Online back issues from March 2005:
Ownership, access, retrieval, and sharing.(the homepage)
Mar 01, 2005; ... To research a school project when I was a teenager, I traveled across town to the "big" public library (as opposed to my school and local public libraries). There, I was astonished to encounter closed stacks. It had never before occurred to me that libraries wouldn't want patrons wandering ...
Grokking education.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... For those with a visual bent, who prefer search results as colorful, circular maps rather than results lists, there's Groxis' Grokker. Its newest offering, Groxis E.D.U. (Explore, Discover, Understand) is an optimized version of Grokker 2.2, aimed at the education market. Not strictly a ...
SLA Legislatiue Action Center, Government Information Division.(Industry News)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The Special Libraries Association (SLA) launched its Legislative Action Center. [www.sla.org/act], a grassroots advocacy service for SLA members to use in learning about, and acting on, public policy matters affecting information professionals. SLA also announced the creation of a ...
Current awareness.(Industry News)(Rocketinfo)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Rocketinfo has added content from hundreds of local affiliates of the four major U.S. broadcast networks--ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC--to its database. This expands Rocketinfo search engine coverage of over 13,000 categorized news and business information sources and 70,000 RSS and ...
LexisNexis AlaCarte.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Reaching out to small and medium-sized businesses, LexisNexis introduced LexisNexis AlaCarte, a pay-as-you-go service that allows access to a subset of the full LexisNexis offerings, which represents more than 20,000 sources containing more than 3.8 billion documents. Subscribers pay a ...
Cambridge Information Group released CSA Illumina, its new platform for online bibliographic and full-text searching.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Cambridge Information Group released CSA Illumina, its new platform for online bibliographic and full-text searching. It features a redesigned user interface as well as enhanced search capabilities. More than 100 bibliographic and full-text databases from CSA and its publishing partners, ...
Elsevier.(Sci-Tech)(Elsevier Information Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Elsevier announced that its free science-specific search engine, Scirus, has partnered with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to index its ...
FIZ Karlsruhe, European partner of STN International, has added KOREAPAT, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... FIZ Karlsruhe, European partner of STN International, has added KOREAPAT, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents. KOREAPAT, produced by the Korean Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) on behalf of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), provides access to ...
Dialog has added about 3.1 million German patent records starting in 1967 from Univentio as File 324.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Dialog has added about 3.1 million German patent records starting in 1967 from Univentio as File 324. The ...
Questel*Orbit and The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced the release of the Markush Darc Software on a Unix Platform, dedicated to the Merged Markush Service (MMS), to offer faster and more flexible searches and to open new intranet and in-house capabilities.(Sci-Tech)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Questel*Orbit and The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced the release of the Markush Darc Software on a Unix Platform, dedicated to the Merged Markush Service (MMS), to offer faster and more flexible searches and to open new intranet and in-house capabilities ....
CriticalEYE, the European center for strategic thought leadership, launched CriticalEYE RESEARCH.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... CriticalEYE, the European center for strategic thought leadership, launched CriticalEYE RESEARCH, an online reference source offering business executives access to strategic research that brings together academia, strategy houses, ...
Kompass Extranet was released as a customized portal to the Kompass database for business.(Business & Finance)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Kompass Extranet was released as a customized portal to the Kompass database for business. Accessed through an organization's intranet facility, the Kompass extranet is for companies that operate from multiple locations. The advanced search uses over ...
Thomson Tax & Accounting.(appointments)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Roy Martin, Jr. has left his position as president and CEO of Thomson Dialog to become president and CEO of Thomson Tax & Accounting. He succeeds Peter Warwick, who has been named ...
Thomson West.(appointments)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Thomson West also announced several appointments in Strategic Marketing. The Large Law Firm segment will continue to be led by Tony Abena as vice president; Tim Blevins has been named vice president of the Medium Law Firm ...
Nstein Technologies Inc.(appointed Stuart Woodring )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Nstein Technologies Inc. announced the appointment of Stuart Woodring, formerly with Forrester Research, as advisor to ...
Cambridge Information Group, Inc.(appointments)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Cambridge Information Group, Inc., parent company of CSA, announced the ...
Information Handling Services Inc.(appointed Jeffrey R. Tarr as president)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Information Handling Services Inc. (IHS) named Jeffrey R. Tarr as the new president and COO of the Engineering ...
Emerald Group Publishing.(appointments)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... U.K.-based Emerald Group Publishing announced two new appointments to oversee its U.S. sales operation ....
MediaFinder.(Online Services)(Oxbridge Communications)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... MediaFinder, produced by Oxbridge Communications, announced a new site license program for libraries that provides access to its media database of 72,000 print and online titles including ...
Ingenta plc.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Ingenta plc announced new publisher customers via IngentaConnect, while the Institute of Physics became one of the first customers for Ingenta's new information commerce system. Ingenta ...
Swets Information Services.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Swets Information Services signed seven new publishers and hundreds of new journals to SwetsWise Online Content. SwetsWise now carries a total of ...
Net Snippets.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Net Snippets announced the first free post-search information management tool for everyday Internet users that saves and organizes Web results in one easily accessible ...
LexisNexis U.S. acquired Interface Software, Inc., a provider of client relationship management (CRM) products to legal and professional services firms in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... LexisNexis U.S. acquired Interface Software, Inc., a provider of client relationship management (CRM) products to legal and professional services firms in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Current officers, the management team, and employees of Interface Software will remain at the Oak ...
CSA acquired the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), publishers of the PAIS International and PAIS Archive databases, from OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... CSA acquired the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), publishers of the PAIS International and PAIS Archive databases, from OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. CSA will continue to publish the products in print and make the ...
Six Apart, developer of Movable Type and TypePad, acquired Danga Interactive Inc., the operator of the blogging service LiveJournal.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Six Apart, developer of Movable Type and TypePad, acquired Danga Interactive Inc., the operator of the ...
Innovative Interfaces has partnered with RLG to facilitate connections from RedLightGreen to Innovative customer libraries.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Innovative Interfaces has partnered with RLG to facilitate connections from RedLightGreen to Innovative customer libraries. RedLightGreen is a free Web tool that lets students ...
FactSet Research Systems Inc. has acquired TrueCourse, Inc.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... FactSet Research Systems Inc. has acquired TrueCourse, Inc., ...
Ovid announced a partnership with MuseGlobal, Inc. to offer academic and medical institutions as well as corporations an alternative federated search solution.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Ovid announced a partnership with MuseGlobal, Inc. to offer academicand medical institutions as well as corporations an alternative federated search solution. This ASP packaged ...
Find.com.(Alliances & Deals)(ThomasB2B.com, LLC )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Find.com announced a content alliance with ThomasB2B.com, LLC that will give searchers access to the business listings of more than 550,000 industrial suppliers from 29 countries. Find.com will combine free company listings ...
ProQuest Information and Learning.(Online Services)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... ProQuest Information and Learning announced several additions to its ProQuest online information service in response to user interviews and customer feedback. New features and functionality include ProQuest Dissertations & ...
Project MUSE.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Project MUSE announced the selection of 26 new scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and seven new publishers for 2005. The new publishers are The African Studies Association, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The ...
Innovative Interfaces will offer Baker & Taylor's Content Cafe to Millennium libraries.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Innovative Interfaces will offer Baker & Taylor's Content Cafe to Millennium libraries. This add-on service will offer patrons enhanced and continually updated bibliographic information, delivered through the library's OPAC. Along with almost 1.5 million jacket art images, tables of ...
Blackwell Publishing.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Blackwell Publishing has added 37 new publishing partnerships, many with scholarly ...
Entopia.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Entopia has established Entopia Sweden, a wholly owned subsidiary, in Stockholm, to be headed by Gustaf Nordenhok. It has also opened a ...
WebFeat.(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... WebFeat, the original federated search engine, was granted a patent for its federated search technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers ...
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST).(Enterprise Search)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced that Verizon Information Services has deployed FAST AdVisor ...
Mondosoft.(Enterprise Search.)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Mondosoft announced the availability of a new Web Service Search Kit that facilitates the deployment of search through Web services. It has a new programming interface that enables companies to use MondoSearch with other software applications and content ...
Database Link Packages.(Biomedical)(Ovid)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Ovid introduced Database Link Packages, which offers one-click access to hundreds of e-journals and subject-specific Web sites, and the availability of Communities@Ovid, a ...
BioMed Central.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... BioMed Central announced that the new Web site for The Scientist is available on the BioMed Central platform, providing access to 18 years of ...
patientINFORM.(Biomedical)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... A pilot version of patientINFORM has been launched as a free online service dedicated to disseminating original medical research directly to consumers. A collaborative effort of leading voluntary health organizations, scholarly and medical publishers, medical societies, and ...
A9.(Internet Search Engine Update)
Mar 01, 2005; ... A9's toolbar now runs in Mozilla Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. The toolbar has the ability to keep notes ...
Ask Jeeves.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Ask Jeeves offers some cached copies of Web pages. Not all pages have cached copies, but an increasing number display a "cached" link. The cached page header includes the date and time the page was last crawled by Ask Jeeves and highlights the search terms. Ask has joined the ...
Gigablast.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Gigablast has quickly expanded its database, which now contains over 1 billion records. It is also offering some innovative tools for advanced users. Its Custom Topic Search lets anyone with a Web site create a subject search engine by specifying up to 200 sites ...
Google.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Google has been busy in its labs and with library agreements. Two recent Google labs projects are Google Suggest and Google Scholar. Google Suggest provides a drop-down list of suggested search terms that show up below the search box as you type. The suggestions start with the letters ...
MSN Search.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... MSN Search includes site limits, link searches, selected country and region limits, 12 language limits, and three slider bars for ranking adjusting. The beta includes cached pages, with headers that note the date the page was last indexed, but no highlighting of search terms. Boolean ...
Teoma.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Teoma Technologies)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Teoma now has cached copies of Web pages, as does Ask Jeeves, with whom it shares its database. It uses the same language of "cached." However, ...
Yahoo!.(Internet Search Engine Update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Yahoo! has launched a new video search, traffic reporting in its maps, a WorldCat toolbar, and a desktop search client. The video search is in beta [http://video.search. yahoo.com/]. It includes updated content formerly at the video search of AltaVista and AlltheWeb, but this is the first ...
Instant recall: thanks to Google Desktop Search.(Cover Story)
Mar 01, 2005; ... I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a particularly good memory. This affliction did not descend upon me at the onset of middle age. It was obvious, at least to me, even as a mere youngster in my 20s. That may explain why I took so quickly to computers. All important information ...
Company research using U.S. federal government sources.
Mar 01, 2005; ... There's a long-standing myth in the field of librarianship: When collecting competitive intelligence on a company, no company-specific information is available from the U.S. federal government. This article hopes to dispel that myth. The federal government is a friend of ...
Copyright clearances: navigating the TEACH Act.
Mar 01, 2005; ... This article is the second in a series that is reviewing several legal ways to use copyrighted works freely--without getting written permission from the copyright owner, negotiating or signing a license, or working with a third-party publisher representative such as the Copyright Clearance ...
Open access or differential pricing for journals: the road best traveled?
Mar 01, 2005; ... Open access (OA) is becoming a reality, with new cost models under development. The various cost models will have serious short- and long-term implications for libraries and dangerously impact the scholarly communication network. I believe that the adoption of the OA model for journals ...
Scopus: profusion and confusion.
Mar 01, 2005; ... SCOPUS, Elsevier's widely hyped new search product, with access to 14,000 peer-reviewed journal titles, launched in November 2004 [www.scopus.com]. The PR folk worked overtime throughout its development; the content coverage page contains such hyperbole as "the most comprehensive ...
Locating uses for local search.(on the net)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In Web searching, trends come and go. Several years ago, local search was hot, and Internet start-ups hoped to find a gold mine in creating online yellow pages. However, Internet stocks crashed, and the local search market failed to deliver a windfall. In spite of this, many online ...
Searching for economics; joking with economists.(the dollar sign)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The mantra "It's the economy, stupid!" from the Clinton-Gore 1992 election campaign is still widely quoted, although not always as it was originally meant. Now it's sometimes a critique of the Clinton administration's economic policies; sometimes of other governments' policies. Frequently, ...
Where have all the Webmasters gone?(web site management)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In the early 1990s, the role of Webmaster generally encapsulated all things Web. The title was unique and somewhat mysterious. Had any of us ever heard of anyone with "master" at the end of their title? Plus, what were we the master of, anyway? It sounded more like a Dungeons & Dragons ...
Revisiting library funding: what really works?(The Information Strategist)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The weekend of Nov. 20, 2004, brought bad news to library users and aficionados in the San Francisco, Bay Area. Salinas would become the first city in California to close its public libraries. David L. Beck, writing in the San Jose Mercury News, said, "These are hard times for ...
Planning for the unexpected.(intranet librarian)
Mar 01, 2005; ... No one wants to be in the Web manager's shoes the day the Web site goes down. Careful planning up front can help prevent and head off down times, but, invariably, disaster will strike. As an intranet manager, it is your responsibility to have a disaster plan in place. In the event that ...
Little things mean a lot.(PC monitor)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Moore's Law doesn't matter as much as it did a decade ago. You probably haven't seen revolutionary new uses for a PC in the last year or so--and you certainly haven't seen revolutionary advances in operating systems. Your personal computing environment probably continues to ...
ITI InfoCentral, clusty, ArticleFinder 2.0.(Peter's picks & pans)(Information Today, Inc.)
Mar 01, 2005; ... My first pick requires a disclosure: ITI InfoCentral Digital Archive derives all its content from Information Today, Inc. (ITI), which in turn owns the periodicals that have published most of my columns and feature articles for the past 15 years. In spite of the obvious subjectivity, this ...
Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2005; ... *** Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager by Lorna M. Hughes ISBN: 1-85604-466-1 Published: 2004 Pages: 327 pp.; hardcover Price: $85.00 Available from: Facet Publishing, Ridgmount St., London WC1E 7AE U.K., www.facetpublishing.co.uk This book ...
PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2005; ... **1/2 PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Sid Steward ISBN: 0-596-00655-1 Published: 2004 Pages: 278 pp.; softcover Price: $24.95 Available from: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway N, Sebastopol, CA 95472, (707) 827-7000 or (800) 998-9938; www.oreilly.com ...
Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2005; ... **1/2 Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon ISBN: 1-55570-493-X Published: 2004 Pages: 266 pp.; hardcover Price: $75.00 Available from: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 100 William St., Suite 2004, New York, NY ...
Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2005; ... *** Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society by Anthony G. Wilhelm ISBN: 0-262-23238-3 Published: 2004 Pages: 161 pp.; hardcover Price: $27.95 Available from: The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142; (617) 253-5643; http://mitpress.mit.edu What ...
Squishy Boolean.(online spotlight)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Dialog was one reason that I was drawn, back in the 1970s, to the library profession. I graduated from college with a B.A. in mathematical philosophy, then stumbled into a job in a law firm library, where the librarians taught me the rudiments of Dialog searching. "Aha," I thought. "It's ...