Online articles from September 2005

Online archives from September 2005

Disappearances and discoveries: the disappearance of information is an ongoing worry for information professionals.(the home page)
September 1, 2005... The disappearance of information is an ongoing worry for information professionals. We want to guarantee comprehensive results, but can't if relevant data has been removed from a Web site or a premium content database. Data can disappear for...

CSA databases return to dialog.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... After a 3-year hiatus, CSA databases are returning to Dialog. Over 30 files, more than were originally loaded on Dialog, will rejoin this year. Materials research and high-technology tiles have first priority, followed by engineering, life...

Standards for Bibliographic References.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has given final approval to the Bibliographic References standard, Z39.29-2005...

Social science & humanities.(world's largest full-text database in psychology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The American Psychological Association (APA) will add the 1894 to 1984 archive from 24 APA journals to PsycARTICLES, doubling the size of the collection and creating the world's largest full-text database in psychology. APA also announced the...

Scopus update.(Elsevier's abstract and index database)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Elsevier's abstract and index database, Scopus, has grown to 28 million records and intends to add another million to million and a half. It's now established an external independent content selection committee (20 scientists and 10 information...

Justis Publishing Limited.(Legal)(introdution of online service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Justis Publishing Limited launched the CCH Tax Cases collection on Justis.com. This includes British Tax Cases, British Value Added Tax Cases, and Special Commissioner's Decisions. These collections are fully cross-referenced and can be...

LexisNexis U.S. is adding JurisPro Inc.'s national directory of expert witnesses in over 4,000 areas of expertise.(Legal)(service introduction of online database)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S. is adding JurisPro Inc.'s national directory of expert witnesses in over 4,000 areas of expertise. The database includes name, credentials, and information about each expert. LexisNexis will make the directory available not only...

Thomson Scientific announced that ISI Web of Knowledge has been enhanced with new features that let users analyze while they search via the Analyze Tool.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific announced that ISI Web of Knowledge has been enhanced with new features that let users analyze while they search via the Analyze Tool. This update refines results by author, publication year, subject category, institution,...

Chemical Abstracts Service and FIZ Karlsruhe launched STN Ana Vist, software that graphically analyzes data using standardized field data from both patent and nonpatent literature.(Sci-Tech)(introduction of STN Ana Vist software)
September 1, 2005... Chemical Abstracts Service and FIZ Karlsruhe launched STN Ana Vist, software that graphically analyzes data using standardized field data from both patent and nonpatent literature. Interactive linkages among the individual charts allows for...

IEEE.(Sci-Tech)(digitization of technology journals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) completed the first step in its plan to digitize all papers from its technology journals, back to each title's first issue [732/981-3449; www.ieee.org].

Elsevier announced the addition of seven new Handbook Series to its premier electronic platform, SeienceDirect.(Sci-Tech)(Elsevier Business Press)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Elsevier announced the addition of seven new Handbook Series to its premier electronic platform, SeienceDirect. The handbooks span a range of subjects within the fields of economics, mathematics, chemistry and physics [+31 0 20 4853058;...

Dialog has added TRADEMARKSCAN--Mexico (File 668).(Sci-Tech)(Dialog Corp.'s new service )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Dialog has added TRADEMARKSCAN--Mexico (File 668), which includes approximately 500,000 trademark registrations from 1976 with some additional information from 1993 forward [www.dialog.com].

FIZ Karlsruhe now offers access to Russian patent information in English via STN International.(Sci-Tech)(The Scientific and Technical Information Network International)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... FIZ Karlsruhe now offers access to Russian patent information in English via STN International. The new online file, RUSSIAPAT, produced by the Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (ROSPATENT) and Federal Institute of Industrial Property...

The Conference Board, in conjunction with Wanted Technologies, Inc.(Business & Finance)(introduction of online service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Conference Board, in conjunction with Wanted Technologies, Inc., has a new help-wanted online data series that will complement its existing Help-Wanted Advertising Index, which tracks print ads [www.conference-board.org].

Hoover.(Business & Finance)(Hoover's Inc.'s redesigned website )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Hoover's announced a Web site redesign that brings new content and improved navigation tools to nonsubscribers. Users can now access subscriber-only content for a selection of top public and private companies worldwide each quarter, tabular...

Thomson announced that Notable Corporate Chronologies and International Directory of Company Histories, volumes 67-68, have been added to its Business and Company Resource Center.(Business & Finance)(Thomson Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Thomson announced that Notable Corporate Chronologies and International Directory of Company Histories, volumes 67-68, have been added to its Business and Company Resource Center. This new resource contains approximately 450,000 company...

Leadership Directories entered into partnership with global content aggregator Alacra to provide Alacra clients with access to information on approximately a half-million U.S. leaders and executives.(Business & Finance)(Leadership Directories Inc.'s partnership with Alacra Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Leadership Directories entered into partnership with global content aggregator Alacra to provide Alacra clients with access to information on approximately a half-million U.S. leaders and executives. Content includes biographical and contact...

Experian announced the launch of BizInfo Online.(Business & Finance)(Experian Information Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Experian announced the launch of BizInfo Online, a new subscription-based research tool that delivers verified data on more than 12 million small and midsized U.S. businesses [800/509-5604; www.experian.com/products/bizinfo].

Snapshots International announced that the company will revert to its official name of Snapdata International Group.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Snapshots International announced that the company will revert to its official name of Snapdata International Group. Its new Web site claims new standards in clarity, ease of navigation, and functionality [+44 (0)20 7829 8408; www.snapdata.com]...

LexisNexis North American.(Peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Lou Andreotti resigned as president and CEO of LexisNexis North American legal markets. LexisNexis CEO Andy Prozes will assume his duties while a search team looks for a replacement.

TFPL Ltd.(Peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... TFPL Ltd appointed Luisa Jefford as a director.

MuseGlobal.(Peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... MuseGlobal promoted Jed Gilmore to vice president, customer solutions, responsible for end-to-end support to all of MuseGlobal's partners. The Technical Support Department will be managed by Gabriel Dumbrava from MuseGlobal's facility in...

LexisNexis U.S. Vanderheyden.(Peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Peter J. Vanderheyden was named vice president for intellectual property at LexisNexis U.S. Vanderheyden, previously with Delphion and IP.COM, will provide expertise and global leadership for business strategy in Intellectual Property.

OCLC Preservation Service Centers (PSC).(Peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Debra Brown-Spruill, formerly with PAIS, which OCLC recently sold to CSA, was named director, OCLC Preservation Service Centers (PSC).

A new Web site developed by the civil liberties group Center for Democracy and Technology links various existing collections of nearly 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service and centrally indexes them.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... A new Web site developed by the civil liberties group Center for Democracy and Technology links various existing collections of nearly 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service and centrally indexes them. It also encourages visitors...

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Sixteen publishers have signed agreements to add their content, collectively representing 58 titles, to EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced [205/980-6794; www.ebsco.com].

Ovid Technologies announced a partnership with Elsevier to offer EMBiology, a new bibliographic database in the field of bioscience.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Ovid Technologies announced a partnership with Elsevier to offer EMBiology, a new bibliographic database in the field of bioscience. EMBiology is a resource for small to midsized academic institutions as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology...

Copyright Clearance Center formed a strategic partnership with BioOne, an online aggregator of bioscience research journals.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Copyright Clearance Center formed a strategic partnership with BioOne, an online aggregator of bioscience research journals. The partnership allows independent research publishers to extend their reach by being included in all of Copyright...

Access Innovations, Inc. announced the availability of the new Notation Module for its Thesaurus Master software, the latest component in the company's line of Data Harmony indexing.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Access Innovations, Inc. announced the availability of the new Notation Module for its Thesaurus Master software, the latest component in the company's line of Data Harmony indexing. The new module, an add-on option, allows users to tag their...

CSA has released MultiSearch, a federated searching solution that provides integrated access to more than 2,000 electronic information resources.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... CSA has released MultiSearch, a federated searching solution that provides integrated access to more than 2,000 electronic information resources. Developed in conjunction with MuseGlobal and powered by CSA Illumina, MultiSearch features...

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that Associated New Media (ANM).(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that Associated New Media (ANM) has selected the Site Search and Sentiment Analysis capabilities of FAST Enterprise Search Platform for its online travel site [www.fastsearch.com; www.thisistravel.co.uk]....

MuseGlobal Inc. announced that Jones e-global library.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... MuseGlobal Inc. announced that Jones e-global library, a subsidiary of Jones Knowledge, Inc., has selected the MuseSearch federated search solution [www.museglobal.com; www.egloballibrary.com].

Internet Securities, Inc., a Euromoney Institutional Investor company that provides business information on emerging market countries.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Internet Securities, Inc., a Euromoney Institutional Investor company that provides business information on emerging market countries, chose Autonomy as the core technology to power a corporate extranet [www.securities.com, www.autonomy.com].

Thomson Gale announced the launch of AccessMyLibrary.com, which allows library content to be crawled and indexed by major search engines such as Yahoo! and Google.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Thomson Gale announced the launch of AccessMyLibrary.com, which allows library content to be crawled and indexed by major search engines such as Yahoo! and Google. Results will include links to publishers' or authors' Web sites. When searchers...

ebrary launched a new version of the ebrary Reader, its free software application that optimizes how PDF documents, from more than 60,000 full-text books and other documents, are viewed and used online.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... ebrary launched a new version of the ebrary Reader, its free software application that optimizes how PDF documents, from more than 60,000 full-text books and other documents, are viewed and used online. Among other benefits, the ebrary Reader...

GuruNet Corporation.(will list on the NASDAQ National Market System)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... GuruNet Corporation, known for its Answers.com product, a ready reference Web site that features quick facts on over a million words, covering people, places, dictionary terms, law, finance, technology, science, nutrition, health, literature,...

OCLC PICA.(OCLC PICA acquired Sisis Informationssysteme)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... OCLC PICA acquired Sisis Informationssysteme, a German library management systems and software company with library customers in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands [www.oclc.org].

OCLC and EBSCO are partners in a pilot project established to facilitate access to libraries' electronic content.(Online Computer Library Center, Inc)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... OCLC and EBSCO are partners in a pilot project established to facilitate access to libraries' electronic content. During the pilot, OCLC will add and maintain electronic holdings information from participating libraries' EBSCO A-to-Z lists to...

Factiva acquired the business and assets of taxonomy consultancy Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Factiva acquired the business and assets of taxonomy consultancy Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation. Synapse adds deep domain expertise in industry verticals, science, technology, medicine, and the arts, and its team includes more than 50...

LexisNexis and the University of Maryland announced an alliance to preserve images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps while making the maps accessible and searchable online.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... LexisNexis and the University of Maryland announced an alliance to preserve images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps while making the maps accessible and searchable online. The U.S. Serial Set is a vast historical resource that contains U.S....

Scopus, the world's largest abstract and indexing (A&I) database of research information, announced an integration with RefWorks, the Web-based bibliographic management tool, in June.(Scopus Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Scopus, the world's largest abstract and indexing (A&I) database of research information, announced an integration with RefWorks, the Web-based bibliographic management tool, in June. RefWorks: Scopus Edition provides a sophisticated level of...

Immediately following the AALL (American Association of Law Librarians) annual meeting where Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI) had a large booth on the other side of the exhibit hall from Thomson's even larger booth.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Immediately following the AALL (American Association of Law Librarians) annual meeting where Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI) had a large booth on the other side of the exhibit hall from Thomson's even larger booth, The Thomson...

Dutch media company VNU announced its acquisition of IMS Health Inc., a U.S.-based healthcare market data provider.(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Dutch media company VNU announced its acquisition of IMS Health Inc., a U.S.-based healthcare market data provider. IMS shareholders will receive cash and shares of VNU stock. The deal is valued at 5.8 billion euros [www.vnu.com].

VNU Business Media announced it is acquiring Digital Media Wire's interest in the Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards (DECA).(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... VNU Business Media announced it is acquiring Digital Media Wire's interest in the Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards (DECA). VNU expects to expand the conference in the areas of digital music, film, gaming, and marketing...

A9.(A9.com Search engine)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... A9 redesigned its home page to provide more preferences. With its new appearance and smaller size, it should load faster. The columns and database choices should be easier to manage. The most popular 10 database choices appear at the top with...

Ask Jeeves.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Ask Jeeves introduced more refinement options and additional shortcuts. Jeeves calls its refinement options "Zoom" or "Concept Navigation," which offer suggestions at the right side of the screen, to either narrow or expand a search. The...

Gigablast.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Gigablast expanded its specialized searches to offer blog, travel, and government searches, all three in beta. These are available from the main page and do not just restrict to specific portions of the main Gigablast database--some unique...

Google.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Google now offers more personalization and portalization. After years of keeping its home page simple with few other links, Google now lets you add portal features and choose which ones to display. Options include Gmail, news, weather, stocks,...

Goggle Print.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Google Print has its own search form [http://print.google.com] that will retrieve more than the three-book limit previously seen. Additionally, logging in to a free Google account is required to see many of the book excerpts available via...

Google Video.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Google Video has expanded beyond the indexing of television shows with no video available. It now accepts videos uploaded by anyone and, with a larger number of videos in stock, makes the videos available to searchers. However, in a strange...

MSN Search.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... MSN Search has added several new advanced operators. All function as prefixes before a search term. The filetype: command can limit to specific file extensions. To search for pages that link to any page within a specific domain, use the...

MSN Toolbar.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... MSN Toolbar is now out of beta. The toolbar suite only works with Internet Explorer, but it includes desktop search capabilities. In addition, Internet Explorer users that install the toolbar can also use tabbed browsing, a feature previously...

Yahoo!(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Yahoo! has added the ability to search content in subscription services with its Web search. Users can check the services, available via the preferences and on the advanced search page, for which they have subscriptions. Matches from those...

Yahoo! My Web.(Internet SEARCH ENGINE Update)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Yahoo! My Web has moved up to version 2.0 although still in beta. The new version emphasizes combining social networking with search. Search results can be tagged and shared with others. Communities of searchers can be established with the...

Relevance and the end of objective hits: information professionals expect search results to reflect their search query. This is what happens with traditional online search services.(Cover Story)
September 1, 2005... Ask LexisNexis, Factiva, Dialog, EBSCOhost, or ProQuest to return information on, say, Mace donian weapons, and that's what you get. An exact match on the terms entered to describe the topic. It s up to the searcher to ensure that the terms...

The flat track: to new career options for information professionals.(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... In his recent best seller The World Is Flat, Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman explains the irony in comparing his journey to India to understand the offshoring phenomenon occurring there to Christopher Columbus' journey 500...

Personal view of telecommuting.(THE FLAT TRACK)
September 1, 2005... In my experience thus far, I have found that the advantages of working as a telecommuting law librarian far outweigh any disadvantages. This is truly a fabulous new outlet for putting my skills to use. Working from home is a giant plus,...

The rock the hard place, and doing business in today's information marketplace.
September 1, 2005... It's a common theme these days: The economic downturn of the past several years has put customers and suppliers alike between the proverbial rock and a hard place. The result is the now-familiar statement, "The marketplace is flat." Whether...

Copyright clearances: fair use action and apathy.
September 1, 2005... Call me a herd, but I like copyright. I like reading about copyright, parsing the statutes, and debating its concepts. Perhaps I should get out of the house more, but as someone who has created, used, sampled, remixed, borrowed, cited, and paid...

Weblogs as a source of business news and information.
September 1, 2005... Blogging, the latest trend on the Internet, impacts not only the mainstream media and private Internet users but also business--to the point that blogs can no longer be ignored by organizations. Well-known companies such as Microsoft, Sun...

The future of directory information: are print directories dead? Will libraries of the future, the not too distant future at that, rely upon electronic editions of directory information? There are certainly signs pointing in that direction.
September 1, 2005... At the Indiana Library Federation [www. ilfonline.org] annual conference in March 2005, Dawn Matthews, manager of the reference department at St. Joseph County Public Library, moderated a discussion on dropping print subscriptions in favor of...

Subset search techniques.(on the net)
September 1, 2005... The mammoth databases offered by Google, Yahoo!, and other major search engine companies can, paradoxically, impede the advanced information seeker's ability to locate relevant information. A very narrow search, for an organization's Web site...

The perennial problem of private company research.(the dollar sign)
September 1, 2005... The perennial problem child of business research is privately held companies. In contrast to publicly traded companies, private companies do not have to disclose financial information. Because they aren't required by law to release their...

Intranets, Wikis, Blikis, and collaborative working.(intranet librarian)
September 1, 2005... The new mantra for organizations is collaboration. Organizations once satisfied with simple intranets now seek out technologies that foster cooperation among employees and enable teams to work together, regardless of how far the members are...

Do you really know Yahoo!?(The Information Strategist)
September 1, 2005... I believe that the information strategist is a master of quality content. The strategist takes advantage of a broad personal and professional knowledgebase. The information strategist combines classic, traditional information with content...

HubMed, NISO, and Extenza.(National Information Standards Organization)
September 1, 2005... One of my picks is a smart external enhancement by Alf Eaton to PubMed, which has been permanently enhanced internally without much fanfare in the media. The other pick is the Web site of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO),...

Lean/agile methods for Web site development.(web site management)
September 1, 2005... Methodologies, although lacking in glamour, are often the process backbone of significant Web development projects. Software engineering methods are currently evolving in ways that impact major Web sites, both developmentally and through...

The HOW of WOW: A Guide to Giving a Speech that Will Positively Blow 'Em Away.(hardcopy)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The HOW of WOW: A Guide to Giving a Speech That Will Positively Blow 'EM Away By Tony Carlson ISBN: 0-8144-7251-6 Published: 2005 Pages: 277 pp.; softcover Price: $14.95 Available from: AMACOM, American Management Association, 1601...

Cyber Spying: Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Cyber Spying: Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives by Ted Foir ISBN: 1-931836-41-8 Published: 2005 Pages: 448 pp.; softcover Price: $39.95 Available from: Syngress Publishing, Inc., 800 Hingham St., Rockland, MA...

Managing Digital Resources in Libraries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Managing Digital Resources in Libraries edited by Audrey Fenner ISBN: 0-7890-2403-9 Published: 2005 Pages: 186 pp.; softcover Price: $19.95 [co-published simultaneously as The Acquisitions Librarian, nos. 33/34, 2005] Available from: The...

Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment: Challenges for librarians and Researchers in the Sciences.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment: Challenges for librarians and Researchers in the Sciences edited by Jeannie P. Miller ISBN: 0-7890-2578-7 Published: 2004 Pages: 258 pp.; softcover Price: $29.95 [co-published simultaneously as...

"What do users want?".(online spotlight)
September 1, 2005... Sigmund Freud was apparently mystified by the question, "What do women want?" We information professionals sometimes find ourselves equally perplexed when we try to figure out what our clients/ patrons/users want (although at least we don't...