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4/24/2000NewsBreakData Downlink Launches Portal B for Enterprise Users
4/24/2000NewsBreak‘Old Economy’ Info Retrieval Clashes with ‘New Economy’ Web Upstarts at the Fifth Annual Search Engine Conference
4/17/2000NewsBreakConsolidation and Convergence: Elsevier Science Acquires Endeavor Information Systems
4/17/2000NewsBreakWebforia and CNN Interactive Announce Strategic Alliance
4/10/2000NewsBreakFathom This: Academic and Cultural Institutions Partner To Create Interactive Knowledge Company
4/10/2000NewsBreakThomson’s West Group Recasts and Expands Business News Service as Westnews
4/3/2000NewsBreakBartleby.com Relaunches Site with Modern and Classic Reference Works
4/1/2000Newslink SpotlightHighlighting Search Tools, Improving the Web Search Experience
3/27/2000NewsBreakGoogle Introduces Web Directory Using Netscape's Open Directory Project Data
3/27/2000NewsBreakThe Thomson Takeover of Dialog: More and Less
3/22/2000NewsBreakThomson to Buy Dialog
3/20/2000NewsBreakAltaVista Introduces Advanced Search Center, New Resources for Power Searchers and Webmasters
3/20/2000NewsBreakThis conference and expo focused on an important topic—content
3/20/2000NewsBreakPowerize.com Announces Enterprise Portal Service, Alliances With Enterprise Information Portal Companies
3/20/2000NewsBreakRoweCom and NewsEdge Cancel Acquisition Agreement, Announce Strategic Partnership
3/13/2000NewsBreakTalavara, an ‘E-Customer Assistance Company,’ Launched by Manning & Napier
3/13/2000NewsBreakNetLibrary, Innovative Interfaces to Cooperate in Adding E-Books to Library Collections
3/6/2000NewsBreakWork.com Business Portal Company Formed by Excite@Home and Dow Jones
3/1/2000Newslink SpotlightSpotlight on Library Portals and News Sites
2/28/2000NewsBreakReed Elsevier Announces Major Internet Strategy to Drive Growth
2/28/2000NewsBreakBell & Howell Information and Learning’s ProQuest Academic Edition Brings Articles Directly to Students for a Low Fixed Fee
2/21/2000NewsBreakReuters Announces Major Internet Strategy
2/21/2000NewsBreakSoon-to-Launch e-psyche Database from Database Access Group Challenges Established Psychology Information Source
2/21/2000NewsBreakTable That Rumor: Thomson Hasn’t Purchased Dialog ... Yet
2/14/2000NewsBreakTwo Initiatives Support PubMed Central Model
2/14/2000NewsBreakLibraryHQ.com Debuts as a Portal for Librarians
2/14/2000NewsBreakBrill Media Holdings and Partners to Launch Contentville.com
2/11/2000NewsBreakFLASH: Has Thomson Bought Ownership in Dialog?
2/9/2000NewsBreakJurisline.com Suit Could Shift the Underpinnings of the Online Legal Marketplace and Beyond
2/7/2000NewsBreakNetLibrary Offers 1,500 E-Book Titles to 100 Large Public Libraries in Trial Program
2/7/2000NewsBreakBig 12 Plus Libraries and OCLC Join Forces on Web-Based Interlibrary Loan System
2/7/2000NewsBreakScienceDirect Expands Full-Text Linked Connections to Abstracting-and-Indexing Services; Opens PhysicsDirect Niche Service
2/1/2000Newslink SpotlightTraditional Services Embrace the Web: EBSCO Will Offer the Whole Enchilada
1/31/2000NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Acquires Online Services from the U.K.’s FT Group
1/24/2000NewsBreakIngenta Merges with UnCover
1/24/2000NewsBreakEpixtech Partners with Citrix Systems on ASP Solution for Library Automation
1/17/2000NewsBreakBell & Howell Announces Restructuring to Create Two Separate Companies
1/17/2000NewsBreakOCLC Opens Web Catalog to All Comers
1/10/2000NewsBreakIntelligence Data Launches Intranet Distribution Product
1/10/2000NewsBreakTim Andrews Leaves Factiva; Clare Hart Appointed New CEO
1/3/2000NewsBreakDowjones.com Expands into E-Commerce Offerings; Parent Competing with Factiva Child?
1/3/2000NewsBreakManning & Napier Information Services Announces CINDOR, a Multi-Language Search and Retrieval System
1/1/2000Newslink SpotlightGetting the News—Webfeeds for Free
12/20/1999NewsBreakWeb Searching from Dialog via Webtop.com; Exciting New Innovation in K-Check; Value of K-Working Suite Continues to Rise
12/20/1999NewsBreakBeyond Keyword Searching—Oingo and Simpli.com Introduce Meaning-Based Searching
12/20/1999NewsBreakQuestel-Orbit Brings Full Service to the Web with QWEB; Introduces Internet Protocol Network
12/20/1999NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Takes a Precautionary Y2K Break
12/13/1999NewsBreakRoweCom Signs Agreement to Acquire NewsEdge
12/6/1999NewsBreakNew Web-Based Business Service from MeansBusiness Taps Concepts in Books Database
12/6/1999NewsBreakCautious détente pervades relations in the Web’s “Great Game”
11/29/1999NewsBreakMajor Scholarly Publishers Unite to Integrate Article Delivery
11/22/1999NewsBreakSan Diego Conference provides forum for exploring issues and challenges
11/22/1999NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Tests Data Visualization Technology
11/15/1999NewsBreak3M Announces Major New Library Technology System
11/8/1999NewsBreakIntelliSeek Launches InvisibleWeb.com
11/8/1999NewsBreakDialog Enhances Web and Intranet Offerings with PowerPortal and K-working Software Suite
11/8/1999NewsBreakCompany Dossier Product Emerges from LEXIS-NEXIS’ SmartIndexing Technology
11/8/1999NewsBreakThe news was not new content, but more ways to find, organize, manage, and share the masses of content already there
11/8/1999NewsBreakFactiva: The New Name for Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive
11/1/1999NewsBreakGender Equity in Salaries Achieved for Some Information Professionals, but Not for Others
11/1/1999NewsBreakContent and technology meet the money at the dance
11/1/1999NewsBreakNorthern Light Adds Link Popularity to Relevance Ranking Factors
10/26/1999NewsBreakAeneid Corp. Buys InGenius Technologies
10/25/1999NewsBreakInternet Scout Project Looks Toward the Future
10/25/1999NewsBreakEBSCO Continues International Expansion with 39-Country Consortium Deal
10/18/1999NewsBreakReuters Launches New Internet-based News and Information Service
10/11/1999NewsBreakDialog Offers Pay-Per-View
10/11/1999NewsBreakBell & Howell Information and Learning Acquires Chadwyck-Healey
10/4/1999NewsBreakNewsEdge Partners with Northern Light
10/4/1999NewsBreakIngenta Brings Suite of Online Publishing Services to the U.S.
10/4/1999NewsBreakAuthors Are Victorious in Major Copyright Adjudication
9/27/1999NewsBreakOneSource Information Services, Inc. Soars with CorpTech Under Wing
9/27/1999NewsBreakRoweCom Acquires Dawson Information Services Group
9/20/1999NewsBreakDialog Expands E-Commerce Initiatives and Reports Mixed Q2 Results
9/13/1999NewsBreakThis year’s conference showed that the technology and ideas are maturing
9/7/1999NewsBreakFree Massive Business Directory from Network Solutions
8/30/1999NewsBreakJoint Venture to Create Portal with Multimedia News Content
8/23/1999NewsBreakIntranets.com Offers Businesses Free Intranets, Announces Content Partnerships
8/17/1999NewsBreakCommerce Department Plans to Shut Down NTIS
8/16/1999NewsBreakExcite@Home and FAST’s ‘Alltheweb.com’ Aim to Plug the Web Search Engine Gap
8/16/1999NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Consolidates Legal Brands, Introduces New Research System
8/9/1999NewsBreakNew Chief Executive Appointed for Struggling Reed Elsevier, as Lower Earnings are Reported
8/2/1999NewsBreakInternet Public Library Sponsored by Bell & Howell Information and Learning
8/2/1999NewsBreakDow Jones/Reuters Joint Venture Bears First Fruit
8/2/1999NewsBreakPowerize.com Offers Top Dollar Business Content for Free Under Patented Marketing Approach
8/2/1999NewsBreakGale Adds Masses of Full-Text Newspapers to InfoTrac Web Service
7/19/1999NewsBreakBell & Howell and Infonautics Announce Plan for New Education Company
7/12/1999NewsBreakNew Study of WWW Search Engine Coverage Published
7/6/1999NewsBreakTeltech Partners With Dialog, Moves Closer to Launching Vertical Portal
7/6/1999NewsBreakThe West Group Debuts LawOffice.com, a Free Service for Consumers and Small Businesses
6/28/1999NewsBreakBarnes & Noble Abandons Attempt to Buy Ingram
6/28/1999NewsBreakTwo Centuries of Newspapers Covered in Chadwyck-Healey’s Historical Newspapers Online
6/28/1999NewsBreak20th Annual National Online Meeting & IOLS '99
6/28/1999NewsBreakSLA’s Annual Conference - Librarians ‘move to the core’ of their companies
6/21/1999NewsBreakThomson’s Gale Group Acquires MacMillan Library Reference USA
6/21/1999NewsBreakNorthern Light’s usgovsearch Begins Commercial Operation with Revised Pricing Plan
6/21/1999NewsBreakQuestel-Orbit Completes Intellectual Property Gold Project, With Revised and Integrated Search Software
6/21/1999NewsBreakWest Loses Copyright Claim over Page Numbers
6/14/1999NewsBreakNew SkyMinder.com Pay-Per-View Business Information Service Debuts
6/14/1999NewsBreakWavePhore Changes its Name and Introduces NewsPak
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