Information Today back issues from April 2009:
Turning a new page in ebooks.
Apr 01, 2009; ... There's no question that ebooks have been an interesting part of the publishing industry for several years now, and no one knows for sure what place in history these electronic innovations will hold--or if they will just become history. Over the years, some ...
Thomas Publishing takes a digital spin.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The name Thomas Publishing has been on the lips of engineers and purchasing agents for more than 100 years, thanks to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, a sort of Yellow Pages for industrial companies seeking bearings, motors, valves, and other parts. Now the company is working ...
Securing the mobile landscape.
Apr 01, 2009; ... As the work force becomes more mobile, security becomes a more critical issue from a corporate perspective. While an increasing number of handheld devices have computer-like capabilities, including internet access and email, the main device to secure is still the laptop, ...
OCLC Members Council goes virtual, OAIster joins WorldCat.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The OCLC Members Council held its first virtual meeting in early February to discuss opportunities and challenges for the global information community, learn about collaborative services, and continue the transition from a Global Council to Regional Councils. At the meeting, the Members ...
Hindawi sets monthly manuscript submission record.(NewsBytes)(Hindawi Publishing Corp.)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Hindawi Publishing Corp.'s open access journal collection received more than 1,000 submitted manuscripts in February, the company's highest monthly total. Individually, the Biology and Medicine journals had the "most impressive" growth, according to Paul Peters, Hindawi's head of business ...
ACS website wins PROSE award.(NewsBytes)(award for American Chemical Society)(Professional and Scholarly Excellence)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The American Chemical Society (ACS) won a PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) award for its publications website, which was created with Atypon Systems, Inc.'s Literatum software. Conferred by the Association of American Publishers, the award recognizes the ...
ALA takes on House copyright bill.(NewsBytes)(American Library Association )(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The American Library Association (ALA) is opposing a law that would repeal the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. The ALAsays the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, H.R. 801, would amend the U.S. Copyright Code to keep federal agencies from ...
Cornell University Library expands Amazon print-on-demand collection.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Cornell University Library is beefing up its Amazon.com print-on-demand collection, adding more than 74,000 books to about 6,000 already available. The additions, which represent a substantial part of the library's rare and unique offerings published before 1923, were ...
SirsiDynix gets support facility for Canadians.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Bell Canada is providing SirsiDynix with a facility to handle co-location services in Montreal. Previously, support for Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) customers was provided by a SirsiDynix facility in Montreal, but increased demand ...
Inmagic posting nine-part blog series on social tech.(NewsBytes)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Inmagic, Inc. is posting a series of nine articles on its blog detailing the benefits of implementing social technologies with a knowledge management solution. Titled How to Cost Justify Your Social Knowledge Network Needs, the series states that using ...
CCH offers free access to Federal Employment Law Compare.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... CCH, Inc., part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, gave employment attorneys and human resources professionals free access through March 31 to its proprietary content via State and Federal Employment Law Compare. The ...
OverDrive helps 1,000 publishers adopt EPUB.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... OverDrive, Inc. is distributing titles from nearly 1,000 publishers in EPUB format through its Content Reserve wholesale distribution service, which currently holds about 150,000 titles. The publishers include Random House, Hachette Book Group, ...
Seven publishers adopt MetaPress 2.0.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... MetaPress added seven more publishers to its list of MetaPress 2.0 users: the American Association of School Librarians, the American Society of Comparative Law, Brepols Publishers, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the International Association of Yoga ...
Digital Library Federation releases Metadata Remediation report.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Digital Library Federation released "Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators," a report that evaluates tools used to normalize and enhance metadata. The project, which took inventory of existing tools for metadata mapping, remediation, and enhancement and ...
Swets, JALIS consortium team up.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Swets inked a 3-year contract with the Chinese JALIS consortium. Under the agreement, Swets will provide a suite of SwetsWise e-access services to JALIS member universities in China's Jiangsu ...
Johns Hopkins University makes research public with Collexis.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Johns Hopkins University (JHU) put its Collexis Expertise Portal online for public viewing. Provided by Collexis, the portal lets users search, sort, or view research conducted by the university and its faculty. While most institutions limit ...
University presses: the next to go?(Up Front With Barbara Quint)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Now, now, calm down. I know times are tough, but are things so bad that when I say "the next to go," the only place that comes to mind is a hangman's scaffold? I must admit that there may be one advantage to such gloomy thoughts. As Samuel Johnson so wisely observed, "The ...
Business models, 'propportunities,' and Econtent top the news.(NewsBreak Update)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Newspapers are clearly struggling these days. Some are trying to find the right business model, and others are just trying to stay alive. There was an interesting message exchange on PaidContent.org that started with a discussion of the struggles at The New York Times. The ...
Clickability: a new web business platform.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Clickability, an on-demand web content management solution provider, launched Clickability Corporate Solutions in February. The new offering is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with multichannel and multilanguage capabilities that enable clients to build their brands more ...
JSTOR, Ithaka join forces.(NewsBytes)(JSTOR join forces with Ithaka Harbors, Inc.,)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... JSTOR merged with Ithaka Harbors, Inc., adding its resources to a coordinated set of offerings that bear the Ithaka name. The new entity helps academic institutions use digital technology to enhance scholarship and ...
GlobalPost takes internet journalism worldwide.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Experienced journalists Phil Balboni and Charles Sennott founded GlobalPost, a for-profit venture designed to improve global journalism on the internet. The site provides coverage of several geographic areas often ignored by American news media by featuring ...
Times Publishing Co. mulls Congressional Quarterly sale.(NewsBytes)(acquisitions)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., asked the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. to handle a possible sale of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. (CQ), which publishes the CQ Weekly magazine, Governing magazine, CQ Today ...
In memoriam: Robert S. Taylor.(death of Robert S. Taylor )(In memoriam)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Robert S. Taylor died after a lengthy illness at the age of 90. He served as dean of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies from 1972 to 1981 and was responsible for changing the institution's name from the School of Library Science to the more comprehensive School of ...
Letter from the editor.
Apr 01, 2009; ... As we weather the ebbs and flows of the economy this year, one thing remains certain: There's still plenty of innovation going on out there. Risk-takers in the information technology industry continue to roll out state-of-the-art products and services to meet the growing demands ...
Infotoons.
Apr 01, 2009 ... GEEZ, I JUST CHECKED ON MY 401(K)--OR WHAT'S LEFT OF IT. THAT BAD, EH? BUT I'M STILL HOLDING ONTO MY REAL ESTATE THOUGH. WHAT KIND OF ...
Tweets on an otherwise blank space.
Apr 01, 2009; ... [A Twitter message, or Tweet, contains up to 140 characters, including spaces. My column mimics the form this month.--Ed.] Faced again with a blank screen and looking down the barrel of a deadline--if only I could get by with a 140-character Tweet I would be done. I ...
No stranger times than these.(Focus on Publishing)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I serve on the faculty senate at Simmons College where we've been hearing about the bond market, the insidious relationship between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the structure of endowment funds over the past few months. Since Simmons is in Boston, the academic gossip rages ...
The Washington Monument Syndrome.(Internet Waves)
Apr 01, 2009; ... George Hartzog, the seventh National Park Service director, served during the Nixon administration and was the first such official ever fired from his position. Despite the fact that his department continued to increase the amount of property under its purview, the park service ...
HIPAA gets new privacy rules.(Legal Issues)
Apr 01, 2009; ... There's one famous quote that can certainly apply to Congress: "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made" (Otto von Bismarck). The high school civics version of how a bill becomes law is less the rule than the exception. In that version, the bill is ...
Imprezzeo: perfecting the art of searching for images.(IT Spotlight)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Here's a high-tech company that offers a new way to search for relevant images. FOUNDER Imprezzeo, an image-based search technology company that was founded in June 2007, has operations in New York, London, and Sydney, Australia. The backbone of the company is its ...
Information business meets copyright policy.(Intellectual Property)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I have had the privilege of being involved with copyright for most of my life from a variety of perspectives: teacher, lawyer, librarian, musician, artist, and journalist. To me, copyright is more than a series of words on a page or a legal abstraction I discuss without an applied, ...
Tax-time phishing scams out to lure the unsuspecting.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is once again one of the most targeted organizations for hackers who are busy trying to obtain Social Security numbers, bank account information, and other data from unsuspecting taxpayers. Fraudsters didn't even wait until April this year, ...
Mimosa: a SharePoint archive.(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Mimosa Systems recently announced its next-generation archiving solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint called Mimosa Near-Point for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft reports that Office SharePoint Server 2007 has experienced a 35% growth year-over-year; 100 million ...
Confessions of a newshound.(Library Stuff Revisited)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In the past, my theories on keeping up-to-date mainly focused on the theme of how to do it (i.e., what tools to use to keep up effectively). They did not necessarily comprise the types of sites that we should be reading to stay current because that should be left for individuals to decide ....
Box up your files and move 'em to the cloud.(COOL TOOLS)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Computers have long facilitated the easy transportation of documents among work, school, and home: The 8-gigabyte flash drives that fit on key chains are certainly quite different from the 5.25" floppy disks we once used. And thanks to the evolution of "cloud computing," even those tiny ...
H.W. Wilson Co.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of John Regazzi as chief strategy officer)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The H.W. Wilson Co. announced the appointment of John Regazzi to the newly created position of chief strategy officer. In this role, he will focus on new products, product enhancements, business development, and marketing. Most recently, ...
Ingram Digital.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Frank Daniels as chief commercial officer and Kent Freeman as Chief Operating Officer)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ingram Digital announced the appointment of Frank Daniels as chief commercial officer and Kent Freeman as COO. In this role, Daniels will guide all commercial activities for the company. He has been COO since ...
Swets.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Henk C.J. Compier and Lorraine Ellery)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Swets announced two appointments for Swets Gateway. Henk C.J. Compier is the new director and Lorraine Ellery has been promoted to publisher sales manager. Prior to this, Compier was sales director at International Data Group. Before ...
OCLC and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) announced the recipients of the Library and Information Science Research Grants.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(award for Kathryn La Barre, Carol Tilley and Bill Kules )(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... OCLC and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) announced the recipients of the Library and Information Science Research Grants. The awards went to Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley of the University of Illinois, Michael Khoo of Drexel University, and Bill ...
ALA.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(American Library Association)(appointment of Patricia M. Hogan, Stephen L. Matthews, and Courtney L. Young)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009; ... ALA announced that Patricia M. Hogan, Stephen L. Matthews, and Courtney L. Young have been elected to serve on its executive board. They will serve 3-year terms beginning in July. Hogan is an administrative librarian at the Poplar Creek Public Library District in Streamwood, ...
Richard Bodien, director, marketing, Serials Solutions.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Richard Bodien as new director of marketing )
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite recent technological advancements, Richard Bodien thinks there's as much innovation as there always has been. "Every time I think we have reached a new plateau of innovation, someone comes along with a new idea that changes everything," says the ...
Report examines costs of OA publishing.(International REPORT)(open access)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Which of the three scholarly publishing models are having the most success in the open access (OA) domain today? A new report, commissioned by the U.K.'s Joint Information Services Commission (JISC) and published in late January, has a few answers. The report, titled "Economic ...
New faces on NFAIS board.(NewsMakers)(National Federation of Advanced Information Services)(appointment of Terence Ford, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie and Lynn Willis)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... A new team is settling into the governing chairs at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services, aka NFAIS. At the helm will be Terence Ford, head of research databases for the Getty Research Institute (The J. Paul Getty Trust) as president; he will replace David Brown, ...
Facebook frenzy.(NewsMakers)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... These are the kind of statistics that make Mark Zuckerberg smile. As the founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg can watch the number of global users keep rising and rising. At the start of 2008, Facebook reported a total of 34 million users outside the U.S. By 2009, the number of international ...
More M&A, please.(NewsMakers)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is predicting strong M&A action in the media and information industry this year. Why? JEGI analysts have 10 good reasons: * Media companies will be pruning their portfolios. * Traditional ...
Hot topics: intellectual property, print, and ethics.(Conference Circuit)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Last month, I noted that the May conference scene would be even more active than April was. And that's certainly true. Not only are there more conferences, but 80 new ones have also been added to the ITI Conference Calendar (www.infotoday.com/calendar.shtml). Despite the current economic ...
Information Today, Inc. conference dates.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Buying & Selling eContent April 5-7 Camelback Inn, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa Scottsdale, Ariz. Content Delivery Summit May 11 Hilton New York * New York Enterprise Search Summit May 12-13 ...
NFAIS: greeting the Barbarians at the Gate.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services )
Apr 01, 2009; ... NFAIS structured its 51st annual conference in late February around the born-digital generation. The conference--titled Barbarians at the Gate? The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies on the Future of Information Services--covered the topic from myriad angles, from ...
SMX West 2009: search players are changing.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Search Marketing Expo )
Apr 01, 2009; ... It's a sign of the times. At the second Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West conference in mid-February at the Santa Clara Convention Center, the head count of more than 1,400 attendees proved to be down slightly from the previous year. However, exhibitor participation remained steady, though ...
O'Reilly TOC 2009: books, reading, and publishing.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Tools of Change)
Apr 01, 2009; ... O'Reilly Media held its third Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing conference in February in New York. And just as with the first two TOCs, it emphasized new directions in publishing, particularly book publishing. About 1,000 people attended the event, an uptick of 200 from 2008. ...
Conferences around the world.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
Apr 01, 2009 ... For information on ITI's conferences, turn to page 24. April 15-17: Las Vegas (The Orleans). The ISOneWorld2009 Conference & Convention--run by the Information Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan information policy and research organization--gathers academics and ...
Hulu: the new premium content model.(Database Review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Watching TV is difficult these days. I can't stand broadcast TV anymore because of the commercials. I'm 60 years old; I don't have that much time left; I can't spend it watching ads for The Biggest Loser. My VCR is also worn out and, since the current depression has trashed my ...
SwetsWise Online Content comes to Apple devices.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Apple iPhone and iPod touch users can now use their devices to access Swets-Wise Online Content, which includes direct links to more than 11,000 journal titles. The program lets users search online content, use multilevel linking, download ...
Collexis unveils CTSA experts platform.(Product News & Reviews)(Collexis Holdings Inc's Clinical Translational Science Awards)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Collexis Holdings, Inc. launched the CTSA (Clinical Translational Science Awards) Experts Platform, which includes research profiles for more than 60,000 life science researchers from 38 institutions. Subscribers can search, rank, and visualize ...
ALPSP eBook Collection hits MyiLibrary.(Product News & Reviews)(Ingram Digital )(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Ingram Digital is offering the ALPSP eBook Collection (AeBC) to libraries and other institutions using the MyiLibrary platform. The collection, which includes more than 1,200 titles from specialist society, academic, and university press ...
RSuite CMS 3.1 released.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Really Strategies released RSuite CMS 3.1, which features a redesigned user interface and changes to the underlying interface architecture to improve functionality and usability. The product also ...
LibLime launches free cataloging service.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... LibLime introduced [double dagger]biblios.net, a free, browser-based cataloging service that contains more than 30 million bibliographic and authority records, all licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License. Using a model similar to Wikipedia, the site ...
ebrary gets new interface, features.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... ebrary has improved its user interface with several new capabilities. The service now offers chapter ranking of search results, QuickView for instant document viewing in a browser, and personalized bookshelves with folders for organizing and managing documents ...
Nature Publishing Group rolls out new service, stats, websites.(Product News & Reviews)(European Society of Human Genetics)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Nature Publishing Group is teaming up with the European Society of Human Genetics to give researchers who publish their work in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) the option to make their articles open access. Now, authors can opt in to EJHG Open for a publication fee of ...
Ex Libris Group releases Aleph 20.0, Ex Libris bX.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Ex Libris Group released version 20.0 of its Aleph integrated library system, adding more than 85 enhancements designed to streamline staff workflows and reduce total cost of ownership. Librarians can now perform cataloging and administrative tasks on bulk records, do editing work ...
Elsevier: synthesizing with Reaxys.(Product News & Reviews)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Elsevier may have just turned the old saying "Better living through chemistry" into "Better chemistry through Reaxys." Reaxys is the latest web-based workflow solution designed specifically for synthetic chemistry and a broad range of chemists, from pharmaceutical researchers ...
Atiz: scanning one page at a time.(Product News & Reviews)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Nick Warnock, president of Atiz, is the first to admit that "necessity is the mother of invention." He started out working with Xerox copiers (hardware and software) before showcasing his innovative sales and marketing skills as a finalist on the TV show The Apprentice. ...
AccuWeather.com Stratus now available.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... AccuWeather.com unveiled AccuWeather.com Stratus, a weather widget that works with Adobe AIR software. The application is a small, transparent button that displays day and night same-day forecasts and features a fly-out panel with 5-day forecasts, ...
Global Health databases come to ISI Web of Knowledge.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... CABI's Global Health and Global Health Archive databases are now available via Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge. The arrangement enables Global Health users to access weekly content updates, detect emerging trends, and identify potential collaborators through their publication ...
Skycore targets Facebook users.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Skycore, LLC is offering Mobile Organizer, a mobile messaging and scheduling application designed on the Facebook platform. The application lets Facebook users send free text messages and mobile media greetings to their ...