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Information Today
October 22, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Changes at Dialog Dialog starts rollout of new connect-time pricing, completes simplification of sales contracts...   |
Information Today
June 26, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Announces Long-Awaited Price-Structure Changes After years of promised changes spanning two owners, Dialog has announced major price restructuring... |
Information Today
January 14, 2002
Barbara Quint |
More Ups and Downs Announced in Dialog Pricing In a late December letter to subscribers, Dialog announced another round of adjustments in its pricing structure... |
Searcher
March 2002
Mary Ellen Bates |
Dialog Pricing Redux: Deja Vu All Over Again Comparing Dialog's connect-time pricing plan with its DialUnit pricing plan -- when to use what to search Dialog... |
Searcher
May 2003
Matthew McBride |
The Information Pricing Mousetrap The high cost of searching is the primary inhibition to developing more effective search habits for most users. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Think Like a Searcher The double-digit increase in online search activity marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Internet consumer behavior. |
Information Today
February 3, 2003
Mary Ellen Bates |
Dialog Makes Changes to Pricing Strategy, Again During the week of Jan. 27, 2003, Dialog subscribers received a letter from Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president for strategic marketing at Dialog, describing pricing changes, effective Feb. 1. Most of the changes in the Dialog service are simply increases in existing fees. |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
Information Today
March 1, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Previews New Interfaces Factiva previews two new interfaces. The first one being a new start page and the second one is in the advanced search options. |
Searcher
October 2001
Barbara Quint |
The Blame Game A young, healthy woman died this year because of a poor literature search. Whose fault was it? And, more important, is she the first and the last? |
Information Today
July 28, 2003
Marydee Ojala |
LexisNexis Nearing Completion on a New Platform LexisNexis has announced that it is "nearing completion" in its efforts to create a platform that will standardize the delivery of its legal, business, and news information using a single technology. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2011
Eli Goodman |
Q&A Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How Each of these question search terms tell their own story. A look at why the consumer experience on your website, and the ensuing return visitation if satisfied, is so important in the Q&A space. |
Information Today
December 6, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Get Your LexisNexis AlaCarte! The premium online service provider hopes to expand its reach by providing an affordable, pay-as-you-go information service for the growing small to medium-sized business segment and independent professionals. |
Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license. |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews Want to be a professional searcher, or at least have the skills of a pro? These books show you how. |
Searcher
September 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hard Times These are difficult times for traditional publishers and information services. |
Information Today
March 13, 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The New Look of Nexis The "new Nexis" debuted in the U.S. last week, heralded by LexisNexis as having a "new look, new features, and new functionality. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Winfred Ark & Sue Park |
A Plain Text Metamorphosis: Converting Search Results to HTML Rather than static, ASCII-based text, the Web provides the ability to deliver more dynamic, interactive information... |
Searcher
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Cuddly Caveats One should always remember to observe the niceties in dealing with people. Wouldn't you say? Don't you agree? Is it not so? Niceties are particularly important when one has some negative information to impart. Information professionals face this situation every day. |
Information Today
April 2002
Barbara Quint |
Tasini Damage-Reporting Decisions Buyers of full-text services are now struggling with the aftermath of Tasini, and many vendors are not being forthright about what's been lost... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2007
Marydee Ojala |
Making Sense of Search Has search really become irrelevant? How do we, as information professionals, make sense of search? |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Information Today
November 2000
Donald T. Hawkins |
Online World 2000-The End of an Era When Susan M. Klopper asked me to be one of the four panelists in the Schmoozin' with Susan: (W)Rap Session at the end of the Online World 2000 conference, I didn't know that it would be the last wrap session in the 22-year history of this event... |
Information Today
March 14, 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Dialog Delivers More Data and Features When ProQuest decided to create a new platform for its Dialog subsidiary, it spent 2 years on development, consulted more than 6,000 subscribers, and planned for a gradual roll-out rather than a total, jarring, all at once makeover. |
Information Today
August 7, 2001
Eva Perkins |
Johns Hopkins' Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death? Looking at this case, it would appear that medical librarians may currently be better prepared than biomedical researchers to conduct medical literature searches and that the best searches would involve researchers and their librarians working closely together... |
Information Today
December 24, 2001
Richard W. Wiggins |
LexisNexis Partners with WhizBang! to Automate Directory Updates LexisNexis announced that it has adopted technology that robotically extracts targeted Web content in order to streamline the updating of its Directory of Corporate Affiliations... |
Information Today
June 13, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest EEVL Xtra Searches the Hidden Web... Experian Introduces BizInfo Online... LexisNexis Launches Taxonomy Program... |
Information Today
February 25, 2002
Barbara Quint |
DialogPRO Brings Flat-Fee Subscriptions to Low-End Small-Business Market Dialog has inaugurated a product line targeted at small businesses. The DialogPRO product -- PRO stands for "predictable research online" -- offers unlimited usage of a narrow, subject-focused array of files (called "content channels") for a fixed monthly fee... |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2005
Anne Kennedy |
What Clicks with Web Searchers How do searchers find what they want online? Not the way most people might think, studies show. For example, more than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms. |
D-Lib
May 2000
Lawrence Rudner |
Who Is Going to Mine Digital Library Resources? And How? As use of the Internet grows as a research tool, patrons have become increasingly less dependent on librarians and other expert intermediaries. Examining the quality of on-line searches, the author argues that researchers and other internet users do not look for and hence do not find the best resources. |
Information Today
May 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Dialog Gets Smart with Outsmart Company Profiles Searchers will soon be able to buy extensive company profiles from Dialog (http://www.dialog.com) that are replete with information extracted from a range of its business databases and arranged in a handsome, downloadable Microsoft Word document. How much? A mere $100 per company. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Up and Coming Search Technologies Search technology is big business on the Net. The most highly visited sites often started off by helping people find something on the Web.... |
Searcher
July 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Elusive Un-Client Now that online information has moved so many of the tasks formerly performed as intermediated searches to end users, professional searchers have the time to pursue new opportunities for service. |
InternetNews
August 24, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Battle for Search Share in Lower Tier The latest search engine share rankings show Google maintaining its lead over Yahoo, with upstarts gaining points. |
Searcher
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Vendor Knowledge Management Even intermediary searchers these days find themselves doing primarily, if not exclusively, Web-based searching. So how does the dot-com burnout affect us? Well, it increases the critical need for knowledgeable and aggressive vendor management... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Innovation Starts Here If anyone believes that innovation is confined to the world of Web search or that all our traditional online vendors have fallen far behind, three major announcements - from EBSCO, Factiva, and LexisNexis - should change their mind. |
