Information Today articles from April 2002

Information Today archives from April 2002

NewsEdge upgrades to Insight 6.0, spotlights expertise of editors. (News Break).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... NewsEdge (http://www.newsedge.com) subscribers concerned about the effect of the company's acquisition by Dialog Corp. had those fears allayed by the introduction of NewsEdge Insight 6.0. Combining technology with human acumen, Insight 6.0...

Not pleading poverty: Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues. (IT Interview).(Company Profile)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... With Reed Elsevier's acquisition of Harcourt cleared by the antitrust authorities, and online sales now approaching $2.8 billion this year, Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank says in this interview that he's looking forward to a period of...

2002 NFAIS Conference: This annual event stressed ways in which the aggregator will soon turn integrator. (Report from the Field).
April 1, 2002... What do information service providers talk about when they get together? Well, besides how good the food is at the Ritz-Canton... I had the opportunity to find out what producers are talking about when I joined a couple hundred industry...

Supreme Court agrees to hear copyright challenge case. (News Break).(Eldred v. Ashcroft)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... On February 19, the U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.supremecourtus.gov) gave an unexpected surprise to the copyright and publishing communities by agreeing to hear a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA). The act...

The British Library announces weekly CD-ROM updates.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The British Library has announced that librarians, book buyers, and other users of the British National Bibliography (BNB) on CD-ROM can now update the CD's records weekly via the Internet. Effective immediately, the library's monthly...

ebrary upgrades ebrarian, secures distribution agreement with Amigos. (News Break).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Just about 6 weeks after launching ebrarian 2.0 with some pilot library customers (see http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020121-2.htm), ebrary has delivered on its promise to roll out version 2.1 to libraries within the first quarter of...

Tasini damage-reporting decisions: Today's vendor policy choices will affect customer relations tomorrow. (Quint's Online).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A prominent news librarian from one of the nation's top-10 newspapers recently called her primary full-text vendor and asked for a report on which data had gone off-line due to the Tasini decision. Her request was denied. She reported the...

Third-age aggregation from MagPortal.com: This service fills a new-style niche as a value-added content repackager. (Database Review).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... It's tough being an aggregator. But then, it's always been tough to be an aggregator. It's tougher than being the other two sides of the information triangle: the buyers and the producers. Buyers are always complaining about prices, yet they...

George Soros gives $3 million to new open access initiative. (News Break).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A new initiative to help provide free access to refereed articles on the Internet has received $3 million in funding from financier and philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI). Launched on February 14, the Budapest Open Access...

What is right about a copyleft? This new licensing agreement allows users to modify an intellectual creation. (Legal Issues).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Imagine this scenario: It's an unusually warm early-April day and it's about a quarter to quitting time. Rather than start a new project so close to the end of the day, you go to the computer and peruse the latest edition of Information Today....

Nstein targets the e-publishing industry: President Randall Marcinko leads the focus on automated indexing solutions. (IT Interview).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Randall Marcinko has been an entrepreneur in the library and information technology field for over 20 years. Having forged a solid network of business relationships during that time, he is well-known by database producers, online services, and...

Markmonitor forms alliance with Eversheds.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Markmonitor, a provider of online brand protection, and U.K.-based Eversheds, one of the world's largest law firms, have announced an alliance that combines Markmonitor's real-time online brand-protection services with Eversheds' BRANDCOMPLETE...

Scirus receives Best Specialty Search Engine 2001 Award. (News Briefs).
April 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that Scirus, its science-specific search engine, has been selected Best Specialty Search Engine in the Search Engine Watch Awards 2001. Scirus was voted for by readers of Search Engine Watch's newsletters and was...

Chemical Abstracts Service launches TOXCENTER. (News Briefs).(new database)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that it has launched TOXCENTER, a new database with international publications in the field of toxicology. TOXCENTER contains more than 5 million references to specialist publications dealing with...

abebooks debuts German, French Web sites in Europe. (News Briefs).(Advanced Book Exchange)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... abebooks has announced the introduction of http://www.abebooks.de and http://www.abebooks.fr, two new sites that target German- and French-speaking customers in Europe. All functions and services on abebooks.de and abebooks.fr are available in...

Blackwell Publishing introduces new version of Blackwell Synergy. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Blackwell Publishing has announced the launch of a new version of Blackwell Synergy, its online journals service. The site has a new design and improved navigation so readers can better locate journals in their subject area and link between...

Inmagic releases IntelliMagic 1.0. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc. has announced the release of IntelliMagic 1.0, its enterprisewide market intelligence solution. With version 1.0, IntelliMagic delivers supported content source vendors, allowing storage, manipulation, viewing, and...

It's all in a typical day's work: Librarian training can be useful for many different types of occupations. (Internet Waves).(guide to web services)(Column)
April 1, 2002... Since I have a very nontraditional job for a librarian, I'm often asked about what I do and how I do it. Well, let me try to describe a typical workday. In comes an e-mail from my boss. (She lives in New Jersey. I live in Florida. Our...

April Fool's Day follies: Better fact-checking in print could prevent many database errors. (Internet Insights).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.--Mark Twain I bet you read 364 days a year about how unreliable and inaccurate the free Web resources are vs. the commercial ones, which are touted to...

Thomson Financial launches Thomson ePIB. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Thomson Financial, a provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, has announced the launch of Thomson ePIB, a Web-based tool for investment bankers and financial professionals. Thomson ePIB...

bigchalk debuts two new library databases. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... bigchalk, a digital learning source, has announced the release of the bigchalk Literature Online for Schools and ProQuest Health databases. bigchalk Literature Online bigchalk Literature Online for Schools combines information,...

EBSCO Publishing announces new database, EBSCOhost additions. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced that EBSCO Canada has combined the contents of three major literary reference series with book reviews, essays, works of literary criticism, author biographies, and current periodical articles to form the new...

ebrary teams with Princeton University Press, Elsevier Science. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... ebrary has announced that Princeton University Press and Elsevier Science's Science & Technology Division have agreed to make their book titles available through ebrary's multiple online channels, which include libraries, institutions, and...

Dialog improves SourceOne patent document ordering system. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Dialog has announced the latest step in ongoing improvements to its SourceOne patent document ordering system. As part of the update, the company offers retrieved documents in full-text Adobe PDF and has restored the "order review" feature. ...

West Group unveils WestDockets service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... West Group, a Thomson business, has announced the launch of WestDockets, a new Westlaw service that provides direct access to electronic court docket materials from courts throughout the U.S. WestDockets is a resource for discovering the...

AltaVista adds new search feature. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... AltaVista Co., a provider of search services and software, has announced the launch of AltaVista Shortcuts, an Internet search feature that assembles highly relevant results for the most common Web searches. According to the announcement,...

Factiva unveils Factiva Editor. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Factiva has announced the availability of Factiva Editor, a new add-on service for Factiva.com and Factiva Track Module. Factiva Editor is an editorial interface that provides companies with features to annotate Factiva news, highlight priority...

CSA releases two new engineering databases. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has introduced CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts and CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts, two new bibliographic databases that concentrate on core areas of engineering and feature cited...

Microsoft, OverDrive debut ReaderWorks 2.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Microsoft Corp. and OverDrive, Inc., providers of e-book, digital rights management (DRM), and digital media technologies, have announced the introduction of ReaderWorks 2.0, a suite of e-book authoring and conversion tools for creating...

Informative Graphics releases Net-It Central 5.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Informative Graphics Corp. has announced the release of Net-It Central 5.0, the latest version of its intranet document publishing software. Net-It Central 5.0 offers enhanced customization, priority publishing features, and tighter security....

Sageware announces launch of Content Tagger 1.5. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Sageware, Inc., a provider of industry-specific categorization solutions, has announced the release of Content Tagger 1.5. By shipping pre-defined categories with the product, Sageware allows customers to quickly deploy a tagging solution...

BCL Computers introduces Adobe PDF creation tool. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... BCL Computers, Inc. has announced the launch of BCL EasyPDF version 2.0, its new Adobe PDF creation software. BCL EasyPDF enables corporations and individuals to create and share PDF files and converts any type of printable Windows...

The great BOAI experiment: The Open Society Institute is the latest to enter the scholarly publishing fray. (Focus on Publishing).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The debate about the direction of scholarly publishing took on a new dimension when it was announced on February 14 that the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) would receive $3 million over a period of 3 years from George Soros' Open...

Corel Corp. introduces DEEPWHITE. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Corel Corp. has announced that it has launched DEEPWHITE, a new brand that will provide solutions for content creation, enterprise process management, and technical graphics. One of the first components of the DEEPWHITE strategy is the...

McGraw-Hill Education to register DOIs. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION and Content Directions, Inc. have announced the signing of a comprehensive registration agreement through which McGraw-Hill Education will begin registering Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) across all of its major...

Progressive Information Technologies unveils cross-media publishing system. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Progressive Information Technologies has announced the availability of Vasont, a cross-media publishing system that enables enterprises to publish content across numerous media channels. Vasont is the seventh version of Progressive Information...

divine debuts ShowCase tool for Web-based conferences, presentations. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... divine, Inc., a provider of solutions for the extended enterprise, has announced the availability of divine ShowCase, a Web-based conferencing and presentation solution that enables the creation, publishing, and distribution of live and...

Virage launches new rich-media learning software. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Virage, Inc. has announced the release of VS Learning, a new enterprise application for rich-media training and e-learning. VS Learning enables companies to create, manage, publish, and view on-demand training courses and presentations...

North Plains Systems Corp. releases TeleScope Enterprise 6.2. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... NORTH PLAINS SYSTEMS CORP., a provider of enterprise-class asset management solutions, has announced the release of TELESCOPE ENTERPRISE version 6.2. TeleScope enables production staff, vendors, licensees, partners, and consumers to extract...

DCMI forms trustee board. (News Briefs).
April 1, 2002... The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has announced its first board of trustees, formed to provide strategic leadership and support to the organization. For the list of trustees, go to...

F-D, WISCAT create gateway to resources. (News Briefs).(Fretwell-Downing Inc., Wisconsin Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (F-D) has announced that Wisconsin's Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning has selected F-D as a solutions partner for WISCAT, a statewide resource-sharing project. A WISCAT spokeswoman explained that...

Richmond Hill Public Library selects SIRSI. (News Briefs).(Sirsi Corp's Unicorn library management system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced that the Richmond Hill Public Library in Ontario, Canada, has selected Unicorn as its library management system. The contract also includes Hyperion Digital Media Archive and iBistro Electronic Library. ...

Sagebrush Corp.'s Web Resource Library renamed WebMARC. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sagebrush Corp. has announced that Web Resource Library (WRL), a collection of more than 6,000 high-quality, curriculum-focused K-12-oriented Web sites, has been renamed WebMARC. In addition to the new name, features such as monthly updates and...

Follett Software Co. releases version 5.0 of software. (Library Systems Today).(library automation and information access solutions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Follett Software Co. has announced the release of version 5.0 of its library automation and information access solutions. According to the announcement, the enhancements will provide easier access to patron information, more efficient...

The emergence of the Open Archives Initiative: This protocol could become a key part of the digital library infrastructure. (The Systems Librarian).
April 1, 2002... Lately, it seems like every new concept, movement, or technology is "open." While being open is surely a good characteristic for a computer system, the term has found its way into so many names and acronyms that it's hard to keep track of them...

Innovative Interfaces announces Millennium implementations. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the adoption of its Millennium library automation system at several institutions. Mexican Colleges The Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, will expand its Millennium system...

CASPR introduces new MARC Companion database. (Library Systems Today).(CASPR Library Systems)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... CASPR Library Systems, Inc. has announced the launch of Library World MARC Companion, the "missing content" in library automation that makes it easy to do retrospective conversion. MARC Companion is a database of over 2.2 million MARC records...

Surpass Software releases Serials management software. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Surpass Software, a provider of library automation solutions, has announced the release of Surpass Serials periodical management software, a new program that monitors the delivery and cataloging of newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals....

EBSCO Publishing enhances international services. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced that it continues to enhance its service to international customers, and that its latest effort benefits users in Germany and neighboring countries. As a leader in the provision of MARC records and associated...

TLC debuts SchoolLibrary*Solution, forms new 'Schools' Division. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Library Corp. (TLC) has announced the release of SchoolLibary*Solution, a product that integrates library automation with classroom curriculum. The company also announced that it has enhanced its support of the K-12 public school market by...

ITI publishes three new books.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the publication of Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline, a new book by Lawrence J. McCrank. ITI has also announced the release of Smart Services: Competitive Information...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... April 13-16: San Diego (Hotel Del Coronado). The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) will sponsor the 2002 SIIA Annual Conference, whose theme is "Trends Shaping the Digital Economy." According to the announcement, this...

New Dialog E-journal feature links database citations to full-text article images. (News Break).
April 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. (http://www.dialog.com) has become the first of the traditional commercial online services to offer users full linking from citations appearing in abstract! index databases to electronic versions of the journals. Users of the newly...

Serials Solutions joins NISO.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that a new member, Serials Solutions, has been added to its voting roster. Serials Solutions is dedicated to improving the visibility of full-text electronic-format journals...

What do users really think? There are many ways to determine the effectiveness of networked services. (Book Review).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policy, and Issues ASIST Monograph Series Edited by Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2001 ISBN: 1-57387-118-4 344 pages ...

ingenta acquires HERON. (Book Review).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... ingenta, PLC, an online distributor of published scientific, professional, and academic research, has announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and assets of HERON, a Web-based supplier of online course packs to higher education...

EBSCO Publishing offers full text through PubMed's LinkOut. (News Break).
April 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing (http://www.epnet.com) has announced that full-text materials in EBSCO's biomedical databases, such as the Biomedical Reference Collection and Nursing & Allied Health Collections, are now available via links from PubMed...

Google unveils new server appliance. (News Break).
April 1, 2002... Web search engine company Google has announced a new line of server appliances intended for enterprises that wish to harness its crawling, searching, and page-ranking capabilities in order to index millions of documents hidden behind corporate...

Keynote speakers. (Executive Summary).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... TUESDAY, MAY 14 9:00 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m. Content Is Dead! Long Live Context! Stephen Abram, Vice President, Corporate Development, IHS Group/Micromedia Information isn't about static stuff that lives in a rigid, permanent...

Dick Kaser. (Executive Summary).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Dick Kaser, Vice President, Content, Information Today, Inc. The transformation of our annual May event in New York has been a work in progress. Last year we augmented our long-running National Online Meeting with programming on the...

InfoToday 2002 Conference At-a-Glance.
April 1, 2002... TUESDAY 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Content Is Dead! Long Live Context! Stephen Abram, Vice President Corporate Development, IHS Group/Micromedia WEDNESDAY 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The New Dynamics of Decision Support David...

2002 PSP annual conference: This year's meeting focused primarily on the online customer. (Report from the Field).(Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division)
April 1, 2002... On February 11-13, the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) held its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Approximately 225 registered professionals attended. This year's theme was "Eng@ging...

Haworth Information Press to publish Journal of Digital & Electronic Acquisitions.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Haworth Information Press, an imprint of Haworth Press, Inc., has announced the forthcoming publication of the new Journal of Digital & Electronic Acquisitions, a peerreviewed/professional/research/practice journal edited by Thomas Leonhardt,...

Despite downturn, report claims healthy growth in European online information market.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Learned Information Europe, Ltd. has announced that, according to a new report, Europe's online information market--representing the sale of paid-for content--grew by 6 percent in 2001, surpassing its 4-percent growth in 2000. Revenue in this...

Wolters Kluwer North America acquires National Media Technologies, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Wolters Kluwer North America has announced the acquisition of National Media Technologies, Inc. (NMT; http://www.natlmedia.com), a provider of digital document conversion and filing services for securities compliance. NMT will become part of...

DialogPRO brings flat-fee subscriptions to low-end small-business market. (News Break).(Dialog Corp.)
April 1, 2002... Dialog (http://www.dialog.com) has inaugurated a product line targeted at small businesses. The DialogPRO product--PRO stands for "predictable research online"--offers unlimited usage of a narrow, subject-focused array of files (called "content...

Iris L. Hanney. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... TechBooks has announced the appointment of Iris L. Hanney to the newly created position of senior vice president of its Corporate Publishing Group. She will be responsible for the growth and expansion of the company's data-conversion services,...

Susan Stearns. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc. has announced that Susan Stearns will be the company's new vice president of marketing. In this role she will establish integrated product development and marketing strategies. She will also oversee the sales and marketing teams,...

Chris Beckett. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... ingenta, Inc. has announced that Chris Beckett is the company's new vice president of library services. There he will develop and execute an international library services strategy focused on improving customer acquisition and customer service....

Daniel S. Fitzgerald. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... FIND/SVP, Inc. has announced that Daniel S. Fitzgerald has been appointed executive vice president for strategic and corporate business development and will be apart of the company's Operating Management Group. He will be responsible for the...

Patrick Julius. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced the appointment of Patrick Julius to the position of senior director for licensing and publishing operations. He will be responsible for managing CSA's relationships with industry organizations...

Ralph Placzek. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. has announced that Ralph Placzek has joined the company as its vice president of finance and administration. He will manage Endeavor's finance department and its administrative functions. Placzek was most...

Ian Rhind. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Walters Kluwer North America has announced that Ian Rhind has been appointed president and CEO of CCH Canadian, Ltd. Most recently Rhind was vice president of tax-compliance software for CCH Canadian and was responsible for overseeing its...

Philip Bradley. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Quiver, Inc. has announced the appointment of Philip Bradley as vice president of sales. He will be responsible for driving and implementing sales strategy and processes. Prior to this Bradley was vice president of sales at Confer, a...

Jack A. Skeels. (People Line).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Patent & License Exchange, Inc. has announced the appointment of Jack A. Skeels as its chief operating officer. According to the announcement, he will implement the company's primary objective of offering financial IP valuation and...

Endeavor's Tom Owens dies. (Classified Today).(Endeavor Information Systems)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
April 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced that Tom Owens, the company's director of implementation and data services, has passed away at his home. Owens had been with Endeavor since December 2000 and had previously been with the company from...

RoweCom becomes divine Information Services.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... divine Information Services has reported that, following the November 2001 announcement that divine, Inc. of Chicago had acquired the RoweCom group worldwide, RoweCom will now trade as "divine Information Services." Richard Hodson, U.K....

Convera acquires Semantix, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Convera has announced the acquisition of Semantix, Inc., a private software technology development company specializing in cross-lingual processing and computational linguistics technology. The purchase of Semantix, which includes its...