Information Today articles from April 2004

Information Today archives from April 2004

EBSCO celebrates its 60th anniversary.(Interview with Collins and Brooke Jr.)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. The venerable firm is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2004 and has experienced considerable growth and development over the past 10 years. There's been a lot...

The inevitable and the optimal.(Poynder on Point)
April 1, 2004... "On the first of March, crows begin to search," goes the proverb. And on March 1, the U.K. Parliament s Science and Technology Select Committee held the first oral hearings in its inquiry into scientific publishing. Announced in December,...

2004 NFAIS meeting.(Report From The Field)
April 1, 2004... NFAIS helds its Annual Conference Feb. 22-24 in Philadelphia. According to the program: "A new information mindset is being created. Information usage behavior... is being shaped by computer-driven technologies.... Use of traditional...

SwetsWise adds 10 publishers.(News Bytes)(Swets Information Services)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Swets Information Services announced that it has signed an additional 10 publishers to SwetsWise Online Content. SwetsWise is the Web-based, modular service for the procurement, access, and management of subscriptions and online information. It...

Thomson NETg acquires Educational Training Systems, Inc.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NETg, part of Thomson Corp., announced that it has acquired Educational Training Systems, Inc./financialcampus (FinancialCampus), a provider of online training and educational services to the financial services industry. According to the...

Emerald adopts COUNTER Code, announces statistics.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Emerald announced its adoption of the COUNTER Code of Practice in reporting usage data. The company also announced its analysis of 7 million downloads. COUNTER Launched in March 2002, COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked...

Endeavor announces customer task force.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Endeavor Information Systems announced the ongoing work of an Endeavor customer task force that is set to examine the issues in today's changing library. This most recent group, Endeavor's Global Data Change Task Force, examines the needs of...

Arnoud de Kemp leaves Springer.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Springer-Verlag announced that, after almost 20 years with the company, Arnoud de Kemp has left to pursue new projects. As deputy member of the board, he held global responsibility for marketing and sales of both print products and electronic...

New players, new partners.(Up Front with Barbara Quint)(information services)
April 1, 2004... According to market economists, competition is the mother of all improvements. And you know, they may be right. Anyway, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is poised to offer some large and luscious handouts to Internet users everywhere. As Yahoo!...

News about organizational tools, the content industry, and more.(NewsBreak Update)
April 1, 2004... It's spring-cleaning time in my house. Time to tackle those dirty blinds, fan blades, and corners with dead bugs--the things we miss on a regular basis. But it's my office that's most crying out for a thorough cleanup and complete...

CISTI extends secure desktop delivery to entire collection.(News Bytes)(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) announced that its entire journal collection is now available for document delivery through Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD). The SDD method, first launched in December...

ProQuest acquires Copley, adopts COUNTER.(News Bytes)(Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co. has acquired Copley Publishing Group, Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced that it has acquired Copley Publishing Group, Inc. The company also announced that it has adopted the COUNTER Code of Practice. Copley Publishing Group Copley publishes customized textbooks...

LexisNexis reaches 3 million case summaries.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... LexisNexis announced that its legal editors have yielded 3 million case-law summaries in a multiyear project to provide customers with comprehensive and authoritative coverage of cases from all federal and state jurisdictions. Since the...

MuseGlobal announces partnership with GIST.(News Bytes)(Global Information Systems Technology )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... MuseGlobal announced a new, exclusive partnership with Global Information Systems Technology (GIST). Part of Universal Subscription Agency (USAPL), the organization has served more than 3,500 customers in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh...

BioOne designated as COUNTER-compliant.(News Bytes)(Amigos Library Services )
April 1, 2004... Amigos Library Services announced that BioOne has received formal notice from COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) of its compliancy with the organization's standards for measuring online usage data. As a result,...

Meatspace vs. cyberspace.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I just read "Up Front with Barbara Quint" in the February issue and was moved to write. You can take this for what it's worth from someone who attends and speaks at innumerable events every year. I tried to "attend" Gary Price's and Chris...

U 2 can B a content creator.
April 1, 2004... I've been poring over the results of a Pew Internet & American Life report released last month that attempted to measure the number of "content creators" on the Internet (http://www.pew...

InfoToons.
April 1, 2004... THIS IS SO RIGHTEOUS. DUDE, I'M A GENIUS. MY BLOG ROCKS! AWESOME! WHAT'S IT ABOUT? IT'S A SURFING BLOG, DUDE. SEE? THERE'S ME ON A HUMONGOUS WAVE. RIGHTEOUS! YOU ARE A GENIUS! AND YOUR MOM SAID YOU'D NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT A...

A threat to first amendment rights.(Focus on Publishing)(U.S. trade restrictions affect editorial work of scholarly publishers)
April 1, 2004... Editing. At first glance, it's such a simple thing. However, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC) position on the importation and exportation of "information materials" has made editing a complicated, even illegal, act. In my...

A love/hate relationship.(Internet Waves)
April 1, 2004... When you've been around the block a few times, you tend to be a bit cynical about affairs of the heart. But sometimes, in spite of your best intentions, love sneaks up and whacks you upside the head. And there you are: wandering around in a...

The wages of sin: million-dollar damages.(Legal Issues)(copyright infringement damages can be very high)
April 1, 2004... The rise of digital platforms for information exchange has resulted in a concurrent rise in copyright consciousness. Peer-to-peer and the RIAA lawsuits have put copyright on the public radar screen like never before. Digital information is much...

Internet clampdown in China.(International Report)
April 1, 2004... According to a recent report issued by Amnesty International, Chinese authorities have dramatically increased actions against citizens who express opinions or download information from the Internet. The report, "People's Republic of China:...

Internet hate-mongering.(International Report)
April 1, 2004... The rights to freedom of expression enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which has been signed but not yet ratified by China, says: "Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression. This...

OECD Communique.(International Report)
April 1, 2004... On Jan. 30, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level issued a Final Communique for science and innovation policy. The group's Committee of Science...

Internet technology in India.(International Report)
April 1, 2004... In a recent article ("Vets Treat via the Net," http://www.nature.com/nsu/040105/ 040105-1.html), Nature reported on an initiative that brings Internet services to remote and poor regions in India. Villagers are able take their sick animals to...

The library as place.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... As a science librarian at a liberal arts college, I very much appreciated Richard Poynder's well-written article "The Very Heart of a College" (February 2004). I recognized immediately all of the issues and circumstances described at Swarthmore...

How are authors faring post-Tasini?(Investigative Report)(Jonathan Tasini)
April 1, 2004... When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of freelance writers on June 21, 2001 (New York Times Co., Inc., et al. v. Tasini, et al.), many of us assumed that significant changes would take place in the publishing world. Publishers would negotiate...

Coming soon to your home theater: high-speed Internet connections, more powerful computers, and better display option promise to revolutionize the way the public will see films in the future.(Perspectives)
April 1, 2004... The film industry and the Internet are joining forces. Most folks think of the Internet as a good place to get information about movies. There are ample reviews, promotional materials, clips, and even local theater schedules that users can...

Encyclopedias on the arts.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)
April 1, 2004... The first encyclopedias, compiled in Greece during the fourth century B.C., were meant to give students an all-around education in science, math, philosophy, and literature. For instance, Plato's nephew Speusippus aggregated concepts of...

Flashing back to a tender age.(CyberSports)
April 1, 2004... April 23, 1964, still ranks among the darkest days of my life. It was bad enough to be lured into the clutches of one of the most exasperating sports franchises of all time at the tender age of 6. But to have your team, the Houston Colt .45s...

Working the workshops.(On the Road)
April 1, 2004... You've been there. You're packed into a conference room with 500 people and straining to see the PowerPoint slides on the huge screen at the front (there are no handouts). You're reluctant to break into the speaker's presentation with a raised...

Spring conference calendar.(Conference Circuit)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... 25-27 Buying & Selling eContent http://www.buy-sell-econtent.com 11-12 WebSearch University http://www.websearchu.com 11-12 Enterprise Search Summit http://www.infotoday.com/ess2004 11-12 Streaming Media East ...

The Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture.(Report From The Field)
April 1, 2004... A major highlight of the NFAIS Annual Conference is the prestigious Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture, established in 1965 in memory of G. Miles Conrad, the organization's founder. According to the NFAIS Web site, the lecture "recognizes and honors...

NFAIS keynote address.(Report From The Field)(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services )
April 1, 2004... Just a few days after Yahoo! launched its new third-generation search engine to replace what it formerly leased from Google, Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!'s chief scientist, described the development of Web search engines during his opening keynote...

Conference calendar.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... April 19-20: The Hague, Netherlands (Crown Plaza Promenade). Infonortics, Ltd. will sponsor the Search Engine Meeting 2004, an event that brings together search engine developers, academics, and corporate professionals. Highlights include...

PSP 2004 Annual Conference.(Report From The Field)(Professional and Scholarly Publishing)
April 1, 2004... Open access, open archives, big deals, and value are on the minds of everyone in the information community. Changing economics driven by technology, increasing demand for open access, changing cost REPORT structures, and the need to increase...

Sirsi Corp.(People Line)(appointed Stephen Abram as vice president of innovation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Sirsi Corp. announced the appointment of Stephen Abram as its vice president of innovation. Most recently, he was vice president of corporate development for Micromedia ProQuest. Before that, he was a publisher for Thomson Carswell and director...

Swets Information Services.(People Line)(Anne Bein for strategy, business development, and support of publishing official)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Swets Information Services has announced that Anne Bein will lead the company's strategy, business development, and support of publishing-company and customer-level relationships. Prior to this, she had been Swets' operative business manager...

ebrary.(People Line)(appointed Chris Radcliffe as vice president of engineering, David Fritsch as sales director, Tom Santos as vice president of advanced technologies and Chris Palma as vice president of content development)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ebrary has announced four additions to its executive staff. Chris Radcliffe has been appointed vice president of engineering and will be responsible for the company's product development and delivery process. Before this, he was in charge...

BrightPlanet Corp.(People Line)(appointed Duncan Witte as its COO)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... BrightPlanet Corp. has announced that Duncan Witte is its new COO. He will direct the company's marketing, sales, solution delivery, and customer support. Most recently, Witte, as a principal for both Lante Corp. and CSC Consulting, led...

Snapshots International, Ltd.(People Line)(appointed Simon Sheffield as commercial director)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Snapshots International, Ltd. announced that Simon Sheffield has joined the company as its commercial director. In this position, he will manage distributor relationships to ensure high service levels for clients purchasing directly or through...

C. David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light.(Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Northern Light CEO C. David Seuss joined the company in July 1996 as its 18th employee. He describes that time period as when "there were 17 engineers and me in a basement." Under Seuss' leadership, Northern Light has won many industry awards...

ITI to distribute titles through netLibrary.(Product News & Reviews)(Information Today, Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... netLibrary has announced that a number of high-demand Information Today, Inc. (ITI) books will be available as e-books through its service. "netLibrary serves a community of librarians and online users that fits extremely well with the...

EBSCO Publishing announces new releases.(Product News & Reviews)(book index with reviews, a new Web resource for libraries)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing announced that its NoveList Group, in association with Baker & Taylor, has released Book Index with Reviews (BIR), a new Web resource for libraries. The company also announced that the Columbia Granger's Poetry Database is now...

2004 BUDDIE attacks legal corruption.(Database Review)(awarded to best unknown database)
April 1, 2004... Yes, dear reader, another long, bleak year of waiting is nearly over (I said nearly. Do not look ahead!) as the announcement of the 2004 BUDDIE award is imminent. Always keenly anticipated by information hunters, the BUDDIE is particularly...

Dialog launches DialogPRO NewsEdge.(Product News & Reviews)(a service designed for small-business owners and managers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Dialog announced the release of DialogPRO NewsEdge, a service designed for small-business owners and managers. The DialogPRO NewsEdge news-alerting tool is available for subscription at fixed monthly fees. It delivers real-time news...

West announces new additions.(Product News & Reviews)(West Document Retrieval, a service that obtains hard-to-locate federal, state, local government, and public-domain documents)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... West announced the release of West Document Retrieval, a service that obtains hard-to-locate federal, state, local government, and public-domain documents. The company also announced the addition of references to Westlaw's ResultsPlus...

Library of Congress completes historical archiving project, implements OpenURL.(Product News & Reviews)
April 1, 2004... The Library of Congress announced that it has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site (http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml). The library also announced that the Handbook of Latin American...

ITI unveils new edition of AV Market Place.(Product News & Reviews)(Information Today, Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the release of AV Market Place 2004 (AVMP), a business directory of products and services for the audiovisual industry. The new edition is completely revised and updated for 2004, with 8,500...

Mystik Media releases ContextConvert Pro 2.0.(Product News & Reviews)(multimedia formats converting software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Mystik Media has announced the release of ContextConvert Pro 2.0, a Windows application for converting among all major multimedia formats. Tightly integrated with the Windows interface, ContextConvert Pro provides immediate conversion...

EBSCO announces new implementations.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Information Services' EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service and RoundTrip)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... EBSCO Information Services announced that it now offers a French-language version of the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) administrative site. In addition, the company's Corporate Services announced that it has added streamlined...

Cuadra introduces enhanced version of STAR.(Product News & Reviews)(Cuadra Associates, Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Cuadra Associates, Inc., a provider of information management software products, has released a new version of its STAR software. The new 3.9 release provides a number of major enhancements to its core technology, Windows-based client...

CAS, CSA reach agreement to provide additional databases on STN International.(Product News & Reviews)(Chemical Abstracts Service )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and CSA announced that they have agreed to add eight CSA databases to the STN International online network this year. STN is operated by CAS in North America, FIZ Karlsruhe in Europe, and JST in Japan. The CSA...

Convera introduces new taxonomies.(Product News & Reviews)(Genetics, Finance & Business, General Enterprise, Technology, and U.S. Government)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Convera, a provider of search and categorization software, announced the introduction of five new industry-specific taxonomies: Genetics, Finance & Business, General Enterprise, Technology, and U.S. Government. The new taxonomies contain...

H.W. Wilson unveils new database, sourcebook.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... H.W. Wilson announced the release of the Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984 and the publication of Leaders of the Information Age. New Database Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984...

Sirsi releases Digital Heritage Room.(Product News & Reviews)(a product that will allow libraries to preserve images, documents, and more)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Sirsi Corp. announced the release of Sirsi Digital Heritage Room, a product that will allow libraries to preserve images, documents, and more while making these materials more accessible to present and future generations of library users. ...

Elsevier Ei launches new platform.(Product News & Reviews)(Paper Village 2, a Web-based discovery platform for pulp and paper professionals)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Elsevier Engineering Information (Ei) has released the next generation of Paper Village 2, a Web-based discovery platform for pulp and paper professionals. Paper Village 2 provides search access to published literature, conference proceedings,...

Getting a grip on electronic journals.(Cover Notes)(E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities edited by David C. Fowler Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-7890-1754-7 279 pages $39.95 Dealing with serials has always been a complex part of library...

Looking for space.(In Other Words)(comment on articles from Computers in Libraries, The CyberSkeptic's Guide and Searcher)
April 1, 2004... Tunesmith Paul Simon had it right: "April, come she will." Not that she doesn't take her dear, sweet time, mind you. But she gets here. And with April comes one of my favorite holidays. While not a big seller for Hallmark, for me, April 1 (aka...

New titles for the information professional.(reviews of eight books)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher. By Randolph Hock Foreword by Gary Price The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook is the essential guide for anyone who uses the Internet for research: librarians,...