Online articles from September 2004

Online archives from September 2004

Information, short and sweet.(the home page)
September 1, 2004... It might sound strange, but in these days of supersized drinks, jumbo fries, and mega blockbuster movies, when Internet search engines vie with each other to expand the number of Web pages crawled--or at least brag about the number of Web pages...

ProQuest launches Smart Search.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning launched ProQuest Smart Search, which gives users suggestions for enhanced searching and several new e-mail options for sending articles and marked lists. ProQuest Smart Search will analyze a user's search and...

Thomson Financial sells two products.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Having announced in February 2001 its intent to divest various financial properties, Thomson Financial finally sold two of them in May 2004. Sheshunoff Information Services was purchased by its original founders, Alex and Gabrielle Sheshunoff,...

IHI purchased by Thomson Scientific.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Balancing this divestiture with acquisitions, Thomson Scientific and Healthcare decided to acquire Information Holdings Inc. (IHI) for $441 million. IHI products include MicroPatent, Aureka, Master Data Center, and Liquent [www.thomson.com].

Reed Elsevier Group.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Reed Elsevier Group plc named Erik Engstrom as CEO of Elsevier. Formerly with publishing houses Random House (a Bertelsmann subsidiary) and Bantam Doubleday Dell, Engstrom comes to Elsevier from General Atlantic Partners, a private equity firm....

Ebsco Industries, Inc.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... After almost 34 years as president and CEO for EBSCO Industries, Inc., J.T. Stephens will conclude his term July 1, 2005. F. Dixon Brooke Jr., vice president and general manager of EBSCO Subscription Services, will become the third individual...

NCAA scores with Web-based championship database.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The NCAA library staff announced the creation of a Web-based championships database. This initiative will provide access to the Association's vast championships history currently housed in the archives at the NCAA national office....

Thomson Scientific announced the release of version 3 of ISI Web of Knowledge.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Thomson Scientific announced the release of version 3 of ISI Web of Knowledge. The enhanced solution, resulting from 2 years of design in close collaboration with librarians and researchers, offers new personalization, better search tools, a...

FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Chemie signed an agreement to enter into closer strategic cooperation.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Chemie signed an agreement to enter into closer strategic cooperation. An efficient, high-performance competence center for scientific and technical information is expected to develop out of this alliance [FIZ Karlsruhe:...

FIZ Karlsruhe launched a new pharmaceutical database, Pharmaceutical Substances (PS), on its STN International service.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FIZ Karlsruhe launched a new pharmaceutical database, Pharmaceutical Substances (PS), on its STN International service. PS, produced by Georg Thieme Verlag, was initially offered as a printed version in one, then two volumes (Pharmaceutical...

InfoChem launched its Web-based structure and reaction research platform SPRESIweb 2.0.(Sci-Tech)(InfoChem GmbH)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... InfoChem launched its Web-based structure and reaction research platform SPRESIweb 2.0. The synthesis strategy design tool Synthesis Tree Search (STS) is fully integrated, and the system offers Internet access to 4.5 million compounds and 3.5...

LexisNexis.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... LexisNexis acquired Seisint, Inc. for $775 million. Seisint's main product, Accurint, provides online access and analysis of public records and related information to collections, federal, and legal market segments. Seisint will be placed with...

ProQuest.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ProQuest acquired Serials Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of e-journal management and linking services. Its Article Linker, Journal Linker, A-Z title list service, and MARC records delivery products are currently installed in 1,300...

ChoicePoint acquired Rapsheets, a provider of online criminal records data.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ChoicePoint acquired Rapsheets, a provider of online criminal records data [www.choicepoint.com; www. rapsheets.com].

United Press International (UPI).(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... United Press International (UPI) added its content into Thomson Gale's online databases, including access to all of UPI's English and Spanish content. English content includes UPI Perspectives, analytical articles that offer behind-the-scenes...

Inmagic, Inc. announced a strategic reseller partnership with Visard Solutions, Inc., a document management and service provider based in Canada.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Inmagic, Inc. announced a strategic reseller partnership with Visard Solutions, Inc., a document management and service provider based in Canada. Visard will offer Inmagic Content Management Solutions as the replacement for the Edibase product...

The Associated Press (AP) and Convera Corporation announced an agreement whereby Convera's RetrievalWare will be used for categorizing, searching, and distributing multimedia content within the AP's "electronic AP" (eAP) initiative.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The Associated Press (AP) and Convera Corporation announced an agreement whereby Convera's RetrievalWare will be used for categorizing, searching, and distributing multimedia content within the AP's "electronic AP" (eAP) initiative. Under the...

The British Standards Online Project (BSOL) chose Ingenta for its online delivery and payment channel for British Standards.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The British Standards Online Project (BSOL) chose Ingenta for its online delivery and payment channel for British Standards, citing its information commerce platform that will allow BSI Business Information to package and deliver its content.

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and Outsell, Inc. disclosed a new partnership to deliver a range of services and programs to the worldwide community of information professionals within the SLA membership.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and Outsell, Inc. disclosed a new partnership to deliver a range of services and programs to the worldwide community of information professionals within the SLA membership. SLA members will receive...

HighBeam Research.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HighBeam Research announced several improvements in functionality to its research engine and added millions of documents to its eLibrary archive. While searching eLibrary, subscribers can now specify a list of multiple publications to search at...

A new Australian-based Web search engine, 100.com, which launched in May 2004.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... A new Australian-based Web search engine, 100.com, which launched in May 2004, has teamed with LookSmart to include its directory listings and bid-for-placement network in 100.com's search results [www. 100.com; www. looksmart.com].

LexisNexis aligned with national compliance firm American Bank Systems (ABS) to better protect financial institutions from identity fraud and offer a tool that can be used in USA PATRIOT Act compliance efforts.(Legal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... LexisNexis aligned with national compliance firm American Bank Systems (ABS) to better protect financial institutions from identity fraud and offer a tool that can be used in USA PATRIOT Act compliance efforts. The alliance integrates the...

West added banking updates to Westlaw.(Legal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... West added Banking Updates to Westlaw. These updates keep professionals abreast of the most recent developments in banking compliance, offering summaries of newly proposed and enacted federal and state banking acts, newly proposed and final...

West has integrated RSS technology into its West IntraClip service.(Legal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... West has integrated RSS technology into its West IntraClip service, a current-awareness service that automatically tracks news and legal developments and can be integrated into an intranet or portal [http://west IntraClip.westlaw.com].

Emerald launched the beta version of Emerald Management Xtra.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Emerald launched the beta version of Emerald Management Xtra, a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals and online support created to meet specific needs of educators, students, researchers, librarians, and deans in the...

Vivisimo announced the first group of ClusterMed biopharma customers following the April 2004 product launch.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Vivisimo announced the first group of ClusterMed biopharma customers following the April 2004 product launch. Six companies have adopted ClusterMed including BioSynexus, Inc., Cetek Corporation, Exact Sciences, Hydra Biosciences, Inc., and...

Healthcare publishing and training company HCPro Inc. acquired ePharmaceuticals and its flagship product, ePharm5, from Medical Broadcasting Company.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Healthcare publishing and training company HCPro Inc. acquired ePharmaceuticals and its flagship product, ePharm5, from Medical Broadcasting Company. Each business day, ePharmaceuticals covers the Top 5 developments in healthcare that could...

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) signed an agreement to index content from the University of California Press.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) signed an agreement to index content from the University of California Press. One of the oldest scholarly publishers in the United States, the UC Press has a distinctive repertoire of books and...

Ovid Technologies announced an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) to make content from the APA PsycBOOKS full-text database accessible through Ovid's online platform.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ovid Technologies announced an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) to make content from the APA PsycBOOKS full-text database accessible through Ovid's online platform. It will initially include more than 600 titles...

EBSCO introduced Hospitality & Tourism Index, (HTI), a new bibliographic database that combines the records of three collections: Cornell University's former Hospitality database, previously unavailable for public use; Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... EBSCO introduced Hospitality & Tourism Index, (HTI), a new bibliographic database that combines the records of three collections: Cornell University's former Hospitality database, previously unavailable for public use; Articles in Hospitality...

Ingenta Inc. announced that RSS feeds are now available as a feature of the Ingenta service.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ingenta Inc. announced that RSS feeds are now available as a feature of the Ingenta service. Launched with the second version of the IngentaConnect beta Web site, users can sign up for feeds of new issues loaded for journals they are interested...

SAGE Publications.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... SAGE Publications announced the development of its new online search platform, powered by Stanford University's HighWire Press, to launch in September 2004. The platform will host all SAGE journals in both the social sciences and STM...

Mergent is being acquired by Xinhua Finance, a joint venture between Xinhua Financial Holdings.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Mergent is being acquired by Xinhua Finance, a joint venture between Xinhua Financial Holdings, a subsidiary of China's official Xinhua News Agency, and private investors in the U.S. and Japan. Previously, Xinhua Finance acquired AFX Asia and...

Thomson Financial announced the launch of Thomson MarketView.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Thomson Financial announced the launch of Thomson MarketView, which provides stock and industry analytics for enhanced investment selection on Thomson ONE. Content includes comprehensive stock analysis, detailed reports and idea generation...

HighBeam Research.(Business & Finance)
September 1, 2004... HighBeam Research added the HighBeam Executives database, which offers free information on 20.5 million business executives, managers, and employees from close to 1.2 million organizations. The institutional coverage extends from public and...

Factiva and John Fairfax Holdings Limited have agreed to distribute all full-text articles from the Fairfax group of publications to Factiva subscribers.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Factiva and John Fairfax Holdings Limited have agreed to distribute all full-text articles from the Fairfax group of publications to Factiva subscribers. Factiva will be the only international vendor offering full-text content from all of...

FreeERISA.com announced that its EIN Finder has been updated with hundreds of thousands of new U.S. Federal Employer Identification Numbers and a host of new features.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FreeERISA.com announced that its EIN Finder has been updated with hundreds of thousands of new U.S. Federal Employer Identification Numbers and a host of new features. EIN Finder includes nearly 5 million businesses with tax IDs, addresses,...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results. These are tagged with a "PDF file" label in red after the title. These labels appear in regular search results, but neither the advanced search page nor a command line option is available to...

Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size. It now claims over half a billion pages indexed. While that is still considerably smaller than other search engines, it is certainly gaining ground. In addition, many of its results appear to...

Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files. Removed from AlltheWeb, this option is now only available at Google. A limit is available by using file type:swf in combination with search terms. Google added a local search option (still...

Google Groups.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Google Groups now has a Google Groups 2 Beta (available from Google Labs or directly at http://groups-beta.google.com). In addition to some differences in display, such as the annoying lack of the ability to sort by date, which is available in...

MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... MSN Search has a new look with a much simpler front page. Access to other databases is available in a dropdown menu box. While still powered by a Yahoo! database, MSN now has a version that does not include paid-inclusion pages. MSN continues...

Teoma.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Teoma continues to share its database with Ask Jeeves, but it only gets some of the new Ask features. The indexed PDF files are included, with a green "PDF File" label. Again, no command line or advanced search limit is available to retrieve...

Yahoo!(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Yahoo! is testing a new design for its results page. It makes the related search suggestions more prominent under an "also try" label. The tab options, which can show results from other Yahoo! databases, lose their tab look and move to the top...

The latest field trip: an update on field searching in Web search engines: want to quickly determine if someone is really serious about Web searching? Find out if they do field searching.
September 1, 2004... Taking advantage of field searching is probably the biggest distinguishing feature between the casual Web search engine user and the professional searcher. It is an area in which even a little knowledge can go a long way toward enhancing one's...

Free Australian New Zealand business information resources: a report from the Melbourne Business Information Group.
September 1, 2004... Most readers of ONLINE can't casually drop by a meeting of Melbourne, Australia's Business Information Group to learn about new developments in Web business resources. Our group comprises some 30 research librarians, all of whom are engaged in...

The changing face of content users and the impact on information providers: the old paradigms of how users interact with, and think about, information have changed.
September 1, 2004... More than ever, it's information consumers who are driving advancement in the technologies and processes used to deploy content. A new generation of users who were raised with information technology all around them have grown up to become the...

A new presidential face at Thomson Gale: Gordon T. Macomber: early in April 2004, Thomson Gale, the publishing entity formerly known as Gale Group, acquired a new president Gordon T. Macomber. His last name rhymes with slumber, which is not to suggest he's a slouch, snoozing on the job.
September 1, 2004... On the contrary, our attempts to connect for an interview were thwarted several times, usually because of his travel schedule as he visited with the various units that constitute Gale, but occasionally because of mine. Macomber comes from...

Capturing military information on the Web and elsewhere.
September 1, 2004... Everyone has likely felt the impact of the global war on terrorism--through increased security at airports, a friend deployed overseas, a family member called to active duty, or heightened concerns over privacy rights due to the Patriot Act....

The changing information cycle.(on the net)
September 1, 2004... I have been pondering the whole concept of the role of the changing information cycle. After years of playing around on the Net, searching for information, evaluating Web sites, comparing tools, and investigating the changing online information...

Metasearching for business.(the dollar sign)(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... If you're an advocate of using multiple search engines (which most search experts recommend for comprehensive results, whether it's business research or some other topic), then you've probably wondered whether you should run individual searches...

Conducting an information audit on your intranet.(web site management)
September 1, 2004... Defining the needs of users is an important part of an intranet strategy, particularly since the company intranet is fast becoming the channel through which information is managed and shared among the organization's employees. However, the...

What does paid search mean to you?(The Information Strategist)(search engines)
September 1, 2004... From a strategic perspective, it's vital to constantly upgrade and update your knowledge and skill set to embrace the Web. There are two distinct reasons for this. First, it is critical to be broadly knowledgeable regarding all things Web in...

Tools for finding things again.(web tools for information management)
September 1, 2004... There's no doubt about it--keeping track of links, articles, documents, and electronic information is a challenge for most knowledge workers. We drag things into e-mail folders, copy documents to our hard drive, print reports, and download Web...

CiteBaseSearch, Institute of Physics Archive, and Google's index to scholarly archive.(Jasco, Peter's picks & pans)
September 1, 2004... This month I dedicate my column to some physics databases. Physicists, particularly those who specialize in astrophysics and high-energy physics, have had the best digital information resources both in the traditional and the new Web-based...

Recommended readings on the impact of technology.(on society)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... This month I take a look at the impact of technology on society with one book on evaluating digital libraries and another that explores Net-centric technologies and their effect on our concept of work. In addition, a book on implementing a...

Proving a negative.(online spotlight)(telecommunications price fixing cases)
September 1, 2004... We Americans have leaders who seem to be getting more philosophical over time. First there was Bill Clinton and his musings as to "what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Regarding the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Defense...