Online articles from November 2006

Online archives from November 2006

Perspectives, perceptions, and periscopes: not everyone agrees on what libraries truly are. For some, libraries are a physical place, but more and more people view libraries as space.(homepage)(Editorial)
November 1, 2006... Everybody knows what a library is, right? At the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) congress in Seoul in August, most attendees self-classified themselves as librarians. Ask them where they worked and the...

Datastream's new interface.(industry news)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Financial's financial database)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Thomson Financial's new interface for Datastream, its historical financial numerical database with securities and economic information from more than 175 countries and 60 markets, further integrates the product with the Thomson ONE platform. It...

Free reports from IBISWorld.(industry news)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... For a limited time, IBISWorld will offer no-obligation trial subscriptions to enable information professionals, marketing researchers, strategic planners, and others to download up to $1,500 worth of up-to-date research and analysis for free...

EBSCO Publishing announced the release of Film & Television Literature Index, a bibliographic database that offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... EBSCO Publishing announced the release of Film & Television Literature Index, a bibliographic database that offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. The company plans to...

EBSCO is offering more than 30 Taylor & Francis eBook packages to its global customer base.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... EBSCO is offering more than 30 Taylor & Francis eBook packages to its global customer base, focused in the areas of social sciences and humanities, sourced from publishing imprints such as Routledge, RoutledgeFalmer, and Taylor & Francis. They...

Thomson Scientific.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Derwent World Patents Index)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific announced the release of an enhanced version of Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on Dialog. DWPI (Files 350, 351, 352 on Dialog), a comprehensive database of value-added patent information, now features a more robust...

OCLC speaks Vietnamese.(Online Computer Library Center translates Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... OCLC announced the publication of the Vietnamese translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and Relative Index, Abridged Edition 14, by the National Library of Vietnam. The new edition officially launched at a seminar in Hanoi in...

In Memoriam.(industry news)(Obituary)
November 1, 2006... Two pioneers of the online industry died on July 31, 2006: Frederick G. Kilgour, founder of OCLC, passed away in Chapel Hill, N.C., at the age of 92. Elizabeth Bole Eddison, founder of Inmagic, Inc., passed away in Lexington, Mass., at the age...

LexisNexis U.S. and EDGAR Online, Inc. announced an expanded alliance.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. and EDGAR Online, Inc. announced an expanded alliance. LexisNexis customers now have access to all EDGAR form types, including Investment Company Act filings and insider trading forms. LexisNexis customers will also benefit from...

infoUSA.com, Inc.(Business & Finance)(infoUSA.com to acquire Opinion Research Corp.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... infoUSA.com, Inc., a provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services, and sales and marketing solutions, announced a merger agreement under which it will acquire Opinion Research...

Northern Light Group LLC.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Northern Light Group LLC announced a new version of its Business Research Engine (BRE). All visitors to the www.nlresearch.com site now have free access to the Business Web and can browse and search the proprietary business content at no...

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) unveiled the new SIAM Digital Library powered by Scitation.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) unveiled the new SIAM Digital Library powered by Scitation. The SIAM Digital Library consolidates the Society's core publications into a...

AIP also announced the release of the next generation of its Scitation online document-delivery service, DocumentStore, giving researchers access to hundreds of thousands of articles.(American Institute of Physics)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... AIP also announced the release of the next generation of its Scitation online document-delivery service, DocumentStore, giving researchers access to hundreds of thousands of articles from nearly 150 science and engineering publications hosted...

INSPEC.(enhances the INSPEC archive file)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... INSPEC has been enhanced with the INSPEC Archive File from 1898 to 1968. It provides fully searchable electronic access to more than 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics,...

TheScientificWorld Ltd.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... TheScientificWorld Ltd. (TSW) announced the launch of a series of new Web features designed to enhance the user experience of its online journals. New features are Article Clouds and Journal Clouds, which bring new views of published content...

Thomson Scientific.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific increased its coverage of nursing journals, nearly doubling the number indexed within the Web of Science component of ISIWeb of Knowledge. The Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS) of the Medical Library...

SAGE Publications.(Peopleware)(Steven D. Golden appointed as managing director )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... SAGE Publications appointed Steven D. Golden as the first managing director of its newly founded Asia-Pacific business to be based in Singapore. The Singapore office was established at the end of August to further extend SAGE's reach in the...

Inmagic, Inc.(Peopleware)(Paul J. Puzzanghera appointed as president and chief executive officer)(Phillip L. Green appointed as vice chairman )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Inmagic, Inc. has appointed Paul J. Puzzanghera president and CEO. He was the founder and CEO of Legacy Technology, which merged with AnswerThink Consulting Group in 1999. Phillip L. Green, Inmagic's president and CEO since 1990, has been named...

LexisNexis Special Services, Inc.(Peopleware)(John Casciano appointed as senior vice president )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... LexisNexis Special Services, Inc. named retired USAF Maj. Gen. John Casciano senior vice president and chief operating officer. Casciano will direct and manage all sales and operations to support LexisNexis Advanced Government Solutions in...

Outsell, Inc. announced the acquisition of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) of London.(Alliance & Deals)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Outsell, Inc. announced the acquisition of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) of London. David Worlock, founder and chairman of EPS, will serve as Chief Research Fellow of the new organization, and all members of the EPS team will be...

The New York Times Co. completed the acquisition of Baseline StudioSystems from Hollywood Media Corp. for $35 million in cash.(Alliance & Deals)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The New York Times Co. completed the acquisition of Baseline StudioSystems from Hollywood Media Corp. for $35 million in cash. Baseline, an online database and research service for the film and television industries, charges subscribers for...

NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, announced an agreement with Taiwan-based airiti, Inc. to offer subscription services to three highly regarded Chinese-language databases.(Alliance & Deals)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, announced an agreement with Taiwan-based airiti, Inc. to offer subscription services to three highly regarded Chinese-language databases. The agreement, which was announced at the 72nd IFLA General Conference and...

Nstein Technologies, Inc.(launches annotators)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Nstein Technologies, Inc. announced the launch of 12 annotators, compliant with the open source Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) standard developed by IBM. The UIMA standard provides the foundation for new search-related...

Thomson ResearchSoft announced the availability of EndNote for Mac OS X, librarians, and students.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Thomson ResearchSoft announced the availability of EndNote for Mac OS X, librarians, and students. EndNote is the industry standard for creating easy bibliographies and managing references. EndNote X, designed for IntelCore, provides expanded...

In partnership with Elsevier, EBSCO is now offering individual e-journals to academic and government institutions, targeted toward those with small print journal collections.(EBSCO Information Services, Elsevier Business Press)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... In partnership with Elsevier, EBSCO is now offering individual e-journals to academic and government institutions, targeted toward those with small print journal collections. Specifically designed for individualtitle online access, E-Select:...

In its latest partnership with Springer Science+Business Media, EBSCO is offering the Springer Online Archives Collection, providing nearly 2 million archive records of journals published prior to 1996.(Online Services)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... In its latest partnership with Springer Science+Business Media, EBSCO is offering the Springer Online Archives Collection, providing nearly 2 million archive records of journals published prior to 1996. These archive records are available as 11...

ProQuest Obituaries.(Online Services)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the launch of ProQuest Obituaries, which offers access to obituaries and death notices from the full runs of major national newspapers dating back to 1851. ProQuest Obituaries enables users to find...

Swets Information Services announced an addition to its Gateway to China program with the launch of China Suite, a pick-and-choose model of e-only titles for the Chinese market.(Online Services)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Swets Information Services announced an addition to its Gateway to China program with the launch of China Suite, a pick-and-choose model of e-only titles for the Chinese market. Consisting of 234 titles from 16 different publishers, it is...

The New York Times Co. has partnered with Starcut to streamline its news presentation for mobile devices.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The New York Times Co. has partnered with Starcut to streamline its news presentation for mobile devices. Images have been resized to better fit a smaller screen and stories are broken up into shorter pages. The new interface includes the full...

Research and Markets.(European Online Information Market Report)
November 1, 2006... Research and Markets recently published European Online Information Market Report. The report covers both the business and the scientific/technical/medical (STM) markets and includes individual chapters on the U.K., French, and German...

FundsXpress Financial Network, Inc., provider of Internet-based financial services, has launched YellowBrix Content Solutions to provide real-time information to over 200 financial institutions nationwide.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... FundsXpress Financial Network, Inc., provider of Internet-based financial services, has launched YellowBrix Content Solutions to provide real-time information to over 200 financial institutions nationwide. FundsXpress has secured the YellowBrix...

LexisNexis U.S. and NetDocuments have launched a new service that will allow law firms to better manage and archive e-mail.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. and NetDocuments have launched a new service that will allow law firms to better manage and archive e-mail. Law firms now have a single place to capture, store, organize, archive, and manage emails, documents, and records. The...

Dialog enhanced its portfolio of healthcare information with the addition of EMCare, a new nursing and allied health database produced by Elsevier.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Dialog enhanced its portfolio of healthcare information with the addition of EMCare, a new nursing and allied health database produced by Elsevier. The file is also available on the DataStar service. EMCare includes more than 2,700...

EBSCO Information Services.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... EBSCO Information Services announced the addition of a medical subject classification scheme to its online title listing service, EBSCO A-to-Z. This further broadens the scope of A-to-Z classification options, enabling hospital and other...

American Institute of Physics (AIP).(Biomedical)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The American Institute of Physics (AIP) initiated a multiphase program that allows users of its Scitation hosting platform to conduct searches of PubMed.MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's...

Evidence Matters, Inc.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Evidence Matters, Inc., a digital medical resource that allows clinicians to compare therapies for their patients based on peer-reviewed medical research, is releasing specialty content in three new areas for its evidence-based search engine....

Stevan Harnad, open access proponent and professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, U.K., won the Andrea von Braun Stiftung English language science poetry prize at the Euroscience Open Forum in Munich for his poem, "Public or Perish.".(Open Access)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Stevan Harnad, open access proponent and professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, U.K., won the Andrea von Braun Stiftung English language science poetry prize at the Euroscience Open Forum...

Ask.com.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Ask.com can now search some punctuation, as long as it is an emoticon. Searching something like ;-) or %-( results in a Smart Answer with the definition of the emoticon and links to other resources for emoticons and smileys. Further expanding...

Exalead.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Exalead missed its summer 2006 timeline for expanding its database to 8 billion records, although it has increased its count to 5.9 billion. It has a beta version of the new search interface that simplifies the display and removes many of the...

Google.(search engine update)(home page modified)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Google has modified its home page and the collection of tabs to additional databases at the top of the page. Groups and Froogle have been demoted as visible links on the home page; video has replaced them. The "more >>" link at the right now...

Google Book Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Google Book Search now offers full downloads of copyright-free books in its database. The downloads are in PDF format and the "Download" link can be found on the right side of the Google Books record page underneath the cover image. More...

Google News.(search engine update)(archive search launched)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Google News has launched an archive search [http://news. google.com/archivesearch], linked on the main Google News page. Instead of being an archive of what Google News has crawled in the past, beyond the 30-day limit of regular Google News,...

Google Scholar.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Google Scholar has added a way to find more references using its new Related Articles link. Each Google Scholar result has a "Related Articles" link; however, Google does not clearly state how the related articles are identified beyond...

Live Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Live Search from Microsoft Corp. has undergone some significant changes as it moves out of beta. On its Web search results, the continuous scrolling is gone, although it remains on the image and academic searches. The default tabs at the top...

Yahoo!.(search engine update)(Yahoo! Search Builder introduced)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Yahoo! introduced Yahoo! Search Builder [http://builder.search.yahoo.com] to let users create a specialized search box to search several user-selected sites. It is similar in function to Rollyo (powered by Yahoo!) and other subset search...

Yahoo! News Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Yahoo! News Search no longer includes results from its Blog search. Previously, the blog results would show up in the right-hand column. It would include a few results with a link to more blog results. The search option is now gone completely...

Online search costs: Koan to unknowns: as online access sweeps into everyday life, its push buries common sense in a pile of bits and bytes. In this article I use online and search--though technically quite different--as synonyms because both share a "cost challenge.".
November 1, 2006... In 2000, the U.S. federal government began work on a program to allow citizens to search for information on thousands of Web servers operated by government agencies. Estimated first-year costs for the program were about $500,000. For 2005, the...

Web-based resources for anthropology research.
November 1, 2006... Anthropology, generally defined as "the study of humankind" or "the study of humanity," is the most diverse of the social sciences. The Wikipedia entry for anthropology says that this discipline is "concerned with all humans at all times"--not...

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML): this isn't the Web I'm used to.
November 1, 2006... Have you heard of Ajax? No, not the kitchen cleanser, the Dutch soccer (football) team, or Sophocles' play. In the technology world, Ajax (sometimes spelled AJAX) is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and eXtensible Markup Language (XML)....

DIY: developing web applications in-house.
November 1, 2006... WHEN it's time to either upgrade or replace an application in your library, you face several questions: Do you write up an RFP (request for proposal) and send it to area programming agencies? Or do you do it yourself with in-house talent? If...

The pay-per-view trend.
November 1, 2006... DON'T look now, but pay-per-view appears to be gaining popularity. While two big information aggregators, Dialog and LexisNexis, have operated pay-per-view sites for a few years, many other information providers are now climbing aboard the...

Diverging Web markup choices.(on the net)
November 1, 2006... Back in the early days of the Web, the amazing thing about HTML was the ease with which it could be understood. Many nonprogrammers felt comfortable enough with it that they created Web pages and started populating the Web with information...

Creating engaging audio content: intranet podcasting.(intranet librarian)(Product/service evaluation)
November 1, 2006... Podcasting, a growing phenomenon on the Internet, has rapidly taken hold as an innovative way to deliver audio files for playback on portable media players and desktop computers. Podcasting is a compound term that combines "pod" from Apple's...

PubMed Central, BioMed Central, BL Direct.(peter's picks & pans)
November 1, 2006... Three digital document delivery services are the picks and pans in this issue. They cover the spectrum from excellent to disappointing. PubMed Central (PMC) represents the zenith, offering free search and open access to the full text of more...

Internet mapping and directions: expanding our knowledgebase.(information strategist)
November 1, 2006... I believe that, ultimately, being an information strategist is about whatever it takes to succeed in today's Information Age. This means living at the crossroads between technology and content. While my recent columns have dealt with the...

Moving your intranet to the next Level.(website management)
November 1, 2006... Several years ago, I developed a 1-day workshop called ABCs of Intranet Development. Every time I taught this workshop I asked participants, "How many of you work in organizations that have a corporate intranet?" Invariably, few, if any, of the...

Personal computers and media: musing on PC Magazine.(pc monitor)
November 1, 2006... Personal computing began to affect the media even before the first true personal computers (PCs) emerged--and shifting media coverage both affects personal computing and says much about the field. Recent changes in "the bible," PC Magazine,...

Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor's Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... * * * 1/2 Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor's Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More by Robin Neidorf ISBN: 0-910965-73-0 Published: 2006 Pages: 234 pp.: softcover...

Competitive Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the Gray Zone.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... * * Competitive Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the Gray Zone edited by Dale Fehringer and Bonnie Hohhof ISBN: 0-9771825-0-9 Published: 2006 Pages: 171 pp.; softcover Price: $69.95 Available from: Society of Competitive Intelligence...

Unicode Explained.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... * * * Unicode Explained by Jukka K. Korpela ISBN: 0-596-10121-x Published: 2006 Pages: 658 pp.; softcover Price: $59.99 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/998-9938;...

The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets--Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... * * 1/2 The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets--Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust by Jeffrey M. Stanton and Kathryn R. Stam ISBN: 0-910965-74-9 Published: 2006 Pages:...

Get your library thing on.(online spotlight)
November 1, 2006... I have moved twice in the past 3 years. Both times, the movers almost walked off the job when they saw how many boxes of books I had (it appeared to be approximately half of all my stuff). Not only do I own most of the books I've ever read, I...