Online articles from September 1996

Online archives from September 1996

Changing roles? Changing worlds! (information professionals)(The Inverted File)(Column)
September 1, 1996... You've heard it from conference and seminar speakers and read it in professional journals and the popular press. Books and the printed page are passe. The role of the online search intermediary is dead. Your library is being outsourced...

Mercury Center leaves AOL for the Web.(San Jose Mercury News, America Online Inc., World Wide Web)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... The San Jose Mercury-News, a trend-setting presence in the electronic news arena, has shut down its Mercury Center on America Online and moved its operations to the Web. One reason cited for the withdrawal of the popular service was AOL's own...

Dow Jones ships revamped search software.(Dow Jones Business Information Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... Dow Jones Business Information Services has released Dow Jones News/Retrieval 5.0, a new version of its front-end search software based on extensive user input and lengthy beta testing to ensure optimal functionality. The enhanced package...

CIQM releases first database labels.(Centre for Information Quality Management)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... The U.K.-based Centre for Information Quality Management has announced the first in a planned series of database labels intended to identify reliable information resources and rate them according to pre-determined standards. The labels describe...

EBSCOhost offers new business information sources.(Business Source Plus from EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... EBSCO Publishing has added Business Source Plus and Business Source Elite to its lineup of corporate information products available on CD-ROM and through EBSCOhost, its Z39.50-compliant client/server system. Business Source Plus includes...

Gartner Group gives ITs an @vantage. (Web-based research and consulting service for information technology professionals)
September 1, 1996... Gartner Group, Inc. has launched @vantage, a Web-based research and consulting service for information technology professionals. @vantage features sample publications and other input from Gartner Group consultants and an array of its partners -...

SEC approves Net-based stock trades.(Internet)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... In another major indication of the growing acceptance of the Internet as a medium for electronic commerce, the Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared the way for members of the public to buy and sell stock on the Internet, independent...

LEXIS-NEXIS adds Market Snapshots, U.K. company reports.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... FIND/SVP's Market Snapshots are now available exclusively in the MARKET Library on LEXIS-NEXIS. Market Snapshots are 10- to 20-page market or industry overviews condensed from lengthier, in-depth reports produced by FIND/SVP. Users have the...

MarkIntel offers ACNielsen packaged goods data.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... MarkIntel, The Investext Groups online market research service, has added ACNielsen to its list of contributing sources. ACNielsen reports provide in-depth, primary sales data on over 450 product categories and brands in the U.S. and Canada....

Census data on a single CD-ROM!(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... GeoLytics has taken 1990 Census data - available from the U.S. Census Bureau on 67 CD-ROMs - compressed it onto a single disk, and added a Windows search interface. The package, called CensusCD, includes over 3,500 demographic variables for...

InfoSeek offers free, customized news service.(InfoSeek Personal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... InfoSeek Personal, a product of the InfoSeek search service, allows users to create their own individually-tailored news pages, at no charge. InfoSeek finds and retrieves relevant information from Reuters, Business Wire, PR Newswire, Quote.com,...

PointCast features news from CNN.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... PointCast and CNN have announced a partnership whereby news from CNN Interactive will be delivered via the PointCast Network (PCN). Current PCN users will automatically have access to CNN Interactive news. A channel for CNNfn (financial news)...

CAS announces SciFinder 2.0.(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... Chemical Abstracts Service has shipped SciFinder Release 2.0, an easy-to-use desktop scientific research tool that now offers reaction substructure searching, commercial chemical source catalogs, and direct document ordering from the CAS...

ISI debuts Topics Select.(Institute for Scientific Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has released the first in a series of new, direct-to-the-desktop alerting services based on pre-defined research topics. Topics Select is designed to deliver current, affordable information via...

Delivering solutions for the knowledge economy.
September 1, 1996... The most critical new function for the information professional is to ensure that organizations have the information they need, not merely the data, to compete in today's "knowledge economy." Michael Hammer in Re-engineering the Corporation...

Planning more powerful ways to deliver information to the desktop.
September 1, 1996... OVERCOMING THE MYTH OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD In their book, The Information Mosaic [1], Sharon McKinnon and William Bruns suggest that, for experienced managers, the notion of information overload has been exaggerated. If overload exists,...

Worth the effort: Lexis-Nexis on campus.(includes related articles)
September 1, 1996... LEXIS-NEXIS is one of the oldest and largest online legal, news, and business information services in existence. With worldwide markets, the service provides more than 10,000 sources of information to approximately 744,000 active users. Several...

The companies of eastern Europe.(The Dollar $ign)(Column)
September 1, 1996... A recent informal poll of top European business information specialists revealed that most information specialists had difficulties locating information about Eastern Europe. The survey, taken during TFPL's prestigious European Business...

Parents empowered in online culture wars.(Consumer Online)(Column)
September 1, 1996... The culture wars have gone online. All of the disputes, petty and profound, about what we should or shouldn't see or say have spilled over, with a vengeance, into cyberspace. The "good old days' of online, when everybody pretty much minded...

Beyond "cool": analog models for reviewing digital resources.(Cover Story)
September 1, 1996... Like Shakespears's Cleopatra, the World Wide Web is "infinite in variety." Anyone who has spent more than a modicum of time surfing the Web has encountered the good, the bad, and the ugly among its offerings. For librarians and information...

Negotiating Netscape's frames.(On the Nets)(Column)
September 1, 1996... The tremendous rise in popularity of Netscape Navigator as the Web client of choice made Netscape Communications Corporation the leader in developing new directions for HTML standards. With the release of Netscape Navigator 2.0, the company...

"Automatic" HTML - part one: handy tricks with Netscape's bookmarks.(PC Monitor)(Column)
September 1, 1996... There are many different programs available for creating and editing HTML files, These range from standalone shareware programs to addins for commercial word processors, to the editor available in the "gold" version of Netscape itself. All of...

A net explorer's log.(Net Sitings)(Column)
September 1, 1996... Prodding processing power with plug-ins and programming is the path the Internet pursues. For example, the newest 32-bit version of Netscape Navigator Gold extends the edge of the ledge with its 7.5MB client for Windows 95. In this issue we...

Global Mobility Databases on the Web.(from Society of Automotive Engineers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... The Society of Automotive Engineers announced the release of its Global Mobility Database on the Web. The subscription-based site is updated monthly and features technical information on self-propelled vehicles of all types, drawn from over...

Newest Ovid Biomedical Collection puts the spotlight on Nature.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... Nature, the prestigious multidisciplinary journal of the natural sciences, is one of 15 major medical and scientific publications featured in Ovid Technologies, new full-text CD-ROM database, Ovid Biomedical Collection III. Like its sister...

AS&T Abstracts up on ProQuest Direct.(Applied Science and Technology Abstracts from H.W. Wilson Co.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... UMI has enhanced the content of its ProQuest Direct online service with H.W Wilson's Applied Science and Technology Abstracts. More than two dozen other Wilson indexes and abstracts, covering more than 5,000 titles, will eventually be made...

NameBase tracks lesser-known political players.(Public Information Research Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... Public Information Research, Inc. has created a database of 200,000 citations to individual and organizational names in politics and public policy. The citations were drawn from 500 investigative books published since 1962 and thousands of...

asSam move to the Net.(askSam Systems)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... askSam Systems, producers of the highly regarded askSam free-form database package, is now shipping the askSam Web Publisher, designed to simplify publishing documents and databases on the Internet and Intranets. Users can create new documents...

WebEx offers offline browsing.(WebEx from Traveling Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... Traveling Software Inc.'s new offline Web access tool preserves the multimedia browsing experience while eliminating performance problems due to slow modems or difficulty in connecting to the Net. The $29.95 package allows on-the-go...

AT&T unit merges.(New Media Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1996... AT&T's New Media Services unit has merged with Industry. Net to form a new entity, Nets Inc. The AT&T unit was responsible for AT&T Business Network, formerly the Interchange Online Network. Nets Inc. will focus on content development for...

A conversation with IAC's Mike Kinkead.(Interview)
September 1, 1996... JKP: Mike, SandPoint, which is a division of Information Access Company, has recently undergone some changes. Do you have a new title? MK: I'm now Vice President of Planning for Information Access JKP: Will you be headquartered here or move...

Electronic copyright under siege.
September 1, 1996... Copyright is a contentious, ugly problem from which no one is immune in this age of electronic transmission. Copyright and information delivery are linked. One an no longer supply or receive copies of documents without being knowledgeable about...

DVD: taking the compact disc to new heights in power and function.(digital video disc, includes related articles)
September 1, 1996... Paul Saffo, consultant and futurist, has described television/entertainment products in the home as something one leans back to use, while computers are used while leaning forward. The distinction Saffo makes isn't as trivial as you may think....

On-ramp construction: breaking ground in Maine.(Internet access)
September 1, 1996... For once the upbeat slogans have some substance. Dirigo, Latin for "I Lead," is the official motto of the state of Maine and an accurate statement with respect to recent library involvement in public Internet access. Our independent governor's...