Online articles from November 2004

Online archives from November 2004

Expect the unexpected.(the homepage)
November 1, 2004... My reading habits, as I suspect is true of many information professionals, are eclectic verging on eccentric. If you looked in my (physical) mailbox, you'd find magazines devoted to librarianship, information technology, pharmaceutical...

Company financial data delivered in XBRL by EDGAR Online.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... EDGAR Online will provide its business and financial information in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), utilizing the newly released US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework, a family of SBRL taxonomies that is compliant with XBRL...

Thomson Gale introduces OpenURL linking.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Thomson Gale has incorporated OpenURL connectivity into nine of its resource center products, including Business & Company Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, Biography Resource Center, History...

FindLaw announced the launch of the Thomson Legal Record, a resource designed to help in-house corporate attorneys make more informed decisions when hiring outside counsel.(Legal)(Thomson Corp. Thomson FindLaw)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... FindLaw announced the launch of the Thomson Legal Record, a resource designed to help in-house corporate attorneys make more informed decisions when hiring outside counsel. It enables users to research and verify an attorney's litigation...

HW Wilson announced the launch of Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) Retrospective, containing information on jurisprudence from 1918 to 1981.(Legal)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... HW Wilson announced the launch of Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) Retrospective, containing information on jurisprudence from 1918 to 1981. This online equivalent to dozens of ILP print annuals makes more than 60 years of periodicals research...

EBSCO Publishing announced the addition of the PAIS International database to its suite of subject-specific databases on EBSCOhost.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing announced the addition of the PAIS International database to its suite of subject-specific databases on EBSCOhost. PAIS International is produced by the OCLC Public Affairs Information Service [205/ 991-6600; www.ebsco.com].

Questel*Orbit announced the acquisition of 12.5 percent of Lingway's capital.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Questel*Orbit announced the acquisition of 12.5 percent of Lingway's capital. Questel*Orbit and Lingway have been partnering for the last year to create the just-released PatReader, a tool to improve full-text patent reading efficiency. Lingway...

ProQuest Information and Learning and MyFamily.com have partnered to produce Ancestry Library Edition, a new genealogy tool that will replace the current library product offering, AncestryPlus.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning and MyFamily.com have partnered to produce Ancestry Library Edition, a new genealogy tool that will replace the current library product offering, AncestryPlus. The interface will have a cleaner look with more...

Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Rakow Research Library of The Coming Museum of Glass, which includes a collection of primary documents as well as traditional library materials, has placed its catalog of holdings online. The library owns many rare items, such as the volume...

NetContent, Inc., known for its Intellisearch technology, has launched Scoop, a business information service that offers news alerts and publishing capabilities.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... NetContent, Inc., known for its Intellisearch technology, has launched Scoop, a business information service that offers news alerts and publishing capabilities. The subscription service is aimed at sales and marketing/communication executives....

ProQuest Information and Learning announced the addition of key selections from EIU ViewsWire to the ABI/INFORM business databases.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the addition of key selections from EIU ViewsWire to the ABI/INFORM business databases. Published by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU ViewsWire covers the critical aspects of global...

Copyright Clearance Center launched a Web-based resource for business professionals called The Guide to Copyright Compliance.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Copyright Clearance Center launched a Web-based resource for business professionals called The Guide to Copyright Compliance. The interactive guide assists companies in implementing corporate best practices for achieving compliance with...

Rand McNally launched the Commercial Atlas Online, a Web-based, interactive version of Rand McNally's Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Rand McNally launched the Commercial Atlas Online, a Web-based, interactive version of Rand McNally's Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide. The online product extends the capabilities of the print guide by providing economic, demographic, and...

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has expanded its Scientific Century project by making thousands of additional early-20th-century articles from American Chemical Society (ACS) journals and others available online.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has expanded its Scientific Century project by making thousands of additional early-20th-century articles from American Chemical Society (ACS) journals and others available online. The enhanced content will...

Thomson Gale announced the launch of Science Resource Center, the only science database with content directly correlated to national and state science curriculum standards.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Thomson Gale announced the launch of Science Resource Center, the only science database with content directly correlated to national and state science curriculum standards. It reflects teaching trends and focuses on key concepts taught in...

HW Wilson released Science Full Text Select, combining all Wilson science databases (including Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text) with additional full-text articles from Readers' Guide and Wilson OmniFile databases.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... HW Wilson released Science Full Text Select, combining all Wilson science databases (including Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text) with additional full-text articles from...

Reed Elsevier Group.(Peopleware)(Erik Engstrom appointed)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Reed Elsevier Group appointed Erik Engstrom as CEO of Elsevier, its global scientific and medical publishing division. Engstrom joined the company in August and is based in Amsterdam.

Ovid Technologies.(Peopleware)(Paul Weislogel appointed)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Ovid Technologies announced that Paul Weislogel has joined the company as Director of Strategic Society Relations. He had previously been a VP with Elsevier's Health Science Division.

NewsGator Technologies.(Peopleware)(J. B. Holston appointed)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... J. B. Holston, formerly president of Ziff Davis International, has joined NewsGator Technologies as its president and CEO. NewsGator founder, Greg Reinacker, will remain on its board and will serve as chief technical officer.

Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium.(Peopleware)(Anne K. Abate appointed)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium (GCLC) selected Anne K. Abate to serve as its next executive director.

Canadian Medical Association.(Biomedical)(contracts with Thomson Gale )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Through an agreement with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), Thomson Gale is adding seven of the association's publications to its cache of full-text periodicals through InfoTrac OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Health & Wellness...

Swets Information Services launched SwetsWise Title Bank, a customized gateway to a library's entire online and print holdings, enabling Swets' clients to customize their list of electronic subscription links whether they originate from external databases, publisher Web sites, or SwetsWise Online Content.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Swets Information Services launched SwetsWise Title Bank, a customized gateway to a library's entire online and print holdings, enabling Swets' clients to customize their list of electronic subscription links whether they originate from...

Thomson Elite has upgraded its knowledge management product, West km version 2.5, which allows users to search and find internal organizational documents such as briefs, pleadings, and memos along with information available on westlaw.com.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Thomson Elite has upgraded its knowledge management product, West km version 2.5, which allows users to search and find internal organizational documents such as briefs, pleadings, and memos along with information available on westlaw.com....

Documentum announced its new Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services, which offers federated searching and a single view of diverse enterprise content.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Documentum announced its new Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services, which offers federated searching and a single view of diverse enterprise content. The addition of ECI lets Documentum expand to access enterprise content beyond the...

NewsGator Technologies announced an agreement with U-WIRE to offer college media content to NewsGator Online Services users.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... NewsGator Technologies announced an agreement with U-WIRE to offer college media content to NewsGator Online Services users. U-WIRE annually syndicates more than 50,000 articles and 10,000 photographs, all produced by student journalists. More...

United Press International announced an agreement to add UPI content to EBSCO's online databases.(Current Awareness)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... United Press International announced an agreement to add UPI content to EBSCO's online databases. EBSCO Publishing subscribers will have access to content from UPI's English, Spanish, and Arabia 2000 products and photos from UPI's Newspictures...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(partnered with Citysearch)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search. Ask has announced a partnership with Citysearch, in which Ask Jeeves licenses Citysearch's local content and business data. This information is included in the "Smart Search" answers that show up at...

Blogs.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Blogs being the hip communication technology of the day, both Google and Yahoo! now have their own [www.google. com/googleblog and www.ysearchblog.com]. Fairly routine and not too informative yet, the blogs are another source for news on the...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Google has been all over the news lately, but the news has all been about its initial public stock offering. This in turn has meant more than the usual silence from Google on plans for the future and new search offerings. However, it has added...

Lycos.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search. The People Search [http://peoplesearch.lycos.com] combs U.S. white pages and also links to a few commercial people search companies such as Eliyon for...

MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone, replaced with a thank-you message to those who tried it and sent feedback. However, it did launch a U.S. version of its MSNBC Newsbot news search engine...

Yahoo!(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Yahoo! has been busy on several fronts. It launched the new design for its results page. It has joined Google in including records from the Open WorldCat project [www.worldcatlibraries.org]. These results will occasionally appear with a heading...

What's next? for corporate virtual libraries: the elimination of a paper collection and the need for a walk-in library space frees the information specialist to choose their optimal work space.
November 1, 2004... TWO YEARS AGO, I wrote an article describing the transformation of the Bell Canada Information Resource Centre from a traditional, paper-based collection to a virtual library ("Planning the Virtual Library," ONLINE, v. 26, n. 2, March/April...

Online social networking for business: an interview with Konstantin Guericke Marketing VP, LinkedIn.(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Online social networking is a hot topic in Internet circles. These online communities claim to create networks of friends and business colleagues based on referrals from other friends and colleagues. They connect people based on who those...

Breaking down: information silos: integrating online information.
November 1, 2004... ... as public search engines become ever more entrenched in the eyes of today's searchers as the standard method of searching the online environment, most material in proprietary e-journal databases... has, to some extent, become... the new...

Out of my searcher's mind, or, whatever happened to Kay Francis?
November 1, 2004... "Why me? Why would ONLINE call me to write this article?" With those words, I began a two-part article that appeared in the May and July issues of ONLINE magazine way back in 1991. The article was called "Inside a Searcher's Mind: The Seven...

Dating the Web: the confusion of chronology.(on the net)
November 1, 2004... For those of us grounded in the print world of publishing, the date of publication helps identify and distinguish different editions, specific periodical issues, and even re-printings. The date of print publication rarely matches the exact date...

Bells and whistles for business research.(the dollar sign)
November 1, 2004... Every good business researcher relies on techniques developed over time and learned from experience, not to mention tips gleaned from professional journal articles, attending sessions at conferences, and vendor training opportunities. As search...

Technology trends for intranet librarians.(intranet librarian)
November 1, 2004... At any given time, dozens of new technologies to learn about are waiting in the wings. The challenge for intranet Webmasters is to separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out which ones are worth investigating in detail. There are some...

Leave it on or turn it off?(pc monitor)(personal computer)
November 1, 2004... Unless your office runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and shares desks and PCs, chances are that both your work and home PCs sit unused most of the time. Even public-access computers in public libraries are likely to be sitting idle at least...

ISI Web of Science, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus.(peter's picks & pans)
November 1, 2004... My two picks, the newest version of ISI Web of Science (and ISI Web of Knowledge) and the new Scopus database, represent the state of the art in indexing/abstracting databases. Not only are the databases huge and interdisciplinary, but both are...

Pull up a chair and stay awhile: strategies to maximize site stickiness.(web site management)
November 1, 2004... As our understanding of Web site users evolves, so too do our strategies for increasing Web site usage and influencing user behavior. It wasn't so long ago that Web site "hits" and "page views" were our focus for measuring performance. Then we...

Search engine marketing meets local search.(The Information Strategist)
November 1, 2004... In my last column, I explored the core concepts, development, and growth of what many have called a revolution in marketing, investigating what paid search means to the information professional. Search engine marketing (SEM) has been given...

Google: the Missing Manual.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... ** 1/2 Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milsteiin and Rael Dornfest ISBN: 0-596-00613-6 Published: 2004 Pages: 299 pp.; softcover Price: $19.95 Available from: Pogue Press, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein...

Web Search Garage: the Definitive Guide on How Best to Search the Internet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... *** 1/2 Web Search Garage: The Definitive Guide on How Best to Search the Internet by Tara Calishain ISBN: 0-13-147148-1 Published: 2004 Pages: 264 pp.; softcover Price: $19.99 Available from: Prentice Hall...

Google and Other Search Engines.(Recommended Readings on Search Engines)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... *** Google and Other Search Engines by Diane Poremsky ISBN: 0-321-24614-4 Published: 2004 Pages: 364 pp.; softcover Price: $19.99 Available from: Peachpit Press, 1249 Eight St., Berkeley, CA 94710; 800/283-9444;...

Degunking Windows.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... ** Degunking Windows by Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann ISBN: 1-932111-84-0 Published: 2004 Pages: 310 pp.; softcover Price: $24.99 Available from: Paraglyph Press, 401S N. 78th St. #115, Scottsdale, AZ 85251;...

What makes information "public"?(online spotlight)
November 1, 2004... What to do when you find information in a public place that appears to be for internal use? The issue has been debated for years among competitive intelligence professionals. Dumpster diving is frowned upon, and reading over the shoulder of...