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Information Today October 23, 2000 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Launches Web Portal for Searchers Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company, has initiated a new Web portal service designed to serve information professionals. The Factiva InfoPro Alliance Portal is open to all searchers...  |
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 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.  |
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 |
Quack Alert People searching for health information online need to be reminded that the Internet is not a library and that they need to check the quality of the source.  |
Information Today June 27, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Varying Content Commitments from Vendors for Yahoo! Search Most content providers allow the search service only limited access to their libraries for resale. But they all hope the service will bring increased user access and sales.  |
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 October 14, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Launches Factiva Fusion for Enterprise Digital Integration Factiva has introduced Factiva Fusion, a digital content management service that integrates, indexes, and interfaces internal and external data for an enterprise.  |
Information Today January 16, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Factiva to Launch Search 2.0 Beta On Tuesday, Jan. 17, Factiva will officially take the wraps off the beta of its new Search 2.0 interface.  |
Information Today June 24, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Introduces Factiva Alerts Breaking News Service Factiva has launched Factiva Alerts, a new product line that supplies near real-time news headlines to user desktops. Restricted to Factiva's enterprise clients, Factiva Alerts seems to revive "push" technology, which has had its ups and downs in the volatile world of Internet services.  |
Information Today June 18, 2001 Rebecca Jones |
Factiva.com Launched at SLA A new product or a new paradigm?  |
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 April 18, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
The Factiva Evolution -- Global, Mobile, More Accessible Factiva's new user interface and new information "Snapshots" are designed to allow customers to monitor and find meaningful information more quickly.  |
Information Today March 13, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Flurry of Free Features From Dow Jones Factiva These features will help enterprises expand the use of Dow Jones Factiva content via Newsletter Builder and help individuals who want to use an automated text-to-speech beta service.  |
Information Today November 25, 2002 |
News Digest OverDrive Announces Digital Library Reserve... LexisNexis Offers SEC Data from EDGAR Online... Factiva Adds Quotes Module to Product Suite  |
Information Today September 8, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Library of Congress Accepts September 11 Digital Archive... Nstein Launches Knowledge Base Manager... Factiva Offers New Subscription Options for Occasional Users...  |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light Is Sailing Back into Business Research Northern Light, the company named for the innovative 19th century clipper ship, has announced it is bringing back its business Web search engine and the premium document library on Jan. 15, 2004, for enterprise customers.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Still Seeking the Bubble 'Reputation' After a failure, an acquisition, and a regrouping, Factiva is back in the business of selling a comprehensive reputation monitoring service.  |
Information Today May 30, 2000 Rebecca Jones |
Factiva Announces Factiva Modules and Oracle Partnership It is probably no coincidence that during the month leading up to its 1-year anniversary Factiva (http://www.factiva.com) announced two strategic moves.  |
Searcher March 2002 Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment...  |
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...  |
Information Today September 30, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Factiva.com Gets Updated Factiva has announced that it's celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Factiva.com by adding content and functionality enhancements. Included in this release are a new search screen, new language interfaces, company information from D&B and Investext, and more.  |
Information Today December 11, 2000 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Adds Financial Times Content This is a natural alliance for the world's two leading business news sources. It's also a natural fit with the Web strategy of "ouch-free" pricing. And, it provides an interesting peek at what Factiva.com may look like when it premieres in March...  |
Information Today July 24, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Factiva Enhances Its SalesWorks Solution Business news and information provider Factiva has been working to implement a broad strategy of making it easier for users of its products to discover, interpret, and use information rather than wade through scads of headlines.  |
Searcher September 2002 Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks?  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Homepage: Empowering Researchers Putting powerful information tools in the hands of millions of Office 2003 users raises the possibility that there are no more "end users," that we're all researchers now.  |
Information Today December 10, 2009 Anne Mintz |
Clarification of Factiva Announcement Concerning BusinessWeek Removal On Monday, Dec. 9, 2009, Factiva announced that it would be removing the entire archive of BusinessWeek from its service in February 2010, and that the Dec. 7, 2009, issue would be the last  |
Searcher Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do?  |
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...  |
Information Today June 2004 Mick O'Leary |
Learner's Library Dumbs Down This fee-based research service for students is a dumbed-down, error-ridden product that offers both haphazard content and inferior searching.  |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites.  |
Searcher September 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hard Times These are difficult times for traditional publishers and information services.  |
ONLINE July 2001 Bruce Rosenstein |
Searching for News Online and on the Web: A Head to Head Comparison Nothing changes faster than the news. This makes news searching exciting, but adds difficulty. It also means that for optimum results you usually have to search both the Web and traditional online databases, such as LEXIS-NEXIS, Factiva, and Dialog...  |
Searcher June 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Critic Insuring data quality requires constant monitoring.  |
Searcher December 2002 Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license.  |
Information Today January 14, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Northern Light to Focus on Enterprise Customers, Will Discontinue Free Public Web Search Northern Light Technology announced that it has decided to focus more exclusively on the needs of enterprise customers and, as of January 16, it will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public...  |
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.  |
Searcher August 2002 Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large.  |
D-Lib October 2005 Awre et al. |
The CREE Project: Investigating User Requirements for Searching within Institutional Environments While dedicated websites are still the predominant route for delivery of Internet-based search services, other Internet-based search tools should be explored for use within institutional environments  |
Searcher April 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Success and Failure We librarians, we intermediary searchers, kept on amazing clients, one search at a time. We librarians kept pushing vendors to give us databases, not just print tools.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2007 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Dangerous Assumptions When searching, even information professionals who should know better sometimes assume.  |
Information Today November 5, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Factiva Expanding Web Presence in Wall Street Journal Professional Edition The service will integrate content from 17,000 Factiva sources with WSJ.com content to create news flows covering key industries, companies, etc.  |
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.  |
Information Today February 2001 Barbara Quint |
Blazing Some New Advertising Trails "The money I pay for a commercial online search and you expect me to have to read some stupid ads?" But nowadays everyone sees ads on their search results all the time, mainly because we all use Web sources that depend on ad revenue to support free or low-cost service...  |
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...  |
ONLINE July 2001 Marydee Ojala |
Everything Old is New Again Old-fashioned, yet common-sense, techniques apply just as well to Web searching as to traditional online...  |
Searcher June 2012 Barbara Quint |
The Doctor Is In Now that everyone's an end-user searcher, now that intermediated searching is such a rarity, what has happened to the reference interview?  |
Information Today March 17, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Office 2003 Opens New Market to Fee-Based Information Services A beta version of the upgraded Microsoft Office 2003 suite has gone out to half a million users. The new Office includes a Look-Up feature, which introduces a Research Task Pane that links to commercial fee-based search service offerings.  |
Information Today October 24, 2005 Denise Dayton |
Inform.com is the Newest News/Blog Aggregator Inform Technologies introduced a Web news and blog commentary search system that tags and scores the elements of each item creating search results with greater relevance.  |
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.  |
Searcher June 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home.  |