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What decisions go into making a print product available online? For some, the development of a Web site is merely a 'me-too' approach to marketing, with the publisher saying, 'I […]

In an issue devoted in large part to the challenges scholarly publishing faces from digital developments, we turned to one of the leading secondary publishers in the field, Chemical Abstracts […]

Here we go again with a compilation of what was new in 1995 in online search resources for sci-tech and patent literature. I start with my usual caveats: My views […]

In 1991, the Predicasts company and its databases were sold to Ziff-Davis and its subsidiary, Information Access Company. Soon after, International Thomson bought most of Ziff-Davis, including IAC and what […]

Many changes have occurred since Mark Nelson began CD Plus over ten years ago as one of the first new CD-ROM publishers. Last year, they acquired what remained of the […]

Editorial Comment The other day I got a letter from an end user. It was so earnest, so well-considered, and so true that I decided to make it the basis […]

When the faxes and promotional materials from Mead Data Central started rolling into information centers around the country last year announcing a soon-to-be-released major restructure of NEXIS, a small knot […]

When Maxwell Online became InfoPro Technologies at the beginning of 1993, we interviewed Andrew Gregory, president of both Infopro Technologies and BRS Software Products. Before these posts, Gregory was executive […]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In the September 2002 issue of Searcher, we published an article by veteran searcher Amelia Kassel ('Tales of a Searcher's Life. A Comedy of Errors or A Test […]

Most people who have spent decades in a culture other than their own would probably agree that it becomes difficult to 'keep one's assumptions straight.' I noticed that fact once […]

Online searching has been well established in Australia since the late 1970s. Products and services from the rest of the world still predominate, with a small but growing percentage of […]

These days more and more information professionals find themselves involved in developing Internet-based information environments, as well as acting as hunters and huntresses for specific pieces of information. We considered […]

Independent researchers are the poor relations of the information industry family. Neither fish nor fowl, end user or corporate subscriber, we don't fit easily into any category, and no one […]

As I write this (in mid-January 1994), I look back on 1993 as a year that saw a lot of changes of interest to patent and technical literature searchers. There […]

'It is better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.' Yeah, yeah, yeah,. The trouble with moral precepts is that they're always a lot easier to pronounce than […]

After 15 years in the online business, NewsNet Inc. announced on August 4, 1997, that they would close access to the NewsNet database on August 31 and close all operations […]

October 1995 was absolutely unbelievable up here in the Staid White North. I'm not certain my 50-year old body can take the stress. South of the border, the big trial […]

I just returned from a trip to Mountain View, California. Knight-ridder Information (KRI) invited me to stop by for a chat and a look at some of their new end-user […]

Ziff-Davis Interactive (ZDI) will launch an interactive search service called the Interchange Online Network later this year. ZDI is the new name for Ziff Desktop Information, a division of Ziff-Davis […]

Speed and More Speed to come With faster and fasrter moderns becoming cheaper and cheaper, telecommunication networks and their hosts continue to drive in the fast lane. CompuServe now supports […]

University Microfilms International (UMI) has promised to deliver fax copies of complete articles to DIALOG SourceOne subscribers in two hours or less for a limited set of business titles. OCLC […]

Times are getting rough and rougher in this wonderful Information Age. Information professionals are taking a hit. Look at libraries and librarians. Corporate libraries are closing or cutting back severely. […]

A response from THE DIALOG CORPORATION In the last few months, there has been a lot of communication among customers and in the industry press regarding the recent changes in […]

On Friday, November 14, 1997, the board of M.A.I.D. plc announced completion of the acquisition of Knight-Ridder Information Inc. (KRII). On Monday, November 17th, M.A.I.D. plc officially changed its name […]

Winston Churchill. That's what's missing in today's professional searcher community. We need to recruit more Winston Churchills. In fact, we searchers don't admire, study, and emulate Winston Churchill enough. Remember […]

McGraw-Hill Publications Online--DIALOG (File 624), Dow Jones News/Retrieval (//TEXT), Mead NEXIS, and NewsNet--has added several petroleum newsletters--Platt's Oilgram News (September 1986 start date), Platt's Oilgram Price Report (September 1986 start […]

The online world is full of reminders that search redundancy is often more a necessity than a luxury. One of the most compelling I've seen recently is Mead Data Central's […]