera's RetrievalWare will help Documentum users search for content easily and accurately and supports...

Applied Semantics News Series. (Portals & Intranets).(processes content for online and print publishers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Applied Semantics News Series processes content for online and print publishers. It provides content categorization, summarization, event identification, and content tagging software to streamline newswire, editorial, archiving, and syndication...

Aardvark. (Portals & Intranets).(Web site offers information about Asian libraries)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Aardvark is a Web site for librarians offering information about Asian libraries, Asian digital collections, library schools, and other related Asian information. Also included are a list of library conferences, Asian databases on the Web,...

SurfControl. (Portals & Intranets).(launches its E-Mail Filter Application Programming Interface tool)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Web and e-mail filtering company, SurfControl, has launched E-mail Filter Application Programming Interface (API), a tool the lets Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer spam filtering services to home and business customers. SurfControl...

Thomson Corporation. (Peopleware).(names president and chief executive officer of Thomson Healthcare)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Rick Noble has been named president and chief executive officer of Thomson Healthcare by The Thomson Corporation. He was formerly COO of Thomson Healthcare and CEO of MICROMEDEX.

LexisNexis. (Peopleware).(makes various appointments)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... LexisNexis has appointed Eric Geringswald director, Corporate Services, for LexisNexis Document Solutions. Geringswald will manage all seven LexisNexis Document Solutions branches. Ellen Campbell-Kaminski becomes vice president, Small Law Firm...

NewsEdge. (Peopleware).(Dialog names executive president, Strategy and Alliances)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Former president and CEO of NewsEdge, Clifford M. Pollan, has been appointed Dialog's executive vice president, Strategy and Alliances. The appointment comes as integration of NewsEdge into Dialog has been completed.

Dialog. (Peopleware).(names vice president, Content Development)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Dialog has appointed Viji Krishnan vice president, Content Development, with global responsibility for the collection and licensing of content gathered worldwide from publishers, information aggregators, and specialized data services. She will...

Blackwell Publishing. (Peopleware).(European sales executive is named)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Paul Calow has joined Blackwell Publishing as Journal Sales executive covering Belgium, France, Portugal, Scandinavia, and Spain.

CSA. (Sci-Tech).(Internet Database Service forms partnerships)
November 1, 2002... Users searching bibliographic databases from CSA on its Internet Database Service (IDS) can now link search results to full-text journals from JSTOR, the American Meteorological Society, and the Geological Society of America. These partnerships...

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). (Sci-Tech).(Chemical Abstracts Service users given link to American Chemical Society Journal Archives)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have combined forces to permit GAS information products users to identify and link to full-text articles in the ACS Journal Archives. Users can identify ACS articles...

SciFinder 2002. (Sci-Tech).
November 1, 2002... SciFinder 2002, the newest release of the CAS desktop research tool, offers increased reaction information, property data, and other content. New and improved features include new analysis tools for stereochemistry; experimental properties for...

ScienceIQ. (Sci-Tech).(launches subscription e-mail service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Web-based start-up, ScienceIQ, has launched a subscription e-mail service for science and technology learning. The company is a collaboration between Anton Skorucak, creator of the PhysLink.com physics and astronomy Web site, and Gene Mascoli,...

Document Center Inc. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Document Center Inc. is celebrating its 20th anniversary as distributor of standards and standards information. Document Center Inc. resells standards, which are published technical documents. The company initially sold standard in paper format...

Information Science Abstracts (ISA). (Online Services).(now accessible through EBSCOhost search interface)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Information Science Abstracts (ISA) is now accessible through the EBSCOhost search interface. Published by Information Today, Inc., ISA promotes the science, management, and technology of information through abstracting of pertinent books,...

Dialog. (Online Services).(completes enhancements to Alerts service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Dialog has completed major enhancements to the Alerts service for DialogClassic, DialogClassic Web, and DialogWeb services users. Enhancements include the ability to run single Alerts across multiple files of content sources, automatic removal...

Dialog NewsRoom. (Online Services).(launced as stand-alone, Web-based service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The Dialog NewsRoom database has recently been launched as a stand-alone, Web-based service accessible at www.dialognewsroom.com. More than 7,000 sources are now included. The stand-alone Dialog NewsRoom additionally offers about 1,500 of those...

Dialog. (Online Services).(re-enters document delivery market)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Dialog has re-entered the document delivery market, expanding the number and diversity of sources from which articles and reports can be ordered, and improving the delivery process for documents, including patent documents from around the...

Southam Publications Inc. (Online Services).(in agreement with ProQuest)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... ProQuest has formed an agreement with Canadian-based Southam Publications Inc. to add full text from Southam's Canadian newspaper titles to its ProQuest and Micromedia ProQuest electronic databases. The agreement covers 17 daily, 53 weekly, and...

Swets Blackwell. (Online Services).(receives ISO accreditation)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Swets Blackwell has received accreditation by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO has issued Swets Blackwell its 9001:2000 certificate, valid for a 3-year period. The certification is applicable across Swets...

Net.Journal Finder. (Online Services).(has been updated)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Net.Journal Finder has been updated with Net.Journal Directory 11 data. Over 23,000 periodical titles and over 80,000 data listings are included in this update [inquiries@hermograph.com].

Factiva. (Online Services).(adds Dun & Bradstreet reports and Investext reports)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Factiva, moving forward in its merger of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, has added Dun & Bradstreet reports, a database of 36.5 million Company Snapshots for international companies, and Investext reports in PDF format. The...

TrademarkBots.com. (Legal).(forms marketing agrement with SOCAP.org)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... TrademarkBots.com has formed a marketing alliance with SOCAP.org. Under the agreement SOCAP.org will include TrademarksBots among the tools it offers to corporations. SOCAP membership includes nearly 3,000 corporate consumer affairs/customer...

IXIASOFT. (Legal).(database server technology in use in Europe, U.S.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... IXIASOFT's Net-ready database server technology is now in use in Europe and the U.S. to manage XML documents for large organizations such as the U.K. Public Records Office, AT&T, and the U.S. Air Force. IXIASOFT offers a document-centric XML...

LexisNexis. (Legal).(offering new litigation support tool )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... LexisNexis now offers a new litigation support tool that uses DolphinSearch's technology to ease trial preparation and electronic data discovery. Several enhancements have been made to LexisNexis patent offerings, primarily to help users link...

Thomson Corporation. (Alliances & Deals).(acquires Current Drugs Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The Thomson Corporation has acquired privately held, U.K-based Current Drugs Ltd. Current Drugs provides databases, systems, and services such as the Investigational Drugs database (IDdb). Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed....

Global Securities Information, Inc. and LexisNexis. (Alliances & Deals).(alliance will allow LexisNexis to offer Global Securities Information product)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Under an alliance between Global Securities Information, Inc. and LexisNexis, LexisNexis will now offer GSI's LIVEDGAR product through the LexisNexis service so that LexisNexis subscribers can access GSI's LIVEDGAR product from within...

AskEarth.com. (Search Engines).(question and answer Web site in beta development stage)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... AskEarth.com is a question/answer Web site, similar to Google Answers, which provides a forum for everyday people (rather than experts) to answer questions and do research for others on almost any topic. Currently in the beta development stage,...

www.1do3.com. (Search Engines).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Described by its U.K. creators as a "shortal," www.1do3.com (one-do-three) takes users in three clicks or less to a short list of useful Web sites most likely to meet their needs. The site is to have evolved out of frustration with search...

Commonwealth of Learning. (Search Engines).(installs RetrievalWare from Convera )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The intergovernmental organization Commonwealth of Learning [www.col.org] has installed Convera's RetrievalWare as the search and categorization engine on its new Knowledge Finder portal. RetrievalWare indexes public domain information to help...

Intelliseek. (Search Engines).(develops Applied Research Center )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Intelliseek has created an Applied Research Center, picking up talent from the recently defunct WhizBang Labs. The Center, to be headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will concentrate on building advanced solutions to current and future...

AlltheWeb. (Internet Search Engine Update).(expands its advanced search capabilities )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Allthe Web has expanded its file type coverage and advanced search capabilities. AlltheWeb is now the first and only search engine to provide searchable access to Web-accessible Macromedia Flash files. Its Advanced Search page now includes a...

AOL Search. (Internet Search Engine Update).(adds Google results to service )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... AOL Search is now using Google.results under the "Matching Sites" heading along with the Google AdWords results under its "Sponsored Links" heading. The Google databases on AOL replace Inktomi, the former Web search results provider, and...

Jeeves. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Ask Jeeves enhances service engine with new toolbar )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Ask Jeeves is now displaying "sponsored links" advertisements from the Google AdWords program. It has also followed Google's lead by offering an Ask Jeeves toolbar. The toolbar can be installed within Internet Explorer for users of Windows 98...

DayPop. (Internet Search Engine Update).(search engine being restored after crash)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... DayPop, the blog and news search engine, went down in early September. The person who runs the site went to Italy, and it crashed while he was gone. Once he returned in the middle of the month he discovered that he was out of disk space. And so...

Google. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Google Inc. increases database of Web pages, number of pages it crawls, re-indexes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Google announced that it has increased the number of pages that it crawls and re-indexes as frequently as every day. Previously, this had been about 3 million pages, but there's no word on what the new number is. Most of these are news or blog...

InfoSpace. (Internet Search Engine Update).(InfoSpace Inc., Google Inc. form agreement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... InfoSpace, which operates several meta-search engines including Dogpile, Excite, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, and InfoSpace itself, has reached an agreement with Google so that the meta search engines can include both Google results and the Google...

Inktomi. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Inktomi Corp. increases size of Web page database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Inktomi has been losing partners, but is still competing. With both FAST and Google claiming over 2 billion pages, Inktomi has made an increase as well, and company representatives also now report a database with more than 2 billion Web pages....

iWon. (Internet Search Engine Update).(contracts with Google for searching)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... iWon, the browse-for-sweepstakes-entry portal, has also dropped Inktomi in favor of Google. iWon is continuing with Overture for its "Sponsored Listings," but its "Web Sites" section is now powered by Google. In addition to the Web database,...

MSN Search. (Internet Search Engine Update).(MSN Search expands search results)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... MSN Search now lets users see beyond the first 200 results. The limit is now at 1,000. And for Internet Explorer users, there is a new feature for those that click the search button for the IE Search Assistant. They can now see a "Search...

SpyOnIt. (Internet Search Engine Update).(online alert service shuts down)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... SpyOnIt, a free alert service, shut down, "on an indefinite hiatus," but hope to bring at least part of the service back online. That may happen by sometime late 2002, so check back. Greg R. Notess [greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com/]...

Wayback Machine. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The Wayback Machine has had very few 2002 archived pages for most of this year. But by October, data from the first 6 months of 2002 should be online. While it is too soon to tell if this will become the standard update schedule, do not count...

WiseNut. (Internet Search Engine Update).(WiseNut Inc. updates database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... WiseNut has finally refreshed its database. Since Fall 2001, WiseNut's database stagnated, with the bulk of it from a July 2001 crawl. At some point this September WiseNut finally updated its database with a new one. Even so, it does appear to...

Content management from vendor selection to successful rollout.
November 1, 2002... "Content management" is joining "knowledge management" and "information architecture" as a concept that everyone knows exactly what it is--until the time comes to set out a definition in writing. Then the arm waving has to stop. A working...

A second shot at the knowledge management challenge.(opinions on knowledge management)(Editorial)
November 1, 2002... I first conjectured about professional opportunities for librarians in the hot new field of Knowledge Management (KM) back in 1999 ("Knowledge Management in the Library--Not," Database, April/May 1999, pp. 75-78). I thought then, and still...

Teaming for research excellence.
November 1, 2002... As in many organizations, my team at WMC Resources Ltd. produced a weekly report of research activity. Not too long ago my manager questioned me as to why, in that particular week, it was so light. Why there were only two "requests!" The...

Information professionals leading intranet development initiatives.
November 1, 2002... Intranet development projects put information professionals' leadership skills to the test. Too often, those leadership skills are lacking. Librarians attending a recent vendor-sponsored seminar on taxonomies shared their experiences with...

Alerting and tracking using docket research databases.
November 1, 2002... Enron, WorldCom, Hewlett-Packard, Global Crossing--the names conjure up images unfolding daily dramas that panic employees and investors, not to mention generating cries for reform from all branches of government. But for business and law...

Buyers guides for the energy industry.
November 1, 2002... Looking for something you need in the energy industry? A source for a product or a component to buy? Can't find an alternative supplier? Just want another company to bid on your project? Finding new products, suppliers, equipment, and...

Search Softbase: software information for the Web searcher.
November 1, 2002... Softbase [www.searchsoftbase.com] is a somewhat complex, but comprehensive, fee-based site for obtaining information about software packages, the companies that produce them, and the reviews that describe them. It is the latest product of GUIDE...

RSS, aggregators, and reading the blog fantastic. (On the Net).
November 1, 2002... I explored the realm of the Weblog in my last column ("The Blog Realm: News Sources, Searching with Daypop, and Content Management," ONLINE, September/October 2002, pp. 70-72). The content management capabilities of blog software and the search...

Researching small business concerns. (The Dollar Sign).
November 1, 2002... Nothing makes the potent changes in research techniques more obvious than a research project focused on small business. Not that long ago, information professionals relied on journal articles to answer questions related to starting small...

Content essentials. (Industry Insights).
November 1, 2002... When 2001 came and went, many of us breathed a sigh of relief. We thought the worst was behind. The downward economic spiral was over. Let's get on with recovery. Well, here we are at the end of 2002, embarking on a new year and guess what...

Web authoring in XHTML. (Intranet Librarian).
November 1, 2002... Web authoring has become a routine activity. Almost everyone from secretaries to managers now produces HTML documents. Some organizations adhere to strict coding practices that require Web authors to create valid HTML documents. More often than...

Communicating the value of Web development efforts. (Web Site Management).
November 1, 2002... You know your Web development project delivers value, but how do you make the point clear to others? Communication is the key. Constant communication--both during a Web development project and afterwards--creates a bridge between expectations...

When did PCs get boring? (PC Monitor).
November 1, 2002... Two years ago when planning to discuss the year's "hot topics" in my year-end "PC Monitor" column (November/December 2000), I found nothing particularly exciting to talk about. What I said at the beginning of that column was, "It's been a...

Consumers union watches the web. (O'Leary Online).
November 1, 2002... No brand is more widely recognized and trusted, at least in the U.S., than Consumer Reports. Since 1936, the magazine, published by Consumers Union, has delivered thorough--and often blunt--consumer product recommendations, while maintaining a...

New York Times digital archive Scirus the Haworth press. (Peter's Picks & Pans).
November 1, 2002... The two picks are the digital archive of New York Times, a cultural heritage in its own, and Scirus, which turned from a frog into a prince, although still with blemishes. The pan is the Web service offered by The Haworth Press that takes away...

Recommended reading on community, independent information professionals, and leadership. (Hardcopy).
November 1, 2002... This month I look at community involvement, from how to best utilize and digitize community information, to how to write for better community understanding of your Web site, to thoughts on community leadership. And, as a counterbalance, read...

The Wayback Machine. (Online Spotlight).
November 1, 2002... When I was growing up, the only cartoons we were allowed to watch were those my mother judged to be nonviolent. Fortunately, the "Rocky & Bullwinkle Show" made the cut, and I grew up being exposed to adult humor at its best, including Peabody's...