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Because our schedules didn't mesh during the Online Information conference and exhibition the first week of December 2002, Judy Vezmar graciously invited me to LexisNexis Butterworths Tolley headquarters in Chancery [...]

ONLY 2 YEARS AGO, I characterized electronic books as 'A New Publishing Revolution' (ONLINE, July/August 2000, pp. 14-28 and September/October 2000, pp. 18-36). In 2000, the e-book market was awash [...]

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

WHEN NEW CHIEFS took office at three major information firms, all competing for major shares of the market, we knew changes would come quickly. Will the trend toward direct sales [...]

Editor's Note: Yesterday I attended one of a series of luncheons for major customers among information professionals and listened to Dan Wagner's presentation. I thought it was sincere and articulate, [...]

The development and implementation of data warehousing projects require a large amount of money which can be wasted if customers would not support such services and products. Data warehousing system providers should therefore consider the needs of the customers so that they may develop an appropriate program. In doing so, data warehousing services may offer robust profits because the needs of the users have been met., Building a data warehouse ain't easy, but the customer rewards can be worth the effort. IN THE 1988 MOVIE 'FIELD OF DREAMS,' RAY KINSELLA (ONE OF THE LAST GOOD ROLES [...]

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

Usually the first idea you associate with online data bases is that they are more current than their printed or CD-ROM counterparts. We journalists and educators certainly have contributed to [...]

Small firms stand to reap the benefits of competition among the providers of emerging information technologies. To get to Lou Ann Hammond's automobile-finding service, you can take the superhighway--the information [...]

For many years the online business situation was a status quo. Venerable names such as DIALOG, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, and LEXIS-NEXIS amassed vast collections of business data and developed powerful, […]

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

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

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

This is the first in an occasional series of interviews with interesting people in the CD-ROM arena. Fred Durr has been involved in this industry since its beginnings 10 years […]

Editor's Note: In March 1994, Questel acquired Orbit Online Information, part of InfoPro Technologies, formerly part of Maxwell Online, and so on back to its origin under Systems Development Corp. [...]

THE COMPANY: InterAccess, Chicago, Ill. THE FOUNDER: Thomas Edward Simonds, 24, started the company--of which he holds 50%--in the spring of 1993, armed with a B.A. in history from Yale, [...]

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

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

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

What is the role of the editor in electronic publishing? The answers you get to that question will be quite different, influenced (prejudiced?) by the answerer's particular background in electronic […]

Interview with the new president of DIALOG Jeff Pemberton at Online magazine scooped Database Searcher by getting the first extensive interview with DIALOG's new president, following the retirement of Roger […]

The sensational death of Robert Maxwell revealed the Maxwell empire as a giant Ponzi game in which enormous sums were plundered from one part to shore up shortfalls elsewhere. In [...]

Publisher's Note: Following is the first published interview with Dialog's new CEO, Pat Tierney. The interview was taped at Dialog's Palo Alto offices just after the ONLINE/CD-ROM '91 conference in [...]

Editor's Note: In the past four years Data-Star has quietly become a presence in the U.S. Online market. While it is not usually the supermarket system of choice for online [...]

As the expiration of its content agreement with Sabre looms and a marketing agreement with the GDS already expired, American Airlines last week alerted agency and corporate customers that beginning [...]

With gas prices roughly 50 cents per gallon higher than this time last year, costs are escalating for everyone, but companies that reimburse employees using personal vehicles for business with [...]

Cendant Corp. and Sabre Holdings remain travel management company consolidators-in-waiting after bidding on TQ3 Americas, which will be snapped up by Carlson Wagonlit Travel in a deal likely to be [...]

Worldspan's sale closed last week, but the global distribution system provider will remain tightly tied to its former airline owners, particularly Delta and Northwest airlines, for at least the next [...]

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

A mid the many corporate earnings announcements for the fourth quarter 2001, an unassuming release from Hoover's Inc. could be easily overlooked. The company, which went public only in 1999, [...]

Search and retrieval capabilities have long been a key element in knowledge management. Information-laden government agencies must be able to search their knowledge storehouses or creating them will have been [...]

With Reed Elsevier's acquisition of Harcourt cleared by the antitrust authorities, and online sales now approaching $2.8 billion this year, Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank says in this interview that […]

It's tough being an aggregator. But then, it's always been tough to be an aggregator. It's tougher than being the other two sides of the information triangle: the buyers and […]

A prominent news librarian from one of the nation's top-10 newspapers recently called her primary full-text vendor and asked for a report on which data had gone off-line due to […]

MORE THAN A DECADE ago I wrote about three family-owned publishers that served online information professionals (see 'The Database Press,' LJ 3/1/89, p. 56-57). Online Inc., Meckler-Media, and Learned Information [...]

Personally, I don't watch reality programs on television. Frankly, the concept makes me uncomfortable. It feels too much like some dire end-of-civilization predictions coming true. I can almost hear Orwell, […]

The Human Genome Project (HGP) has made genomics a living, evolving paradigm for biotechnology and it may, through emerging genetic testing techniques and manipulation of genes, transform the practice of clinical medicine. The potential impact on drug discover/delivery is discussed. For the top 20 pharmaceutical companies to keep pace with Celera Genomics and such companies they will need to grow by 7%/yr and generate an extra $28.9 bil in sales on average from new products between early '01 and '05. They would need to launch at least 24-34 products earning $1-1.45 bil apiece in the next 5 years, up by a factor of 4-6. Self-cannibalization is the alternative to joining the genomics revolution. History and evolving goals and prospects of the HGP are summarized. .

H. W. Wilson is celebrating its 100th year in business this year Recently, IT contributing editor Paula Hane interviewed president and CEO Harold Regan, who has been with the company […]

[Editor's Note: Donal Smith is managing director of electronic business information at Financial Times Information in London, which is part of Pearson plc.] Q Where does electronic business information (EBI) […]