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WHEN NEW CHIEFS took office at three major information firms, all competing for major shares of the market, we knew changes would come quickly. Will the trend toward direct sales [...]

MORE THAN A DECADE ago I wrote about three family-owned publishers that served online information professionals (see 'The Database Press,' LJ 3/1/89, p. 56-57). Online Inc., Meckler-Media, and Learned Information [...]

CEO insists company is still 'healthy,' despite change in strategy Online research service Questia Media cut 139 jobs, roughly half of its work force, and will cut back the pace [...]

SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW for certain why dinosaurs no longer roam the earth. Some theorize that they just grew too big and too unwieldy to compete with the evolving, more agile, [...]

Customer Satisfaction Group includes software & web site EBSCO Publishing is reviving the old adage that "the customer is always right" with the creation of a Customer Satisfaction Group, which […]

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY indexing was developed well over a century ago to provide a consistent way for users to search for information. But human-assigned indexing has always been labor-intensive and thus [...]

SilverLinker now contains the full text from 1600 journal titles SilverPlatter Information (SP) has announced the addition of the 500,000th link in its SilverLinker database. According to the vendor, 'Each [...]

JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT, September 30, 2002, 19 databases disappeared without a trace from the Dialog online system. The reason? CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) and Dialog had failed to reach a [...]

A restructuring in ProQuest's Information and Learning group has resulted in the resignation of group president Joe Reynolds. Few details of his exit were available, with the company providing the [...]

[WEB] BHI: BRITISH HUMANITIES INDEX Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: CSA (800-843-7751; sales@csa.com). www.csa.com Date reviewed: 11/03/01 Price: Negotiated by site. CSA provides abstracts to articles in the sciences, social sciences, and [...]

ASK LIBRARIANS WHAT they think of when they hear 'Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' and most, not surprisingly, would likely cite bibliographic databases in the sciences. That is probably why Cambridge Scientific [...]

ProQuest Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 17 for a proposed public offering of 5.1 million shares of common stock. Three million shares [...]

Bookshare.org, a new online resource for blind and visually impaired readers, launched in late February. Likened to Napster for Braille books, Bookshare.org offers more than 8000 titles ranging from classics [...]

Endeavor Information Systems has extended its reach with the opening of a regional office in Australia. Claire Hill, a Brisbane native, will serve as the vendor's Australian support manager at [...]