Information Today articles from January 2005

Information Today archives from January 2005

Online Information 2004 in London.(Report From The Field)
January 1, 2005... Most large, general online information conferences seem to have been supplanted, especially in the U.S., by smaller conferences on more specialized topics. But the Online Information meeting held in London each December continues to attract...

Essential for science interview with Vitek Tracz.
January 1, 2005... A serial entrepreneur remarkable for being one of the few remaining innovators in the STM publishing industry, Vitek Tracz, chairman of the London-based Current Science Group, has, over the years, created a series of mold-breaking businesses...

Thomson releases open access journal study.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific released a new white paper entitled "Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns." The findings indicate that journals published under the open access (OA) model...

NewsStand unveils readership study results.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... NewsStand, Inc. announced results from its second annual NewsStand Customer Profile Study conducted by Nielsen//NetRatings. The study reveals a strong satisfaction with the digital distribution service, heavy home use by NewsStand...

Nature continues digitization.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Nature is currently digitizing its archives back to 1950, with content being released in installments. Full-text access back to January 1980 is now available. The Nature archives provide online access to all editorial content from the...

Digital books: more value-added, please.(Up Front)
January 1, 2005... For every change in life, there is a tipping moment--that moment where the old way starts to falter and the new way gains its footing. Online databases came into their own with information professionals after years of pro-print resistance....

The latest on blogs, search engines, and content integration.(News Break Update)
January 1, 2005... It's looking official. Blogs have hit the mainstream. Maybe it's because we were blogging the International Online event in London that I was more aware of coverage of the blogosphere, but in the past month, it seemed there was a veritable...

News from London.(News Break Update)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... While many companies issued press releases about what they were announcing or exhibiting in London, a lot of the news wasn't new. There were a few actual product rollouts of note, including the new Thomson Pharma (see below). Another Thomson...

Integrating content.(Thomson Corp. launches database access software)
January 1, 2005... Thomson used the London event for the official launch of its new integrated research tool for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Thomson Pharma draws from the complete range of Thomson Scientific databases (including the Investigational...

Update on NIH Policy.(NewsBreak Update)(National Institutes of Health)
January 1, 2005... Earlier last fall, Barbara Quint reported in a NewsBreak that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) had established a draft policy mandating open access to the full text of research results from projects it funds and that it was taking...

Search engine news.(NewsBreak Update)
January 1, 2005... A business-specific search engine is making a comeback: Business.com announced that it received $10 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. It first launched in June 2000 with funding from FT,...

MuseGlobal expands content partner program.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... MuseGlobal, Inc. continues to expand its Content Partner Program with dozens of new partners added in the last quarter, including ebrary, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and Ovid. MuseGlobal works with content partners to provide seamless...

YBP Library Services acquires Delta International Book Wholesalers.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company, announced the acquisition of Delta International Book Wholesalers, Ltd. George Coe, president of Baker & Taylor, said, "The acquisition of Delta is part of B&T's strategy to accelerate growth...

ATLA announces grant recipients.(NewsBytes)(American Theological Library Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) announced grant recipients for Phase 4 of the ATLA/ATS (Association of Theological Schools) Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative. The recipients are as follows: * Pitts Theology...

Alexander Street Press acquires Classical Music Library.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Alexander Street Press has acquired Classical Music Library. The acquisition of the music reference service will allow Alexander Street to add audio capabilities to its text--and image-based humanities collections. Alexander Street will...

EBSCO partners with NISC.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... EBSCO and National Information Services Corp. (NISC) announced a cooperative effort to produce a research database covering gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies. More than 50,000 records relevant to all areas of GLBT studies...

Elsevier signs agreement with The John Rilands University Library.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Elsevier announced the signing of an agreement with the John Rilands University Library at The University of Manchester for the provision of scientific and medical information. The agreement provides The University of Manchester user...

Aries Systems, Inera announce agreement.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Aries Systems Corp. and Inera, Inc. announced a technology integration agreement that will address the validation, linking, and journal-style cleanup of bibliographic references. According to the release, Aries and Inera plan to integrate...

OA thought.(Letter To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... I just finished Barbara Quint's article on the future of the NIH open access policy [October 2004, page 7]. Great article. Three things: First, she stated NSF's information-sharing infrastructure doesn't exist. She is, of course, absolutely...

It's the real thing, baby.(e-journals)
January 1, 2005... According to a report released by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the wide availability of aggregated journal collections only helps journal publishers. Despite all those digital collections, the report...

Infotoons.
January 1, 2005... PICK-UP WINDOW YOU MUST BE THE NEW GUY... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PICK-UP WINDOW I NEED A FAT ONE, NO PICKLES, LARGE FRIES, AND A SUPER COLA... I WANT A RECOUNT [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PICK-UP WINDOW A...

A googly new year.(Focus on Publishing)
January 1, 2005... It is rare when two events happen so closely together that you barely finish saying "Oh, wow!" before you have to say it again. But, on Nov. 22 and 23, 2004, respectively, Google broke news of Google Scholar, and OCLC, in partnership with...

The dark side.(Internet Waves)
January 1, 2005... They let everyone in and ruined the Shrine. -Cheryl Wheeler, "Frequently Wrong But Never in Doubt" What I've always liked best about the Internet, in general, are the people who use it. The breadth and depth of expertise is staggering, and...

Reverse engineering a controversy: technology and content.(Legal Issues)
January 1, 2005... In what may be a surprise to some, not everything that the information industry creates can be copyrighted. Copyright protection only applies to works that are original and expressive, not to works that consist of facts, ideas, concepts, or...

EDGAR Online receives spot in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... EDGAR Online, Inc. has been named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Connecticut. To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 1999 and $1 million in 2003, be public or...

New Jersey gets $6 Million for Knowledge Initiative.(Business databases)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thanks to the efforts of Sen. Wayne Bryant and assemblyman Louis Greenwald, an appropriation of $6 million was approved for the FY2005 New Jersey state budget. This will fund the Knowledge Initiative, a program designed to provide top science,...

FIZ Karlsruhe, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin join forces.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ CHEMIE Berlin have formed an alliance to strengthen the position of both companies in German and European markets. Each institution will continue to run its core services independently. However, according to the...

Publication of clinical trial data.(International Report)(Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency insists on publishing clinical trial data)
January 1, 2005... In a November 2004 announcement describing measures intended to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry operates more openly and transparently, U.K. Health Minister Lord Warner demanded that companies be more diligent in publishing clinical...

Fitness craze moves online: according to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are five components to overall fitness.(Perspective)
January 1, 2005... When you think fitness, you might (if you're a certain age) think of Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda, and Jack LaLanne. Well, they're all still in great shape and, of course, on the Internet. Richard (http://www.richardsimmons.com) is 56; Jane...

A blog to remember.(CyberSports)
January 1, 2005... Now that we've entered your Field Correspondent's Dead Zone of Professional Sports--between the end of the World Series and the announcement of the voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame--we will have to concern ourselves with other bits of the...

Imaginary countries.(Link-Up@Home: your personal guide to the web)
January 1, 2005... Rainforests cover the heart of Almazonia, but long beaches stretch down the country's eastern shore. There are a few swamps and mangrove in the south and, to the north, a desert. Two rivers--the Almazon and the Rio Namoro--spring from the...

ProQuest offers ITI articles, partners with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... ProQuest Information and Learning announced an agreement with Information Today, Inc. to provide electronic articles via ITI InfoCentral. The company also announced a partnership with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ITI InfoCentral ...

A9 enters great search engine race.(Product News & Reviews)
January 1, 2005... Do we need yet another search engine? This is the question surrounding A9, the new search engine from Amazon (http://www.A9.com). I guess we might... if it's not just another search engine. We now have an abundance of good search engines, with...

STN enhances STN Express.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... STN International has enhanced its STN Express interface. The new STN Express with Discover! Analysis Edition version 7.01 offers new possibilities for advanced data grouping, multifile results analysis, and visualization. Retrieved data can be...

Readex launches digital Early American Newspapers.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Readex has launched the digital edition of Early American Newspapers, which offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers published between 1690 and 1876. Upon completion of Segment I in July 2006,...

Thomson Gale introduces Nineteenth Century Collections Online, enhances databases.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thomson Gale announced the launch of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. The company also added features to several of its databases. Nineteenth Century Collections Online Nineteenth Century Collections Online follows Eighteenth...

Reference Universe links to new resources.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Paratext announced that the following resources have been added to Reference Universe: the complete index for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th edition; the corresponding links to Access Science; and the complete index...

Swets adds interfaces, announces partnership.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Swets Information Services announced that it has added new interfaces to SwetsWise. The company also announced a partnership with INIST, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of CNRS. New Interfaces New interfaces in...

Thomson integrates Derwent World Patents Index Data, announces Thomson Pharma.(Product News & Reviews)
January 1, 2005... The Thomson Corp. announced that Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) data is now integrated into end-user work flows. The company also introduced Thomson Pharma. DWPI Thomson customers can now leverage DWPI data, along with full-text...

Questel*Orbit, INPI release new software.(Product News & Reviews)(Institute of Industrial Property )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Questel*Orbit and The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced the release of the Markush Darc Software on a UNIX Platform. This new software version, dedicated to the Merged Markush Service (MMS), was developed to...

Thomson adds web of science content.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Thomson Corp. announced that an additional 45 years of backfiles will soon be available to Web of Science customers. According to the announcement, beginning in the first quarter of this year, the Century of Science initiative will boost...

Kellysearch.com offers enhanced online catalogs.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Kellysearch.com announced an enhanced online catalog service to provide companies with an interactive, keyword-searchable catalog hosted on Kellysearch.com or on a company's own Web site. The expanded offering allows every word and page to...

Thomson West enhances WestClip.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Thomson West has enhanced its WestClip service on Westlaw. WestClip now includes a multiple-frequency clipping option, improved functionality, and additional search options. Other enhancements to WestClip include: * An improved results...

The Wall Street Journal Online, Summus launch the Wall Street Journal Mobile.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Wall Street Journal Online and Summus, Inc. announced the launch of a new mobile edition of The Wall Street Journal Online. Developed by Summus, The Wall Street Journal Mobile will provide up-to-the-minute business and financial news from...

LexisNexis launches information service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S. launched LexisNexis AlaCarte!, a new online service designed to address the information needs of the fast-growing small to medium-sized business and independent professionals market. The service, available via...

Dialog adds sources, expands collection.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Dialog announced that it has added 2,000 sources to its Dialog NewsRoom database. The company also reorganized and expanded its Beilstein Organic Chemistry collection. Dialog NewsRoom Dialog NewsRoom is composed of aggregated news and...

Emerald releases Emerald Management Xtra.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd. announced the launch of its flagship knowledge portal, Emerald Management Xtra. Emerald Management Xtra combines core content from more than 100 select Emerald journals with practical working tools and...

AIP's journals added to Scirus index.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, has partnered with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to index its full-text articles. Having already indexed AIP abstracts, Scirus has now indexed more than...

ATLA adds titles to ATLASerials.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) announced that four new titles have been added to the ATLASerials (ATLAS) online collection of major religion and theology journals. The new titles are Direction, Journal for the Scientific...

Online tour showcases British Library.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... A new online learning package showcasing The British Library's services is now live. The package--supported by the Society of Chief Librarians--has been designed as a virtual "tour," showing public librarians across the U.K. what The British...

Wolters Kluwer.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Wolters Kluwer announced the appointment of Jeffery McCaulley as the new CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health. Most recently, McCaulley was vice president and general manager for Medtronic, Inc.'s Diabetes Business Unit. While there, he...

Glasser LegalWorks.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Glasser LegalWorks announced that Kent Zimmermann has been appointed president. As such, he will direct corporate strategy and oversee daily operations. Prior to this, Zimmermann was vice president and general counsel at Hubbard One, where...

The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS).(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) has announced the election of three new officers: Geoffrey McMullen is president-elect, professor Heinrich C. Mayr is vice president, and Niko Schlamberger is honorary...

xrefer.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... xrefer has announced that Cynthia L. Gregory is the winner of its Online Reference Research Award. The $1,000 grant is given toward research aimed at finding out undergraduates' attitudes toward and usage patterns of e-books. Currently,...

Factiva.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Factiva announced that it has made several additions to its Factiva Consulting Services staff. Arthur Rassias is now the global director and is responsible for the overall strategy of Factiva Consulting Services. Tim Brandner is the...

Cambridge Information Group.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Cambridge Information Group has announced the promotion of James P. McGinty to vice chairman and also the promotion of Andrew M. Snyder to president. In his new position, McGinty will be responsible for strategic planning, executive...

High energy, fun, and serious discussion highlight CLA's annual gathering.(Conference Circuit)(California Library Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... More than a thousand area librarians descended on San Jose's Convention Center in late November for the annual meeting of the California Library Association (CLA; http://www.cla-net.org). The high-energy event featured more than 60...

American Society for Information Science and Technology annual meeting.(Report From The Field)
January 1, 2005... I don't normally associate attending an American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) conference with snow, but Providence, R.I., where the 2004 conference was held, was prematurely white due to an unseasonably early snow. But...

Does open access publishing really work in practice?(Report From The Field)
January 1, 2005... If there is any topic certain to generate controversy and heated discussion in today's information industry, it is open access (OA) publishing. At numerous conferences and other industry meetings, OA has pitted users and publishers on opposite...

Internet librarians own the future.(Report From The Field)
January 1, 2005... One of the few things I have believed and said since the day I landed this dream job is that the future should belong to librarians and journalists. I reasoned that in the information age, the people who know how to sort through and find the...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... January 3-6: Hawaii (Hilton Waikoloa Village). The 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences will sponsor a mini track on Enterprise Content Management and XML. Topics include novel applications of XML for content...

Can you e-mail me that article?(Cover Notes)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues edited by Yem S. Fong and Suzanne M. Ward New York: Haworth Information Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-7890-2441-1 136 pages $29.95 paperback, $49.95 hardback...

CAS scientists break records.(Software industry)
January 1, 2005... CAS announced that its scientists set new records for in-depth analysis and indexing of research published in more than 9,500 journals and patents from 50 issuing authorities around the world. The CA and CAplus databases grew to a total of more...

It's a small world, after all.(computer technology and Internet make this vast universe a small world)
January 1, 2005... The summer I was 4, my morn, sister, and I flew to California to see friends and relatives. The highlight of the vacation for me was visiting the still-new Disneyland. I remember riding Dumbo the elephant and seeing Mary Poppins fly with her...

The Skeptical Business Searcher: the Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources By Robert Berkman Foreword by Reva Basch This is the experts' guide to finding dependable, high-quality company and industry data...

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: a Guide for the Serious Searcher.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 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,...

Choosing and Using a News Alert Service.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Choosing and Using a News Alert Service By Robert Berkman There are dozens of competing firms that offer an e-mail-based news alert service. But how to know which one is best? This comprehensive new guide explains how these tools work and...

The Accidental Library Manager.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Accidental Library Manager By Rachel Singer Gordon Most librarians enter the field intending to focus on a particular specialty, but eventually need to take on certain supervisory or managerial responsibilities in order to move forward....

Best Technology Practices in Higher Education.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Best Technology Practices in Higher Education Edited by Les Lloyd A handful of progressive teachers and administrators are integrating technology in new and creative ways at their colleges and universities, raising the bar for all schools....

Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: the Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers By Margaret Metcalf Carr; Edited by Reva Basch; Foreword by Jan Herring Companies operating in today's unpredictable roller-coaster economy...

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources By Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo Edited by Barbara Quint With this remarkable, eye-opening book and its companion Web site, Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo shows how anyone can...

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: a Guide to Evaluating CI Technology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology By France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo As commercial software products for competitive intelligence (CI) emerge and gain...