Information Today articles from July 2005

Information Today archives from July 2005

Protecting against data breaches in higher education.
July 1, 2005... Institutions of higher education have a special philosophy: Their desire is to supply knowledge to all those who seek it. But they are now finding that they have to balance this desire with adequate measures to protect sensitive student and...

Israeli court rules on help wanted case.(All You Need Ltd.)(Ma'ariv-Modiin Publishers Ltd.)
July 1, 2005... Imagine that a company has just spent a substantial amount of time and money compiling a database of information on every Israeli company backed by a venture capital investment (a very long list) or every ski slope in Israel (admittedly one of...

Copyright tug of war.
July 1, 2005... Over Memorial Day weekend, Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith turned around an otherwise lackluster year for the film industry. Yet, just as the movie moguls basked in new triumph, they continued to sound alarms over how technology has...

EDGAR Online debuts I-Metrix Vision.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... EDGAR Online, Inc. announced the premiere of I-Metrix Vision, the latest addition to the I-Metrix product line introduced last April. I-Metrix Vision integrates financial data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) with visualization...

Amigos announces 2005 Fellowship winners.(Amigos Library Services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Amigos Library Services board of trustees announced three award recipients in the 2005 Amigos Fellowship Program: * Margit Smith (University of San Diego) for The Medieval Girdle-Book Documentation Project * Brian Surratt (Texas...

TechBooks to acquire Maximize Learning.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Global content outsourcing company TechBooks agreed to acquire Maximize Learning, a Pune, India-based provider of advanced e-learning solutions. The deal is expected to be finalized this summer, pending approval by the Indian government. ...

University library sets aside real books.(NewsBytes)
July 1, 2005... The University of Texas--Austin reported that almost all of the undergraduate library's 90,000 volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to make room for a 24-hour electronic information commons area by mid-July. As part of a...

Ovid, Elsevier launch EMBiology.(Ovid Technologies Inc. and Elsevier N.V.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ovid and Elsevier have teamed up to create EMBiology, a new bibliographic database for bioscience information that covers both laboratory and field sciences. It will be available on Ovid's Web Gateway platform for small to mid-sized academic...

Copyright Clearance Center unveils CopyRight Plus.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Copyright Clearance Center released CopyRight Plus, a Web-based desktop solution that helps educate users about the licensing and compliance of copyright law. Pfizer, Inc. became the first company to implement the rights management process for...

Cartography Associates launches AMICA.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Cartography Associates launched Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates (AMICA), a collection of more than 100,000 works of art from museums worldwide. This will replace The AMICO Library, which ceased operating at the end of June. The...

Intellitactics sets up HIPAA-compliant solution.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Catholic Healthcare Partners selected Intellitactics Security Manager and Intellitactics Advanced Analytics to create and maintain an environment that is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and to ensure...

EDGAR Online partners with Business Objects, Powers XBRL in Japan.(eXtensible business reporting language)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... EDGAR Online, Inc. agreed to form a new technology partnership with Business Objects, a business intelligence solution provider. The two companies will combine efforts in sales, marketing, and development. Joint customers will be able to access...

The tale of the Big Cheese awards: a fable.(services and awards to the information industry)
July 1, 2005... Some things never die--they just morph. Back in the early days of online searching (the pre-Web era), all-important, decision-quality searching was done by "intermediary" searchers. These intrepid pioneers were famed for their dogged...

Searching deep web content tops the news.(online news on internet)(Column)
July 1, 2005... Late May and June proved to be hectic, with graduations and family events on the personal side and library and industry events on the professional side. Then there was the flood of industry news: The 2005 Annual Conference of the Special...

U.K. library use continues to climb.(statistics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Visits to public libraries in the U.K. increased by nearly 14 million (more than 250,000 extra visits a week) in 2003-2004, according to a report from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. This increase coincides with the...

Thomson West offers American Law Reports.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson West announced the release of two new American Law Reports (ALR) series: ALR 6th and ALR Federal 2nd. The company also added the first ALR series to Westlaw, completing the collection's online presence. The ALR collection spans nearly a...

CISTI finishes Phase I of CTI Portal project.(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, competitive technical intelligence)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), in partnership with Sirsi Canada, Inc., reported the completion of Phase I of its Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) Portal project. CISTI expects to finish Phase II...

Project MUSE collaborates with Google, iGroup.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Project MUSE reported that its collaborative efforts with Google, Inc. have enabled researchers and students to use the Google Web site and the Google Scholar interface to search the Project MUSE site for relevant scholarly research...

Thomson Learning Asia, PEP press reach milestone.(People's Education Press)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Learning Asia announced that its Go For It! textbook series surpassed more than 15 million copies this year, totaling 50 million since September 2003. Go For It! (China Edition), a team effort between Thomson Learning and the People's...

Forever changing.(survey about changes in the users online search)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... In the June issue of Information Today, we included part of a Hot Topics survey from Outsell, Inc. about changes among information consumers. The report confirmed that users aren't rushing to the open Internet to gather information as much as...

Googlephobia.(violation of Copyright Act by Google Inc.)(Column)
July 1, 2005... The first time I saw it, I was dubious. "EPIC 2014" (http://www.robinsloan.com/epic), the futuristic 8-minute video written and produced by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, debuted in late 2004 and became an instant Internet cult classic. ...

InfoToons.(Cartoon)
July 1, 2005... I JUST HEARD THAT A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IS DISPERSING ALMOST EVERY BOOK TO MAKE ROOM FOR A 24-HOUR INFORMATION COMMONS. INFORMATION COMMONS? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S PART OF A TREND ON CAMPUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY... NEW WAYS TO...

The e-books redux.(Focus on Publishing)
July 1, 2005... Conventional wisdom said e-books were not going to work. And it s true that e-books did get off to a rocky start during the dot-com days. It would be kind to say that those clumsy, expensive e-book readers were a premature technology. And it...

Patent reform heats up.(Legal Issues)
July 1, 2005... I published a two-part article on legal trends in patent law in the April and May issues of Information Today. The articles explained some concerns and controversies about the patent process, both within and outside the information community....

A library by any other name.(Internet Waves)
July 1, 2005... For better or worse, I am old enough to remember where I was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and Richard M. Nixon resigned. Not to mention when the school library became a "media center." ...

UV Press, Mark Logic Corp. present historic letters.(University of Virginia)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The University of Virginia (UV) Press is using the MarkLogic Server as the platform for the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, the first complete publication of Dolley Payne Madison's correspondence. This collection, which will include more than...

Hyperion, Teradata expand partnership.(Hyperion Solutions Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Hyperion Solutions Corp. and Teradata expanded their partnership to include a joint customer-profitability management solution designed for companies that sell directly to consumers. This solution, which is now available, combines Hyperion's...

OhioLINK expands content.(OhioLINK Digital Media Center)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... OhioLINK Digital Media Center now carries the Kent State Shootings Oral Histories. The collection comprises audio files of nearly 70 accounts and eyewitness reports from students, faculty, Kent residents, and an Ohio National Guardsman of the...

Thomson Prometric offers certification exams.(NewsBytes)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Prometric, in collaboration with Microsoft, announced the release of Microsoft Learning simulation-based certification exams for the global IT market. The exams mimic real-life scenarios to provide a more accurate measure of the...

Mark Logic unveils MarkLogic Server 3.0.(Mark Logic Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Mark Logic Corp. released MarkLogic Server 3.0, a new version of the company's XML content server. Features include the automatic conversion of Microsoft Office, PDF, and HTML documents to XML; a Web services-enabled content processing...

Silver Surfers.(Reference services for internet users, Telesat Comunicacoes for Satellite's two-way satellite services, Cable and Wireless PLC's investment and profit)
July 1, 2005... Perhaps I have matured beyond the first flush of youth (and my hair has a bit of distinguished gray), but I would never have considered myself old enough to be a "Silver Surfer." That is, until I learned about Silver Surfers' Day, a day...

Tony Llewellyn's new post: The British Library gears up for the future.(Tony Llewellyn)
July 1, 2005... After serving as managing director of publishing for CAB International for 10 years, Tony Llewellyn joined The British Library (BL) in February 2005. He is the new head of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information at the BL's...

Going to information grad school.(On the Road)
July 1, 2005... Taxonomies, wikis, RSS, blogs, social networking, competitive information (CI), content management, enterprise search... are you familiar enough with all of these to know how to use them? Are you feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about the...

Information Today Inc.: conference calendar.
July 1, 2005... SEPTEMBER 19-20 WebSearch University Crystal City Marriot--Arlington, VA http://www.websearchu.com 27-28 InfoX Hilton New York http://www.infox-ny.com OCTOBER 10-11 Internet Librarian International ...

What's new in indexing.(American Society of Indexers's annual conference)
July 1, 2005... Indexers, those people who compile indexes and other information retrieval systems, are awash in work these days--especially those contractors who specialize in legal, medical, scientific, scholarly, and research topics. Indexing is as...

The year of content.(Software & Information Industry Association's annual conference)
July 1, 2005... At its annual conference, which was held May 24-25 in Universal City, Calif., the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) rolled out the red carpet with all the pizazz of Hollywood. "Celebrating 20 years of the best and the...

And the winner is ...(Software Information Industry Association's Codie Awards)
July 1, 2005... The Software Information Industry Association's (SIIA) Codie Awards, billed as the only peer-recognized awards program of its kind in the information industry, pays tribute to outstanding achievement and vision in the worlds of content,...

What's new at SLA 2005.(Special Libraries Association's annual conference)
July 1, 2005... Sporting the theme Putting Knowledge to Work, the 2005 Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) offered a range of opportunities for networking, communication, learning, and other advancements for information professionals....

Libraries in the Digital Age--LIDA 2005.
July 1, 2005... This year's annual Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference was held May 30-June 3 in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia. Each year, the conference focuses on two themes: The first covers research and development and the second addresses...

New kid in town.(2005 Software Information Industry Association Spring Conference)
July 1, 2005... Software as a Service (SaaS) and software management solutions were the big buzz at the Enterprise Software Summit. The summit was part of the 2005 Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) Spring Conference, which was held May 24-25 in...

Conference calendar.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... July 16-20 San Antonio (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center). The American Association of Law Libraries will host its 98th Annual Meeting and Conference, the theme of which is Strategize! Values Visions Vistas. The meeting will feature 70...

Getting to know you online; in this age of near paranoid concern about privacy, why are Internet users sharing increasingly intimate details of their life and work with absolute strangers?(Perspectives)
July 1, 2005... [Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Look for Part 2 next issue.] If you've already dismissed the online social networking boom as a phenomenon for the "party" crowd, you might want to consider taking another look. This...

Posing with mascots.(CyberSports)
July 1, 2005... You have to love a Web site with a motto, even if it is borrowed. Carl's Mascot Photos (http://www.bigfool.com/mascots) has a strangely appropriate one, lifted from the comic strip Dilbert: "If it had a point, it wouldn't be a hobby." ...

Amazon.com still amazes.(LinK-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
July 1, 2005... I was one of Amazon.com's first customers. Well, probably not one of the first 10 or 20, but I'm pretty sure I was among the earliest groups of customers to walk through the virtual doors after the bookseller set up shop on the Web in 1995. ...

Quake predictions just a click away.(U.S. Geological Survey's Web site)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Is there some shaking in your future? You can find out on the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Web site (http://www.pasadena.wr.usgs.gov). The site offers a 24-hour window into the seismic activity in California, from Eureka to San Diego. The...

Personal attention slows distance learning.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Joseph Cavanaugh is counting the virtual hours it takes to teach online courses. The associate professor of economics at Georgia's Wright State University presented his findings in an article in the Online Journal of Distance Learning...

Paper chase.(information companies' survey)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Not all publishers have made the switch to digital. In fact, only 19.4 percent (or one in five) have all their content in digital collections, according to a recent survey by Innodata Isogen, a provider of content supply chain solutions for the...

H.W. Wilson partners with Bowker.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... H.W. Wilson announced an agreement to provide Wilson Standard Content to Bowker's Book Analysis System for school and public libraries. Content comprises the Children's Catalog, the Public Library Catalog, the Senior High School Library...

A tribute to T. B. Rajashekar.(News Makers)(Tarikere Basappa Rajashekar, National Centre for Science Information's associated chairman)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2005... Tarikere Basappa Rajashekar, associate chairman of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, died suddenly in June. Raja, as he was known to his close friends, helped create...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Jane Burke appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the appointment of Jane Burke as its vice president and also general manager of Serials Solutions. Most recently, Burke was a director of new business development at Cadmus Professional...

Comtex News Network Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Chip Brian appointed)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Comtex News Network, Inc. announced that Chip Brian is its new president and COO. Most recently, Brian was Comtex's vice president of operations. Before that, he held a product operations management position at Nyfix, Inc. Prior to that,...

UCLA's Department of Information Studies.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack appointed to University of California (Los Angeles))(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... UCLA's Department of Information Studies has announced that professors Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack have accepted appointments as editors of the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Bates has...

The Thomson Corp.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Mary Cirillo appointed to Thomson Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Thomson Corp. has announced that Mary Cirillo was elected to its board at the company's annual and special meeting of shareholders. Currently, Cirillo is a director of Healthcare Property Investors. She is the former chair and CEO of...

Elsevier.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi appointed to Elsevier N.V.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Elsevier announced the appointment of Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi as vice chairman and head of the company's global academic and customer relations. Most recently, Chi was chairman of Random House Asia. Prior to that, he held several president and...

LITA, Library & Information Technology Association.(William E. Moen of the University of North Texas wins 2005 Frederick G. Kilgour Award )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... LITA, Library & Information Technology Association, announced that William E. Moen of the University of North Texas is the winner of its 2005 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. This award,...

Alan G. Wasserberger, Chief Executive Officer, Intellext.(appointment)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Years ago, Al Wasserberger never thought he would work in the computer industry. In January, however, Wasserberger became head of Chicago-based Intellext. "My father worked for IBM, so I grew up with computers and technology," said...

NPG launches Nature Chemical Biology.(Nature Publishing Group's website)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced the launch of Nature Chemical Biology. The new research journal's Web site links the chemical compounds mentioned in the publication's articles to the PubChem database. This is the first example of a...

i411 Discovery Engine enables smart searching.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... i411, Inc. has developed Discovery Engine, a searching tool that uses algorithms to compress information into a format for optimal searching. It groups results under different headers (location, date, and domain-specific information) to let...

Google scholar: what's in it for you?(weblog service)
July 1, 2005... Let's get right to the point. What does Google Scholar mean to you? It depends on your answer to one question: How serious is your research? If it's casual, Google Scholar will easily provide a small but representative selection of scholarly...

CAS announces STN enhancements.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Chemical Abstract Services announced new features for STN Express with Discover! Analysis Edition (version 8.0). The new version offers improved reports and boosts search, analysis, visualization, and review of scientific information. Other...

Elsevier launches new online collections.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Elsevier recently announced the release of new eClinics and eJournal collections. The collections were created to provide clinical and academic librarians with healthcare information via the Internet. The eJournal collections are available...

Endeavor debuts electronic resource management software.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Endeavor Information Systems recently introduced Endeavor Meridian, an enterprise-level electronic resource management system that provides a single database for a library's electronic collections and reduces work involved in managing,...

CSA Illumina adds BHA, new browser.(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' Bibliography of the History of Art database )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) database is now accessible through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Illumina platform. The database, published by the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and INIST-CNRS, covers...

Ovid introduces SearchSolver for federated search.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ovid Technologies announced the release of SearchSolver, its latest federated search and resource discovery tool. With single access and authentication, users can conduct one-step searches across hundreds of sources. They can also edit and rank...

Factiva adds Guardian Unlimited content.(online information service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Factiva announced that online content from Guardian Unlimited is now available to Factiva subscribers. The new content is updated hourly and contains unique Web articles as well as content from the B2B professional sites MediaGuardian.co.uk,...

CAS, FIZ Karlsruhe debut STN AnaVist.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe jointly announced the summer release of STN AnaVist. This software offers new ways to analyze and view information found in scientific information and patents. "Using results from CAS...

EBSCOhost EJS enhanced adds content.(Electronic Journals Service )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced has added the content of 58 titles from the following 16 publishers: * Company of Biologists * National Academy of Sciences * Pro Ed, Inc. * American Society of Microbiology...

Thomson Gale enhances databases, adds entries.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Thomson Gale announced enhancements and new entries to several of its online databases: * Virtual Reference Library now includes the e-book Major 21st-Century Writers. * The Business & Company Resource Center added Notable Corporate...

Marquis Who's Who unveils digitized biographies.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Marquis Who's Who announced the addition of Who's Who in American History to its online database, Who's Who on the Web. The addition represents the first phase of a major digitization initiative that will add approximately 40,000 biographies to...

Teragram unveils taxonomy management software.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Teragram introduced Teragram TK240 (version 5), its latest taxonomy management software. The software was designed to develop, test, and deploy taxonomies using the company's categorization and concept extraction technology for real-time...

FYI Corp. upgrades data visualization tool.(Product News & Review)(FYI Visual version 2.0)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... FYI Corp.'s latest version of its information presentation tool, FYI Visual (version 2.0), provides functionality in spreadsheet connectivity and user interfacing. Underlying display data can now be exported to a spreadsheet, or a spreadsheet...

Asigra fine-tunes multisite backup and recovery package.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Asigra announced that its Televaulting for Backup Service Providers package now delivers 100-percent regulatory compliant data protection. The software features complete utility provisioning, chargeback, and accountability capabilities, plus a...

Access Innovations enhances Thesaurus Master.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Access Innovations, Inc.'s Thesaurus Master now features Notation Module, an add-on option that allows users to tag their own phrases and keywords in a database's thesaurus. Using individualized terms relevant to a specific company, industry,...

Dow Jones & Co. launches new MarketWatch sections.(Product News & Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Dow Jones & Co. added advertising-sponsored, industry-specific sections to MarketWatch. The Industries sub-channel now contains sections on technology, automobiles, healthcare, and retail; the Life & Money sub-channel contains sections on...

netLibrary offers Chinese titles online.(Product News & Review)(Dragonsource.com's partnership)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... netLibrary now offers a gateway to popular magazines and journals published in mainland China through a partnership with Dragonsource.com, which has a database of more than 1,100 titles in 34 subject areas. Many magazines for this subscription...

Infommersion introduces Xcelsius Enterprise XE.(Product News & Review)
July 1, 2005... Infommersion launched Xcelsius Enterprise XE, a line of products that helps users develop and deploy corporate dashboards that are connected to enterprise data or business intelligence systems. Enterprise XE provides dashboards that help...

Atypon adds high-speed connection, new subscription module.(Atypon Systems)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Atypon Systems established high-speed connectivity for customers who license content to academic institutions in China through the China Education and Research Network (CERNET). Publishers will now be able to use Atypon's Literatum e-publishing...

Generation net hangs out at the library.(Found It On the Internet: Coming of Age Online, Chicago)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online by Frances Jacobson Harris Chicago: American Library Association, 2005 ISBN: 0-8389-0898-5 161 pages $35 paperback If you work in a school or college library, you see how young people...

Summertime blues.(In Other Words)
July 1, 2005... My friend Sheri told me that her daughter Kelsey, who was about to graduate from high school, had a severe case of senioritis. It's been 25 years since my senior year of high school, but I know exactly how Kelsey felt. It's summer. I want...

Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Cashing In With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers By David Meerman Scott; Foreword by Michelle Manafy Gimmicky websites are out. Content is in. In Cashing In With Content,...

Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Yahoo: to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide By Randolph Hock; Foreword by Mary Ellen Bates With its many and diverse features, it's not easy for any individual to keep up with all that Yahoo! has to offer. Fortunately, Ran Hock--"The...

Theories of Information Behavior.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Theories of Information Behavior Edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne McKechnie This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share,...

The Accidental Library Manager.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 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...

Best Technology Practices in Higher Education.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 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...