Online articles from September 2007

Online archives from September 2007

Making sense of search.(homepage)(Editorial)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Everywhere I went this past summer, whether physically to library and information professional conferences, such as SLA and ALA, or electronically to information guru blogs, I kept hearing the same refrain: Search is no longer important. As...

Acquire Media acquires an edge on news.(industry news)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Acquire Media and its co-investors acquired news and current awareness aggregator NewsEdge from The Thomson Corp. The operations of NewsEdge will be merged with those of Acquire Media, and the company will be run by the current New Jersey-based...

Answers adds dictionary, thesaurus, reference to its portfolio.(industry news)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Answers Corp., parent company of Answers.com, has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference. com, for $100 million in cash. Since most of the traffic to Lexico's three sites comes...

Enterprise search.(industry news)(InfoSpace Inc. to partner with Blinkx)(EBSCO to partner with WebFeat)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... InfoSpace,Inc. announced a partnership with blinkx, a video search engine, to offer video search capabilities for the InfoSpace family of metasearch brands, including metasearch engine Dogpile .com. As consumer demand for online video content...

Alacra creates vertical custom search engines.(industry news)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Harking back to its original days as Data Downlink Corp., Alacra (the company name changed in 2001) has re-created its original Portal B product, which provided business-related Web searches. The new Alacra vertical search uses Google's Custom...

ProQuest and Scopus announced a searching and linking partnership that expands the research capabilities of mutual customers of CSA Illumina and Scopus.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ProQuest and Scopus announced a searching and linking partnership that expands the research capabilities of mutual customers of CSA Illumina and Scopus. This integration will enable users of CSA Illumina to find 4,500 Scopus titles in natural...

Acoustical Society of America.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) announced the launch of the ASA Digital Library, hosted on AIP's Scitation online publishing platform. Readers can search across all ASA content published online, including the Journal of the Acoustical...

ABC-CLIO and EBSCO Publishing announced EBSCO's acquisition of two of ABC-CLIO's renowned databases.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ABC-CLIO and EBSCO Publishing announced EBSCO's acquisition of two of ABC-CLIO's renowned databases: Historical Abstracts (HA) and America: History and Life (AHL). Additionally, EBSCO will distribute eight award-winning history databases from...

The U.S. Department of Energy and Cross-Ref announced that the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) completed DOI registrations for more than 86,000 DOE technical reports with Cross-Ref.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The U.S. Department of Energy and Cross-Ref announced that the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) completed DOI registrations for more than 86,000 DOE technical reports with Cross-Ref. The earliest report dates from 1933....

Questel.(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A 2-year project to migrate the Questel service from mainframe to UNIX was completed in July. This results in a faster and more dynamic system to update databases and a platform to offer the latest in search, analysis, and visualization...

The new EU REACh regulation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) imposes the responsibility for safety in handling the processed substances and products on companies that bring the chemicals onto the market.(Sci-Tech)(Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The new EU REACh regulation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) imposes the responsibility for safety in handling the processed substances and products on companies that bring the chemicals onto the market. REACh...

Information Sources, Inc. announced the launch of the TecTrends Reporter Web site.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Information Sources, Inc. announced the launch of the TecTrends Reporter Web site, containing technology reports on evolving technology trends, industry developments, and companies impacting their respective competitive landscapes. TecTrends...

To assist technology marketers in North America in identifying business opportunities and marketplace challenges, Harte-Hanks, Inc. announced the availability of Ci Triggers.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... To assist technology marketers in North America in identifying business opportunities and marketplace challenges, Harte-Hanks, Inc. announced the availability of Ci Triggers, an automated service that alerts marketers about where and when key...

Manta.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Business research site Manta now allows its registered users to modify its more than 45 million company profiles. Manta provides information on public and private companies, including detailed company profiles, phone numbers, and employment...

SirsiDynix.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... SirsiDynix announced the appointments of Gary M. Rautenstrauch, a longtime corporate leader in the library community, and Douglas R. Maughan as the company's new chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Don Fabricant, former executive with Thomson Learning, joined the OCLC Online Computer Library Center leadership team in the newly created position of vice president, library services for the Americas.

U.S. Government Printing Office.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Tony Ogden, who had been Acting Inspector General, was appointed to the post of Inspector General for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Reynold Schweickhardt, current CIO, has been tapped as CTO, replacing Michael Wash, who will assume...

H.W. Wilson.(Peopleware)(H.W. Wilson appoints Martha Orellana)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... H.W. Wilson announced the appointment of Martha Orellana as regional manager, Latin America & the Caribbean, providing sales and support.

Caspio, Inc.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Caspio, Inc. announced that David A. Milliron joined the company as director of media services. He came from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was senior manager of the newspaper's Internet Technologies Group.

Serials Solutions.(Peopleware)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Harry Kaplanian joined Serials Solutions from Microsoft, where he worked developing Live Search Books, as director of product management.

West Monitor Suite.(Legal)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... West Monitor Suite, a set of competitive intelligence products for law firms, has added West IP Monitor, an advanced analytical tool for tracking and mapping U.S. Patent and Trademark Office actions and patent litigation activity in support of...

LexisNexis.(Legal)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... LexisNexis added two online resources for analyzing the impact of new legislation and regulations on existing law published by DataStream Content Solutions, parent company to Potomac Publishing. Legislative Impact and Regulatory Impact will be...

Libraries worldwide are now able to license Turning the Pages, the software used by The British Library to bring rare books online.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Libraries worldwide are now able to license Turning the Pages, the software used by The British Library to bring rare books online. Since its launch in 2004, Turning the Pages became one of the most popular resources at The British Library,...

Innodata Isogen, Inc.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Innodata Isogen, Inc. announced its selection by The British Library as the Library's development partner for its Publisher Digitization Service (www .innodata-isogen.com).

EBSCO.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... EBSCO announced the launch of a new Web site that has acquisition and budgeting tools that facilitate collection development and simplify budget dollar allocation, along with complimentary Web-based training and online support (www.ebsco.com).

Dow Jones & Co. announced a partnership with PodZinger, a multimedia platform that allows users to find audio and video content using keyword searches, to integrate multimedia content into Factiva.com and Factiva iWorks.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Dow Jones & Co. announced a partnership with PodZinger, a multimedia platform that allows users to find audio and video content using keyword searches, to integrate multimedia content into Factiva.com and Factiva iWorks. Factiva customers can...

ProQuest has added PapersInvited to COS Research Support Services, which is available on the CSA Illumina platform.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ProQuest has added PapersInvited to COS Research Support Services, which is available on the CSA Illumina platform. Introduced in 2006, COS Research Support Services combines the COS Scholar Universe, COS Funding Opportunities, and...

Safari Books Online.(Online Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Safari Books Online, an on-demand reference and learning platform and a joint venture of O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has launched its new Web site. Safari enables an increasingly mobile workforce to access technical and...

Thomson Scientific.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific has added more than 40 years of archived life sciences research to its BIOSIS Previews database on the Dialog and DataStar platforms and more than 100 years of data to its Zoological Record database on Dialog (www...

Ovid expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press to provide more than 300 OUP medical and health science ebooks.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Ovid expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press to provide more than 300 OUP medical and health science ebooks, including more than 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid platform (www.ovid .com).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).(Open Access)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced a new policy that requires its investigators to ensure that their articles are openly accessible via deposit in the PubMed Central archive. HHMI is also working with publishers to put in...

Oxford Journals.(Open Access)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Oxford Journals announced that all primary papers published in the Journal of Experimental Botany as of April 1, 2007, are being published without any open access charge if the corresponding author's institution has a current subscription to...

Following the announcement of the company's public listing, Collexis signed an Enterprise License Agreement and ongoing engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).(Alliances & Deals)(Report)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Following the announcement of the company's public listing, Collexis signed an Enterprise License Agreement and ongoing engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), replacing the company's prior license with NIH. Over $20 billion a...

Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced the acquisition of privately held Inxight Software, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced the acquisition of privately held Inxight Software, Inc. The combination provides organizations with a comprehensive BI solution to address all of their data...

Ebooks Corp. and Blackwell Book Services have extended the scope of their collaboration into the U.K. and Europe.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Ebooks Corp. and Blackwell Book Services have extended the scope of their collaboration into the U.K. and Europe. Under this expanded partnership, Blackwell Book Services will distribute and market Ebook Corp.'s ebook library product, EBL, to...

Emerald Group Publishing.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Emerald Group Publishing announced the acquisition of four new journals from Troubador Publishing Ltd.--Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society; Interactive Technology and Smart Education; International Journal of Pervasive...

Answers Corp. announced in June that its WikiAnswers site surpassed the 500,000 question count, and it has grown its community to more than 200,000 members.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Answers Corp. announced in June that its WikiAnswers site surpassed the 500,000 question count, and it has grown its community to more than 200,000 members. WikiAnswers is a UGC (user-generated content) site, a platform for a community of users...

Swets and NewspaperDirect, a provider of digital newspaper distribution, have agreed to extend their PressDisplay distribution agreement.(Current Awareness)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Swets and NewspaperDirect, a provider of digital newspaper distribution, have agreed to extend their PressDisplay distribution agreement. Swets was the first subscription services player to cooperate with NewspaperDirect, and this new deal...

Search engine update.
September 1, 2007... This summer saw major changes from search engines. Google and Ask rolled out significant modifications to their search results display. Meanwhile, Live Search and Yahoo! now have experimental versions with a similar focus. Ask launched a...

A new era in chemical information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central.
September 1, 2007... Selecting relevant information and suppressing details is the sort of pragmatic fudging everyone does every day. It's a way of coping with too much information. For almost everything you see, hear, taste, smell, or touch, you have the choice...

Tools every searcher should know and use.
September 1, 2007... A finite number of concepts, techniques, and strategies for searching premium content databases and the Web can make all the difference between aimlessly groping around and actually retrieving useful material. If you spend your whole day...

Party lines, wikis, and project management: looking into the future a bit, it's always fun to speculate about how wikis will evolve into more refined social networking tools.
September 1, 2007... Wikis are only 12 years old--the first wiki was installed by its inventor, Ward Cunningham, in March 1995--but the technology and the philosophy of wikis are having significant impacts. From loosely organized problems--such as idea...

Managing the information explosion: with power text solutions' text mining and summarization software.(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... [Editor's Note: As we went to press, Power Text Solutions informed us that it had changed the name of Sloth-Reader to iResearch-Reporter (www.iresearch-reporter.com).] The Internet has changed the place of information professionals in the...

The SIIA's view of the information industry: an interview with Ken Wasch.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Serious researchers depend upon professional and trade organizations for their expertise and data. Moreover, association staff members are generally more than willing to share information. In any industry research, associations are a first...

The incredible, embedded Web.(on the net)
September 1, 2007... Sharing content is popular these days, thanks to XML, RSS, APIs, and other acronyms for data interchange. Beyond the programmers and other acronym experts creating sophisticated ways to exchange content automatically, embedding has become a...

The discoverability of premium business content.(the dollar sign)
September 1, 2007... Experienced information professionals operate on intuition. Give us a research request and we automatically turn to the place, online or not, most likely to provide answers. This intuition isn't innate; it derives from years of going through...

Top tips to build blog readership.(intranet librarian)
September 1, 2007... Bloggers today are confronted with a tidal wave of advice about improving their Weblogs. Tips of all sorts threaten to overwhelm the conscientious blogger. Some recommend the latest trend--such as adding your Twitter status, a live chat box, or...

ITA Software, AsiaRooms, and Expedia.(peter's picks & pans)(Column)
September 1, 2007... Occasionally, I dedicate my column to information services that are not STM (scientific, technical, or medical) databases but are still very useful for information professionals of all stripes. In this case, my topic is travel-related sites...

Give plagiarism the weight it deserves.(infolit land)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Cut-and-paste plagiarism from the Internet is increasing, according to the 2005 study from The Center for Academic Integrity (www.academicintegrity.org/ cai_research.asp). The research findings showed that 40 percent of almost 50,000...

Recommended reading on travel, innovation, and Web design.
September 1, 2007... ratings EXCELLENT **** MOSTLY GOOD *** WELL DONE ** ADEQUATE * POOR no logo featured books The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searcher Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet Library 2.0: A Guide to...

Can I Facebook that?(online spotlight)
September 1, 2007... I had one of those geeky informational "ah-ha" moments the other day. A swarm of bees has taken up residence under the eaves of my house, and I went through all the bee removal listings in the phone book trying to find someone willing to remove...