Information Today articles from September 2004

Information Today archives from September 2004

Packed with political planks.(Report From The Field)
September 1, 2004... The Democrats and Republicans were not alone this summer in hosting programs packed with political planks. While many stood on line at the ALA's annual conference in Orlando in late June to buy librarian action figure dolls, which openly...

Put up or shut up.(Interview with Derk Haank)(Interview)
September 1, 2004... Created from the recent merger of BertelsmannSpringer and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer Science+BusinessMedia is currently owned by private equity firms Candover and Cinven. Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier...

On the TREC trail.(Investigative Report)(Text Retrieval Conference)
September 1, 2004... Come, my children, and gather round the campfire. Listen to the old ones tell the tales of the long-forgotten ancient times and of the great deeds done when the world was young. Long before the coming of Google, before the howling of Yahoo!,...

VNU exhibitions Europe acquires library + information show.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... VNU Exhibitions Europe announced its acquisition of the Library + information Show (LiS) from Resources Exhibitions, Ltd. Now in its 16th year, the Library + information Show caters to all sectors of the library profession, bringing the...

SwetsWise welcomes BioMed Central's open-access journals.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Swets Information Services announced that BioMed Central's open-access journals will be included in SwetsWise, the Web-based, modular service for the procurement, access, and management of subscriptions and online information. This service,...

Thomson study reveals weak correlation between self-citations and impact factor.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The Thomson Corp. released a study titled "Journal Self-Citation in the Journal Citation Reports--Science Edition (2002)." The study examined self-citation in all 5,876 journals covered in the 2002 Science Edition of JCR and concluded that...

Ovid to offer PsycBOOKS database.(News Bytes)(Ovid Technologies Inc.)(American Psychological Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ovid Technologies, Inc. announced an agreement with the American Psycho logical Association (APA) to make content from the APA PsycBOOKS full-text database accessible through Ovid's online platform. Ovid's offerings from the PsycBOOKS...

Ingenta, Inc. chosen to deliver BSOL.(News Bytes)(British Standards Online Project)(BSI Business Information)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ingenta, Inc. has been chosen to deliver the British Standards Online Project (BSOL) for BSI Business Information, the publishing division of the BSI Group. The project involves the provision of a new online channel to market for thousands...

Infotrieve, ISI ResearchSoft announce partnership.(News Bytes)(Infotrieve Inc.)(Thomson ISI ResearchSoft)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Infotrieve, Inc. and Thomson ISI ResearchSoft announced that they will collaborate to deliver enhanced services to the corporate researcher. This partnership will provide connectivity between content delivered by Infotrieve and ISI...

Canceling an American icon.(Up Front)(Television program guides)
September 1, 2004... Thunk. What was that? Oh, rats! Nooooo, I can't reach it from here. Maybe if I... drat! Oh, honestly! Forget it! I'll just wait till the cleaning lady comes next week. Maybe she can hose it out with the vacuum cleaner. And this is the way...

Developments in open access, search, and more.(News Break Update)
September 1, 2004... Following the busy conference period in June, many industry companies seemed to take a breather from making big announcements during the hot summer months, but things are bound to pick up soon. Many companies have promised to announce big news...

FindLaw acquires Hubbard One.(NewsBytes)(Hubbard Systems Inc.)(Thomson Corp. Thomson FindLaw)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FindLaw, a Thomson Corp. business, announced the acquisition of Hubbard One, a provider of marketing applications to large U.S. law firms. According to the announcement, the combined offerings of Hubbard One and FindLaw include...

Nstein Technologies announces contract with Time, Inc.(NewsBytes)
September 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed two agreements with Time, Inc. for software solutions and professional services that will provide a master taxonomy and data categorization of the Time, Inc. editorial archive. Time, Inc....

Feed(ing) frenzy.(internet services)
September 1, 2004... RSS feeds are the wave of the future. I've been hearing this from fellow information professionals and librarians, speakers at Information Today, Inc. (ITI) conferences, and many others for the last year or so. And I'm convinced that RSS is a...

When all is nothing and something more.(collection of e mails)
September 1, 2004... This summer, after years of procrastination, I finally got around to archiving my e-mail--3 years' worth. I'm talking 40,000 messages, even after despamification. I'm talking 15,000 attachments. I'm talking the dated and time-stamped electronic...

Infotoons.
September 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Captions: THE ENTIRE SYSTEM CRASHED I HAVE TO CALL IN THE ANWERMAN TO FIX IT... WHO WILL THEY SEND? "THE TEETH" THE EARS? I'M HERE... I CAN FIX EVETYTHING! I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS! OH, BOY... NO,...

The cascading effect.(Focus on Publishing)
September 1, 2004... The history of open access (OA) will no doubt note that this was an important summer, as the movement achieved some key moral victories from publishers and government. And perhaps history alone will reveal if this cascade of events had a...

'Tis a gift to be simple.(Internet Waves)
September 1, 2004... Remember when Yahoo! used to be... a directory? If you were on the Web back in 1994, when it first made its online appearance, you had to love it. Right? Well, now Yahoo! is e-mail and instant messaging/chat and maps and news and phone...

Through the copyright grinder.(Legal Issues)
September 1, 2004... Most everyone is familiar with the classic quip about not wanting to see how either sausages or laws are made. Nowhere does that seem more appropriate than in reviewing the copyright reform legislation that representatives have been proposing...

The Content Partnership launched.(NewsBytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... James Cuming, former general manager of content sales for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and a former director at Australian Associated Press, has launched The Content Partnership, a venture to help publishers of text and multimedia create...

Johns Hopkins collaborates on digital preservation project.(Newsbytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... In a project to test the best methods and strategies for long-term preservation of important digital collections, the Sheridan Libraries of The Johns Hopkins University are participating in the Archive Ingest and Handling Test, a $1 million...

Internet access and Zimbabwe.(International Report)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... In an address given on July 20 at the opening of the fifth session of the fifth Parliament of the Republic of Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe announced the introduction of a Security of Communications bill. The speech is published in full by...

Partnership with Al Sharaka.(International Report)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Access to information is slated for a big improvement in Iraq due to a $5 million funded cooperative relationship between U.S. and Iraqi universities. The goal of the Al Sharaka program is to establish and sustain supportive and collegial...

Extra funding for U.K. libraries.(International Report)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Earlier this year, I reported that Libri, a charity campaigning for improved funding for public libraries, had issued a paper critical of U.K. government policy titled "Who's in Charge?" During the ensuing debate, the government minister...

Royal Geographic Society.(International Report)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... On June 8, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) opened a new public study center in London. The center provides access to one of the world's largest geographical collections and contains more than 2 million...

Guardian media top 100.(International Report)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Each year the U.K. national newspaper The Guardian publishes its list of the top 100 most influential players in the British media: the MediaGuardian 100. Since it is influence in the U.K. that is being ranked, it's not surprising that the list...

EU geographical database.(International Report)(European Union)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... To improve mapping in Europe, the European Commission is launching the INSPIRE (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in the European Union) initiative (http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire). A database with consistent geographical information,...

The fall and beyond.(On the Road)(conferences ahead)
September 1, 2004... Is your mailbox overflowing with conference programs and reminders? I'm not surprised, since Information Today, Inc. has five conferences on its fall conference schedule. Check the calendar on this page for details about what's coming when and...

Search engine strategies 2004.(Report From The Field)
September 1, 2004... Jupitermedia's Search Engine Strategies conference (http://www.jupiterevents.com/sew/toronto04/index.html) hit Toronto with a blast in May. For the first time, SES was offered in Canada, and the conference rooms were packed with attendees. The...

ALA 2004-photo highlights.(American Library Association)
September 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Book signing. Broadcast journalist Amy Goodman, the voice of Democracy Now!, was among numerous authors appearing for book signings at the ALA annual conference. But the line for Goodman's signature on...

Just because you're paranoid ...(American Library Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... "The Justice Department says there is no need to be concerned, and we are just being hysterical and paranoid," said Emily Sheketoff, executive director of ALA's Washington Office, during an ALA session on the status of the association's efforts...

A thousand points of price.(price structure of information industry)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Despite the early hour (the briefing started at 7:30 on a Sunday morning), officials from both library consortia and key academic institutions turned out in numbers during the ALA meeting to hear the latest on the new pricing initiatives being...

IHS, Citation Publishing form alliance.(Newsbytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Information Handling Services, Inc. (IHS) announced an alliance with Citation Publishing, Inc. that will leverage IHS's codes and standards databases and Citation Publishing's CyberRegs environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) laws and...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2004... September 19-21: Phoenix (Ritz-Carlton Hotel). ASIDIC will host its Fall 2004 Meeting, the theme of which is Open Access: Removing the Barriers. According to the announcement, this event will address whether the open-access argument is...

Questel-Orbit introduces PatentExaminer.(Product News & Reviews)(Questel-Orbit Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Questel.Orbit announced the release of PatentExaminer, a patent portfolio management system that analyzes patents and enhances the collaboration between search engines, engineers, and patent attorneys. PatentExaminer facilitates the examination...

Cuadra Associates unveils STAR/Archives version 2.0.(Product News & Reviews)(Cuadra Associates Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CuadraAssociates, Inc. introduced version 2.0 of STAR/Archives, its archives collections management system. The new version, now available to customers, features both browser-based retrieval across collections and dynamic generation of finding...

American rhetoric frees Web speech.(Batabase Review)
September 1, 2004... It's convention and campaign time--the nation's grandest and busiest occasion for speeches: nomination, acceptance, keynote, stump, etc. Most of them, of course, will be forgotten immediately upon completion, if not before. But not all: The...

TFPL, Dialog publish executive report.(Product News & Reviews)(TFPL Publishing)(Dialog Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... TFPL, Ltd. and Dialog have published "Joined-up Knowledge Strategies," the executive report of TFPL's Chief Knowledge Officer's Summit for the public sector that took place in April. The CKO Summit is an event where 20 of the leading...

Xreferplus adds Collins World Atlas Gazetteer.(Product News & Reviews)(Xrefer.com Ltd)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... xrefer announced that it has integrated the Collins World Atlas Gazetteer into its xreferplus subscription service. The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer in xreferplus contains 90,000 places and geographic features, with a 1:5,000,000 scale....

STN International adds CSA databases.(Product News & Reviews)(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FIZ Karlsruhe announced that it made seven new databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) available on STN International. The new databases include Ante, Civileng, Mecheng, Enviroeng, Water, Aqualine, and Bioeng. Coverage focuses on...

LexisNexis announces BlackBerry update, total search enhancements.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... LexisNexis announced the second phase of its wireless delivery option for the BlackBerry platform. The company also released an enhanced version of LexisNexis Total Search. BlackBerry According to the announcement, business...

IEEE releases IEEE Enterprise.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... IEEE announced that businesses may now access technology research in electrical engineering, computer science, telecommunications, imaging, robotics, and related fields through a new IEEE online product called IEEE Enterprise. Subscribers...

Factiva adds three newspapers from Axel Springer AG.(Product News & Reviews)(Axel Springer Verlag AG)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Factiva announced an agreement with Axel Springer AG, Germany's largest newspaper publisher, to add three leading German newspapers to Factiva's collection of 9,000 sources. Factiva's customers will be able to access German-language news...

Hoover's unveils Hoover's Pro Premium.(Product News & Reviews)
September 1, 2004... Hoover's, Inc. announced the release of Hoover's Pro Premium, a new subscriptionbased business information service designed to help small and midsized businesses more efficiently identify sales and marketing opportunities, and achieve business...

Techstreet launches Web site upgrades.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Techstreet, a division of Thomson Scientific, has announced new upgrades to the Techstreet Web site. With the goal of helping customers find and obtain information faster, the Techstreet Web site includes new vertical industry stores, more...

Digital Preservation Program launches research grants initiative.(Product News & Reviews)(National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (NDIIPP) is partnering with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the first research grants program to specifically address the...

Access Innovations offers MAI-Chem.(Product News & Reviews)(Access Innovations Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Access Innovations is now offering its proprietary MAI-Chem chemical name indexing system for chemical research. MAI-Chem gives researchers and chemical information specialists the ability to find and index, or tag, documents that contain...

MicroPatent launches command line searching.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... MicroPatent, LLC announced the launch of command line searching within its PatSearch FullText database. The new command line interface allows authorized full-text subscribers to per- form many advanced search functions while working...

ProQuest announces two new resources.(Product News & Reviews)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning introduced Ancestry Library Edition. The company also announced the launch of Digital Commons @. Ancestry Library Edition ProQuest and MyFamily.com have teamed to produce a new tool to support...

CSA adds bibliography, databases to Internet Database Service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CSA announced the addition of QuikBib to its InterneE Database Service (IDS). CSA also announced the addition of three full-text journals to IDS. QuikBib Researchers using IDS from CSA can now use the new QuikBib tool to generate a...

Elsevier Engineering Information unveils enhanced ChemVillage.(Product News & Reviews)(Elsevier Engineering Information Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Elsevier Engineering Information announced the latest release of the ChemVillage discovery platform, enhancing the way users access chemistry content. With focus on applied chemistry research, ChemVillage offers access to high-quality,...

PAIS International now available on EBSCOhost.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... EBSCO Publishing now offers the PAIS International database as part of its suite of subject-specific databases on EBSCOhost. The database includes references to more than 530,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical...

Dialog adds news reporting from Europe and hard-to-monitor countries.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Dialog has added in-depth news covering Europe and hard-to-monitor countries to its Dialog NewsRoom service. Dialog NewsRoom is an online database that aggregates news reports from around the world with editorial materials from more than...

Aries Systems updates Editorial Manager.(Product News & Reviews)(Editorial Manager 3.0)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Aries Systems Corp. announced that it now offers Editorial Manager 3.0. Editorial Manager 3.0 is the first release of the application to provide tracking prior to author submission. For example, review journals can create manuscript proposals...

Ingenta introduces RSS feeds.(Product News & Reviews)(ingenta inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ingenta, Inc. announced that RSS feeds are now available as a feature of the Ingenta service. RSS is a Web syndication protocol that allows publishing of headlines from any Web site in a machine-readable, XML-based format. A program known as an...

NTIS begins new automatic delivery service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has developed a new product, S&T (Science & Technology) on CD, the CD-ROM version of its SRIM (Selective Research in Microfiche) service. Subscribers to the new S&T on CD get the full text of...

WebFeat introduces WebFeat 3.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... WebFeat announced the arrival of WebFeat 3, which features a suite of new personalization capabilities called MyWebFeat. Todd Miller, CEO of WebFeat, said: "WebFeat 3 represents a culmination of what federated searching is all about:...

Thomson ISI ResearchSoft releases EndNote 8.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Thomson ISI ResearchSoft announced the release of EndNote 8, an upgrade to the company's bibliographic management software. Known for introducing innovative features, including the ability to search online bibliographic databases, organize...

Wake up to the Blogosphere: there is so much being delivered on a moment-by-moment basis that there are probably dozens of sources for even the most esoteric interests.(Perspectives)(Really Simple Syndication)
September 1, 2004... Let's face it. Blogs are here to stay, and so are RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication, an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content, such as news headlines). So why not find a way to work them into your personal daily...

Sliding into Cyberspace.(CyberSports)
September 1, 2004... Want a way to while away a few hours (or make your brain hurt)? Try and imagine what athletes of old would think about the Internet. We're not talking about guys from the 1970s here, although for some of you, the decade of your Field...

Reviewing the reviewers.(Link-Up@Home: your personal guide to the Web)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Here s a book you probably haven't taken to the beach this summer: Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom. Certified by Guinness World Records as the largest published book, Bhutan opens to about the size of a ping-pong...

OneSource Information Services.(People Line)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... OneSource Information Services announced that Yvonno Cekel is the company's new president. Since joining the company in 2002, Cekel has directed and developed corporate and product strategy, built and managed worldwide marketing, and...

EBSCO Information Services.(People Line)(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... EBSCO Information Services has announced that COO F. Dixon Brooke Jr. will become company president in July 2005. Brooke, who has been with the company for 31 years, has held many managerial positions, including general manager of three...

Paratext, LLC.(People Line)(Cheryl D. Crosby )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Paratext, LLC has announced the appointment of Cheryl D. Crosby as its national sales manager. Previously, Crosby held positions with TechBooks, Gaylord Information Systems, and Dynix. In 1988, she began her career in publishing at...

Elsevier's MDL Information Systems, Inc.(People Line)(Lars Barfod )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Elsevier's MDL Information Systems, Inc. announced that Lars Barfod has become president and CEO of MDL. Barfod succeeds Bernard Aleva, who will be Elsevier's Science and Technology board's managing director of engineering. Most recently,...

LexisNexis.(People Line)(Michael Cham )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... LexisNexis has announced that Michael Cham will be its vice president of product technology and infrastructure. Prior to this, Cham was vice president of software engineering at FactSet Research Systems. He has a bachelor's in computer science...

Elsevier.(People Line)(Tony McSean )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Elsevier has announced that Tony McSean is its new director of library relations. He will be responsible for developing and enhancing Elsevier's relationships with librarians. Prior to this, McSean was the British Medical Association's...

Ron Klausner President, ProQuest Information and Learning.(The Executive Profile)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... As president of ProQuest Information and Learning, Ron Klausner is focused on driving growth in the company's library, higher education, and corporate-reseller markets. Appointed in April 2003, Klausner has a track record of developing...

Click everywhere.(Cover Notes)(review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher by Randolph Hock Medford, NJ: Cyber Age Books, 2004 ISBN: 0-910965-68-4 265 pages $24.95 The invisible Web, search engines, portals... who can keep track of it...

Growing pains.(In Other Words)(Library Course Builder)
September 1, 2004... For many of us here at Information Today, Inc., Labor Day has a double meaning this year, since we have welcomed six babies--three girls and three boys--into the ITI family in 7 months. Outside work, three other friends have become first-time...

Copyright Clearance Center, OCLC deliver integrated copyright permission service.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Copyright Clearance Center and OCLC announced a partnership to provide access to copyright licensing directly from two of OCLC's reference and resource-sharing services. Through CCC's Copyright Integration Services, librarians and other users...

Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library offers xreferplus.(News Bytes)(xreferplus service in conjunction with Gale Virtual Reference Library)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Thomson Gale and xrefer announced a partnership for distribution in the U.S. and Canada of the xreferplus service in conjunction with Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale will distribute xreferplus as an added, ready-reference...

WilsonWeb links to RefWorks.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The H.W. Wilson Co. announced that users of WilsonWeb periodicals research databases can now use RefWorks Database and Bibliography Creator to compile WilsonWeb article references into Web-accessible, personalized databases. These can be used...

The Skeptical Business Searcher: the Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources By Robert Berkman This is the experts' guide to finding dependable, high-quality company and industry data on the free Web....

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: a Guide for the Serious Searcher.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher By Randolph Hock The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook is the essential guide for anyone who uses the Internet for research: librarians, teachers, students,...

Choosing and Using a News Alert Service.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... Choosing and Using a News Alert Service By Robert Berkman There are dozens of competing firms that offer an e-mail-based news alert service. But how to know which one is best? This comprehensive new guide explains how these tools work...

The Accidental Webmaster.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... The Accidental Webmaster 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 Web-mastering books focus on...

Pathways to Nursing: a Guide to Library and Online Research in Nursing and Allied Health.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... Pathways to Nursing: A Guide to Library and Online Research in Nursing and Allied Health By Dennis C. Tucker and Paula Craig This timely book provides a foundation within library and electronic research in the fields of nursing and...

Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast--at Little or No Cost.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast--at Little or No Cost By Paula Berinstein Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and...

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources By Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo With this remarkable, eye-opening book and its companion Web site, Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo shows how anyone can create a...

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: a Guide to Evaluating CI Technology.(New Titles for the Information Professional)(competitive intelligence)(Advertisement)
September 1, 2004... Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software: A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology By France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer As commercial software products for competitive intelligence (CI) emerge and gain acceptance, potential users...

AP, Convera strike agreement for news industry.(News Bytes)(Associated Press)(Convera Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The Associated Press and Convera Corp. announced an agreement whereby Convera's RetrievalWare will be used for categorizing, searching, and distributing multimedia content within the AP's electronic AP (eAP) initiative. Under the agreement, the...

Paratext's Reference Universe links to several databases.(News Bytes)(Paratext L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Paratext, LLC announced that its aggregated reference database Reference Universe now contains links to full-text reference sources from ABC-CLIO, Oxford University Press, and Thomson Gale. Reference Universe, which integrates article...

NLM announces international agreement to expand PubMed Central.(News Bytes)(U.S. National Library of Medicine)(Joint Information Systems Committee)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), are joining forces to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of medical journals. The digitized content...