Online back issues from May 2007:
Web 2.0 and value-added indexing.(homepage)(Editorial)
May 01, 2007; ... When information professionals justify the cost of premium content databases and combat the notion that everything is available at no charge on the Internet, they frequently point to the value add of indexing. However, the companies that create our value-added indexing are moving away from ...
Keesing's Web 2.0 world news archives.(industry news)(World News Archives)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Keesing's Worldwide, Ltd. introduced its Keesing's World News Archives, which uses Squiz's open source content management system, MySource Matrix, to bring historical information into a Web 2.0 world. The content comes from the company's 76 years of news monitoring. Keesing's ...
Finding development information online.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online is a free 86-page PDF book, targeted to libraries and resource centers in low- and middle-income countries to locate online information on international development. It was written by ...
New advisory tool for nonfiction titles.(industry news)(announcement of new service for librarians)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... R.R. Bowker announced Nonfiction Connection, the library industry's first comprehensive readers' advisory tool for nonfiction titles. The new electronic offering, for sale to those with a Books in Print subscription, either on a population served or a full-time employment (FTE) basis, ...
OCLC will host the Consortium of European Research Libraries' CERL Hand Press Book Database.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... OCLC will host the Consortium of European Research Libraries' CERL Hand Press Book Database, a collection of more than 2 million catalog records from ...
H.W. Wilson announced enhancements to its WilsonWeb interface and the WilsonWeb Administrators and Statistical Reports modules, including enhanced search results displays.(publishing industry announcing enhancements for its WilsonWeb product)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... H.W. Wilson announced enhancements to its WilsonWeb interface and the WilsonWeb Administrators and Statistical Reports modules, including enhanced search results displays; PDF page images of results that can be emailed as attachments; a redesigned Administrators Module; an automatic ...
Xrefer will integrate 11 Routledge encyclopedia and reader's guide titles.
May 01, 2007 ... Xrefer will integrate 11 Routledge encyclopedia and reader's guide ...
SkyMinder.com.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... SkyMinder.com announced new online reports on companies in five eastern European countries. Sourced from Graydon, a U.K. supplier, clients ...
Alacra has integrated Experian U.K. business information content into the Alacra Data Warehouse.(Business & Finance)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Alacra has integrated Experian U.K. business information content into the Alacra Data Warehouse. This is accessible through Alacra Premium and the Alacra Store, providing pay-per-view access to Experian's business information reports and document images. The ...
infoUSA.(Business & Finance)(restructuring of infoUSA)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... A reorganization at infoUSA will result in three segments: the Data Group (Donnelley Marketing, which will change its name to infoUSA National Accounts, OneSource, Database License, and the Small Business Group), the Services Group (Yes-mail, ...
Engineering Information.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Engineering Information announced the introduction of record tagging to Engineering Village. Tagging allows Engineering Village users to apply meaningful keywords to database records to facilitate sharing records and ...
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).(Sci-Tech)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) digital collection of computing literature passed the 1 million mark in February. The collection includes all of the Digital Library (DL), with the full text of everything ACM has published, and the ...
AIP Publishing Services.
May 01, 2007 ... AIP Publishing Services announced RSS Saved Search, which allows users to save their search criteria as an RSS feed based on any ...
CABI.(contracts)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... CABI announced contracts with ebook distributors MyiLibrary (www.myilibrary.com), Dawson Books (www.dawsonbooks.co.uk), and ebrary ...
PinHawk, LLC introduced Law Librarian NewzDigest, an electronic newsletter that aggregates news from traditional sources, law library blogs, and legal vendors.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... PinHawk, LLC introduced Law Librarian NewzDigest, an electronic newsletter that aggregates news from traditional sources, law library blogs, and legal vendors. It is distributed ...
Thomson West announced a new product for environmental attorneys titled Westlaw Practitioner: Environmental Library on Westlaw.(product information of database industry)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Thomson West announced a new product for environmental attorneys titled Westlaw Practitioner: Environmental Library on Westlaw. It covers environmental law on topics such as compliance in manufacturing and construction, land redevelopment, and water-usage ...
Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) from Thomson Scientific/Dialog is now available under a DWPI "Open Access License.".(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) from Thomson Scientific/Dialog is now available under a DWPI "Open ...
Loislaw will add Federal Circuit Court unpublished opinions.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Loislaw will add Federal Circuit Court unpublished opinions. Loislaw has also created a dedicated FRAP (Federal Rule of Appellate ...
Inxight Software, Inc. announced the availability of Inxight Smart-Discovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, as well as its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Inxight Software, Inc. announced the availability of Inxight Smart-Discovery Awareness Server for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, as well as its participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. Powered by Inxight's ThingFinder entity ...
Access Innovations, Inc. announced customer relationships with the Discovery Channel and The Weather Channel to improve searching and retrieval of information housed on their Web sites.(contracts between IT services industry and Weather channel)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Access Innovations, Inc. announced customer relationships with the Discovery Channel and The Weather Channel to improve searching and retrieval of information housed on their Web sites. For the Discovery Channel, AI supplied two Desktop ...
Inmagic announced a partnership with WebFeat to enable Inmagic Presto users to conduct federated searches across internal and external data sources.(Enterprise Search)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Inmagic announced a partnership with WebFeat to enable Inmagic Presto users to conduct federated searches across internal and external data sources ....
Exalead.(Peopleware)(appoints David T. Lingley )(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Exalead appointed former Autonomy senior ...
H.W. Wilson.(appoints Frank Daly )(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... H.W. Wilson announced the appointment of Frank ...
SirsiDynix.(Peopleware)(acquired by Vista Equity Partners)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Following the sale of SirsiDynix to Vista Equity ...
CISTI.(Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Bernard Dumouchel, director general of CISTI, retired in February after 36 years of service. Pam Bjornson ...
Copyright Clearance Center.(appointment of Tracey Armstrong as new CEO)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Joseph Alen, president and CEO of Copyright Clearance Center since 1992, will retire at the end of the company's fiscal year in June, ...
CrossRef.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... CrossRef announced that more than 25 million content items were registered in the CrossRef system since its inception in early 2000. Although the majority of these digital object identifiers (DOIs) are assigned to online journal articles, more than 2 million ...
Dialog.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Dialog released a new version of DialogClassic Web, providing access to the 600-plus informational databases in the Dialog content collection. Enhancements to postprocessing tools have also been introduced for ...
Answers Corp.(Online Services)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Answers Corp. is offering its latest Webmaster tool, AnswerTips, which allows sites to provide visitors with instant access to Answers.com information on 4 million topics without leaving ...
OCLC announced the launch of the WorldCat Registry, a comprehensive directory that will help librarians.(Online Services)(Online Computer Library Center Inc)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... OCLC announced the launch of the WorldCat Registry, a comprehensive directory that will help librarians and consortia manage and share data that defines their ...
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) selected Vivisimo to enhance searching on its Web site and to enable search functionality for NLM's consumer health Web sites, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and MedlinePlus en espanol (http://medlineplus.gov/spanish).(contracts)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The National Library of Medicine (NLM) selected Vivisimo to enhance searching on its Web site and to enable search functionality for NLM's consumer health Web sites, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and MedlinePlus en espanol (http://medlineplus.gov/spanish). Visitors will be ...
Ovid Technologies.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer Health company, added the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive ...
Elsevier, through its subsidiary MDL Information Systems GmbH, acquired the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Elsevier, through its subsidiary MDL Information Systems GmbH, acquired the Beilstein Database, the world's largest ...
Thomson Scientific added a new ASEAN module to its IDRAC database of regulatory information.(Biomedical)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Thomson Scientific added a new ASEAN module to its IDRAC database of regulatory information. It includes details of planned ...
VISTA International, a provider of software systems and support services for the publishing industry, and Ingenta will merge to create Publishing Technology, PLC, becoming the largest provider of publishing-specific software solutions.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... VISTA International, a provider of software systems and support services for the publishing industry, and Ingenta will merge to create Publishing Technology, PLC, becoming the largest provider of publishing-specific software solutions. By combining VISTA's author2reader systems, which ...
The Bayerische Staatshibliothek.(Alliances & Deals)(Bavarian State Library)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) joined Google Books Library Project and will add ...
An agreement was reached between Wombat Financial Software, Inc., a provider of low-latency technology.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... An agreement was reached between Wombat Financial Software, Inc., a provider of low-latency technology, and Thomson Financial to create a Thomson Data ...
Scopus.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Scopus announced strategic content deals with a string of publishers and societies including Springer, Nature ...
The National Library of New Zealand intends to add some 8 million records.(Alliances & Deals)(Online Computer Library Center Inc)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The National Library of New Zealand intends to add some 8 million ...
Two academic publishers selected Thomson Scientific's ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review system.(Alliances & Deals)(Emerald Group Publishing and Multilingual Matters)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Two academic publishers selected Thomson Scientific's ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review system. The new customers are Multilingual Matters, an international social sciences publishing house that focuses on multilingualism and ...
Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, was acquired by TNS Media Intelligence, a provider of advertising data and intelligence on marketing activities, in February.(Alliances & Deals)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, was acquired by TNS Media Intelligence, a provider of advertising data and intelligence on marketing activities, in February. The acquisition integrates Cymfony's ...
Wiley-Blackwell.(Open Access)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... Wiley-Blackwell launched Archives of Drug Information, a new open access, freely available, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the results of drug studies. It has articles on ...
The Danish Research Database, a collaborative effort of universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg.
May 01, 2007 ... The Danish Research Database, a collaborative effort of universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, and Roskilde along with ...
Answers.com.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Answers.com introduced AnswerTips, which allows reference content to be built into other Web sites and blogs. Sign up for the free service, add the JavaScript into the heading ...
Ask.com.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Ask.com has a new feature on its local search product, Ask-City. For U.S. locations, searchers can use new "searchenabled drawing tools." Use these drawing tools to define the boundaries of a specific geographic ...
Exalead.(Search engine update)
May 01, 2007; ... Exalead is pushing its shortcuts, which are bookmarks to Web pages that can be personalized and displayed as thumbnail screen shots on exalead's home page. It has bookmarklets for ...
Google.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Google has made several processing changes. Google defaults to personalizing search results when searchers log in with their Google accounts. The more search history and bookmarks a user has saved at Google, the more likely the search results will rank slightly differently than for a ...
Google Book Search.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Google Book Search has been expanding its library and commercial publishing partners. On the library side, more German-language books will be coming from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the Princeton University Library will be adding more out-of-copyright titles. Chinese-language ...
Microsoft Live Search.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Microsoft Live Search has been busy expanding its coverage in Live Local. High-resolution aerial imagery is increasing for 400,000 more square miles in the U.S. The even higher resolution bird's-eye imagery has also extended to more than 100 European cities. Coverage in the U.S. now ...
New Search approaches.(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... New search approaches have been much discussed and analyzed lately. One of the major foci has been that of social search. Wikia Search, from the founder of Wikipedia, has frequently been in the press, although no functioning search tool is projected to be available until the end of 2007 ....
Yahoo!(Search engine update)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Yahoo! is updating its MyYahoo! personalized pages with a new look, more Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), easier editing, and additional content modules. It also enables sharing of the whole page or selected modules via IM and email. Yahoo! Answers has gone even more social with the ...
Stick it in your ear: keeping current with podcasts.(business podcasts)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2007; ... When the State Farm Corporate Library began adding audiobooks to its collection a few years ago, the response was phenomenal. Employees, especially commuters, loved being able to get quality material in an audio format. It allowed many people to use their commuting time more productively ....
Switching your search engines.(on the net)
May 01, 2007; ... For many information needs, a simple search at any Web search engine will find at least a few pages with the desired answers. Sticking with just one search engine--whether it is Google, Yahoo!, Live, or Ask--can work well as long as that search engine answers all queries. It is when the ...
A champion of information literacy.(infolit land)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2007; ... Somebody once opined, on the Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy list, that "Federated searching is as dumb as a bag of hammers." It unleashed a storm of protest, all of it directed at me, the author of the unfortunate opinion. Speaking your mind on a major ...
CSA Illustrata, gale virtual reference library, and Cambridge journals.(peter's picks & pans)(pros and cons of database software)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2007; ... One of my picks is the innovative, cutting-edge CSA Illustrata database, launched at Midwinter ALA, with nearly 1 million illustrations extracted from more than 165,000 scholarly articles. Enhanced by a variety of illustration- specific index terms that describe important attributes of the ...
How social is your Web site? Top five tips for social media optimization.(intranet librarian)
May 01, 2007; ... With all the hype and buzz around Web 2.0 concepts permeating the technology, business, and marketing news, it's easy to start to tune it all out-to think that Web 2.0 is only about the big social networking sites or new startups. Surely it's got nothing to do with the sites we manage. Not ...
Recommended reading on information trapping, blogging, Web design, and information architecture.(hardcopy)(Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web)(A Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide)(Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design)(Information Architecture for the World Wide Web third edition)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... This month I look at a couple of books on finding and using information with blogs and RSS feeds, along with two others on ways to present information by improving Web design and information architecture. **** Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web by Tara ...
SearchMash.(online spotlight)(google's gained unbranded site)
May 01, 2007; ... All of the major search engines have beta sites where they test out new interfaces, new features, and sometimes entirely new services. It took Google 3 years to officially move Google News from "beta" to mainstream--long after everyone and their mother canceled their newspaper ...