Business Information Alert articles from July 2001

Business Information Alert archives from July 2001

Surviving Change: A Case Study in Marketing Library Services.
July 1, 2001... In today's business world, the only certainty or "sure thing" is that things will change. Within the past year, who could have foretold the decline of technology stocks or the closing of the heavily staffed and venerable Research Library at...

From the Editor.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... SLA I have been attending the annual Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference for many years, but this one held some special memories. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alert Publications, Inc., and...

Special Libraries Association.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Free at last from the caves of antediluvian (pre-Internet) obscurity here come the archives. "Retrospective" was a dominant theme on the exhibit floor at the Special Libraries Association conference in San Antonio, TX in June. Terese...

Proquest Information & Learning.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Proquest Information & Learning (Bell & Howell's new name) showed off "Historical Newspapers." It contains the entire run of fulltext and graphics for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor. The Washington Post...

Cold North Wind Corporation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Proquest is an investor in Cold North Wind Corporation, joint producer of America's Chronicles [SM] with the National Newspaper Association (NNA). In September they will introduce the digital archives America's community newspapers, beginning...

EBSCO.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... EBSCO is digitizing back files of 300 "leading domestic and foreign business publications." Records will extend to 1965 or the first published issue of each journal. So far Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Sloan...

Ad*Access Project.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Ad*Access Project is a free new oldies site. Funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, it presents images for more than 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. It...

The Association for Computing Machinery.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Association for Computing Machinery has introduced Reviews.com, which includes archived reviews of 10 years of "the best books and articles in computing literature." Annual fees range from $2,500 - $6,000. Terese Mulkern Terry is a...

Mergent Company.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Mergent (formerly Moody's) plans to go further back in time for Mergent Company Archives introduced last year. This addition to the Manual Series has the final statistical record of firms de-listed since 1995 (www.mergent.com). Terese...

The Summer of our DisContent.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... While old news is being resurrected, tens of thousands of contemporary articles are going to the grave. Freelancers (and subsequently information professionals) won the content war but lost the battle in June. A surprise Supreme Court decision,...

The New York Times.(company removes articles from online databases)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The New York Times responded by announcing plans to remove all affected online articles (about 115,000 from LexisNexis alone). I don't see any relevant notations in LexisNexis Academic Universe. The telltale tag in ABI/Inform citations is...

"Free press" has taken on a new meaning.(New York Times' revenues from online services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... "Free press" has taken on a new meaning. Publishers appear to favor withdrawing information rather than paying for it. Consultants to the New York Times estimate that the company earned $16 million in archival revenues in 2000. Keep this in...

Factiva.(Dow Jones and Reuters combine to produce database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Factiva, the Dow/Jones Reuters collaborative database, has been a long time in development. The result is a splendid product that makes me wish other vendors would stop foisting full-priced, half-baked sites on us. Factiva's interface looks...

Telebase.(Office.com Inc.'s new business database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Telebase, now a division of Office.com, offers a useful tool for occasional users of premium databases. Business Info-Center is a free-search, pay-for-retrieval database of company profiles, credit reports, trademarks, patents, market research,...

Primedia.(Industryclick, online database, is now free)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Industryclick, a Primedia database of important trade journals, has a better price. It's free. Fully searchable with archives extending to 1998, the collection of 200 magazines includes Coal Age, Customer Support Management, Telephony, and...

Dialog.(database service revises price schedule)
July 1, 2001... Dialog has revised its unpopular pricing structure. Customers can now choose DialUnits with free connect time or search "on the clock." Details are at www.dialog.com/pricing. A new online Dialog Training Center features tutorials, workbooks,...

Jupiter Media Metrix.(internet usage slowing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The party's over. The phenomenal Internet growth is winding down. Watch for continued consolidation. A March survey by Jupiter Media Metrix shows that computer users spend most of their online time at Web search sites controlled by just four...

Microsoft.(moneycentral.com, a finance advisory web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Moneycentral.com, a Microsoft portal, has taken over CNBC. The excellent stock and fund wizards remain, and now there's a stock rating system, retirement planner, real-time quote service, and institutional ownership information. Nua Internet...

Special Issues.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... SI: Special Issues, the looseleaf guide to lists and rankings in periodicals, will soon abandon the print version (www.specialissues. com). Barron's has removed half of its weekly stock and fund tables to a free online location. Barron's plans...

American Heritage Dictionary.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... If language abuse were a crime, e-commerce marketers would be lifers. "Viral marketing" is now a commonplace term for building brands through "Send this page to a friend" clicks. The American Heritage Dictionary hasn't changed the definition of...

Random House.(intellectual property)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Book authors made out better. A U.S. District Court ruled that Random House does not own the digital rights to books published before the invention of the Internet. Authors can make new contracts for e-book editions of their works....

World Bank.(web site adds Gender Stats, Information Technology Projects)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The World Bank has introduced two new sections, Gender Stats and Information Technology Projects, on its reorganized Web site. Check out the World Bank Advisory Services (about 25 topical help desks staffed by librarians). The Development...

Beat the Clock.(accessing new information on Web sites)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2001... The Web is a wonderful, no, incredible research tool. In a matter of minutes, if you are a good searcher, you can access material that only a few years ago was difficult if not impossible to get your hands on. The Web can disseminate many types...

Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Julie M Still, ed. 2001. Information Today. Hardcover, l84p. ISBN: 1-57387-104-4. $39.50. The title of this book is a bit misleading. This is not a guide to creating Web-accessible databases. There is a smattering of information on the...

The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economic and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals, Second Edition.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Bruce R. Kingma. Libraries Unlimited. 2001. Softcover. 180p. ISBN: 1-56308-816-9. $45. Librarians and information managers must make economic decisions every day. Bound to a fixed budget, decisions have to be made on how to...

Library Evaluation: A Casebook and Can-Do Guide.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Danny P. Wallace & Connie Van Fleet, eds. 2000. Libraries Unlimited. Softcover. 237p. ISBN 1-56308-862-2. $45. With the many changes in the nature and kinds of services offered by the modern library, new evaluation methods that better...

Management Basics for Information Professionals.(Review)
July 1, 2001... G. Edward Evans, Patricia Layzell Ward & Bendik Rugaas. 2000. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. Softcover. 560p. ISBN: 1-55570-370-4. $55. Management is much more than doing the numbers and checking the time cards. It is a complicated endeavor...

Internet Marketing Research: Theory and Practice.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Oak Lee, ed. Idea Group Publishing. 2001. Softcover. 272p. ISBN: 1-878289-97-7. $74.95. Internet Marketing Research: Theory and Practice is a collection of 14 academic and professional articles covering research on Internet marketing (not...