Information Today articles from February 2002

Information Today archives from February 2002

Northern light to discontinue its free public web search. (News Break).(service discontinuation)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Northern Light Technology (NL) announced that it has decided to focus more exclusively on the needs of enterprise customers and, since January 16, no longer provides free Web search capabilities to the general public. Northern Light's Special...

Paying the price for security: The financial and social costs of protecting digital information are growing exponentially. (IT Feature).(information technology safety)
February 1, 2002... Information technology and the Internet--so the mantra goes--offer significant cost savings, efficiency improvements, and substantial social benefits. Such assumptions, however, are increasingly being questioned. In particular there are...

Ghost in a bottle: Elsevier science chairman Derk Haank responds to the public library of science initiative. (IT Interview).
February 1, 2002... The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them. When I met him in December in the lobby of the Lowndes...

Xrefer launches xreferplus digital reference service for libraries. (News Break).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... For the past 2 years, searchers have had Web access to about 50 ready-reference sources from xrefer.com, a U.K.-based free service. Information Today columnist Peter Jacso has called it "a splendid ready-reference collection." Now, the company...

Dialog rolls out [Quantum.sup.2] program across Europe.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Dialog Corp., a Thomson business and an international provider of online-based information services, has announced plans for the European rollout of its [Quantum.sup.2] development program for information professionals. According to the...

The return of the reference interview: Web search interfaces faces would benefit by implementing more user-oriented procedures. (Quint's Online).(Brief Article)(Column)(Editorial)
February 1, 2002... You may not believe it, but many years ago I engaged in somewhat radical behavior. (Shaddup!) Well, at least it seemed pretty radical to me. This was back in the 1970s in the midst of the feminist revolution. (Does anyone out there still recall...

Self-Lawyering with Nolo.com: This site offers the layperson concise, everyday legal information. (Database Review).
February 1, 2002... You've heard the saying that the lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client. Then, if you try to act as your own lawyer, does that make you a fool twice over? Perhaps it does. But nevertheless, if you're interested in self-lawyering,...

LexisNexis partners with WhizBang! to automate its directory updates. (NewsBreak).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com) announced that it has adopted technology that robotically extracts targeted Web content in order to streamline the updating of its Directory of Corporate Affiliations (DCA;...

The diminishing fair use doctrine: This legislation has been weakened by congressional acts and technology changes. (Legal Issues).
February 1, 2002... One of the fascinating things about American law is how an act of Congress that has remained largely unaltered for a quarter century can see its authority diminished by a combination of technological change and collateral legal actions. Such is...

In this economy, does reality really bite? Here are important steps we can take to protect ourselves in case it does. (Hiring Line).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Like Rip Van Winkle fitfully awakening from a very deep sleep, we are just now beginning to return to an economy in which stocks can no longer fly up into the air with no visible means of support and in which very low unemployment is no longer...

More ups and downs announced in Dialog pricing. (News Break).
February 1, 2002... In a late December letter to subscribers, Dialog (http://www.dialog.com) announced another round of adjustments in its pricing structure. Beginning this month, the company will eliminate the $75 monthly minimum usage fee for U.S. users. In...

STN international launches new full-text drug file. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe has announced the addition of ADISNEWS (Adis News-letters) to its STN International network. This full-text database offers up-to-date access to global biomedical and healthcare issues, and complements STN's offering in the area...

Iceland gains access to Elsevier Science journals. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that all Icelandic citizens now have access to its journals available in the IDEAL and ScienceDirect online research libraries. Because of the unique structure of Iceland, in which five IP providers cover the...

1 stop data unveils medical professionals database. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... 1 Stop Data, Ltd. has announced the launch of the U.K. Medical File, a database that covers more than 50,000 medical professionals throughout the U.K. The U.K. Medical File allows users to target 28,000 named general practitioners and...

Bureau van Dijk releases Web version of OSIRIS. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... Bureau van Dijk (BvD) has announced the release of the Internet version of OSIRIS, its public-company database. Introduced on CD-ROM last year, OSIRIS provides an integrated solution for accurate, timesaving public-company research, according...

LLRX.com introduces new indices. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... LLRX.com, a Web journal dedicated to Internet legal research and technology-related issues, has announced that it has made its extensive archive of legal research and Internet law-related content more accessible to visitors. Site-owners Cindy...

Spam I Am!--The proliferation of junk e-mail: No matter how you slice it, it can be annoying and hinder your productivity. (Internet Waves).
February 1, 2002... [Author's Note: All spam included in this column is copied verbatim from actual junk e-mails I've received. A hint to those thinking of sending spam my way in the future: I would never, ever consider doing business with anyone who can't spell,...

Document-summarization software: Here are several free or inexpensive programs that make this process easier. (Internet Insights).
February 1, 2002... Automating the creation of document summaries has been a pipe dream for a long time. It has never been so important as now when the explosion of information on the Web makes it more necessary than ever to get a quick summary of documents that...

LexisNexis teams with Knight Ridder digital, announces new service. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced an alliance with Knight Ridder Digital, the interactive information subsidiary of Knight Ridder and founder/operator of The Real Cities Network. Through the relationship, Knight Ridder Digital will syndicate its content...

Trademark.com adds U.K marks to its international database. (Internet Today).(trademark service information)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Trademark.com, an online search service for trademark attorneys, entrepreneurs, librarians, product/brand managers, and others, has announced the addition of more than 900,000 U.K. marks to its existing collection of U.S. Federal, States,...

R.R. Bowker announces new linking arrangements with ScienceDirect, SFX on ulrichsweb.com. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... R.R. Bowker, a publisher of bibliographic information, has announced new content enhancements to ulrichsweb.com, a global Web-based source for detailed information about periodicals. According to the announcement, ulrichsweb.com users can now...

Nstein to maximize value of Bizjournals' Web-Based content. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc., a Montreal-based developer of linguistic intelligence business solutions, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Bizjournals.com. Bizjournals is a subsidiary of American City Business Journals, Inc.,...

EBSCO teams with majors, provides access to Brazilian consortium. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... EBSCO Subscription Services has announced that book titles from Majors Scientific Books, a supplier of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) books, will be available through EBSCO Book Services, an online book-searching and -ordering...

Academic press journal articles now on scirus. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that Academic Press journal articles hosted on the IDEAL (International Digital Electronic Access Library; http://www.idealibrary.com) platform can now be found on its Scirus service. According to the...

PsycINFO now available on ScienceDirect. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... ScienceDirect, a division of Elsevier Science, and the American Psychological Association (APA), the world's largest association of psychologists, have announced that PsycINFO is now available via the ScienceDirect platform. According to...

Penguin classics signs deal with ebrary. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ebrar, a provider of information distribution and retrieval services, has announced that Penguin Classics will distribute its library of literary works to new online markets via its ebrarian software. For the first time, libraries, consumers,...

CSA adds links to full text on project Muse, PsycArticles, ingenta. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that researchers who use its Internet Database Service (IDS) can now link their search results to full-text documents offered through Johns Hopkins University Press' (JHUP) Project MUSE, the...

Inmagic announces relationship with majors. (Internet Today).
February 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc., a developer of knowledge management and special library software, has announced a new addition to its roster of Inmagic.net vendors. Dallas-based Majors, Inc., a distributor of scientific, business, and technical publications, is...

Interwoven releases MetaTagger 3.0, announces alliances. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content infrastructure, has announced the release of MetaTagger 3.0 software, which offers companies an advanced enterprise metadata solution that will enable them to effectively and accurately reuse and...

Virage, Inc. unveils video publishing, webcasting products. (News Briefs).(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Virage, Inc. has announced the release of VS Publishing, a next-generation product for publishing Web-based rich media, and VS Webcasting, a product used to self-produce Webcasting events. VS Publishing VS Publishing is built on the...

WebEvent, Inc. introduces event publishing solution. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... WebEvent, Inc., a provider of Web-based calendar and scheduling applications, has announced the release of Web-Event Publish, a scalable calendar tool that allows organizations of every size to publicize event information to an unlimited...

E-Publisher mighty words closes. (News Briefs).
February 1, 2002... E-publisher Mighty Words officially ceased operation on January 12. The fledgling company was formerly a subsidiary of Fatbrain, which created Mighty Words in March 2000 to take advantage of the perceived mass-market opportunities for digital...

The future of the public library of science: Is it time for scholars to pay for the publication of their own articles? (Focus on Publishing).(library management information)
February 1, 2002... Over the past year the Public Library of Science (PLoS; http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org) undertook an ambitious projects to get publishers to change their policies by public demand. It circulated and open petition on the Internet that had...

SoftQuad unveils XMetaL 3. (Internet Publishing Today).(software product introduction)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... SoftQuad Software, Ltd. has announced the release of XMetaL 3, a major upgrade to its XML content-creation software. According to the company, this new version features innovative ease-of-use and collaboration capabilities for content authors....

Sparrow web editing tool now in beta testing. (Internet Publishing Today).(Xerox Corp product development)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has announced that it is now making its Sparrow Web Java-based Web-editing program available for beta testing. Sparrow Web is a system that adds structured, in-place editing to community-shared Web...

Authentica introduces new versions of content-security solutions. (Internet Publishing Today).(Authentica, Inc product introduction)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Authentica, Inc., a provider of digital rights management software for securing business intellectual property, has introduced PageRecall 3.0 and NetRecall 3.0, the latest versions of its content-security software for electronic documents and...

Congressional quarterly chooses SealeMedia's DRM technology. (Internet Publishing Today).(contract details)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... SealedMedia, a digital rights management (DRM) provider, has announced that Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ), a source for information and news on government, politics, and public policy, has selected its DRM technology to protect the...

University of Granada to install millennium system. (News Briefs).(contract details)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced that the University of Granada in Granada, Spain, has chosen its Millennium integrated library system. The University of Granada was founded in 1531, under the initiative of the Emperor Carlos V. The...

Boston public library moves to Horizon Sunrise. (News Briefs).(contracts with epixtech, Inc)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... epixtech, Inc. has announced that the Boston Public Library has chosen its Horizon Sunrise system. Implementation is scheduled to be complete by this summer, and it will serve 600,000 customers in and around Boston. With Horizon Sunrise, key...

New York Library System chooses DartClix service. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Brodart Automation has announced that the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System in Buffalo, New York, has chosen DartClix to enhance its OPAC. The system serves a population of 968,000 and has more than 3 million holdings. DartClix...

Sagebrush Corp. Releases Athena 9.1. (Library Systems Today).(software product introduction)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Sagebrush Corp., a solutions provider for the K-12 library market, has announced the release of Athena 9.1, the latest update to the company's library automation program. Highlights of the latest version include the ability to book titles in...

OCLC announces ILLiad now ISO ILL compliant, teams with ingram library services. (Library Systems Today).(product development data)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that its OCLC ILLiad interlibrary loan (ILL) management software has completed ISO ILL testing and is now fully compliant with ISO ILL standards. OCLC has also announced that In-gram Library Services has begun adding...

SIRSI announces the demise of Taos: Another system falls by the wayside in the library automation market. (The Systems Librarian).
February 1, 2002... Marshall Breeding In a letter to its customers dated December 7, 2001, SIRSI Corp. announced that it intends no further development of the Taos library automation system it acquired through the purchase of Data Research Associates, Inc....

Fretwell-Downing software chosen by the California Digital Library. (Library Systems Today).(contract details)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. has announced that the University of California (UC) libraries will expand their Request interlibrary loan (ILL) service to include new user and staff functions. Scheduled to conclude by the middle of this year, the UC...

Yosemite Community College District selects SIRSI. (Library Systems Today).(contract details)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced that the Yosemite Community College District (YCCD), which comprises Modesto Junior College (MJC) and Columbia College in northern California, has selected SIRSI's LINK to provide an easy-to-use, integrated system for...

ENCompass installed at 17 institutions. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced that the ENCompass digital management system has been purchased by and delivered to a total of 17 institutions. Commercially released last March, ENCompass is on a rapid development track and will have...

Alacra selected as 2002 SIIA Codie Awards Finalist. (Information Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Alacra, a global provider of business and financial information, has announced that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has selected it as a 2002 SIIA Codie Awards finalist for the "Best Online Business, Corporate or...

Access Innovations, Inc. partners with RedDot. (Information Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Access Innovations, Inc. has announced that it has partnered with New York-based RedDot Solutions Corp. to offer its specialized database and Web services software with RedDot's content management solution. According to the announcement, Access...

Applied semantics launches AfterMarket Domain Search. (Information Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Applied Semantics' Naming Solutions division, a tools and applications-provider for domain name registrars, has announced the launch of AfterMarket DomainSearch at Dotster.com. DomainSearch allows domain name registrars to offer their customers...

OCLC Institute to present 'Steering by Standards' videoconference series. (Information Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that the OCLC Institute is presenting a series of three satellite videoconferences to help librarians and other information professionals understand and incorporate emerging knowledge-sharing standards. According to the...

Information Today, Inc. Unveils two new books. (Information Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the publication of Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: The Art of Scanning the Environment, third edition, by Chun Wei Choo. This new monograph, published by ITI on behalf of the...

Calendar.(Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... February 11-13: Washington, DC (Marriott Wardman Park Hotel). The Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division will host the 2002 PSP Annual Conference, which takes as its theme "Eng@ging Our...

BioMed Central begins charging authors and their institutions for article publishing. (News Break).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Starting last month, BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com), the "publishing company committed to a policy of free access to scientific research" (as it describes itself), introduced a processing charge for articles published in its...

Information from Albania to Zimbabwe: This book guides readers to resources that offer global business data.
February 1, 2002... International Business Information on the Web: Searcher Magazine's Guide to Sites and Strategies for Global Business Research by Sheri R. Lanza Medford, NY: CyberAge Books, 2001 ISBN: 0-910965-46-3 380 pages $29.95 ...

People line.
February 1, 2002... Delphion, Inc. has announced the addition of four executives to its staff. Gordon Petrash is the company's new chief intellectual property strategist. Most recently, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. While there led the...

New FindLaw bookstore offers access to West Group legal products. (Classified Today).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... FindLaw, Inc. has announced that customers now can access information on more than 4,500 West Group print, CD-ROM, and online products and services and make purchases without leaving their favorite legal Web site. Two Thomson businesses,...