Information Today articles from January 2003

Information Today archives from January 2003

Google views the present, future. (Interview).(Craig Silverstein, Jeffrey Dean offer overview of Google Inc.)
January 1, 2003... Craig Silverstein is Google's director of technology. Although he's sometimes referred to as a co-founder of the company, he's actually Google's first employee, hired by the real co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. As Employee No. 1,...

Web search trends.(Danny Sullivan, creator of Search Engine Watch, keynote speaker at Internet Librarian)
January 1, 2003... Regular Internet Librarian participants look forward each year to hearing from Danny Sullivan, search engine guru and the creator of Search Engine Watch. As the final day's keynote speaker, he examined what's happening with Web searching tools....

Getting users to pay the freight. (Poynder on Point).(newspaper publishing companies charge users to access Web site content)
January 1, 2003... Last May, FT.com, the London Financial Times' Web site, followed in the footsteps of WSJ.com, the Economist, and Salon.com and began charging users to access content. Has the move come 6 years too late? Or was FT.com right to bide its time? ...

H.W. Wilson introduces Book Review Digest Plus. (News Bytes).(H.W. Wilson Co.; http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb021104-2.htm)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson announced that more than a million reviews of 700,000 books are now searchable with its expansion of Book Review Digest--now named Book Review Digest Plus. Available on the newly redesigned WilsonWeb (see...

BIOSIS expands database content. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BIOSIS has announced its largest-ever content enhancement of BIOSIS Previews, Biological Abstracts, and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). According to the announcement, this content addition addresses the need to satisfy...

Swets Blackwell introduces E-journal Access Services. (News Bytes).
January 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell has announced the release of its E-journal Access Services. These resources will facilitate and support organizations in the acquisition and management of subscriptions to any e-journal title that's currently available. ...

CSA adds database, full-text links. (News Bytes).(National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) announced that the NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database is now available on its Internet Database Service (IDS). CSA also announced that it has added links from IDS search...

FIZ CHEMIE Berlin improves its internet search engines. (News Bytes).(Switches to Oracle database technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIZ CHEMIE Berlin announced that it has converted its subject-specific Internet search engines ChemGuide, MedPharmGuide, and PublishersGuide--Science and Technology to Oracle database technology. Jost T. Bohlen, head of product development...

LexisNexis offers SEC data from EDGAR online. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... LexisNexis has announced the availability (via http://www.lexis.com and http://www.nexis.com) of both SEC EDGAR data and tools from EDGAR Online, a company that specializes in the extraction, packaging, and distribution of public-company...

OverDrive announces digital library reserve. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... OverDrive, Inc. announced the launch of Digital Library Reserve, an application service for libraries to develop and manage a circulating collection of e-books, e-magazines, e-newspapers, journals, audiobooks, and other downloadable media for...

ATLA begins 3-year journal indexing project. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) announced that it has begun a project to retrospectively index more than 100 American, East Asian, Latin American, and European periodical titles that predate Religion Index One (RIO), 1949 to...

Entopia unveils knowledge builder. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Entopia, Inc. announced the launch of Knowledge Builder, a product that will enable users to migrate e-content to knowledgebases. Knowledge Builder reportedly facilitates collaboration and improves the location of expertise, documents, and...

EDGAR online supplies SEC filings to OSIRIS. (NewsBytes).( Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... EDGAR Online, Inc. and Bureau van Dijk (BvD) Electronic Publishing announced an agreement through which EDGAR Online will supply approximately 100 types of SEC filings, plus filings history dating to 1999, to BvD's OSIRIS database. They will...

Three million articles now available on ScienceDirect. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ScienceDirect, a division of Elsevier Science, announced that 3 million articles are now live on its platform for STM information. The rapid growth of the database is due to two major initiatives undertaken by ScienceDirect in the last...

Aries Systems proposes XML-based initiative. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Aries Systems Corp. announced an initiative to formulate a publishing industry standard that would allow the exchange of scientific manuscripts between differing online manuscript-tracking systems. According to the announcement, the...

Australian Defense Air Publications Agency deploys XyEnterprise. (NewsBytes).
January 1, 2003... XyEnterprise announced that the Australian Defense Air Publications Agency (DAPA) has deployed an enterprisewide Document Management System based on XyEnterprise's Content@ content management system and XML Professional Publisher (XPP)...

Back again and better than ever. (Upfront).
January 1, 2003... Personally, I kind of liked the old column title. I always thought 'Quint's Online" had a nice ring to it. "Up Front with Barbara Quint" is more directional, don't you think? Or maybe it implies a greater forthrightness of manner? (Some might...

End of year events spark a flurry of announcements. (Newsbreak Update).(Information industry news)
January 1, 2003... With several key conferences occurring at the end of the year--Internet Librarian 2002 in November and Online International 2002 in December--the company press releases have really been bombarding my electronic desk over the last month or two....

From the Publisher ...(Changes in Information Today begin with January issue of its 20th year of publication)
January 1, 2003... Information Today is entering its 20th year of publication with this issue. For me, that's really difficult to believe. About 20 years ago, I had the crazy notion that the information industry had reached the stage at which it could support...

From the Vice President of Content ...(Wrong information impacts coal mining disaster in Pennsylvania )
January 1, 2003... Investigators say a missing map could have prevented a coal mine disaster in Pennsylvania last summer. Using a 1963 map of the adjacent Saxman mine, which was abandoned in 1964, miners at Quecreek thought they had 300 feet to spare when they...

From the Editor ...(Information Today publication gets a new look)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... It's been a busy few months, but I'm proud to say that the "new" Information Today is here. Through the hard work of several staffers, we've now got a great look to position us for the future. First off, I'd like to thank those who made...

The total information awareness system. (Legal Issues).
January 1, 2003... As a girl, I remember how upset my mother was when Richard Nixon ran against John F. Kennedy--and her relief when Kennedy was elected. In 1968 and 1972, I again heard her anger when Nixon won his first and second terms in office. She was...

Back in the saddle. (Internet Waves).(Shirl Kennedy is hired as electronic resources librarian at Walker Management Library at Vanderbilt University)
January 1, 2003... Two interesting events have occurred in my life since my column last appeared in the pages of Information Today. I have gone from unemployed to employed, and I have moved from Clearwater, Fin., to Nashville, Tenn., where I've joined the staff...

Giving away the MIT store. (Focus on Publishing).(Massachusetts Institute of Technology launches Web site)
January 1, 2003... If a university were to provide its course material to the world for free, what would happen? Well, we're about to find out. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has opened up a Pandora's box of educational possibilities and legal...

Digital rights hangover.(Digital rights issues are discussed; notes legislation introduced in last congressional session )
January 1, 2003... If you woke up on January 1 and thought about digital rights and copyright, did you resist the urge to go back to sleep? While nobody should start a new year with a sour taste from leftover legislation and heartburn-causing business issues, be...

e-Summit. (International Report).(International e-Summit was held Nov. 19-20,2002, in London)
January 1, 2003... The international e-Summit was held Nov. 19-20,2002, in London. The meeting was hosted by Britain's e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, and was attended bye-government delegates from around the world. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged [pounds...

Communications Bill. (International Report).(UK introduced bill to House of Commons)
January 1, 2003... While Prime Minister Blair was setting out his vision for a wired U.K at the e-Summit, his government introduced a Communications Bill to the House of Commons that's intended to reform the regulatory framework for the communications sector. The...

Emap's 6-Month results. (International Report).
January 1, 2003... Emap is an FTSE 100 media company that focuses on three core areas: B2B events and magazines, radio stations and TV channels, and consumer magazines. With more than 350 titles and events, Emap aims to create must-have entertainment and...

Archive newsreels go online. (International Report).(Offered by British Pathe)
January 1, 2003... Seventy-five years of cinema newsreel footage have been digitized and made available on the Internet by British Pathe in what is claimed to be the "world's first digital news archive." Owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust Group, Pathe has...

1901 U.K. Census. (International Report).(Searchable site is rounding into shape)
January 1, 2003... Not just flaky, but launched and sunk in only 2 days in early 2001 because of overwhelming demand, the searchable U.K. 1901 Census site is finally getting into shape. Service availability has now increased to 24/7, but researchers are...

Online information 2002. (International Report).
January 1, 2003... This report went to press just as Online Information 2002, held Dec. 3-5 in London, closed the doors on its 26th annual conference and exhibition. A full report on the event will appear in the February issue, but I'll mention a couple of...

Are we being ripped off? (Investigative Report).
January 1, 2003... Pricing for electronic information is a minefield of strong and often disparate views. Customers don't want to be overcharged, and suppliers don't want to leave money on the table. Neither side wants to feel that they're being ripped off. This...

Delphi group's results on searching. (From the Analysts).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Delphi research shows that most business professionals spend more than 2 hours a day (25 percent or more of an 8-hour day) searching for the information they need to perform their jobs. These results are consistent with many other surveys,...

Outsell looks at CCF users: how does your searching compare? (From the Analysts).(Company, credit and financial information)
January 1, 2003... According to analysts at Outsell, the number-one information resource for companies is news (used by 77 percent of those responding to the survey), followed by reference sources. Though company, credit, and financial (CCF) information...

Personal journals: new uses for an age-old practice: online journal writing is a new way of reaching out to people who care enough to read an account of a person's thoughts and feelings. (Perspectives: where do we go from here?).
January 1, 2003... When our rabbi advised a congregant in a book discussion group a few months ago to "journal" her reactions to a rather disturbing book we had been talking about, I knew not only that a new verb had come into common use-but that journaling had...

Collectors' clubs online. (Link-Up@Home).
January 1, 2003... When people visit my home, they are confronted by families of objects in almost every room. My office displays elephants, my kitchen walls are lined with tins, and my bedroom shelves house perfume bottles and boxes. People will collect...

Creating community. (Link-Up@Home).
January 1, 2003... One characteristic of the Internet that distinguishes it from other media is its ability to unite a community of people who want to exchange information and ideas. Magazines and newspapers try to do that by publishing letters to the editor....

H.W. Wilson reference works debut as e-books. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson announced that several of its most-popular print reference works will soon be available in libraries as e-books. Famous First Facts, fifth edition; Famous First Facts About Sports; Facts About the Presidents, seventh edition; and...

EDGAR online introduces EDGARpro legal. (Product News & Reviews).(EDGAR Online Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... EDGAR Online, Inc. announced the availability of EDGARpro Legal, a new desktop service designed expressly for the legal marketplace. According to the announcement, EDGAR Online is a leader in the business information industry, specializing in...

ISI Web of science enhances content, functionality. (Product News & Reviews).(Thomson ISI)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomson ISI announced that ISI Web of Science version 6.0 will be available this year. This latest version will offer integrated chemistry searching and the ability to save search strategies to the server. These can then be retrieved from any...

Endeavor releases LinkFinderPlus 3.0. (Product News & Reviews).(New software will allow libraries to extend electronic database collections)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Endeavor Information Systems has released LinkFinderPlus 3.0, software that will allow libraries to extend their electronic database collections. Endeavor's advanced linking system bridges the gap between citations and the online full text of...

IMR unveils Alchemy Web. (Product News & Reviews).(Information Management Research, Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Information Management Research, Inc. (IMR), the developer of Alchemy software, has launched Alchemy Web, a third-generation Web product designed exclusively using Microsoft's .NET. Alchemy Web allows Alchemy customers to publish their...

Cuadra, Access Innovations, Inc. launch MAI STAR. (Product News & Reviews).(New software product)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cuadra Associates (CA) and Access Innovations, Inc. (AII) have introduced MAI STAR, a product that combines Cuadra's STAR information management and retrieval system with Access Innovations' Data Harmony Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.). The...

IEEE creates digital historical archive. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... IEEE announced that it will add more than 85,000 technical papers from select IEEE journals and conference proceedings to the 810,000 articles it currently has available online. This content from 1950 to 1987 will be available to researchers at...

Information Today, Inc. releases ARIST, volume 37.(Annual Review of Information Science and Technology )
January 1, 2003... Information Today, Inc. has announced the publication of volume 37 of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). Since 1966, ARIST has been contributing a useful and comprehensive view of the broad field of information...

Morningstar seeks library markets. (Database Review).(Operates free investment site)
January 1, 2003... How do you sell something that's already free? This is the dilemma for anyone who wants to sell content on the Web when something comparable is available on free sites. Many (would-be) content vendors haven't solved this problem, but...

Management changes at Thomson Corp.
January 1, 2003... In November 2002, the resignation of Patrick Tierney as head of Thomson Financial sparked a shift in management at Thomson Corp. (See the News-Break at http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb021125-1.htm.) Richard J. Harrington, Thomson's...

FIZ Karlsruhe. (People Line).(Appoints two executives)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe has announced the appointment of two executives. Rainer Stuike-Prill is the new leader of the marketing division of online services and Birgit Knauer is now head of sales. Stuike-Prill has been with FIZ Karlsruhe since 1993...

Reed Elsevier Group. (People Line).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Reed Elsevier Group, PLC has announced the appointment of Patrick Tierney to the new role of CEO of its global education publishing division. He will be responsible for the U.S. schools publishing and testing businesses, the U.K. education...

Columbia University Libraries. (People Line).(Makes appointments)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Columbia University Libraries has announced several professional appointments. Gus Stamatopoulos was appointed head of access services and materials processing in the Science and Engineering Libraries. Fadi Dagher is the new social science...

Information Management Research, Inc. (People Line).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Information Management Research, Inc. (IMR) has announced that Dan Lucarini is its new vice president of marketing. Most recently he was president of CC Data, Ltd., a European company and an IMR partner. Before that he was IMR's vice president...

The OCLC Board of Trustees. (People Line).(Elects two new members)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The OCLC Board of Trustees has elected two new members: Edward W. Barry and Martin Gomez. William J. Crowe was re-elected as chair of the board. Barry, retired president of Oxford University Press, will serve a 4-year term. He is currently...

The Executive Profile.(Allen Paschal is president of Gale Group)
January 1, 2003... Allen Paschal, president of Gale Allen Paschal is president of Gale, a publisher of academic, educational, and business research that serves libraries, educational institutions, and businesses in all major international markets. Gale was...

On the Road. (Conference Circuit).(Information Today, Inc. (ITI) produces seven major conferences)
January 1, 2003... Welcome to the first On the Road column in the newly redesigned Information Today. The conventional wisdom is that spending several days at a conference totally immersed in a topic, meeting new colleagues and old friends, and learning what's...

Favorite moments in the exhibit hall. (Internet Librarian 2002).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Some of my favorite moments in the Internet Librarian exhibit hall occurred when walking by the Dialog booth as they signed up a brand-new customer. Some how I think everyone at Internet Librarian is already a Dialog subscriber, but I'm wrong....

A gaggle of gadgets. (Internet Librarian 2002).
January 1, 2003... All manner of gadgets were shown at Internet Librarian 2002, including an alarm clock that connects to the Internet to retrieve traffic reports and then adjusts wake-up time, eyeglasses that display text on the glass, and virtual projected...

Search strategies and information professionalism. (Internet Librarian 2002).
January 1, 2003... Interestingly, Internet Librarian's track on search strategies didn't have a whole lot of information on how to construct a Boolean strategy. Perhaps we've moved to a post-Booleanera. Perhaps it's just that FROM speakers who've been doing...

Digital rights management track. (Internet Librarian 2002).
January 1, 2003... When, I attend an information packed conference, I'm usually not intrigued enough by any one track to stay in it for a whole day and forsake all the other offerings. But at Internet Librarian I broke with tradition and spent an entire day in a...

The new business intelligence. (Kmworld & Intranets 2002).
January 1, 2003... Every year, when you walk through the aisles of the KMWorld conference, you hear a bevy of buzz phrases bandied about: "value proposition," "win-win situation," "pain points." Then there are the acronyms. You've heard them all: CM, DM, EIP,...

Forrest Sawyer's opening keynote.
January 1, 2003... That voice is unmistakable. Away from the news desk during his opening keynote speech at KMWorld & Intranets 2002, NBC/MSNBC news anchor Forrest Sawyer appeared a little out of context. But as soon as he .started speaking, he was instantly...

ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting.(American Society for Information Science and Technology)
January 1, 2003... "Information, Connections, and Community" was the theme of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2002 annual meeting, chaired by Edie Rasmussen of the University of Pittsburgh. The event was held November 18-21 at...

E-books are not dead yet.(electronic books)
January 1, 2003... E-books are still alive and kicking in libraries, regardless of what pundits are saying about their viability in the consumer marketplace. Libraries with e-book programs are learning about patron usage and are moving from pilot experimentation...

Tennessee chooses Gale for Electronic Library.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Gale announced that the state of Tennessee has signed a contract that will give its citizens desktop access to 13 premium Gale databases through its Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). According to the announcement, the databases--which provide...

New title encourages net users to get street smart. (Cover Notes).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet Anne P. Mintz, editor Medford, NJ: CyberAge Rooks 2002 ISBN: 0-910965-60-9 275 pages $24.95 I have received them every day for years: half-baked, half-English letters...

Bringing local data into the information age. (Cover Notes).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library by Joan C. Durrance and Karen E. Pettigrew Chicago: American Library Association, 2002 ISBN: 0-8389-0823-3 208 pages $42 Public libraries in the U.S. have a...

Naked in Cyberspace, 2nd Edition: How to Find Personal Information Online. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Carole A. Lane, foreword by Beth Givens In this revised and updated second edition of her best-selling guide, author Carole A. Lane surveys the types of personal records and online services that are available on the Internet. You'll learn...

Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... J. A. Hitchcock edited by Loraine Page Cybercrime expert J. A. Hitchcock helps individuals and business users of the Web protect themselves, their children and their employees against online cheats and predators. Hitchcock details a...

The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk. (New titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Irene McDermott, edited by Barbara Quint In this authoritative and tremendously useful guide, Irene McDermott helps her fellow reference librarians succeed in the bold new world of the Web. This handy book features troubleshooting tips and...

Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by Anne P. Mintz Intentionally misleading or erroneous information on the Web can wreak havoc on your health, privacy, investments, business decisions, online purchases, legal affairs, and more. Until now, the significance of this...

Smart Services: Competitive Information Strategies, Solutions, and Success Stories for the Service Businesses. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Deborah C. Sawyer Here is the first book to focus specifically on the competitive information needs of service-oriented firms. Author, entrepreneur, and business consultant Deborah C. Sawyer illuminates the many forms of competition in...

Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Mary Diffley Since the bursting of the dot-coin balloon, companies are approaching e-business with a new wariness. In Internet Prophets, Diffley speaks directly to the skeptics, serving up straightforward advice that will help even the...

Super Searchers Make It on Their Own: Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Suzanne Sabroski, edited by Reva Basch If you want to start and run a successful Information Age business, read this book. Here, for the first time anywhere, 11 of the world's top research entrepreneurs share their strategies for...

The Information Professionals Guide to Career Development Online. (New Titles for the Information Professional).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Rachel Singer Gordon Sarah L. Nesbeitt This is the first book designed to meet the needs of Internet-connected librarians interested in using online tools to advance their careers. Authors Gordon and Nesbeitt provide practical advice...

The digital content market: rushing toward fate.
January 1, 2003... Like two freight trains rushing toward one another on the same track, two equally powerful forces are propelling the digital content marketplace speedily toward an abruptly altered state. And, as in the train example, something's going to hit...

Recall, relevance, and database design: the role of quality indexing.
January 1, 2003... How do most people search for information? They don't. Studies of the way people use technology to find information show that most people enter one or two keywords into a search engine and then scan the results looking for a few relevant...

The information marketplace: models and methods.
January 1, 2003... Information seekers value many things, among them quality, quantity, currency and completeness. Over the years, Gale's distribution strategy has evolved in tandem with these marketplace imperatives. We've carved out a place for ourselves that...

Content integration for customer-focused applications.
January 1, 2003... Most corporate applications focused on delivering client information on an enterprise basis--particularly customer portals and CRM installations--fail to achieve anywhere near their full potential. They don't fail for lack of technical...

Digital content sales: the time has arrived.
January 1, 2003... Over the last year or two, collecting fees for digital content has gone from a fashionable idea to the new reality of online business. With consumers increasingly interested in buying digital wares online--and Web advertising revenues...

Defining an industry leadership series: the Econtent white paper story.(Specialty Publishing Group launches EContent Leadership Series)
January 1, 2003... The digital content marketplace is far too complex, and the competitive landscape too crowded to accurately describe in a simple, short blurb. We believe the proper articulation of something as important as this marketplace deserves an adequate...