Information Today articles from May 2003

Information Today archives from May 2003

Computers in Libraries 2003.
May 1, 2003... It's always interesting to see how the "hot technologies" change from year to year at Information Today, Inc.'s annual Computers in Libraries conference. This year's event was held March 12-14 in Washington, D.C. Sessions on various...

ILI 2003.(Internet Librarian International)
May 1, 2003... Birmingham, England's sprawling National Exhibition Centre (NEC) was the site of the fifth Internet Librarian International (ILI) meeting, held March 25-27. This was the first ILI event at this venue and the first to be co-located with the new...

Visualizing online information.(Tim Bray of Antarctica)(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Tim Bray has had a 20-year career in the software industry. He is recognized as an expert in Web architecture, information retrieval, and software optimization. After managing the New Oxford English Dictionary project at Canada's University of...

Analyst reports on search market revenues. (News Bytes).(Piper Jaffray of U.S. Bancorp)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray announced that, over the past 18 months, the prominence of search as the most effective online marketing tool has risen dramatically, while ways to monetize the search age have been expanding as well. Safa...

NISO announces two initiatives. (News Bytes).(National Information Standards Organization )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced an initiative to develop guidelines and standards for the metasearching environment. A cross-section of content providers agreed that metasearching--also referred to as...

GPO announces major reorganization plan. (News Bytes).(U.S. Government Printing Office )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced a major reorganization plan to streamline management and bring the agency in line with current business practices. The plan was created through a participative process involving GPO's...

Working the clock. (Up Front).(news methods)
May 1, 2003... In the March issue (p. 7), I warned vendors that for their success and/or survival they must design services to save end users time. Or at the very least, they should never waste it. At the end of that article, I promised to come up with some...

News on web resources, divine/RoweCom, more. (News Break Update).(SARS and Iraq War)
May 1, 2003... The war in Iraq and the health crisis spawned by the SARS virus dominated the news over the last month or so. Information industry news seemed a bit subdued in comparison, yet there were still a number of important developments. The War in...

Thomson to acquire Elite Information Group. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Thomson Corp. has announced that it will acquire Elite Information Group, Inc., a provider of integrated practice and financial management applications for legal and professional services markets. Under the terms of the agreement, a newly...

Wiley, The Cochrane Collaboration form publishing partnership. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and The Cochrane Collaboration have announced an agreement that names Wiley as the new partner for The Cochrane Collaboration's publishing activities. The Cochrane Collaboration encompasses an established network of...

Eliyon expands into Canada. (News Bytes).(to incorporate information taken from Canadian Web sites into its database of business personnel profiles)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Eliyon Technologies announced that increasing customer demand has prompted it to incorporate information taken from Canadian Web sites into its database of business personnel profiles. Eliyon's database already contains information on more...

FIND/SVP, Strategic Creativity Corp. form joint venture. (News Bytes).(The Center for Rapid Innovation)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FIND/SVP, Inc., a provider of business advisory, research, and consultancy services, and Strategic Creativity Corp., a consulting and innovation services company, announced the formation of The Center for Rapid Innovation, a joint venture to...

FindLaw to provide Belo Interactive with content. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FindLaw announced an agreement to provide a comprehensive collection of legal content and resources to Belo Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of Belo. Under the agreement, FindLaw will supply Belo Interactive consumers with a complete...

CrossRef signs more than 200 members. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... CrossRef, a publisher collaborative that enables researchers to navigate online content via DOI-based citation links, announced that it has surpassed the 200-member mark--an increase of 100 publishers in a little more than a year. In addition,...

ATLA to preserve African-American religious serials. (News Bytes).(American Theological Library Association)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) has announced an initiative to preserve more than 152 journals published between 1850 and 1950 that are representative of African-American religious experiences. With more than $265,300...

Imark Communications launches new conference. (News Bytes).(Content Management Europe)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Imark Communications has announced the launch of the Content Management Europe conference and exhibition. Content Management Europe will take place in London Dec. 2-4, 2003, at Olympia's Grand Hall. It will run within Online Information,...

Nstein Technologies announces agreement. (News Bytes).(with IXIASOFT)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Nstein Technologies, Inc., a provider of software applications for managing un-structured data on the Internet and enterprise networks, announced a partnership agreement with IXIASOFT, a provider of XML content servers. This first agreement is...

West acquires Andrews Publications. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... West, a Thomson business, has announced that it has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications. Located near Philadelphia, Andrews is a 30-year-old publisher of litigation reporters, newsletters, special reports, and online...

RILM now available on IDS. (News Bytes).(Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, Internet Databse Service)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, published by Repertoire International de Littdreture Musicale (RILM), is now available via CSA's Internet Database Service (IDS). According to the...

Vendors announce compliance with COUNTER Code of Practice. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... COUNTER announced that the online usage reports that Blackwell Publishing, ISI, and Oxford University Press (OUP) supply to customers now comply with release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. All three companies have signed formal declarations...

A View from the inside. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... I just read [Richard Poynder's March 2003 article, "An Ugly Situation"] about divine and your interview with Ken Kinsella, divine bagman and company apologist. I worked as a sales representative for divine. I started when we were Faxon and...

Clarifications for 'Resolving the Links' report. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... The Investigative Report "Resolving the Links" in the April issue (p. 25) gives a very good overview of link resolvers and OpenURLs: two very important topics. However, there are a few points about the relation between DOIs, CrossRef, and...

Net rises to the occasion.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... In their new book Social Consequences of Internet Use, scholars James Katz and Ronald Rice call the Internet "Syntopia," literally meaning "together place." The book challenges both those who think of the Internet as Utopia, an egalitarian...

Streaming video comes of age. (Focus on Publishing).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... Streaming video has always had to battle its way upstream to make any significant inroads into Web space. Like all streaming media, it's had two things flowing against it. First, there were the computers themselves, many of which were...

Is it age or is it attitude? (Internet Waves).(baby boomers)
May 1, 2003... The music is not too loud. You're too old.--Bumper sticker on a "boom" car I'm an experienced information professional. I've been around awhile, and I guess I can no longer be considered fresh and, the, Dewey. But I'm by no means over...

Information brokers and cyberstalking. (Legal Issues).
May 1, 2003... Independent business owners have long fought the stigma of being referred to as "information brokers." For many of us, the term "broker" conjures up a sickening feeling. In part, I blame the media, which makes no distinction between...

Conference circuit: on the road.
May 1, 2003... Internet Librarian 2003 Internet Librarian is returning to the Monterey (Calif.) Conference Center from Nov. 3-5. Monterey is a well-liked location, and after 2 years in southern California, the event's attendees, exhibitors, speakers, and...

ASIDIC attendees hit the Jackpot in Vegas.
May 1, 2003... Las Vegas is known for its casinos and entertainment attractions. So when ASIDIC held its Spring 2003 Meeting there March 30--April 1, you might wonder whether the location would distract attendees from the event's program. Fortunately, this...

Open Access and the Public Domain.
May 1, 2003... There has recently been a flurry of conferences that address new models for the dissemination of scientific research-particularly those that involve open access. Participants appear to be either entrenched with those who wish to preserve the...

Answering the unanswerable at CIL.
May 1, 2003... As librarians and information specialists, we are relentless. Even if a question seems impossible to answer, it goes against our nature to simply shrug our shoulders and say, "I just can't find anything." So of course, the Computers in...

ProQuest adds The Christian Science Monitor archive. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ProQuest Information and Learning announced that The Christian Science Monitor is now available electronically in full page image, dating from 1908 to 1990. The new archive will be part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection. ...

FIZ Karlsruhe launches new patent database. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FIZ Karlsruhe announced the addition of PATDPAFULL to the STN International service. This new resource is a full-text patent database that provides German-language access to German patent and utility documents in all technologies. Jointly...

netLibrary rolls out an Online Reference collection. (Database Review).
May 1, 2003... Over the past few years, I've regularly reviewed e-book collections, including netLibrary, Bartleby.com, Books 24x7 .com, ibooks.com, ITKnowledge, Questia, Oxford Reference Online, xreferplus, and Safari Tech Books. I've given them much...

Publishers provide new content to SwetsWise. (Product News & Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell announced that it has signed agreements with the following publishers to provide access to their online journal content via SwetsWise, the company's Web-based, modular service for the procurement, access, and management of...

Conference calendar.
May 1, 2003... May 5-8: London (Hilton London Metropole). IDEAlliance is sponsoring the XML Europe Conference & Exposition 2003, the theme of which is "Powering the Information Society." According to the announcement, the event is the premier European...

MuseGlobal unveils new authentication feature. (Product News & Reviews).
May 1, 2003... MuseGlobal, Inc. announced the addition of a new authentication option to MuseSearch. According to the announcement, this feature will provide more flexible alternatives for retrieving data from subscription-based HTTP sources. Peter...

The Wall Street Journal Online offers updates. (Product News & Reviews).
May 1, 2003... The Wall Street Journal Online announced the launch of The Afternoon Report, a twice-daily e-mail alert that contains summaries of top news from around the world. The Afternoon Report covers global business, economic, and political...

The Washington Times debuts electronic edition. (Product News & Reviews).
May 1, 2003... The Washington Times announced that it has launched an electronic edition that uses technology from NewsStand, Inc., a provider of digital publishing and delivery solutions. According to the announcement, the electronic edition allows The...

Open eBook Forum updates e-book specification. (Product News & Reviews).
May 1, 2003... The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) announced that it has received industry support from publishers, software manufacturers, and public-interest groups for version 1.2 of its widely adopted Open eBook Publication Structure (OeBPS) specification. ...

Westlaw releases new database directory. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... West announced the addition of a new database directory to Westlaw, its online research system. According to the announcement, the new directory features faster navigation with clear, logical organization of headings and subheadings, which...

MicroPatent enhances Trademark service. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... MicroPatent announced the addition of new data and enhanced subscription features to its Trademark.com service. Country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and expanded Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are now available with Platinum and Gold...

Dialog introduces new content for database users. (Product News & Reviews).( Information Technology and Communications subset )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Dialog announced that it's offering the Information Technology and Communications subset of the INSPEC database, as well as customized INSPEC subsets, to Dialog and Dialog DataStar users. Produced by IEE, the INSPEC database is an...

CAS unveils new options for STN Easy for Intranets. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... CAS announced the integration of new options into STN Easy for Intranets. This service will now offer a variety of features to accommodate workgroups. With the new options, information administrators will be able to set up workgroup names,...

FluentMedia adds new content sources. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Co., announced that it has added content from BBC Monitoring, Primedia Business Magazines & Media, and Thomson Media. BBC Monitoring BEC Monitoring will supply FluentMedia with a daily...

H.W. Wilson databases available via EBSCOhost. (Product News & Reviews).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... H.W. Wilso a announced that 11 of its databases will soon be available to libraries via EBSCOhost. They include the following: * Art Index Retrospective--An in-depth record of 55 years of art journalism, covering 557 periodicals *...

Enclosing the digital commons. (Investigative Report).
May 1, 2003... There's growing concern that aggressive use of intellectual property is threatening the development of the Internet. Many are drawing parallels to the "enclosures" in pre-industrial Europe. Through .this system, commonly held or unoccupied land...

International report.
May 1, 2003... World Summit The upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has been mentioned in two recent Information Today reports: "Online Information's Wrap-Up Session" (February 2003, p.40) and "Open Access and the Public Domain" (see...

Online Almanacs: why turn to a quirky online publication like an almanac?
May 1, 2003... There are two kinds of almanacs, according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. It defines the traditional type as "a publication containing astronomical and meteorological data for a given year and often including a miscellany of other...

Wild about Harry. (CyberSports).
May 1, 2003... Despite what Johnny Mathis crooned, Christmas is not "the most wonderful time of the year." No, around these parts, the most wonderful time of the year begins around the first of April and lasts into October, when grown men in funny suits...

Armchair travel. (Perspectives).(travel websites and virtual tourism)
May 1, 2003... Ever since I was 6 years old, when my parents gave me a View-Master and starter set of 3-D reels, I've been an avid armchair traveler. The images I most enjoyed as a child were the Alps and mountain villages of Switzerland, and these were...

Scholastic Inc. (People Line).(Joe Reynolds named as president of Scholastic Library Publishing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Scholastic, Inc. announced the appointment of Joe Reynolds as president of Scholastic Library Publishing. Most recently, Reynolds was president and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning, where he created two education companies,...

Snapshots International Ltd. (People Line).(Graham Byrne has joined its sales team)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Snapshots International, Ltd. announced that Graham Byrne has joined its sales team. Prior to this, Byrne was at Perfect Information, where he developed relationships with both information centers and end users. He also concentrated on...

Macmillan publishers. (People Line).(Richard Charkin named chairman)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... xrefer, a provider of online reference services for libraries, announced that Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillan publishers, has been appointed its new chairman. This role will be in addition to his duties at Macmillan. Source: xrefer,...

FIND/SVP Inc. (People Line).(Beverly D. Westle named senior vice president of corporate and strategic business development)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FIND/SVP, Inc. announced that Beverly D. Westle is its new senior vice president of corporate and strategic business development, and Robert Takacs is the new vice president of its strategic research and consulting group. Westle will lead...

Individual Inc. (People Line).( Kathleen Greenler named vice president of marketing and product management)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Alacritude, LLC announced the appointment of Kathleen Greenler as its new vice president of marketing and product management. Previously, Greenler was vice president of marketing for Inlumen and before that was general manager of...

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). (People Line).(Marc A. Nichols named as inspector general)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced that it has named Marc A. Nichols as inspector general. He will conduct and supervise audits and investigations relating to the GPO, and recommend policies to promote economy, efficiency, and...

Stellent Inc. (People Line).(David Batt named executive vice president of global field operations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Stellent Inc. announced the appointment of David Batt as its executive vice president of global field operations. He will direct the strategy and execution of Stellent's sales, consulting services, and alliances organizations. Previously,...

The executive profile: Debra Curtis, managing director of Snapshots International.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Debra Curtis began her career in textile design and subsequently spent 5 years as production manager of the largest specialist textile printer in the U.K. There, she gained an understanding of the production process, from conception and...

'Un-insulate' yourself and work together. (Cover Notes).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Teamwork and Collaboration in Libraries: Tools for Theory and Practice edited by Marc B. Silverman Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press, 2002 ISBN: 0-7890-1402-5 140 pages $24.95 Libraries have a history of...

In other words. (Cover Notes).
May 1, 2003... It's May. Or as Queen Guenevere refers to it in the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot, "the lusty month of May, that lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray." You needn't be sitting at a round table--or any kind of table, for that...

New titles for the information professional.
May 1, 2003... Building & Running a Successful Research Business: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional By Mary Ellen Bates Edited by Reva Basch This is the handbook every aspiring independent information professional needs to...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... In the April 2003 issue of Information Today, we incorrectly noted the title of Information World Review in Richard Poynder's article "Surviving in a Harsh World" (p. 1). Wallys W. Conhaim's March Perspectives column on virtual...

TDNet teams up with Harrassowitz. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... TDNet, Inc., a supplier of electronic resource management solutions, and Harrassowitz, a periodicals subscription agent, will collaborate to provide complete and consolidated access to electronic content for libraries in the U.S. and Canada....

Jupiter Research makes content forecast. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Jupiter Research, a division of Jupiter-media Corp., announced that consumer spending on paid content will grow from $1.6 billion in 2002 to $2 billion in 2003. However, online advertising remains the best opportunity for most online media...