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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
January 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers |
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 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo. |
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
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. |
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
November 2000 |
EBSCO Expands Book Services, Creates E-Journal Licensing Web Site EBSCO Information Services has announced that it will expand access to EBSCO Book Services, its online book searching and ordering service, to libraries and other organizations... |
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
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
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. |
Information Today
March 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
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
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
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, 2010
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
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
July 1, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Announces Its New Electronic Journals Service EBSCO has announced that it is replacing EBSCO Online, its existing electronic journals service that was first released in January 1999, with a new offering called EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service. |
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... |
Inc.
June 2004
Adam Hanft |
Grist: Why Bankruptcy is Bad for Business What happens if a small business needs to seek bankruptcy protection? The current laws counterintuitively favor large bankruptcies. It's time to address this lopsided situation |
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. |
Searcher
August 2001
Larry Krumenaker |
A Tempest in a Librarian's Teapot EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Exclusive, and Unique Titles... |
AskMen.com
July 7, 2002
Donald Morrison |
The Ups & Downs Of Bankruptcy While filing bankruptcy shouldn't be a shameful process, it is one that ought to be approached with caution. It's a means of repayment that isn't cut out for every financial situation, regardless of how catastrophic they may seem, and its consequences can be detrimental and far-reaching. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Kary & Sandler |
A Stock Windfall for GM's Creditors Warrants for 273 million shares may add to a $5 billion haul |
CFO
July 1, 2002
Kris Frieswick |
Worldwide Workouts Filing for bankruptcy protection means different things in different countries. Will a uniform code ever be adopted? |
Information Today
February 25, 2002
Jill E. Grogg |
EBSCO Publishing Offers Full Text Through PubMed's LinkOut EBSCO Publishing has announced that full-text materials in EBSCO's biomedical databases, such as the Biomedical Reference Collection and Nursing & Allied Health Collections, are now available via links from PubMed... |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
Keeping Skin in the Game Joining a bankrupt customer's creditors committee may preserve its viability -- and your assets. |
Entrepreneur
January 2004
Jane Easter Bahls |
Against Your Will Is your business drowning in debt? If so, you should know about a legal maneuver creditors can use to force your business into bankruptcy. |
Information Today
July 14, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Acquires Two Info Pro Databases from ITI EBSCO Publishing has acquired two abstracting services covering computers, the Internet, and information sciences from Information Today, Inc. |
Information Today
June 2, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO A-to-Z Service Tracks Journal Access EBSCO, the world's largest subscription agency, has introduced a gateway service that helps librarians and their patrons identify titles to which a library's patrons have full-text access. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012 |
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Now Available via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Publishing made the newly released Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The dataset contains 12 million open-access catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries. |
Searcher
March 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Rats!! Search services are losing not just individual items but archives of whole titles -- in some cases, of whole publishers. |
Entrepreneur
September 2001
Chris Sandlund |
Born Again Good businesses don't have to die just because they've gone hopelessly, out-of-control in debt. There is a place they can turn for redemption: the bankruptcy laws. |
