Online back issues from January 2004:
Looking ahead, looking back.(the homepage)
Jan 01, 2004; ... January is always interesting. As the start of the new year, it's a time for renewal and reflection. There are those pesky New Year's Resolutions, which we have every intention of fulfilling, even if we know we didn't in previous years. "This time it's going to be different," we say to ...
Inmagic moves to a new business model.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Embracing open standards, Inmagic has signed a deal with systems integrator Digital Vantage Point, headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Digital Vantage Point will provide consulting, integration, development, and delivery services for Inmagic Content Server customers in the U.S. and ...
Microsoft launches beta version of news alerting service.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Keeping up with breaking news is becoming an increasingly crowded area. The latest entrant is no less than Microsoft, which has launched a beta version of MSN Newsbot. With four languages represented--English, French, Italian, and Spanish--MSN Newsbot is an automated news service using MSN ...
Open access gains support.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... The Wellcome Trust, the U.K.'s leading biomedical research charity, has clearly positioned itself in support of open access publishing. Dr. Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, said in a press release, "As a funder of research, we are committed to ensuring that the results of the ...
LexisNexis Group.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... The LexisNexis Group announced that Michael Walsh has joined the organization as senior vice president, leading the company's global strategy and business development ...
xrefer.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... John G. Dove has been named CEO of xrefer. Dove has 35 years of experience in information-based businesses including financial services, management consulting, electronic publishing, and education. Most ...
OCLC Board of Trustees.(Peopleware)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson, director of University Libraries, ...
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin.(Search Engines)(FIZ CHEMIE now has tools to tackle the problem of the hidden Web--its subject-specific Internet search engines )(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Germany's "Chemistry Information Centre" (Fachinformationszentrum Chemic, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin) now has tools to tackle the problem of the hidden Web--its subject-specific Internet search engines ChemGuide (chemistry), MedPharmGuide (medicine and pharmacology), and PublishersGuide (scientific ...
Metrobot LLC announced the release of Metrobot--A Map Based Search Engine and City Guide.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Metrobot LLC announced the release of Metrobot--A Map Based Search Engine and City Guide, which employs a user interface that depicts a network of road segments and associated business listings in major U.S. cities. The roads are displayed in a straightened and aligned manner, with ...
Convera announced that its RetrievalWare enterprise search technology will now offer new audio search capabilities to pinpoint spoken and phrased words in split seconds.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Convera announced that its RetrievalWare enterprise search technology will now offer new audio search capabilities to pinpoint spoken and phrased words in split seconds. Through a partnership with audio search engine Nexidia, RetrievalWare will search the equivalent of 30 hours of audio or ...
MuseGlobal, Inc. announced the release of MuseSeek, a new consumer-oriented version of its metasearching technology.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... MuseGlobal, Inc. announced the release of MuseSeek, a new consumer-oriented version of its metasearching technology. MuseSeek allows Internet users to perform simultaneous searches of an unlimited number of online information sources using an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Clicking on ...
Tribune Media Services International launched News In Motion International to deliver News In Motion and Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) animations, TV graphics, and related editorial content to television stations and their Web sites on a subscription and spot sales basis.(Search Engines)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Tribune Media Services International launched News In Motion International to deliver News In Motion and Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) animations, TV graphics, and related editorial content to television stations and their Web sites on a subscription and spot sales basis. The site will ...
Patolis Corporation, Japan's leading patent information service, announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Questel * Orbit in October.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Patolis Corporation, Japan's leading patent information service, announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Questel * Orbit in October. The partnership leverages Questel * Orbit's extensive collection of international patent information, patent management tool QPAT, and search tool ...
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin announced the launch of INFOTHERM, its well-known database of the thermophysical properties of substances, in XML.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... FIZ CHEMIE Berlin announced the launch of INFOTHERM, its well-known database of the thermophysical properties of substances, in XML. By making INFOTHERM available via the Web and on company intranets, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin hopes to target those chemical engineering offices and companies that ...
Kluwer Academic Publishers is participating in the AGORA initiative recently launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome in collaboration with major scientific publishers, Cornell University, Mann Library and the World Health Organization (WHO).(Sci-Tech)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Kluwer Academic Publishers is participating in the AGORA initiative recently launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome in collaboration with major scientific publishers, Cornell University, Mann Library and the World Health Organization (WHO). In line with Kluwer's ...
JCF Group, Inc., a European-based provider of global earnings estimates, international equity analytical models, and customized software solutions, and Mergent, Inc. announced a new strategic alliance.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... JCF Group, Inc., a European-based provider of global earnings estimates, international equity analytical models, and customized software solutions, and Mergent, Inc. announced a new strategic alliance. The partnership allows Mergent to integrate JCF Group information into its various ...
EDGAR Online, Inc. announced the release of a new version of its premium EDGAR Online Pro service.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... EDGAR Online, Inc. announced the release of a new version of its premium EDGAR Online Pro service. In addition, the company outlined a new strategic focus on selling EDGAR Online Pro to clients in financial services companies, including investment bankers, asset managers, credit risk ...
Blue Marble Geographics announced that Domino's Pizza LLC (Domino's) has licensed its 2002 TIGER/Line Map Kit.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Blue Marble Geographics announced that Domino's Pizza LLC (Domino's) has licensed its 2002 TIGER/Line Map Kit. Domino's selected the Map Kit to assist in the documentation and analysis of ...
Content from Agence France-Press, the international news and photo agency, has been added to Factiva.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Content from Agence France-Press, the international news and photo agency, has been added to Factiva. AFP content will be available in English, French, ...
Swets Blackwell has concluded another series of agreements with nine additional publishers providing access to online journal content via SwetsWise, which now carries a total of 7,645 full text e-journals, with more than 90 percent of the top STM publishers participating.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Swets Blackwell has concluded another series of agreements with nine additional publishers providing access to online journal content via SwetsWise, which now carries a total of 7,645 full text e-journals, with more than 90 percent of the top STM publishers participating. New content ...
xrefer, the online ready-reference service that provides full-text, aggregated content to academic, public, and corporate libraries, announced the release of version 2.0 of its xreferplus service featuring improved information visualization capabilities, a host of new content, and unit conversions.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... xrefer, the online ready-reference service that provides full-text, aggregated content to academic, public, and corporate libraries, announced the release of version 2.0 of its xreferplus service featuring improved information visualization capabilities, a host of new content, and unit ...
Social sciences & humanities.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Project MUSE announced new enhancements to its search interface. Users now have more options for working with their search results, including saving, e-mailing, and exporting results to RefWorks and EndNote, and downloading and printing in text-only format. Users can also view their search ...
Legal Research Assistant.(Legal)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... A free legal research tool has gone into public beta testing. Legal Research Assistant allows users to metasearch primary legal materials, government sites, and legal blogs selected by information professionals for reliability. It also permits metasearching the resources in all or selected ...
FindLaw announced that Block Financial Corporation has chosen FindLaw's lawyer directory as the exclusive lawyer directory in the popular Kiplinger's Home & Business Attorney and Kiplinger's WILLPower software packages.(Legal)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... FindLaw announced that Block Financial Corporation has chosen FindLaw's lawyer directory as the exclusive lawyer directory in the popular Kiplinger's Home & Business Attorney and Kiplinger's WILLPower software packages. Kiplinger's Home & Business Attorney allows users to create legal ...
Minesoft announced the launch of Minesoft Patent Family Portal, an easy-to-use facility to check patent families for over 70 countries and find out the latest legal status for over 40 patent-issuing authorities.(Legal)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Minesoft announced the launch of Minesoft Patent Family Portal, an easy-to-use facility to check patent families for over 70 countries and find out the latest legal status for over 40 patent-issuing authorities. Minesoft Patent Family Portal taps into the EPO Open Patent Service to ...
OCLC is testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... OCLC is testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2-million-record subset from the more than 53 million records in the WorldCat database. The subset will target the most popular and widely available books by selecting only records held by a ...
Caldwell College has retained ProQuest Information and Learning to preserve its academic research heritage through a new program to create a digital archive of its master's theses.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Caldwell College has retained ProQuest Information and Learning to preserve its academic research heritage through a new program to create a digital archive of its master's theses. ProQuest will provide publishing services for Caldwell's advanced-degree programs through its UMI ...
Reed Business Information has selected NewsStand Inc. to provide digital production and delivery of New Scientist.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Reed Business Information has selected NewsStand Inc. to provide digital production and delivery of New Scientist. Established in 1956 and based in the U.K., New Scientist is a leading current affairs weekly magazine covering scientific and technological advances. Subscribers ...
Access Innovations, Inc.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Access Innovations, Inc. announced the release for license of over 30 topical taxonomies that span knowledge domains from agriculture to technology. The collection includes taxonomies and training sets for defense, business, finance, education, medicine, computers, news, sports, and ...
Net Snippets.(Portals & Intranets)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004 ... Net Snippets introduced a server component to complement its platform for personal content collection and management. The new server module adds powerful functionality for enhanced ...
AlltheWeb and AltaVista are now owned by Yahoo!, along with Inktomi and Overture.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... AlltheWeb and AltaVista are now owned by Yahoo!, along with Inktomi and Overture. For now, Inktomi, AltaVista, and AlltheWeb continue to be available at their historic locations and have separate databases. Although AltaVista and AlltheWeb still have different Web databases, their ...
About.com.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google and will start displaying Google AdWords on the About.com sites under the Sponsored Links section. The inclusion of the Google text ads has not yet caused much reduction in the pop-up and graphic ads on the site, but ...
Amazon.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way with the introduction of its "Search Inside the Book" program. For publishers that have allowed their books to be included, the full text of the book content is searchable. Covering over 120,000 books, the "inside the book" matches show ...
AOL.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases and has made a few interface changes. It now offers access to the Google images database as a separate tab with "strict" filtering turned on. Local searching is available for AOL members. There is a new People Search tab for AOL ...
Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page with all the same features as the Teoma advanced search page except for the ability to get more than 10 results at a time and to open results in a new browser window. However, both of these options are available at Ask Jeeves via the "Your Settings" ...
Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Gigablast has removed the date sort option on the advanced search form. As the only search engine to offer that option, it is disappointing to see this option disappear. On the plus side, Gigablast is now indexing, searching, and displaying generic metatags. Previously, some search engines ...
LookSmart.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... LookSmart directory results will no longer show up on MSN Search after January 15, 2004. Instead, MSN will show Inktomi results, which already display when no matches in LookSmart are found ...
Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Google has added a direct Google Glossary function (formerly only at Google Labs) to its main database. The define command works in two different ways using "definitions" found in a definition format on various Web pages. Enter define, a space, and a query word or two, and one "Web ...
Goggle Labs.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Google Labs has a new experimental "Search by Location," somewhat similar to a feature that Northern Light offered years ago. Google's version adds a MapQuest map of locations for the hits based on the addresses given. It highlights matching addresses in the keyword in context (KWIC) ...
InvisibleWeb.com.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... InvisibleWeb.com, Intelliseek's directory of invisible Web databases and resources, is gone. That address now redirects to Intelliseek's ProFusion meta search engine. Some of those databases are still searchable within ProFusion's subject ...
Mooter.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mooter is a new search engine from Australia which features visual clustering of results. In beta version, and available at mooter.com, it divides results into clusters using a diagram. Clicking the "Moot Quicker!" button displays the clusters on the left and search ...
Yahoo!(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Yahoo! has moved to tabs on its front page, at least for Internet Explorer users. It displays tabs for Web (the default), Images, Yellow Pages, and Products. The last tab goes to Yahoo!'s relaunched shopping search which includes product information, user reviews, price comparisons, ...
Harvesting USDA's agricultural information.(Cover Story)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), referred to by President Abraham Lincoln as "The People's Department," was founded in 1862 [www.ars. usda.gov/is/timeline/index.htm] and literally touches the lives of every U.S. resident, from food and nutrition programs, to research into ...
Conference call transcripts.
Jan 01, 2004; ... "Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?" Searching for conference call transcripts, some of the most elusive but most valuable business research sources, can leave information professionals feeling as harried and confused as Ernestine, the Lily Tomlin telephone operator ...
Web conferencing for libraries: "can you hear me now?".
Jan 01, 2004; ... Reading about the wonders of today's broadband communications and the remote computer interaction features visible on the horizon makes information professionals wonder about library service applications. Can futuristic capabilities such as Web videoconferencing, remote video broadcasting, ...
Investor relations on the Internet: CEOcast.com.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Seems everybody has an agent these days--actors, sports stars, and now, even businesses. Despite the recent deluge of negative news coming from Wall Street, plenty of companies really want investors to know about them. In addition to the several online company-driven press release wire ...
Leading the pack: librarians create an original model for a customer-friendly publications system.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Foresight and imagination are nothing new to libraries and information professionals. For the past decade, we have been coping with, and capitalizing on, evolving technologies. Developing new electronic systems presents challenges to define and carry forward the essence of a process while ...
The future of citation indexing: an interview with Eugene Garfield.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Dr. Eugene Garfield, the founder and chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information, spent a few days in Hawaii, giving a guest lecture at the University of Hawaii and an interview to ONLINE. This is the print version. A digital version with hot-linked cited references is ...
Toolbars: trash or treasures?(on the net)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The success and popularity of Google's toolbar has spawned broad interest from other search engines and sites in creating their own branded search toolbars. Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. While the Google toolbar may be the ...
The lowdown on mutual funds.(the dollar sign)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2004; ... It wasn't so long ago that mutual funds were considered the safest of investments--the "no-brainers" of investing. Parents counseled children to save money by investing in mutual funds. People with more money than time picked mutual funds, the accepted wisdom being that hiring a ...
About having fun.(industry insights)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Incoming asteroids (last year's metaphor for the dramatic changes in the industry) have hit; it's now time to reinvent out of the ashes. "It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how."--The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss The first INDUSTRY INSIGHTS column, which ran ...
Recipes for intranet standards.(intranet librarian)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A recent conference, IntraCom 2003 in Montreal, afforded me the opportunity to sit back and listen to experienced intranet developers present their recipes for successful intranet management. The intranets were diverse--some were in small organizations, others in multinational ...
Know the fundamentals and good design will follow.(web site management)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Designing an effective Web site can sometimes be overwhelming. After all, good design is actually the combination of many elements--the content users read, the colors and graphics they see, and the navigation they follow. Something as seemingly insignificant as the site's font can--and ...
Peter's picks & pans.
Jan 01, 2004; ... In 2004, the Oscars will be awarded at the end of February, much earlier than usual, so for this January/February issue of ONLINE, I chose databases related to the Academy Awards. After all, chances are that there will be increased demand for information about movies, movie stars, and ...
The Core Business Web: a Guide to Key Information Resources.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ** 1/2 edited by Gary W. White ISBN: 0-7890-2095-5 Published: 2003 Pages: 325 pp.; softcover Price: $29.25 Available from: Available from Haworth Information Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1580; 800/429-6784 or ...
Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast--at Little or No Cost.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... **** by Paula Berinstein ISBN: 0-910965-65-X Published: 2003 Pages: 244 pp.; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: CyberAge Books, Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055; 800/300-9868; ...
Practical RDF.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... *** Practical RDF by Shelley Powers ISBN: 0-596-00263-7 Published: 2003 Pages: 350 pp.; softcover Price: $39.95 Available from: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway N., Sebastopol, CA 95472; 800/998-9938 ...
Google Pocket Guide.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... *** by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest & DJ Adams ISBN: 0-596-00550-4 Published: 2003 Pages: 129 pp.; softcover Price: $9.95 Available from: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway N., Sebastopol, CA 95472; ...
ONLINE! the Book: Because the Internet Does Not Come with a Manual.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... *** by John C. Dvorak and Chris Pirillo, with Wendy Taylor ISBN: 0-13-142363-0 Published: 2003 Pages: 720 pp.; softcover Price: $29.95 Available from: Prentice Hall PTR, 75 Arlington Street, Boston MA 02116; 800/382-3419 ...
Copernic Summarizer.(online spotlight)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Information professionals all know that we're competing with Google--that we constantly need to surface the value we provide to our organization and offer additional information services to help our clients and patrons better use the information we provide. Often, that means providing ...