Online back issues from March 2006:
The rise and fall of the letter e.(home page)(naming trends )(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Pity the poor letter e. Once a symbol of all things modern, it has fallen on hard During the dot-com era, putting the letter e in front of a word showed how "with it" you were. We had e-commerce, e-library, e-book, e-learning, e-mail, e-content, e-records, e-documents, e-fax, e-everywhere, ...
Factiva jumps on the 2.0 bandwagon.(Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive L.L.C. released Factiva Search 2.0 beta version)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Factiva released its beta version of Factiva Search 2.0 in preview mode in mid-January. Designed for enterprise end users, the interface to Factiva and Web content features visual navigation, uses relevance algorithms with ...
Infotrieve frees ArticleFinder.(no charge for searching)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Infotrieve has reversed its June 2003 decision to charge for searching its ArticleFinder service. Even with 26 million ...
How do they view us?(Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report on Online Computer Library Center's web site)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources," a new OCLC report based on surveys of information users across six countries, was released at the end of 2005. This report is a follow-up to "The 2003 OCLC ...
NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution from the NewsGator suite of Private Label products to provide their readers with RSS aggregation service.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution from the NewsGator suite of Private Label products to provide their readers with RSS aggregation service. Built on the ...
ProQuest Information and Learning's Chadwyck-Healey product line has launched a resource to record and illuminate the African-American experience.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... ProQuest Information and Learning's Chadwyck-Healey product line has launched a resource to record and illuminate the African-American experience, from ancient Africa ...
CrossRef announced two initiatives to enhance the way search engines index scholarly content: CrossRef Web Services and the Search Partner Program.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... CrossRef announced two initiatives to enhance the way search engines index scholarly content: CrossRef Web Services and the Search Partner Program. CrossRef Web Services creates a tool for authorized search and Web services partners to ...
CSA acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community providing grant funding opportunities and researcher expertise information.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... CSA acquired Community of Science (COS), an Internet site for the global R&D community providing grant funding opportunities and researcher expertise information. A spinoff of Johns Hopkins University, COS represents more than 1,300 universities, ...
Elsevier announced that its free science search engine, Scirus, has partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its journals.(and also with DiVA Academic Archive On-line)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Elsevier announced that its free science search engine, Scirus, has partnered with Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) to index the full text and metadata of its journals. The addition of IOP's 200,000 full-text articles and journals dating back to 1874 reinforces Scirus' more than 2 ...
Biz360 and Feedster, Inc. announced a partnership to gather intelligence from blog and wild content discussing a particular company, its products, and competitors, along with trends that may impact the business.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Biz360 and Feedster, Inc. announced a partnership to gather intelligence from blog and wild content discussing a particular company, its products, and competitors, along with trends that may impact the business. The new service, ...
Dialog has extended chemical structure searching functionality to its Alerts system.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Dialog has extended chemical structure searching functionality to its Alerts system. Alerts by Chemical Structure are available in three databases of chemical ...
eMolecules, Inc. announced the launch of Chmoogle.com, an open access chemistry search engine.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... eMolecules, Inc. announced the launch of Chmoogle.com, an open access chemistry search engine. Chmoogle's mission is to discover, curate, and index all of the public chemical information ...
Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Web Citation Index, the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Thomson Scientific announced the launch of Web Citation Index, the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based ...
Thomson Scientific and Thomson ResearchSoft announced the development of EndNoteWeb, a bibliographic tool for managing and citing scientific references.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Thomson Scientific and Thomson ResearchSoft announced the development of EndNoteWeb, a bibliographic tool for managing and citing scientific references. Annual ...
Questel*Orbit announced the release of QPAT v4.0, with improved navigation and additional searching power for Questel*Orbit's FamPat and PlusPat databases, as well as its full-text patent collection.(Sci-Tech)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Questel*Orbit announced the release of QPAT v4.0, with improved navigation and additional searching power for Questel*Orbit's FamPat and PlusPat databases, as well as its full-text patent collection. Enhancements include a redesigned search screen, entry boxes with a command-line entry for ...
Standard & Poor's released a new version of the Capital IQ Platform, featuring a range of fixed income and event-driven data as well as related analytics and usability enhancements.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Standard & Poor's released a new version of the Capital IQ Platform, featuring a range of fixed income and event-driven data as well as related analytics and usability enhancements. This completes the first phase of a long-term plan to integrate Standard ...
ISI Emerging Markets announced a distribution agreement with FactSet for the distribution of ISI's CEIC databases on the FactSet research platform.(Internet Securities Inc.)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... ISI Emerging Markets announced a distribution agreement with FactSet for the distribution of ISI's CEIC databases on the FactSet research platform. CEIC databases, compiled from over 500 ...
EMBiology is a new bibliographic database from Elsevier.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... EMBiology is a new bibliographic database from Elsevier. Targeted to academic institutions and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, EMBiology focuses on basic and applied biological literature not covered in ...
Elsevier also launched EMCare, a new bibliographic database drawn from over 2,700 international source titles including nearly 2 million records from the nursing.(Biomedical)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Elsevier also launched EMCare, a new bibliographic database drawn from over 2,700 international source titles including nearly 2 million records from the nursing, ...
Thomson Gale announced the addition of more than 700 medical-related videos to its Health and Wellness Resource Center in partnership with Healthology, Inc.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Thomson Gale announced the addition of more than 700 medical-related videos to its Health and Wellness Resource Center in partnership with Healthology, Inc., a physician-founded health media ...
Wolters Kluwer Health announced the introduction of PubFusion, an online content management solution to streamline the scholarly publishing process.
Mar 01, 2006 ... Wolters Kluwer Health announced the introduction of PubFusion, an online content management solution to streamline the scholarly publishing process. PubFusion enables ...
Defense Technical Information Center.(R. Paul Ryan appointed)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... R. Paul Ryan was named administrator of the Defense Technical ...
CSA.(Boe Horton appointed)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... CSA announced the appointment of Boe Horton ...
Alacra.(Barry Graubart appointed)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Barry Graubart joined Alacra ...
Factiva.(appointments)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Factiva announced the following management appointments: Karin Borchert as chief operations officer; Dennis Cahill as vice president, product; Arthur Rassias as director of sales and services for North America; ...
Chemical Abstracts Service.(Dr. Catharina Maulbecker appointed )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) appointed Dr ....
NetLibrary.(first e-content platform to give access to e-book and e-audiobook titles)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, became the first e-content platform to offer academic, public, special, and school library users access to more than 100,000 full-text e-book and e-audiobook titles. ...
Elsevier announced that EMBASE.com is available to faculty, students, researchers, and physicians.(online services)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Elsevier announced that EMBASE.com is available to faculty, students, researchers, and physicians affiliated with 11 ...
Ulrich.(CSA online services)(serials)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... The Ulrich's serials product line, previously produced and distributed by R.R. Bowker, CSA's sister company within the Cambridge Information Group, has transitioned to CSA ....
EOS International announced the latest release of EOS.Web Express and EOS.Web Enterprise.(online services)
Mar 01, 2006 ... EOS International announced the latest release of EOS.Web Express and EOS.Web Enterprise. Based on Microsoft .NET technologies, EOS.Web is a library information system developed for special libraries that enables librarians and ...
EBSCO announced the release of an enhanced LinkSource, EBSCO's OpenURL link resolver.(EBSCO Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... EBSCO announced the release of an enhanced LinkSource, EBSCO's OpenURL link resolver. Included is integration with EBSCO A-to-Z and the A-to-Z knowledgebase, enabling integration with library holdings that have already been configured with EBSCO. Under the new name EBSCO Information ...
A9.(OpenSearch standard)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... A9 published a second draft of the OpenSearch standard [http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/], a set of simple formats that is used to share search results such as those in A9's ...
AOL.(America Online Inc. announces expanded partnership with Google Inc.)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... AOL announced an expanded partnership with Google. While much of the expansion deals with investment and advertising, the search-related aspects include allowing ...
Ask Jeeves.(to expand its non-English-language coverage and plans opening European versions)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Ask Jeeves is expanding its non-English-language coverage and plans to open European versions. Along with this expansion comes a translation feature that shows up on certain non-English search results. In the results list, a "translate this page" message is displayed after the title when ...
Google.(announces a librarian center)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Google announced a Librarian Center [www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html], which has a newsletter and an e-mail address for submitting lesson plans. The first newsletter contained a brief explanation of how Google collects Web pages and ranks results. Google also launched Google ...
Google Book Search.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Google Book Search originally included some full-text magazine articles along with books. The magazine articles are gone, and the database now focuses exclusively on books, some of which are out of copyright and fully ...
Google Personalized Search.(search options)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Google Personalized Search users can now view their top searches, top sites, top clicks, and other statistics based on the items within their search histories ...
Google Video.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Google Video announced its expansion into pay-for-view content from a variety of sources, including CBS, the NBA, and Charlie Rose. The content will be ...
MSN Search.(search engine update)(launched Windows Live Local)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... MSN Search launched Windows Live Local in beta version [http://local.live.com], an extension of the older Virtual Earth from Microsoft. Like Google Maps, it includes both map information and imagery. The aerial view has added bird's-eye images for certain areas in the U.S., with very ...
Omgili.(a new search engine)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Omgili [www.omgili.com] is a new search engine for searching Web-based discussion forums. This beta search engine includes a somewhat limited collection of forums at this point, but does have a rather interesting approach to advanced searching. On the main page, ...
Yahoo!(search engine update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Yahoo! opened up its search shortcuts [http://shortcuts.search.yahoo.com] so that users can create their own shortcuts. Yahoo! shortcuts have an exclamation point prefix and serve to jump quickly to other parts of Yahoo!. The personalized shortcuts can also jump to services outside of ...
Yahoo! Answers.(search engine update)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Yahoo! Answers has launched in beta as a free service for users with a Yahoo! account [http://answers.yahoo.com]. Open questions and resolved ...
Reviewing Google Book Search.
Mar 01, 2006; ... GOOGLE'S desire to extend its reach into library book stacks and publisher backlists has generated a firestorm of opinion and debate, some based on misperceptions, some on facts, and some on general angst. ONLINE's discussion of what is now known as Google Book Search ...
An author looks at Google Book Search.(Product/Service Evaluation)
Mar 01, 2006; ... AS a reader and researcher, I've found Google Book Search to be very useful. It's convenient, saves time, and has more than once steered me to books I might otherwise have missed. But as a nonfiction book author, I'm less than enthusiastic about the service, for two reasons ....
Librarians, jelly beans, and Google Book Search.(indexing)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... UNTIL relatively recently, researchers needed to memorize or tediously record the key resources and places within sources that held valuable information vital to their work. Reference librarians made mental notes or kept card files of vital resources on a wide range of topics and of key ...
Web-presence and impact factors for Middle-Eastern countries.
Mar 01, 2006; ... QUESTIONS can arise about how global the World Wide Web really is. Particularly for Middle Eastern countries, it is important to know whether Web presence and Web Impact Factor (WIF) attract the attention they deserve from the World Wide Web community. The academic community, in ...
When search engines play at maps: visualization technologies.(online services)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... A detailed examination of search engine results is often tedious. It can be difficult, from a results list, to quickly grasp the relevance of the contents of identified pages. That's why most searchers stick to reading the first page of answers! A few search engines, such as ...
Be careful what you wish for: do more resources and tools make a web site better?(web site of Health Sciences Library of McMaster University )(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... LIKE many other academic libraries, the Health Sciences Library (HSL) at McMaster University initially developed and maintained its Web site in house, on a shoestring budget, with limited technical expertise. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job it was meant to do: The site provided quick ...
"Celebrating Knowledge: The Power and Potential" brings powerful speakers to Singapore.(National Library Board of Singapore)
Mar 01, 2006; ... "CELEBRATING Knowledge: The Power and Potential," organized by the National Library Board of Singapore, caught ONLINE editor Marydee Ojala's eye because of its two keynote speakers, Paul Saffo and Michael Keller, and because I was around to report on it. ONLINE readers generally prefer the ...
Tracking your search history.(on the net)(web search engines)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Over the past year or so, search engines have begun exploring personalized searching. For the search companies, personalization offers the opportunity to build user loyalty by more effectively targeting advertising and search results. The personalization features include such options as ...
Due diligence research.(the dollar sign)(importance of information professionals)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... In increase in merger and acquisition activity, coupled with evolving government legislation in many countries, has given due diligence research new weight and increased its scope. Ironically, as the requirements for doing due diligence grow in importance and prominence, the contributions ...
Thomson Pharma and Infotrieve life science research center: new directions for online aggregators.(information strategist)(Thomson Scientific of Thomson Corp)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Pundits from the information industry as well as the broader media have spent hundreds of hours discussing the emerging information-based world and its composition of knowledge workers. Despite the emergence of a new, information-based economy and perhaps influenced by free Web resources, ...
Getting a handle on content.(intranet librarian)(content management solution)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... What's the number-one asset your intranet possesses? A Word document with valuable library secrets? A spreadsheet with earnings forecasts for Google for the next several years? (If your intranet does indeed have such an object, please contact me privately.) No, the most valuable asset any ...
What's wrong with your PC?(problems with personal computers)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... The title for this column probably doesnt stoke you as unusual if you regularly read the PC magazines. Sometimes it seems as though these publications spend as much time telling us what's wrong with computers and how to work around those failings as in telling us what's right and what's ...
USGS Publications Warehouse, Transportation Research Information Services, ASIST Digital Library.(peter's picks & pans)(U.S. Geological Survey)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... My two picks are government (and therefore open access) databases: the Publications Warehouse of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Both are filled with information about topics of ...
Recommended reading on web search, distance education, computer protection, and branding. (hard copy).(Product/Service Evaluation)
Mar 01, 2006; ... This month I look at strategies for searching the Web and providing resources for those at a distance, protecting your PC from malicious intruders, and mBranding and wireless communication. *** 1/2 Super Searchers Go to School: Sharing Online Strategies with K-12 ...
Truth and fiction on the web.(online spotlight)(Wikipedia)(Column)
Mar 01, 2006; ... As I write this, the library e-mail discussion lists and blogosphere are atwitter with the latest flapdoodle about Wikipedia. In May of 2005, a Nashville man created an entry in Wikipedia about John Seigenthaler, an administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s. Among other ...