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Information Today
January 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers   |
Information Today
December 20, 2002
Quint & Hane |
divine Library Services Financial Collapse Traps Library Subscription Budgets One of the nation's largest subscription agents, divine Library Services, has apparently suffered financial failure. The Massachusetts-based subsidiary of divine, Inc. is also referred to by many as RoweCom or Faxon, its former names. |
Information Today
January 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Steps into the RoweCom Deal After Swets Blackwell Backs Out Creditors of divine's RoweCom business have been on pins and needles for weeks waiting for a resolution to the subscription fund fiasco. |
Information Today
March 10, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO's Takeover of RoweCom Continues Though its bankrupt parent divine reportedly now faces the possibility of criminal charges stemming from a federal grand jury investigation, RoweCom continues to move toward an acquisition by EBSCO. |
Information Today
February 3, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
RoweCom Files for Bankruptcy, Then Sues divine for Fraud In a bizarre twist to the continuing saga of the disappearing subscription money, RoweCom, the beleaguered subsidiary of divine, inc., filed for bankruptcy on Monday Jan. 27, then sued its parent company for allegedly looting the company. |
Information Today
February 10, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services. |
Searcher
September 2003
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Protecting Yourself Against "Rogue" Vendors: Beyond "Divine" Guidance Here's a scary thought. Is divine's RoweCom/Faxon the only loose link in the vendor chain? Does dealing with any other companies put your operation at a similar risk? |
Information Today
February 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
divine Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Chicago-based divine, inc. has crumpled, following its two-year run as a tech start-up, aggressively acquiring companies. So, what does this mean for the proposed EBSCO acquisition of divine's RoweCom being negotiated through the bankruptcy court? |
Information Today
March 2007
Phillip Britt |
The New Face of Swets Is a subscription agent still needed in the electronic publishing marketplace? |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
D-Lib
July 2001
Steven J. Bell |
The New Digital Divide Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals... |
Information Today
June 2003 |
News Break: The Latest on Google, Market Research, and More Like it or not, news about Google is dominating both the technology and mainstream media... Because of the privacy issues it raises, the USA PATRIOT Act continues to rile librarians and civil libertarians... etc. |
Information Today
May 2003
Paula J. Hane |
News on Web Resources, divine/RoweCom, More The war in Iraq and the health crisis spawned by the SARS virus dominated the news over the last month or so. Information industry news seemed a bit subdued in comparison, yet there were still a number of important developments. |
Information Today
January 28, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light, Announces Premium Content Agreement with Yahoo! Just 2 weeks after Northern Light announced it was refining its business focus and discontinuing free Web searching at northernlight.com, it has been acquired by Chicago-based divine, Inc., a provider of integrated solutions to the enterprise market. |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Swets Blackwell Acquires Munksgaard Direct Swets Blackwell and Munksgaard have announced the signing of an agreement stating that Swets Blackwell has acquired Munksgaard Direct, the book and subscription service division of the Munksgaard Group... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today
January 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today
March 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions... |
Information Today
May 2001
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
July 22, 2002
Barbie E. Keiser |
Sage Publications Withdraws Titles from EBSCOhost, ProQuest Access to electronic journals is in a state of flux. There are many options on the customer side and just as many avenues for the publisher. The appropriate mix, with adequate compensation for publishers' efforts and access provided by intermediaries, is a continuing experiment. |
Information Today
March 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
Information Today
August 2003 |
News Break: What's New in Enterprise Search, Insider Trading, and More FAST Buys AltaVista Enterprise Search... AskJeeves Sells Enterprise Search... Future Developments in Search... Faster Access to Insider Trading Filings... New KM Solutions... Library Alliance Fights BertelsmannSpringer Sale... etc. |
Information Today
August 26, 2002
Barbara Quint |
divine Launches Virtual Reference Desk Software A new player has entered the burgeoning field of virtual reference support. divine, Inc., a relative newcomer to the information industry, has announced that it will start marketing Virtual Reference Desk software built around NetAgent, its customer interaction management software. |
Information Today
April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
Information Today
December 8, 2003
Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Information Today
August 10, 2009 |
ALPSP and Swets Announce Launch of 2010 ALJC Collection The The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Learned Journals Collection can be accessed by libraries through SwetsWise Online Content or through ALJC's own web portal. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003 |
Industry News No Divine Presence in Library Subscription Renewals... D&B May Not Clean Up with Hoover's... COUNTER Code of Practice... Dialog on World Chambers Network... Social Sciences & Humanities... Sci-Tech... etc. |
Information Today
April 2004
Paula Hane |
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Searcher
March 2003
Barbara Quint |
Our Friend, the Taxman Wicked describes the situation facing many library directors these days as the national economy continues to limp. State and local government officials face severe revenue shortfalls and libraries are getting hit hard. |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today
October 2003 |
NewsBytes EBSCO, NPR Renew In-Kind Grant... West's FindLaw, washingtonpost.com Expand Alliance... etc. |
Information Today
October 17, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
NewsBytes NLII, MERLOT Announce Alliance... Four Major Publishers Sue for Copyright Infringement... EBSCO Streamlines Consortia Purchasing... Ingenta Announces Signings, Will Create OUP Web Site... etc. |
Information Today
December 2001
Donald T. Hawkins |
Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world... |
Information Today
October 15, 2007
Jill E. Grogg |
Swets Continues to Redefine Role With Acquisition of ScholarlyStats The frontier for subscription agents and library intermediaries continues to expand. |
Information Today
September 27, 2004
Rebecca Lenzini |
Swets Financial Crisis Eased by New Capital Swets was bailed by the capital injection of 45 million Euros (about $55.2 million U.S.) from shares placed privately with existing shareholders, primarily two venture capital groups---NPM Capital and Cobepa. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today
October 11, 2012
George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Searcher
June 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Tithing Set aside a portion of each year's library budget to support the information system you want to have in the future. |
Information Today
June 3, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Blackwell Publishing in Dynasty-style Dispute Blackwell Publishing is engulfed in a family feud fit for a Dynasty plot. |
