Online articles from September 2002

Online archives from September 2002

Deep thinking eludes deep linking detractors. (The Homepage).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Just when I thought the deep linking legal controversies had been conquered, two European courts revived the issues. A Danish judge ruled on the side of the Danish Newspaper Publishers Association (Danske Dagblades Forening), which accused...

E-book report from the field. (Letters to the Editor).
September 1, 2002... To the editor: I just finished reading Donald Hawkins' informative article, "Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated" in the July/August 2002 issue of ONLINE. I first became interested in e-books just 2 months ago...

E-books in public libraries. (Letters to the Editor).
September 1, 2002... To the editor: Just read Donald Hawkins' article on Electronic Books in the July/August 2002 issue of ONLINE. It was a fine compilation of the e-book past, present, and future. I believe, as he does, that this technology (in an improved...

How erivatives gets into MagPortal. (Letters to the Editor).
September 1, 2002... Dear Mr. Notess: I just wanted to thank you for your mention of MagPortal.com in your July/August 2002 ON THE NET column, "Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal" (which has been indexed on MagPortal.com). You mention that online-only...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2002... The correct URL for the University of Strathclyde's EBONI e-books project, as mentioned in Donald T. Hawkins' article in the July/August 2002 issue is: http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/.

Thomson takes TOC to New York Stock Exchange. (Industry News).(Thomson Corp. lists)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... On June 11, 2002, The Thomson Corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and will trade using the symbol TOC. The company anticipated raising $500 million from issuing new shares and an additional $1 billion from selling shares...

Sage no longer spices up EBSCO, ProQuest. (Industry News).(Sage Publications to remove content)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Sage Publications intends to remove its content from EBSCOhost and ProQuest at the end of 2003, citing poor royalty revenues from those aggregators. Due to the 12-month embargo, this means content for 2002 will be available for another year....

LexisNexis expands and contracts its Universe. (Industry News).(Dun and Bradstreet global business information file added)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The full Dun & Bradstreet global business information file has been added to nixis.com. Previously available only on classic LexisNexis, the D&B data includes its Business Information Report, Payment Analysis Report, Supplier Evaluation Report,...

Biomedical. (Industry News).(CLINLAW added to FDA Library from Thomson Publishing Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CLINLAW, an online database of clinical trials for all 50 states and the District of Columbia plus federal prisons, is a recent addition to Thomson Publishing Group Inc.'s FDA Library. The database, which covers all requirements users need to...

A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(OCLC)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects is a new report available on the OCLC Web site released by The Working Group on Preservation Metadata, an initiative jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG. The working group based...

Hoover's Company Capsules. (Business & Finance).(available from SkyMinder)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Hoover's Company Capsules are now available free from SkyMinder. The free Capsules can be accessed via SkyMinder's Company function and are delivered in the SkyMinder Ultimate Report. Capsule information includes marketing data, general company...

Alacra Model. (Business & Finance).(Microsoft Excel add-in)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Alacra Model (Alacra Inc.) is a Microsoft Excel add-in that facilitates retrieval, manipulation, and display of company, industry and country-specific data. The tool was developed for financial and marketing analysts who need to regularly...

FluentMedia. (Business & Finance).(new sources added)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... FluentMedia (Tribune Media Services) has added CMP Media LLC, Reed Business Information, Newsbytes, The Daily Deal, and PR Newswire to its industry news sources. FluentMedia delivers customized packages of news, commentary, and analysis to...

MADCAD. (Business & Finance).(building code books available)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... MADCAD, the subscription-based Web site for architectural firm Compu.tecture, Inc., offers access to 16 building code books, including ICC 2000, BOCA, CSI, SBS, NFPA, with more planned. MADCAD is a database of intelligently linked building...

ConstructionWebLinks.com. (Business & Finance).(Thelen Reid and Priest L.L.P. Web site)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The law firm Thelen Reid & Priest LLP has announced that its ConstructionWebLinks.com Web site, an online guide to construction, engineering, and architecture resources on the Internet, has drawn more than 1 million user sessions and more than...

E-business Solutions and Telecom Solutions. (Business & Finance).(new services from Current Analysis)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... E-business Solutions and Telecom Solutions are two new Professional Services modules delivered through Current Analysis' CurrentCOMPETE product. The Professional Modules monitor significant activity on a day-to-day basis, analyzing competitors'...

Infotrieve in 2001 from Gale Group. (Peopleware).(Wes Crews elected CEO of Infotrieve)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Wes Crews has been elected chief executive officer of Infotrieve by the company's board of directors. Former CEO, Joseph Bashoura, has assumed co-chairmanship of the board, with Peter Derycz, Infotrieve's founder and previous chairman. Crews...

EOS International. (Peopleware).(Tony Saadat promoted)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Tony Saadat has been promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive officer at EOS International, where he will build on his extensive experience with high technology and relationships within the library communities.

Jack Blount has been named president and chief executive officer for epixtech. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Jack Blount has been named president and chief executive officer for epixtech, responsible for directing epixtech's strategic direction and day-to-day operations. Lana Porter, former president and CEO, has assumed the position of vice chairman...

AltaVista Company. (Peopleware).(Fred Bullock, Jan Pedersen appointed)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AltaVista Company has appointed Fred Bullock senior vice president and chief marketing officer for its Internet division. The company has also appointed Jan Pedersen, Ph.D., chief scientist, responsible for spearheading the company's middle-...

Semio Corporation. (Peopleware).(Sarah Brezniak, Stuart Recher, Douglas Wear join Nstein's Global Sales team)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Three e-publishing sales professionals have joined Nstein's Global Sales team as sales directors--Sarah Brezniak, former business development manager for Semio Corporation; Stuart Recher, former channel marketing director at Smartlogic; and...

H.W. Wilson Company. (Peopleware).(John O'Connor VP administration; Amy Rosenbaum senior manager International Sales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... H.W. Wilson Company has appointed John O'Connor vice president, administration. O'Connor will hold executive management responsibility for the operation of the Office of Personnel Administration, Maintenance and Security. The company has also...

The H.W. Wilson Foundation. (Peopleware).(William E. Stanton succeeds William V. Joyce)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The H.W. Wilson Foundation has elected William E. Stanton, Esq. president, succeeding William V. Joyce, who passed away June 1, 2002. Stanton and Joyce both served as vice presidents for the foundation.

Global Financial Services. (Peopleware).(Lou Eccleston, new president, Sales And Trading Group at Thomson Financial)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Lou Eccleston has joined Thomson Financial as president, Sales And Trading Group, responsible for Thomson Financial's worldwide sales and trading business. Eccleston most recently served as vice president and general manager, Global Financial...

YellowPen, Inc. (Portals & Intranets).
September 1, 2002... YellowPen, Inc. has released a software platform designed to help online researchers capture information highlights, such as text and graphic fragments from Web pages, PDF files, Microsoft Office files, and more, that they encounter during...

Cargatio Collaboration Centrale. (Portals & Intranets).(Missiontrek)
September 1, 2002... Missiontrek has released Cargatio Collaboration Centrale, a Windows-based extranet that lets research professionals organize and dispatch text, images, and documents of every type and publish in HTML. This research collaborative tool allows for...

CONTENTdm Software Suite. (Portals & Intranets).(OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources)
September 1, 2002... OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources is offering the CONTENTdm Software Suite to help libraries develop online digital collections. CONTENTdm provides tools for all aspects of digital collection management and is able to handle nearly all...

Inmagic, Inc. (Portals & Intranets).(Inmagic Gatherer)
September 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc. has released Inmagic Gatherer, a spider that crawls specified in-house servers and Web sites, and Inmagic Classifier, an out-of-box solution that provides classification technology based on semantic and syntactic knowledge....

Nstein Technologies, Inc. (Portals & Intranets).(software licensing sale)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced a software licensing sale for small- and medium-sized e-publishing enterprises to index documents using Nstein's Computer-Aided Indexing (CAI) tools. Under the sale, MEI has purchased a software license...

Livelink Records Management 2.0. (Portals & Intranets).(Open Text Corporation)
September 1, 2002... Livelink Records Management 2.0 (Open Text Corporation) has been released with new features designed to improve management of physical records (such as paper files, books, images, and CDs) together with electronic records in Livelink. Physical...

Lycos Finance. (Search Engines).(plain-English search engine)
September 1, 2002... A plain-English search engine is now available on the Lycos Finance Web site (Terra Lycos). The engine lets site users search for financial data and news using plain-English questions, instead of keywords. To provide this feature, Lycos used...

Website Access. (Search Engines).(Forbes.com selects Albert Group's Website Access)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Forbes.com has selected Albert Group's Website Access solution to help Forbes.com users search and retrieve information. Website Access features full-text natural language search support, multilingual search capabilities, misspelling tolerance,...

Surfsecret 4.50. (Search Engines).
September 1, 2002... Surfsecret 4.50 is a privacy Internet tool that allows users to surf the Internet then destroys the trail, preventing profiling by mechanical Web agents and others. Recovered hard disk space is displayed every time it gets cleaned, and...

The Kiplinger Washington Editors. (Online Services).(licensing agreements with EBSCO Publishing, Factiva, Gale Group, LexisNexis, ProQuest, and the H.W. Wilson Company)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Kiplinger Washington Editors has entered into licensing agreements with EBSCO Publishing, Factiva, Gale Group, LexisNexis, ProQuest, and the H.W. Wilson Company. Under terms of the agreements, the full text of Kiplinger's publications can...

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Online Services).(added to Factiva service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Factiva will add the English-language Nikkei Report and The Nikkei Weekly, published by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. Each business day, Nikkei Report translates more than 100 articles appearing in The Nihon Keizai Shimbun and three other...

"Canada's Heritage From 1844,". (Online Services).(Globe and Mail archive)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Globeandmail.com and Micromedia ProQuest will market "Canada's Heritage From 1844," purported to be the most extensive newspaper archive in Canada with 1.4 million pages. The archive is a digitized full-image version of the complete works of...

Dialog NewsRoom. (Online Services).(Abstract)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Dialog NewsRoom now boasts 7,000 sources, with more than 1,500 offering a 5-year archive and the remaining, 2-year archives. Dialog NewsRoom is a recently launched database for online searching and article retrieval available on the Dialog...

Moreover Technologies. (Online Services).(on Ask Jeeves)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Ask Jeeves has integrated Moreover Technologies; Public Feeds and Public Metabase onto its site, citing a 75 percent increase in news-related searches [www.askjeeves.com; www.moreover.com].

Morningstar.com Library Edition. (Online Services).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Morningstar.com Library Edition is a new financial online service exclusively for libraries based on Morningstar, Inc.'s investment Web site. The service offers stock and mutual fund analysis, screening tools, and portfolio-building features....

The BizInt Smart Charts--Questel*Orbit Edition. (Medical).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Questels*Orbit (QO) has announced a licensing agreement with BizInt Solutions to create a customized version of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents. The BizInt Smart Charts--Questel*Orbit Edition generates tabular reports, combining data from QO's...

Mental Health Law Reports and Prison Law Reports. (Legal).(on Context Limited's Justis)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Mental Health Law Reports and Prison Law Reports have been added to Context Limited's Justis. com online legal research service. Both include the full text of cases from the U.K. High Court, Court of Appeal, and House of Lords, together with...

Advanced Chemistry Development. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ACD/Name To Structure and ACD/Name are two new chemistry tools from Advanced Chemistry Development now available on ChemWeb.com. ACD/Name to Structure helps chemists generate chemical structure representations from textual-input names of...

STN Easy for Intranets. (Sci-Tech).(from Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... STN Easy for Intranets (Chemical Abstracts Service) helps users create customized sites within their intranets that make the 85 STN Easy-accessible scientific databases directly available to users throughout their organizations. The service...

eMeta Corporation. (Sci-Tech).(contract with ASM International)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ASM International has made its 20-volume ASM Handbook available on a subscription basis using eMeta Corporation's eRights software, an enterprise software solution that manages user authentication and flexible subscription levels. eMeta also...

WebFeat, Inc. (Sci-Tech).(partnership with ISI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ISI has formed a partnership with WebFeat, Inc., developers of the WebFeat Prism that helps users simultaneously search their entire collection of disparate databases through a single interface. Under the agreement, ISI will deliver an enhanced...

Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA). (Sci-Tech).(on ISI Web of Knowledge)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ISI Web of Knowledge will be expanded to include the International Food Information Service's Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) database. FSTA contains over 600,000 searchable entries, increased by over 20,000 abstracts annually, on...

True Query Version 1.5. (Sci-Tech).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... True Query Version 1.5 (True Query, Inc.) includes upgraded advanced search features plus several additional information sources. True Query provides content related to information technology and telecommunications issues. Its new advanced...

Quiver, Inc. (Alliances & Deals).(to be acquired by Inktomi)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Inktomi has announced plans to acquire Quiver, Inc., after a year of offering users combined solutions with Inktomi as a Quiver technology and marketing partner. The partnership will continue to offer users Quiver's content categorization and...

Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS). (Alliances & Deals).(with Epixtech Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) has formed an alliance with epixtech, Inc. to integrate PTFS' ArchivalWare solution with epixtech's iPac search engine. iPac is a Web-based tool that helps library patrons search Online Public...

Eliyon Technologies. (Alliances & Deals).(with Thomson Financial)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Thomson Financial has integrated Eliyon Technologies' third-party executive and company databank resource into VentureXpertWeb, a database of global private equity intelligence. Eliyon users can now access more extensive biographical data on...

Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP). (Alliances & Deals).(agreement with Swets Blackwell)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... On behalf of a Swedish consortium, Swets Blackwell recently negotiated an agreement with the Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP) to distribute the IoPP's Axiom Web-based research service across eight organizations. Axiom features the INSPEC,...

AllTheWeb. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(new features)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages. That number puts it just ahead of Google's claimed number, increasing the likelihood that AllTheWeb will find pages Google and other search...

AltaVista. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(new features)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND. After several years of changing the default operation of its basic search box, trying to find the best match for a wide variety of user queries, AltaVista has joined all the other major search...

Google AdWords program. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(new features at Ask Jeeves)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design that features three tabs: Web, News, and Shopping. Along with the new design, Jeeves has dropped pornographic links from its results. Ask Jeeves also has a toolbar [www.ask.com/toolbar] that requires...

Google. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(new features)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers service on its regular Google results pages. It also shows up as an option when there are no results. Keyword search capabilities have been added to the Google Answers database, which...

Inktomi. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(Quiver acquisition)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Inktomi is acquiring Quiver, an automated categorization and taxonomy company. While that shows some signs of where Inktomi plans to go with its search business, the company is also eliminating about 270 jobs, or 40 percent of its workforce. At...

Lycos. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(Lycos Search 6.0 feature)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Lycos has launched what it calls Lycos Search 6.0. It is using the newly enlarged database from Fast Search that includes the PDF files. It is also using a keyword in context (KWIC) display where the extract in the results usually includes the...

Teoma. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(ads from Google AdWords)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Teoma, like its owner Ask Jeeves, will also be using the Google AdWords instead of Overture for its ads, listed as "sponsored results." It has also introduced a Teoma toolbar that can be installed within Internet Explorer 5 or higher and is...

WiseNut. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(old database)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WiseNut has added sponsored listings (ads) from LookSmart at the top of its results, but the database is quite old and desperately needs to be updated. As of late July 2002, the records included in WiseNuts database all appear to be from a year...

Yahoo! (Internet Search Engine: Update).(home page redesign)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Yahoo! has launched a redesign of its home page. Like previous redesigns, it is nothing drastic but it does clean up the somewhat cluttered page created by the constant addition of new services. News is more clearly identified. Personalization...

New Search Engines. (Internet Search Engine: Update).(OpenFind.com, GigaBlast.com)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... New Search Engines like to go beta in the summer. Last year it was Teoma and WiseNut; established search companies subsequently acquired both. In 2002, there are again two new search engines that are available in beta form. OpenFind.com...

A new era of search engines: not just Web pages anymore.
September 1, 2002... Web search engines are entering a new era. With traditional abstracting and indexing services, a rigorous search requires expertise in editorial policies: What kinds of documents, time frames, degree of selectivity, and exceptions should be...

Web search engines: search syntax and features.(Illustration)
September 1, 2002... BEGINNING WITH THE May/June 1999 issue, ONLINE has published a chart, authored by Ran Hock, detailing the search features inherent in Web search engines. To some extent, the idea was grounded in early Command Language Charts ONLINE published...

Surf3D: search engine, screensaver, software, smart agent.(Navagent software)
September 1, 2002... Look! Up on the screen! It's a Web spider. It's a screensaver. It's an intelligent agent. It's a bot. It's search software. Wait a minute, It's, it's Surf3D. Confused? Just like Superman got mistaken for a (big) or a (small) plane. up there in...

Social sciences e-prints come of age: the California Digital Library's working paper repository.(digital libraries, publishing)
September 1, 2002... The growth and potential of digital scientific working papers, particularly as pioneered by the Los Alamos arXiv e-print project, poses challenges to the accepted tenets of scholarly publishing. Physical sciences developers set the stage for...

Reviews.com: comprehensively covering computer science.
September 1, 2002... NEVER HEARD OF REVIEWS.COM? It's the reincarnation of the venerab1e Computing Reviews, published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the past 40 years. ACM has partnered with reviews.com, an affiliated company of Information...

E-book poll, results.(future of e-books)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A recent poll at the Information Today Web site asked people "While the consumer market hasn't yet embraced ebooks, do you think e-books have a good future in libraries?" Of the 364 responses, 224 said "Yes," and 140 replied "No."

One click to criminal justice. (Patricia Fravel Vander Meer).(Web sites offer information)
September 1, 2002... IT'S A CRIME there's so much information available. Why, whoever's responsible should be locked up and we'll throw away the key. There's just no defense possible. No, actually, it's a real boon for those who need it. I'm talking about...

Pricing models and payment schemes for library collections.
September 1, 2002... Remember when purchasing a library product was simple? The routine went something like this: Send the order, pay the bill, receive the item, catalog and mark it, and place on the shelf. Collection management for journals meant performing use...

Knowledge management: changing cultures changing attitudes.(management and marketing at Hazelden Publishing and Education)
September 1, 2002... Cultural change is neither easy nor swift. Bringing knowledge management principles into a company represents a cultural transition for which most organizations are not fully ready. Consider the psychological difference between knowledge...

Conducting users surveys: an ongoing information imperative.
September 1, 2002... User surveys are often mentioned when information professionals strategize on expanding the reach and recognition of library services. However, user surveys tend to "slide off the plate" as information professionals go about their busy...

The blog realm: news sources, searching with daypop, and content management. (On the Net).(use of online search engines)
September 1, 2002... Like to browse, surf, wander, and explore the Web? It is easy to find many interesting nooks and crannies during the process, yet remembering the URLs for each is a daunting task. Bookmark lists and favorites can help, but too often they just...

Mining the deep Web for company information. (The Dollar Sign).(use of search engines for business research)
September 1, 2002... Whether you call it the deep Web, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web, the fact remains that an enormous amount of information on the Net is not obvious to the amateur business researcher. Some of it isn't even that obvious to information...

Taxonomies: hope or hype? (Industry Insights).(techniques of preparing business profiles for library professionals)
September 1, 2002... Suddenly, corporate taxonomies are hot, hot, hot. At the Buying and Selling eContent Conference [www.buy-sellecontent.com] held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in April 2002, high-level executives from vendor companies and their counterparts on the buy...

Checklists lay the foundation for Web site quality. (Intranet Librarian).
September 1, 2002... Uneven Web site quality remains a major pitfall of Web site development. One area of the site is brilliantly executed, while another has sloppy coding and violates known usability principles. Even worse, some areas of the site conflict with...

Online toolkits for Web development activities. (Web Site Management).
September 1, 2002... Providing self-service capabilities is a natural response for service providers when demand surpasses supply. Repeated, urgent requests for similar services beyond your delivery capacity are a great motivator to develop ways for users to do it...

"Major Life Moments" and the Web. (O'Leary Online).(Internet research information and survey web locations)
September 1, 2002... Two years ago I wrote an "O'Leary Online" column that explored how the I Web was evolving into a genuine mass medium ("Web Goes Mainstream for Everybody," ONLINE, October/November 2000, pp. 80-82). At that time it was common knowledge that...

LJ Digital McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms Bloomsbury Center. (Peters Picks & Pans).(electronic dictionaries and reference resources on the Internet)
September 1, 2002... The picks include two excellent digital resources that deliver more than their URL or titles would suggest. One is the revamped LJ Digital site, offering free access to the full text of several Cahners publications that are highly relevant to...

Recommended reading on Super Searchers, free software, and Web design. (Hardcopy).(book review of Super Searchers Go the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--Online, on the Phone, and in Person)
September 1, 2002... This month we visit with the Super Searchers again, take a look at the leader of the free software movement, and examine Web design from both usability and design points of view. *** Super Searchers Go the Source: The Interviewing and...

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times. (Online Spotlight).(research on useful websites for librarians)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Most online searchers focus on finding the most current sources of information. Is it complete? Is it updated throughout the day? Are tables and graphs included? Time to change gears--and focus. ProQuest [www.proquest.com] has rolled out the...