Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Mon, 28 May 2012 17:23:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls AFTER 28 YEARS, 264 columns, 15 annual database marketplace surveys, and nearly half a million words, I am calling it quits for Online Databases. Library Journal and I are parting amicably: the responsibilities of administration and the concentration ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/886753-299/swan_song__issues_unresolved.html.csp OnlineDB 647596@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 ERIC, one of the first online bibliographic databases, was started in 1966-when subject-themed clearinghouses were established to gather, index, and input bibliographic information and make available journal articles and gray literature. The ERIC database... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/872641-299/online_databases_erics_extreme_makeover.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 495449@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:14:07 Can we deliver information the way our users want it-cheap, fast, and good? According to Stewart Bodner, associate chief librarian of the New York Public Library, that's what users desire and what librarians and vendors must provide. But at least in the p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/868300-299/online_databases_getting_the_users.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 473708@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:14:06 Clay Shirky, keynote speaker at the 2010 NFAIS annual meeting in Philadelphia, believes that "abundance breaks everything." In times of scarcity or famine, we are accustomed to resolving problems and setting priorities; in the information context, we are ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/884156-299/abundance_of_information.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 579085@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 We all know how the escalating price of journal subscriptions takes a bite every year from our libraries' budgets. Still, if you are reading this in a library in the United States, the U.K., or any other developed nation, you may not realize the devastati... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/882012-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 542434@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Now that libraries have substantial digital collections available to users from their homes or offices, it isn't surprising that remote access ("virtual") reference services are the latest trend. LJ recently provided an overview of virtual reference serv... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880532-299/online_databases-_virtual_reference_services.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 535039@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 If you invest in high-technology stocks or just follow the stock market, the woes of high-profile dot-com companies are hard to escape. I seem to get asked several times a week if the information industry will survive or whether it's wise to plan for a fu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880358-299/online_databases-_the_web_and.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 534169@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 A group of special librarians who run information services for multinational corporations recently told me what they looked for in new MLS graduates. They want people who feel comfortable learning and searching multiple online systems, teaching end users,... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880248-299/online_databases.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 533612@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 After over 20 years, the face of online meetings is changing. As of 2001, Online World is no more, the National Online Meeting sports a new name, and ASIS (now ASIST) continues to refocus its meetings. Is the traditional online industry in trouble or were... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880203-299/are_there_too_many_meetings.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 533386@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 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 Abstracts officially changed its name to CS... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880117-299/online_databases-_csa_not_just.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 532946@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 EBSCO Publishing has combined six subject-specific reference series to create the Curriculum Online Package, which is accessible via EBSCO host. According to the publisher, the package contains 'over 50,000 full-text articles' from an assortment of magaz... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880109-299/online_databases-_ebsco__creates.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 532909@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BioMed Central has launched a collection of online meeting abstracts to aid librarians and researchers. The new service will provide a centralized, searchable database of various meeting abstracts, allowing scientists to access freely summaries of the re... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/880105-299/story.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 532905@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It may be effective to find relevant literature by searching for articles by subject descriptors or keywords, but subject searching is not the only way. When authors of scholarly pieces cite relevant sources in the references or notes sections of their ar... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/879897-299/online_databases-the_power__of.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 531840@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 A decade ago I wrote a column called 'The Most Popular Databases' (LJ 4/1/91). I used data from a company called Information Market Indicators (IMI) that tracked usage in a wide sample of libraries, plus CD-ROM best sellers lists from popular computing... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/879718-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 530958@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Judging from the size of their booths, the number of activities sponsored, and the glitz of their parties at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2001 annual meeting in San Antonio, LexisNexis, Factiva (Dow Jones/Reuters), and Dialog are still the big ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/879159-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 528155@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 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 renewal agreement. On October 1, Dialog searchers received ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/878871-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 526719@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Common wisdom says that currency is what is valued in online databases. With the exception of genealogists and historians, it is assumed that readers don't want old materials. From the publisher's side, it just isn't cost effective to convert older biblio... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/878620-299/oldies_but_goodies.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 525469@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Serials librarianship is hot. It wasn't too long ago that library schools were eliminating serials management courses while libraries were merging serials departments into acquisitions and cataloging. Now, in the era of electronic journals and magazines, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/878448-299/online_serials_heat_up.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 524601@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Academic librarians have always recognized their role as teacher. But instruction has not always been a large part of public or special library work. In this age of online libraries, however, all librarians are online educators. This point was brought hom... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/878291-299/story.csp CAROL TENOPIR OnlineDB 523832@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The blurring of lines among special librarians and other information professionals makes the tracks that some conferences use seem artificial. After all, many librarians work as online experts, knowledge managers, and builders of electronic libraries-o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/878070-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 522709@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 For the annual Database Marketplace Survey (see LJ 5/15/02, p. 42ff.) company representatives were asked what major issues or trends will impact database availability and distribution in the next year. While budget woes are clearly the major issue ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877886-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 521799@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877695-299/online_databases-_sorting_through_online.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 520841@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 OCLC and VTLS have signed a licensing agreement that will see the source code of the vendor's Virtua ILS product be used to expand the WorldCat database. Lynn Keller, OCLC product manager for WorldCat, said that VTLS's development in areas such as Unic... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877686-299/online_databases-_oclc_will_use.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 520815@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Gale and Dialog are allying themselves for future development of what is being cryptically described as "online products and service for the academic and public library markets worldwide." Few details were available at press time, with both parties sayi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877683-299/online_databases-_gale_and_dialog.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 520801@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ABC-CLIO again has extended its partnerships by entering into an agreement to link its Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life databases to journals found in the Project MUSE® database. ABC-CLIO customers that also subscribe to Project MUSE ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877682-299/online_databases-_abc-clio_teams_with.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 520792@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Earlier this year the UK company Ingenta changed its name from "ingenta" (with a small "i") to "Ingenta" (with a big "I") to avoid confusion with its web address and online system (ingenta.com). The company hopes this change is symbolic of making it big i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877505-299/online_databases-_ingenta_grows_in.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 519887@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877310-299/online_databases-_information_today_stands.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 518933@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It's been several years since I last attended the Online Information Meeting in London, so I was especially looking forward to the 25th-anniversary meeting this past December. Although some Americans chose to cancel, many Europeans attended. In 2000, abou... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877132-299/online_databases-_online__in.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 518036@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Gale Group's InfoTrac databases and online Resource Centers have expanded business content with the addition of Business Monitor International and Economist Intelligence Unit data. These new agreements add 90 magazines, newsletters, and other publications... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877081-299/online_databases-_gale__group.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 517773@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ProQuest Company's Information and Learning unit has acquired SoftLine Information, the producer of online databases for libraries and educational institutions. SoftLine's products offer more than 500 newspapers and magazines from ethnic, minority, gender... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877053-299/story.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 517659@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Dialog Corporation is now marketing Dialog Company Profiles, a new standalone product offering one-stop access to up-to-the-minute, comprehensive studies of nearly 500,000 publicly traded and privately owned companies from 188 countries. The web-based... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877049-299/online_databases-_dialog__adds.html.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 517618@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Although ProQuest bought most of the company, the SoftLine-developed Alt-HealthWatch product was acquired by EBSCO Publishing, marking the tenth full-text medical database EBSCO has added to its line in 2001. Alt-Healthwatch centers on "complementary, hol... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/877047-299/story.csp Michael Rogers OnlineDB 517607@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/875218-299/running_with_the_amazons.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 508460@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The information industry is international. With major English-language online publishers based in the Netherlands, Germany, and Canada (not to mention Alabama and New York), the information you lease may be generated and designed anywhere in the world. Li... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/874990-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 507238@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 What do people really want from digital sources? As librarians, we wonder if they prefer print or electronic journals, and whether they would rather do everything themselves or sometimes ask for help. Do they even still need the library? Hundreds of resea... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/874664-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 505604@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Online companies continually tinker with their systems. Commercial aggregators need to accommodate new databases or new features such as linking. Search engines must change ranking algorithms to subvert rogue web sites or hackers who seek to manipulate ra... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/874444-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 504483@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Foretelling the future has never been easy, but even the smartest futurist could not have foreseen the recent economic woes. Each year for the annual Database Marketplace feature (see LJ 5/15/03, p. 38ff.), we ask companies ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/874246-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 503502@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) was founded to bring secondary publishers together to share common concerns. As I witnessed at the 45th annual NFAIS conference in February, secondary publishers these days are being ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/874033-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 502454@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In my column "The Age of Online Instruction (LJ 9/1/02, p. 36,38), I made the bold assertion that "in this age of online libraries, librarians in all types of libraries are online educators." I should know better than to make an assumption without facts. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/873852-299/are_online_librarians_teachers.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 501534@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 I have always liked metaphoric interfaces. When the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Engineering Information Village (Ei Village) first came out in the mid-1990s, they both made good use of metaphors. IPL used the metaphor of a small library referenc... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/873593-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 500220@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 "I have absolutely no regrets about enhancing our reference services through chat." "It's been a smooth and successful expansion of our existing reference service." "It's so successful we've moved from being a pilot project to an ongoing service." These a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/873207-299/online_databases_chataposs_positive_side.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 498280@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Virtual reference services seem a natural extension of our digital collections and our emphasis on access to the library anytime, anywhere. If our patrons use the library from home, it makes sense to provide them with person-to-person online reference. Th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/872995-299/online_databases_rethinking_virtual_reference.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 497220@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 With wireless connectivity and small laptop computers, we are no longer tied to the desktop for online searching. Handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer even greater portability. So far, the most common uses of PDAs are as calendars and address... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/872849-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 496490@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 From the ongoing discussion in the online version of Nature, to articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and even USA Today, open access publishing is a hot topic. But open access publishing can have many different definitions, and pros and cons vary... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/872414-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 494312@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/872158-299/online_databases_e-resources_in_tough.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 493027@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Only the most dedicated supersearchers are motivated to learn and control command systems, like DialogClassic, that rely on the user to input complex search strategies. Infrequent searchers and most end users choose interfaces that do some of the work for... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/871951-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 491992@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Librarians, publishers, and aggregators alike often call Google their main competitor. Google, or similar web search engines, is the information finding tool of first choice for many users-far ahead of proprietary online services or libraries and light ye... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/871802-299/online_databases_is_google_the.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 491242@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Searching Through Embedded DatabasesThe day of the standalone database may be numbered. Database searching is now embedded in the latest version of Microsoft Office software, so the process of looking for information is interwoven into writing a report or... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/871536-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 489912@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It should be easy to determine the exact number of scholarly journals that are available online. Surprisingly, it is a challenge. Even how many scholarly journals are published in print isn't easy to calculate. Coming up with these numbers is a tale that ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/871398-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 489220@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/869355-299/online_databases_books_are_back.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 478985@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 All the talk of simplistic text-box interfaces as the goal leaves the impression that there is no need to know how to use special characters or syntax, that all systems are being dumbed down. Even library school students groan when they are first told to ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/869113-299/online_databases_complex_syntax_lives.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 477773@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In the old days, it was difficult togather information about the use of library collections. Door counts, circulation records, and tick-marks at the reference desk gave crude approximations. To obtain data about periodical use, patrons were asked to leave... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/868742-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 475918@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 A combination of content creators, online vendors, other intermediaries, and librarians work to bring online information sources to end users. Although these interconnected parts are sometimes adversarial, the current information marketplace relies on int... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/868629-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 475353@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Librarians, do your vendor reps provide you with the information you need in the way you need it? Vendors, do you feel you are communicating effectively with your librarian clients? A recent survey of North American and European academic librarians commis... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/868445-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 474433@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/868106-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 472738@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Much has changed in my 30 years of teaching library and information science (LIS) students about online searching. Certainly the specific systems and hardware have evolved but so has the role of the librarian; access, which is now 24/7; the sources, which... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/867883-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 471623@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Google Scholar, introduced in beta form in November 2004, already has everyone talking. People wonder how scholarly the material is, whether it will put commercial information retrieval systems out of business, and if it will make the library obsolete. Is... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/867773-299/online_databases_google_in_the.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 471073@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Libraries invest a large percentage of their budgets on electronic collections and digital services. Although the value is obvious to us, we are often asked to demonstrate value to our funders. Our users' perceptions may not match ours, and some recent st... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/867537-299/online_databases_perception_of_library.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 469893@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The favored searching text in LIS programs for over a decade has been Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice by Geraldine Walker and Joe Janes (Libraries Unlimited). It covers search basics and more advanced techniques, focusing on the Dialog... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/867270-299/online_databases_under_the_online.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 468558@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 User expectations are changing, mainly owing to the web, search engines, and advances in communications technology. Libraries and information industry providers are taking steps, both large and small, to keep pace.A recent cartoon in The Chronicle of High... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/867073-299/online_databases_keeping_up_with.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 467573@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 I like recreational summer reading and quickly go through the newest books of my favorite contemporary authors and look for titles with similar themes. Readers' advisory librarians use a plethora of book resources to help readers like me find new authors ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/866890-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 466658@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Linking to full text through link resolver technology and the OpenURL standard has made electronic journals a cornerstone of library collections. Users expect that full text will always be a click or two away and it brings the library catalog, indexing an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/866619-299/online_databases_thinking_about_linking.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 465304@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Current events, current awareness, and faster news mean the immediate present often dominates our worldview. But for many researchers, history informs the latest hot topic.ABC-CLIO redesignsLast year, ABC-CLIO celebrated its 50th anniversary and redesigne... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/866394-299/online_databases_moving_history_forward.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 464178@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Expect more search systems to incorporate visualization and other sophisticated search and display techniques. They not only give a system a distinctive look, they also help users get deeper into results and stimulate thinking about search strategies. Ins... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/866175-299/online_databases_visualizing_search.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 463083@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 My career as a librarian, LJ columnist, researcher, and teacher has been about building bridges-bridges between librarians and publishers, students and knowledge, and research and practice-which is probably why I was selected to deliver the NFAIS (Nationa... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/865916-299/online_databases_building_bridges.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 461789@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Chat reference provides new ways to interact with patrons. Research by Marie L. Radford of Rutgers University (mradford@scils.rutgers.edu) and Lynn Silipigni Connaway of OCLC (connawal@oclc.org), supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/865682-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 460618@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Why all the fuss about electronic journals? That was the question raised by Michael Gorman, the outspoken president of the American Library Association (ALA), at a session on 'Future of Libraries'; at the recent Online Information Meeting in London. 'What... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/865465-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 459533@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/862517-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 444790@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Most of us accept the notion that e-journals, through library subscriptions or open access, are good for science. They save readers time in tracking down articles and help them identify relevant materials from a wide range of journal titles. However, the ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/862212-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 443264@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/861987-299/online_databases_science_info_without.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 442139@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The biggest industry news this summer was the announcement that ProQuest had acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. Dialog was beginning to look like an unwelcome stepchild as new strategies by Thomson Reuters were moving the firm away from traditional dat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/861769-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 441050@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 If you were in library school anytime during the last 40 years, you are probably familiar with F.W. Lancaster and his books on indexing, online searching, or paperless information systems. I recently reread the first online searching textbook ever written... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/861487-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 439639@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 What if all publishers and librarians reached a mutual understanding about e-resources rather than constantly haggling over terms and conditions in contractual licenses? What if copyright law were the bottom line for e-journal rights, just as it is for pr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/861268-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 438544@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Widgets are interactive, single-purpose applications for displaying and/or updating information. They can bring newsfeeds, weather forecasts, and more to a desktop or mobile web platform. Variants known as 'web widgets'; (or sometimes modules or badges), ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/860909-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 436749@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/860678-299/online_databases_a_global_information.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 435593@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The programs at two recent conferences (the Charleston Conference and London Online) confirm that ebooks have established themselves in libraries. While the trade and consumer book markets still struggle to find an affordable and compelling ebook reader, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/860480-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 434603@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 After 27 years of writing ten columns per year, starting this month I will be cutting back to just five per year, in addition to the annual Database Marketplace. My next column will appear in January. From now on, I will concentrate on covering e-content ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/855571-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 410047@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/855262-299/the_value_gap.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 408494@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 As libraries and the institutions that fund them prepare their 2010 budgets, things look grim. Both the Association of Research Libraries and the International Coalition of Library Consortia have issued statements calling on scholarly publishers to work w... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/855035-299/a_rough_road_ahead.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 407357@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Cell phone ubiquity is yesterday's news: now, between PDAs, iPods, ebook readers, tablet PCs, and other handheld devices, all of us are rarely without full-fledged information instruments at our fingertips.So how do libraries and publishers fit into all o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/854744-299/information_on_the_go.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 405906@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 IT'S tempting to characterize all young people as wired digital masters who use technology in mysterious ways. But broad generalization can be dangerous, and I was especially glad to see caution urged by several speakers at the 2009 annual meeting of the ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/854532-299/reaching_the_net_gen.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 404846@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/854247-299/visualize_the_perfect_search.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 403421@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In the popular television show Life on Mars, the hero is transported 35 years back in time. At first things seem normal, but then he begins to see odd differences (like no mobile phones or personal computers). Well, I began to feel a bit like that charact... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/853925-299/online_databases_a_new-old_role.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 401791@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Online Information Meeting each December in London is one of the last remaining conferences dedicated to e-resources in libraries. As such, it was somewhat surprising that few sessions this year focused on features or functionality of the latest produ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/853664-299/story.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 400469@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Andrew Keen, former internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, has become an articulate contrarian regarding all of the Web 2.0 excitement. His recent polemic, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture (reviewed in LJ 7/07), addre... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/852070-299/online_databases-web_2.0_our_cultural.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 392091@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Only the H.W. Wilson Co., at 108, has created an older abstracting and indexing tool. Despite the phenomenal developments in technology in the 20th century, abstracting and i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/851854-299/online_databases_celebrating_aampi_longevity.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 391010@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 You don't have to go far these days to hear about the library's role in social networking. Sites such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Second Life provide a personal, but virtual, library presence to link librarians and library patrons.American Library ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/851653-299/online_databases_living_the_virtual.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 390004@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Academics determine their contribution to their discipline by seeing how often their work is cited. They often judge journal quality by that journal's impact factor. Such citation measures are now well established as a method to rank the importance of jou... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/851464-299/online_databases_measuring_impact_and.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 389054@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 By now you've heard that Thomson has sold its Learning Division, including Gale, using the funds to assist in its purchase of Reuters. These multi-billion-dollar sales (yes, that is Billion) demonstrate that digital information sources and services are co... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/851218-299/online_databases_billions_and_billions.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 387817@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/851049-299/online_databases_remaining_relevant_online.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 386972@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Most librarians agree that quality matters, but the ongoing debate recently raised about the quality (or lack thereof) of Wikipedia entries (both intentional and unintentional) and the falsified credentials of some Wikipedia editors referenced in a New Yo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/850864-299/online_databases_quality_still_matters.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 386043@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Sometimes a user really only needs part of an article or part of a chapter-a table, a photograph, a map, or another item. Electronic journals and books make all of these levels of granularity possible.GranularityE-resources are 'divisible'; in ways that p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/850652-299/online_databases_when_you_just.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 384979@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/850411-299/online_databases_a_flurry_of.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 383766@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Federated searching SEEMS obvious in the age of Google: students, faculty, and the public have what they've come to expect-a simple search box for one-stop shopping for information. Of course, the unique bells and whistles of each system get lost in the p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/850215-299/online_databases_can_johnny_search.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 382782@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/technology/onlinedb/849941-299/e-access_changes_everything.html.csp Carol Tenopir OnlineDB 378526@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45