Online articles from September 2001

Online archives from September 2001

Preservation, Conservation, and Copyright Infringement.(Tasini vs. The New York Times case and the database industry)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... We use technology to preserve the past. We access the technologically preserved past to help us predict the future. Digitizing information has considerable consequences. Besides popularizing my favorite word, "online," digitization of print...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2001... UPDATING THE NEWS To the editor: Recently, I read an article in ONLINE entitled "Searching for News Online and on the Web" (ONLINE, July/August 2001, pp. 60-64). The article was interesting and informative, but I would like to point...

Dialog Tries to Price Itself into the Market.(new pricing scheme for database information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Dialog's long-awaited announcement of new pricing initiatives is not likely to be cheered by those fervently hoping for the demise of DialUnits. They stay, but in a simplified form, and CEO Roy Martin promises they will be predictable,...

David Bender Retires from SLA.(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... After 22 years of holding what he calls "the best job in the world," David Bender retires as executive director of the Special Libraries Association in September. He told ONLINE that he plans to spend more time with his grandchildren, visit...

The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Freelancers.(Tasini vs. The New York Times)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Ruling 7-2 in favor of freelancers in The New York Times versus Tasini, the Supreme Court rejected the notion that databases are collective works for copyright purposes. In the Court's opinion, the rights of the freelancers were infringed by...

WebPerfect Solutions Inc. and Convera.(develop online search service for the United States Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... WebPerfect Solutions Inc. and Convera have developed an ecommerce infrastructure solution for FOI Services Inc., the company that facilitates access to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other U.S. government files. The new solution lets...

Yahoo! Inc.(Acurian agrees to provide online content for Yahoo! Health)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Acurian has reached an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to deliver clinical trials information, including emerging medical therapies and recent FDA-approved treatment options, on Yahoo! Health. (http://health.yahoo.com; Acurian: 215/675-6100;...

Factiva.com.(offers new information services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Factiva.com is a new Web-based news and business information service, which replaces Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing by combining their content into a universally indexed, global collection of nearly 8,000 sources in 22...

LexisNexis.(new unified view of products and services in U.S.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... LexisNexis has unveiled a new corporate Web site offering a unified view of all the company's U.S. products and services. The site also consolidates information contained in the many Web sites that formerly showcased products and services from...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ProQuest Information and Learning is adding 74 MCB University Press (now Emerald) titles in full text via the ProQuest online information service, and plans to add another 58 in April 2002. More than 90 of the titles feature business content...

QWEB Version 2.0.(Questel-Orbit)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Questel*Orbit has released QWEB Version 2.0, a browser-based portal to the Questel* Orbit service, which now features XML formatting for all record displays. XML output permits dynamic document linking and formatting, and provides additional...

Research Bank Web, version 2.0.(introduced by Thomson Financial)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Research Bank Web, version 2.0 (Thomson Financial) features a redesigned user interface for accelerated searching and retrieval of reports. Additional features include multipage and report viewing, faster and easier email ordering, new results...

Westlaw.(links with West Group and RIA on westlaw.com)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Users can now link directly from Westlaw, at the westlaw.com Tax tab, to RIA's Checkpoint research service. Users may now conduct research on Checkpoint without exiting Westlaw and can access legal, tax, and regulatory materials from West Group...

KeyCite Locate.(new research tool on westlaw.com)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... KeyCite Locate is a new research tool on westlaw.com that lets users search the text of citing references and narrow a KeyCite result to only the citing references that contain certain terms. Also recently released is KeyCite Notes, which...

Research Matters.(Harvard University website)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Research Matters is a new Harvard University Web site that directs users to nearly 900 Web sites maintained by schools and departments across the University that might be hard to find without knowledge of Harvard's administrative structure. The...

The ICON Global Intelligence.(new database from ICON Group International, Inc. and EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... The ICON Global Intelligence database (ICON Group International, Inc.) is now available from EBSCO Publishing. The database features summaries of Industry and Product Reports, plus company-specific reports, Geographic Reports, Global Outlook...

The Scottish Business Information Service.(Provides a national business information service for Scotland)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Scottish Business Information Service, based within the National Library of Scotland, provides a national business information service for Scotland. Content includes details on the Scottish Business Information Service's collections and...

StockPricePredictor, LLC.(Automated patent valuation used as evidence)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... StockPricePredictor, LLC has reported the first litigation use of an Automated Patent valuation obtained from www.PatentValuePredictor.com. This valuation was submitted as evidence supporting the value of a patent under dispute in Bruce Kruger...

Elsevier Science.(Databses added to LexisNexis services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Elsevier Science abstract and index databases have been added to LexisNexis's Web and dialup information services in the Science-Technology library. The library is available as an add-on to subscription agreements for current customers. The...

INSPEC.(Database of the Institution of Electrical Engineers added to ISI Web of Knowledge.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The INSPEC has database (Institution of Electrical Engineers) has been added to the ISI Web of Knowledge. INSPEC provides a comprehensive index to literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering, and...

The HaveItAll NMR.(Database of BioRad Laboratories)(Inc. Informatics Division)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The HaveItAll NMR database (BioRad Laboratories, Inc., Informatics Division) offers spectroscopists and other analytical chemists a source for NMR data of over 140,000 13C and 12,000 1H spectra. The database works within and includes Bio-Rad's...

FIAF International FilmArchive.(Has been added to SilverPlatter's offerings)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The International Federation of Film Archives' FIAF International FilmArchive has been added to SilverPlatter's offerings in the visual, performing, and literary arts. The archive is a source for international film scholarship from 1972 on, and...

The Alternative Press Center (APC).(joins OCLC as cataloging member)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Alternative Press Center (APC) has joined OCLC as a cataloging member and will offer its Alternative Press Index (API) database on the OCLC FirstSearch service. The database will be available via both subscription and per-search methods,...

ATLA Serials Database (ATLAS).(American Theological Library Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ATLA Serials Database (ATLAS), published by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), is now available through OCLC FirstSearch. ATLAS provides the full text of 29 journals in religion and theology from 1946 to the present. (OCLC:...

SearchToolKit.(from Northern Light Technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... SearchToolKit (Northern Light Technology) is a new set of services that provides search technology and content to corporations for use on Web sites, intranets, and extranets. With the tool, an enterprise can use Northern Light's search...

LexisNexis Customized eSolutions.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... LexisNexis Customized eSolutions offers consultation and customized content integrated with personalized tools, training, and support for corporations and government agencies. Users decide the type of content applicable to their interests, then...

The SearchMaxer.com.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The SearchMaxer.com search engine (SearchMaxer Technologies) offers an extensive list of details about every site appearing in its search results lists. Users can select "details" next to each site listed to view a pop-up screen of information....

The FAST PartnerSite.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The FAST PartnerSite (Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST)) service integrates hosted site search with guaranteed Web search inclusion. The service ensures that an enterprise Web site is regularly indexed and promises enhanced visibility through...

SwetsnetNavigator.(offered from Swets Blackwell)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... SwetsnetNavigator (Swets Blackwell) flow offers document delivery from major document suppliers such as Infotrieve, the British Library, and CISTI. Users can order hard copy and, if available, soft copy versions of articles. Account...

UnWWWrap! V1.0.
September 1, 2001... UnWWWrap! V1.0 (ExtraData Technologies) is an add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer that captures tabular data in the form of tables and lists from Web pages. Data can be copied to the clipboard and saved to a file in various formats for...

DigitalOwl.(in partnership with Moreover)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... DigitalOwl has announced a partnership with Moreover, under which DigitalOwi's publisher clients can securely deliver their titles and excerpt information to business professionals through outlets in the Moreover distribution network. Users may...

LexisNexis.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... LexisNexis and the venture capital fund of parent company Reed Elsevier have invested $8 million in iPhrase Technologies Inc., a start-up firm providing enterprise information access software. iPhrase offers intuitive access to electronic...

Factiva.(Announces agreements)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Factiva has announced agreements with CareerJournal.com, the executive career site from The Wall Street Journal, StartupJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal's Center for Entrepreneurs, TheDeal.com. and StartSpot Mediaworks. Factiva's Dow Jones...

Mondosoft A/S.(Will acquire Searchbutton Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Site search engine developer Mondosoft A/S has signed a letter of intent to acquire U.S. site search provider and competitor Searchbutton Inc. Under the agreement, Mondosoft will acquire Searchbutton in its efforts to expand its U.S. market...

Northern Light Technology, Inc.(Has formed strategic relationship with Biz360)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Biz360, an analytical applications provider for external information, has formed a strategic relationship with Northern Light Technology, Inc. The alliance will add over 7,000 content sources to Biz36O, giving Biz360 the ability to...

Quiver, Inc.(Has signed a technology and marketing agreement with Inktomi)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Quiver, Inc., a categorization software provider for enterprise and online content, has signed a technology and marketing agreement with Inktomi Corporation to integrate Inktomi's Search Software with Quiver's soon-to-be-released QKS...

EOS International.(Acquired by CEO from Dawson Holdings PLC.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Library automation company EOS International has announced that CEO Scot Cheatham has acquired ownership of the company from Dawson Holdings PLC. Dawson Holdings agreed to sell all of its interest in EOS in an effort to redirect its focus...

Infotrieve.(has announced agreements with many scientific, technical, and medical publishers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Infotrieve has announced agreements with many scientific, technical, and medical publishers. These publishers include NLM, SilverPlatter, Taylor & Francis, Kluwer Academic, Blackwell Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Blackwell...

Random Eye Technologies Inc. and MediaGuardian.co.uk.(Launch a stock image searching service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Random Eye Technologies Inc. and MediaGuardian.co.uk have launched Image Grabber, a new stock image searching service.

Peopleware.(Moreover Technologies new CEO)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Susan Atherton has been appointed CEO for Moreover Technologies, where she will oversee the continuing growth in the company's enterprise sales effort. * Brian Holland has moved to senior vice president of Pricing from chief counsel at Dialog....

AlltheWeb.com.(Web site of Fast Search and Transfer)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... AlltheWeb.com, a Fast-powered search engine, has had a face-lift and some feature changes. There are more customization options, such as simple search format, side bar results, site collapsing, and default database. Results from Fast's picture,...

AltaVista.(Teh search engine introduces paid inclusion)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... AltaVista has joined Inktomi and the paid inclusion ranks by introducing its Express Inclusion program. Like other search engines trying paid inclusion, this does not mean that only those that pay get into the database. Instead, those Web sites...

Excite.(Shuts down many European portals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Excite is shutting down many of its European portals, including the French, German, and Spanish ones. Two international versions that will remain open are Excite UK and Excite Italia.

Fast.(Fast PartnerSite program)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Fast has joined AltaVista and Inktomi in the pay-for-inclusion ranks by introducing its Fast PartnerSite program, although it is in beta until September. Aimed at small-to-medium sites, Fast's program is less expensive than either AltaVista or...

Google.(New advanced search)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Google has several additions and changes. It added a date limit to its advanced search, but it only has the three options of Past 3 Months, Past 6 Months, or Past Year, and it still does not display page dates in its results list. Google...

Google Groups.(searchable database of Usenet news )(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Google Groups, the searchable database of Usenet news postings formerly available at Deja.com, is now linked from Google's home page.

JoeAnt.com.(Volunteer-run directory of Web sites)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... JoeAnt.com is a new, volunteer-run directory of Web sites. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old Go Guides directory, JoeAnt is a completely new database. With the demise of the Go Guide directory, some of the Guides wanted to continue...

Northern Light.(New online search service for scientists)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Northern Light has announced a partnership with Search4Science to launch an enhanced online search service for scientists. The partnership combines Northern Light's Custom Search Folder technology and Search4Science's Dynamic Search, which...

Teoma.(New Web-wide search engine database)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Teoma, currently in beta at www.teoma.com, offers both a new Web-wide search engine database and a new approach. It has only limited search features at this point, including phrase searching, a default AND, and a - for NOT, but it also features...

Wisenut.(new search engine )(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Wisenut, at www.wisenut.com, is another new search engine and claims a database of more than 1.4 million records. It has WiseGuide automated categories that are designed to help narrow a very broad search. It has no documentation yet and...

Web Search Engines.(Web Search Engines comparison chart)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2001... Features and Commands Knowing what you need to know in order to get the job done--that is the challenge we face on a daily, if not hourly, basis, given our extremely compressed work time frames. Whether we are talking about passing an...

Serving Up the Wireless Web.(Web and wireless devices)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2001... The promise of the Wireless Web today is as enticing as the promise of the World Wide Web was in the early 1990s. Imagine being able to access Web sites, use enterprise applications, and retrieve email from a mobile phone or handheld device...

Finding Needles in the Textstacks.(iCRossReader links intelligent text processing technology and text retrieval and text analysis techniques)(International Pages)
September 1, 2001... Created in Russia by Insight soft-m, iCRossReader combines intelligent text processing Technology with text retrieval and text analysis techniques imagine, if you will, a "network information agent." This would be a robot type of software...

Trekking to Information Extraction.(iCrossReader from InsightSoft-m)
September 1, 2001... I must confess that I've been totally unfamiliar with this approach to information gathering. Despite my continuing attraction to information and particularly to textual retrieval technologies, I have been blind to efforts in this area. Well,...

GETTING VERTICAL TO CUT RESEARCH TIME.(search engines reviewed)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2001... Looking for Web pages suitable for display on handheld devices? Try FAST's Mobile Web Search. Trying to find information on a bill passed by the 107th Congress? Use THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet. Want to search through several...

MPEG-7 SOLUTIONS FOR RICH CONTENT MANAGEMENT.(Tools for online digital information content management, MPEG-7)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2001... As the amount of digital content around the world grows each year, there is an increasing need for tools to help users control and manage this content. Content too is changing; more and more audio-visual content is being indexed, stored, and...

Virtual Astronomy: The Universe on the Internet.(Online astronomy virtual observatory)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2001... If you want to experience virtual reality, try astronomy. It is the most intangible and least experimental science. Astronomers can't touch their subjects of interest or experiment upon them (except recently for small items retrieved or...

NET ADVANTAGE FROM STANDARD & POOR'S.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... THE AUTHORITATIVE CONTENT FOUND IN THE PRINT VERSION -- INCLUDING THE INSIGHT PROVIDED BY S&P's OWN MARKET ANALYSTS -- HAS BEEN RETAINED.... Standard & Poor's, an established leader in providing financial and market data for U.S. firms,...

The Changing Role Of The information professional.(Results of a study by Stax Inc.)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... This May, to better understand the changing role of the information professional, we did what any good research firm would do. We started with an online search, and then we went to the source. For two weeks, Stax Research conducted a Web survey...

Ready-Reference Collections: Bartleby and xrefer.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Bartleby and xrefer offer free searchable access to full-text standard reference works with hundreds of thousands of individual entries Online virtual reference collections are one of the many information blessings of the Web. Libraries...

Tick Here for Company Information.(Evalution of using ticker symbols in Web searches)
September 1, 2001... Changing search economics, increasingly global sources, and quality glitches have diminished the value of ticker symbol searches. I have long been an advocate of the substitution theory for searching public companies. Substituting a ticker...

The Intranet of Your Dreams and Nightmares: Redesign Issues.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The prospect of redesigning the intranet is both exciting and daunting. It is far easier to point out the flaws in an existing intranet than it is to create the perfect one. Just about everyone has an opinion on how the intranet should...

Business Models Inside the Firewall.(Information professionals needto understand their clients needs and behaviors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... This new, widespread level of end-user sophistication seemed a stroke of luck for librarians and other information functions. The change in end-user behaviors and expectations caused by the Internet revolution, coupled with this year's...

No More Web Free Lunch.(The end of a cycle for Internet compnies)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... This is not the End of Days, but is instead the end of a cycle that brings us back full circle to where we started. Aterrible thing is happening on the Internet! People are being asked to (gasp) pay for information! This defies all...

Choosing Web Content Management Solutions.
September 1, 2001... In a perfect world, all these documents would exist and be relatively current. In my previous column, "What is a Web Content Management Solution?" (July/August 2001 ONLINE), I defined Web Content Management (WCM) solutions and noted that...

Emerald Journals of the Week IDEAL sciBASE.(Picks and a pan)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The picks include two publishers' sites that are especially useful for library and information science and technology topics: Emerald and Academic Press. The pan goes to sciBASE that opened its door well before it could offer novel and...

Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ** Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits edited by Julie M. Still ISBN: 1-57387-104-4 Published: 2001 Pages: 184; hardcover Price: $39.50 Available from:...

Caught in a Web: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... *** Caught in a Web: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace edited by Richard Poynder ISBN: 0-901157-01-5 Published: 2001 Pages: 191; softcover Price: $25.00 Available from: Derwent Information, Thomson Scientific, 1725...

Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... **** Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros by Jan Davis Tudor (edited by Reva Basch) ISBN: 0-910968-48-X Published: 2001 Pages: 196; softcover Price:...

Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... *** Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses by Ann C. Weller ISBN: 1-57387-100-1 Published: 2001; ASIST Monograph Series Pages: 342; hardcover Price: $44.50 Available from: Information Today, Inc., 143...

Teoma.com.(New favorite search engine)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... I sometimes wonder whether every researcher now defaults to Google as his or her Web search engine of first choice, or if it just seems that way. It has even become a verb: "I always Google my blind dates' names before I go out with them." ...