Information Today articles from December 2002

Information Today archives from December 2002

ProQuest Co. announces management shake-up. (News Break).(Company Profile)
December 1, 2002... On October 29, ProQuest Co. announced a change in management and a reorganization that creates a new business unit within the company. The changes came 1 week after ProQuest reported this year's third quarter earnings and lowered expectations...

Iraqi weapons of mass instruction? Is the U.N. information embargo against Iraq accomplishing its goal? (IT Feature).
December 1, 2002... The U.N. embargo against Iraq prohibits access to information services such as Dialog. But in order to develop its civilian infrastructures, Iraq needs to be able to educate its doctors, scientists, and agriculturists by giving them access to...

A true market failure: professor Mark McCabe talks about problems in the STM publishing industry. (Poynder on Point).(Scientific, Technical, Medical)(Interview)(Industry Overview)
December 1, 2002... Mark McCabe worked as an economist in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division for 7 years. Now an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he specializes in mergers and anticompetitive practices. McCabe...

eLibrary articles now included in Inktomi search results. (News Break).
December 1, 2002... Alacritude, LLC, the Chicago-based start-up that purchased eLibrary.com and Encyclopedia.com earlier this year, has announced that documents available from eLibrary will now he indexed by Inktomi and featured in search results on portals that...

Winifred Sewell dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 1, 2002... Winifred "Win" Sewell, 85, a longtime member of the AIIP, died on October 23. She was a retired librarian who had worked for the University of Maryland and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and served as honorary president of the American...

Bye! (sigh ...) the end of an era: is this really the last Barbara Quint column in Information Today? (Quint's Online).(new column called 'Up Front with Barbara Quint' to begin in January 2003)(Industry Overview)(Column)
December 1, 2002... A little more than 10 years ago, in the September 1992 issue of Information Today, Quint's Online began publication. Here we are in the December 2002 issue, and it's time to announce that this will be the final column. It's been a long run--but...

Dialog/Gale synergy eludes ReferenceLink: these two companies have failed to take advantage of their strengths. (Database Review).(includes related article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. and Gale Group have had one of the most long-standing and successful partnerships in the online industry. Gale (or more precisely, the old Information Access Co. that is now part of Gale) developed numerous prominent databases that...

Thomson Derwent announces Derwent Web of Software. (News Break).
December 1, 2002... Thomson Derwent has announced the launch of Derwent Web of Software (http://www.derwent.com/webofsoftware), a new Web product that provides access to prior art in software and business-method technology. Derwent Web of Software combines Derwent...

History repeated with the USA PATRIOT Act: several areas of this legislation have raised important concerns. (Legal Issues).
December 1, 2002... This past summer I taught a class on civil liberties. One of the interesting things that came to light is the relationship between them and national security concerns (real or feared). Several times in our history, periods of increased anxiety...

A wild roller coaster ride: to survive turbulent times in the job market, you have to do your homework. (Hiring Line).(Column)
December 1, 2002... This will be my final column for Information Today, and what a roller coaster ride it has been during the last several years. Careers careening, twisting, and turning--the economy dipping, dropping, and looping--ultimately leading to...

H.W. Wilson launches major upgrade of WilsonWeb. (News Break).
December 1, 2002... Serving libraries since 1898, the venerable H.W. Wilson Co. continues its march into the 21st century with the launch of a new version of WilsonWeb. Completely redesigned, the new WilsonWeb offers full linking to full-text sources, multiple...

Kluwer Academic Publishers sold to venture capitalists. (News Break).(Candover Investments PLC, CINVen)
December 1, 2002... Dutch publisher Wolters Kiuwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. Cinven and Candover will each contribute $106 million, and the...

Information Today, Inc. publishes three titles.
December 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the release of the 2002-2003 edition of Detwiler's Directory of Health and Medical Resources, the 2003 edition of the International Literary Market Place (ILMP), and the 36th edition of the Annual...

The Library of Alexandria reopens: this brand-new institution claims an influential, ancient legacy. (IT Feature).(Egypt)
December 1, 2002... After some 1,600 years, the Library of Alexandria (now called Bibliotheca Alexandrina) has reopened in Egypt. Amid an unprecedented media blitz, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the new library on October 16. The presidents of...

ScienceDirect now available at universities in Lebanon. (News Briefs).(Elsevier Science)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that it has signed a contract with LALC (Lebanese Academic Libraries Consortium). This consortium comprises the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese American University, the University of Balamand, and...

Westlaw offers West Reporter Images in Adobe PDF. (News Briefs).(Portable Document Format)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... West has announced that it now offers West Reporter Images functionality through its Westlaw service. When a request is made for a photocopy of a reporter case, legal professionals can sign on to Westlaw and print or download an Adobe PDF image...

Elsevier enhances EMBASE.com. (Internet Today).(Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases has announced the release of EMBASE.com version 3.0, which features enhanced functionality and expanded linking capabilities. According to the announcement, EMBASE.com, which is positioned as "the...

Dialog upgrades DialogPRO service, teams with BMI. (Internet Today).(Business Monitor International)
December 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that an expanded roster of content channels is now available through its Dialog PRO small-business product. The updated version of the Web-based service features additional options for flat-fee subscriptions. Dialog...

NewsStand enters agreements with three newspapers. (Internet Today).
December 1, 2002... NewsStand, Inc., a digital publishing and distribution service, has announced that it will deliver to readers a digital version of Tarun Bharat, a daily Indian newspaper. The company also announced that it will offer readers of The Morning...

STN International adds two databases. (Internet Today).(AQUIRE, JAPIO)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe has announced that AQUIRE, a database containing papers about the toxic effects of chemicals to aquatic organisms and plants, and an improved version of the JAPIO patent database have been added to the STN International service....

Swets Blackwell updates SwetsWise. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Swets Blackwell has announced an upgrade to SwetsWise, its electronic procurement solution for journals, magazines, and other periodical literature. With the addition of online content, SwetsWise now offers its users a single platform for both...

Factiva now available via Radianz's financial extranet. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Radianz has announced that Factiva will make its news and business information available to financial institutions via RadianzNet, the company's global financial extranet. Institutions that already use RadianzNet to access the more than 70...

Plumtree announces Enterprise Web strategy, new product. (Internet Publishing Today).(Plumtree Software)
December 1, 2002... Plumtree Software, Inc. has announced the launch of Enterprise Web, a new company strategy to offer customers an open environment for creating Web applications that span rival platforms. Plumtree also announced the release of Plumtree Content...

Vignette unveils Vignette V7. (Internet Publishing Today).
December 1, 2002... Vignette Corp. has announced the release of the new Vignette V7 family of content management applications. The company also announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Epicentric, Inc., a provider of business...

Interwoven, MediaBin connect products. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc., an enterprise content management company, and MediaBin, Inc., a provider of digital asset management for global marketing, have announced that they have signed an agreement that will integrate MediaBin Asset Manager with the...

Fretwell-Downing extends Open linking with OL2. (News Briefs).(Open Uniform Resource Locator technology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (FD) has announced that it will be demonstrating the latest developments in its OL2 OpenURL technology at ALA Midwinter 2003. With OL2, researchers can dynamically link straight from citations to the full text using...

Innovative Interfaces announces system implementations, development partnership. (Library Systems Today).
December 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced that Inha University in South Korea, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan, and Arkansas' Henderson State University and Ouachita Baptist University will install its Millennium library...

Kluwer Academic Publishers offers grace period.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) has announced that it will provide a grace period of 3 months for subscribers to online journals. This is designed to prevent customers from being denied access to their journals each January 1 when their...

PALINET partners with Pittsburgh Public School District.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... PALINET has announced that it is providing Web development workshops for librarians from the Pittsburgh Public School District and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library that focus on the technical skills necessary to create Web pages. The...

Active IQ Technologies, Inc. (People Line).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Active IQ Technologies, Inc., a provider of hosted industry-specific content management solutions, has announced the appointment of Jack Johnson as its 'president and chief operating officer in addition to his election to the board of...

E Ink Corp. (People Line).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... E Ink Corp. has announced that Kenneth A. Bronfin, president of Hearst Corp.'s Hearst Interactive Media division, has been appointed to its board of directors. According to the announcement, he leads the division in pursuit of select strategic...