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Information Today
August 11, 2003
Carol Ebbinghouse |
UCITA Stopped, But Librarians and Consumers Remain Vigilant On Aug. 1, 2003, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws discharged the standby committee of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). Librarians, consumer groups, writers, trade groups and others have denounced UCITA.   |
Information Today
August 11, 2003
Marydee Ojala |
Google Introduces Synonym Searching, News Alerting Features Professional researchers -- the ones who actually understand and use the advanced search techniques provided by Web search engines -- will be delighted to learn that Google has introduced a new feature that enables searching by synonyms as well as by keyword. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
Information Today
August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
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. |
Information Today
July 28, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EIU Launches Market Indicators and Forecasts Database The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has introduced the third product component in its "strategy to provide a single source of timely global industry analysis for executives managing cross border businesses," to quote Lou Celi, EIU's publishing director. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Taxonomy Developments in the Health Field Underlying top-quality databases one usually finds top-quality taxonomies. The fields of health sciences and healthcare continue to draw attention and funding for taxonomy development from both government and private sector sources, as shown by two recent announcements. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2003
Colleen Whitney |
University of California Museum of Paleontology The site encompasses thousands of pages of information on life through time, organized in three major "exhibit halls": geologic time, phylogeny, and evolution. The exhibits are heavily interlinked, offering browsers of all levels opportunities to pursue concepts of particular interest. |
D-Lib
August 2003
Baker & Dekkers |
Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs: The CORES Resolution The "Resolution on Metadata Element Identifiers", or CORES Resolution, is an agreement among the maintenance organisations for several major metadata standards to identify their metadata elements using Uniform Resource Identifiers. Here's a progress report on the resolution. |
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