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Information Today
July 19, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities.   |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period Since the acquisition of Dialog 2 years ago by ProQuest, customers of the Dialog and DataStar services have been keeping a close watch to see what would happen. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
September 2000 |
Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system. |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
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
July 13, 2009
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010. |
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
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Information Today
November 4, 2002
Barbara Quint |
H.W. Wilson Launches Major Upgrade of WilsonWeb Serving libraries since 1898, the venerable H.W. Wilson Co. continues its march into the 21st century with the launch of a new version of WilsonWeb. |
Information Today
July 8, 2010 |
ProQuest's Open Web Article Linking is Live A new ProQuest initiative researches article-level links to popular periodicals published on the open web, simplifying existing access to full-text articles at no charge to library patrons. |
Information Today
March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc. |
Information Today
December 5, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Centers on Black Studies ProQuest Information and Learning has released Black Studies Center, its second research center. |
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... |
Searcher
May 2001
Nicholas Tomaiuolo |
Playing Twenty Questions to Test Low-Cost, Free, or Subscription Databases for End-User Online Service A survey of some low-cost article search engines. |
Information Today
February 4, 2002
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd.; Adds More Titles; Upgrades Interface While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-coms and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations... |
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
July 23, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Gives Dialog a Makeover Dialog, the 40-year-old doyenne of online information, is getting a well-deserved -- and long overdue -- makeover as it transitions to a new platform designed to bring it into the modern world. |
Information Today
January 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Begins Its Integration of bigchalk The takeover of the digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market provides ProQuest with a collection of new licensed content as well as some interesting technological and interface improvements. |
Information Today
March 18, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult ProQuest plans to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change. |
Information Today
August 2002
Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. |
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... |
Information Today
November 19, 2015
Corilee Christou |
ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed. |
Information Today
September 2003 |
Product News and Reviews MicroPatent Streamlines Searching, Extends IP Alerts... Reuters Unveils Research On-Demand... ProQuest Offers JHUP Journals... etc. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Enhances Service Based on Customer Feedback... Innovative Interfaces Offers Enhanced Data from Content Cafe... STN Gains Korean Patent File... etc. |
Information Today
August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Make Research Easier With These Five Tools Here's a look at several popular research and reference managers, including their key functions and new features, as well as a sneak peek at their future upgrades. |
Information Today
June 9, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Readex to Create Digital Edition of U.S. Congressional Serial Set Early Americana aficionados and government documents librarians will especially have cause to celebrate the forthcoming release on the Web of a key historical government resource. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Tracking Title Search Capabilities Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems... |
Information Today
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Over Our Dead Bodies When it comes to the information professional market, there's at least one eternal truth: Info pros support good data, even when it's not to their advantage. |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
Information Today
September 24, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Demise of TimesSelect Deals Blow to Pay-for-News and Alters Access to Archives The New York Times discontinues its TimesSelect subscription program. |
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... |
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
August 2004 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Unveils New Interface Enhancements... Ingenta Launches Beta Version of Its IngentaConnect Flagship Web Service... NewsStand Introduces iBrowse Reader... Information Today, Inc. Releases Two New Directories... etc. |
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
July 22, 2002 |
News Digest ProQuest Completes The New York Times Backfile Digitization... Kiplinger Licenses Content to Six Aggregators |
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
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... |
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. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
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
August 20, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Graduate Education Program Serves Tomorrow's Librarians, Today's Library School Faculties The recently announced ProQuest Graduate Education Program offers library schools and other educational settings a way for students and teachers to reach the company's full array of resources. |
Information Today
March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection. |
Searcher
January 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
