Information Today articles from October 2006

Information Today archives from October 2006

And the winners are.
October 1, 2006... Drum roll, please. Pop the champagne corks and let the congratulations begin. We are pleased to announce the final results of Information Today's first-ever People's Choice Awards. We extend a round of applause to our winners, along...

EPS: Outsell's newest addition.
October 1, 2006... Now that the buzz over Outsell, Inc.'s acquisition of Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd. (EPS) of London is beginning to quell, the information industry can't help but view the deal as a win-win situation. Officials on both sides of the...

JURIST: legal history in action.(Bernard Hibbitts)(Interview)
October 1, 2006... For University of Pittsburgh law professor Bernard Hibbitts, "The fun never stops!" Hibbitts is not only a law professor, he's also the founder, editor, and publisher of JURIST: Legal News and Research (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu), which...

ProQuest partners with Iron Mountain.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning announced plans to partner with Iron Mountain, Inc. to introduce the PAL (Perpetual Access Licensed) Archive Program. ProQuest will store its PAL content offsite in Iron Mountain's specialized vaults for...

Macmillan Medical Communications appoints staff in Japan.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC), part of Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., announced the appointments of several key staffers in Japan. Susumu Onishi, former president of Elsevier's health sciences division, was appointed consultant director...

Wiley partners with the International Society for Stem Cell Research.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the International Society for Stem Cell Re search (ISSCR) have signed a multiyear agreement to develop and publish Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology, which will provide experimental methods established by...

Thomson acquires ScholarOne.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Thomson Corp. announced that its scientific and healthcare group has acquired ScholarOne, a work-flow management system for scholarly publishers. ScholarOne provides subscription-based software for authoring, evaluating, and publishing...

Backing the brand.(Up Front with Barbara Quint)
October 1, 2006... When a friend of mine called and asked if I could help her get copies of a series of articles that appeared in The New Yorker magazine last year, the hot blood of the reference librarian started to sing in my veins. Tally-ho! The first...

E-books, Wikis, and search top the news.(NewsBreak Update)
October 1, 2006... I've been bombarded by e-book-related news lately. Maybe I'm just more conscious of it because I recently tested a dedicated e-book reader from Sony (it's due to be released this fall). As my two college-age sons get ready for the fall...

MSNBC.com outpaces ABCNews.com and CBSNews.com.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... MSNBC.com, NBC News' Web site, is still No. 1, according to the recent Nielsen// NetRatings NetView service. MSNBC.com draws nearly 20 million more unique visitors per month than CBSNews.com and ABCNews.com, and it is also the first site to...

Pioneering inventor receives honor.(NewsBytes)(Dean Kamen)
October 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific announced that Dean Kamen, president of the DEKA Research and Development Corp. was named R&D Magazine's 2006 Innovator of the Year. This international award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated excellence and...

Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
October 1, 2006... At a recent seminar by The Princeton Review (my daughter is now a senior and the race to find a college is on), the admissions expert guided worried parents and eager kids step-by-step through the admissions process, offering tips and advice on...

Just the facts, man.(Viewpoint essay)
October 1, 2006... Maybe I'm overreacting, but when I heard this summer that Pluto was no longer regarded as our ninth planet, I started thinking. There are all kinds of estimates about the speed at which our collective information doubles and doubles... and...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
October 1, 2006... WHAT TIME IS IT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SOLAR AGE WHAT TIME IS IT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CLASSICAL AGE WHAT TIME IS IT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DIGITAL AGE WHAT TIME IS IT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

The transitional OA paradigm.(Focus on Publishing)(Open Access)
October 1, 2006... Any newcomer to the world of scholarly publishing is justified in feeling a bit baffled. In fact, open access (OA) has many people (old-timers in the industry, newcomers, and even folks on the sidelines) feeling overwhelmed by all the esoteric...

Perfect 10 versus Google: thumbnails and cell phones.(Legal Issues)
October 1, 2006... Since the information industry has focused on copyright issues associated with Google's Book Search program, several lawsuits against Google filed by publishers and authors are still pending. These lawsuits allege that Google Book Search...

Technology menopause.(Internet Waves)
October 1, 2006... criminal menopause (n.) The stage in life during which an older, habitual criminal loses interest in crime, or when an older prisoner no longer poses any threat to society. --Word Spy (http://www.wordspy.com/words/criminalmenopause.asp) ...

Can you see the real me?(Library Stuff Revisited)(Blog)
October 1, 2006... Most of my ideas for blog posts come from the RSS feeds I read in my aggregator every day. In fact, new content from more than 700 feeds is now parsed and sent to my private, customized online newspaper every 2 hours. While I always have a...

Have you heard the buzz?(digital dieting, Spam )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... landspam: Spam delivered the old-fashioned way--on paper via your local Postal Service worker. ringxiety: Triggered by the ringtone of a cell phone, it's when everyone in a public place or meeting reaches simultaneously for their cells...

Ground surveys: past and present.(International REPORT)(Geograph British Isles, European Library, Global Library)
October 1, 2006... In 1085, William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England, ordered a complete survey of his realm. The survey included people, land, estates, and any valuable resources such as woodlands, pasture, or livestock, as well as all the details...

NetIDme develops online ID card.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... Glasgow, Scotland-based NetIDme, Ltd. bills its new tool as a way to protect children on the Internet. Net-ID is an online ID card issued to children, with parental consent, that displays the child's first name, age, and general location....

Smithsonian sets up wireless access on the National Mall.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Smithsonian Institution is installing cellular coverage and wireless access for all Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The new system will be installed in phases beginning with the National Air and Space Museum and...

Endeavor announces partnership with National Library of New Zealand.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Endeavor announced a partnership with the National Library of New Zealand to meet long-term digitalaccess and -archiving goals for the library. The National Library recently set up the National Digital Heritage Archive to create software to...

IBISWorld: a pioneer in business data.(BEHIND THE SCENES)(Company overview)
October 1, 2006... This summer, when Justin Ruthven moved from Melbourne, Australia, to Santa Monica, Calif., he officially staked his claim to a piece of prime American turf as the president and managing director of IBISWorld. IBISWorld, underscored with the...

LexisNexis and EDGAR Online join forces.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... LexisNexis customers can now access all form types from EDGAR Online. A new agreement between the two companies encompasses insider trading forms and Investment Company Act filings, among others. The new features will be available to LexisNexis...

Google makes progress in book project.(NewsBytes)(signs deal with University of California)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The University of California joined Google, Inc.'s Book Search Project to scan several million of the 34 million titles in its 100 libraries. Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort. The company has also signed a...

Programmers take a bite out of the Big Apple.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... Google Code Jam 2006 is a contest for programmers worldwide. On the heels of Global Code Jam 2005 and regional events for Europe, China, and India earlier this year, Google announced that this year's finals will be held in New York City at the...

Ronald Miller.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(has been elected a director on the Beta Phi Mu national executive board.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson announced that Ronald Miller has been elected a director on the Beta Phi Mu national executive board. He is also president of the New York Theta chapter. Established in 1948, Beta Phi Mu is an international librarians' honor society...

Dow Jones Online.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Dow Jones Online announced that Gordon McLeod has been appointed its new president. He will be responsible for the growth of Dow Jones' Internet businesses. Most recently, McLeod was general manager of Time, Inc. Interactive, where he...

OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Theological Library Association, and OCLC PICA announced the names of the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2007.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Online Computer Library Center )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Theological Library Association, and OCLC PICA announced the names of the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2007. They are as follows:...

National Information Standards Organization.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Calendar)
October 1, 2006... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that Todd Carpenter will be its new managing director. Prior to this, he was director of business development at BioOne. While there, he developed and executed a business model...

Vitusa Corp.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(announces the appointment of Rowland Moriarty)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Virtusa Corp. announced the appointment of Rowland Moriarty to its board of directors. Currently, Moriarty serves as chairman at Charles River Associates International, as well as chairman of the board at Wright Express Corp. He is also...

Iris Hanney, CEO, Unlimited Priorities.(People Line & the Executive Profile)
October 1, 2006... After 30 years in the corporate workplace, Iris Hanney was up for a new challenge. "There is a very definite division between the large conglomerates [and]... small to mid-size business[es], which really capture[s] all of our entrepreneurial...

Mobile security for those on-the-go.
October 1, 2006... While employees and executives may be able to access more data outside of the corporate offices with mobile information services, such freedom also comes with a price: security issues. "Companies are using mobile tracking systems," said...

Conference at glance.
October 1, 2006... Preconference Workshops 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. W1: Service Strategy: How to Get the Right "Mix" of Services W2: Simple Solutions for Dynamic Web Services Using RSS W3: Getting Library Grants W4: Technology Solutions Planning...

Conferences and more conferences.(Conference Circuit)
October 1, 2006... October and November are always busy conference months for the information industry, but there seem to be even more offerings this year than usual. Here are just a few of the fall highlights. Books The world's largest book fair takes...

Search Engine Strategies returns to San Jose.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
October 1, 2006... The Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2006 Conference & Expo returned to San Jose for its fifth annual Silicon Valley appearance. The conference, which bills itself as "The Premier Event for Search Engine Marketing & Optimization," attracted a...

Fall 2006 ASIDIC: the future is here.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Association of Information and Dissemination Centers)
October 1, 2006... Although we spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the information industry's future, the Fall 2006 ASIDIC meeting held Sept. 11-12 in Newport Beach, Calif., made it clear that many trends that we thought were coming in the future...

Scholarly publishing: a collaborative effort.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
October 1, 2006... How many times have we heard that the world of publishing is changing? Nowhere is that more evident than in scholarly publishing. Researchers who are working independently in an academic setting traditionally produce these journals and...

The heart and Seoul of IFLA.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
October 1, 2006... In mid-August, more than 4,000 librarians from around the world arrived in Seoul, South Korea. The occasion was the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) World Library and Information Congress, which was...

Conference calendar.
October 1, 2006... October 16-17: London (Copthorne Tara Hotel). Information Today, Inc. will hold its Internet Librarian International 2006 conference, providing a forum for delegates and speakers to explore the issues and challenges that information...

Etymology sites attract word lovers.(LinK-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
October 1, 2006... Can love of language lead to a love of a lifetime? Melanie Crowley, a Dallas native, has two loves: the weather and words. In fact, her fascination with the capricious Texas climate led her to pursue a degree in meteorology from the...

How do you spell relief?(CyberSports)(Rolaids Relief Man Award)
October 1, 2006... Having done extensive research earlier this year on the science of sabermetrics (the statistical analysis of baseball), your Field Correspondent was duly stunned by a recent news release about the Rolaids Relief Man Award. The award, which...

Newspapers in transition, Part 2: envisioning the future of newspapers.(Perspectives)
October 1, 2006... The advent of the Internet has been revolutionary for newspapers, but so far, the industry is still searching for viable digital-publishing models. In Part 1 (July/August, IT) of this two-part series, we examined why newspapers have been...

Site offers access to Smithsonian Photography collections.(Product News & Reviews)(The Smithsonian Institution)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Smithsonian Photography Initiative launched a new gateway Web site for access to more than 13 million photos in the Smithsonian Institution's collections. The site (http://www.photography.si.edu) features more than 1,800 images from...

EBSCO customers gain access to Springer Online Archives Collection.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... In a partnership with Springer Science+Business Media, EBSCO now offers the Springer Online Archives Collection, with nearly 2 million archived journal records published prior to 1996. These archives are available as 11 subject-specific...

Ten things you don't know about MySpace.(Database Review)
October 1, 2006... More than 20 years ago--when CompuServe was the biggest online service and before the dawning of the World Wide Web--I predicted that communication would become the primary online activity. My prediction was right, but I never imagined that it...

H.W. Wilson publishes researching tool.(Product News & Reviews)(Current Biography Cumulated Index: 1940-2005)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson published Current Biography Cumulated Index: 1940-2005, a tool to help researchers find profiles or obituaries published in Current Biography. The volume directs researchers to the specific issue that features the article they seek....

Google News expands to archive search.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Google News has introduced an archive search to help users search for events, people, and ideas over different time spans. Users can explore more than 200 years of historical information for a glimpse into the past. The most relevant articles...

HP: covering all configuration-management bases.(Product News & Reviews)(HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... HP has just finished building a better mousetrap. Its newly released HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0 gives medium-sized organizations--as well as individual departments in larger corporations--a reliable, easy-to-use, and...

A question of outsourcing.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... When offices were overloaded with work during the dot-com boom, outsourcing came to the rescue with a seemingly surefire way to get jobs done faster and more efficiently. But for some companies, what worked in theory didn't always work in...

Dewey Decimal Classification debuts in Vietnamese.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... OCLC announced the publication of the Vietnamese translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, Abridged Edition 14, by the National Library of Vietnam. The new edition, which was launched in Hanoi in August, is the first...

Thomson Scientific expands nursing journals coverage.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific has nearly doubled its number of nursing journals indexed within the Web of Science, a component of ISI Web of Knowledge. The Web of Science is a multidisciplinary information solution providing access to about 8,900 research...

Dialog, DataStar offer EMCare database.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Dialog has enhanced its portfolio of healthcare information with EMCare, a new nursing and allied health database. Dialog joins DataStar as the second Thomson platform to offer the EMCare database. The database was produced by Elsevier with...

ProQuest launches digital obituary collection.(Product News & Reviews)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning recently launched ProQuest Obituaries, offering access to obituaries and death notices from major national newspapers dating back to 1851. The new database, which is the latest addition to the ProQuest...

Swets introduces the China Suite.(Product News & Reviews)(Swets Information Services)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Swets Information Services recently added China Suite, a pick-and-choose model of e-only titles for the Chinese market, as part of Swets' Gateway to China program. The China Suite features 234 e-only titles from 16 publishers to help...

Taylor & Francis, EBSCO team up with e-books.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... EBSCO now offers more than 30 Taylor & Francis Group e-book packages to its global customer base, including 10 eCollections, 24 Bestsellers by Subject, and a customization option in which the library can select from the academic publisher's...

WilsonWeb adds Spell Checker.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... WilsonWeb's new Spell Checker feature automatically suggests alternative spellings for proper names, corporate names, and any other words that produce no hits during a search. The Spell Checker draws its terms from the records of the database...

Factiva reaches No. 1 market position.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... Factiva recently announced that it has reached the No. I market position in the Current Awareness News and Research Online industry. Since it was founded in 1999, Factiva has continued to produce a new wave of products and services that cater...

WebFeat upgrades search proxy.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... WebFeat has announced the release of the latest generation of its federated search proxy, also called WebFeat. According to the company, the new version increases the performance of the full-text display by 150 percent to 500 percent. ...

Nature Publishing Group is turning Japanese.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched Nature Digest, its first publication published entirely in Japanese. Nature Digest, which will be edited by Itsumi Kitahara (formerly from the Japanese science magazine Newton) will contain news,...

Scientific studies available from io-port.net.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... FIZ Karlsruhe released the informatics portal io-port.net, which offers computer scientists centralized access to more than 2 million scientific publications. Previously, conference proceedings, electronic journal articles, dissertations, and...

KickApps edges into the social networking scene.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... Until recently, MySpace was the only social networking site available for widespread use. According to PC Magazine, MySpace holds 76.3 percent of the social networking market share, dwarfing runner-up Facebook, which holds only 8.3 percent....

ReCellular gives old cell phones new life.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... What really happens to an old cell phone when it is traded in for a newer model? Just ask the staff at ReCellular, Inc. ReCellular is the largest dealer of used cellular phones in the U.S., processing more than 250,000 used wireless handsets...

Cambridge Companions now available online.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Cambridge University Press has made more than 200 of its Cambridge Companion books available online as PDFs. Cambridge plans to add other book series to its new Cambridge Collections Online platform, the current home of the Companion PDFs....

E-LIS reaches milestone.(Product News & Reviews)(Electronic Library and Information Science)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The international archive for Library and Information Science e-prints (E-MS) recently announced that it stored its 4,000th e-print, according to E-LIS coordinator Imma Subirats Coll. Source: E-LIS (http://eprints.rclis.org)

Eight publishers join MetaPress.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... MetaPress has announced electronic content distribution partnerships with eight publishers: the University of Toronto Press; Henry Stewart Publications; The American Pharmacists Association; Left Coast Press, Inc.; The National Resource Center...

Tralliance Corp. introduces travel search engine.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Tralliance Corp. introduced a new search portal for the .travel domain. The site (http://www.search.travel) searches all travel sites on the World Wide Web, giving priority to those that have been authenticated as genuine travel Web sites. ...

Nature Publishing Group announces open access.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced that all online content in its journals dating from January 2003 will be accessible effective January 2007. The OA policy will include access to a rolling database of all content more than 4 years old at...

H.W. Wilson adds volume to Reference Shelf.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson announced the addition of U.S. National Debate Topic 2006-2007: National Service to its Reference Shelf book series. The volume questions whether the U.S. should pass legislation to increase the number of citizens involved in...

Cambridge University Press journals launch open access.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Cambridge University Press announced that effective Aug. 14, authors who submit articles to selected Cambridge Journals can opt for open access (OA) immediately upon publication. Cambridge Open Option introduces a new OA model for 15 more...

Microsoft paints bull's-eye on Vista.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2006... Imagine this: General Dynamics Corp. builds a prototype main battle tank, delivers it to the Marines, and says, "See if you can blow it apart." Microsoft Corp. is doing exactly that with its newest Windows-based operating system known as...

Pssst! Read this book.(NewsMakers)(ALA sponsored Banned Books Week)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The American Library Association (ALA) has recorded hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to ban books from classrooms and to remove them from library shelves. ALA sponsored Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (from...

Retirement plans ahead.(NewsMakers)(Judy Russell, U.S. Government Printing Office)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Judy Russell, who has been with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) for nearly a decade, announced plans to retire early next year. As superintendent of documents, Russell has been key in designing the Federal Depository Library Program...

And the winners are ...(NewsMakers)(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... On Sept. 14, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) announced the winners of the international ALPSP and the ALPSP/ Charlesworth Awards in London. The awards recognize the special achievements in the world of...

Irwin's death triggers site-stopping Web traffic.(NewsMakers)(Steve Irwin)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... When TV naturalist Steve Irwin (better known as The Crocodile Hunter) died suddenly in September, Australia was inundated with so much Web traffic that some sites actually slowed to a complete stop. According to Reuters, the Australian...

Information Policy Institute issues data breach examination.(NewsBytes)
October 1, 2006... Recent high-profile data breaches have led the Information Policy Institute to release the report titled Towards a Rational Personal Data Breach Notification Regime by Michael Turner. Turner studies identity theft, identity fraud, and other...

Public printer receives government award.(NewsBytes)(Bruce James)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Council for Excellence in Government presented public printer Bruce James with the Champion of Excellence Award for his work in modernizing the U.S. Government Printing Office. James led the agency to create the Future Digital System, which...

VA upgrades encryption.(NewsBytes)(U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... In the wake of the recent laptop-theft incident this summer, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent $3.7 million on new encryption software. In May, a laptop containing the personal information of 26.5 million active and retired...

In transition: librarians search for answers to resource preferences.(Cover Notes)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web edited by William J. Frost Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press Also published as The Reference Librarian, Nos. 91/92 (2005) ISBN: 0-7890-2840-9 310 pages $34.95, softcover ...

In search of ...(In Other Words)(Integrating RSS Feeds of New Books into the Campus Course Management System)
October 1, 2006... Even before autumn officially arrived on Sept. 23, I could feel it in the air. The slightly cooler breeze taunted me that summer would be ending soon. While I longed for one more afternoon to spend basking in the sun and expending just enough...

2006 People's Choice awards.
October 1, 2006... TOP NEW INNOVATOR (INDIVIDUAL) Winner: Tim O'Reilly Profile Basics: Tim O'Reilly, who holds a B.A. in classics from Harvard College, is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., which is considered by many as the best computer book...

In memoriam: Wilhelm 'Bill' Bartenbach.(NewsBytes)(Obituary)
October 1, 2006... The information industry mourns the loss of pioneer Wilhelm "Bill" Bartenbach, who died in late August. Mr. Bartenbach was world-renowned for his longtime contributions to the information and publishing worlds, where he made his mark in...