Information Today articles from January 2002

Information Today archives from January 2002

Harrington Speaks: Given the choice of discussing recession, war, or Tasini, Thomson's CEO discussed all three. (IT Interview).(Thomson Corp.'s Dick Harrington)(Interview)
January 1, 2002... Dick Harrington is a CEO. You can just tell it. He exudes upper-echelon confidence. Coming off a keynote address followed by an hour-long panel discussion at the Online Information meeting in London last month, he looked calm, cool, and none...

What's Ahead for 2002?: Predictions from 12 information industry gurus. (IT Feature).(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2002... As we do every January, Information Today has asked a group of industry movers and shakers about the current state of the information industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the...

Internet Librarian 2001: This marks 5 years of 'Nothing But Net' for this successful information industry event. (Report from the Field).
January 1, 2002... Sunny and warm Pasadena, California, was the setting for the Internet Librarian 2001 gathering, held November 6-8. While the event's planners had been admittedly nervous about the potential loss of exhibitors and attendees due to recent travel...

BIOSIS puts methods BASE on The Scientific World. (News Break).(Biological Abstracts Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... TheScientificWorld (http://www.thescientificworld.com) has launched methods-BASE, a new file on its system that consists of the MethodsFinder file from BIOSIS (http://www.biosis.org) with some new content and features. On TheScientific World...

BTJ Group acquires PrioInfo.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The BTJ Group, a leading Nordic provider of information services and media products to libraries, booksellers, companies, and institutions, has announced its acquisition of PrioInfo. On January 1, a new business unit was formed in which the...

Re-Licensing: A New Publishing Reality?; Aggregators could serve as a third party between freelancers and publishers. (Quint's Online).(Column)
January 1, 2002... Personally, I don't watch reality programs on television. Frankly, the concept makes me uncomfortable. It feels too much like some dire end-of-civilization predictions coming true. I can almost hear Orwell, Wells, and Huxley all rising from...

FAST unveils its New Version of AllTheWeb.com. (News Break).(Fast Search and Transfer ASA)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Norwegian search engine company FAST Search & Transfer ASA (FAST; http://www.fastsearch.com) has announced a new version of its Web search engine, AllTheWeb.com. Making good on its commitment to provide regular and frequent updates to the...

ITI releases New Super Searchers Book, ARIST Volumes.(Information Today Inc. publications)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the publication of Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers, by Mary Ellen Bates. ITI also announced the publication of volumes 34 and 35 of the Annual...

SupportPath.com: Bulletin Board Epitome; This site's support groups offer a valuable online communication service. (Database Review).
January 1, 2002... Many years ago, long before the arrival of the Web, I predicted that the biggest use of the online medium would be for communication, rather than for commerce (online shopping) or content (information retrieval). This went against the...

Eliyon offers Business Database built with Web Information. (News Break).(Eliyon Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Eliyon Technologies (http://www.eliyon.com) has launched Eliyon, a new product that uses Web data-extraction technology to build a database on the business history of 6.4 million people and 560,000 companies in the U.S. According to Eliyon...

Moral Rights for Authors and Artists: In light of the Tasini ruling, is the next step to advocate for legislation? (Legal Issues).
January 1, 2002... They always talk handsomely about the literature of the land, always what a fine, great, monumental thing a great literature is, and in the midst of their enthusiasm they turn around and do what they can to discourage it.--Samuel Clemens,...

Online Information 2001 Conference: This event offered valuable sessions and the opportunity to conduct business. (Report from the Field).
January 1, 2002... Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Online Information conference, held Dec 4-6 in London, offered an interesting combination of information programs. Despite some rumblings from participants about lower attendance than last year, the quality...

Looking Back and Forward at the World's Longest-Running Online Event.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The fact that Online Information (for many years known as the International Online Meeting) was celebrating its 25th anniversary last month in London made some of us feel very old. Event director Katherine Allen said of the first meeting:...

Online, Inc.'s eContent 2001 Conference: This new event's programs covered a wide range of digital content issues. (Reports from the Field).
January 1, 2002... eContent 2001, held November 12-13 in Santa Clara, California, marked the debut of Online, Inc.'s new conference for people who provide, produce, create, distribute, aggregate, and/or manage digital content. Online, Inc. gambled that the needs...

STN International upgrades STN on the Web Service. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... STN International has announced that it has upgraded STN on the Web, its Web service for professional users, with new functionalities. Two electronic assistants are the highlights of STN on the Web's latest version. When the query is...

MSNBC.com Teams with Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MSNBC.com and Netmio.com, a Web property owned by Hispanic Broadcasting Corp., the largest Spanish-language radio broadcasting company in the U.S., have entered into a content-sharing agreement that incorporates Spanish-language local news...

Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases introduces BIOTECHNOBASE.com. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Elsevier Science Bibliographic Databases (ESBD) has announced the forthcoming release of BIOTECHNOBASE.com, the second of its bibliographic databases available via an intelligent Web gateway implementation. Because biotechnology is by its...

Croner.CCH launches Web Site Content Service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Croner.CCH has announced that it is offering a new Web site content-provision service on a wide range of business- and finance-related topics that includes features such as e-mail alerts, news services, and regularly updated question-and-answer...

Jacso's Cheers and Jeers for 2001: Here's a list of digital publishing services that vary in quality. (Internet Insights).
January 1, 2002... There were many things to cheer and jeer in the information science and technology field last year. I'll focus mostly on those in the area of electronic publishing and related issues, such as copyright, scholarly publishing, free products and...

LexisNexis announces Treatise, Data Enhancements; Upgrades lexisONE. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced that it has introduced a series of online treatise and data enhancements at http://www.lexis.com to improve ease of use and navigation. The company also announced that it has added five practice-area-specific sections...

Coreintellect unveils Core36O Business Intelligence Portal. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Coreintellect, Inc. has announced the launch of its Core36O portal. Piloted by its natural language question-answering technology, Core36O is the first business intelligence portal to deliver a 360-degree view of industries, technologies, and...

Thunderstone Software introduces Webinator 4. (Internet Today).
January 1, 2002... Thunderstone Software, LLC, has announced the release of its Webinator 4 site-indexing product. This new version includes an enhancement that eliminates junk results: search hits that match words in Web page headers, footers, and navigation...

Wordmap launches New Taxonomy-Building Service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Wordmap, a provider of taxonomy-management systems, has announced the launch of Wordmap ASP, an online taxonomy-building service. Wordmap ASP (Application Service Provider) allows knowledge professionals to build and manage complex taxonomies...

Micromedia, Ltd., The Toronto Star offer New Archive Product. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Torstar Syndication Services, a division of Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd., and Micromedia, Ltd. have announced an agreement to provide a new Canadian archive product to corporate and library markets. The Toronto Star--Pages of the Past is a...

CAS integrates enhanced Reference Linking into ChemPort. Adds New Data to Chemical Abstracts. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced the integration of the Enhanced Reference Linking service into ChemPort. The company also announced that it has made bibliographic and abstract information from the entire Chemical Abstracts (CA)...

OCLC announces FirstSearch News. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that the MLA (Modem Language Association) Directory of Periodicals, a resource that provides information on more than 4,000 journals and series, is now available at no additional charge to subscribers of the MLA International...

EBSCO Publishing integrates PsycARTICLES into EBSCOhost, Teams Up with Marshall Cavendish. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced that it has added PsycARTICLES to its full-text psychology database offerings and that it has teamed with publisher Marshall Cavendish to create the Science Reference Center online collection. PsycARTICLES...

Terra Lycos deploys NewsEdge for Lycos Small Business. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... NewsEdge Corp. has announced that its Editor's Picks daily news service will he featured on the Terra Lycos global Internet network's Lycos Small Business destination. Lycos Small Business (http://business.lycos.com) is a comprehensive online...

JSTOR releases Business Collection. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... JSTOR has announced that the complete archives of 46 important business and management journals are now available online through its Business Collection. This resource covers a variety of related disciplines, including accounting, marketing,...

The New York Times launches Electronic Edition on NewsStand. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The New York Times has announced that it is launching The New York Times Electronic Edition, an exact replica of the newspaper's New York edition that can be downloaded via the Internet to a laptop or desktop PC. NewsStand, Inc., a publishing...

Autonomy Powers SPE's Site. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Autonomy Corp., a provider of infrastructure software for the enterprise, has announced that the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is using its software to automate the aggregation, categorization, hypertext linking, personalization, and...

Pew releases Survey Results. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released the results of a survey conducted between August 13 and September 10, 2001 of 2,247 American adults (1,351 of whom are Internet users) about their Internet use. According to the report,...

Applied Semantics enhances Auto-Categorizer Software. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Applied Semantics, Inc., a provider of tools and applications for information management and retrieval, has announced that it has added direct support for the International Press Telecommunications Council's (IPTC) subject codes to its...

How much longer will the Web be Open?: The World Wide Web Consortium may soon allow charges for royalties. (Focus on Publishing).
January 1, 2002... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C; http://www.w3.org) may fundamentally alter the Web as we know it today if it allows companies to enforce patents on technologies that fall within its standards-making process. In addition, the W3C is also...

Ipedo, XMLCities Team Up on Content Publishing Solution. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Ipedo, Inc., a provider of software products that manage and deliver dynamic content over the Internet, and XMLCities, Inc. (http://www.xmlcities.com), a provider of XML-conversion tools, have announced a partnership to market and promote a...

Open eBook Forum announces Campaign to Promote E-Books. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... "Open an eBook... Discover New Worlds of Reading" is the name of a campaign announced by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) that hopes to promote the use of e-books for literacy, accessibility, and enhanced reading experiences. Joining in this...

WAX Info releases Activelibrary. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... WAX info, Ltd. has announced the release of activelibrary, a distributed content-management solution that incorporates secure peer-to-peer push technology for use in highly collaborative and extended organizations. Expanding the paradigms of...

Interwoven unveils TeamXML, announces Technology Partners. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content infrastructure, has announced the availability of Interwoven TeamXML software, an XML repository that allows companies to increase efficiency throughout the enterprise. Interwoven has also announced new...

Yale Law Library Database to be used by MARC Link. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MARC Link Corp. has announced that it has arranged to obtain a copy of the bibliographic database of Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library for use in providing reclassification services to other law libraries. Updates will be provided...

Frederick County Public Libraries Implement SIRSI. (News Briefs).(Unicorn library management system and iBistro Electronic Library )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced that the Frederick County (Maryland) Public Libraries (FCPL) has selected SIRSI's Unicorn library management system and iBistro Electronic Library to provide users with easy online access to library holdings and...

LibraryHQ's SiteSource reaches Milestone. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... LibraryHQ's SiteSource, a database of cataloged Web sites selected by professional catalogers and subject specialists, has announced that it has reached the 50,000 site mark. Web sites are carefully selected for the SiteSource database...

Follett Software integrates MARC Magician Data Cleanup into Library Automation System. (Library Systems Today).(MITINET/marc)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Follett Software Co., a provider of K-12 library automation software, and MITINET/marc have announced plans to integrate MITINET/marc's MARC Magician library record cleanup into Follett's Catalog Plus v5.0, which is to be released early this...

ICOLC announces Bath Profile Endorsement, Updates to Documents. (Library Systems Today).
January 1, 2002... The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has announced its Endorsement of the Bath Profile, an international Z39.50 specification supporting library applications and resource discovery. Version 1.1 of the Bath Profile, released...

Expanding the Systems Librarian's Toolkit: Perl can help librarians gain programming experience and develop skills. (The Systems Librarian).(Column)
January 1, 2002... In this column I cover a wide variety of topics that I hope are of interest to librarians and others who work in technology-oriented information centers and libraries. Over the past year, the themes I discussed included reports and analyses of...

CASPR unveils Library World for Mac OS X. (Library Systems Today).(CASPR Library Systems Inc.,)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CASPR Library Systems, Inc., developer of LibraryWorld, LibraryNet, and LibraryCom, has announced LibraryWorld X, its new integrated library management program designed for Mac OS X, Apple's new operating system. A powerful and...

Gaylord Partners with Web Feet, Syndetic Solutions; announces New Implementation. (Library Systems Today).(Gaylord Information Systems )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Gaylord Information Systems (GIS), a division of Gaylord Bros., Inc., has announced additional partnerships that provide enhanced capabilities to users of its Polaris integrated library system. GIS has also announced that the Paulding County...

Endeavor Teams with Openly Informatics, deploys Systems. (Library Systems Today).
January 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Openly Informatics, Inc. to provide enhanced access to resources through Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus comprehensive linking system. Endeavor will extend current...

Innovative Interfaces Unveils New Development to Web Access Management, announces Millennium Deployments. (Library Systems Today).
January 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced w development to Web Access Management: the ability to provide verified remote-on access to licensed resources without requiring browser proxy configuration. The company has also announced three...

LexisNexis Partners with DolphinSearch to enhance Legal Portal. (News Break).
January 1, 2002... Can search technology that evolved from studies of how a dolphin's brain processes sonar help law firms handle massive document collections? LexisNexis is betting that it can. LexisNexis (http://www.lexis nexis.com) has announced an alliance...

Toxcenter Database to replace TOXLINE on STN International/CAS; TOXLINE Morphs at NLM. (News Break).
January 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS; http://www.cas.org) and its online partner, STN International (http://www.cas.org/stn.html or http://www.stn-international.de), have launched a new toxicology database called Toxcenter. The database combines...

QPAT Redux: Questel*Orbit releases Version 3. (News Break).
January 1, 2002... Questel*Orbit has announced the release of the third version of QPAT, its Internet-based patent search service. QPAT1, introduced by Questel in April 1996, provided full-text searching of U.S. patents only. QPAT2 added European-published...

A Look at Delphion Alter 5 Years: This company's model has helped change the patent information industry. (IT Feature).
January 1, 2002... Launched as the IBM Intellectual Property Network (IPN) 5 years ago, Delphion has been a catalyst for change in the patent information industry. But as it migrates from free to fee-based service, what does the future promise for both Delphion...

Calendar.
January 1, 2002... January 18-23: New Orleans (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center). The American Library Association will sponsor its ALA 2002 Midwinter Meeting and Exhibition. According to the announcement, the event is convened for the primary purpose of...

Factiva adds New German Content, French- and German-Language User Interfaces.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Co., has announced a joint marketing and content agreement with GENIOS Economic Databases, a division of the Handelsblatt Publishing Group, a leading online business information service in Germany, that will...

Elsevier Science Teams with African Virtual University.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced a new initiative to increase global online access to mathematics, computer science, and physics research. Elsevier has formed an alliance with the African Virtual University (AVU) to offer access on the...

Dialog Enters into Joint Services Referral Program with AIIP.(Association of Independent Information Professionals )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. and the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) have jointly announced the creation of the Dialog & AIIP Search Services Referral Program, a new business-development initiative for AIIP members. Under the...

Gale Expands Business Content with Business Monitor, Economist Agreements.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Gale Group has announced that Business Monitor International and Economist Intelligence Unit, two leading business, economic, and country intelligence publishers, have signed agreements to have their content available through Gale Group's...

Evaluating Web Search Engines: This guide can help users sort out these resources and use them effectively. (Book Review).
January 1, 2002... The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher, 2nd edition by Randolph Hock Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2001 ISBN: 0-910965-47-1 241 pages $24.95 Now that the Web is home to...

Thomson acquires Brazil's Largest Electronic Legal Publisher. (Book Review).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Thomson Corp. has announced the purchase of Sintese, one of Brazil's leading legal publishers. Sintese has been aligned with Thomson Legal & Regulatory, a major market group of Thomson Corp. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. ...

People Line.
January 1, 2002... PEOPLE ON MOVE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY Infotrieve has announced that Wes Crews has been named its president and COO. He will be responsible for the company's global operations, including offices in Melbourne, Australia, and Cologne, Germany,...