Information Today articles from March 2004

Information Today archives from March 2004

Underpinning the research community.(Interview with Natalie Ceeney)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... The British Library is one of the world's top three national libraries. But what really makes it stand out from any other library, argues Natalie Ceeney, BL's director of operations and services, is the breadth of its collection and the range...

Information hijacking.(Investigative Report)(Southampton University)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... It seems that the U.S. and U.K. were dragged into a war in Iraq by gossamer strands of intelligence of dubious quality and from suspect sources. That the spin doctors were so skillfully able to twist these strands into a web of fear surprises...

2004 SIIA Summit.(Report From The Field)
March 1, 2004... Three hundred and five registrants braved an impending snowstorm for the SIIA 2004 Information Industry REPORT Summit, held Jan. 27 at the Union League Club in New York. The result: The intimate surroundings and limited guest list fostered a...

Thomson Delphion enhances European patent data analysis.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Thomson Delphion announced that it is now possible for customers to get more complete search results and more thorough analysis of key European patent data. Through an extension of its partnership with CHI Research, Inc., Delphion has added...

Ingenta, EBSCO launch subscription initiative.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Ingenta, Inc. announced the first stage in a new initiative to simplify the process by which libraries configure online access to their e-journals. Launched jointly with EBSCO, the new process will significantly reduce the workload for...

EBSCO celebrates 60 years of business.(News Bytes)
March 1, 2004... EBSCO announced that it is now celebrating its 60th year of serving the library and business communities. "It has been exciting to work with a firm that is committed to superior service and has consistently managed outstanding growth,"...

The horse's mouth.(Up Front)
March 1, 2004... In this age of disintermediation, vendor survival depends more and more on visibility. The hardest thing to attain and maintain is mindshare: the user's awareness that you exist and that your existence affects their existence in a positive...

The latest industry news, developments in enterprise search, and more.(News Break Update)
March 1, 2004... During the past month or so, U.S. news has been dominated by both the MyDoom computer worm (let's hope the offered rewards lead to the code writer's arrest) and the Democratic presidential primaries. Adding to the campaign coverage, LexisNexis...

Elsevier, NESLi2 conclude new agreement.(News Bytes)
March 1, 2004... The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Elsevier, part of the Reed Elsevier Group, announced the conclusion of a new agreement as part of NESLi2, the national electronic journals initiative for the higher education and research...

NISO develops INFO URI scheme.(News Bytes)(Uniform Resource Identifier)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Working under the auspices of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a joint task force of the publishing and library communities has developed and published a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme aimed at the...

LC releases George Washington Papers.(News Bytes)(Library Of Congress)(George Washington Papers)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The Library of Congress announced that the final release of digital images from the George Washington Papers are now online at the American Memory Web site (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gw html/gwhome.html). In this final release, 45 items...

Glasser LegalWorks acquired by FindLaw.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... FindLaw, a Thomson business, announced that it has acquired Glasser LegalWorks, a producer of legal and law practice seminars, events, and publications. According to the announcement, the acquisition of Glasser LegalWorks accelerates FindLaw's...

OCLC announces new services.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... OCLC announced it now offers services that allow consortia to build group online union catalogs and provide resource sharing and reference services under one locally customized interface. OCLC group catalogs are based on library holdings...

ProQuest enters agreement for Springer-Verlag titles.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning announced a new agreement to distribute 103 scholarly journals published by Springer-Verlag. Key titles in science, technology, medicine, economics, and business are included in the licensing agreement. Many of...

Ides of March Madness.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... Well, it's March, and apparently there's some college-basketball-related thing called "March Madness" going on out there. I'm not too up on basketball, pro or otherwise, so I'll refer all questions about that to Lauree Padgett, our In Other...

Quid pro quo.(publication of scientific research)
March 1, 2004... On March 1 and 8, the British House of Commons is scheduled to hold its first hearings on the publication of scientific research. It will consider whether the way research is currently published and distributed limits access, whether the...

Infotoons.
March 1, 2004... ACCORDING TO A UCLA STUDY... ZISS IS RIDICULOUS. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS NONSENSE. HEY, THIS IS GREAT! THIS IS FANTASTIC! I LOVE THE WEB! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The Internet changes course.(Focus on Publishing)
March 1, 2004... An insight I've gained from teaching is that people tend to view the technology world based on their own experiences. For example, the students in my class who work at MIT think, "Everyone has this technology at work and home." They're usually...

2004 ALA Midwinter meeting.(Internet Insights)(American Library Association)
March 1, 2004... I prefer ALA's midwinter conference to its annual event (as long as the former is held in a city that doesn't make me feel like I'm in Antarctica) because it provides good insights into the Internet trends of the online information services...

Shrink-wrap, click-wrap, now browse-wrap.(Legal Issues)
March 1, 2004... One of my hobbies is collecting U.S. postage stamps, an activity I began as a kid. In keeping up with this hobby, I spend a fair amount of time on eBay as both a buyer and a seller. I'm not alone in this respect as eBay is one of the dot-com...

SLA offers language translations at Web site.(News Bytes)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... SLA announced that it has expanded accessibility to its online content by integrating language-translation services from WorldLingo (http://www.worldlingo.com). Visitors to sla.org can now access free, electronically prepared translations...

West unveils Westlaw StatutesPlus.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... West, a Thomson business, has announced the release of Westlaw StatutesPlus, a service that provides timesaving new ways to find, verify, read, and interpret statutes online. "Westlaw StatutesPlus offers the most thorough, efficient...

Extenza e-Publishing Services achieves COUNTER compliance.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Extenza e-Publishing Services, a division of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, announced that it has achieved Level 1 compliance with COUNTER's international e-journal usage standards. Extenza e-Publishing Services has signed a formal declaration...

History comes alive online: you would expect HistoryChannel.com, an online extension of A&E Television Network's popular cable programming, to be a slick site with lots of audio and video. It does not disappoint.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)
March 1, 2004... Resources such as video of the Apollo 11 moon landing, audio of horrified radio reporter Herbert Morrison describing the Hindenburg explosion, and text of a letter from Pliny the Younger recounting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius are just a few...

You're the target.(CyberSports)
March 1, 2004... In the great pantheon that is American sports, there's one game that ties us all together, one shared experience, one focal point that for many determined our athletic futures. We're talking, of course, about dodgeball. You know...

Campaigning on the Web.(Perspective)
March 1, 2004... The jury is still out on the extent to which a candidate's popularity on the Internet translates into votes at the polls. The results of the Iowa Democratic caucus and the New Hampshire primary tell us that Internet successes do not assure...

Thailand.(International Report)
March 1, 2004... Following a round-table meeting at last year's 5th International Online Information & Education Conference in Bangkok, two groups are preparing a feasibility study to examine the need for new-style education for Asian librarians. During...

Malaysia.(International Report)
March 1, 2004... The National Library of Malaysia has launched a new Web site to help improve knowledge of Islam and Muslim communities. Unveiled in December by Malaysian Minister of Education Tan Sri Dato' Seri Musa Mohamad, the International Islamic...

Australia.(International Report)
March 1, 2004... A new search engine has been launched in Australia that claims to offer more precise and personalized searching. Instead of simply giving users long lists of hits, Mooter presorts the results and then presents the searcher with a number of...

Taiwan.(International Report)(Creative Common's iCommons Project)
March 1, 2004... Creative Commons (CC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works that are free to be copied and reused, has announced that it's in formal discussions to expand its International Commons (iCommons) project to China...

U.K.(International Report)(improvement experienced in online advertising sector)
March 1, 2004... As the economy continues to pick up, the climate for online publishers in the U.K. is becoming more positive. Many, for instance, have been experiencing month-to-month improvement in online advertising. In January, the Institute of...

Spring fever.(On the Road)
March 1, 2004... March marks the beginning of the busy spring and summer conference season. Information Today, Inc. has six events coming up in the next 2 months: Computers in Libraries, Internet@Schools East, Buying & Selling eContent, WebSearch University,...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... March 7-9: Rotterdam, Netherlands (Municipal Library Rotterdam). EUSIDIC will hold its Spring Meeting, the theme of which is The Future of Scientific Publishing. Topics will include linking technology and links in the information industry,...

MuseGlobal.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MuseGlobal announced that Kristina Bivins, its senior vice president of business development, will assume the additional title of COO. She will be responsible for the day-to-day company operations as well as partnership development. Jeff...

Entopia, Inc.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Entopia, Inc. announced that Eric Miles has joined the company as its new CEO. Most recently, Miles was the senior vice president and general manager of business intelligence at Sybase. Before that, he was vice president of database...

MUSE.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Project MUSE announced that Bill Kulp is its new indexing coordinator/senior authorities librarian and Greg Harrison is its new production supervisor. Kulp will oversee and coordinate MUSE's indexing and bibliographic access program. He...

Nstein Technologies, Inc.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies, Inc. announced the appointments of Mario Lapointe as its new vice president of sales and Jacques Dufort as its new vice president of business development. Most recently, Lapointe was vice president of sales and...

Luna Imaging, Inc.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Luna Imaging, Inc. has announced the appointment of Al Zortoa as its new CEO. Zortea joined Luna Imaging a year ago as the vice president of sales and marketing and has helped to develop strategic direction and partnerships for the company. He...

NFAIS.(People Line)(National Federation of Abstracting and Information services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... NFAIS has announced that John J. Regazzi is the recipient of the 2004 G. Miles Conrad Award. According to the announcement, this is NFAIS' highest award. It was established in commemoration of its founder, Miles Conrad, to honor information...

Anthea Stratigos co-founder and CEO of Outsell, Inc.(Executive Profile)
March 1, 2004... Anthea Stratigos co-founded Outsell, Inc. in 1994 with Greg Chagaris. She drew on analytic thought leadership gained through increasingly responsible roles at the American Management Association, Dataquest, and IBM. "When Outsell began...

Yahoo! provides 2004 election information.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Yahoo!, Inc. announced the launch of extensive election-related offerings to equip consumers, candidates, and political organizations for the 2004 campaign season. The service provides breaking news, in-depth analysis and opinion, interactive...

NPG launches Chinese edition of Nature.(Product News & Reviews)(Nature Publishing Group )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Japan, its Asian subsidiary, will produce a Chinese edition of Nature to be distributed exclusively in mainland China. The new edition, which joins a Japanese edition of Nature published...

MicroPatent unveils MPI-INPADOC Plus.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MicroPatent, LLC announced the release of its MPI-INPADOC Plus database. This enterprisewide search, monitoring, and review tool within MicroPatent's Patent Web has nearly 50 million patent records as well as alerting and research-management...

Knovel makes e-books act like books.(Database Review)
March 1, 2004... Over the last year, I've reviewed a half-dozen e-book databases. Why so much coverage? Because that's where the action is. During that time, we've welcomed a marvelous variety of e-book collections that are opening vast new spheres of...

Dialog enhances BIOSIS Previews, offers new pricing program.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Dialog Corp. announced that it has enhanced the BIOSIS Previews database, which is available through its Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. The company also announced that it is offering Dialog Choice, a new fixed-fee enterprise pricing plan....

Information Today, Inc. releases new books.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Information Today, Inc. announced the release of The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher, by Randolph Hock, and The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Nicholas G....

JSTOR announces three new journal collections.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... JSTOR has announced the addition of three new collections of peer-reviewed journals: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences IV, and Arts & Sciences Complement. Arts & Sciences III (A&S III) will contain a minimum of 120 journals, with titles...

Serials Solutions releases E-Journal Portal feature.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Serials Solutions, Inc. announced that it has released E-Journal Portal as part of its new E-Journal Access & Management Suite. E-Journal Portal delivers a low-maintenance e-journal management solution and includes daily data updates. ...

Inmagic launches new profiler service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of Inmagic Profiler, a current-awareness and alerting tool that automates the process of distributing relevant information. Profiler, developed by Inmagic partner Trimagic Software, allows individual...

SLA unveils new Web site.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... SLA announced that it has launched the fourth generation of its Web site. According to the announcement, the new online community at http://www.sla.org features a cleaner, more modern appearance, with improved access to resources. The site...

Emerald introduces new online article submission, peer-review system for journal authors.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Emerald has announced the release of JADE, an online article submission and peer-review system that will provide a single end-to-end content management solution for Emerald journal authors and editors. JADE will also capture author copyright...

ISI ResearchSoft introduces new WriteNote version.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... ISI ResearchSoft announced a major upgrade to WriteNote, a Web-based research and writing tool. WriteNote 1.6 supports all popular Web browsers and word processors on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux; provides full Unicode support; and offers...

EBSCO A-to-Z now provides more access.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... EBSCO Information Services announced that its A-to-Z tool now offers access to hundreds of free online journals, such as those found in the Directory of Open Access Journals, PubMed Central, and other portals. These journals, which cover topics...

Swets, ACS team to offer full-text access.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Swets Information Services announced that it has recently concluded negotiations with the American Chemical Society (ACS) to provide access to ACS Web Editions, the current online content of ACS journals, via SwetsWise. SwetsWise is a...

Oxford University Press releases new collection.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Oxford University Press announced the release of Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. This resource enhances the more than 100 books in Oxford's Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the Oxford Companions series, plus...

EBSCO Publishing enhances CINAHL, launches new literature index.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing announced that it is enhancing the EBSCOhost implementation of its recently acquired CINAHL database. The company also announced the introduction of GLBT Life, an index to literature that covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and...

Get out and write.(Cover Notes)( Review of The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication by Rachel Singer Gordon )(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication by Rachel Singer Gordon Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-8108-4895-3 208 pages $34.95 As information professionals, we all know that knowledge is vital to our work and lives. But...

Networking, migrating, and aggravating.(In Other Words)(discusses migrating library systems, malware tools, social networking)(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... Sigh. It seems like "Yesterday," not 40 years ago, that John, Paul, George, and Ringo invaded the U.S. with their "really big" debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. While the Fab Four were causing general pandemonium and hoarse voices within the...

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: a Guide for the Serious Searcher.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... 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, teachers, students, writers, business professionals, and others who need to...

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Marylaine, Block The Internet is a mixed blessing for libraries and librarians. Today, the Net challenges the librarian's ability to select, threatens the survival of the book, necessitates continuous retraining, presents unique...

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... 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 create a comprehensive personal library using no-cost Web resources. And...

The Accidental Webmaster.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... By Julie M. Still Here is a lifeline for the individual who has not been trained as a Webmaster, but who--whether by choice or under duress--has become one nonetheless. While most Web-mastering books focus on programming and related...

Building & Running a Successful Research Business: a Guide for the Independent Information Professional.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... By Mary Ellen Bates Edited by Reva Basch This is the handbook every aspiring independent information professional needs to launch, manage, and build a research business. Organized into four sections, "Getting Started," "Running the...

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: a Guide to Evaluating CI Technology.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... By France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo As commercial software products for competitive intelligence (CI) emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied...

Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Michael E.D. Koenig and T. Kanti Srikantaiah Editors Srikantaiah and Koenig follow up their groundbreaking Knowledge Management for the Information Professional (2000) with this important book. While the earlier work offered an...

Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast--At Little or No Cost.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Foreword by Charles Cotton Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more--yet good statistics are notoriously hard to find. In this...