Information Today articles from November 2003

Information Today archives from November 2003

Stable and poised for growth.(Interview with Mark Rowse)(Ingenta)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath (which developed the BIDS online abstract searching services for the U.K....

Speaking up.(Poynder on Point)(patent information industry)
November 1, 2003... The patent information industry was created by innovative folks who were inspired by the potential of the Information Age. Then the big corporations took over, and the obsession shifted to ROI and marketing budgets. Now there's a new generation...

Little in reserve.(Investigative Report)(value of bibliographic databases)
November 1, 2003... In last month's Investigative Report, I surveyed the information landscape from the perspective of customers of bibliographic information services. The issues included budget problems, information literacy, end-user satisfaction with Web search...

EBSCO Publishing acquires two companies.(News Bytes)(Cinahl Information Systems, Whitston Publishing Co. acquired)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... EBSCO Publishing announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cinahl Information Systems from Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, Calif. EBSCO also announced the acquisition of Whitston Publishing Co., a producer of reference...

SLA announces alliance with Information Today, Inc.(News Bytes)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Special Libraries Association announced that it has entered into an information alliance with Information Today, Inc. (ITI). This new venture will allow SLA and ITI to share information and resources, and assist with the cross-promotion of...

LexisNexis to build computing facility in Ohio.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... LexisNexis has announced its intention to build a new facility on a Springfield, Ohio, campus that will expand research and development for LexisNexis, host key online products for Reed Elsevier companies, and provide data-management services....

Nstein Technologies partners with InterDoc.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced a strategy partnership with InterDoc Corp. According to the announcement, this agreement was sparked by the growing demand by Documentum's clients to have a complete and highly effective navigation and...

Cyberlibris, ebrary announce partnership.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Cyberlibris, creator of a European management and economics knowledge platform, and ebrary, a provider of information distribution and retrieval services, have announced a partnership that will enable European business schools, corporate...

N.J. State Library, Rutgers University receive grant.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced that the New Jersey State Library and Rutgers University will receive a $460,000 grant to build the New Jersey Digital Highway, a portal to the state's historical and cultural heritage...

Less is not more.(UpFront)(focus on libraries may deny access to other outlets)
November 1, 2003... Way back in the last century, in the pre-Internet days of online, managers of abstracting-and-indexing services found themselves in a death struggle of print versus online, also called--in appropriately draconian terminology-the...

The latest on enterprise search products, e-books, and more.(News Break Update)
November 1, 2003... As we head into the busy late-fall season of conferences, end-of-year company reporting, holidays, and school activities, the number of press releases hitting my desk seems to have accelerated as well. Many of us in the industry will be meeting...

AIP Publishing Services to fulfill PNAS.(News Bytes)(American Institute of Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing Services announced an agreement for AIP to provide fulfillment and customer service for both the print and online editions of...

Swets Blackwell acquires Everett.(News Bytes)(W.H. Everett & Son Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell announced its acquisition of W.H. Everett & Son, Ltd., the subscription business of the world's oldest independent bookseller and subscription agent. All subscription activities currently handled from Everett's head office in...

Caldwell College, ProQuest to archive master's theses.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... ProQuest Information and Learning announced that Caldwell College, a Catholic liberal arts institution in New Jersey, has retained it to preserve the college's academic research heritage through a new program that will create a digital archive...

Organizations laud open access publishing venture.(News Bytes)(October premiere of first open access journal published by PLoS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Public Library of Science (PLoS) announced that a coalition of major library and public-interest organizations praised the October premiere of the first open access journal published by PLoS, a nonprofit organization of scientists and...

WilsonWeb compatible with the U.K's Athens Access Management.(News Bytes)(H.W. Wilson Co's WilsonWeb, a reference database service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... H.W. Wilson Co. announced that WilsonWeb, a reference database service used in libraries worldwide, is now compatible with the U.K.'s Athens Access Management System. According to the announcement, this will streamline user access to the H.W....

Gale announces grant winner.(News Bytes)(Gale announced that The All Russian State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow is selected as winner of 2003 Gale Global Grant)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Gale announced that The All Russian State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow has been selected as the winner of the 2003 Gale Global Grant. The library will receive a number of Gale reference products along with 2 years of online access...

Innodata changes name to Innodata Isogen.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Innodata, a provider of content supply-chain solutions, announced that it is now doing business as Innodata Isogen. This month, the company will ask its shareholders to approve the change of the corporate name to Innodata Isogen, Inc. ...

Discover Financial Services partners with FluentMedia.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Co., announced that it has partnered with Discover Financial Services to provide 4 million Discover merchants with access to a variety of industry-specific business information, general news,...

April Bohannan dies.(News Bytes)(Librarian and information industry figure )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Librarian and information industry figure April Bohannan passed away on Aug. 23, 2003, after having been diagnosed with cancer in May. She is survived by her mother, Viola Bohannan, of Reedville, Va., and by two sons, Mark Schlipper of Palmyra,...

A matter of principle.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Richard Poynder's article on the uproar in the international library community regarding Cuba (International Report, September 2003, p. 35) is welcome. Although the article was excellent overall, it is important to note that opposition to the...

Intranet publishers beware!(copyright cases)
November 1, 2003... Every once in a while, there's a landmark court decision that goes far beyond the facts involved in the case to affect many users and producers of information services. Three cases come quickly to mind as classic examples (all from the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2003... In last month's issue, "The Truth About Federated Searching" (p. 24) was mistakenly attributed to Paula J. Hane. The article was written by WebFeat, Inc. (http://www.webfeat.org), which granted Information Today permission to reprint it. We...

Infotoons.
November 1, 2003... OKAY, EMPLOYEES... I HAVE THE RESULT OF OUR "OFFICE MORALE" SURVEY... WHISPERING... HE MUST COMB HIS HAIR WITH A LEAF BLOWER! OH!--I CAN'T STAND THAT SMARMY LITTLE DWEEB! IT SEEMS THAT MORALE HERE HAS HIT BOTTOM. HOWEVER,...

Microsoft's rights management.(Focus on Publishing)(Starts releasing key components of Rights Management Services (RMS) offering)
November 1, 2003... We're entering a new turn on the wild and thorny digital rights management thrill ride. Now the debate moves to the desktop--at least if Microsoft has its way. The company has just started releasing key components of its Rights Management...

Digital ready-reference sources in Spanish.(Internet Insights)
November 1, 2003... I probably should have written this column for the September issue of Information Today, at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. The need for Spanish-language digital reference sources keeps growing, as does the U.S. Hispanic population....

Copyright and Sovereign immunity.(Legal Issues)
November 1, 2003... As a member of the academic community who pays attention to copyright developments, I often find myself torn between competing interests. Copyright owners can and should generate income from others who want to use their property. However, this...

Serbia.(International Report)(Aleksandar Skocajic, Belgrade, Serbia-based mechanic with Telekom Serbia, sued three movie companies for alleged copyright infringement; notes his use of Web to get support)
November 1, 2003... Web gurus used to boast that the inherently democratic nature of the Internet allows the little guy to deal with the big guy on an equal footing. Today, such claims may appear a bit naive, but is the Web indeed able to help the weak challenge...

U.K.(International Report)(BBC Online news)
November 1, 2003... While many commercial content companies have struggled to make a success of the Web, the BBC has quietly established an enviable reputation as a major online news source. Today, BBC Online news (BBCi) is one of the most frequently visited sites...

Australia.(International Report)(online music piracy case)
November 1, 2003... Australia In September, in what the Australian recording industry immediately heralded as the world's first criminal prosecution for online music piracy, three Sydney men pleaded guilty to infringing the copyright of Universal Music,...

Cambodia.(International Report)(open source operating system to be created for Asian market)
November 1, 2003... In a move designed to help dislodge Microsoft Windows from Far" East markets, Japan, China, and South Korea are throwing their weight behind the creation of an open source operating system for the Asian market. An agreement was reached in...

Conference calendar.(Imark Communications is sponsoring Online Information 2003 in London)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... December 2-4: London (Olympia Grand Hall). Imark Communications is sponsoring Online Information 2003, the world's largest exhibition for information content, management, and delivery. Bob Boiko, a leading commentator on content...

The ASIDIC fall 2003 meeting.(Report From The Field)
November 1, 2003... Bonjour! Comment ca va? Tres bien? Bon! As you can tell, I recently returned from Montreal, where I had the opportunity to brush up on my high school French. Montreal's charming old city was the site of the ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting, held...

Online brokers offer rich resources.(Perspectives)
November 1, 2003... If you haven't looked at the services that investment brokers now offer on the Web, you'll be pleasantly surprised. There has been some industry consolidation since the go-go days of the Internet boom, and it's been mostly favorable to the...

Nice guys finish last.(CyberSports)(Web sites)
November 1, 2003... Back in the good ol' days (translation: when I was a crotchety young man instead of a crotchety middle-aged one), a certain lack of mental acuity among athletes was simply a given fact. Football players, who tended to run into things with...

Web resources teach resume writing.
November 1, 2003... You have only a few seconds to grab the attention of a prospective employer with your resume, according to JobStar Central (http://jobsmart.org), a Web site that features national and regional job listings. Plenty of other sites have been...

Elsevier announces ScienceDirect news.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Elsevier announced that it has added The Lancet backfiles to its ScienceDirect service. The company also announced that the ScienceDirect collection now contains 5 million full-text articles. The Lancet With the integration of The...

ProQuest unveils new archiving program, Los Angeles times backfile.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the introduction of the UMI Dissertation Digital Archiving and Access program, a new service for accredited institutions in North America. The company also announced the release of ProQuest...

Internet Archive joins history's great libraries.(Database Review)
November 1, 2003... Brewster Kahle is a man of many roles: a famous Internet pioneer, a successful dot-com entrepreneur, a digital visionary, and a darned good librarian. Right now, he's best-known as the founder of Alexa and the WAIS system. However, with Kahle's...

Ingenta continues growth across publisher services.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ingenta, a technology provider of online publishing services to academic and professional publishers, has announced an expansion in its business. Over the past year, Ingenta has signed more than 30 new publisher customers and extended...

Library of Congress offers Wright brothers papers.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight, the Library of Congress announced that its collection of Wright brothers papers is available online in the American Memory collection...

Gale teams with Google, completes preservation project.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Gale has announced an agreement that will allow users of select products on its InfoTrac Web platform to link to Google Image Search while searching within the premium databases. Gale also announced that it has completed a project that...

Information Today, Inc. publishes two new books.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced that it has published Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age, by Heting Chu, and Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology, by France...

Alacra teams with Oxford Analytica.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Alacra, Inc. has announced that Oxford Analytica will make its daily analysis of global political and economic developments available through the Alacra service. Oxford Analytica is an international consulting firm that draws its expertise...

NewsStand releases two publications in digital.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... NewsStand, Inc. announced that Mobile Media Group has selected it to provide digital production and delivery of Handheld Computing and Mobility magazines to readers. Handheld Computing, published nine times a year, offers consumers the...

FIZ CHEMIE Berlin launches new search engine.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... FIZ CHEMIE Berlin announced the release of subject-specific Internet search engines ChemGuide (chemistry), MedPharmGuide (medicine and pharmacology), and PublishersGuide (scientific publishers). These engines access more than 7,000 servers and...

EBSCO Publishing announces additions to EBSCOhost.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... EBSCO Publishing announced that it has added index browsing, My EBSCOhost, and Biology Digest to its EBSCOhost service. Index Browsing Index browsing gives users the option to search from specific indexes in EBSCOhost databases from a...

Thomson ISI ResearchSoft releases RefViz.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, in collaboration with OmniViz, announced the release of RefViz, a new visualization tool for the researcher's desktop. RefViz allows users to visually explore reference literature for major themes and topics. According...

CISTI launches Secure Desktop Delivery.(Products News & Reviews)(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) announced that it will launch its new Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD) method in December. SDD will enable the delivery of copyright-cleared electronic documents directly to the...

West adds American Jurisprudence to ResultsPlus.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... West announced that it has added key sections from American Jurisprudence (Am Jur) to ResultsPlus, Westlaw's new research-assistance feature. ResultsPlus points Westlaw users to related information sources such as American Law Reports and...

SwetsWise to add nine publishers' titles.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell announced that it has concluded agreements with nine publishers to provide access to their online journal content via SwetsWise. The Web-based, modular SwetsWise service is used for the procurement, access, and management of...

Surpass Software releases Surpass Copycat.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Surpass Software announced the release of Surpass Copycat, a cataloging tool for downloading free MARC records with no annual database subscription needed. Copycat employs the Z39.50 protocol to let users search for records either individually...

Tribune Media Services International launches News In Motion International.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Tribune Media Services International announced that it will launch News In Motion International (http://www.niminternational.com) in December. This service will deliver News In Motion and Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) animations, TV graphics, and...

Reference Universe now supports OpenURL.(Products News & Reviews)(Paratext L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Paratext, LLC, an independent publisher of electronic bibliographic and library services, announced that its Reference Universe database now supports the OpenURL protocol. According to the announcement, Reference Universe is the world's...

Nature unveils Nature Reviews Microbiology.(Products News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nature Publishing Group has announced the launch of Nature Reviews Microbiology. A new addition to the Nature Reviews series, this comprehensive journal will encompass every aspect of the dynamic world of microbiology by publishing reviews and...

IEEE offers journalists free Technical Source Guide.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... IEEE has announced that the newly updated IEEE Technical Experts Guide can now be searched by topic and by IEEE Society, Council, or other resource. This tool for journalists and other media professionals provides multidisciplinary scientific...

Neal-Schuman publishes new management guide.(Product News & Reviews)(meshed briefs)
November 1, 2003... Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. announced that it has released Beyond the Basics: The Management Guide for Library and Information Professionals, a practical, hands-on guide to results-oriented library management strategies. Library...

Swets Blackwell.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Swets Blackwell has announced three changes in its North American senior management staff. Philipp Neie, formerly CEO for North America, is the new global director of customer service for parent company Swets Blackwell in Lisse,...

EBSCO Information Services.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... EBSCO Information Services announced that Susan Key has joined the User Services Web Support Team as Web support library specialist. In this position, she will support and test EBSCO's Web services. Before this, Key was a library media...

Applied Discovery, Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Applied Discovery, Inc., a member of the LexisNexis Group, announced that Mark Kindy has been named its CEO of operations. Most recently, Kindy was managing director and co-leader of BearingPoint's digital content practice. Prior to that,...

Royal Swets & Zeitlinger.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Royal Swets & Zeitlinger has announced the appointment of Eelco de Boer as its new CFO. He will also serve on the company's executive board. Prior to this, Boer held various CFO roles for Sanoma Magazines, VNU, and Shell International. He...

The University of California.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The University of California--Berkeley announced that Terence K. Huwe, director of library and information services at the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC--Berkeley, has been named vice president/president-elect of the Librarians...

Thomson Corp.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Thomson Corp. announced that Brian T. Martin has joined the company as its senior vice president of corporate affairs. He will be responsible for overall communications activities, which include media relations, financial communications,...

Executive profile.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Ebsco's F. Dixon Brooke)
November 1, 2003... EBSCO's F. Dixon Brooke and his management team are responsible for the growth and profitability of EBSCO Subscription Services, a division that provides information management resources to libraries and organizations worldwide. Brooke...

Still revolting after all these years.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out edited by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2003 ISBN: 0-7864-1608-4 192 pages $35 Why did you become a librarian? Were you filled with the hope...

ITI publishes Volume 38 of ARIST.(Cover Notes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) announced the publication of Volume 38 of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) at the annual conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST), held Oct....

Taking nothing for granted.(In Other Words)
November 1, 2003... When sister Meg laments, "November is the most disagreeable month of the year," Jo March, heroine of Louisa May Alcott's timeless Little Women and my all-time favorite fictional character, replies, "That's the reason I was born in it." Meg is...

Building & Running a Successful Research Business: a Guide for the Independent Information Professional.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 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...

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Marylaine Block The Internet is a mixed blessing for libraries and librarians. Today, the Net is challenging the librarian's ability to select, threatening the survival of the book, necessitating continuous retraining, presenting...

Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Paula Berinstein 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...

The Accidental Webmaster.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 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 Webmastering books focus on programming and related...

ARIST 38: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Since 1966, ARIST has been continuously at the cutting edge in contributing a useful and comprehensive view of the broad field of information science and technology. ARIST reviews numerous topics within the field and provides this annual source...

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: a Guide to Evaluating CI Technology.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... As commercial software products for Competitive Intelligence (CI) emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied by the software makers. Reviews and surveys are published from time to time,...

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... This is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of Information Representation and Retrieval (IRR). With an emphasis on principles and fundamentals, author Heting Chu reviews key concepts and major developmental stages of the field and then...

The Accidental Systems Librarian.(meshed briefs)
November 1, 2003... The Accidental Systems Librarian takes the approach that anyone with a solid foundation in the practices and principles of librarianship and a willingness to confront changing technology can serve effectively in a library technology...