Online articles from September 1999

Online archives from September 1999

Now That Cataloging Is Cool.(Column)
September 1, 1999... One of my best friends from library school was a cataloger for a few years. The rest of us thought she had lost her mind--but she soon regained it and moved on to a position as a library director. Cataloging was part of the core curriculum for...

VertiNews.com Releases Online News and Research Service.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... VertiNews.com Inc. is a recently-launched Internet company that specializes in coverage, compilation, and delivery of research news and information for professionals and business executives. The company was founded by William L. Dunn and four...

Hoover's and Dow Jones Expand Relationship.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Hoover's Inc. and Dow Jones & Company have agreed to include ecommerce licensing to Dow Jones and advertising on Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com). Hoover's Company Information will be featured in Dow Jones Interactive...

Teltech Partners with Dialog for Vertical Research Portals.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Teltech Resource Network Corporation and The Dialog Corporation plc have announced an agreement to make Dialog's content available to users of Teltech's new Web-based portal, Teltech.com. Teltech.com is a planned resource for technical and...

Responsive Database Services Inc.
September 1, 1999... Three additional Responsive Database Services Inc. (RDS) databases- Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase--will soon be added to LEXIS-NEXIS. (LEXIS-NEXIS already offers RDS' Contemporary Women's Issues database.)...

SilverPlatter Information.
September 1, 1999... Major Companies Database is now available from SilverPlatter Information, providing information on over 80,000 companies in more than 180 countries outside North America. Indexed information includes private, public, and state-owned...

Media General Financial Services.
September 1, 1999... Media General Financial Services (MGFS) will provide a larger collection of data to Hoover's, Inc. Some of the expanded data will be available to all visitors to Hoover's Company Capsules, while Hoover's subscribers will receive additional MGFS...

Forbes Markets.
September 1, 1999... Forbes Markets is a new investment information service resulting from a strategic partnership between Forbes.com and Stock Smart that will be offered through the Forbes Web site, Forbes.com. Planned for fall release, Forbes Market will let...

Corporate ResourceNet.
September 1, 1999... EBSCO Publishing has released version 3.1 of Corporate ResourceNet (CRN) with PDF images, plus enhanced searching, printing, email, and downloading features. Access to PDF images is optional, and site administrators can request that the feature...

Industry Snapshot Reports.
September 1, 1999... Free Industry Snapshot Reports are available from the Integra Information Inc. Web site (http://www.integrainfo.com), permitting users to download key financial performance measurements unique to more than 900 industries. The reports include 22...

H.W. Wilson database.
September 1, 1999... Applied Science & Technology Full Text is a new H.W. Wilson database offering the full text of 100 leading science periodicals, industry publications, and professional and technical society journals. The database builds on Wilson's Applied...

Ei Paper Village.
September 1, 1999... Ei Paper Village is a cooperative venture between Engineering Information, Inc. and the Institute of Paper Science & Technology, which offers a subscription-based Internet service covering global technical and market issues in the pulp and...

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics'.
September 1, 1999... The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AIAA) Aerospace Database is now available from SilverPlatter via the Internet or disk. The database provides scientific and technical aerospace and related sciences information from 1986...

Derwent Innovations Index.
September 1, 1999... The Institute of Scientific Information and its sister company, Derwent Information, have released Derwent Innovations Index, a patent database that lets users search patent literature from more than 40 patent issuing authorities, and gives a...

LEXIS-NEXIS Intellectual Property Solutions service.
September 1, 1999... LEXIS-NEXIS has enhanced its LEXIS-NEXIS Intellectual Property Solutions service. Enhancements include addition of Japanese Patent Abstracts (file JPAT), creation of Group Patent Files for comprehensive patent searching, integration of...

Powerize.com, Inc.
September 1, 1999... Powerize.com, Inc. has announced a strategic alliance with VerticalNet, Inc., under which VerticalNet will promote access to Powerize.com's business and financial content in its vertical trade communities. VerticalNet will also give...

Hoover, Inc.(minority stakes purchased by NBC, Nextera Enterprises and KnowledgeNet)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Hoover's, Inc. has announced that NBC, Knowledge Net Holdings, L.L.C., and Nextera Enterprises have purchased minority stakes in Hoover's, Inc. Under the terms of the Hoover's-NBC alliance, Hoover's will license certain types of its company...

The Thomson Corporation.(to acquire Macmillan Library Reference USA)
September 1, 1999... The Thomson Corporation will acquire the Macmillan Library Reference USA from Pearson plc for $86 million, where it will become part of The Gale Group. (203/328-9470; http://www.thomson.com; http://www.galegroup.com)

Blackwell Ltd.(planning to combine Swets Subscription Services and Blackwell's Information Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Blackwell Ltd. and Swets & Zeitlinger BV have agreed to combine Swets Subscription Services and Blackwell's Information Services. Creation of the new organization will be concluded later this year, with integration of services and systems...

CMGI Inc.
September 1, 1999... Internet investor CMGI Inc. has purchased a majority stake in the AltaVista search engine and other Web properties from Compaq Computer Corp. in a deal with an indicated value of about $2.3 billion.

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated.
September 1, 1999... Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated is a new full-text database from H.W. Wilson that features photographic portraits or artists' renderings of biographical subjects for more than 26,000 profiles. The new database provides more than 46,000...

Biography Resource Center.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Biography Resource Center is The Gale Group's new online tool for conducting research on people. The Center combines data from 50 biographical databases from the former Gale Research with information from 270 periodicals available through the...

Philosopher Index.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The Philosopher's Index will soon be available from SilverPlatter Information via the Internet, disk, and CD-ROM. The Index is a bibliographic database with author abstracts, covering scholarly research in the 15 fields of philosophy published...

AltaVista.
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. AltaVista has been active again. Bought by CMGI, who is also a major investor in Lycos, AltaVista has made several moves toward...

Go.(Disney to purchase rest of Infoseek)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. Go has been in the business news, as Disney plans to buy out the rest of Infoseek, and Infoseek investors file suit opposing the...

Inktomi.(contract with America Online)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. Inktomi has announced its future collaboration with America Online on AOL search products. Currently, AOL's NetFind uses the...

LookSmart.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. LookSmart has added a new reference service called LookSmart Live. Submit a question to LookSmart Live and it promises a personal...

Lycos.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. Lycos has added Direct Hit records to the top of their Web Pages hits. They have also added records for over 7,000 searchable...

MSN Web Search.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. MSN Web Search has incorporated Direct Hit into its search service. The Direct Hit results are linked at the top of the results...

Netscape.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. Netscape has changed its search database. Rather than using Excite, Netscape Search now relies on the Open Directory with a...

Northern Light.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com) is a reference librarian at Montana State University. Northern Light changed its default output from 25 hits to 10. This is true on both the regular search and the power search....

Mining Meets the Web.
September 1, 1999... Peggy Zorn (Peggy.Zorn@wl.com) and Mary Emanoil (Mary.Emanoil@wl.com) are Manager, Document Administration Services, and Documentum Consultant at respectively at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research. Lucy Marshall edgeinfo@daneris.com) is with...

The CUTTING - EDGE LIBRARY at HEWLETT-PACKARD.
September 1, 1999... Thomas Pack (thomaspack@aol.com) is a freelance writer based in Peewee Valley, KY. Jeff Pemberton (jeffp@onlineinc.com) is Publisher of ONLINE magazine. Bringing Together Knowledge, Access, and Tools The mission of the Hewlett-Packard...

Finding a new search rhythm.
September 1, 1999... Susan M. Klopper (susan.m.klopper@us. arthurandersen corn) is Director of the Atlanta Information Center for Arthur Andersen. A popular speaker at ONLINE WORLD conferences, she is also a frequent contributor to ONLINE and EContent (formerly...

WEB GRAPHIC SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR DUMMIES & SMARTIES.
September 1, 1999... Jim Rible (rible@sou.edu) has been the Webmaster for Southern Oregon University for the last four years. He is also the Network Librarian nod Coordinator of the Information Technology Center for the Southern Oregon University Library. He has...

Bookmark manager roundup.
September 1, 1999... Chris Sherman (websearch.guide@about.com or csherman@searchwise.net) is the Web Search Guide for About.com (formerly MiningCo corn), http://websearch.about.com. He holds an MA from Stanford University in Interactive Educational Technology and...

On-the-Fly Search Engine Analysis.(Industry Overview)(Column)
September 1, 1999... Greg R. Notess (greg@notess.com; http://www.notess.com/) is a Reference Librarian at Montana State University. Searching the Internet is always an adventure. For our search tools, we primarily rely on the free Web search engines, and they...

Information Centers and the Marketing Equation.
September 1, 1999... Anthea Stratigos (astratigos@outsellinc.com) is Co-Founder and President of Outsell, Inc., a Burlingame, CA-based company that provides research and advisory services to the information industry. In our first column (ONLINE, July 1999), we...

Document Delivery & Copyright: Librarians Take the Fifth.(Column)
September 1, 1999... Paula Eiblum (info@infocus-research.com; http:/ I www.infocus-research.com) is Principal of Infocus Research Services, a Rockville, Maryland-based full-service information broker, book dealer, and document delivery supplier. Stephanie C. Ardito...

Do I Look Like a Maid? Strategies for Preventing Link Rot.(on World Wide Web sites)
September 1, 1999... Darlene Fichter (fichter@lights.com) is a Web Consultant at Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. Cutting down on the time and sheer drudgery of maintaining your intranet is the key to your survival. This column will tackle the growing...

NetZero Frees the Web.(Company Profile)
September 1, 1999... Mick O'Leary (71735.2401@compnserce.com) is Library Director at Frederick Community College in Myersville. MD. We started out pricing online information by connect rate and record charges. We never liked this, so we eventually shifted more...

Information Professionals Meet Ecommerce.
September 1, 1999... Marydee Ojala (marydee@xmission.com) is the Editor of EContent, renamed from DATABASE magazine in August-hence her close attention to all those "e" words. I have had some emails recently asking me when I planned to cover ecommerce in this...

What Is Credible Information?(Column)
September 1, 1999... Donald T. Hawkins (D.T.Hawkins@worldnet.att.net) is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Science Abstracts and Fulltext Sources Online, and the Editor of the ASIDIC Newsletter. Validation of information obtained from the Internet seems to be...

Internet Surveys, Statistics, and Geography.
September 1, 1999... Hal P. Kirkwood, Jr. (kirkwood@purdue.edu; http://www.geocities.com/ CollegePark/Union/7290/) is Assistant Professor of Library Science at Purdue University, Management & Economics Library. There is a growing need for Internet-related...

Y2K: Recommended Reading.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Deborah Lynne Wiley (deb@consultnw.com) is Principal of Next Wave Consulting, Inc. and HARDCOPY Editor. Year 2000 Personal Computer Fix-it Guide by JD Consulting. (ISBN: 1-886801-94-0; 1999; softcover; 412pp; $44.95) Available from Charles...

The Bionic Searcher.(Column)
September 1, 1999... Reva Basch is not unaware of the dystopian downside. She is author of Researching Online For Dummies and executive editor of the new Super Searchers book series. Whenever I travel to some non-English-speaking land, I wish for the same...