Information Today articles from July 2002

Information Today archives from July 2002

Gale Group announces huge digitization project. (News Break).(18th century English literature)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Apparently they only count in hundreds at Gale Group: hundreds of sources, hundreds of clients, and now hundreds of years. Gale Group has announced a mammoth 20-million-page project that will bring to the Web most books published in the English...

SLA 2002 Annual Conference: this L.A. event offered a comprehensive schedule of sessions and presentations. (Report from the Field).
July 1, 2002... I am one of your oldest and most devoted customers.--Peter Drucker He likes us. He really, really likes us. Peter Drucker, the father of modem management science, emphasized in his keynote speech at the SLA 2002 Annual Conference (held June...

Info Today 2002: context and convergence were popular topics at this New York information industry event. (Report from the Field).
July 1, 2002... Info Today 2002, the conference on electronic information and knowledge management (KM) held in New York on May 14-16, featured a completely revamped program. Transformed from the single National Online Meeting, which had been held for 22...

Judges find CIPA unconstitutional. (News Break).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... On May 31, just hours before its self-imposed end-of-May deadline, a three-judge panel in a federal district court in Philadelphia unanimously ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is unconstitutional. The decision came...

Wolters Kluwer North America acquires Charles D. Spencer & Associates.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Wolters Kluwer North America has acquired Charles D. Spencer & Associates, a provider of print and online pension, benefits, and compensation information. The Spencer assets will become part of Aspen Publishers (http://www.aspenpublishers.com),...

The digital library of the future: CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services. (Quint's Online).
July 1, 2002... In the course of researching this column, I conducted a very scientific poll on the gender differences in the use of the phrase "I told you so." The male half of the polling group held to the opinion that women said it much more often than men....

WhizBang! Labs closes its doors. (News Break).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In an unexpected move, WhizBang! Labs announced that it would cease operations, letting most of its employees go in May. Until this surprise announcement, the company seemed to be weathering the harsh technology climate and signing up major...

Epinions creates top product community: this site offers member-supplied reviews that can be rated by readers. (Database Review).(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The most compelling reason that people go online is to communicate with each other. Information retrieval and shopping are also important, but the totality of online communications--e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, bulletin boards, and...

Plagiarism, fabrication, and lack of attribution: the misuse of information is pervasive and professionally challenging. (Legal Issues).
July 1, 2002... Stephen Ambrose. Doris Kearns Goodwin. Michael Bellesiles. Award-winning historians accused of plagiarism. Goodwin hit me particularly hard; I thought she was above reproach. It hurts when one of your idols falls. From the time we write...

Libraries in the Digital Age 2002: this conference focused on information seeking and digital services. (Report from the Field).
July 1, 2002... Integrating Information Seeking and IR" and "Information Services-Practice and Research" were the themes of the fourth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held May 21-24 at the Inter-university Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Speakers...

West group introduces Westlaw Text Only. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... West Group has announced the release of Westlaw Text Only, a new interface that optimizes Westlaw for those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, or voice-recognition software. According to the company,...

Libraries Unlimited debuts reference review database. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Libraries Unlimited has announced the release of American Reference Books Annual online (ARBAonline), a database for reviews of print and electronic reference works. Written by librarians for librarians, ARBAonline's reviews cover reference...

BioOne adds 10 journals. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BioOne, an online full-text aggregation of high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals, has announced the addition of the following journals: The American Fern Journal, The Southeastern Naturalist, The Journal of Field Ornithology,...

Infotrieve unveils e-DocLink service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Infotrieve has announced the launch of its new e-DocLink service. The company claims that e-DocLink will improve the process through which users of its online ordering and delivery system can receive articles from scholarly and professional...

STN releases STN Easy for Intranets. (Internet Today).(Chemical Abstracts Service's STN International database)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that STN International, an online database network for science and technology, now features the STN Easy for Intranets service. STN Easy for Intranets will enable information professionals to...

ISI launches ISI Proceedings 2.0. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ISI has announced the release of ISI Proceedings version 2.0, which now includes cited references for records dating to 1999. The addition of cited references permits users to link to the full records of cited papers as well as to identify...

PLCMC--a very Public Library: this institution's online presence is a great role model for others to follow. (Internet Insights).(Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina)
July 1, 2002... Recently, I visited the Web site of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC; http://www.plcmc.org) in Charlotte, North Carolina, and found an offer that I couldn't resist: the databases that are available for PLCMC's...

LexisNexis adds new features to lexis.com. (Internet Today).(has added Dun & Bradstreet Reports and a Sounds Like search feature for public records )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced that it has added Dun & Bradstreet Reports and a Sounds Like search feature for public records data to lexis.com. Dun & Bradstreet Reports LexisNexis is offering the following reports from business information...

RefWorks introduces new functions. (Internet Today).(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts has released a new version of its RefWorks Internet-based bibliographic management software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts has announced that it has released a new version of its RefWorks Internet-based bibliographic management software that will provide expanded data organization and dissemination functions. RefWorks'...

State University of New York launches e-Gov FirstStop. (Internet Today).(Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York--Albany launches e-Gov FirstStop)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the State University of New York--Albany has announced the launch of e-Gov FirstStop, a knowledge-sharing partnership. Located at http://www.ctg.albany.edu/egovfirststop, the site features a...

Factiva expands Asian content set with key Chinese-language sources. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Factiva has announced that it has added new Asia Pacific sources to Factiva.com. A total of 18 Chinese-language publications have been integrated into Factiva's content set, with new additions from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,...

John Wiley & Sons to publish new series of BioMedical databases. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of BioMedicalPDA, a new series of biomedical databases, in alliance with Professional PDA Publishing, LLC. These databases are accessible on PDAs that use the Palm operating system, as well as on...

ScienceDirect offers pay-per-view for guests, IDEAL journals. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that ScienceDirect will now offer pay-per-view for guests, a new option for full text that will improve access to scientific journals. The company also announced the integration of IDEAL journals onto...

Thomson Financial unveils Thomson Analytics tool. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Thomson Financial has announced the launch of Thomson Analytics, a Web-based application that delivers tools for turning critical market data into actionable intelligence. Through a single Web portal, Thomson Analytics provides access to...

Aries Systems' Editorial Manager now used by 50 journals. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Aries Systems Corp. has announced that more than 50 scientific, technical, and medical journals have chosen its Editorial Manager for Web-based manuscript submission and tracking. The journals are published by leading commercial organizations...

PsycARTICLES now available on FirstSearch. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that PsycARTICLES, the American Psychological Association's full-text electronic journal article database, is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. "By delivering online full-text articles, the PsycARTICLES...

McGraw-Hill medical texts added to Books@Ovid. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... McGraw-Hill Professional has announced that electronic versions of 115 of its leading medical text and reference books will now be available to doctors, students, and other researchers through a new licensing agreement with Ovid Technologies....

EBSCO adds new databases to EBSCO host. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced that the MLA International Bibliography and Distance Learning Collection databases will be available through its EBSCOhost service. MLA International Bibliography MLA International Bibliography is an...

IEEE Xplore 1.4 offers new features for researchers. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IEEE has announced the release of version 1.4 of its IEEE Xplore online delivery platform, which contains new features to help make research more efficient. IEEE Xplore is the online delivery platform that powers IEEE subscription packages like...

Six science publishers create new web font set. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... A group of scientific publishers has announced the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font-creation project and the launch of the STIX Web site at http://www.stixfonts.org. The STIX publishers aim to develop a comprehensive...

HARRASSOWITZ's OttoEditions database enabled as an SFX target. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... HARRASSOWITZ has announced that its OttoEditions search and order system for books and music scores is now enabled as an SFX target. Libraries that have an OttoEditions account and that use SFX may now set up their SFX menu to automatically log...

Arbortext announces launch of Epic Editor 4.3. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Arbortext, Inc., a global provider of XML-based multichannel publishing software, has announced that its upcoming release of Epic Editor version 4.3 will provide significant improvements for designers, developers, and business users who want to...

Exegenix Canada debuts XML content Conversion System. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Exegenix Canada, Inc. has announced the release of the Exegenix Conversion System, a technology that transforms an organization's new and legacy content into XML. Exegenix uses an approach that allows any Adobe PostScript or PDF document,...

Palm, OverDrive team up to expand e-book distribution. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Palm Digital Media, a publisher and distributor of e-books for handheld computers, and OverDrive, Inc., a provider of e-book, e-commerce, and digital rights management (DRM) solutions, have announced that they plan to expand global digital...

U.K.-based legal publisher chooses XyEnterprise's new Content@ software. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise), a developer of XML content management and automated publishing tools, has announced that U.K.-based legal publisher LexisNexis Butterworths Tolley will deploy a new content management solution...

Stellent, Inc. unveils Content Categorizer 6.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Stellent, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management solutions, has announced the release of Stellent Content Categorizer 6.0. This new version enables Web administrators and content contributors to automatically, uniformly, and...

Preparing for the Web service experience: new design issues and a proposed new language have emerged in response. (Focus on Publishing).(IBM's Web Services Experience Language software)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Practically every other day there seems to be yet another announcement about a new alliance, product, or company that has something to do with Web services. (See page 36 of the March 2002 issue.) For the most part, these new products support...

FT.com goes live with eMeta's eRights technology. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... eMeta Corp., a provider of information access control and commerce software, has announced that its eRights enterprise software solution is powering the digital commerce capabilities of the improved FT.com Web site. According to the...

Applied Semantics adds new industry taxonomies to Auto-Categorizer. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Applied Semantics, Inc., a software tools and applications provider for unstructured information management, has announced the addition of four new taxonomies as extensions to its Auto-Categorizer product, a content categorization solution that...

Ipedo introduces new XML resources. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Ipedo, Inc., a provider of software products for managing and delivering dynamic content over the Internet, has introduced Ipedo Web Express, a flexible and easy-to-use framework that developers can deploy to quickly leverage XML in their Web...

BioMed Central launches Journal of Biology. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BioMed Central has announced the launch of Journal of Biology, a new international publication that provides immediate open access to biological research articles. According to the announcement, the journal will only publish research articles...

BroadVision rolls out business portal applications. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BroadVision, Inc. has introduced BroadVision 7, the next generation of its enterprise business portal applications. BroadVision 7--composed of BroadVision One-To-One Portal 7.0, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce 7.0, and BroadVision One-To-One...

McGraw-Hill selects Vasont for cross-media publishing. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Progressive Information Technologies has announced that McGraw-Hill's Professional Group has selected Vasont (formerly TARGET 2000), a cross-media publishing system for content management, to manage and publish the content of Current Medical...

Inmagic unveils BiblioTech PRO 2.4. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc. has announced the release of BiblioTech PRO 2.4, an enterprisewide integrated library system. BiblioTech PRO 2.4 features customizable keyword, multi-field, and document/report number search windows, with an option to add all or...

CASPR launches iLibraries, Library Wire. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... CASPR Library Systems, Inc. has announced the creation of a new approach to sharing library information via the Internet. iLibraries is a software program that enables individuals to search for and share catalog records and digital files with...

epixtech releases new version of Horizon Sunrise. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... epixtech, Inc. has announced the debut of Horizon Sunrise 7.2, the third major release in the Horizon Sunrise series. Horizon Sunrise 7.2 introduces both the new Sunrise application launcher and an entirely new MARC editor that fulfills many...

ScienceDirect supports OpenURL standard. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ScienceDirect has announced that it now supports the OpenURL standard. This addresses the growing market need for bidirectional interaction between ScienceDirect and other services via link resolvers and expands access to the world's scientific...

Fretwell-Downing, Inc. partners with IUPUI Library. (News Briefs).(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. has announced that Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library has selected its VDX software. IUPUI was created in 1969 by the merger of extension programs from the state's two...

Curtis Institute of Music installs Millennium system. (News Briefs).(Innovative Interfaces, Inc)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced that the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia will install the Millennium library system. This will be the library's first automated system. Since 1924, the Curtis Institute of Music has trained...

The challenges of converting to digital video: recent advancements have allowed this technology to be more accessible. (The Systems Librarian).
July 1, 2002... If a picture is worth a thousand words, full-motion video fills volumes. Digital video, while an exciting medium, presents a number of storage, preservation, and access challenges. If it can be harnessed, however, it can deliver content in ways...

Endeavor announces new releases, partnerships.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the release of ENCompass 2.0, its advanced digital system for managing e-content and digital collections with full linking capabilities, and version 2001.1 of its Voyager system. Endeavor also...

TLC releases Library*Solution 3.0.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The Library Corporation (TLC) has announced the release of Library*Solution version 3.0, its integrated automation system. Some enhancements in Library*Solution 3.0 include e-mail notification of arrived holds and overdue notices, a collection...

Sagebrush introduces PatronPorter for Spectrum, releases self-checkout program.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Sagebrush Corp. has announced the release of PatronPorter for Spectrum, a program that converts existing patron data so it can be imported into Winnebago Spectrum. Sagebrush has also announced the release of UCheck, a new self-checkout program....

The British Library unveils bibliographic Editing Tool.(SIMONE, the Simple ONIX Editing Tool)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The British Library has announced that a new software package called SIMONE (the Simple ONIX Editing Tool) has been commissioned from developer Griffin Brown by Book Industry Communications (BIC) and will be partly funded by The British...

Gaylord teams with LSSI, announces Polaris implementation.(Gaylord Information Systems, Salem Public Library, Ohio)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Gaylord Information Systems (GIS) and LSSI have announced that Gaylord's Polaris will be the first library automation system to seamlessly integrate the functions of the library's public access catalog with live reference service through LSSI's...

On conferences, cabbies, and KM.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... McKellar, Hugh At the risk of stretching a knowledge management metaphor way too thin, I have a story to tell about a little taxi ride I took while in New York. The day before InfoToday 2002 began I wanted to pay tribute to the...

Calendar.
July 1, 2002... July 20-24: Orlando, Florida (Orange County Convention Center). The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) will hold its 95th Annual Meeting and Conference, which according to the announcement is the largest networking and...

E-Libraries comes into its own.(conference as part of Info Today 2002)
July 1, 2002... InfoToday 2002 marked the second year that E-Libraries has existed as a conference in its own right, after many years as a smaller component of the National Online Meeting known as IOLS (Integrated Online Library Systems). Pamela Cibbarelli...

InfoToday 2002--the exhibits.
July 1, 2002... Vendors displayed a combination of publisher tools and content sources at InfoToday 2002. There was a strong representation from companies with automated categorization applications. Products offering visualization software drew admiring...

Inmagic adds content extraction, classification tools. (News Break).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc. has added to its catalog of software tools that are designed to harvest and classify textual content. The new Inmagic Gatherer crawls designated Web spaces (either internal or external) and extracts content for the addition of...

Breaking into the information industry: this book offers some advice to help new librarians start their careers. (Book Review).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online by Sarah L. Nesbeitt and Rachel Singer Gordon Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2002 ISBN: 1-57387-124-9 401 pages $29.50 For the new...

CAS abstracts finally available through Dialog. (News Break).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In the Chicago of the Roaring '20s, the era of Al Capone and bootleg gin, Big Bill Thompson won his third term as mayor on the slogan "Punch King George in the snoot." Thompson knew the art of holding a grudge. He didn't let little things like...

Patent Express copy service is discontinued. (News Break).
July 1, 2002... Patent information is a growth industry these days, and customers are demanding inexpensive access to international as well as U.S. patent documents. A number of resources have arisen in recent years that provide patent copies over a wide time...

Survey of publishing industry sheds light on content management.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Really Strategies, Inc. has announced publication of the market study, The [Bracket] Report--Publishers' Adoption of Content Management Systems and Technologies. The focus of the report is content management: how publishers use processes and...

West Group partners with Factiva, acquires the Harrison Co.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... West Group and Factiva have announced an expanded alliance that will result in enhanced access to global news and business information from Factiva for customers of Westlaw, West's legal research service. West has also announced that it has...

Ingenta Institute launches international site licensing and consortia study.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The Ingenta Institute, an independent research organization of the scholarly communications industry, has announced the commencement of a comprehensive international study into the impact of site licensing and consortia developments on the...

APA announces special PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES pricing.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In an effort to make it easier for businesses and other nonacademic organizations to access psychological research, the American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that it has developed new price structures for PsycINFO and...

NISO releases Digital Still Image Metadata draft standard.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft of Z39.87, the Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images, for trial use. NISO collaborated with the Association for Information and Image...

Factiva announces three new alliances.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Factiva has announced separate business alliances with ChoicePoint, MediaMap, and Biz360. ChoicePoint Factiva and ChoicePoint, a provider of identification and credential verification services, will jointly market and sell their...

Swets Blackwell completes distribution agreement for Axiom database.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Swets Blackwell has announced the completion of an agreement with Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP) to distribute Axiom, IoPP's Web-based research service featuring the INSPEC, Compendex, and Derwent World Patents Index databases. Swets...

ITI relaunches EMedia, offers KMWorld to knowledge Management subscribers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI), publisher of EMedia magazine, has announced that it will relaunch the publication in August as EMedia: The Digital Studio Magazine. ITI also announced that 30,000 subscribers to Knowledge Management magazine,...

QuestionPoint marks new era in Virtual Reference. (News Break).
July 1, 2002... In the history of computing, the date to remember is the one when IBM produced the first PC. In the history of the Internet, future historians may note the date when Mosaic became Netscape or perhaps when Bill Gates finally decided Microsoft...

Peter Stone. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... FIND/SVP, Inc. has announced the appointment of Peter Stone as chief financial officer. He will be responsible for all aspects of the company's business strategy and will manage its administrative and finance groups. Most recently Stone...

Jay Levine. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ProLaw Software has announced that Jay Levine is its new vice president and chief technology officer. He will oversee and support all future software development for the company. Levine has held various positions with Thomson Corp., such as...

Jane McMahon. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... West Group has announced the appointment of Jane McMahon as librarian relations manager of its Western division. As such, she will serve as a West Group customer contact for law librarians in California, Arizona, and Nevada. According to...

Wolters Kluwer's Legal, Tax & Business North America division has announced that Christopher A. Cartwright is its new CEO. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Wolters Kluwer's Legal, Tax & Business North America division has announced that Christopher A. Cartwright is its new CEO. He will be responsible for all of its operating businesses. Most recently Carwright was president and CEO of CCH...

Edward Pastorius. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Gale Group has announced that it has named Edward Pastorius its new executive vice president of operations and chief information officer. He will also be in charge of corporate services and technology areas. Pastorius joined Gale in 1998 as...

Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced that Leslie Lees will assume the position of vice president of sales. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced that Leslie Lees will assume the position of vice president of sales, and he will be responsible for the company's global sales team. Previously Lees held several positions at SilverPlatter...

Anita Wagner. (People Line).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Gaylord Information Systems (GIS) has announced the appointment of Anita Wagner to vice president of business development. She will negotiate with potential partners to integrate their software into the Polaris library automation system. ...

Blackwell Publishing in Dynasty-style dispute. (News Break).(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Blackwell Publishing is engulfed in a family feud fit for a Dynasty plot. In the latest twist to an increasingly embarrassing public row, shareholder meetings of both Blackwell Publishing and sister company Blackwell, Ltd. (the separate...

Creative Commons nurtures the public domain. (News Break).
July 1, 2002... Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current...