IT Report from the Field
21st National Online Meeting
NOM, one of the information industry’s premier events, drew 120 speakers, a total attendance of 5,200, and more than 100 exhibiting companies.
by Paula J. Hane — Page 1

Electronic Publishing XVIII
by Paula J. Hane — Page 60

IOLS 2000 Conference
by Marshall Breeding — Page 61

Thomson Corp. to Acquire Primark
by Paula J. Hane — Page 1
Dialog Announces Info Pro Portal
by Paula J. Hane — Page 1
Factiva Announces Qpass Partnership and Factiva Modules
by Rebecca Jones — Page 18
Questel-Orbit Bought by Managers to Form Intellectual Property Group
by Nancy Lambert — Page 18
Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It …
by Barbara Quint — Page 22
Dialog Gets Smart with Outsmart Company Profiles
by Barbara Quint — Page 24
New Web Map Reveals Previously Unseen ‘Bow-Tie’ Organizational Structure
by Chris Sherman — Page 56

Quint’s Online
Emerging Opportunities from the Evolving Book
Barbara Quint discusses some recent developments in e-book technology, and how they might benefit the information industry. — Page 7

Online Insights
WAP: Information Without Wires
Paul Blake reports on how the use of cell phones to access information services over the Internet is sweeping Europe, although it hasn’t really caught on yet in the U.S. — Page 12

Database Review
MEDLINEplus: MEDLINE for the Masses
Mick O’Leary describes how this consumer health-information service from the National Library of Medicine stands at the forefront of numerous medical/health Web sites. — Page 20

Company Announcements

• ingenta Inks Agreement with Preston Publications— Page 6
• NIST Awards $500,000 Grant to ANSI— Page 21
• Information Today, Inc. Publishes net.people— Page 21
• Harcourt to Be Sole Owner of MD Consult — Page 22
• OneSource Extends Partnership with Primark— Page 50
• bigchalk.com Signs $750,000 Licensing Agreement with Excalibur— Page 50

Internet Insights
Music Anywhere and Everywhere
Péter Jacsó tells how, by using a portable MP3 player, accessing your favorite songs through the Web has never been easier. — Page 28

Internet Announcements

• Engineering Information Unveils Engineering Village2— Page 27
• Dun & Bradstreet Introduces D&B Family Tree Finder— Page 27
• MarketResearch.com Releases Beta Version of New Site— Page 29
• Gale Group Launches History Resource Center— Page 29
• CrossRef Now on the Web— Page 30
• CorporateIntelligence.com Launches PATEX— Page 30

Focus on Publishing
Personalized Content from Anywhere
Robin Peek discusses the potential impact of Napster file distribution and how the new meta-browsers, such as OnePage.com, are demonstrating how the future of Web publishing might be reshaped. — Page 36

Internet Publishing Announcements

• Inmagic, Inc. Releases DB/Text WebPublisher Lite— Page 35
• Arbortext Announces Launch of Epic 4.0— Page 35
• Time Warner Trade Publishing Unveils Online Publishing Venture— Page 37
• Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books — Page 37
• Bookface.com Launches with Ad-Based Business Model — Page 38

CD/DVD Commentaries

Integrated MP3 and CD-Audio Player
Péter Jacsó notes that converting your favorite audio CD tracks into MP3 files is easy, and that the latter format allows you to store many more tracks on a single disc. — Page 44

CD/DVD Announcements

• New, Updated Topics Added to SIRS CD-ROM and Online Databases— Page 41
• e-spin Offers Electronic Version of the Bell Atlantic Yellow and White Pages on CD-ROM— Page 41
• ABC-CLIO Launches New ResourceLink CD-ROM— Page 43
• FRANCIS Database Now Available from SilverPlatter— Page 44

The Systems Librarian
Need Information About Libraries?
Marshall Breeding describes how he created lib-web-cats, a database of libraries, for his university’s library system. — Page 46

Library Systems Announcements

• TLC Unveils New Version of Site.Solution— Page 45
• CASPR Library Systems Launches New LibraryCom.com Service— Page 45
• Sagebrush Corp. Unveils New Serials Management Program— Page 48
• Endeavor Announces 2000 Release in Beta— Page 48
• Surpass Releases Web Safari Web-Based Catalog— Page 48

• Calendar — Page 51
• Book Review

The Cybrarian’s Manual 2
edited by Pat Ensor; reviewed by Gwen Gregory — Page 53
• People Line — Page 57

• Index to Advertisers