News Technologies LLC, a Portland-based company, has announced the general availability of its news alerting service called TriggerNews.
Posted Feb 11, 2003
LexisNexis has announced that NITA's Practice Commentaries for the United States Code Service are now available on LexisNexis, in an effort to bring practical analyses of federal statutes to legal professionals.
Posted Feb 07, 2003
EBSCO Industries, Inc. has executed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations of RoweCom/divine Information Services.
Posted Feb 07, 2003
Dialog, a Thomson business and a provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, has added images to the TRADEMARKSCAN files from Finland (File 679), and Sweden (File 675) available through the Dialog-branded family of online services.
Posted Feb 07, 2003
The American Humanities Index, produced by Whitston Publishing, is now available on the EBSCOhost search interface. American Humanities Index is a citation database of more than 700 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada.
Posted Feb 04, 2003
ProQuest Information and Learning has announced that Electric Library Canada--a Canadian-based service that provides a subscription-based online research tool--will be represented by Micromedia ProQuest, the ProQuest Information and Learning's Canadian division.
Posted Feb 04, 2003
Ingenta, an online solution for academic and professional publishers, has signed more than 15 new publishers and societies since October 2002.
Posted Feb 04, 2003
Biz360, a provider of active market intelligence, and Dialog, a Thomson business and a provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, have announced a partnership.
Posted Jan 31, 2003
EBSCO Publishing has introduced the History Reference Center, a history database for libraries, with full text for more than 270,000 entries from historical sources.
Posted Jan 31, 2003
knovel has announced free access to four new chemistry reference databases for academic libraries.
Posted Jan 24, 2003
Information Science Abstracts (ISA) has been renamed Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA).
Posted Jan 24, 2003
Blackwell Publishing has announced the addition of more than 250 of the world's leading Social Science and Humanities journals to its online research tool, Blackwell Synergy.
Posted Jan 21, 2003
Thomson Derwent has announced the development of Derwent Web of Nanotechnology, a Web-based patent resource that delivers up-to-the-minute Nanotechnology-related patent records from Derwent, journal literature from Thomson ISI, and editorially evaluated Web sites.
Posted Jan 17, 2003
West, a Thomson business and provider of integrated information solutions to legal and regulatory professionals, has introduced a series of Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism databases on Westlaw to help legal professionals focus their research.
Posted Jan 17, 2003
The H.W. Wilson Company has announced the debut of Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text, a new WilsonWeb database based on the reference Index to Legal Periodicals & Books.
Posted Jan 17, 2003
MetaPress, a service of Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., began producing and hosting online editions of all journals published by Taylor & Francis Group, effective January 1, 2003.
Posted Jan 10, 2003
SwetsWise will be added to the list of WilsonWeb's WilsonLink full-text sources, the result of a reciprocal agreement that will also make WilsonWeb an information source for SwetsWise databases.
Posted Jan 07, 2003
The Associated Press and Yahoo! Inc. have announced the release of AP Archives, a fee-based news archive on Yahoo! News.
Posted Dec 20, 2002
Mergent, Inc., a provider of global business and financial information, announced that on January 6, 2003, it would release Mergent Online, its new flagship product.
Posted Dec 17, 2002
Revenues for the 57 companies in the $21.2 billion General Aggregators, Reports, and Services segment of the Information Content (IC) industry grew by 7.4 percent in 2001 according to research by Outsell, an Information Content industry research firm.
Posted Dec 17, 2002
ProQuest Company, a provider of value-added information and content to the library/education, and automotive/powersports industries, has signed a letter of intent to acquire bigchalk.com, inc.
Posted Dec 13, 2002
The Gallup Organization has launched The Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing, a new subscription-based news service that provides a weekly summary and analysis of the latest proprietary Gallup Poll findings.
Posted Dec 13, 2002
D&B has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hoover's. The transaction is valued at $7.00 per share in cash, for a total of approximately $117 million, or $81 million net of Hoover's cash.
Posted Dec 10, 2002
Dialog, a Thomson business and a provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, announced that its Dialog NewsRoom service, a database of more than 7,000 news sources from around the world, is now available through the Dialog NewsEdge service.
Posted Dec 06, 2002