IT Report from the Field
ASIDIC Fall 2001 Meeting
Participants at this event considered the impact of September 11, economic downturn, and technological stall-out.
by Dick Kaser — Page 1

IT Interview
Sentius Corp.'s RichLink Embeds Content in Context
In a recent interview, company founder and CEO Marc Bookman discussed Sentius' background as well as RichLink, the company's promising new technology.
by Paula J. Hane — Page 1

IT Feature
The European Business Information Scene
Gehan Talwatte, former managing director of Hoover's Online Europe, and Northern Light's Leslie Ray comment on new developments in the European market.
by Brian McKenna — Page 50

Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors
by Gail Dykstra — Page 1

Update: More Disaster Recovery Resources
by Paula J. Hane — Page 14

Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library
by Barbara Quint — Page 16

Hoover's Announces Plans to Streamline Products, Focus on Subscriptions, Trim Staff
by Paula J. Hane — Page 18

Official Product Launch Brings FireSpout Out of Stealth Mode
by Paula J. Hane — Page 46

Contentville Folds After Short But Controversial Run
by Mick O'Leary  — Page 47

FAST to Power Reuters News Distribution Service
by Paula J. Hane — Page 47

TheScientificWorld Acquires ScienceWise, Adds Millions of Citations and Full-Text Articles to sciBASE
by Barbara Quint — Page 48

Quint’s Online
Out-of-the-Box Experiences and Taxonomies
Barbara Quint says we need to be wise to vendors' word games and must learn to read between the lines of their promotional material. — Page 8

Database Review
Business Research Synergy from Thomson
Mick O'Leary takes a look at Gale Group's Business & Company Resource Center, a search tool that integrates directory, text, and financial databases. — Page 20

Legal Issues
The Case of Dmitry Sklyarov
Stephanie C. Ardito reviews the events and issues in the case of a Russian programmer who was arrested as the copyright holder of a software program that circumvents technology protecting unauthorized copying of Adobe Systems' eBook format. — Page 24

Company Announcements

• Serials Journal Now Available to Nonmembers— Page 49
• Derwent Wins USPTO Contract for Translating Patents into English— Page 49
• C. Berger Group, Inc. Teams with Inmagic, Inc.— Page 51
• Center for Information Policy Receives Grant to Study Patent Policy— Page 52
• Swets Blackwell, ProQuest Form Partnership to Enhance Access to E-Journals, Periodical Databases— Page 52

Internet Insights
They Didn't Come (in Droves)
Péter Jacsó reports on the recent of demise of Contentville, a good idea that was sunk by, among other things, "naive planning and excessive spending." — Page 30

Internet Announcements

• ISI ResearchSoft Ships New ProCite Version 5 for Macintosh— Page 29
• World Book Online Site Adds Audio Pronunciations— Page 29
• SIRS Launches eCurriculum Tool— Page 29
• OCLC Unveils Research Results, Enhancements to WorldCat— Page 32
• Elsevier Science Widens the Scope of Scirus— Page 33 

Focus on Publishing
Microsoft Introduces .NET My Services
Robin Peek discusses how Microsoft has reversed its earlier stance on security and now endorses the creation of a "federation of trust" for exchanging personal information. — Page 40

Internet Publishing Announcements

• Adobe Systems Extends Network Publishing Strategy— Page 39
• New Atomz Web Site Solution Simplifies Web Content Operations— Page 39
• Arbortext Unveils Epic 4.2— Page 40
• Liberty Alliance Project to Create Network Identity Solution— Page 41
• Project Gutenberg Reader Site Launched— Page 41

The Systems Librarian
Update on Technology Trends and Events
Marshall Breeding provides some new information about several library industry topics and issues he has recently covered. — Page 44

Library Systems Announcements

• VTLS Introduces the Chameleon iPortal— Page 43
• Gale Group Program Allows Libraries to Own Electronic Archives— Page 43
• Endeavor Announces Product in Beta Testing, Other News— Page 45
• SIRSI Notes System Deployments— Page 45

• Calendar — Page 49
• Book Review

Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting, third edition, 
by Donald B. Cleveland and Ana D. Cleveland, reviewed by Gwen M. Gregory — Page 51
• People Line — Page 59

• Information Today Directory of Services & Sources — Page 61
  Online • Internet • CD/DVD • Library Systems
• Bookshelf — Pages 58-59
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