Information Today articles from March 2002

Information Today archives from March 2002

Dialog Corp. introduces NewsRoom.
March 1, 2002... In the Olympian struggle among purveyors of online news sources, there are two measurements that people use to score performance: the number of sources included in a database and the completeness of the file. Dialog Corp. has just upped the...

Divine inc. acquires Northern Light Technology LLC: The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions. (It Feature).
March 1, 2002... In January, Chicago-based divine, Inc. (http://www.divine.com), a provider of integrated solutions to the enterprise market, announced that it had acquired Northern Light's enterprise search technology, e-commerce transaction engine, and...

Keeping an eye on the slinky: The SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association) information industry summit offered encouraging signs of hope for the future. (Report from the Field).
March 1, 2002... On January 29 in New York, approximately 200 information industry executives attended the SIIA Information Industry Summit, titled "Meeting the New Challenges." The event was sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA)...

World reporter reduces content; Three-party contract not renewed.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The 5-year contract among the Financial Times (FT), Dialog, and Dow Jones to create the World Reporter database expired on December 31, 2001 and was not renewed by the three parties, effectively ending the database. Major changes in...

NISO (National Information Standards Organization) establishes networked reference services committee.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that a new committee is now being organized to develop standards that will enable interoperable, networked reference services. Digital reference services are a rapidly growing...

Classy data for people of class: The industry is pursuing institutional clients at the expense at individual users. (Quint's Online).
March 1, 2002... All right, so the Second Coming hasn't come. So we all aren't living in Disney World. So the end of the dot-corn era has taken some of the air out of our tires, maybe even out of the soles of our inflatable footwear. Reality has reared its ugly...

Aurigin Systems Inc.on the verge of bankruptcy.
March 1, 2002... Speculation is high that Aurigin Systems, Inc., an intellectual property analysis company, may soon declare bankruptcy. You'd never know from the company's Web site just how much trouble Aurigin is in. The most recent press release on the...

OCLC 9OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.) completes netLibrary acquisition, raises eBook fees.
March 1, 2002... After struggling financially last fall and looking for a buyer, netLibrary voluntarily declared bankruptcy in November and gratefully welcomed an operating fund loan and a purchase offer from OCLC (see...

E-Global library advances the virtual library:... (Database Review). http://www.egloballibrary.com.
March 1, 2002... The fastest-growing segment of education is distance learning. It takes numerous forms, but a simple definition might be "education delivered to remote locations using technology." The technology may be as ordinary as surface mail, and indeed...

Washington's governor proposes closing state library.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in...

Circumvention, cybersquatting, and groucho: Here's an update on some recent court rulings and pending legislation. (Legal Issues).
March 1, 2002... From time to time, I think it's important to provide a digest of noteworthy legal cases and legislation that have the potential to alter the way the information industry conducts its business. In this column, I'll furnish updates of the...

ALA Midwinter meeting 2002 : Despite a less frantic pace, stark contrasts were apparent at this event. (Report from the Field).
March 1, 2002... New Orleans was the site of this year's ALA Midwinter Meeting, held January 18-23 at the Morial Convention Center. Despite the obvious signs of excitement this city generates when Mardi Gras hovers around the corner, the tempo of the meeting...

Dialog accepts transfer of Thomson intelligence data, seeks applicants for summit scholarships.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that it has accepted the transfer of the Thomson Intelligence Data business. Formerly managed by Thomson's Financial group, Intelligence Data expands Dialog's reach further into the corporate marketplace's strategic...

ITI publishes the information professional's guide to career development online.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. has announced the publication of The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online, by Sarah L. Nesbeitt and Rachel Singer Gordon. According to the announcement, this is the first comprehensive handbook...

Documentum acquires next-generation content aggregation and distribution technology.(acquires Boxcar Software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Documentum, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), has announced that it has acquired privately held Boxcar Software. This acquisition news was announced in conjunction with Documentum's fourth quarter and fiscal 2001...

LexisNexis offers citation tools to bar associations, members. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced that it will offer at no charge the LexisNexis Citation Tools to national, state, metropolitan, county, and local bar associations. LexisNexis Citation Tools comprise a software application featuring the new LEXLink...

Iowa schools select AccuNet/AP multimedia archive. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... The Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEA) has announced that it has purchased subscriptions to the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive as an educational resource. The archive will provide more than 500,000 Iowa grade-school students in 1,741 public and...

ABC-CLIO announces links with history cooperative. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... ABC-CLIO has announced that it has linked its historical abstracting-and-indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to journals electronically published on the History Cooperative Web site. With this new agreement,...

Dialog adds Japanese trademark information, Korean patent abstracts. (Internet Today).(TRADEMARKSCAN-Japan, Derwent Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that TRADEMARKSCAN-Japan, the first Japanese trademark database designed for use outside of Japan, is now available for online searching and document retrieval through the Dialog online information service. Dialog has...

Elsevier science launches E-Choice license. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced that, in conjunction with the integration of Academic Press journals into ScienceDirect, it is launching E-Choice, a new electronic license option. E-Choice offers electronic subscriptions to a licensee's selected...

STN international releases three engineering databases. (Internet Today).(Copperlit, Weldasearch, Standards)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe, the European service center of STN International, an online provider of scientific and technical information, has announced the release of the COPPERLIT, WELDASEARCH, and STANDARDS engineering databases. All three files are now...

NewsEdge Corp. notes new partnerships with Managing Automation Online, the New York times. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... NewsEdge Corp. has announced that its Editor's Picks industry-based content service will be integrated into Managing Automation magazine's Web site (http://www.managingautomation.com). NewsEdge has also announced that it will add daily...

R.R. Bowker announces content agreements with infotrieve, ingenta. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... R.R. Bowker, a publisher of bibliographic information, has announced linking arrangements with Infotrieve and ingenta for ulrichsweb.com, a global Web-based source for detailed information about periodicals. The agreement with Infotrieve,...

ISI ResearchSoft, OCLC enter joint initiative to export references. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... ISI ResearchSoft and OCLC have announced a new relationship between ISI ResearchSoft's leading bibliographic software programs and OCLC's comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of reference databases. Users of OCLC's FirstSearch service can...

Northern light still shines on: Although the public web search was discontinued, there's still a lot going for it. (Internet Insights).
March 1, 2002... The bad news about Northern Light (NL) shutting down the Web search engine component of its NLSearch services for the general public came straight out of the blue (see page 1 of the February issue or...

West Group introduces new company information tabbed page. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... West Group has announced the launch of the Company Information tabbed page, a one-stop, intuitive entry point that provides access to company information, including newspapers, public records, business reports, and more. From the Company...

Northern light, In-Q-Tel partner to provide multiple-language search service. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Northern Light Technology, LLC and In-Q-Tel have announced that they have teamed up to develop an advanced search system that will eliminate the need to manually sift through documents in a variety of languages. In-Q-Tel can now utilize a...

Metrics Group unveils free patent search utility. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Metrics Group, an innovation analytics company, has announced the launch of Citation Bridge, a free Web-based service to help businesses, universities, and governments capitalize on their intellectual property. With Citation Bridge,...

Factiva.com now available for academic and library market. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Factiva has announced the launch of Factiva.com for the academic and library market. Factiva.com will replace Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing and deliver for the first time to schools the content sets from these two existing...

ISI enhances BIOSIS previews, ISI web of science. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... ISI has announced that BIOSIS Previews, produced by BIOSIS and available through ISI Web of Knowledge, will include new searching and linking capabilities. ISI has also announced the release of ISI Web of Science version 5.0. BIOSIS...

Orura search engine debuts. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Orura has announced that the new Orura search engine is now available at http://www.orura.com. Orura's main search section provides access to multiple search engine technologies, weeding out the irrelevancies while offering a concise list of...

National review online integrates LikeIt Technology into web site. (Internet Today).(says Netrics Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Netrics, Inc. has announced that National Review Online will integrate its LikeIt search technology into the http://www.nationalreview.com site. According to the announcement, LikeIt will provide readers and fellow journalists with a more...

EBSCO announces new content availability. (Internet Today).(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced the integration of additional back years of BIOSIS' Biological Abstracts (BA) database, the full text of the American Medical Association Collection database, and INSPEC through its EBSCOhost service. EBSCO has...

IUniverse offers e-book publishing service, announces deal with Kluwer academic publishers. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... iUniverse, a digital publishing infrastructure provider, has announced the availability of on-demand e-book production to its authors. The company has also announced that Kluwer Academic Publishers, a leading publisher of scientific, technical,...

Adobe introduces GoLive 6.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Adobe Systems Inc. releases Adobe GoLive 6.0 and its Adobe Web Workgroup Server)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Adobe Systems, Inc. has announced the release of Adobe GoLive 6.0 and its Adobe Web Workgroup Server, both in one package. Adobe GoLive 6.0 software offers site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring, and support for...

XyEnterprise unveils XML professional publisher 7.1. (News Briefs).(Xyvision Enterprise Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise) has announced the release of XML Professional Publisher (XPP) 7.1, the latest version of its software for standards-based publishing of high-quality printed and Adobe PDF output from XML source...

Ektron, Inc.'s eWebEditPro version 2.5 now available. (New Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ektron, Inc. has announced the release of eWebEditPro version 2.5, a browser-based, multi-language Web content-authoring tool. According to the announcement, thousands of Web developers worldwide have added this component to custom-built and...

Sorting out the web services puzzle: Separating the hype from reality with the internet's next 'hot new thing'. (Focus on Publishing).
March 1, 2002... What remains of the technology hype machine is currently buzzing about the goodness and the glory of what's to come through "Web services." But of all the "hot new things" that have ever rolled down the Internet pipeline, Web services are the...

SPARC launches new consulting group. (Internet Publishing Today).(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced the formation of the SPARC Consulting Group, which provides business, financial, and strategic consulting services to universities and university presses,...

i4I, IXIASOFT Partner on XML content solution. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... i4I, Inc., a provider of XML-powered collaborative content software, and IXIASOFT, a native XML database software company, have announced that they have entered into a partnership that will offer integration compatibility between i4I's Tagless...

Wolters Kluwer selects arbortext's epic editor. (Internet Publishing Today).(and Arbortext's Extend implementation)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Arbortext, Inc. has announced that Wolters Kluwer has chosen its Epic software for XML content creation and will implement the Epic E-Content Engine (E3) for multichannel publishing. According to the announcement, Epic was selected because...

Inmagic releases new version of DB/textworks. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Inmagic, Inc., a developer of knowledge and special library management software, has announced the release of DB/TextWorks version 5.2, which includes the DB/Text WebPublisher and WebPublisher Lite Web publishing components. Version 5.2 now...

CCC streamlines custom reprint delivery. (Internet Publishing Today).(Copyright Clearance Center Inc.)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2002... Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a licensing agent for text-reproduction rights, and Scoop ReprintSource have announced an alliance that will enable publishers who use Rightslink, CCC's digital rights management solution, to streamline...

Texterity debuts E-Galley service. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Texterity, Inc., a provider of electronic publishing services, has announced the general availability of the E-Galley service. E-Galley enables publishers to distribute pre-production books to reviewers, bookstores, libraries, and other...

LOCKSS project to create permanent web publishing system. (Internet Publishing Today).(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... LOCKSS has announced the release of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system, a data-integrity and document-protection solution. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Sun Microsystems, Stanford University...

Oregon library launches web site in Spanish. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Multnomth County (Oregon) Library has announced that it has launched a new Web site for its Spanish-speaking customers (http://www.multcolib.org/libros). While the library has provided a Web site in Spanish since June 1999, the new site offers...

MnLink enters software contract with Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (New Briefs).(Minnesota Library Information Network)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (FD) has announced that the Minnesota Library Information Network (MnLINK) has contracted with it for FD's VDX and ZPORTAL software for the MnLINK Gateway to facilitate electronic access and resource sharing within the...

Divine/Faxon library services unveils enhancements to kLibrary. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... divine/Faxon Library Services has announced several new components of kLibrary, its integrated Web-based service. These include a comprehensive online-renewal module, expanded security functionality, and easy access to Adobe PDF invoices and...

Endeavor announces new options, upgrades, partnerships.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced two new solutions for digital library management that build on ENCompass, its state-of-the-art digital architecture. Endeavor also announced that the 42 Voyager customers currently employing Windows NT...

The benefits of wireless technologies: Their applications offer many advantages to libraries and patrons alike. (The Systems Librarian).
March 1, 2002... An increasing number of libraries are implementing--or are at least planning to implement--wireless technologies. This month I'll present a brief overview of how wireless technologies work, the equipment and standards that underlie wireless...

SIRSI forms alliance with Wilson, installs systems in Connecticut libraries. (Library Systems Today).(SIRSI Corp. and H.W. Wilson Co.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced that the H.W. Wilson Co., a supplier of online and print bibliographic and biographical reference materials, will provide SIRSI's iBistro electronic library with Wilson's Book Review Digest, a complete database of...

TLC/CARL introduces enhancements to YouSeeMore, installs system in Oregon library. (Library Systems Today).(Corvallis-Benton County Public Library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... TLC/CARL has announced a powerful suite of new enhancements to its YouSeeMore product. The company has also announced that the Corvallis-Benton County (Oregon) Public Library has selected Library*Solution. YouSeeMore Enhancements ...

Gaylord partners with Unique Management Services, announces Polaris implementation. (Library Systems Today).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Gaylord Information Systems (GIS) has announced that libraries using the Polaris integrated library system are now able to quickly implement an electronic collection agency function as a result of an agreement between it and Unique Management...

EBSCOhost, LinkFinderPlus offer bidirectional links. (Library Systems Today).(EBSCO Publishing and Endeavor Information Systems)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced that LinkFinderPlus, Endeavor Information Systems' linking system, makes it simple for subscribing libraries to effectively combine their electronic reference resources. More than ever, the integration of library...

ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd., adds more titles; upgrades interface. (Information Today).
March 1, 2002... While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-corns and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations. In...

Ebrary launches ebrarian 2.0, announces new publisher partners.
March 1, 2002... ebrary (http://www.ebrary.com) announced that it has launched ebrarian 2.0 with some pilot library customers. It will globally roll out ebrarian 2.1 with advanced features specifically for libraries in the first quarter of this year. ebrarian...

Calendar.
March 1, 2002... March 11-12: Paris (Universite Marne-la-Vallee). The European Association of Information Services (EUSIDIC) will host its EUSIDIC Spring Meeting 2002, the theme of which is "e-Content: Divide or Rule." According to the announcement, the...

LexisNexis to distribute congressional quarterly content.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Two veteran information industry companies, Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ; http://www.cq.com) and LexisNexis Group (http://www.lexisnexis.com), have announced an alliance in which LexisNexis will become the exclusive online distribution...

Taking Your Company Global: This book reveals how searchers uncover international business information. (Book Review).(Super Searches Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers by Mary Ellen Bates Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2001 ISBN: 0-910965-54-4 250 pages $24.95 Globalization is one of the...

Wolters Kluwer North America Acquires Uniform Information Services, Inc. (Book Review).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Wolters Kluwer North America has announced that it has acquired Uniform Information Services (UIS) of Acton, Massachusetts, a leading provider of electronic and print forms and regulatory databases for the property and casualty insurance...

OCLC establishes WorldCat partnerships.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... OCLC has announced that it is partnering with library service providers, online reference services, publishers, and Webbased booksellers to create a hub via WorldCat that links library collections to those partners and expands the availability...

Gale, ingenta partner on InfTrac plus.(Gale Group teamed up with ingenta Ltd.)(Statistical Data Included)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2002... Gale Group and ingenta, Inc. have announced that they've teamed up to create a new service that will allow researchers and librarians to use a single search to access online journals held by both Gale and ingenta. The companies claim that their...

The British library, elsevier science sign new partnership deal.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2002... The British Library has announced that it has signed an agreement with Elsevier Science that allows access to over 1,000 Elsevier Science titles by readers in the British Library Science Reading Rooms at St. Pancras, and to over 20,000...

CSA, CABS join forces to create biocomplexity information resource.(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and Center for Applied Biodiversity Science signed contract)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) at Conservation International have entered into a collaborative partnership to build and distribute high-quality research resources that focus both on...

NFAIS announces new board of directors.(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... NFAIS, the membership organization for groups that aggregate, organize, and facilitate access to information, has announced its board of directors for 2002. Newly elected members of the board of directors include the following: * David...

EBSCO publishing, lguide combine resources.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced a partnership with Lguide, an independent provider of e-learning research, to develop a definitive online resource covering the entire spectrum of e-learning. EBSCO's Distance Learning Reference Center will...

InfoToday 2002.
March 1, 2002... Dick Kaser Vice President Content Information Today, Inc. The transformation of our annual May event in New York has been a work in progress. Last year we augmented our long-running National Online Meeting with programming on the...

People line.
March 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced that Randall Marcinko is its new president and chief operating officer. Most recently, Marcinko was president of Marcinko Enterprises, Inc., an information-consultancy service that he started in 1996....

divine/Faxon library services announces partnerships. (Classified Today).(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2002... divine/Faxon Library Services has announced the establishment of CrossRef and Infotrieve partnerships that will increase the content and delivery options provided through Information Quest (IQ), the company's state-of-the-art electronic journal...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2002... In last month's Legal Issues column (p. 15), the references to the year "2000" in the first, 12th, and 14th paragraphs should actually read "2001." We apologize for the error.