Information Today articles from June 2002

Information Today archives from June 2002

Online, Inc. acquired by Information Today, Inc. (NewsBreak).
June 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI; http://www.infotoday.com) announced in early May that it acquired Online, Inc. (http://www.onlineinc.com) and its assets, including EContent and EMedia magazines and the Web Search University, Intranets, and Buying...

The big lie: is vendor sponsorship a win-win arrangement or is it having a corrosive effect on the industry. (Poynder on Point).(Patent Information Users Group)(Editorial)
June 1, 2002... [Editor's Note: This month marks the debut of Richard Poynder's new bimonthly column, which will tackle many of the issues affecting the information industry.] While attending an industry meeting in New Orleans 15 years ago, seasoned...

2002 SIIA Annual Conference: synergy abounded at this San Diego event. (Report from the Field).(Software Information and Industry Association)
June 1, 2002... This was a good conference. Imagine the synergy. Software developers were sitting next to content industry executives, K-12 school administrators, and publishers. They were mixing, mingling, and sharing stories. The April Software...

NLM is testing visual interface from Antarcti.ca. (NewsBreak).(National Library of Medecine, Antarcti.ca Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Antarcti.ca Systems, Inc. (http://antarcti.ca), a Canadian developer of data-visualization technology, has announced that the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Specialized Information Services (SIS; http://sis.nlm.nih.gov) division is...

ITI expands super searchers line.(Information Today Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. has announced the publication of Super Searchers Make It On Their Own: Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business, by Suzanne Sabroski. "Over the years...

Some advice for Google Answers: adopting high-quality standards can help build a reliable, consistent service. (Quint's Online).
June 1, 2002... Google. Well, well, well. So you've decided to answer questions directly, to come out from behind the protective cover of a "resource" and face the challenge of talking to requesters by asking them what they want to know and telling them what...

Oxford reference online fills big niche: this database provides excellent content with attractive pricing options. (Database Review).(Oxford University Press)
June 1, 2002... The conventional wisdom is that it takes older and well-established organizations longer to make the transition from one technology to another than their younger and more flexible counterparts. This has generally been the model for publishing...

To link or not to link: recent legal challenges have raised red flags for Web site developers. (Legal Issues).
June 1, 2002... I recall learning about hyperlinks and hypertext in library school back in the mid 1980s. It sounded like an interesting, possibly valuable means of interconnecting various information sources. But to be honest, I wasn't completely sure if and...

Academic libraries develop integrated portal software package. (News Break).(Association of Research Libraries, Fretwell-Downing Inc.)
June 1, 2002... Libraries continue to expand their "turf' in virtual space. Academic libraries that belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL; http://www.arl.org) have launched a Scholars Portal Project in collaboration with Fretwell-Downing, Inc....

CRIBIS announces latest upgrade for SkyMinder. (NewsBreak).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... CRIBIS Corp. (http://www.cribis.com) has announced a new product release for SkyMinder (http://www.skyminder.com), the online business information provider with data covering over 33 million companies in 230 countries. The upgrades to the...

2002 Search Engine Meeting: the focus was on the current state of these systems and their future. (Report from the Field).
June 1, 2002... The Search Engine Meeting, sponsored by Infonortics, Ltd. of Tetbury, U.K., grew out of a memorable Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) event held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1995. Recognizing a significant trend in...

U.S. debuts GovBenefits site. (News Briefs).(Office of Management and Budget launches web site)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has announced the launch of the GovBenefits Web site (http://www.govbenefits.gov), a source for information on government benefits. It will help users access eligibility information through a screening...

NewsEdge teams with Chamber of Commerce. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... NewsEdge has announced a partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) to make the chamber's Web site the premier English-language source of Japanrelated information. NewsEdge-delivered content-including new customized...

Alexander Street Press releases religion database. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Alexander Street Press has announced the launch of the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (CPT), an electronic database produced by Ad Fontes, an educational resource for research in religious studies. CPT features searchable full text...

Enfish unveils Enfish Enterprise 5.1. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Enfish Corp., an enterprise software provider, has announced the delivery of Enfish Enterprise 5.1, an integrated enterprise solution that puts desktop data, corporate knowledge, and relevant information from intranets, extranets, and the...

Gale signs several licensing agreements. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Gale Group has announced that through an agreement with Conde Nast Publications, Inc., The New Yorker will now be available online through Gale's InfoTrac databases. The agreement with The New Yorker, best known for arts reporting in and...

NYTimes.com goes live with eRights. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... New York Times Digital and eMeta Corp. have announced that NYTimes.com has gone live with eRights, eMeta's information-access-control and commerce solution, to expand its product offerings and simplify subscriber access to its archives. eRights...

Looks like it's time for the Internet: if there's something you want to know, you can find it instantly on the Web. (Internet Waves).(Column)
June 1, 2002... I've always loved the sea, and I live quite close to the Gulf of Mexico. But sometimes I really wonder why anyone would want to swim in open water. It's not just the sharks (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/ISAF/ISAFhtm). There's a whole...

LexisNexis expands news coverage, content.(adds Ethnic Newsline, Business Monitor International, and Regional Newsline content)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced the addition of Ethnic Newsline and Regional Newsline to its Academic Universe and nexis.com services. The company also announced the integration of licensed content from Business Monitor International (BMI), which will...

Dialog adds Canadian newspaper to service, announces alliance with BioSpace, Inc. (Internet Today).(National Post agreement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that it has added The National Post, one of two national daily newspapers in Canada, to its online services. The company also announced that it has entered an alliance with BioSpace, Inc., a provider of a Web site...

Associated Press news, photos offered in FluentMedia content service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Media Services, and The Associated Press (AP) have announced that they have agreed to add AP news and photos to FluentMedia's content service. AP Digital, a division of AP that distributes...

STN reloads enhanced Beilstein database. (Internet Today).(FIZ Karlsruhe announces enhanced database reloaded onto STN International service)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe, the European service center of STN International, has announced that an enhanced version of the Beilstein database has been reloaded onto the STN service. As part of a major upgrade to the database, a new Pharmacological and...

Cross-searching electronic journal archives: with only one query, 10 archives can be searched in less than a minute. (Internal Insights).(Column)
June 1, 2002... Open access scholarly and professional electronic journals in computer, library, and information science and technology (CLIST) had been on my reading list, but not as much as I would have liked. As opposed to print journals, which land in my...

STN Easy offers new patent look-up tool.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the release of Patent Tab, a new feature on the STN Easy site. According to the announcement, Patent Tab provides fast, easy-to-use patent look-up for...

West Group enhances Westlaw service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... West Group has announced the release of three new productivity tools in westlaw.com: two-click printing, a personalization option, and enhanced cite list functionality. West Group president Mike Wilens said the new enhancements to Westlaw...

ISI ResearchSoft unveils new content files. (Internet Today).(for EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ISI ResearchSoft has announced the release of over 500 new and updated content files for EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager. They include connection files to search Internet libraries worldwide, import filters to capture a wide variety of...

Syndic8 creates directory of syndicated news sources. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Vertex Development has announced the release of Syndic8, a directory of syndicated news headlines. Representing the collaborative efforts of nearly 500 participants worldwide, Syndic8 catalogs over 4,500 sources of syndicated news headlines in...

Adobe Systems unveils new FrameMaker products. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Adobe Systems, Inc. has announced the release of Adobe FrameMaker 7.0, the latest version of its enterprise authoring and publishing solution. FrameMaker 7.0 allows corporations to use XML to search, share, and re-purpose content across the...

Kluwer introduces e-bookstore. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Kluwer, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, has announced the launch of an e-bookstore for academic and research professionals. The site (http://ebooks.kluweronline.com) features Adobe PDF e-book titles in several subject areas,...

Inktomi, interwoven expand technology-sharing alliance. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Inktomi Corp. and Interwoven, Inc. have announced an expanded alliance to deliver a fully integrated information management, categorization, and retrieval solution to enterprises. The companies currently offer an integrated solution that...

California Digital Library opens online repository for working papers. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced the launch of a Web site and associated digital services to store and distribute academic research results and working papers. The eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org)...

SPARC is ready to go mainstream: are the pieces now in place to change scholarly journal publishing? (Focus on Publishing).(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A strange thing happened as I was writing this column: The lyrics from the 1960s song "Age of Aquarius" suddenly popped into my head. "When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars/Then peace will guide the planets/And love...

SealedMedia releases new document security software. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... SealedMedia, a digital rights management software provider, has announced the latest release of its document security software. The new technology can seal Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in addition to the standard media formats already supported:...

Sonic Foundry launches MediaSite Publisher 5.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Sonic Foundry, Inc., a software and services provider of rich media content-creation and -management technologies, has unveiled MediaSite Publisher 5.0, a suite of software applications that provides media content integration, indexing, and...

ActiveBuddy's interactive agent technology tested by developers. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ActiveBuddy, Inc., a provider of interactive agent technology, has announced that a group of leading-edge developers has been granted early access to its software-development tools and deployment servers. International advertising agency...

IBM introduces WebSphere Portal software. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... IBM has announced the release of IBM WebSphere Portal 4.1, a new version of its Web portal software that helps businesses interact with employees, consumers, and other businesses. WebSphere Portal 4.1 provides new collaborative capabilities,...

Extenza unveils news e-Publishing Service. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Extenza, a division of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, has announced the launch of Exteaza e-Publishing Services. The new service, set to launch officially in October, will provide scholarly and professional publishers with a cost-effective and...

Arkansas Library chooses epixtech's Horizon Sunrise. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... epixtech, Inc. has announced that the West Memphis (Arkansas) Public Library has selected its Horizon Sunrise system to provide automated services to library patrons and staff. With the implementation of Horizon, the library will be able to...

Agricultural Library selects endeavor's Voyager. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has selected its Voyager integrated library management system to provide access to NAL's extensive collection. Voyager will be fully implemented at NAL by...

Georgia Library System chooses Brodart's DartClix. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Brodart Automation, a division of Brodart Co., has announced that the Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System in Columbus, Georgia, has chosen DartClix to enhance its public access catalog. The system maintains a total circulation of over...

CASPR unveils Library World version 3.0. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... CASPR Library Systems, Inc. has announced the release of Library World version 3.0. With an enhanced user interface that's specifically designed for Windows XP and Macintosh OS/X, this new release provides the professional tool librarians need...

ebrary offers new pricing option, announces agreements. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ebrary, Inc. has announced that it has added an "all-you-can-eat" pricing option for its ebrarian for Libraries service. The company also announced that it has partnered with three international resellers to distribute ebrarian for Libraries to...

The benefits of library partnerships: multilibrary catalogs can allow institutions to efficiently share resources. (The Systems Librarian).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... In April I had the pleasure of speaking about shared catalogs at a library conference. My role was to describe the virtual catalog approach that underlies Kudzu, a system that "covers the south" by connecting the catalogs of 16 academic...

SIRSI announces Users Group meeting, system installment. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced that more than 500 representatives from libraries around the world gathered in Huntsville, Alabama, from May 2-4 for the annual meeting of the Unicorn Users Group International (UUGI). SIRSI also announced that the...

RLG reports openURL link creation is now in Eureka interface. (Library Systems Today).(Research Libraries Group)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Research Libraries Group (RLG) has announced that full support for OpenURL dynamic link creation is now in the newest version of Eureka, the Web search interface to many of RLG's databases. Libraries and information centers with their own...

OCLC to create computing portal for public libraries. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded it a 3-year, $9 million grant to build a Webbased, public-access computing portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. The...

Calendar.
June 1, 2002... June 4-6: Washington, D.C. (The Capital Hilton). The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) will sponsor the AEP Educational Publishing Summit 2002, an annual conference that offers diverse sessions to help educational publishers keep...

Consumers Union launches consumer Web watch. (NewsBreak).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Consumers Union (http://www.consumersunion.org), the venerable defender of consumer interests and publisher of Consumer Reports, has launched Consumer WebWatch, a new service designed to rate Web sites. (Users can reach the service at...

Preparing successful online tutorials: Teaching patrons how to use resources by themselves can benefit everyone. (Book Review).
June 1, 2002... So many information sources are now available through a Web interface. For most libraries, the Web has become the preferred method of accessing databases, indexes, and their public catalogs. Patrons are generally familiar with using Netscape or...

Webmergers, the451 unveil TechDealmaker. (NewsBreak).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Webmergers, Inc. (http://www.webmergers.com) and the451 (http://www.the451.com) have joined forces to create TechDealmaker (http://www.techdealmaker.com), a weekly e-mail "intelligence service aimed at technology M&A professionals" that tracks...

New Google Answers service raises a few questions of its own. (NewsBreak).
June 1, 2002... For searchers, there have been attempts to make search services available to those trying to navigate the Internet. Some reference services are linked to search engines: Ask Yahoo!, for example, or Ask Jeeves' database of questions that link to...

Yahoo! service offers more advice than expertise. (Newsbreak).
June 1, 2002... First Google started an advice service with Google Answers [see the NewsBreak on page 50]. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with Yahoo! Advice (http://advice.yahoo.com), which is offered through a partnership with LiveAdvice. Is this a new...

SIRSI Corp. has announced the appointment of Lamar Jackson Jr. as director of global alliances. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced the appointment of Lamar Jackson Jr. as director of global alliances. He will be responsible for building strategic relationships with global industry third-party vendors. Most recently Jackson served as vice...

OCLC has announced the appointment of Rich Rosy to the position of corporate vice president in charge of the netLibrary division. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... OCLC has announced the appointment of Rich Rosy to the position of corporate vice president in charge of the netLibrary division. He is succeeding Rob Kaufman, who has left to pursue other interests. Most recently Rosy was netLibrary's...

The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) has announced the appointment of Cameron Macdonald to its newly created position of director of publisher relations. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) has announced the appointment of Cameron Macdonald to its newly created position of director of publisher relations. CISTI created the position in order to implement its...

The Library Corporation (TLC) has announced that Corrine Kuhl has been selected as the new director of CARL Services. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Library Corporation (TLC) has announced that Corrine Kuhl has been selected as the new director of CARL Services. As such, she will educate existing clients about the range of services available with CARL*Solution and will work with product...

The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has announced that Terry Weech received a 2-week assignment to Ljubljana. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science.(GSLIS) has announced that Terry Weech received a 2-week assignment to Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. The...

Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, Inc. has announced that Wolfgang Pilch is the recipient of the International Patent Information (IPI) Award for 2002. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, Inc. has announced that Wolfgang Pilch is the recipient of the International Patent Information (IPI) Award for 2002. The award, sponsored by TPR, consists of a plaque and an honorarium of...

Outsell, Inc. has announced that Bill Burger has joined the company as vice president and lead analyst. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Outsell, Inc. has announced that Bill Burger has joined the company as vice president and lead analyst. Burger will direct all aspects of Outsell's analytic and advisory coverage of the News & Trade, General Aggregation, and Distributor...

R.R.Bowker has named Andrew Grabois to the newly created position of senior director of publisher relations and content development. (People Line).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... R.R.Bowker has named Andrew Grabois to the newly created position of senior director of publisher relations and content development. According to the announcement, Grabois will be responsible for meeting with publishers to re-engineer,...

TechBooks has announced that Gurvinder Batra. (People Line).(to oversee United States and India operations)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... TechBooks has announced that Gurvinder Batra, its executive vice president and chief technical officer, will now be responsible for overseeing the company's operations in the U.S. and India. Previously he was in charge of operations in India...