Information Today articles from June 2005

Information Today archives from June 2005

In the beginning, there was content--Part 2.(Cover Notes)
June 1, 2005... Many new dynamics are stressing our traditional information-producing systems as well as the libraries that provide information to users. These include new technologies, new content, and new ways to access content. To explore these issues, I...

Protecting future policy.(Intellectual Property)(Column)
June 1, 2005... Once the Internet went commercial, intellectual property (IP) issues assumed a legal and cultural importance like never before. For more than a decade, areas of law once reserved for erudite experts have become the subject of water cooler...

No phishing allowed.(protecting customer information from phishing, pharming, and spim)
June 1, 2005... What's one of the biggest challenges in protecting customer information today? According to security experts, it's the expanding knowledge of criminals who are trying to get information. A few years ago, a company's biggest worry was a hacker...

JupiterResearch reports jump in online news viewers.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... JupiterResearch reported that the number of online adults who prefer the Internet as their main source of news has grown more than 35 percent in the last 4 years, at the expense of television and newspapers. Currently, more than 26 percent of...

Factiva releases Factiva Developer's Kit.(NewsBytes)(Factiva Developer's Kit 3.0)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Factiva released Factiva Developer's Kit 3.0, an application programming interface that allows the content and functionality available in Factiva SalesWorks and Factiva Companies & Executives to be integrated into enterprise applications. ...

LexisNexis File & Serve receives SNW Award.(NewsBytes)(Storage Networking World)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... LexisNexis received an award for its LexisNexis File & Serve court filing service at the Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2005 conference in Phoenix. LexisNexis File & Serve was honored in the Innovation and Promise category. Source:...

METRO launches joint digitization project.(NewsBytes)(Metropolitan New York Library Council)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... More than 270 libraries in New York City and Westchester County (N.Y.) will bring some of the city's historical and cultural heritage resources online as part of a collaborative digitization project. Managed by the Metropolitan New York Library...

The invisible vendor.(Up Front)(Column)
June 1, 2005... What is the weightiest, most imposing barrier between professional information products and the world of end users they could--and should--be serving? Invisibility. Vendors put registration, subscription, and payment restrictions between...

Partnerships, personalization, and personal security top the news.
June 1, 2005... This has been a month of interesting deals and nonstop news from the search engine companies. We are increasingly seeing partnerships and distribution agreements between traditional information providers and both the consumer search engines and...

Swets and CSIRO Publishing join forces.(NewsBytes)(Swets Information Services)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Swets Information Services announced that CSIRO Publishing's entire electronic journal collection is now available to Chinese users via a rapid broadband connection to SwetsWise Online Content. Swets will also represent CSIRO Publishing's...

EDGAR Online files financials in XBRL.(NewsBytes)(eXtensible Business Reporting Language)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... EDGAR Online used its own proprietary technology to voluntarily furnish data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to the SEC in an 8-K exhibit, as a supplement to its 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Source: EDGAR Online,...

New 'Live Now' classes offered by Thomson NETg.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Thomson NETg introduced Live Now virtual classes for Business & Professional Development. Broadcasts of the new courses are scheduled for introduction throughout 2Q 2005 and will address the following topics: * Coaching Skills for...

IC INTRACOM expands operations.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... IC INTRACOM opened a sales and distribution center in Chile. According to the release, the company opened facilities in Uruguay in 2003, Mexico in 1999, and Argentina in 1996. With the addition of the Chile center, the company now operates 17...

ClearForest mentioned in AMR Research Alert.(achievements)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ClearForest Corp. announced that it was cited in a Research Alert by AMR Research as a leading provider of text analytics solutions in the automotive industry. In "Automotive Warranty Needs Standards and New Tools," AMR research director Kevin...

What's mine is yours.(private information security threats )(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... You have to love technology. But, as with everything else in life, there's always some bad that comes along with the good. Since we've become such lovers of technology, we're carrying it around wherever we go. "I need information, and I...

Don't be stupid.
June 1, 2005... We now have devices that allow us to e-mail or text message wherever we go. Sounds like a good idea, right? But in our quest to be connected, some of us get carried away. In fact, some researchers say it can become an addiction. Hello, my...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
June 1, 2005... E-MAIL CAN BE SO ADDICTIVE, IT CAN DAMAGE YOUR I.Q. MORE SO THAN POT! --WHOA! NO VACATION FROM E-MAIL... OH! AN ONLINE SALE!! GOTTA CHECK MY E-MAIL! --GIVE IT A REST! I WAS IN REHAB FOR E-MAIL... A NEW...

Can DRM play nice?(Focus on Publishing)(Digital Rights Management)
June 1, 2005... This April, Congress began weighing in on the future of Digital Rights Management (DRM) with Reps. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Howard Berman, D-Calif., suggesting that Congress mandate a single standard for the DRM used in online music networks....

Academics test copyright law.(Legal Issues)
June 1, 2005... Final exam season is in full swing at many academic institutions across the U.S. This testing process is an apt metaphor for several developments in copyright law over the past few weeks. While public attention has recently focused on the...

No going back.(Internet Waves)(Apple iBook)(Column)
June 1, 2005... Last January, my Windows XP laptop croaked. It was the motherboard, something to do with the power supply. The machine would no longer run off AC when plugged into the wall, and the batteries would no longer recharge. It would have cost...

Siperian ranked 'Visionary' in Gartner report.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Siperian, Inc. announced that Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Integration (CDI) report positioned the company in the Visionary Quadrant. The report evaluated nine vendors on specific criteria, including their ability to execute...

Thomson Learning labs releases research data.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Digital course materials and tools developed through an alliance between the University of Virginia (U.Va.), Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard, and Thomson Learning had a positive impact on learning in UVa classes that participated in the study....

Elsevier donates to libraries in developing nations.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Elsevier donated a total of $1 million in books to 10 university libraries in Africa, South America, and Asia in celebration of the House of Elzevir's 425th anniversary and the 125th anniversary of the modern Elsevier company. The donation...

EBSCO Publishing, NISC announce partnership.(NewsBytes)(National Information Services Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... EBSCO Publishing and the National Information Services Corp. (NISC) announced an expanded database alliance. As a result, five NISC databases have been made available via EBSCOhost; an additional seven are scheduled to be made available in the...

Wiley acquires Whurr Publishers.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2005... John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. completed the purchase of Whurr Publishers Limited, a U.K. publisher of books and journals in health sciences and special education. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Source: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,...

U.K. libraries, elections, and manifestos.(International REPORT)
June 1, 2005... The March 10 report from the U.K. Parliament Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport (http:// www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm2 00405/cmselect/cmcumeds/81/8li.pdf) turned the spotlight on the state of public libraries in Great Britain....

Hoover's: solving information chaos.(INTERVIEW with Dwayne Spradlin)(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Dwayne Spradlin joined Hoover's, Inc. as president in November 2004. After about 5 months on the job, he was eager to talk about recent changes at Hoover's and company plans for the rest of 2005 and beyond. Before joining Hoover's, Spradlin was...

A summer potpourri.(On the Road)(library association conferences)(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... People often view summer as a time to slow down, enjoy the outdoors, take a vacation, and get re-energized. In the world of conferences, however, summer is quite busy. Educators, in particular, use the summer for continuing their own learning;...

The Web and after: the future of scholarly E-publishing.(Conference Circuit)(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers)
June 1, 2005... Anyone who follows the topics addressed by information industry conferences realizes that the issue of open access (OA) has pushed everything else aside. Rather than simply discuss the business model, however, the Association of Learned and...

Structured content versus free form: where the experts disagree.(Conference Circuit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, challenged attendees at ITI's Buying & Selling eContent conference (BSEC) in Scottsdale, Ariz., by suggesting that Aristotle was wrong. The world cannot be organized and arranged into a...

Under sunny skies: buying & selling eContent 2005.(Conference Circuit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Information industry leaders, executives, and global content buyers settled into the Buying & Selling eContent 2005 conference under blue skies April 10-12 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Keynote speaker David Weinberger gave a timely talk on the...

The latest on search engines.(Conference Circuit)
June 1, 2005... Almost since the beginning, search engines have been an integral part of the Web experience. Given that history, you might think that they would be routine, well-established tools. But that is far from the case, according to two recent...

Online discussion groups: successful moderation requires a light touch and a heavy dose of tact, empathy, patience, and self-effacement.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
June 1, 2005... At their best, online discussion groups expand your business and social contacts, exposing you to information, opinions, and worldwide camaraderie that you wouldn't find otherwise. In one discussion group I frequent, this camaraderie was...

Cheap seats or cheap shots? CyberSports.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)(http://www.cheap seats.tv)
June 1, 2005... In your Field Correspondent's humble home, we can bridge the generation gap in a variety of ways. The remaining teenager, for example, wants to eat, so he has to talk long enough to suggest that we go out and get pizza. He has to go to...

It's as 'easy as pie'.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)(ClicheSite.com)
June 1, 2005... Good writers avoid cliches like the plague, but you might be in hot water if someone asks, "Are you fair dinkum?" and you don't catch his drift. Fortunately, understanding cliches, sayings, euphemisms, and expressions can be as easy as shooting...

'The Making of Modern Law' wins AALL Award.(News Makers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) selected The Making of Modern Law as the Best New Product for 2005. Published by Thomson Gale, the full-text digital collection provides nearly 10 million pages of legal history from the 19th and...

WebJunction gets Gates grants.(News Makers)
June 1, 2005... WebJunction has been awarded three grants totaling more than $8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "These grants will help library professionals become more proficient in managing successful computer programs for the long-term...

Dow Jones & Co. launches interest-based targeting.(News Makers)
June 1, 2005... Dow Jones & Co. announced the launch of Interest-Based Targeting, powered by Revenue Science, Inc., across its collection of online sites. Oracle joins more than 50 other advertisers as the first technology advertiser to use the service across...

Outsell, Inc. report tracks user trends.(News Makers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Is the honeymoon over? Today, 67 percent of information consumers are turning to the open Web for their search needs compared to 79 percent in 2001, according to the latest Outsell, Inc. survey of 2,000 knowledge workers across corporate lines....

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).(People Line)(promotion of William T. Harris)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced that William T. Harris will now serve as chief human capital officer (CHCO). Harris will direct and monitor the reorganization of all the major groups within the GPO, and he will oversee...

National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS).(People Line)(appointment of Trudi Bellardo Hahn)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) announced that Trudi Bellardo Hahn has been named its executive director. She has been interim executive director since November 2004. Most recently, Hahn was manager of...

Elsevier.(People Line)(appointment of Randolph Charles)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Elsevier announced that Randolph Charles has joined its Health Sciences Division as executive vice president/chief marketing officer. He will be responsible for all health sciences marketing as well as Elsevier Canada. Most recently,...

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).(People Line)(appointment of Heather Joseph)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) announced the appointment of Heather Joseph as its new executive director. She succeeds Rick Johnson, the founding executive director, who has resigned. Prior to this,...

Novell.(People Line)
June 1, 2005... Novell announced that Ron Hovsepian, president of the North America organization, has been promoted to executive vice president of Novell, Inc. and president of worldwide field operations. He will be responsible for field marketing and sales,...

TechBooks.(People Line)(appointment of Elvin Smith)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... TechBooks announced that Elvin Smith has joined the company as sales manager for Information Publishing Group. He will be responsible for the growth and expansion of data conversion opportunities. Most recently, Smith was the major account...

John J. Regazzi.(Executive Profile)(Biography)
June 1, 2005... It's back to school for Elsevier's John J. Regazzi. Come July, he'll be strolling around campus once again. But this time, he'll be sitting on the other side of the desk as dean of the 3-year-old College of Information and Computer Science...

CAS databases accessible via handhelds.(Product News & Reviews)(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Participants at the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) European conference in Vienna used the BlackBerry and other hand-held devices to access information from the CAplus and CAS Registry databases. The service, which is called CAS Mobile, will...

NPG, EMBO create OA Journal.(Product News & Reviews)(European Molecular Biology Organization)(Nature Publishing Group)(open access)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched Molecular Systems Biology, the first publication dedicated solely to the emerging fields of molecular systems biology and synthetic biology. The open...

Good content, good searching, getting better.(Database Review)
June 1, 2005... One of the most consistently interesting and valuable sites on the Web is the Pew Internet & American Life Project (http://www.pew internet.org). I reviewed it in the April 2003 issue of Information Today, and I visit it regularly for fresh...

ProQuest debuts Prisma database.(Product News & Reviews)(Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ProQuest Information and Learning announced the release of Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas (Prisma), a collection of full-text scholarly journals in social sciences and humanities for Hispanic and Latin American studies. The...

CSA unveils E-journal, enhances databases.(Product News & Reviews)(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(National Biological Information Infrastructure)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), as part of a partnership with the National Biological Information Infrastructure, launched Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal. Accessible at...

Dialog NewsRoom adds sources, features.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Dialog NewsRoom now has more than 11,000 content sources, with about 82,000 articles added daily* Content from six magazines published by Time, Inc. (Time, Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly) is also scheduled...

JSTOR partners to develop biological sciences collection.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... JSTOR announced that it has partnered with the Ecological Society of America and BioOne to develop a new Biological Sciences Collection that will contain the complete back runs of at least 100 scholarly journals. The collection will introduce...

EBSCO Publishing offers SocINDEX databases.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text are now available via EBSCOhost. SocINDEX features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a 15,000-term sociology-specific thesaurus as well as abstracts for more than 620 core...

EBSCONET offers new reports, delivery formats.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... EBSCONET expanded its report availability and data transfer format options. Twelve new serials management reports are now online. They may be delivered as PDFs (all except the Subscription Data File) or in comma-delimited ASCII or Microsoft...

Thomson West launches West BriefTools.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Thomson West introduced a new software application for drafting and updating briefs. Brief Fools appears as a toolbar within Microsoft Word, allowing users to draft briefs, add KeyCite symbols, and check citations without leaving the...

WebFeat customizes federated search solutions.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Vigo County (Ind.) Public Library launched its WebFeat-powered MultiSearch federated search solution. MultiSearch enables users to search the library's online databases and catalog resources simultaneously with a single intuitive search...

Thomson Prometric expands EXIN relationship.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Thomson Prometric and EXIN extended their partnership to include Japanese-language exam delivery in Japan. Through the agreement, EXIN will be able to improve the accessibility of its IT Service Management (ITIL) exams for more candidates...

Intellitactics launches Intellitactics Security Reporter.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Intellitactics introduced Intellitactics Security Reporter, an application that automates audit reporting and log aggregation and presents data in a variety of textual and graphical reports. Security Reporter is the first of several modular...

EDGAR Online releases XBRL-based products.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2005... EDGAR Online, Inc. released its I-Metrix suite of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) products. The subscription-based products provide analysis of more than 1,000 normalized and as-reported data points from company financial...

EBSCOhost enhances Electronic Journals Service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced features a new Article-Level Activity usage report for administrators, better journal searching capabilities, and an Athens authentication compliance upgrade. The new usage report, which...

Unexpected effects of computers.(Cover Notes)(The Serendipity Machine: A Voyage of Discovery Through the Unexpected World of Computers)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Serendipity Machine: A Voyage of Discovery Through the Unexpected World of Computers by David Green St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2005 Distributed by Independent Publishers Group ISBN: 1-86508-655-X 216 pages $16.95 paperback...

Rings and things.(In Other Words)
June 1, 2005... "Another bride, another June, another sunny honeymoon, another season, another reason for makin' whoopee." So begins the Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn song "Makin' Whoopee." Since it will be June by the time you read this, and because I have just...

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

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher By Randolph Hock Foreword by Gary Price The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook is the essential guide for anyone who uses the Internet for research: librarians,...

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

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

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

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

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

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