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This article reports that EBSCO Publishing has entered into an agreement with All Academic Inc. that will provide researchers with access to a growing collection of full-text conference papers from top scholarly societies. EBSCO's partnership with All Academic will bring nearly 25,000 full-text conference papers into appropriate EBSCOhost databases including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and Communication Mass Media Complete. The companies anticipate that approximately 20,000 records will be added to EBSCOhost databases on an annual basis beginning in 2005. According to Tim Collins, EBSCO's vice president and division general manager, the partnership represents an important step for EBSCOhost researchers as well as authors contributing their works as part of conference proceedings. In a statement by Collins, he said that with content from All Academic, EBSCO is providing an avenue for societies dedicated to virtually any area of study to share their associated papers with a larger audience outside the realm of their individual conferences. In addition, he stated that with many highly regarded associations participating with All Academic, the quality of such a content is outstanding.

The article examines alternative visions for the future of newspaper publishing. The industry has expressed concern over the implications of the decision of Knight Ridder to liquidate in March 2006 due to declining profit margins. The problems faced by the newspaper industry include circulation reductions and declining public respect. The industry is exploring alternative visions for its survival, such as partnering with competitors, developing newspaper Web sites and creating tailored and hyper-local newspapers.

Deals with the partnership between Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and BioOne wherein CSA will create a bibliographic database that indexes research papers in the journals available through the full text service of BioOne. Background of the bibliographic database of BioOne.

Reports on the partnership of search engine Google Inc. with universities to provide a way of searching the institutions' collections of scholarly papers. Information included in the archives.

This article reports about the announcement made by Endeavor Information Systems Inc. that the partnership with Michigan Technological University (MTU) at Houghton, Michigan, has come to fruition. MTU, a doctoral institution with an emphasis on engineering education, was one of the original beta test sites for the NOTIS Horizon system. The agreement didn't include elaborate specifications for bringing modules up; it simply stated that the library and the company would partner on the development of Voyager. Since the agreement, it's been late nights, weekends, and constant communication, resulting in a state-of-the-art library management system and a wealth of mutual respect. The Endeavor vision includes: 1) focus on academic and research libraries 2) full functionality 3) graphical user interfaces operating under Microsoft Windows 4) client/server architecture 5) Relational database structure 6) UNIX server platforms and Intel-based client platforms 7) network connectivity 8) access to images, full text, and other local and remote resources.

The author focuses on the status of the newspaper. She cites some of the problems faced by newspaper companies, including financial turmoil because of declining advertising revenues. She mentions the impact of the green movement on the newspaper. She also cites the efforts of the web site Helium to partner with newspapers in an effort to fill the void that will be left by many newspapers.

This article focuses on the preservation of British library newspapers that have been published during the 19th century. The British Library Newspapers Web site was created in partnership with Gale International, a part of Cengage Learning, with funding provided by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Free access will be provided to the database within the BL building and to all the Further and Higher Education communities in Great Britain. Fee-based services will be launched for the general public in 2008. The 19th-century British Library Newspapers add to a rich collection of other historical material that is already available from Cengage or has been funded by JISC.

This section offers news briefs on online information services. CABI launched Environmental Impact, a resource that pools information on the terrestrial and freshwater biosphere, including crop production, plant pests and diseases, and human and animal health. Textile Technology Complete is a new full-text database from EBSCO Publishing that provides coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Wiley-Blackwell announced an enhanced partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

This paper presents an update on partnerships in the information services field as of February 2005. Swets Information Services has partnered with INIST, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of CNRS, the French integrated scientific documentation center. The document delivery services of INIST will be integrated into SwetsWide, the Swets online service for the procurement, access and management of subscriptions and online information. The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and Elsevier has partnered to develop the SLA Online University professional development platform. Elsevier contributed a one-time gift of $60,000 to start up the effort; the gift was matched by SLA funding. SLA Online University is scheduled to appear on the web in late May 2005. It is expected to include more than 200 courses, as well as additional professional development resources. EOS International and WebFeat announced a partnership to supply EOS clients with simplified, simultaneous access to multiple database resources. The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) announced that Blackwell Publishing will handle the production, technical editing and publishing of the association's journals, Ground Water and Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation. NGWA will retain control of the publications.

This article reports on partnerships concerning electronic information resources in the U.S. as of May 2004. The University of Michigan announced an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to offer a repository of information providing links to scholarly resources that were difficult to locate previously. The repository, developed through the University Library Oalster Project, is available through the Content Acquisition Program of Yahoo!. Oalster offers information that links to hidden digital resources such as the complete contents of books and articles. Oalster retrieves the resources by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions via harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata harvesting. ProQuest Information and Learning announced a licensing agreement with Convera to use ProQuest's taxonomy for electronic content. The deal allows Convera to use ProQuest's taxonomy to classify and organize information in its proprietary RetrievalWare software products. RetrievalWare solutions enable searches across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information in more than 45 languages. Convera is offering industry-specific cartridges to plug into RetrievalWare.

Presents news briefs on the information services industry in the U.S. as of June 2002. Features of the Link Studio information management product by Context Limited; Details of the integration of the Web sites of the National Fire Protection Association into one Web portal; Information on the partnership between Convera and SIGNAL Corporation.

Reports on the partnership between the California Digital Library (CDL) and Berkeley Electronic Press. How CDL will make a suite of electronic publishing tools from the Berkeley Electronic Press available to University of California researchers; Way that this will benefit researchers.

This article discusses the use of visual search method to improve the ability of users to review search results in a more meaningful way. Both EBSCO and Factiva introduced visual search as part of their mainstream products. In March 2006, Groxis and EBSCO Publishing announced a partnership to add visual search to EBSCOhost. According to the announcement, the Grokker visual search feature on EBSCOhost organizes hundreds of search results from a single query into an intuitive, easy to navigate content map.

This article provides information on several of the OnDisc products to be added to the Dialog OnDisc product line by the end of the second quarter of 1988. Dialog has announced a CD-ROM drive partnership with Amdek for the Amdek Laserdek 2000. The drive is being offered as part of the Dialog OnDisc package so that the CD-ROM technology can be easily integrated into an organization. By the third quarter 1988, Dialog will begin shipping a first time Standard & Poor's offering of several corporate and financial information databases on one compact disc.

The article offers speech technology industry news briefs as of November 1, 2016. Topics include Samsung SDS Co. Ltd.'s partnership with embedded voice and vision technologies provider Sensory Inc. involving mobile banking and enterprise authentication services, the partnership between CallMiner Inc. and Five9 Inc. on speech analytics, and a report by business consulting firm Grand View Research which expects the global voice recognition market to reach $127.58 billion by 2024.

This section offers news briefs on issues related to the information technology sector. An agreement was formed by Ingram Digital and the Ex Libris Group to make electronic book (ebook) content available via Ingram's MyiLibrary. A strategic partnership was signed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Telefónica to improve access to Wikimedia content in Latin America and Europe. An amount of 10 billion dollars was pledged by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to aid efforts to distribute vaccinations to poor countries.

The article reports on the partnership between Google and 17 schools for a pilot program to enable searching among DSpace repositories, in July 2004. DSpace is an open-source software designed to assist colleges and universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital repositories. There are currently about 125 schools using this software, but no tool existed that enabled searching across repositories instead of just within them. The number of documents available for searching has been one point of contention for DSpace. Each of the 17 participants had an average of 1,000 papers in its digital archive. While some universities had considerably more than 1,000 documents, most hovered around 100 and many had considerably fewer. Universities involved in the project are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Australian National University, Canberra; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Cranfield University, England; European University Institute, Domenico DiFies, Italy; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; Minho University; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of Calgary, Atlanta; University of Oregon, Eugene; University of Parma, Italy; University of Rochester, New York; University of Toronto, Ontario; University of Washington, Seattle; and University of Wisconsin.

Focuses on the partnership of Endeavor Information Systems with Openly Informatics Inc. to provide enhanced access to resources through Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus comprehensive linking system. Details of the partnership; Adoption of Endeavor library systems by the Jefferson Library of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation of Charlottesville, Virginia, the Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the State Library of Queensland of Brisbane, Queensland in Australia.

Reports on a partnership between Ipedo, Inc. and XMLCities, Inc., which will allow them to market and promote a combined solution for media-independent content publishing. Offering of a powerful XML infrastructure which can be used by content publishers to quickly convert and create large volumes of XML content and to manage it; Mention of the Ipedo XML Database.

Discusses the strategies for partnering with outsourcers. Significance of providing the outsourcer information about the product or service they are supporting; Importance of communication to a business partnership; Relevance of relaying business needs and expectations to the outsourcing partner; Vitality of maintaining equal authority and trust.

The article presents forecasts for the U.S. information industry in 2004. The innovation process is where future growth lies: creating new product and service ideas, incubating them, and putting them into the innovation pipeline for launch in the marketplace. Technology will obviously play a large role helping legal professionals who are working locally, working within local legal systems, and speaking the local language. For Lynne Brindley, CEO of The British Library, the following are major issues for 2004: understanding user behavior, metrics, standards, open access/open archives, archive preservation, e-Science, collaboration and partnerships, legal inconsistencies, new services, and information portals and information environments. According to Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, FIZ Karlsruhe managing director, information providers must take appropriate measures in order to survive and to remain independent. A proven way to achieve this is through partnerships and strategic alliances. To retain competitive advantage, executives need to provide employees with better tools for their jobs--tools that will offer more time for decision-making and will give employees confidence in the choices that they make.

The article informs that Profound Inc. has announced an agreement with Marketing Intelligence Service Ltd. to provide online research reports on significant and innovative new consumer packaged goods through the Profound business intelligence service. Under the agreement, Profound will offer exclusive Portable Document Format (PDF) access to these data through integration of Adobe Acrobat technology into the user interface. This will replicate in electronic form the look of the printed research on food, beverage, health and beauty aid, household, pet supply, and miscellaneous consumer product introductions. Using Profound's proprietary InfoSort technology, market and product research available from Marketing Intelligence will be indexed for the most efficient retrieval in the online business information market. Users of Profound will be able to employ both keywords and search terms added by Profound research editors, who read and index each document before adding it to the service.

This article reports on the strategic alliance between Bell Atlantic and Telenet Communications Corp. that enables Bell Atlantic to enter the electronic mail business as of December 1988. The agreement is the first between a regional Bell operating company and an enhanced service provider for electronic mail service, and capitalizes on the ability of local exchange carriers to provide information services. Under the agreement, Bell Atlantic telephone companies in Pennsylvania and the Washington, D.C. area will offer a Telemail-based electronic mail service under the Bell Atlantic name. Telemail is the Telenet electronic messaging service.

This article focuses on a joint venture between Shuttle Corp. and CompuServe to offer a coordinated system of electronic banking and information retrieval. The venture calls for Shuttle to provide local banks with the hardware and software necessary to connect its Scratch Pad system to the national CompuServe network. Under the system, banks will maintain control of their own computer systems and electronic financial services while offering a combination of CompuServe's national information database and Shuttle's local information services.

The article reports on the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from October 25-29, 1992. The theme of this year's meeting was "Celebrating Change: Information Management on the Move." The title was chosen almost two years ago, certainly a prescient selection. Regardless of title, a common thread of wisdom from speakers seemed to run throughout the plenaries, that is, to provide quality information. Also, user demands for the right information in the right place at the right time and in the right format have multiplied. Display is a component of quality. The user should be able to see the significant information for what can be life-saving decisions. Representatives from Ameritech, International Business Machines, and Dialog discussed their companies' involvement and perspective on acquisitions and partnerships. Stephen R. Nelson, President of Ohio Bell Communications, a division of Ameritech Information Systems, described what large companies look for in acquisitions and described trends. Small companies are often under-capitalized. In partnership, the companies share risk, validation, access to technology or expertise, and distribution channels. A large company may go with a small one that has a niche position, with the big company validating the small company's product.

This section presents an interview of Steve Case, founder of America Online (AOL), about early online days. Case did not come from either the technology or publishing world, and he believes, in retrospect, that this was a real asset when AOL was launched. In 1980, Case took his first job at Procter & Gamble, which he believes is a great marketing company that is especially brilliant at getting people to try things. Case's brother led him into a relationship with Control Video, an early player in online video gaming that distributed games for the Atari 2600 game console using a phone line and modem. Case had the idea that this core technology could be used for other online applications. With Case now on board, Control Video partnered with Commodore International to create Quantum Computer Services. The partnership began to offer an online service called Quantum Link for the Commodore 64 computer. Case saw communications as a key application for personal computers. When talking about the early days of AOL, he remarked that he enjoyed the pioneering phase, the first 10 years, more than the second 10 years. As it became apparent that Microsoft was preparing to offer its own online service, Case kicked off an initiative with AOL to build a better mousetrap.

The article reflects on some issues related to the Google Book Search digitization project. As it speeds up its formation of library partnerships, Google has begun targeting portions of collections, aiming at areas that will not overlap with what they have already gathered or at partners who complement collections already in the pipeline. The National Archive Publishing Co. has announced a program to digitize 40 million pages of reports entered into the Educational Resources Information Center in the U.S.

Presents news briefs concerning issues related to libraries in the U.S. as of November 2005. Redesigned Web site launched by Thomas Gale that features free trials of online products; Plans of John Wiley & Sons Inc. to launch the "Biotechnology Journal" in January 2006; Partnership between Swets Information Services and Taylor & Francis to launch the Social Science and Humanities eCollections of e-books.

This article presents an update on partnerships in the library science field as of March 2005. Under an exclusive agreement with Data Description, Inc., Library Dynamics has started selling a new visualization system for analyzing and comparing library collections, resources, and capabilities. The system, named Spectra CRC, is built on top of Data Desk and offers a suite of tools linked to a full bibliographic database that contains library and consortia holdings and usage information. Sirsi Corp. has partnered with Bluesocket, Inc., vendor of open-systems wireless local area network (WLAN) systems, to deliver security and management to library WLAN. Sirsi also announced a collaboration with Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. to provide enhanced functions for placing book orders electronically through electronic data interchange using the x12 protocol. Innovative Interfaces announced a partnership with Research Libraries Group to connect its RedLightGreen web tool to Innovative libraries worldwide. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Alexander Street Press announced an agreement to publish the entire Smithsonian Global Sound as a streaming music service to libraries worldwide. The partnership will deliver content from more than 30 countries.

Presents updates on information services related to science and technology, as of November 2002. Information on the ability to link search results to full-text journals as a result of several partnerships with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Features of the SciFinder 2002 from the CAS desktop; Launch of a subscription electronic mail service for science and technology from ScienceIQ.

The article reports on the partnership between cognitive search and analytics software provider Sinequa and enterprise content platform provider Box Inc.

The article discusses the decision of Google Inc. to increase its spectrum within the television industry, as well as its effect on information technology industry. It mentions that Google's decision to penetrate within the television industry attracted small and big companies. It notes that google partnered with SnapStream Media Inc., which claimed it allows integration with Google OneBox software that monitors and responds to the company's television coverage.

The article reports on the partnership of enterprise software solutions integration services provider Bart & Associates (B&A) with software company MicroPact in 2016 to promote fast development and delivery of entreprise application to public sectors by offering entellitrak software platform.

The article reports on the collaboration of active lifestyle brand Thule with globalization solutions provider Lionbridge Technologies Inc. in 2016 to improve global customer experience through translating its multilingual websites and managing its digital content.

The article reports on Microsoft Corp.'s alliance with Real-Time Collaboration Business Group. Code-named Istanbul, the new client will be part of Microsoft Office System, the company's family of col-laborative business environment tools that now include Live Communications Server, Live Meeting, as well as Outlook and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications. To build a true, collaborative business environment in which users can manage instant messaging, conferencing and voice telephony, Microsoft is relying on two standards: SIP and SIMPLE.

The article focuses on the business alliance between International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and MAID, a leading Online supplier of business intelligence services to business professionals worldwide. IBM has signed an agreement with MAID to deliver electronic business intelligence to the infoMarket service. The agreement offers for IBM to provide MAID's InfoSorted news and research data through IBM's Internet service, infoMarket. infoMarket is IBM's new Internet-based corporate information services that is to be marketed worldwide. Tom McClain, general manager of IBM's Electronic Content Services, said that MAID's proprietary categorization system, InfoSort and the tremendous volume of organized business sources has impressed greatly. In defining the business information services strategy, IBM sees this as critical to meeting the demand that IBM has discovered in the marketplace. This is just the first step in a planned all encompassing relationship with MAID that will elongate throughout many of IBM's planned and existing Internet business information services.

This article reports that Global Industrial has partnered with Profit Center Software (PCS) to implement a new catalog and order placement system. The efforts of PCS to upgrade Global's legacy system are discussed, as well as the initial concern over user adoption. Information is presented on the system's effectiveness in reducing order placement time. Comments are made by Global Vice President Jeff Gregory regarding the increase in overall sales.

Provides information on ResortCom, recipient of the 2006 Service Elite Awards for the agent-facing universal desktop category. Services offered by the company to vacation industry consumers; Information on customer management of the company; Partnership between ResortCom and RightNow Technologies.

The article focuses on the partnership of the company Translations.com and Percussion Software Inc. to offer a product to enhance the creation and management of global Web content. The product, GlobalLink Globalization Management System, is a multilingual module for Percussion's Rhythmyx 5.7 content management system. It will enable customers to produce and update global content in as many as 100 languages. The benefits of managing multilingual Web sites with this product include, empowering business users to localize each Web presence, streamlining the translation of Web content.

This article focuses on a partnership between Moreover Technologies Inc., (moreover.com) and Cymfony Inc. (cymfony.com). The partnership will provide Cymfony applications with a variety of content to enable Cymfony Dashboard and Digital Consumer Insight to monitor and analyze online news and blog posts, providing insight to consumer discussions, perceptions and issues that could impact brand reputation. Cymfony can extract information from any blog and has customized influential blog lists based on a client's vertical focus or interest.

This article focuses on an alliance between Fuego (fuego.com)and Proforma Corp. (proformacorp.com). FuegoBPM is a software platform that enables companies to achieve the promised benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), says the company. Customers can model their business processes, define key performance indicators, simulate them, connect those processes to people and systems, run them, manage process exceptions and measure, monitor and optimize their effectiveness. Proforma recently introduced ProVision BPMx, the latest addition to the ProVision modeling suite.

Reports on Siebel Systems and Fast Search and Transfers' multi-year partnership. Integrating FAST InStream within the core Siebel business applications platform; Ability of Siebel to leverage FAST InStream internally; Benefits of the integration of FAST InStream with Siebel business applications to Siebel customers.

Offers ideas on choosing the right customer relationship management (CRM) implementation partner for a business scenario. Tips on learning things about the CRM integrator; Experience considerations; Key challenges to using an internal implementation team.

Reports on the partnership of Saflink Corp. with Documentum Inc. to develop secure Web top components targeted at meeting the security needs of the pharmaceutical industry. Intention of Saflink to develop Documentum Webtop components; Explanation from Saflink concerning the secure authentication network to be added to Documentum's enterprise applications; Speculation concerning the benefits of Saflink's solution.

Announces a partnership agreement involving the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and Blackwell's Information Services, to offer delivery services as a service option for clients of the Blackwell's Electronic Journal Navigator (EJN) service. What Blackwell's EJN offers; How users can order articles electronically.

The article focuses on Forrester Research Inc. which has stated that firms are allowing access to their corporate intranets to their business partners. In spite of publicized security scares, competitive pressure is compelling companies to clinch partners, provide better services, and improve distribution by opening their networks. The report, "Partners on the Intranet," is part of the Network Strategy Service, a Forrester Research Inc. service that concentrates on networking in large companies. For the first time in ages, the business side of the house is dominating the corporate IT strategy. Blanc Erwin, senior analyst with Forrester's Network Strategy Service, said that business VPs desire to tie in electronic relationships before the competition does, moreover, it is a business strategy to tap a lion's share in the competitive market.

The article reports that H.W. Wilson is expanding its longstanding partnership with UMI Inc. to create a new database that will serve the information needs of the scientific and technical communities. Using Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts as a springboard, UMI will create a full-text/full-image CD-ROM database to be released this fall. Abstracting will be available from March 1993 forward, indexing from October 1983 forward. The database will be updated monthly and will contain full-text and full-image articles from Wilson Company files. Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts includes more than 750,000 records and more than 1 million pages of information. Among the subjects are chemistry, computer technology, engineering (civil, electrical, environmental, industrial, and mechanical), robotics, telecommunications, and waste management. Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts will be compatible with UMI's Pro Quest Searchware 4.41 software. Users can display article images on their computer screens and print them at a stand-alone or networked printer.

The article reports on a partnership between Time Warner Electronic Publishing (TWEP) and Learn Technologies Interactive Inc. In tandem with TWEP, Learn Technologies Interactive Inc. will design, develop, and publish cutting-edge entertainment, educational and informational multimedia CD-ROM products. The products will combine the production quality and design standards of the most sophisticated interactive games with the latest in interactive learning concepts. Educational products have largely failed to live up to their promise. The partnership's goal is to create truly interactive products that excite and provoke. Several titles are currently under development in collaboration with museums, cable television networks, publishers, and other information providers.

This article reports on a business partnership between Dialog Information Services Inc. and the College of Saint Catherine of Saint Paul, Minnesota in February 1990, to create an information laboratory within the college's Department of Information Management. The information laboratory is composed of equipment donated to Saint Catherine by Dialog. It is distinguished by six workstations consisting of a microcomputer, monitor, 2400 baud modem, individual phone line, and printer. A CD-ROM unit will allow students to access digitized information on optically encoded compact discs. The laboratory is equipped with a computer projection unit so that instructors can demonstrate computer software and the intricacies of distinct data files.

This article reports on the announcement by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chemisches Apparatewesen, Chemische Technik and Biotechnologie e.v. (DECHEMA) FIZ Chemie and Technical Database Services Inc. (TDS) that they will collaborate in the distribution of DECHEMA chemical data and information systems. Under the agreement TDS will host DECHEMA's numeric and factual datafiles on its Numerica information system and market, sell and support online services, tapes and diskettes worldwide. Through the arrangement between DECHEMA and TDS, chemists, chemical engineers and information scientists will be able to obtain data relevant to a wide variety of professional interests: process engineering, hazardous substances, pollution control, safety engineering, chemical reactions, unit operations and industrial safety.