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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
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
June 2, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Seuss Hopes Northern Light will Rise and Shine Just 16 months after selling Northern Light Technologies (NL) to Divine, Inc. (in a stock deal said to be worth between $12 and $16 million), NL's former CEO, David Seuss, purchased the company back for just $81,000 at Divine's 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction. |
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
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. |
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
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
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
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Keeping Track of the Blogosphere... OneSource Joins the infoUSA Family... Starring Now on NewsStand... Search Engines... etc. |
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. |
Information Today
January 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers |
Information Today
February 2003
Paula J. Hane |
What's Ahead? 15 information industry executives talk about their companies' health in the current economy, their plans on how to ride out the turbulence, and their priorities for 2003. |
Information Today
October 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
Information Today
September 2003 |
NewsBytes Nstein Announces Partnerships... Snapshots' Athens Authentication Goes Live... CSA, BioOne Announce New Affiliation... etc. |
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
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
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
August 2003 |
NewsBytes Nstein Partners with BIOSIS, D&B... Plosker Launches Consulting Group... General Science Abstracts Now Available via EBSCOhost... Ingenta Signs Three Association Publishers... OeBF Announces Program... etc. |
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
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Information Today
January 24, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
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. |
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
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. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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
December 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update Updates on projects, partnerships, improved services, and more in the information industry |
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
March 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions... |
Information Today
December 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Elsevier Announces ScienceDirect News... ProQuest Unveils New Archiving Program, Los Angeles Times Backfile... Ingenta Continues Growth Across Publisher Services... etc. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
NewsBytes NLII, MERLOT Announce Alliance... Four Major Publishers Sue for Copyright Infringement... EBSCO Streamlines Consortia Purchasing... Ingenta Announces Signings, Will Create OUP Web Site... etc. |
Information Today
January 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Wrapping Up 2005; Looking Forward Recapping information industry headlines from 2005 and trends to watch in 2006. |
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. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
May 23, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Innovative to Enhance Library Subscription Access Through Google Scholar... Marquis Announces Who's Who in American History... STN Service to Offer New Analytical Software... |
Information Today
February 10, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services. |
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
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
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
September 2003
Dick Kaser |
Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations? |
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. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
Information Today
June 25, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Gets Sociable: New Social Networking Initiatives OCLC has nonetheless begun adding social networking features to its WorldCat.org site and redesigning WebJunction, its existing outreach and training service to librarians, for greater interactivity. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Who? What? How Much?: Google News Archive Premium Content Suppliers Three of the big five national newspapers have opened their archives to Google News Archive. |
Information Today
November 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
