Information Today articles from June 2007

Information Today archives from June 2007

Presidential archives: hype, reality, and limits to access.(important documes must be accessed control)
June 1, 2007... "Open and accountable government is one of the bedrock principles of our democracy," according to a report titled Secrecy in the Bush Administration 2004 by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government...

The 'Net effect' on political campaign strategy.
June 1, 2007... The 2008 presidential election and the preceding primaries could be the first political decisions largely influenced by the Internet and new media, much like the pivotal role television played in the 1960 election. In fact, much has been...

SLA's Click University expands support to info pros.(special libraries association)
June 1, 2007... The main goal of information professionals is to help individuals within their organizations find the resources they need to be successful. For the last 2 years, SLA has provided its postgraduate information professional members the same...

Knovel subscribers account for 60 percent of the 50 Top Universities.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2007... According to Knovel Corp., 60 percent of the Times Higher Education Supplement's 50 Top Universities in the World are Knovel subscribers. Eighty percent of the Top 20 U.S. Engineering Schools are also Knovel subscribers, as listed by U.S. News...

SSP launches new Web site.(NewsBytes)(society for scholarly publishing)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) recently launched a new Web site designed for the scholarly publishing professional, with intuitive navigation, focused content, and an easy-to-use interface. The redesigned site includes new Web 2.0...

Smithsonian begins digitizing scholarly volumes for public access.(NewsBytes)(Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Press plans to construct digital library)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The recently relaunched Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press has begun collaborating with Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) to digitize volumes of the Smithsonian's Contributions and Studies Series for easier public access to rare and...

SCIP announces 2007 award recipients.(NewsBytes)(society of competitor intelligence professionals)(Awards list)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) presented awards to seven individuals on May 1. Since 1989, SCIP has honored members of the competitive intelligence (CI) community in recognition of their achievements and work. John...

Reuters acquires ClearForest.(NewsBytes)(Reuters Group PLC merged with ClearForest, Ltd. )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Reuters has announced an agreement to acquire ClearForest, Ltd., a provider of text analytics solutions. The deal was expected to close by the end of May. Reuters has appointed Gerry Campbell, the former head of search at AOL, to direct the...

The Thomson Corp.'s Master Data Center renamed.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific's Master Data Center, which provides management software and services for intellectual property, has been renamed Thomson Scientific IP Management Services to reflect the organization's range of services. IP Management...

John Wiley & Sons, AAA announce new journal.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2007... John Wiley & Sons, along with the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), announced a joint venture to launch a new international journal called Anatomical Sciences Education. The journal, which will be published six times a year beginning in...

Advertising and amateurs.(Up Front with Barbara Quint)
June 1, 2007... Disintermediation, democratization, or just proliferation. Whatever the term or angle of vision, the number of content sources continues to explode as more and more individuals use the Web and the Internet to reach readers directly. By the...

Privacy issues, healthcare info, and vertical search top the news.(NewsBreak Update)(Column)
June 1, 2007... I came across a real shocker when I was working on this column in late April: The Social Security numbers of thousands of people have been disclosed for years in a publicly available database from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Gary Bass,...

Survey shows businesses are adopting social media.(NewsBytes)(Survey)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Melcrum Publishing released the results of the first survey polling large corporations to see how social media was being integrated into the workplace. Sixty-three percent of businesses responded that they used online video such as YouTube....

H.W. Wilson Biography Reference Bank available on Vermont Online Library.(NewsBytes)(www.hwwilson .com)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The H.W. Wilson Biography Reference Bank is now available statewide to Vermont residents via the Vermont Online Library. The Reference Bank contains biographical information on more than 500,000 people, drawing from nearly 8,000 periodicals and...

Slifter mobile GPS device lets users search via phone.(NewsBytes)(global positioning system)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... GPShopper's Slifter is a shopping device that works with mobile phones to let users check product availability in their areas. Slifter will display nearby locations that carry the product, and the query can be saved or sent via text message to...

IOP to begin publishing American Astronomical Society Journals.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2007... Beginning in September, the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing will begin accepting submissions for the Jan. 1, 2008, edition of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Astronomical Journal. IOP Publishing will also assume the publishing...

Hoover's Index records most-searched businesses on the Web.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Hoover's recently launched The Hoover's Index, listing the top 1,000 most-searched companies on the Internet. The index tracks business searches on major search engines and within Hoover's own site, using the information to display companies...

Blackwell and IMBES publish Mind, Brain, and Education journal.(NewsBytes)
June 1, 2007... Wiley-Blackwell, in association with the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES), has published the first issue of Mind, Brain, and Education. The journal provides basic and researched information on learning and development,...

BioMed Central announces launch of new journal.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... BioMed Central will be launching Biotechnology for Biofuels, a new journal that will focus on understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology to improve plant and biological conversion systems for production of fuels from biomass....

Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... This is the last call to nominate your favorite product, service, or person that you believe has shaped the information industry the most in 2007. The nominations for the 2007 People's Choice Awards will be reviewed and tabulated on June 15....

Ain't no one thing.(information technology adoption)
June 1, 2007... Working with cutting-edge technologists and covering all the latest fads and gadgets can make a person feel very cutting edge, but it can also lead to delusions about the real state of information technology adoption. In the latest study...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
June 1, 2007... ALICE K. HAVE YOU BEEN EMAILING OUR COMPETITORS? JEFF D. UMM... YEAH. ALICE K. "THE COMPANY HAS THIS NEW RESEARCH THAT MONITORS ALL EMAIL, AND FLAGS EMAIL TO CERTAIN OUTSIDE FIRMS, LIKE OUR COMPETITORS. JEFF D. ...

Ten years later: a reflection.(Focus on Publishing)(electronic publishing trends)(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... I can't believe I've been writing this column for 10 years. The time seemed to go by so fast, particularly when I was pushing a deadline. I suppose if we use the Internet rule of thumb that 1 year in the real world equals 10 on the Internet,...

Taxing the Internet.(Legal Issues)(internet sales tax laws)
June 1, 2007... As the income-tax filing season was winding down in mid-April, the debate over the taxation of the Internet was just stepping up. Several actions in state legislatures as well as proposals in Congress are prompting a fresh look at options for...

That was then, this is now.(Internet Waves)(participation from students and faculty at Suncoast Information Specialists organization)
June 1, 2007... Here in the Tampa Bay area, we have a home-brewed professional organization called Suncoast Information Specialists (SIS; www.tblc.org/sis) that attracts information professionals from all over the six-county area. Since the University of South...

Have you reddit? Digg this.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Google Reader, an online library)
June 1, 2007... Four feeds come into my Google Reader that help me keep up-to-date on the most popular topics on the Web. Two are subject-specific, and the others are a free-for-all that sometimes make me want to shake my head in disgust, exhaustion, and...

Publishing Technology is poised for growth.(INTERVIEW with CEO George Lossius)(Interview)(Company overview)
June 1, 2007... VISTA International (www.vista comp.com), a provider of software solutions and services for all aspects of the publishing industry, and Ingenta (www.ingenta.com), a provider of technology and services to the publishing and information industry,...

ProQuest CSA teams up with LexisNexis on online serial content.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... ProQuest CSA and LexisNexis are working together to add valuable genealogical data from the LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection to HeritageQuest Online. The two additions of Private Relief Actions and Memorials and Petitions from the...

Standard & Poor's acquires ClariFI, portfolio analytics added to Capital IQ.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Standard & Poor's announced that it has completed the acquisition of ClariFI. This acquisition will add portfolio analytics to Standard & Poor's Capital IQ, a leader in Web-based professional information solutions, while providing Capital IQ...

BBC announces groundbreaking projects.(International REPORT)(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Company overview)
June 1, 2007... The goal to open the BBC's entire audio and video archive came one step closer to fruition in April with the announcement of an extensive archive trial involving 20,000 people in the U.K. Ultimately, the BBC wishes to help any viewer access any...

Art lovers, rejoice!(News Makers)(Frick Art Reference Library)(libraries of the Brooklyn Museum)(The Museum of Modern Art)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... A $669,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will give the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art the backing to help them integrate their respective online catalogs into one...

The future of newspapers.(News Makers)(survey of newspaper )(Survey)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Ask a roomful of newspaper editors about tabloids of tomorrow, and you're likely to hear a round of applause. In fact, 85 percent of editors around the world are "very optimistic" or "somewhat optimistic" about the future of their newspapers,...

Google tops list of hot global sites.(News Makers)(American Express Co.)(Google Inc.)(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)(Company rankings)
June 1, 2007... The Web's No. 1 search engine is also No. 1 on "The Web Globalization Report Card 2007," according to Byte Level Research. The analysis included 200 Web sites representing the world's leading companies and how they each catered to the global...

Large association conferences on the horizon.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... In June, schools in the northern hemisphere close for the summer holidays, and people start planning or taking vacations. However, in the information industry, several major association annual meetings are held in June, including the SLA...

BSeC: content longing to be free.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Buying & Selling eContent )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... For a show called Buying & Selling eContent (BSeC), it was surprising to leave with the overriding impression that content wants to be free. While this is a recurring idea in the content world--particularly popular among end users--it isn't one...

Search ranks high in Gilbane Conference topics.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
June 1, 2007... Representatives of Google, Microsoft, Convera, Molecular, and other vendors faced off at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management April 10-12 in San Francisco, debating which solution is better for the enterprise: lightweight appliances or...

Spotlight on CIL.(Conference news)
June 1, 2007... More than 2,600 attendees, exhibitors, speakers, and press people crammed into the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va., in April to make the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference another record breaker. Bloggers were out in force, so...

The Indiana online users group celebrates 25 years.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
June 1, 2007... In 1982, the notion of online was brand new, and a group of four "ahead-of-the-times" Hoosier librarians (Miriam Bonham, Meri Meridith, Pat Riesenman, and Becki Whitaker) founded the Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG). Amazingly, the...

EUSIDIC explores Web 2.0 and Library 2.0.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(European association of information services)
June 1, 2007... For its 2007 conference, EUSIDIC (www.eusidic.net) chose the historic Danish town of Roskilde, Denmark, which is about 30 km. west of Copenhagen and more than 1,000 years old. EUSIDIC brought the modern concepts of Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 into...

Interview with Johan van Halm, Executive Secretary, EUSIDIC.(European Association of Information Services)(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... In between conference sessions, I managed to get a few minutes to chat with Johan van Halm about EUSIDIC--past, present, and future. Here are some highlights of our conversation. MO: Besides this annual conference, what does EUSIDIC offer...

Intellectual property in the digital environment: an NFAIS update.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
June 1, 2007... If you think the fine line between copyright and fair use is getting hazy for digital as well as print, you are not alone. At an NFAIS meeting last month in Philadelphia, 25-plus attendees gathered to try to decipher a few of today's most...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... June 3-6: Denver (Colorado Convention Center). The SLA Annual Conference will feature keynote sessions by former Vice President Al Gore and Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoon. Site: Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St.,...

Lou Andreozzi.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointed as chief executive officer at Inference Data)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Inference Data announced that Lou Andreozzi has joined the company as CEO. Most recently, Andreozzi was president and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, a division of Reed Elsevier. While in that position, he was responsible...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Mark Spiers appointed as chief executive officer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Wolters Kluwer Health announced the appointment of Mark Spiers as president and CEO of its healthcare analytics business unit. Spiers has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare analytics business. He has held positions at companies...

Nstein Technologies.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Marie-Josee Metivier appointed as senior vice president of sales )(Luc Filiatreault appointed as president and chief executive officer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Nstein Technologies announced that Luc Filiatreault is its new president and CEO. Most recently, Filiatreault was president and CEO of PG Mensys Information Systems. Prior to that, he incorporated NordTech Aerospace, which was renamed...

Nayatek.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Peter Eicher appointed as senior product manager)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Nayatek announced the appointment of Peter Eicher as senior product manager. Most recently, Eicher was senior product manager for forefront security solutions at Microsoft. While there, he was responsible for positioning, presenting, and...

Columbia University Libraries.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(David Magier appointed as director of Human Rights Documentation and Research )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Columbia University Libraries announced that David Magier has been appointed director of its Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (CHRDR), an international documentation center for the global human rights movement. In addition to...

Johan van Campen, COO/CIO, Swets.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointed as chief operations officer and chief information officer at Swets and Zeitlinger Holding)
June 1, 2007... Johan van Campen sees Swets taking a pivotal role in the e-world revolution. As Swets' new chief operations officer/chief information officer, he's ready to find ways to help the information industry meet the needs of electronic access to...

Innovative interfaces: new ways to look at news, art, and love.(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)(www.tenbyten.org)(www.wordcount.org)
June 1, 2007... When you want world news, you probably turn to television, newspaper, radio reports, or a Web site that usually follows an older media model despite a few interactive enhancements. But imagine an entirely new interface that gives you an...

Cities compete to hold the games.(CyberSports)(www.Chicago2016 .org)(Website overview)
June 1, 2007... Your Field Correspondent is rooting quietly for Chicago to win the right to host the 2016 Olympics, if for nothing else than the thought of being able to get to the games without spending 14 hours crammed into a flying Greyhound bus. Of...

Dealing with new ethical issues on the Internet.(Cover Notes)(Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics )(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics by Mary Ann Bell, Bobby Ezell, and James L. Van Roekel New York: Haworth Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7890-2954-6 $22.95, softcover 187 pages As information professionals, we...

Online marketing's new spin.(Cover Notes)(Excerpt)
June 1, 2007... David Meerman Scott has spent most of his career in the online news business. He was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corp. and held executive positions in an electronic information division of Knight Ridder, which was one of the world's...

Road maps.(In Other Words)(trekking)
June 1, 2007... It's hard for me to believe, but this June marks the 30th anniversary of my 3-week trek across the country with my sister, brother-in-law, and his sister. We drove west from New Jersey to Grand Teton National Park, stopping along the way at...

Rightsphere: a big vote of confidence.(Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.)
June 1, 2007... Less than a year after Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) rolled out Rightsphere at the SLA conference in Baltimore, the buzz surrounding this cutting-edge rights advisory and management tool keeps growing. In April, Rightsphere won a CODiE...

Experts tighten security on online fraud.
June 1, 2007... As consumers continue to warm up to paying bills online, businesses have started converting checks into electronic images for faster processing and settlement. As a result, electronic payments have created their own security and fraud issues,...

EBSCO announces tests in print.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... EBSCO Publishing has announced that Tests in Print is now available through EBSCOhost. Tests in Print, a comprehensive bibliography of commercially available English-language tests, is designed to integrate with the Mental Measurements Yearbook...

Inmagic offers bilingual version of Genie.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2007... Inmagic, Inc. will introduce a bilingual French/English version of its Genie Web-based integrated library system in mid-2007. Genie customers will have the option of using the application in French or English on a desktop-by-desktop basis. This...

How-to sites: the bad, the so-so, and the good.(Database Review)
June 1, 2007... We Americans are practical, can-do problem solvers. We always want to figure out how to do things, so it's no surprise that we've carried this trait over to another one of our handiest inventions: the Internet. In fact, that wonderful...

MuseGlobal joins Blackboard Building Blocks.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... MuseGlobal has joined the Blackboard Building Blocks program. More than 400 academic institutions and thousands of developers have used Blackboard Building Blocks to add new functionality or to integrate other products into the Blackboard...

ProQuest CSA releases American Civil War database.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... ProQuest Civil War Era, a new digital resource that will make researching the American Civil War and its context more direct and complete, is now available from ProQuest CSA. This is the first research solution to collect, digitize, and combine...

Ex Libris launches Primo discovery and delivery solution.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2007... Ex Libris Group announced the release of the Primo unified solution for the discovery and delivery of library resources. Primo addresses the expectations of today's library users for quick, easy, and effective search and retrieval. This system...

ISI Web of Knowledge: a new intuitive platform with power.(Product News & Reviews)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific introduce ISI Web of Knowledge)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific's ISI Web of Knowledge platform will be introducing a new way to find, analyze, and share information this summer. Why now? With expansion to 3,000 institutions worldwide, ISI Web of Knowledge has spent time developing an...

Anfibia Software releases Desktop Orbiter 5.0.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2007... Anfibia Software has released Desktop Orbiter 5.0, a simple way to protect and manage multiple computers quickly and remotely. The new release includes a redesigned communication system that provides faster connections, increases satellite...

Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic market.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Elsevier is now offering ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic customers. ScienceDirect ArticleChoice gives a customer access to journal, handbook, and book series articles that are outside his or her current portfolio. Articles can be...

edioma introduces mobile phone-based language instruction service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... edioma, a provider of context-specific, mobile language instruction mobile learning services, announced that it has developed a mobile language instruction service for mobile subscribers who wish to learn English or Spanish. The program, edigo,...

Absolute Software to the rescue.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2007... In an age where laptops and personal identities are stolen in record numbers, Absolute Software Corp. has a way to take a "byte" out of crime. The Canadian-based computer company, with satellite offices throughout the U.S., has a list of...

Norwegian government goes live with online information management solution.(Product News & Reviews)(usage of information management software)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The Norwegian government has gone live with a new information management solution to power its national Web site (www.government.no). The solution uses NetworkedPlanet's TMCore topic maps technology to link together more than 30,000 documents,...

HP unveils Neoview data warehouse platform and BI services.(Product News & Reviews)
June 1, 2007... HP's Technology Solutions Group released new solutions and services for business technology--a next-generation data warehouse platform called HP Neoview and new business intelligence (BI) services that give businesses better access to data. HP...

Scopus incorporates h-index.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Scopus announced that it will incorporate the h-index and will include visual aids to assist in interpreting consistency and relevance. The h-index is a single number representing the publication records of an individual, the number of papers...

A revolution in online healthcare.(Product News & Reviews)(RevolutionHealth.com)
June 1, 2007... Steve Case has been busy since he left his post as co-founder, chairman, and CEO of AOL in 2003. He just introduced his biggest labor of love from among the many projects he has developed since his departure: RevolutionHealth.com. Case...

Wiley-IEEE Press publishes book on Web Science and Web Life.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Wiley-IEEE Press has published a book called The Web's Awake: An Introduction to the Field of Web Science and the Concept of Web Life by Philip Tetlow. It examines the virtual anatomy of the Web, incorporating the perspective that the Web is...

Sci-tech societies create scitopia.org.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Thirteen scholarly societies have united to create more direct access to their collective content through scitopia.org, a free federated vertical search portal that will help users explore the most cited research in scholarly work and patents...

Nature Publishing Group launches Nature Network London.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched Nature Network London, a social networking site for scientists. It offers a suite of global tools as well as daily commissioned, contributed, and curated content; London bloggers; and London science...

Earth 911 offers tips for electronic waste recycling.(Product News & Reviews)(Earth911.org)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Many people hang onto old computers, cell phones, batteries, and televisions because they don't know how to dispose of them properly. Earth 911, which powers the environmental Web portal Earth911.org and the toll-free recycling hot line...

Bones in Motion offers training resource for runners on Verizon phones.(Product News & Reviews)(Verizon Wireless Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Resource for Runners on Verizon Phones Bones in Motion has just introduced BiM Active and the Runner's World RunTracker on certain Get It Now-enabled phones. Runner's World RunTracker enables runners to track and store their workouts--including...

Northern Light's MI Analyst: new visions in marketing research.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Northern Light's new MI Analyst gives market researchers a definite edge. For report analysis, strategic insight, and business intelligence, this new application can speed up the analysis process and interpret more content accurately than the...

H.W. Wilson debuts Wilson Library Bulletin on Education Full Text database.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Articles from Wilson Library Bulletin from 1983 to 1995 are now available on H.W. Wilson's Education Full Text database. The trade magazine for librarians delivers information on library practices and their evolution, exploring innovations,...

Spotlight on presidential libraries.(Presidential Libraries Act)
June 1, 2007... The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), originally named the National Archives Establishment and created by Congress in 1934, is in charge of collecting and organizing federal records, a job previously left to the...