Information Today articles from October 2002

Information Today archives from October 2002

Thomson Financial launches Thomson Research Web service. (News Break).
October 1, 2002... Thomson Financial (http://www.tfn.com) has integrated its Research Bank Web and Global Access services into a new Web service called Thomson Research (http://research.thomsonib.com). Thomson Financial markets its data to research professionals...

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance: the USA PATRIOT Act has been viewed by some with a healthy dose of skepticism. (Poynder on Point).
October 1, 2002... Passed just 6 weeks after September 11, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) has been widely criticized by civil libertarians. For many...

The 68th IFLA General Conference and Council: the library federation celebrated its 75th anniversary in Scotland, the country of its origin. (Report from the Field).
October 1, 2002... Glasgow, Scotland's steel-gray skies cleared in mid-August to allow the 68th IFLA General Conference and Council to proceed in unaccustomed bright sun and warmth. The auditorium of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on the banks of...

iCopyright releases beta version of news-clipping service. (News Break).(iCopyright Clip and Copy)
October 1, 2002... iCopyright, a privately held company that enables copyright compliance and instant licensing of digital content on participating publishers' Web sites, has announced the beta release of iCopyright Clip and Copy, a free news-clipping service...

Information Today, Inc. acquires The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research.
October 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the acquisition of The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research, a monthly subscription newsletter that was formerly published by BiblioData, Inc. Beginning with the November 2002 issue, Sheri Lanza...

Which way's the backdoor? An interview with former Dialog CEO Dan Wagner pushed a lot of buttons. (Quint's Online).
October 1, 2002... Last month's Information Today carried an interview with Dan Wagner ("The Shooting of Dan Wagner," p. 1 and http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep02/poynder.htm). Mr. Wagner bought Dialog in 1997 when it was known as Knight-Ridder Information, Inc....

Cool map sites for business and pleasure: these services are useful for both cartography experts and casual users. (Database Review).
October 1, 2002... The Web has done wonders for maps. What was for many people a disagreeable chore--using print maps to look up places and obtain travel directions--has become an effortless pleasure through the use of route-finding sites like MapQuest, et al....

Dialog expands SourceOne document delivery service. (News Break).
October 1, 2002... Dialog has announced its "re-entry into the document delivery market" with an expansion of its Dialog SourceOne service. Dialog has increased the number and diversity of sources from which articles and reports can be ordered, and has improved...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2002... On p. 31 of last month's issue, we inadvertently published the wrong screen shot for ProQuest Information and Learning's HeritageQuest Online product (http://www.heritagequestonline.com). This is the correct image.

Dialog revamps NewsEdge service. (News Break).
October 1, 2002... NewsEdge (http://www.newsedge.com), acquired by Thomson Corp. in September 2001, has integrated its operations with Dialog, its new parent company within Thomson. The corporate current awareness and news-alerting service has been upgraded and...

XyEnterprise, NextPage announce partnership.
October 1, 2002... Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise), a developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with NextPage, Inc., a provider of cross-enterprise content...

PubSCIENCE joins the endangered species list. (New Break).(database produced by the U.S. Department of Energy)
October 1, 2002... PubSCIENCE, a database produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with the Government Printing Office and several scholarly publishers, faces almost immediate closure....

XanEdu buys MetaText from OCLC. (News Break).
October 1, 2002... XanEdu, a division of ProQuest Information and Learning, has purchased MetaText, a provider of digital textbooks, from OCLC. The acquisition will allow XanEdu to combine its curriculum products and tools for the higher education market with...

International copyright issues in action: a trip demonstrated how intellectual property law works around the world. (Legal Issues).
October 1, 2002... It's tough to describe my summer with a straight face, but here goes. I was on the cruise ship MTS World Renaissance, a "floating university" where I taught law and political science. The 9-week sea voyage visited several European ports,...

Tucows sells two former Infonautics services. (News Break).
October 1, 2002... Tucows, Inc. (http://www.tucows.com), an Internet services provider and domain registrar, announced that it has sold eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com, its search and reference services properties, to Alacritude, LLC, a new Chicago-based company....

Vanderbilt improves Television News Archive: its recently added TV-NewsSearch offers users a single searchable database. (IT Feature).
October 1, 2002... On September 11, 2001, most of the U.S. and the world were glued to television news broadcasts. Within minutes of the first plane crash, viewers saw events happen live. One month later, the Television Archive, a Web-based nonprofit...

The Scientist debuts newly designed, enhanced Web site. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Scientist, an international news magazine for life scientists, has unveiled a new design for its Web site (http://www.the-scientist.com) to reflect the new format and style adopted by the print publication in January. According to the...

NLM releases Spanish version of MEDLINEplus. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The National Library of Medicine has announced that it has released a Spanish version (http://medlineplus.gov/esp) of its MEDLINEplus health Web site. Hundreds of topics in Spanish will point users to information from the National Institutes of...

ScienceDirect announces accessibility improvements. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... ScienceDirect has announced progress in its effort to improve the accessibility of its ScienceDirect platform for the visually impaired. According to the company, recent tests on improvements made in June showed that the platform is...

Elsevier, FAST update Scirus search engine. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Elsevier Science has announced, in conjunction with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST; http://www.fastsearch.com), a new release of Scirus, a science search engine. The new version offers more subject-specific content and features like expanded...

Dialog NewsRoom now offered as stand-alone service. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that its recently launched Dialog NewsRoom database is now available as a stand-alone Web-based service. Dialog NewsRoom remains accessible as a file on the Dialog-branded platform of online services (file number...

ProQuest announces addition of Southam newspaper titles. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced an agreement with Canadian-based Southam Publications, Inc. to add full text from the publisher's Canadian newspaper titles to its ProQuest and Micromedia ProQuest electronic databases. The...

Should PubSCIENCE go the way of Caesar? Et Tu, Brute? Luckily, there are better alternatives to this DOE database. (Internet Insights).
October 1, 2002... Friends, information professionals, fellow taxpayers! Lend me your ears. I come to bury PubSCIENCE, not to praise it. And I'm not using that trick of Antony's, who praised Caesar in his eulogy. I do think that PubSCIENCE should be killed. As...

CCOHS launches CANADIANA database.
October 1, 2002... The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has announced the release of the Web version of the CANADIANA database, a collection of Canadian occupational health and safety information. Included in the collection are...

Thieme Publishing Group signs on to SwetsnetNavigator.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Swets Blackwell has announced that Thieme Publishing Group will participate in SwetsnetNavigator, its electronic journal service. Nineteen titles from Thieme Medical Publishers and 68 titles from Georg Thieme Verlag will be available to...

EBSCO adds databases to EBSCOhost. (Internet Today).(Information Science Abstracts (ISA), TOC Premier, and the MLA International Bibliography)
October 1, 2002... EBSCO Information Services has announced that it has added Information Science Abstracts (ISA), TOC Premier, and the MLA International Bibliography to its EBSCOhost search interface. Information Science Abstracts ISA, published by...

LexisNexis to offer LIVEDGAR access. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI) and LexisNexis have announced an alliance through which LexisNexis will now offer GSI's LIVEDGAR product. Under the terms of the alliance, subscribers to the LexisNexis service will be able to access...

ChemWeb.com unveils Free Abstract Search. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... ChemWeb.com, a division of Elsevier Science, has announced the launch of Free Abstract Search, a service that offers access to 1.5 million free chemical abstracts. No registration with ChemWeb.com is necessary in order to perform a search or...

Snapshots Reports now available on a pay-as-you-go basis. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... Snapshots International, Ltd., a publisher of international market research overviews, has announced the launch of its new Web-based pay-as-you-go service. Users are now able to purchase individual Snapshots Reports directly from the Snapshots...

CAS introduces new research services, recognizes frequently requested articles. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced the linking of its early-20th-century records to American Chemical Society's (ACS) Journal Archives, and the release of SciFinder 2002, the latest version of its desktop research tool. CAS also...

ebrary teams with Byron Hoyt, debuts Spanish-language collection. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... ebrary, Inc. has announced that it has licensed its technology to BYRON HOYT, a provider of musical resources, to make more than 7,000 classical sheet music and educational titles available to libraries worldwide. The company also announced the...

STN International introduces pharmaceutical, nutraceutical files. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... FIZ Karlsruhe has announced the addition of the PHARMAML and NUTRACEUT databases to STN International. Both files are sourced from an international network of correspondents in Europe, North America, and Asia. PHARMAML was released in July;...

CSA adds full-text links to journals. (Internet Today).
October 1, 2002... Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that users who search its Internet Database Service (IDS) bibliographic databases can now link their results to full-text journals offered through JSTOR, the American Meteorological Society,...

Gale releases Biography Resource Center 2.0. (Internet Today).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Gale Group has announced the release of BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER 2.0, a Web resource for information about well-known people. According to the company, version 2.0 has a streamlined interface that's designed to make navigating the rich content...

NLM releases third Beta version of its MyMorph software. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the release of MyMorph's Beta 3 version. This offering allows users to convert 50 types of files, including TIFF images, to Adobe PDF; fixes bugs; and features an improved interface. MyMorph...

Obtree to add new translation version control to C4 software. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Obtree Technologies, Inc. has announced that version 1.4 of its Obtree C4 content management software, which is scheduled to launch next month, will include translation version control to enable precise translation updates and continuity across...

Applied Semantics launches News Series. (Internet Publishing Today).
October 1, 2002... Applied Semantics, Inc., a software tools and applications provider for unstructured information management, has announced the availability of Applied Semantics News Series, an integrated content-processing solution developed specifically for...

Vignette introduces adapters for Microsoft Office XP. (Internet Publishing Today).(Vignette V6 electronic commerce software)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Vignette Corp. has announced the availability of new Vignette V6 adapters that enable organizations to integrate enterprise content created in MICROSOFT OFFICE XP into customer, employee, and supplier Web sites and portals. The V6 adapters...

Digital publishing revisited: the industry is returning to a business model that's built on paper. (Focus on Publishing).
October 1, 2002... For years the publishing industry has struggled to find a digital formula that would entice readers and not cause publishers to go broke. So maybe it's time to return to desktop publishing. Take the print documents we've already created and...

Virage debuts VS Publishing 2.0, VS Webcasting 2.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Virage, Inc., a provider of video and rich-media communication software, has announced the release of VS Publishing 2.0, a software product for the automated packaging, distribution, and publishing of video and rich-media content to the...

bepress announces partnerships with two learned societies. (Internet Publishing Today).(Berkeley Electronic Press licenses its EdiKit editorial management system)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has announced two new partnerships with learned societies. Through these agreements, the American Finance Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) will license...

Microsoft launches beta version of Windows Media 9 Series. (Internet Publishing Today).
October 1, 2002... Microsoft Corp. has announced the beta release of the Windows Media 9 Series platform. This offering includes high-definition video at six times the resolution of DVD, the first 5.1-channel surround-sound streaming audio, and a faster, more...

C.D.I. Systems releases integrated e-publishing platform. (Internet Publishing Today).(NetIS Web content management system)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... C.D.I. Systems has announced the release of NetIS, an e-publishing platform that integrates Web content management (WCM) and digital rights management into a single, seamless package for the support of premium content sales. NetIS allows...

divine selects MediaBin for digital asset management. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... divine, Inc., a provider of solutions for the extended enterprise, has announced that it has formed an alliance with MediaBin, Inc., a provider of enterprise brand asset management software. Through this agreement, divine will offer MediaBin's...

epixtech, Inc. expands its operations in central Europe. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... epixtech, Inc. has announced an expansion of its operations in Europe to include a corporate office located in Ahrensburg, Germany, that will support German and central European customers. Gunter Jacobs has been named managing director for the...

CAPCON, Donohue Group announce new partnership. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... CAPCON Library Network and The Donohue Group, Inc. (DGI) have announced a new partnership to provide quality cataloging and other technical services to CAPCON libraries. Projects will be tailored to the needs of the library and designed to be...

Amigos A-Plus Services teams with Greenwood. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Amigos A-Plus Services has announced a partnership with Greenwood Electronic Media to offer Amigos members discounted pricing on a variety of online products that cover numerous topics--primarily in the humanities and social sciences--through...

Endeavor releases the beta version of Voyager 2001.2, announces system purchases. (Library Systems Today).(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. has announced that Voyager 2001.2, the 13th release of its integrated library management system, has moved into the beta process. This testing will reportedly ensure the effectiveness of new functionality,...

SIRSI Corp. partners with LSSI, ebrary. (Library Systems Today).
October 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced a partnership with Library Systems & Services (LSSI) to provide SIRSI libraries and their users with state-of-the-art virtual library reference services. SIRSI also announced that it will become a value-added reseller...

An update on open source ILS: these systems could soon offer a viable alternative to commercial products. (The Systems Librarian).
October 1, 2002... One of the trends that I follow is the adoption of open source integrated library systems (ILS). In this column, I'll review the progress of three ongoing open source ILS projects and talk about what they mean to library automation. Open...

MuseSearch linking to support OpenURL standard. (Library Systems Today).(MuseGlobal)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... MuseGlobal, Inc. has announced that the MuseSearch product for direct customers will incorporate support for version 1.0 of the OpenURL standard, an important scholarly information industry initiative. Under development by the National...

Innovative Interfaces partners with Glasgow University, announces contract signings. (Library Systems Today).
October 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced that Glasgow University in Scotland will be a development partner for the company's digital library initiatives. The university will work with Innovative Interfaces to assist in the design and...

Tap into your PC's potential. (Link-Up: At Home).
October 1, 2002... Are you making the most of your PC? Probably not, judging from my own observations and those of others. To get a better feel for this, I talked with a product manager at Hewlett-Packard. HP recently merged with Compaq, making it the largest...

Finding homework help online. (Link-Up: At Home).
October 1, 2002... B. J. Pinchbeck is a 15-year-old who likes soccer, riding bikes, and playing paintball. He also knows a thing or two about the Web. In 1996, he developed a site offering links to other sites that can help students with their homework....

Merriam-Webster dictionary goes digital. (Link-Up: At Home).
October 1, 2002... Schoolmaster Robert Cawdrey published the first completely English dictionary in 1604. It listed only 3,000 words and had a title so long that it seems to include a good chunk of them: A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true...

Keillor starts largest book club. (Personal & Professional Development).(Garrison Keillor's inauguration of the BBC World Service's club)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Listeners of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" (http://phc.npr.org) will be interested to know that the show's host, Garrison Keillor, helped launch what is being billed as the world's largest book club. Keillor attended the...

Wineanswers.com helps demystify wine. (Personal & Professional Development).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Wineanswers.com (http://www.wineanswers.com) is an educational tool offering consumers unbiased, nonbranded wine information along with down-to-earth advice straight from the experts. "We needed to address the fear factor associated with...

Atkins Diet Web site redesigned. (Personal & Professional Development).(Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution online)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... With the latest revision of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution becoming a bestseller within weeks of publication, Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. decided to redesign its Web site, which provides a customizable support system for anyone following a...

7 Habits book introduces Web site. (Personal & Professional Development).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... FranklinCovey and EDS present The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People--Online Edition, which provides Web access to the popular leadership-development curriculum for the first time. The online venture interactively delivers the skills and...

A keyboard/mouse combo from Logitech. (Hardware Review).(Freedom Optical mouse)(Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... When Logitech announced the optical version of their cordless keyboards and mice, I was excited. I already had the cordless iTouch keyboard and mouse, but the mouse still used a little ball, which tends to get dirty. I also didn't like to have...

Microsoft's Office XP Professional. (Software Review).(Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... I love Microsoft's Office products, particularly since I used MS Word to write my most recent book, Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online. When I upgraded to Office XP from...

Making money on the Web today. (Personal Computing).(Jim Romeo, author of the new book Net Know-How: Surviving the Bloodbath-Straight Talk from 25 Internet Entrepreneurs)
October 1, 2002... Until the middle of 2000, the Internet economy was flying high, elevating with it the larger economy, not to mention the stock market and the portfolios of millions of investors. Then the bottom dropped out. During the first quarter of...

Conference preview.(Internet Librarian 2002)
October 1, 2002... We are pleased to present the sixth annual Internet Librarian conference and exhibition-the ONLY conference designed for information professionals who are using, developing, and embracing 'Net & Web-based strategies in their roles as...

Calendar.(Calendar of Events)
October 1, 2002... October 18-19: New York (New York Marriott Marquis Hotel). The Online News Association is sponsoring the third annual Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet. The event will discuss how online news organizations publish under...

Thomson acquires Current Drugs, Lawtel.
October 1, 2002... Thomson Corp. has announced that it has acquired Current Drugs, Ltd., a privately held U.K.-based provider of integrated competitor intelligence services to the research solutions market. Thomson also announced the acquisition of Lawtel, a...

The political system goes online: the Internet is quickly becoming an important factor in U.S. politics. (Book Reviews).(Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Transform American Politics, second edition, by Graeme Browning)
October 1, 2002... Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Transform American Politics, second edition by Graeme Browning Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2002 ISBN: 0-910965-49-8 190 pages $19.95 The problems of the 2000 presidential...

The cyber-world we've created: this book offers a philosophical look at the Web and its emerging culture. (Book Reviews).(Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger)
October 1, 2002... Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002 ISBN: 0-7382-0543-5 223 pages $25 "The Web is a world we've made for one another," states author...

1stBooks Library reports record-breaking manuscript submissions. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... 1stBooks Library, a provider of print-on-demand and e-book publishing services, has announced that it received a record-breaking number of manuscript submissions in July 2002, making it the best month for submissions in the company's 5-year...

APA announces archiving policy for PsycARTICLES, price reduction.
October 1, 2002... The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that in response to needs expressed by libraries to retain access to digital repositories of journal articles, it has developed an archive policy for the PsycARTICLES full-text...

ProQuest ABI/INFORM subscribers to receive expanded backfiles access, Wiley content. (Information Today).
October 1, 2002... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced a major product enhancement to ABI/INFORM, a business periodicals database. The company also announced that it has partnered with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to distribute the journal content from...

Dialog Corp. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(appointment of Clifford M. Pollan to the position of executive vice president of strategy and alliances)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced the appointment of Clifford M. Pollan to the position of executive vice president of strategy and alliances. He will coordinate all business development activities, including acquisitions and new ventures, as well as...

EOS International. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... EOS International has announced the promotion of Tony Saadat to CEO. Prior to this he was EOS's chief operating officer. Previously he held several positions at SydneyPLUS International, including director of client services, director of...

OCLC. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... OCLC has announced the appointment of Robert Harriman to program director of the Digital & Preservation Cooperative, OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources. He will establish and promote partnerships with libraries, library organizations,...

Open eBook Forum. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Open eBook Forum has announced that Mike Segroves was elected to its board of directors. In this position, he will have a role in developing industry standards and industrywide consumer promotions. Currently Segroves is director of...

LexisNexis. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced the appointment of Ellen Campbell-Kaminski to vice president of small law firm marketing. Most recently Campbell-Kaminski was director of marketing for Reynolds & Reynolds. Before that she was director of sales and...

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe and LIBER. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe and LIBER, the association of the major research libraries of Europe, have announced that David Prosser will be SPARC Europe's first director. Together with a European...

Snapshots International, Ltd. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Snapshots International, Ltd. has announced the appointment of Margot Williams to business development manager. She has several years of business information experience in the investment banking sector and will develop global strategic...

Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Donald Rydzewski is the company's new director of implementation)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. has announced that Donald Rydzewski is the company's new director of implementation. He will work with department managers to ensure positive customer implementations of Endeavor's products. Prior to this...

epixtech, Inc. (People on the Move Within the Industry).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... epixtech, Inc. has announced three new appointments to its senior management team. Mark Calkins is the new senior vice president of global marketing and will oversee marketing communications, public relations, sales support, and product...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2002... I have been in the industry for over 28 years and have worked, and am working again, as a librarian, besides having held a number of positions in sales. One of my most memorable positions was working for Dialog from 1989 to 1997. We were a...

Bookshelf.(Editorial)
October 1, 2002... A. Internet Blue Pages: The Guide to Federal Government Web Sites, 2001-2002 Edition, by Laurie Andriot, CyberAge Books, 2001, softbound, $34.95, 464 pages. Internet Blue Pages (IBP) is the leading guide to federal government information on the...