Information Today articles from September 2002

Information Today archives from September 2002

Is the GPO engangered? (NewsBreak).(Government Printing Office)
September 1, 2002... Ironically, in an age when information and knowledge are valued as highly as economic assets, the executive branch of the federal government is issuing directives that would impede access to government information and limit its distribution. On...

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002: despite its heavy academic overtones, this event offered a lot of practical information. (Report From the Field).
September 1, 2002... While flying into Portland, Oregon, for the second Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), I realized I was feeling anxious. I'd never before been to an event organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE. The...

The shooting of Dan Wagner: this candid interview finds the former Dialog CEO still pulling no punches. (Poynder on Point).
September 1, 2002... It's been over 2 years since Dan Wagner was forced to sell Dialog and make a reluctant exit from the online industry. What went wrong and why? Recently, in a bid to find out, I visited the London offices of Venda, the private company that...

EBSCO releases EBSCOhost Web 6.0. (News Break).
September 1, 2002... Following months of research and field testing, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of EBSCOhost Web 6.0, an enhanced version of its flagship EBSCOhost interface. New features include thesauri for CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO; a...

NISO unveils new standard.(National Information Standards Organization's 2002 Library Statistics Standard)
September 1, 2002... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the release of the 2002 Library Statistics Standard as a Draft Standard for Trial Use. The revised standard addresses an area critical to the information community:...

Entopia ships new release of Quantum. (News Break).(Entopia Quantum 1.4)
September 1, 2002... Last fall I reported on the launch of Entopia, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers Quantum, a flagship enterprise knowledge management product (see http://www..iafotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb011029-1.htm). Since then the company has focused...

'Documents? What documents?' Both the GPO and the public's right to know have come under attack. (Quint's Online).(Office of Management and Budget directive to federal agencies to "liberate" themselves from the Government Printing Office)(Column)
September 1, 2002... Normally, it is the policy of this column and this writer to take an absolutely objective and always disinterested view of information trends. Well, that's not really true. In fact, it's not true at all--I'm totally biased toward the interests...

ICOLC releases privacy guidelines.(International Coalition of Library Consortia)
September 1, 2002... The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has announced the release of "Privacy Guidelines for Electronic Resources Vendors," which is available at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia. The issuance of this document reflects...

One-stop shopping for Dialog news: the NewsRoom database provides content that's culled from many sources. (Database Review).
September 1, 2002... No company has been more important in the online business than Dialog. But from a parenting point of view, it's often been a neglected child. Lockheed, Dialog's first parent, encouraged its emergence but did little to push it to higher levels....

BioMed Central launches Open Access Charter.
September 1, 2002... BioMed Central, a publisher of open access peer-reviewed research articles, has announced that it's publicly committing itself to maintaining an open access publishing policy through the launch of an Open Access Charter. The charter commits...

The peer-to-peer Piracy Prevention Act: will the ability to conduct intermediary searching soon be at risk? (Legal Issues).
September 1, 2002... A most peculiar and unsettling bill has been introduced in Congress. On July 25, U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, proposed an amendment to the U.S....

CCBN charges Thomson Financial with ethical violations. (News Break).
September 1, 2002... CCBN (http://www.ccbn.com), an Internet-based investor communications firm, has filed a lawsuit against Thomson Corp., alleging that "Thomson Corporation... and its Thomson Financial, Inc. subsidiary breached its fiduciary duty by using...

Liberty Alliance releases initial specifications. (News Break).
September 1, 2002... The Liberty Alliance Project (http://www.projectliberty.org), a consortium of technology firms, credit card providers, and merchants, has released the initial specifications for its "federated" scheme to simplify transactions among consumers...

divine launches integrated search and classification solution. (News Break).(divine SinglePoint Search)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... divine, Inc., a company that offers information solutions for the "extended enterprise," has announced a new integrated search and classification solution that promises better search results for users and fast implementation for the enterprise....

Sage Publications withdraws titles from EBSCOhost, ProQuest. (News Break).
September 1, 2002... Sage Publications (http://www.sagepub.co.uk) has decided to remove its "content from the aggregated databases known as EBSCOhost and ProQuest," according to Carol Richman, the company's director of licensing and electronic publishing. While...

When to weed, when to feed: this installment offers some tips for both employers and employees. (Hiring Line).
September 1, 2002... A good garden always begins with picking the best possible seeds. The resulting plants must be nurtured and pruned regularly. Hours must be spent preventing disease, assuring good cross-pollination, and thwarting invasive pests. Should damage...

FIZ Karlsruhe celebrates 25 years: intelligent decisions and state support have helped it reach this milestone. (IT Feature).
September 1, 2002... This year the German not-for-profit information center FIZ Karlsruhe marks its silver jubilee. Having survived the hard years of public-funding scarcity, could it now become a model for information provision in the future? Background ...

Open eBook Forum releases industry report: the organization says that the acceptance of e-books is gaining momentum. (News Report).
September 1, 2002... Since January, the Open eBook Forum (OeBF; http://www.openebook.org), a nonprofit trade and standards organization, has been promoting its "Open an eBook" campaign (http://www.openanebook.org), which was launched to foster the acceptance of...

Gale adds to AncestryPlus. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Gale Group has announced that it has partnered with MyFamily.com, Inc. to add digitized images of World War I draft registration cards to AncestryPlus, Gale's online genealogy tool. The digitization project captures and indexes front and...

H.W. Wilson introduces new content, features to services. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... H.W. Wilson has announced that more than 1,700 of its 5,100 indexed-and-abstracted periodicals are now featured in full text in the company's databases. It also announced that full-text articles on WilsonWeb are now accompanied by Adobe PDF...

D&B Releases two new business research tools. (News Briefs).(International Million Dollar Database and the Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... D&B has announced the release of the International Million Dollar Database and the Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios business tools. International Million Dollar Database has been added to the Million Dollar Database Suite of information...

ProQuest unveils HeritageQuest Online, completes New York Times digitization. (Internet Today).
September 1, 2002... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the release of HeritageQuest Online, a Web-based genealogy resource developed specifically for library patrons. The company also announced that it has fully digitized the complete backfile...

EBSCO announces new resource, partnership. (Internet Today).
September 1, 2002... EBSCO Publishing has announced the addition to EBSCOhost of Wilson Biographies Illustrated, H.W. Wilson's full-text bibliographical database. EBSCO also announced that it has teamed with Creative Library Software, Inc. to ensure that that...

Just what are Web services anyway? Here's a brief summary and examples of some interesting applications. (Internet Waves).
September 1, 2002... By now the phrase "Web services" has undoubtedly crossed your radar screen. For the better part of this year especially, it's been pushing the needle into the red zone on the technology hype-o-meter. And you may actually kinda sorta think you...

Nstein launches News Nserver, issues license for CAI Tools. (Internet Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has released News Nserver, an automated indexing product that's targeted to news publishers. The company also announced that it has issued a software license to MEI for its Nserver Suite and...

Context, Ltd. releases new databases. (Internet Today).
September 1, 2002... Context, Ltd. has announced that it has added the Mental Health Law Reports and Prison Law Reports case law databases to Justis.com, its online legal research service. The company also announced the completion of the Justis UK Statutory...

Content in context is king: greater context-sensitivity would make retrieval programs more useful. (Internet Insights).
September 1, 2002... This was the first time in the past 15 years that I was absent from the National Online Meeting, er, the Info-Today conference in New York, Luckily, at least I got good summaries of the presentations and keynotes from the July/August issue of...

Convera releases Visual RetrievalWare 5.0. (Internet Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Convera has announced the availability of Visual RetrievalWare 5.0, the latest version of the company's search-and-retrieval software development kit (SDK) for digital images and video. Featuring new platform support, new APIs, support for...

LexisNexis debuts Content Organizer. (Internet Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced the launch of the LexisNexis Content Organizer, a solution jointly developed with Verity, Inc. that enables an organization to leverage its information assets for better decision making by classifying and integrating...

Factiva adds Nikkei publications, new Chinese- and Japanese-language interfaces. (Internet Today).
September 1, 2002... Factiva has announced an agreement with The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Nikkei), Japan's leading financial newspaper publisher, to add the English-language Nikkei Report and Nikkei Weekly to its collection of global news and business...

PsycARTICLES now fully loaded on several services. (Internet Today).
September 1, 2002... The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that the PsycARTICLES full-text database (1988--present) is now fully loaded on EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, and SilverPlatter. By licensing PsycARTICLES, institutions can access nearly...

Adobe Systems introduces Adobe Content Server 3.0. (Internet Publishing Today).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Adobe Systems, Inc. has announced the release of Adobe Content Server 3.0, an end-to-end software solution that enables the secure distribution of Adobe PDF e-books. New Content Server 3.0 functionality makes it possible for libraries to loan...

New FileMaker Pro 6 provides integrated XML support. (Internet Publishing Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... FileMaker, Inc. has announced the release of its new FileMaker Pro 6 database software, which features easy-to-use templates and tools, integrated XML import and export, and what the company claims is a virtually limitless ability to gather,...

Palm Digital Media unveils new Palm Reader for Mac, Windows. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... Palm Digital Media, a publisher and distributor of e-books for handhelds and a division of PalmSource, Inc., has unveiled new versions of its Palm Reader e-book application for Mac and Windows computers. The development makes available the Palm...

CopySeal releases its new content security technology. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CopySeal Pty, Ltd., an Australian start-up company, has announced the launch of the commercialization phase for its patented content security technology. The new technology can "seal" content on Web pages without the need for software residing...

ASM Handbooks now online using eMeta Corp.'s software. (News Briefs).
September 1, 2002... eMeta Corp. has announced that ASM International has made its 20-volume ASM Handbooks available on a subscription basis through the use of eMeta's eRights software. With eRights, ASM International expects to vastly expand the reach and access...

DRM's confused and Fragile future: digital content protection faces new challenges on several different fronts. (Focus on Publishing).
September 1, 2002... In publishing's ideal world, digital rights management (DRM) would be a straightforward and simple proposition. You want the information, you give me money. I in turn give you (and only you) the information. With this arrangement, you would...

WHSmith Online launches Palm Reader eBookstore. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... OverDrive, Inc. has announced that its partner WHSmith Online, a division of U.K.-based book and magazine retailer WHSmith, has launched an eBookstore that is the first online bookseller to offer e-books in the Palm Reader format. More than...

Corel releases Corel Ventura 10, announces XyEnterprise partnership. (Internet Publishing Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Corel Corp. has announced the availability of Corel Ventura 10, a comprehensive page-layout and publishing application. The company has also announced that it has partnered with XyEnterprise to deliver an integrated, high-volume XML publishing...

Dow Jones expands its use of CCC's Rightslink. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a licensing agent for text-reproduction rights, has announced that Dow Jones has expanded its use of Rightslink, CCC's digital rights management solution, to fulfill all online orders to reproduce or reprint...

SPARC issues Position Paper on scholarly communication. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released "The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper," a major white paper that examines the strategic roles institutional repositories play for colleges...

SOFTWIN debuts proprietary DRM solution. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... SOFTWIN, a Romanian provider of conversion and consulting services for the publishing industry, has launched its proprietary digital rights management (DRM) solution. This solution is tailored to the inherent needs of the publishing industry,...

Berlitz chooses Ektron eWebEditPro for multilingual content authoring. (Internet Publishing Today).
September 1, 2002... Ektron, Inc., a provider of Web content-authoring technologies, has announced that Berlitz Languages, Inc., a language services company, is among the first to integrate Ektron eWebEditPro into Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. Ektron...

SIRSI Corp. to use EnvisionWare products. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SIRSI Corp. has announced a partnership with EnvisionWare, a provider of software for managing and monitoring public-access workstations. According to the announcement, the SIRSI/Envision Ware partnership will provide SIRSI libraries with...

Three Libraries establish global reference service. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Richland County Public Library in Columbia, South Carolina, has announced a partnership with the Brisbane City Council Library Service in Queensland, Australia, and the Somerset County Council Libraries, Arts and Information Service in the...

Mandarin Library Automation launches Mandarin M3 version 1.5. (Library Systems Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. has announced the launch of Mandarin M3 version 1.5. According to the company, this release provides important new features and enhancements in all modules. The new Mandarin M3 features the following: ...

Fretwell-Downing releases CPORTAL. (Library Systems Today).(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (FD) has announced the launch of CPORTAL, a new community information network solution that improves the precision, relevance, and user-friendliness of current Web-based searching. It allows online library catalogs and...

The never-ending battle against spam: you won't be able to win the war, but you can put up quite a fight. (The Systems Librarian).
September 1, 2002... Lots of people ask me questions about technology. Lately, those I get most frequently involve unsolicited and unwanted e-mail. "What can I do to prevent all this spam that floods my in box?" is the typical query. First of all, most folks...

TLC/CARL, Ingram Library Services enhance Interface. (Library Systems Today).
September 1, 2002... Ingram Library Services has announced two enhancements to its interface capabilities with TLC's CARL.Solution, an automation and management system for large libraries and consortia. These new offerings enable CARL.Solution Acquisitions users to...

divine/Faxon Library Services launches new renewal module for kLibrary. (Library Systems Today).
September 1, 2002... divine/Faxon Library Services has announced the launch of a new renewal module for kLibrary, its premier integrated Web-based service. The new kLibrary renewal functionality allows clients to manipulate their renewal checklists online; mark...

Endeavor announces ENCompass/Blackboard interface, agreement with LexisNexis. (Library Systems Today).
September 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the development of an interface between the ENCompas s system for managing, searching, and linking diverse collections and the Blackboard Learning System. Endeavor also announced an agreement with...

Innovative Interfaces develops new module, makes MAP available as stand-alone product. (Library Systems Today).(Electronic Resource Management )(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2002... Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the development of an Electronic Resource Management module, a tool for libraries to effectively manage electronic resources. The company also announced that its portal software, Millennium Access Plus...

Calendar.
September 1, 2002... September 18-20: Philadelphia (Four Seasons Hotel). The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is sponsoring its 2002 SSP Top Management Roundtable, the theme of which is "Can We Zoom? From Author to Reader in Several Dimensions."...

Kiplinger announces key content alliances. (Information Today).(Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. )
September 1, 2002... The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. has announced that it has entered licensing agreements with six leading aggregators: EBSCO Publishing, Factiva, Gale Group, LexisNexis, ProQuest Information and Learning, and H.W. Wilson. Under the terms...

Establishing your company's Web presence: this book provides ideas and suggestions for many types of businesses. (Book Review).(Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget)
September 1, 2002... Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget By Mary Diffley Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2002 ISBN: 0-910965-55-2 342 pages $29.95 By now most of us have shopped for or researched...

Information Today, Inc. launches four new titles.
September 1, 2002... Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced the release of four new publications. Net Crimes & Misdemeanors ITI has published Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online,...

The OCLC Members Council. (People on the Move within the Industry).
September 1, 2002... The OCLC Members Council has announced the election of several new members. Larry Alford, deputy university librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Ian Mowat, librarian at Edinburgh University in the U.K., have been...

The jury for the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. (People on the Move within the Industry).
September 1, 2002... The jury for the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research has announced that it has chosen Robert Kahn as the award's recipient. According to the announcement, the Prince of Asturias Award recognizes a "scientific,...

Nstein Technologies, Inc. (People on the Move within the Industry).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has announced the addition of three new sales directors to its team. Sarah Brezniak is a former business development manager for Semio Corp. Prior to that she was senior manager/supplier of business development at...

Endeavor Information Systems. (People on the Move within the Industry).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the addition of three new staff members. Julie Wright will serve in the role of customer support manager for Europe. She will be responsible for overall customer relationship management and for...

H.W. Wilson Co. (People on the Move within the Industry).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... H.W. Wilson Co. has named John O'Connor as its new vice president of administration. He will be responsible for the operation of the Office of Personnel Administration, Maintenance, and Security. Prior to this appointment he was assistant to...

Information Access Co. (People on the Move within the Industry).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Infotrieve has announced that Wes Crews was elected CEO by its board of directors. His most recent position was as Infotrieve's chief operating officer. Previously he was chief operating officer of Gale Group and executive vice president...

ABC-CLIO. (People on the Move within the Industry).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ABC-CLIO has announced that Art Stickney is the new editorial director of the company's books division, where he will manage book acquisitions, development, and production. Prior to this Stickney served as product manager for R.R. Bowker,...

Endymion Systems, Inc. acquires ZNOW, Inc.
September 1, 2002... Endymion Systems, Inc., an information technology consulting company with regional offices throughout the U.S., has announced that it has expanded its Web-based enterprise content management service offerings by acquiring ZNOW, Inc., a...

Dialog expands Graduate Education Programme.
September 1, 2002... Dialog Corp. has announced that it has expanded its Graduate Education Programme (GEP) to Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Dialog's GEP is a professional development initiative that's designed to help future librarians prepare to use...

LexisNexis attains Security Certification from TruSecure Corp.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... LexisNexis has announced that it has achieved TruSecure Corp.'s Perimeter Security Certification by successfully completing extensive information security assurance compliance validation for the LexisNexis Data Center, which houses the more...