Information Today articles from July 2004

Information Today archives from July 2004

Searching and streaming in New York.(Enterprise Search Summit)(WebSearch University)
July 1, 2004... Industry analyst John Blossom called it "a huge hit, well-attended and stocked with expertise and insights from today's leading suppliers and implementers." He was speaking about Information Today, Inc.'s new Enterprise Search Summit, which...

Copyright Clearance Center raises transactional fees.(Investigative Report)
July 1, 2004... As a licenser of print and digital rights, the Copyright Clearance Center is almost certain to enter the work lives of those responsible for delivering information: librarians, educators, nonprofits, document suppliers, public relations...

New Ovid/LWW CEO brings a fresh look.(Interview with Gary Foster)(Wolters Kluwer Health Co.)(Interview)
July 1, 2004... In early April, Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Gary Foster had joined the company as president and CEO of its global Medical Research division. This business unit includes Ovid, a provider of aggregated online medical and academic content...

LexisNexis, Biz360 form alliance.(News Bytes)(Biz360 Inc.)(LexisNexis Group)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LexisNexis announced that joint customers of LexisNexis U.S. and Biz360, Inc., a technology-based analytic service for managing global reputations and brands, will now have access to continuous analysis of the more than 13,000 news and business...

Marketresearch.com opens London office.(News Bytes)(MarketResearch.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Marketresearch.com, an online aggregator of market research reports, announced the opening of its first European office in London. According to the announcement, the move addresses one of the company's top priorities: to extend high-level,...

Ohio academic libraries support PloS.(News Bytes)(The Ohio Library and Information Network)(Public Library of Science)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) announced that it will fund half of the publication fee for all faculty and researchers at OhioLINK member institutions whose articles are published in the Public Library of Science's (PLoS)...

ABC-CLIO, Ingenta announce linking partnership.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ABC-CLIO announced that it now links its abstracting-and-indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to online journals from Ingenta. With this new agreement, ABC-CLIO history database users will be able to...

IEEE adds new members to Advisory Council.(News Bytes)(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... IEEE announced that seven new members from around the world have joined the IEEE Library Advisory Council (LAC). Representatives of corporate, academic, and government libraries worldwide serve on LAC for 2-year terms. IEEE established LAC...

Dialog Profound now features Aroq research.(News Bytes)(Dialog Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Dialog Corp. announced that market reports prepared by Aroq, a British online publisher specializing in business research, are now available through the Dialog Profound service. According to the announcement, Dialog Profound is the...

The bad news is the good news.(Up Front)
July 1, 2004... I know how you all love to see me go ballistic and lock and load on someone. (No one you work for, of course.) Well, I recently caught Amazon up to their hips in evil deeds. Or I thought I had. A blistering column was well underway when further...

News about SLA, ProQuest, Search Technologies, and more.(News Break Update)
July 1, 2004... Attending the SLA Annual Conference while helping record the event on Information Today, Inc.'s Live from Nashville blog (http://www.infotodayblog.com) was both exhausting and exhilarating. It was great to experience the networking, sessions,...

ProQuest offers new York Times Archive.(News Bytes)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(New York Times Co. )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced an agreement with NYTimes .com to offer the consumer market a historical digital archive of The New York Times dating to 1851, when it was first published. The New York Times Archive will be available...

A librarian's view.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... It is wonderful to read such a thoughtful, balanced, and accurate article on the USA PATRIOT Act by a member of our profession. [George H. Pike's "A SAFEr USA PATRIOT Act?" June 2004] We need more of this type of article in our literature,...

One ringy-dingy.
July 1, 2004... Maybe we just get too old to appreciate new things. Maybe we just get too tired of figuring new stuff out. Maybe it's because we just grow too wise to even want to get near the bleeding edge of technology. Or maybe it's because some new bells...

Infotoons.
July 1, 2004... WHAT'S THAT MUSIC ON YOUR PHONE? IT'S THE THEME FROM "FRIENDS," BABY. I'M ON THE CUTTING EDGE. YEAHHHH. UM, DIDN'T THAT SHOW GO OFF THE AIR 2 MONTHS AGO? I'M NOT ON THE CUTTING EDGE? THE CUTTING EDGE OF STUPIDITY MAYBE. ...

Linking on steroids.(Internet Insights)(Column)
July 1, 2004... I wrote this column just before going to the Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP) 26th Annual Meeting. There, I spoke at a half-day seminar titled "Linking on Steroids" with my esteemed peers from the scholarly publishing world. We...

Internationalizing the Web.(Focus on Publishing)
July 1, 2004... Internationalizing the Web? Now I know what you're thinking: Hey, they call it the World Wide Web, don't they? Doesn't "World Wide" already imply international? Well yes, but not exactly. True, the Web does travel worldwide. But to create an...

Search engines and trademarks.(Legal Issues)
July 1, 2004... Let's talk about the word "playboy." My Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines it as "a man who lives a life devoted chiefly to the pursuit of pleasure." "Playmate," its more innocent cousin, is defined as "a child's companion in play."...

EBSCOhost signs agreement with University of California Press.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) announced that it has signed an agreement to index content from the University of California Press. "As scholarly information proliferates within the electronic marketplace, it has become very...

Thomson Gale acquires WEB FEET database.(NewsBytes)(Thomson Gale)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Gale has acquired WEB FEET, a database of cross-curricular Web sites selected and reviewed by librarians, educators, and subject specialists. Established in 1996 by RockHill Communications, Inc., WEB FEET was the first company in...

Thomson Derwent announces faster patent information.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Derwent announced faster access to patent information via Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and DWPI First View, which are designed to deliver comprehensive and value-added patent information to customers as quickly as possible. ...

ITI acquires Faulkner Information Services, Newsletter.(NewsBytes)
July 1, 2004... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Faulkner Technical Reports, Inc., a diverse line of information products known as Faulkner Information Services. No terms of the deal have been announced. ITI...

CSA adds ASCE content to databases.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts announced that it has added records and thesaurus terms provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to its technology databases. The agreement will expand CSA's technology thesauri by...

News from the U.K., Finland, India, and China.(International Report)
July 1, 2004... TFPL, the London-based information-professional recruitment specialist, has been sold to software vendor i-documentsystems (IDOX) for about $7.3 million. IDOX will make an initial payment of $3.7 million in cash and shares and another $3.7...

Cyber-touring the world's best buildings: glass, steel and stone lets you explore the Pantheon in Rome, the Great Wall of China, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)(architecture websites)
July 1, 2004... The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies is a staid name for a building that looks like a fun house. Walls bulge and windows tilt at crazy angles. Located at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, the building has been called "an island of...

Finding the right web host.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)
July 1, 2004... If you're in business and online, it's likely that at some point as the business changes you'll want to switch Web hosting companies or consider using one. The greatest benefit of using a Web host is the assurance that it will keep your...

Greece is the word: CyberSports.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)
July 1, 2004... Late last year, my bosses at the Word Factory--where I earn a living, as opposed to this job, which just pays the taxes--decided it would be fun to send a few people on a 3-week vacation to Greece this summer. So they forked out about a...

Conference calendar.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... SEPTEMBER 27-28: WebSearch University http://www.websearchu.com OCTOBER 11-12 Internet Librarian International http://www.internet-librarian.com 26-28 KMWorld & Intranets http://www.kmworld.com/kmw04 26-28 Streaming Media...

Libraries in the Digital Age 2004.(Conference Circuit)
July 1, 2004... Human Information Behavior" and "Competences for Digital Libraries" were themes of the sixth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held May 24-27 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and May 28-29 in Mljet, Croatia. Conference co-organizer Tatjana...

2004 SIIA content forum.(Report From The Field)
July 1, 2004... "Show Me the Money!" was the theme of the 2004 SIIA Content Forum, held May 17-18 at San Francisco's Palace Hotel. This gathering attracted content industry leaders who met to make deals and grapple with the "disruptive technology" that's...

Metadata practices on the cutting edge.(Report From The Field)
July 1, 2004... Metadata is currently a topic of wide interest, as evidenced by the sellout crowd of more than 125 people who gathered May 20 in Washington, D.C., for Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge, a 1-day workshop sponsored by NISO. The event...

Free Expression Policy Project releases the information commons.(News Bytes)(The Free Expression Policy Project )(Information Commons )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Free Expression Policy Project announced that it has released The Information Commons, a groundbreaking report to link the vitality of 21st-century democracy to the creation of online communities dedicated to producing and sharing...

ICSTI Public Conference.(Report From The Field)(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information)
July 1, 2004... The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) provides a unique forum for the exchange of information and opinions in the field of STM communication. The organization's members include governmental agencies, all...

SIIA Codie Awards.(Software & Information Industry Association)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... This was the 19th year for SIIA's Codie Awards, which honor achievements in content, software, and educational products. The following won awards for content: * Best Content Management System--Vignette CM Enterprise Suite * Best...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... July 10-14: Boston (John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center). The American Association of Law Libraries will host its 97th Annual Meeting and Conference, the theme of which is Boston to Mumbai: The World of Legal Information. The event...

ProQuest unveils new interface enhancements.(Product News & Reviews)(ProQuest Smart Search )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced that it will launch an updated version of its online information service this month. The new release will include ProQuest Smart Search, which gives users suggestions for enhanced searching, and...

Ingenta launches beta version of its IngentaConnect flagship Web service.(Product News & Reviews)(IngentaConnect)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ingenta, Inc. announced the first beta version of IngentaConnect, a Web service that's set to replace ingenta.com and ingentaselect.com, its flagship online research services. Scheduled to go live early this fall, IngentaConnect offers...

A high-end deep-web portal.(Database Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2004... One of the Web's great contributions is the portal. (Let's define it as an organized and integrated set of links to specific content pages, usually based around a topic.) As the Web rapidly evolved into a mass medium in the late 1990s,...

NewsStand introduces iBrowse reader.(Product News & Reviews)(iBrowse)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... NewsStand, Inc. announced the introduction of iBrowse, a new browser-based tool that's used to read digital editions of magazines and newspapers. Publishers can utilize iBrowse to reach and expand their subscriber base. "iBrowse is...

Information Today, Inc. releases two new directories.(Product News & Reviews)(American Library Directory)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Information Today, Inc. announced the release of the Directory of Library Automation Software, Systems, and Services (DOLA) 2004-2005 edition. The company also announced the availability of ALD On the Web, the American Library Directory's (ALD)...

Swets opens publisher gateway to China.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Swets Information Services announced that it is the first subscription agent to provide a broadband portal to electronic content in China. As part of its e-journals management drive, Swets has entered into a deal with CERNET, a Chinese academic...

John Wiley & Sons launches new version of Current Protocols Online.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced an upgraded version of its Current Protocols Online Web site. This update provides desktop access to both recent and archival content in all of Current Protocols' 12 subject areas. Scientists use Current...

Scopus integrates LinkFinderPlus.(Product News & Reviews)(LinkFinderPlus)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Endeavor Information Systems and Elsevier announced several months of successful testing for the integration of LinkFinderPlus, Endeavor's OpenURL-enabled link resolver, with Scopus, an all-science A&I database. The LinkFinderPlus and...

Project MUSE releases JSTOR article links.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Project MUSE, an online collection of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, announced that as part of a reciprocal-linking program, it has enabled article-level links to JSTOR from its search interface. These links...

Cataloger's desktop now available on the web.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Library of Congress' Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) announced that it has introduced a Web-accessible version of its Cataloger's Desktop tool. The new subscription product can be accessed 24/7 and provides the most widely used...

Thomson ISI upgrades Web of Knowledge.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson ISI announced a major increase in the linking power of ISI Web of Knowledge, including full-text links to journals from hundreds of new publishers. The new release of ISI Web of Knowledge incorporates many additions to Thomson ISI's...

CrossRef, Atypon announce Forward Linking service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... CrossRef and technology partner Atypon announced the launch of CrossRef's new Forward Linking service. In addition to using CrossRef to create outbound links from their references, CrossRef member publishers can now retrieve links to other...

FIZ Karlsruhe offers pharmaceutical substances database on STN International.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... FIZ Karlsruhe announced that it is offering Thieme's Pharmaceutical Substances, an online database for pharmaceutical ingredients, via STN International. More than 2,300 ingredients are now searchable online. In addition, efficient search...

Dialog upgrades DialogLink.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Dialog Corp. announced that it is now offering DialogLink 4.0, an upgraded version of its software package for information professionals. DialogLink 4.0 adds XML output, new post-processing tools, and e-linking capabilities that allow users...

Extenza e-Publishing Services implements Google indexing of hosted E-Journal content.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Extenza e-Publishing Services announced the Google indexing of e-journal content held on its journal-hosting platform. This functionality will enable Google to index all content held in either Adobe PDF or full-text HTML and provide enhanced...

EDGAR Online converts public-company financial statements into XBRL.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... EDGAR Online, Inc. announced that it now offers U.S. public-company financial statements in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). EDGAR Online is also offering users a limited number of real-time public-company financial statements...

International Political Science Abstracts now available on EBSCOhost.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing announced the addition of International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) to EBSCOhost. IPSA, produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading...

Elsevier adds Cell Press, Clinical Oncology.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Elsevier announced the addition of the Cell Press journal collection to its ScienceDirect platform. The company also announced that the third edition of Clinical Oncology is now available online. Cell Press With the addition of Cell...

Ovid announces New Portal Service.(Product News & Reviews)(Ovid Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ovid Technologies announced the availability of its Portal Advantage Service, a tool to help societies and publishing partners, independent journal publishers, foundations, and corporations build fully customizable portals. The service also...

WebFeat.(People Line)(Laura Hinson appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... WebFeat has announced the appointment of Laura Hinson as its vice president of business development. Most recently, she was a business media consultant. Prior to that, she was vice president of promotion at Polygram Records. Source:...

Thomson Corp.(People Line)(Vin Caraher appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Corp. announced that Vin Caraher has been named president and CEO of Thomson Scientific. Before this, he was executive vice president of Thomson's Pharma/Chemistry Markets. In 1989, Caraher joined ISI, which was acquired by Thomson...

West.(People Line)(Cathy Zappa appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... West announced that Cathy Zappa has been named senior vice president of finance. She will lead the development of financial strategies and serve in a leadership role for all finance decisions and business initiatives. Most recently, Zappa...

The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).(People Line)(Claire M. Germain appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) announced that Claire M. Germain has been elected vice president/president-elect. She will take the office of president at the end of the 2005 AALL Annual Meeting. Currently, Germain is...

Thomson Corp.(People Line)(Kingsley Martin appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Thomson Elite, part of Thomson Corp., announced that Kingsley Martin has been named West km's senior director. He will lead the West km Advanced Consulting Practice and contribute to the company's product strategy for knowledge management. ...

The Urban Libraries Council.(People Line)(Martin Gomez appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Urban Libraries Council has announced that Martin Gomez is its new president. Currently, Gomez is the executive director of San Francisco Public Library's Friends & Foundation group. Prior to this, he was executive director of the Brooklyn...

NewsStand, Inc.(People Line)(Richard "Chip" Berry appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... NewsStand, Inc. announced that Richard "Chip" Berry has joined the company as director of magazine sales for North America. He is responsible for expanding the company's inventory of digital-delivery magazine titles. Before this, Berry was...

Convera Corp.(People Line)(Steven M. Samowich appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Convera Corp. announced that Steven M. Samowich has joined the company as COO. He will be responsible for the company's product development, marketing, sales, professional services, and customer support functions. Most recently, Samowich was...

Robert J. Massie, president of Chemical Abstracts Service.(Executive Profile)(Chemical Abstracts Service)
July 1, 2004... Bob Massie has led Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society, since 1992. He came to CAS with an extensive background in publishing, having served last as president and CEO of what is now Thomson Gale. Prior to...

Making first contact on the library Web Site.(Cover Notes)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Web Site Design with the Patron in Mind: A Step-by-Step Guide for Libraries by Susanna Davidsen and Everyl Yankee Chicago: ALA Editions, 2004 ISBN: 0-8389-0869-1 114 pages $40 Almost all libraries now have a Web presence. Many are...

Elsevier announces partnership with Tsinghua University.(Elsevier Information Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Elsevier and Tsinghua University have announced a new publishing partnership that will help encourage scientific and technical growth in China and improve the ways in which Chinese scientific and engineering advances are disseminated and...

Patriotic acts.(In Other Words)
July 1, 2004... My dad turns 82 this month. Like many in his generation, he enlisted in the service just out of high school and fought in World War II. I hope that over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, you took a moment to recognize and appreciate the...

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: a Guide for the Serious Searcher.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... 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, teachers, students, writers, business professionals, and others who need to...

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Edited by Marylaine Block The Internet is a mixed blessing for libraries and librarians. Today, the Net challenges the librarian's ability to select, threatens the survival of the book, necessitates continuous retraining, presents unique...

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... 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 create a comprehensive personal library using no-cost Web resources. And...

The Accidental Webmaster.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... By Julie M. Still Here is a lifeline for the individual who has not been trained as a Webmaster, but who--whether by choice or under duress--has become one nonetheless. While most Web-mastering books focus on programming and related...

Pathways to Nursing: a Guide to Library and Online Research in Nursing and Allied Health.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... By Dennis C. Tucker and Paula Craig This timely book provides a foundation within library and electronic research in the fields of nursing and allied health. It explains essential sources and techniques that can be used by nursing...

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: a Guide to Evaluating CI Technology.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... By France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo As commercial software products for competitive intelligence (CI) emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied...

Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Edited by Michael E. D. Koenig and T Kanti Srikantaiah Editors Srikantaiah and Koenig follow up their groundbreaking Knowledge Management for the Information Professional (2000) with this important book. While the earlier work offered an...

Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast--At Little or No Cost.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... By Paula Berinstein Foreword by Charles Cotton Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more--yet good statistics are notoriously hard to...

A panel for search progress.
July 1, 2004... Our premise was pretty simple: Let's get a bunch of vendors who understand the "search" industry (formerly known as the "search and retrieval industry," I suppose) and get various opinions from them regarding the marketplace in general, their...

How online e-mail deflection can benefit your bottom line.
July 1, 2004... Content management is typically applied to the functional content that users and employees consume every day. Support for authoring, approval workflows and publishing has been a boon to this process. These same capabilities, however, can be of...

Answering the right questions about search.
July 1, 2004... today the typical mid-sized organization accumulates more information in a week than the whole of mankind did between the years 1 and 1500 A.D. Masses of documents, e-mails, databases, images, audio and video recordings form vast repositories...

Moving beyond search.
July 1, 2004... Organizations are continuously investing resources in technology in order to improve disappointing search results. End users, customers and employees alike complain that they cannot find anything. However, search only addresses a portion of the...

Creating and using taxonomies to enhance enterprise search.
July 1, 2004... businesses today have invested heavily in enterprise applications such as CRM, ERP and content management. These investments have led to the creation of vast repositories of corporate information. In addition, these applications contain...

Getting just what you need.(Strategies for Search, Taxonomy and Classification)
July 1, 2004... in a recent keynote speech delivered to the 11th European Business Information Conference (EBIC), Richard J. Harrington, president and CEO of The Thomson Corporation, said, "We need to get the right information to the right people at the right...

Beyond search: the business case for intellectual capital management.
July 1, 2004... The statistic that only 20% of a company's information is in the form of structured data found in databases, while the remaining 80% consists of unstructured and unmanaged documents and content, is cited so often that it's become a cliche. Yet,...

Search and the strategic value to the enterprise.
July 1, 2004... It's impossible to know how much content on your intranet or corporate Web site people need to find, but can't. What is known is the amount of critical information generated across an enterprise continues to multiply like never before....

Automate classification and improve information discovery.
July 1, 2004... Whether you are in a large or small company serving as a line-of-business manager or an IT professional, chances are there are large stores of unstructured information--word processing documents, presentations, e-mail, even Web content--within...

Solving Web search dilemmas.
July 1, 2004... The Web is the world's greatest repository of information... if you can efficiently find what you're looking for. The ability of Web sites and intranets to effectively deliver information to users often depends on a critical, overlooked...