Information Today articles from March 2005

Information Today archives from March 2005

Growth continues for Information Online Conference.(Report From The Field)
March 1, 2005... The Information Online 2005 12th Exhibition and Conference took place Feb. 1-3 at the Sydney Convention Center in Darling Harbor, Australia. As the self-proclaimed "No. 1 event for the online information industry in the Asia-Pacific...

Moreover, the news aggregator.(Interview with Jim Pitkow)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... When it comes to real-time news, Moreover offers a wealth of options harvested continuously from more than 8,000 online news and information sources across 115 countries in 23 languages. Articles are aggregated from a broad range of...

Southampton Workshop tackles open access.(Report From The Field)
March 1, 2005... "Successful" and "well-attended" are the key descriptions of the 2-day Southampton Workshop on U.K. Institutional OA Repositories, held Jan. 25-26 at the New College campus of the University of Southampton. Representatives from the two...

ASAP gets patent for theft alert technology.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ASAP Software has been granted a patent for its hardware-theft prevention technology embedded in its asset management solution, ASAP eSMART. Although the patent was just awarded to ASAP, the technology itself has been a part of eSMART since its...

Factiva sets new standard for sales productivity solutions.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Factiva has recently launched two solutions to help enterprises drive revenue performance, improve sales effectiveness, and develop customer relationships. The two solutions--Factiva SalesWorks and Factiva Companies & Executives--combine...

CSA and GeoScienceWorld team up in major collection.(News Bytes)(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and GeoScienceWorld (GSW) have agreed to offer the GSW Millennium Collection and the GSW Literature Archives. Subscribers will have access to the electronic, full text of 30 journals, ranging from American...

University of Oklahoma Libraries launches customized WebFeat system.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... In mid-January, the University of Oklahoma Libraries launched a WebFeat federated search system. The university is the first academic library to make extensive use of the WebFeat API (Abstract Programming Interface) to customize its system....

American Chemical Society, Thomson debut linking agreement.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific has teamed up with the American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division to provide Web of Science subscribers, who also subscribe to American Chemical Society Publications, with links to the full text of articles from...

Not for love or money.(Upfront with Barbara Quint)(information management)(Column)
March 1, 2005... In previous issues, my column has criticized the vendor policies of building products and services that are only available to academic libraries. The rationale of a business strategy that ignores the potential market of building upon student...

Optimism pervades the industry.(News Break Update)(information industry)(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2005... As we head into the third month of the year and anticipate the arrival of spring, I sense a mood of optimism in the information industry. We're seeing some interesting company acquisitions, reports of improved financial results, increased...

Dialog NewsRoom offers full-text archive of The New York Times.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Dialog now offers a full-text archive of The New York Times, dating back to 1980. The archive is available to North American subscribers and elsewhere around the world. Dialog previously offered its non-North American subscribers a...

Draft of Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for books offered.(News Bytes)(Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The draft of Release 1 of the new COUNTER Code of Practice for online books and reference works is now available on the COUNTER Web site at http:// www.projectcounter.org. It will be available for comment until December 2005. The final version...

Blackwell's Book Services expands to African nations.(News Bytes)(African Capacity Building Foundation)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has selected Blackwell's Book Services and Ebook Library as the primary providers of print and digital materials for its Library and Information Centre. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, ACBF's...

FIZ Karlsruhe adds EPFULL.(News Bytes)(European Patents Full Text)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FIZ Karlsruhe has added EPFULL (the European Patents Full Text database) to its portfolio of patent databases. EPFULL covers the full text of European patent applications and granted European patents as well as bibliographic records for PCT...

Aries Systems releases Editorial Manager 3.1.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Aries Systems Corp. released Editorial Manager 3.1. Highlights include conference submissions, a new tool that facilitates submission, processing, and extraction of conference submissions; journal office enhancements that require authors to...

EDGAR Online to introduce I-Metrics Excel.(News Bytes)(EDGAR Online Inc. to demonstrate EDGAR Online I-Metrics Excel Add-In at ValueRich Small-Cap Financial Expo)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... EDGAR Online, Inc. will offer demonstrations of its new EDGAR Online I-Metrics Excel Add-In at this month's ValueRich Small-Cap Financial Expo. I-Metrics lets users analyze public company information from SEC filings. As part of the...

Glasser LegalWorks offers spring seminars.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Glasser LegalWorks is offering a series of seminars focusing on substantive legal topics and topics paramount to the business of law. Law Firm Leaders Forum, for leaders with management responsibility in large or medium-sized law firms,...

Founder of EBSCO Industries, Inc. dies.(Elton Bryson Stephens)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 1, 2005... Elton Bryson Stephens, founder and chairman emeritus of EBSCO Industries, Inc., died Feb. 5 at the age of 93. He spent a lifetime advancing the arts, health, finance, and education in Alabama. His support of Alabama institutions of higher...

Letter from the editor.
March 1, 2005... When preparing each issue of Information Today, the ITI writers and editors spend plenty of time digging up the latest developments in the world of information technology. And recently, there's been a lot of digging going on. Product news,...

The bloggers & embargoes thread.
March 1, 2005... The other day around our shop, we got to chatting about whether bloggers need to follow the same rules that we do as professional journalists working for traditional media. The case in point? News embargoes. When a company has something big...

Infotoons.
March 1, 2005... STROOLE! IS TAKING OVER EVERYTHING. HUH? TWO ENTREPRENEURS CAME UP WITH STROOLE DOODLE, STROOLE COCKADOODLE AND EVEN STROODLE KABOODLE! WHOA! ALL I KNOW IS I LOVE APPLE STRUDEL! OH, I HATE THESE POP UP ADS! I WISH...

Makeover news: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 released.(Focus on Publishing)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2005... Acrobat is probably the most misunderstood software in history. Many people think of Acrobat strictly in terms of Acrobat Reader. As for where PDFs actually come from, they don't really know. Or maybe they know Acrobat Elements, a stripped-down...

Search me.(Internet Waves)(search engines)
March 1, 2005... Pour yourself a fresh cup of coffee and get comfortable, folks. It's quiz time. Since each Web search engine has its own way of identifying "pay for play" search results (where some entity has coughed up a chunk of change so that its link...

A crystal ball for Congress.(Legal Issues)
March 1, 2005... Whenever I'm writing about legal issues that impact the information industry, I frequently comment that the law has a difficult time keeping up with changing technology. Much of our copyright, contract, jurisdiction, and First Amendment laws...

Internet governance issue heats up as next World Summit nears.(International Report)(Information Today Inc.)(World Summit on the Information Society)
March 1, 2005... In the February 2004 issue of Information Today, Dick Kaser, Information Today, Inc.'s vice president of content, reported on the first-phase conference of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which was held in Geneva in December...

iPod sprouts successful changes in media landscape: the iPod is turning out to be a far more versatile, solidly useful device than most of us ever imagined at the outset.(Perspectives)
March 1, 2005... Things are seldom what they seem; Skim milk masquerades as cream. Gilbert and Sullivan's character Little Buttercup (from HMS Pinafore) is right: Things often disappoint. Not so the iPod (http://www.apple .com/ipod), though. Last...

Sims play matchup.(CyberSports)
March 1, 2005... First of all, this is just a disclaimer: Any Web site that opens up with photos of two members of the Baseball Hall of Fame is just dandy with your Field Correspondent. Yes, we baseball aficionados are suckers for old pictures, as any...

Let's talk about sex.(Link-up @ home: your personal guide to the Web)
March 1, 2005... As if the election last Nov. 2 wasn't enough to show that the U.S. is a nation divided by the concept of moral values, the movie Kinsey was released on Nov. 12. Roger Ebert called it "a fascinating biography of the Indiana University professor"...

The Wall Street Journal Online available for BlackBerry.(Product News & Reviews)(Outercuve Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Wall Street Journal Online and Outercurve Technologies launched The Wall Street Journal Online for the BlackBerry platform. The Wall Street Journal for BlackBerry is available to Outercurve's InfoEdge customers. This service will be offered...

Questel*Orbit adds FamPat.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Questel*Orbit introduced FamPat, its new international patent family database. FamPat is based on PlusPat, the company's international patent database, and produces more than 50 million records from 75 worldwide patenting authorities....

McGraw-Hill revamps two sites.(Product News & Reviews)(www.AviationNow.com, www.construction.com)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... McGraw-Hill Companies revamped its Web sites for Aviation Week (http://www .AviationNow.com) and McGraw-Hill Construction (http://www.construction.com) that provide access to a network of information and analysis. The sites provide news...

The EPIC fight for privacy.(Database Review)(Electronic Privacy Information Center)(Column)
March 1, 2005... If you're reading this column, you've probably heard of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). If nothing else, you've read news stories about its lawsuits or seen quotes from its officials. In fact, EPIC is active wherever...

Thomson West unveils Westlaw Smart Tools.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Thomson West's Smart Tools on Westlaw is designed to help researchers who are conducting legal searches. Even if a user conducts an imperfect search, Smart Tools can retrieve comprehensive results by using the following features: * Add...

k.soft introduces RSS Submit 1.0.(Product News & Reviews)(automated software tool )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... As more Webmasters begin using blog and RSS feed technology to distribute content, they may need help announcing their feeds, k.soft's RSS Submit is an automated software tool that submits RSS feeds to RSS search engines and directories....

Atypon acquires Extenza e-Publishing.(Product News & Reviews)(Atypon Systems Inc. acquires Extenza e-Publishing Services from Royal Swets and Zeitlinger)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Atypon Systems, Inc. announced that it acquired Extenza e-Publishing Services from Swets. Active since 2003, Extenza currently offers a journal-hosting service for approximately 50 publishers. Atypon will maintain the Extenza brand as an...

AnthroSource is now online.(Product News & Reviews)(American Anthropological Association, University of California Press)(www.anthrosource.net)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... AnthroSource, a joint effort of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the University of California Press, is now an active online anthropological resource (http://www.anthrosource.net). AnthroSource provides access to full-text...

LexisNexis offers My Lexis start page.(Product News & Reviews)(LexisNexis Group)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S. now offers a start page called My Lexis to small law firms, corporate counsel, tax professionals, and the federal government. The new My Lexis page, a tab within the lexis.com service, includes features that let users search...

Streaming video for History Reference Center.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... EBSCO Publishing announced the addition of more than 80 hours of streaming video content to its History Reference Center (HRC). This collection of motion picture film and videotape provides recordings of the social, political, and cultural...

WilsonWeb databases link to Scirus search.(Product News & Reviews)(H.W. Wilson Co.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... WilsonWeb customers can now click from article citations to Scirus to conduct an automatic search of the author's name for access to more than 167 million science-specific Web pages, or they can use the Scirus search to find other articles by...

Varatouch introduces Telepoint analog navigation disk solution.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Varatouch introduced Telepoint, the world's thinnest analog navigation disk. The Telepoint is a reference design based on Varatouch's Vsense technology, which provides a full solution for implementing a low-cost, miniature navigation disk. The...

Spanish-language books-in-print available via EBSCOhost.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... LIBROS EN VENTA en America Latina y Espana (LEV), produced by NISC, is now available via the EBSCOhost search interface. LEV includes in-print titles from more than 26,000 Latin American and Spanish publishers and contains more than 794,000...

San Diego Public Library launches WebFeat system.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The San Diego Public Library (SDPL) launched its One-Search federated search solution, allowing users to search the library's catalog resources and 73 online databases simultaneously with a single intuitive interface. SDPL One-Search,...

Dialog.(has announced the winner of its Roger K. Summit scholarship)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Dialog has announced the winner of its Roger K. Summit scholarship. A graduate student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Retha Claasen-Veldsman, won the award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. This award is named for...

Access Innovations, Inc.(apooints Gina Woodhouse as technical director of customer care )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Access Innovations, Inc. announced that Gina Woodhouse has been appointed technical director of customer care for its Data Harmony line of products. In this position, she will work directly with customers to resolve technical issues and provide...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Wolters Kluwer Health has announced three new executive appointments to its Medical Research division, which includes Ovid Technologies and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). Linda Holder was named vice president and chief financial...

Factiva.(announced the promotion of Alan Scott to chief marketing officer)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Factiva announced the promotion of Alan Scott to chief marketing officer. Most recently, he was Factiva's vice president and director of global marketing. Before that, he was vice president of marketing at Giga Information Group....

EBSCO Information Services.(People Line)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... EBSCO Information Services announced that Dan Tonkery has been named the 2005 recipient of the ALCTS/Bowker Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award. This annual award is presented by the serials section of the Association for Library Collections...

David Kellogg, president and CEO, Mark Logic Corp.(Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... David Kellogg, who joined Mark Logic Corp. in September 2004 as president and chief executive officer, loves a challenge. As a seasoned expert in the database and applications software industry, Kellogg brought 20 years of experience in...

An end and a beginning.(On the Road)(Information Today Inc.)(Column)
March 1, 2005... With this issue of Information Today, I'm delighted to turn On the Road over to a true information professional, experienced conference speaker, and observer--Don Hawkins. Don's industry perspective will add immeasurably to the depth of this...

2005 McGraw-Hill Media Summit.(Report From The Field)
March 1, 2005... The group that convened at the 2005 McGraw-Hill Media Summit in New York was high-powered, diverse, opinionated, and ready to tackle the theme of the 2-day affair: Global Media + Technology Innovation = Communications Revolution. Approximately...

Connecting for growth: SIIA Information Industry Summit 2005.(Report From The Field)
March 1, 2005... More than 350 people arrived at New York's Gotham Hall, a converted bank on Broadway, for the fourth annual SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) Information Industry Summit, held Feb. 1-2. The nametags dangling from lanyards and...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... March 20-22: New Orleans (Royal Sonesta Hotel). The Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) will hold its Spring 2005 Meeting, the theme of which is Search Wars and the Next Wave of Internet Innovation. Contact:...

The new set of electronic rules.(Legal Solutions in Electronic Reserves and the Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Legal Solutions in Electronic Reserves and the Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan by Janet Brennan Croft New York: Haworth Information Press, 2004 Published simultaneously as Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information...

March madness.(In Other Words)
March 1, 2005... When I began typing this, the Super Bowl kickoff was about 4 hours away. As you read this, it's now March, a month associated with leprechauns, the arrival of spring, and the general "wearin' o' the green." The question that was answered...

New titles for the information professional.(The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources)(The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher)(Choosing and Using a News Alert Service)(The Accidental Library Manager)(Best Technology Practices in Higher Education)(Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence: The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers)(The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources)(Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology)(Book Review)
March 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...