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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 2003 Paula J. Hane |
The Latest on Enterprise Search Products, E-Books, and More There should be a steady supply of news to report, as vendors continue to announce new products and services through the end of the year. Here's a wrap-up of some of the news from the past month. |
Information Today August 13, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
Thomson to Acquire NewsEdge In yet another strong sign of consolidation in the information industry, Thomson Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the NewsEdge Corp. for approximately $43 million... |
Information Today October 2003 Paula Hane |
What's New in Linking, Archiving, and More Industry news seemed to slow a bit in August and early September while people squeezed in their last days of summertime enjoyment and students headed back to classrooms. But then the pace surged as companies rolled out projects and announced products that they planned to showcase. |
Information Today May 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Search, Content, and More National Library Week... Three search conferences being held in May... Enterprise Search Update... ProQuest Information and Learning announced... etc. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 |
Industry News Information Today Inc. Acquires Online Inc.... Smartlogik Sold to Applied Psychology Research Ltd.... Whizbang! Labs Goes Under... Scholars Portal Project Launches... Gale Group is adding The New Yorker to its InfoTrac databases... etc. |
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 September 2004 Paula Hane |
Developments in Open Access, Search, and More Open-Access Update... Search Developments... Local Search Is Hot... Niche Engine... More on Desktop Search... Traditional Services' Upgrades... Miscellaneous Content News... |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Industry News Microsoft Recognizes Research... Google Acquires Pyra Labs, Creator of Blogger... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March... EBSCO announced it would acquire the U.S. operations of RoweCom Inc.... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records... etc. |
Information Today January 2001 |
What's Ahead for 2001? Information Today has asked a group of information industry movers and shakers about the present state of the industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the not-so, but we're sure you'll find them all thought-provoking... |
Information Today March 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Industry News, Developments in Enterprise Search, and More During the past month or so, U.S. news has been dominated by both the MyDoom computer worm... To aid the print and online media, Factiva provides a media index that tracks the visibility of high-profile election candidates... etc. |
Information Today September 2003 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Content, Search Engines, and More I expected a fairly quiet summer for industry news after the major conferences ended, but it actually buzzed with activity. |
Information Today June 18, 2001 Barbara Quint |
LexisNexis Expands Enterprise Productivity Offerings LexisNexis has created a new umbrella brand name for its family of "knowledge solutions" targeted at integrating LexisNexis content with the intranets, portals, extranets, and Web sites of enterprise clients... |
Information Today August 2004 Paula Hane |
News About SLA, ProQuest, Search Technologies, and More News from SLA... Busy Times at ProQuest... Newspaper Update... Search Engine Update... Specialized Search Engines... Desktop Search... Enterprise Search... Links... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2003 |
Industry News Nstein Expands Product Lines... Open Source in Sweden... LexisNexis has entered into a publishing agreement with IndexMaster... West has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications... etc. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 |
News Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Harris InfoSource; Changes Name to D&B... Factiva Adds Harvard Business Review... Search Engines... etc. |
Information Today December 9, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest D&B Announces Agreement to Acquire Hoover's... BIOSIS Enhances Databases, Introduces New Portal... New Business Information Portal Launches... News Announced at Online Information 2002 |
Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane |
New Developments in Search Engines, Copyright, and More This has been an unusually busy time for search engine news, including ongoing rumors about a possible Google IPO. |
Searcher June 2004 Matthew McBride |
The Better Mousetrap Tracking trends on the road to the 2004 Special Libraries Association Conference in Nashville: XML... Portal Integration... Secure Access... Intranet/Internet Searching... etc. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update Updates on projects, partnerships, improved services, and more in the information industry |
Information Today April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 |
Industry News Thomson ePIBis a new Web-based tool that electronically collects documents from financial databases and assembles a customized Public Information Book in PDF... DialogPRO is a new Web-based information retrieval service that tailors to fit small business owners and managers... etc. |
Searcher October 2001 Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Information Today November 6, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
Information Today January 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Wrapping Up 2005; Looking Forward Recapping information industry headlines from 2005 and trends to watch in 2006. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 |
Industry News Thomson Takes TOC to New York Stock Exchange... Sage No Longer Spices Up EBSCO, ProQuest... LexisNexis Expands and Contracts Its Universe... etc. |
Information Today October 13, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Dialog Releases Dialog Portals Service Dialog has released Dialog Portals, its new service for integrating content into enterprise portals. A major selling point for the new offering is that it is compatible with nine of the leading portal software providers. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Alacritude Focuses Its High Beam; Stays in the FAST Lane... Three Science Sites Eliminated... Groxis Announces Grokker 2... etc. |
Information Today June 2001 Paula J. Hane |
Dialog CEO Optimistic About Opportunities Thomson Corp. purchased Dialog from its British owners on May 4, 2000, and in November named a seasoned Thomson executive as Dialog's new president and CEO. Now Roy M. Martin Jr. has had 6 months at the helm... |
Information Today January 17, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Review of the Year 2007 and Trends Watch A list of the top read news stories for the information industry in 2007. |
Information Today March 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Moreover, the News Aggregator: Interview with Jim Pitkow Moreover delivers content for use in custom applications, Web sites, search engines, corporate intranets, and enterprise portals. |
Information Today June 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Thomson Gale Expands Spanish-Language Resources, Introduces New Collection... LexisNexis to Deliver Information via BlackBerry... ISMP... American Book Trade Directory... etc. |
Information Today July 19, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Reed Elsevier Buys Public Records Provider Seisint... HighBeam Adds Reference Research to Service... Dialog Introduces New MetalBase File... |
Information Today June 24, 2002 |
News Digest FAST Claims Its AllTheWeb.com Is Now the World's Largest Search Engine... Industry Leaders Adopt Google Corporate Search Products... EBSCO Announces NoveList Enhancements, Content Agreements |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 |
Industry News Vascoda, the German Digital Library, Debuts... Dialog Enhances Company Profiles; LexisNexis Enhances Company Dossier... Thomson Financial announced that new issues and syndicated loan data are available on Thomson ONE Banker-Deals... etc. |
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 January 2003 Melissa Barr |
Democracy in the Dark: Public Access Restrictions from Westlaw and LexisNexis Amidst a growing wealth of free, reliable information on the Internet, there is a poverty of access to the decisions and opinions of the courts that protect our liberties. |
Information Today June 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences. |
Information Today November 2004 Paula Hane |
Developments in Search, Digital Archives, and More New Dance Partners... Digital Preservation and Access... Search Engine News... New Ventures... Tweaking and Enhancing... Over at the Googleplex... |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2003 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Inktomi's New Frontier: Web Search 9... EDGAR Flies Free Again... Alliances & Deals... etc. |
Information Today February 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest News About Elsevier, BIOSIS, and More Following the usually quiet news period during the last half of December, January started off with a flurry of company and product news, much of it timed for ALA's Midwinter Meeting, held Jan. 9-14 in San Diego. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News LexisNexis' New Platform... Google Advanced News Search... ProQuest Releases PQNext... ProQuest has expanded its Early American Fiction collection... etc. |
Information Today April 2004 Paula Hane |
News About Organizational Tools, the Content Industry, and More New Tools... Cuadra Enhances Its STAR... Search Engine Wars Heat Up... etc. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 |
Industry News ProQuest Launches Smart Search... Thomson Financial Sells Two Products... IHI Purchased by Thomson Scientific... NCAA Scores with Web-Based Championship Database... Peopleware... Sci-Tech... Search Engines... etc. |
Information Today January 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Internet Librarian 2001 The three keynoters focused, respectively, on people, planning for usability, and technologies---the key components for an Internet librarian's success... |
Search Engine Watch September 12, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines Following the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States today, web users turned en masse to search engines for information. It took those services some time to adjust to the demand, but as the day progressed, many came up to speed... |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Searcher May 2002 Linnea Christiani |
Meeting the New Challenges and LexisNexis Post-SIIA Summit Interviews with Michael Wilens and Lisa Mitnick... |
Information Today January 2002 |
What's Ahead for 2002? We have asked a group of industry movers and shakers about the current state of the information industry, as well as where they think it's going... |