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The article focuses on the responsibility of fielding legal questions. Topic include the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts found in its 2018 annual report that in this state alone, "over 90,000 cases were filed by SRLs in orders of protection, family/Dissolution, Miscellaneous Remedy, and Law Magistrate (including Landlord-Tenant disputes)".

The article offers news briefs including the Reuters launched a new fact-checking initiative aimed at identifying misinformation on social media, in partnership with Facebook's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program; UNESCO Archives added 5,000 recordings from its heritage collections to its digitization platform; and partnership between Access Innovations, Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory that will help content-centric organizations improve the organization, delivery, and retrieval of content.

The article offers the author's insights on simplifying research database for academic libraries through open-source content management system (CMS) WordPress. Topics include the advantages of the WordPress in terms of capacity and functionality, the aspects of migrating to the WordPress site, and how he created plug-ins to support the website access to the library's database.

The article discusses the choices of online searchers for locating and downloading full market research reports in 2014. Topics covered include the search of readers and searchers for the level of granularity in data provided in reports as well as the importance of background data about the contributors to reports. Also mentioned are the strengths of the online search services provided by companies including ABI/INFORM, EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus and LexisNexis.

The article discusses the protocol called Triage, Treat, Release that was established by hospital emergency rooms in the U.S. to effectively care for patients who are brought in with minor injuries. In the triage process, the main triage decision is whether the customer needs patient-level or professional-level information or both. It cites the Medline Plus website run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that offers high-quality patient information.

The article offers tips for information professionals on building a business intelligence (BI) system. These include conducting information audit to determine BI needs, evaluating costs and options and tool selection. The author recommends the use of the tool called RefWorks as a citation manager because its features meet most BI requirements for storage, capture and output of citations.

The article discusses a mobile computing technology web page that specialized in applications for the health sciences developed by the Greenbelt Library on the Georgia Health Science University (GHSU). The library's Digital Initiatives Group composed of Tom C. Cutshall, Lindsay Blake, and Sandra Bandy coordinated to create new web initiatives. The article highlights the activities in the development of the GHSU mobile library web site.

The article examines the privacy policy that applies to information collected through the BLOOMBERG LAW Professional product web site. The policy states that the Bloomberg Group or a designated service provider may use cookies, web server logs or other electronic tools to collect information about the user, as well as to collect and compile statistical and other information about one's use of the site and the services provided on the site. The Bloomberg Group also has the right to disclose a user's information to affiliates or sponsors.

The article offers online research-related news briefs as of July 2016. Preprint registration will be allowed by Crossref by August 2016. The Glass Tree print-on-demand online publishing site that provides free tools to academic and scholarly authors for book publication has been launched by Lulu. The new eLife publishing platform Continuum replaces the original Highwire Press platform and supports continuous publication.

The article offers information on Scientific and Technical Information Network (STN) script commands. STN script commands have been available for many years, starting with the first version of STN Express, which used script language for login scripts that accessed STN and other online database systems. Over the years, STN International has introduced other applications of script language, most notably to generate Derwent World Patents Index (WPI) strategies, as well as scripted command files from lists of accession, patent, or CAS Registry number identifiers or SciFinder Answer Keys.

The article offers information on the whois service. According to Wikipedia, a whois is a transmission control protocol (TCP)-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an Internet protocol addresses, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. The whois service is under reconsideration. The basic function of whois is to provide information about domain name owners, thus the who is of whois. Whois data is needed to support billing, administrative, and technical issues.

This article details the creation of EBSCO's DynaMed database for evidence-based medical practioners. This database has a compelling creation story, involving content selection and evaluation critical to human health -- as any point-of-care resource for medical professionals should have. EBSCO's Health Library continues to add more offerings for patient information and EBSCOhost has announced additional databases and full-text sources that expand its medical and health content. Clearly, EBSCO is not standing still in its search for quality content, products, and services in the field of health and medicine. Just as EBSCO Publishing has secured DynaMed and two complementary databases, GIDEON and Evidence-based Complementary Medicine, to serve the needs of physicians, it also offers the Health Library for the latest patient information. INSET: EBSCO Health Library.

The article offers a look at a wide variety of commercial databases that provide company research. They include Hoover's Inc., Dialog Pro CI, Factiva, ProQuest's ABI/INFORM Complete, and 10K Wizard.

Reviews three online databases. Aardvark Web portal from i-Group Ltd.; JCR on the Web from ISI Co.; EuroFactor database from VICER Co.

This article offers tips and tricks for negotiating the purchase of online content. First, an online content buyer should mooch off someone else. Chances are, the information center is not the only procurer of a third-party content within the buyer's organization. Other groups may require immediate access to syndicated materials and resources--and frequently do not consult the library before acquiring them. It is often easier to add a group onto an existing contract rather than drawing up a new one from scratch. This is particularly true for databases such as Investigational Drugs Database or Dialog NewsEdge that are licensed by seat rather than by usage. In general, the more seats an individual purchases, the lower the price per seat. Some vendors will also offer discounts or insider pricing to existing customers. Second, a buyer should size up the competition. Industry mergers and a sluggish economy have dramatically reduced the client base in many content markets. With fewer customers to go around, vendors have to fight for every new account. Some companies would rather take the buyer at an initial loss and gamble that they will eventually make the money back rather than see his/her business go to a competitor.

This article highlights several implementations of the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) archive, which is being implemented with different features by talented economists and programmers in many countries as varied as Sweden, Russia, Britain and the U.S. IDEAS is one of the many excellent implementations of the RePEc collection of free abstracts for more than 200,000 journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters and software. Over half of the abstracts have links to the full-text digital version. The other pick is a spectacularly well-implemented bibliometric service that delivers very informative statistics about the papers, journals, series and authors in RePEc. The pan is the American Economic Association's EconLit database, which is widely licensed by many college libraries and research centers, but is becoming increasingly less and less state of the art. The popularity of the RePEc archive and its services is superbly illustrated by the LogEc service, run by Sune Karlsson at the Economic Research Institute of the Stockholm School of Economics, which analyzes the server logs of the participating RePEc servers. EconLit is produced by the American Economic Association and available on many commercial online services, including CSA, Dialog, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, Science Direct and Silver Platter.

Presents information on how to build a successful Web library, and uses the example of a library built by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia. Use of the concepts of subject keys and subscription services applied to digital information on the Web; Need for resources to be served out of a database; How users wanted to be able to search a form with one global keyword field for all appropriate database fields; Idea that any subset, reading list, or special collection should be a real-time database routine.

Focuses on the use of full-text online resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences for libraries. Views on the commercialization of full-text databases; Advantages and disadvantages of databases; Features and capabilities of full-text databases.

Focuses on FirstSearch, an online search service product of OCLC that offers databases via topic areas. Plans offered by OCLC for libraries to purchase FirstSearch; How the service is accessed; How the owners of FirstSearch worked to improve the franchise.

The article talks about phrase searching as one of the easiest and most helpful of the advanced search techniques for information professionals and other internet search engine users. Topics include phrase searching as one of the advanced techniques that resonates with the largest number of searches, the phrase search syntax's role as a way to reproduce the precision functionality of the + operator, and the possibility of combining phrase searching with field searching.

Reports on the activities and topics discussed at the National Online Meeting in New York State on May 18, 1999. Statistics on databases; Merger of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing online services; Issues on the information process; Ways to protect intellectual property on the Internet; Exhibits. INSETS: AN OPEN PLEA TO VENDORS;LET'S GO GRAB A BYTE OR THE MERGING OF THE '50s AND THE '90s.

Evaluates free accessible databases in the World Wide Web. Details on services offered; Comparison with traditional information retrieval systems; Advantages.

Analyzes how the elimination of DialUnit rounding up has affected the cost of searching on Dialog. Bottom-Line impact; DialogWeb vs. Dialog Classic; Comparison of May 1998 versus September 1998 pricing. INSETS: Newsbreaks: Dialog Classic and Dialog Web, by Barbara Quint;Dialog Exercises Option to Buy Responsive, by Barbara Quint.

Discusses relevance of informetric analysis as a tool for exploring online databases. Basic concept behind bibliometrics; Online availability of three case studies to illustrate scope and nature of informetric analysis; Issue of 'internationality' of international journal; Trend analysis in food science research; Provision of navigation by citation analysis.

Looks at the primary outlets of Information Access Company (IAC) databases on the Web and evaluates its appropriateness to different situations. Dialog Web; DataStar Web; Dialog Select; Dow Jones; Services offered by the outlets; Techniques used to be able to have access on the different online sites. INSETS: Where's Waldo...Er, the IAC files?.;Output, or who's the cleanest of them all?..

Presents a discussion the researching of business markets using online services and videotex systems. Fundamental strategies; Use of documentation; FOCUS features; MODIFY features; Online versus offline; Group file advantages; Avoidance of source duplication.

Presents suggestions on how to determine which database online service should be chosen to suit an individuals' business needs. Importance of realising the characteristics of each online service; Benefits of selecting a specialized database online service; List of categories of interest and recommendations of the best online sources of information.

Gives advice on researching personalities using online services. Methods for finding people by category; Company directory databases; Full-text adjacency operators; Special people databases. INSET: Quality checks in the named person field, by M.O..

The article reviews the web site DonorSearch, located at donorsearch.net which provides nonprofit organizations with comprehensive, accurate data for fundraising and outreach.

The article offers tips for browsing a library's virtual reference service. The first thing to know about databases is that a researcher cannot nail down results with a single search. When using databases, the best tool one can use is a thesaurus or subject identifier. In cases where databases do not have thesaurus-type links in their records, the best way to create a subject-like search is to type a term into the search box that describes your subject and then any other possible synonyms, separating each by the word or. Add keywords to the subject identifier in order to narrow down the search.

Features online databases related to the Academy Awards. Organization of information about the Oscars on the Web site Greatest Films; Database used by Cuadra Associates, Inc. to demonstrate its Cuadra STAR software; Information on TV Guide's Web site.

Evaluates two properties databases. Wiley Database of Polymer Properties from Wiley InterScience; Colour Index published by a joint collaboration of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists.

Provides information on ZEPHYR, a source of merger and acquisition data. Background on Zephus that researches ZEPHYR; Transaction data included in the database; Sources of ZEPHYR data; Access and pricing.

Presents several online news on science and technology. Coverage of the BIOCOMMERCE database; Literature references in STN databases; Collaboration between FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Technik.

Presents a discussion on the use of information available from databases and videotex systems in the writing of business plans by small business enterprises. Commonly used index terms for text under this subject; Gale Research's StartSmart Small Business Advisor; Statistical data; Demographic statistics.

In this article, the author presents his views on evolution in the information landscape with time. It mentions information on peer-reviewed journals which are making available the research datasets on which their articles are based, and libraries are curating collections of high-quality open access; and also mentions information on deep searches in fee-based online services, which offer powerful search functions, consistent indexing of reputable published sources, and documented coverage.

Evaluates several online information publishers in the United States as of December 2000. Digital Dissertations from ProQuest; National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts; Atlapedia.

Focuses on how the developments at the Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Library of The College of Insurance of New York City were established in 1994. Creation of the resource base; Benefits from the use of the Internet; Initial decisions made; Web-based business databases considered by the library.

Focuses on the significance of Web-based resources to evidence- based medicine. Support for evidence based medicine; Evidence based medicine overview sites on the World Wide Web; Value of pre-appraised evidence; Information on systematic review databases; Additional evidence-based medicine databases.

Focuses on the online information services industry in Italy. Demographic information on Italy; Overview of the information structure in Italy; Information on some of the features of Italian databases.

Evaluates several Web site databases. Zagat Survey; ACSES Intelligent Shopping Agent; Blockbuster Music.

The article offes 2018 news briefs related to the library industry. A new publishing platform called AAS Open Research has been opened by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in association with F1000. The firms, Enago and Bioscientifica have been formed a collaboration. A new shareable PDf solution has been launched by Kudos .

This article reports that since its introduction in October 1991, OCLC's end-user searching system, FirstSearch, has already made waves. Its impact among end users will have a ripple effect among librarians, online services, database producers, and CD-ROM producers. FirstSearch is not significant for what it does but instead for how it does it. It is an end-user interface to a collection of familiar book and periodical bibliographic databases. FirstSearch's importance lies in its delivery mechanism. Unlike many end-user products, which subtly purport to replace libraries, FirstSearch is designed to be an integral part of them. FirstSearch's databases provide extensive bibliographic coverage of virtually any subject. The most comprehensive database is the OCLC union catalog, which has 24 million records representing books and media items held in thousands of U.S. libraries. WorldCat records also include holdings information. indicating if the home library has the item and listing other holdings libraries in the state and beyond. For periodical literature, FirstSearch has a growing set of general and discipline-oriented indexes. The first category includes Wilson's Readers Guide and Readers Guide Abstracts, UMI/Data Courier's Newspaper and Periodical Abstracts, and Pierian Press' Consumer Index.

The article discusses the misconceptions about encryption code. Companies with databases from different vendors expect encryption to be expensive. In addition, many companies believe that if a company follows data security standards and other compliance rules then their data will be secure. The third misconception is that adding security requirements will increase data storage and capacity requirements. The fourth misconception is that knowing what needs to be encrypted for security reasons can also limit loss of performance. The fifth misconception is that adding encryption will put strain on database performance during queries and loads.

The article offers a report relating to the importance of database load balancing in delivering performance on low-cost servers. Database load balancing is used to improve the reliability and performance of server farms for Web and application servers. It also ensures scalable performance, continuous availability, and data consistency for transactional databases. It states that such lower-cost commoditized systems are more efficient, utilize resources more effectively, and squeeze all the performance and capacity possible from the infrastructure.

The article reports on Universal Music Group's (UMG) distribution of digital music online. It states that the company should make sure that artist release schedule and central catalog of products must be accurate and would reach the online distributors, such as Napster and Apple iTunes, on time. Appropriate format must also be checked to ensure that the details are correct which includes the cover art and artist title information. It discusses the applications to be used and selection tools, specifically the Red Gate Software tools, needed in developing the music database.

This article focuses on merger and acquisition (M&A) databases in the U.S. On the surface, there are multitudinous sources of information on M&A activities. Government agencies that regulate the securities industry are a prime source for publicly traded companies. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission requires regulatory filings if a public company is involved. Privately held companies are exempt from filing, making that data much harder to come by. Mentions of M&A deals in the general press derive data from press releases issued by the companies involved and by regularly perusing the relevant SEC filings. One reason why the information in M&A databases differs is the source (or sources) being used. Some rely solely on regulatory filings, others on news sources.

MicroPatent, a subsidiary of Information Holdings, Inc., has announced two product releases: the MicroPatent Patent Index Database (MPI) and Aureka 8.0, an IP management tool. MicroPatent's Patent Index Database is a combination of patent data and proprietary features. Aureka 8.0 is a browser-based IP management and analytic tool set, which replaces the Aureka Online Services 2.5 client/ server system and the Aureka Foundation Server model.

Reports on the announcement by SIRS Mandarin, Inc. that it has added features to SIRS Government Reporter and SIRS Researcher databases. Addition to the National Archives Documents of a unit entitled Peace and Prosperity 1953-1961; Themes which include documents, photographs and interpretive essays; Addition of images from Reuters photo archives to Today's News; Features and accessibility.

Announces that the ISI Reaction Citation Index is now included on the Web site ChemWeb.com. Features of the index, which combines reaction data from Current Chemical Reactions with author abstracts from the Science Citation Index; Database search structures.