Database Marketplace 2006: Renovating This Old House

By Carol Tenopir, Gayle Baker, William Robinson, & Jill Grogg -- Library Journal, 5/15/2006

When we turn on the faucet, we expect water to flow. When we flip the power switch, we expect light. We want a house to work and to look good. This old house of online databases is getting a new look and, in some cases, a new foundation to make it more attractive and robust for 2006.

Much of the value of a renovation lies in respecting history while reinforcing the foundation to keep the house intact. Information providers are using state-of-the-art technologies to create digital historical back files and collections.

Publishers extending their back files this year included Oxford University Press, JSTOR, H.W. Wilson, ProQuest, Springer, and Wiley. IEEE plans to go back to Volume 1, Number 1, while Nature has digitized back to the 1960s. ProQuest continues to digitize a vast array of historical newspapers and paid obituaries. Wilson is adding to its Retrospective databases, and Paratext is adding OpenURL links to its 19th-century full texts. Full-text digital back files are fast becoming the expectation rather than the exception.

Others added to or introduced special historical collections. Rotunda, part of the University of Virginia Press, brought out several historical papers and letters collections. Alexander Street Press extended its historical collections in women's studies, African American history, and social theory, while Greenwood Electronic Media introduced the African American Experience multimedia collection, and Oxford University Press launched Oxford African American Studies Center and the Western Civilization and Literature Collections. There is even a database on antiques and collectibles (Antiques Reference Database) from p4A.com.

Massive book digitization projects promise to bring millions of volumes online. Google Book Search will be matched by the European Commission's new plans to fund centers across the Continent to digitize at least six million books in four years. Both of these projects are proceeding despite controversies regarding copyright and digital rights management (DRM). Many in the general public erroneously believe that all information is already online-but massive digitization projects bring us a bit closer to making that perception reality, including the Open Content Alliance (see LJ NetConnect, Spring 2006, p. 2-6).

A sense of security

Several information companies feature homeland security collections. ProQuest introduced an online guide to Terrorism: An International Resource File to complement its Digital National Security Archive of U.S. foreign and military policy documents. CQ Homeland Security 2.0 reports on and analyzes news and primary materials related to the topic, including daily updates. Other homeland security database products include EBSCO's International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center and Praeger's Security International.

Librarians, those in professional societies, and other publishers are working together in ambitious projects to protect digital assets. CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) builds on LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to create a large archive of scholarly materials that will serve as a "fail-safe" repository in case of major business interruptions or abandoned content. The many libraries participating in LOCKSS each locally preserves its own digital collections, using robust technology created by major university and foundation developments. CLOCKSS uses the same technology but with just a few high-profile libraries and publishers including HighWire Press participating to secure digital resources on behalf of the broader scholarly community.

At the same time, librarians and publishers are working together on the Portico project, a permanent print-quality archive of electronic scholarly journals that would be available to libraries if a publisher ceases business, no longer supports a title, no longer offers back issues, or suffers a sustained technical failure. It began as the Electronic-Archiving Initiative by JSTOR and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Library of Congress, Ithaka, and JSTOR.

New windows to content

New ways to display search results help users get a better feel for what is inside their search results and give information systems a new, modern look from the outside. Several online services added clustering, concept maps, and other visualization tools to help searchers improve and better understand their search results.

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe introduced STN AnaVist (analysis and visualization software) for the CAPlus and patent databases on STN. Results are displayed in spreadsheets and graphs. For several years, Xrefer has used interactive concept cluster maps to display connections among items retrieved in a search of reference books it sources. EBSCOhost offers the Grokker visualization software to display results in a set of relatively sized topic circles. Factiva 2.0 uses bar graphs to represent the top industries, companies, and subjects in a search set. Although each of these systems displays its concept clusters in different ways, all of them go beyond traditional lists of results. Concept clusters can be selected and searches easily modified to provide a window to more content, inspiring users to go deeper into search results than the typical first screen of ten to 12 documents.

Another way to improve access is to let Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, or Google Scholar crawl bibliographic data and provide links to full text on the proprietary systems. (Users must be affiliated with a library that subscribes to the collections or pay per view.) Most scholarly publishers in all topics (including such diverse content providers as JSTOR, IEEE, Thomson Gale, and Project MUSE) now work with Google to provide access to their collections. Yahoo! Search Subscriptions allows subscribers to Factiva, LexisNexis, IEEE, Thomson Gale, and other services to integrate their web searches with searches on these fee-based services.

OpenURL linking and link resolver software in libraries gives users quicker access to full text from library catalogs, indexes, and other online systems. While OpenURL linking is becoming old hat, there was some linking news this year. Google Scholar enabled OpenURL linking, OCLC bought the link resolver vendor Openly Informatics and plans to use its knowledge base to enhance WorldCat applications, and OCLC also developed the OCLC Alpha Global OpenURL Resolver Registry. OpenURL linking is not the only linking in the house, however-Thomson Scientific continues to do direct linking agreements, and in 2005 it signed with American Chemical Society, JSTOR, and HighWire.

In some cases, renovation requires a total redo of the foundation. Thomson Gale's redesign includes a new interface and cross-searching across InfoTrac and Gale Virtual Reference Library through PowerSearch. At Factiva, visualization is just one manifestation of the redesign. Factiva 2.0 adds functionality such as text mining, a "Do you mean?" feature, context snippets, and more.

Opening the doors

New products and new features in old products may cost more than most library budgets can bear. No wonder that open access continued to be a topic of conversation this year. The Directory of Open Access Journals now lists about 2000 titles, and additional publishers are making some tentative steps in that direction by opening up archives including everything except the most recent six months.

In other developments, Thomson Scientific's Web Citation Index began indexing ProQuest's Digital Commons, an open access service for institutional repositories; Oxford University Press extended its Oxford Open initiative to additional journals and continues to gather information on the viability of open access economic models; and Springer created the position of director of open access specifically for open access advocate Jan Velterop, formerly of BioMed Central.

Despite these experiments, traditional licensing and subscription schemes remain the most common access methods.

Good tools help

New tools for online systems help information users succeed as they move the use of databases beyond search and retrieval.

Connotea from the Nature Publishing Group is a free social bookmarking service. A new version of DialogLINK makes it easier to search Dialog, plus it provides new functions for postprocessing of results into reports. Thomson Scientific continues to improve tools such as EndNote by adding a web-based version, and it introduced KnowledgeLINK, a resource center for librarians similar to librarian-focused sites offered by Factiva, Dialog, and others. Safari Tech Books Online allows professors to build their own textbooks with SafariU.

Both Thomson Scientific's Web of Knowledge and Elsevier's Scopus brought out new tools to get citation and bibliometric analysis to end users. Thomson's Analyze Tool lets users examine publication trends on specific topics, incorporating visualization and text-mining software techniques. Elsevier's Citation Tracker provides citation analysis for an author, date, article, or subject.

Other new tools include Questel*Orbit's redesigned patent management tool; Thomson Scientific's sciPROOF program to verify scientific spelling and formatting; and Infotrieve's Electronic Laboratory Notebook. Useful tools to assist librarians in their training or marketing efforts can now be seen in many places, including Emerald Librarian Toolkit and web training modules from CSA, LexisNexis, Thomson Scientific, D&B, Engineering Information Village 2, and others.

Information flows

If plumbing works correctly, water flows at your chosen rate and temperature. Information providers are improving access to their products in many ways. News or tables of contents alerts fit well with RSS feeds. American Institute of Physics, Nature, BioMed Central, Chemical Abstracts Service, EiV2, HighWire, PubMed, and Cambridge University Press are among the many information providers to offer RSS feeds.

Podcasting is particularly useful for course-related or any type of information that lends itself to audio or visual presentation. Thomson Gale added podcast feeds to InfoTrac through its PowerSearch and Resource Center products, including Student Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Resource Center, and History Resource Center. Weekly radio addresses from President Bush are podcast by Thomson Gale.

Naxos and Alexander Street provide streaming audio, while Films Media Group and Thomson Gale's Health & Wellness Resource Center offer streaming video on demand.

New image databases include Wilson's Art Museum Image Gallery and RLG's CAMIO. ARTstor forged new agreements with the Artist's Rights Society and several content providers.

Reading the meter

Homeowners want to be assured that the utility meter is being read correctly and they aren't being overcharged. Meter reading of online services is done with usage statistics, and there were many innovations on this front. COUNTER continues to attract new publisher members so libraries can get consistent usage statistic reports. SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) goes the next step by automating request and delivery of COUNTER reports. EBSCO now integrates SUSHI with EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service for users of Innovative Interface's Millennium system. Innovative and EBSCOhost customers will be able to get automatic EBSCO usage reports.

MPS ScholarlyStats consolidates usage reports from multiple online vendors. Thomson Scientific's Journal Use Reports works with ScholarlyStats to link usage data with scholarly output and impact factor. In addition to COUNTER-compliant reports, Ingenta's Advanced Statistics Solution allows data manipulation and graphical display.

The old house looking new

This old house of the database industry is looking like new with its redesign, reimagined search and display features, and an emphasis on tools that let users go beyond simple search and retrieval. Building a strong foundation and preserving the past are just as important to make sure the industry is relevant and strong for the future.

	SIGNATURE PRODUCT	FIRM FOCUS	PRIMARY LIBRARY MARKET	NEW ACQUISITION OR PARTNERSHIP	DIRECT LINKS TO SOURCES	PRIMARY SUBJECT	PERCENTAGE OF FULL-TEXT CONTENT	Z39.50 COMPATIBLE	MOST POPULAR PRICING OPTION	PERPETUAL RIGHTS	USAGE DATA ORGANIZATION PROVIDED
AARP	Ageline	Create and Add value	Academic	No	Some	Social sciences	<25	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	No
ABC-CLIO	Historical Abstracts	Create	School	Yes	Some	Social sciences	>75	Some	Concurrent	Few	All
American Chemical Society	Scientific Databases	Create and Add value	Special	No	All	Other science & technology	NA	Some	NA	NA	Most
American Council Learned Societies	History E-Book Project	Add value	Academic	Yes	All	Arts & humanities	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	NA
American Psychiatric Association	DSM-IV-TR	Create and Add value	Academic	No	All	Life sciences	>75	NA	Potential users	Some	All
Answers	1-Click Answers	Create and Add value	NA	Yes	All	General	>75	No	Free	All	No
ARTstor	ARTstor Digital Library	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	No	Multidisciplinary	NA	No	Flat subscription	Few	Under Consideration
Berkeley Electronic Press	ResearchNow	Create	Academic	Yes	No response	Business	>75	No	Not ranked	Most	Under Consideration
BioOne	BioOne	Add value	Academic	Yes	All	Life sciences	>75	No	Potential users	Most	All
Bowker	BooksInPrint.com	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	No	General	<25	Some	Flat subscription	Few	All
Brill Academic	Encyclopaedia of Islam	Create	Academic	Yes	Under Consideration	Arts & humanities	>75	All	Concurrent	Most	All
CABI	CAB Abstracts	Create	Academic	No	Some	Life sciences	<25	Under Consideration	Concurrent	Few	some
Cambridge Information Group	CSA Illumina	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	Some	Social sciences	<25	Some	Flat subscription	Most	All
CISTI	CISTI Catalogue	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	Some	Life sciences	<25	Some	Flat subscription	Few	Most
Columbia University Press	Granger's World of Poetry	Create and Add value	Academic	No	Some	Social sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	All
CQ	CQ Press Electronic Library	Create	Academic	No	Some	General	<75	NA	Potential users	Some	Most
Walter de Gruyter	Atlas of North American English	Create	Academic	No	Some	Social sciences	>75	NA	Flat subscription	Few	some
ebrary	Academic Complete	Add value	Academic	Yes	All	Business	>75	All	Concurrent	Some	All
EBSCO	Business Source	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	Some	General	>51	All	Flat subscription	Few	All
Experian	BizInfo	Create and Add value	Special	Yes	No	Business	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	NA
Factiva	Factiva.com	Add value	Special	Yes	All	News	>75	All	Flat subscription	Few	Most
Facts On File	American History Online	Create	School	Yes	Some	Social sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Potential users	NA	NA
Facts On File News Service	Facts On File World News Digest	Create	Public	No	Some	General	>51	No	Potential users	NA	NA
Greenwood	Daily Life Online	Create	Public	No	All	Social sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Concurrent	Few	All
HighWire Press	HighWire	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	All	Life sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Some	All
Idea Group	InfoSci-Online	Create and Add value	Academic	No	Under Consideration	Business	>75	Under Consideration	Potential users	Few	No
IEEE	IEE/IEEE Electronic Library	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	No	Other science & technology	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	All
infoUSA	ReferenceUSA	Create	Public	No	Some	Business	<25	All	Flat subscription	Few	All
Ingenta	IngentaConnect.com	Create and Add value	Academic	No	All	Life sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Other	Some	All
JSTOR	JSTOR Archive	Add value	Academic	Yes	No	Multidisciplinary	>75	No	Other	Few	All
LexisNexis	LexisNexis Academic	Add value	Academic	No	Some	News	>51	Some	Flat subscription	Some	Few
McGraw-Hill	AccessScience.com	Create	Academic	Yes	Some	Other science & technology	>51	NA	Concurrent	Most	Under Consideration
Marquis Who's Who	Who's Who on the Web	Create	Public	Yes	No	General	<25	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	Few
OECD	SourceOECD	Create and Add value	Academic	No	All	Business	>75	All	Flat subscription	Most	Some
Oxford Online	Oxford English Dictionary	Create	Academic	No	Some	Arts & humanities	>75	Some	Concurrent	Few	All
Project MUSE	Project MUSE	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	All	Multidisciplinary	>75	No	Flat subscription	Most	All
ProQuest	Historical Newspapers	Create and Add value	Academic	Yes	Some	General	>75	Some	Potential users	Few	All
Readex	Archive of Americana	Create and Add value	Academic	No	All	Arts & humanities	>75	Some	Other	Some	All
Routledge	Europa World Plus	Create	Academic	Yes	Some	Social sciences	>75	Under Consideration	Concurrent	Few	All
Salem Press	Magill's Survey of American Literature	Create	School	Yes	Yes	Arts & humanities	>75	No	Flat subscription	NA	NA
Scholastic Library Publishing	Grolier Online	Create and Add value	School	No	All	General	>75	All	Other	Few	All
Snapdata International	Snapshots Series	Create	Special	No	All	Business	NA	Under Consideration	Potential users	Few	Under Consideration
Springer Science and Business	Springerlink	Create	Academic	Yes	All	Life sciences	>75	No	Flat subscription	Most	All
Thomson Gale	InfoTrac	Create	Public	Yes	Some	General	>75	Some	Concurrent	Some	All
Thomson West	Westlaw	Create and Add value	Special	Yes	All	Law	>75	Some	Concurrent	Some	All
H.W. Wilson	Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature	Create	Academic	Yes	Some	Multidisciplinary	>26	All	Concurrent	Some	All
Xrefer	Xreferplus Ready-Reference	Add value	Academic	Yes	No	General	>75	Under Consideration	Flat subscription	Few	Under Consideration
SOURCE: LJ Database Marketplace Survey 2006 NOTE: Organizations listed responded to a detailed survey

Author Information

Carol Tenopir (ctenopir@utk.edu) is Professor, School of Information Sciences (SIS), University of Tennessee (UTK), Knoxville, and LJ's Online Databases columnist; Gayle Baker (gsbaker@utk.edu) is Electronic Services Coordinator, UTK Libraries; William Robinson (wrobins1@utk.edu) is Assistant Professor, SIS, UTK; and Jill Grogg, (jgrogg@bama.ua.edu) is Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Alabama Libraries, Birmingham

AARP
Research Information Center, Washington, DC; 888-687-2277
www.research.aarp.org/research
AARP produces two online databases. AgeLine, its premier database, contains abstracts from books, articles, and reports on topics related to aging research and policy. AgeSource Worldwide is a database of links to over 300 information resources (libraries, clearinghouses, databases, etc.) on aging all over the world. Both are freely available on the AARP web site.

ABC-CLIO
Santa Barbara, CA; 800-368-6868
www.abc-clio.com
ABC-CLIO, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, offers a collection of almost 500 ebooks. The new interface to America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts databases provides more user control on search and output options, exports records to citation management software, and has a search history. In addition, it provides links to the ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis Database. ABC-CLIO's newest database, United States at War, covers themes and consequences of all major U.S. wars and conflicts.

Accessible Archives, Inc.
Malvern, PA; 610-296-7441
www.accessible.com
A provider of online primary source material from 18th- and 19th-century American periodicals, Accessible Archives' products include the Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, and The Liberator 1831-1865.

AccuWeather Education Division
Fort Washington, PA; 888-438-9847
education.accuweather.com
In addition to being a leading provider of weather information for several years, AccuWeather also produces AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, a collection of photographs, graphics, text, and audio clips, covering over 150 years of history, from the Associated Press. It is a useful resource for K-12, public, and academic libraries.

ACLS History E-Book Project
New York; 212-838-0641
www.historyebook.org
A collaboration of learned societies, publishers, and the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office, the ACLS History E-Book Project has produced a collection of over 1230 ebooks in several fields of history. In January 2006, it announced a partnership with Cambridge University Press to develop XML-encoded books. New areas for titles include Caribbean studies, methods/study, and women's studies. MARC records are downloadable and free.

Alexander Street Press, LLC
Alexandria, VA; 800-889-5937
www.alexanderstreet.com
Known for its excellent indexing of primary sources, Alexander Street Press continues to develop new collections in seven major areas: Black History and Literature; Drama, Theatre and Film; North American History; Latino and Latin American History and Literature; Music; Religion and Social Thought; and Women's History and Literature. Titles to be released soon include African American Music Reference, Black Women Writers, Social Theory, The Gilded Age, Publications on the Status of Women-1950 to Present, and Social Theory.

American Institute of Physics
Melville, NY; 516-576-2200
www.aip.org
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) uses the Scitation interface to provide access to over 100 e-journals, conference proceedings, and the SPIN database for physics and astronomy. Usage reports are now compliant with COUNTER, revision 2. RSS feeds for journal content are available. AIP partners with several other learned society publishers in a venture called Virtual Journals in Science and Technology (www.virtualjournals.org), where abstracts of articles from the different publishers appear under one of the virtual journal titles and are freely available to researchers.

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Arlington, VA; 800-368-5777
www.appi.org
This wholly owned subsidiary of the American Psychiatric Association publishes books, journals, and multimedia. All of its online products, including electronic journals and the latest clinical and research news, are part of PsychiatryOnline.com. The major reference product, the well-regarded Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., also known as DSM-IV®, is available in print, CD-ROM, and online.

American Psychological Association
Washington, DC; 800-374-2722
www.apa.org
The American Psychological Association (APA) produces a number of electronic resources associated with the field of psychology. PsycINFO is its widely used database and is available directly from APA, as well as through several other vendors, as is PsycARTICLES, its collection of electronic journals. PsycBOOKS is a relatively new collection of ebooks in psychology and includes classic titles from other publishers, including the Encyclopedia of Psychology, jointly published with Oxford University Press. PsycEXTRA is an electronic collection of grey literature, while PsycCRITIQUES is an online collection of reviews of psychology books.

ARTstor
New York; 212-500-2400;
www.artstor.org
ARTstor is a Mellon Foundation-funded entity whose purpose is to create a collection of digital images in art, architecture, and archaeology. The service is currently available to U.S. and Canadian nonprofits and features an innovative remote access authentication method. [See "ARTstor's Digital Landscape," LJ 7/05.]

BioMed Central Ltd.
Science Navigation Group, London; +44(0) 7323 0323
www.biomedcentral.com
Some 147 peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical sciences are available online from BioMed Central (BMC). Most of them are open access titles, and the latest articles can be accessed through RSS feeds. A recently added subscription service, the Faculty of 1000 Medicine, highlights the best papers recommended by leading researchers. Open Repository, a hosted DSpace service, is also available. Users may download a BMC toolbar to easily search BMC, PubMed, PubMed Central, and Google.

BioOne
Amigos Library Services, Dallas; 800-843-8482;
www.bioone.org
BioOne, a collection of electronic journals from several bioscience learned societies, currently consists of 82 journals and one ebook, with plans to have over 200 titles. The web site also provides current news of interest to bioscientists, as well as a listing of the ten top articles accessed in the past month. BioOne participates in the LOCKSS archival project and CrossRef search.

Books24x7
Norwood, MA; 781-440-0550
marketing.books24x7.com
Books24x7 offers electronic collections of reference books in the following subject areas: information technology, business, finance, engineering, and management. Subscriptions are available to individuals and institutions.

R.R. Bowker
New Providence, NJ; 800-526-9537
www.bowker.com
Bowker transferred the Ulrich's product line, including Ulrichsweb.com and the Serials Analysis System, to CSA, a sister company in the Cambridge Information Group. A new product, Resources for College Libraries (RCL), scheduled for release in print and online in 2006, is the result of a partnership with ACRL's Choice and is the successor to Books in College Libraries. It will include a collection analysis tool. Another new Bowker product is Fiction Connection, a readers' advisory tool.

Brepols Publishers
Turnhout, Belgium; +32 14 44 80 34
www.brepolis.net
In October 2005, two new Latin databases were introduced to Brepolis, the site for Brepols Publishers databases and full-text collections for medieval scholars: Database of Latin Dictionaries and Monumenta Germaniae Historica. News updates about the databases are available via an RSS feed.

Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Boston; 617-263-2323;
www.brill.nl
Brill publishes scholarly works in the classics and religion. Its major bibliography of publications on Islamic studies is Index Islamicus, available in print, CD-ROM, and online versions. In 2005, it launched the New Pauly Online, Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, and the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, both online.

CABI Publishing
Cambridge, MA; 800-528-4841
www.cabi-publishing.org
CABI's premier database, CAB Abstracts, covers applied life sciences, mainly those related to agriculture. It created a new product, CAB Abstracts Plus, by enchancing CAB Abstracts with full-text journals and conference reports, CAB Reviews, Reviews Archive, Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, Distribution Maps of Plant Pests, and Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria. Previously available as a subscription product, this service is only available directly from CABI Publishing now, as are archives for CAB Abstracts and Global Health database.

Cambridge University Press
New York; 800-872-7423
www.cambridge.org
This year, Cambridge University Press unveiled the online version of Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. It features almost 2000 downloadable tables and the ability to merge columns from tables to create new tables. Cambridge Journals Online is comprised of over 100 titles. RSS/Atom feeds are available for each title.

CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Columbus, OH; 800-753-4227;
www.cas.org
A division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the leading provider of chemical information, CAS databases are available through several vendors, as well as several of its own services: STN, SciFinder, and SciFinder Scholar. New releases of SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar include duplicate detection and improvements to reaction searching and information retrieval. RSS feeds are available for some CAS journals. ACS journals can be found at pubs.acs.org.

CISTI (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)
National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON; 800-668-1222
cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
CISTI, one of the top document delivery providers, specializes in information in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. It has two databases, CISTI Source Articles and CISTI Source Journals, with companion alerting services covering over 20 million articles in more than 20,000 journals. CISTI also publishes NRC Research Press journals and now provides associated COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.

Columbia University Press
Irvington, NY; 800-944-8648
www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
Columbia University Press continues to provide several useful electronic services in a variety of subjects. Developed with the support of NSF and SPARC, Columbia Earthscape is an interdisciplinary resource for earth and environmental sciences. Columbia Granger's® World of Poetry Online now has 154,000 full-text poems. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) covers theory and research in international affairs. Electronic reference works include The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online, and The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. Gutenberg-e offers perpetual access to ebooks in conjunction with the American Historical Association.

CQ Press
Washington, DC; 800-834-9020, x1906
www.cqpress.com
The electronic resources of CQ Press provide primary sources and analysis in government, politics, and current affairs. They include online journals, collections of documents and analysis, and online versions of CQ Press print resources. New features and content added to its electronic products include a new interface for CQ Weekly Online, analysis of justices' voting patterns in the CQ Supreme Court Collection, and expanded coverage of floor votes in the CQ Congress collection.

CSA
Bethesda, MD; 301-961-6700
www.csa.com
CSA has been nominated as a finalist in two categories for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE awards: "Best Online Science or Technology Information Service" for CSA Illumina and "Best Solution Integrating Content into an Application" for Multisearch, its metasearch tool. It took over Ulrichsweb.com and its associated product line from sister company Bowker and recently acquired the Community of Science, a grants information service, and PapersInvited, a service to help researchers find an outlet for presenting their research. CSA also introduced the Community of Scholars, a new service with information about researchers and their institutions.

D&B
Short Hills, NJ; 800-234-3867;
www.dnb.com
Complete with a new web interface for its databases in late 2005, D&B's new Million Dollar Database: Total U.S. has 14 million company records from the United States and Canada. It complements the International Million Dollar Database of over 1.6 million businesses.

The Dialog Corporation
Cary, NC; 800-3DIALOG;
www.dialog.com
Providing access to databases since 1972, Dialog currently has a collection of over 450. The DialogLink search software was upgraded to version 5 with an improved interface and many features to aid searchers in preparing search output for distribution. Dialog Choice is an academic program that provides fixed-cost searching of over 90 databases. Searching chemical databases has been enhanced with structure searching.

Ebook Library (EBL)
Chevy Chase, MD; 301-951-8109
www.EBLib.com
Ebook Library has entered the market with a focus in the areas of science, technology, and medicine. Its Non-Linear Lending system allows multiple concurrent use, and titles may be accessed either online or offline by using Adobe Acrobat ebooks. EBL partners with library book suppliers-like Dawson Books, Blackwell's Book Service, and James Bennett-for its ebooks.

ebrary, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA; 650-475-8700
www.ebrary.com
Offering both electronic book technology and services, ebrary maintains several subject collections with titles from a growing list of leading publishers. The largest of these, Academic Complete, contains approximately 30,000 titles. Some titles may be purchased for perpetual access. The company released a new version of the ebrary Reader for viewing its content.

EBSCO Publishing
Ipswich, MA; 800-653-2726
www.ebsco.com
In early 2006, EBSCO unveiled visual searching from Groxis in the EBSCOhost interface. A new resource, Library & Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), was made available to subscribers free of charge. Several new databases were added to the EBSCO database collection: Index to Jewish Periodicals, Old Testament Abstracts Online, SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full-text, Humanities International Complete, Garden Literature Index, and International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center. EBSCO now offers the Scientific American Archive Online.

Elsevier
New York; 888-437-4636
www.elsevier.com
Elsevier continues to be a force in the sciences and engineering. Engineering Information Village 2 (EiV2) is a 2006 CODiE finalist for Best Online Science or Technology Service. The Scopus database has grown to 28 million records and has a new tool, Citation Tracker, which tracks the use of an article over time. Scirus, the company's free scientific web search engine, has indexed 13 million patents from the United States and abroad.

Emerald (North America)
Cambridge, MA; 888-622-0075
www.emeraldinsight.com
Actively acquiring and adding titles, Emerald publishes journals in business, management, library science, and a variety of engineering and technical fields. It's premier database is Emerald Management Xtra, with 110 full-text journals. Last year came the Emerald Librarian's Toolkit, a site for account administration and marketing tools for Emerald services, and, in February, the company announced a new database, Emerald Management Xtra College, with 30 full-text journals for community colleges.

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company
Princeton, NJ; 800-369-0166
www.factiva.com
Factiva, a company formed by Dow Jones and Reuters, provides business news and information, along with retrieval and display tools to aid decision-making. Its collection of information sources numbers over 9000. Last summer, it joined other vendors in Yahoo Search Subscriptions, a beta program allowing searching of the web and subscription content at the same time. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued a patent for the methodology behind Factiva Intelligent Indexing. Factiva is a finalist for a 2006 CODiE Award from SIIA for Best Content Aggregation Service.

Facts On File, Inc.
New York; 800-322-8755
www.factsonfile.com
In business since 1941, Facts On File produces content for school and public libraries, accessible in print, CD-ROM, and online formats. Electronic resources are available in subjects such as history, literature, health, and science. Printable curriculum resources for teachers are also available in electronic format.

Facts On File News Services
New York; 800-363-7976;
www.facts.com
Facts On File New Services produces news products for school, public, and academic libraries. Facts for Learning has separate modules for elementary and middle schools. The Reference Suite @ FACTS.com is made up of The Facts On File World News Digest, Issues & Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, and The World Almanac Reference Database. Support materials for promotion and training are available, as well as monthly news with suggestions for student research projects. A new product, Issues & Controversies in American History, launched in spring 2006.

Films Media Group
Princeton, NJ; 800-257-5126
www.filmsmediagroup.com
With content that includes winners of awards like the Oscars, Emmys, and Peabodys, Films Media Group supplies digital video on demand via the web, for lease or purchase. Film subjects include architecture and urban studies, business and economics, foreign language and culture, health and wellness, literature and language arts, religion and philosophy, science, and vocational and technical education.

GeoLytics, Inc.
East Brunswick, NJ; 800-577-6717
www.geolytics.com
Geolytics, Inc. makes available easy-to-use demographic and Census data in CD-ROM or online format. Major products are based upon Census 2000. The company also generates custom reports upon request.

Greenwood Electronic Media
Westport, CT; 800-225-5800
www.gem.greenwood.com
This year, Greenwood Electronic Media introduced the first of its titles in the American Mosaic series, The African American Experience. It is a multimedia collection that includes primary sources, reference titles, and WPA slave narratives. The company also presented Praeger International Security Online, a collection of over 500 full-text titles. Its main collection of ebooks, the Greenwood Digital Collection, consists of 3000 titles.

Grey House Publishing
Millerton, NY; 800-562-2139
www.greyhouse.com
Grey House publishes authoritative reference directories in print, CD-ROM, and online formats. They cover business, statistics, demographics, health, and education.

HarpWeek
Reston, VA; 703-264-9862
www.harpweek.com
This fully indexed, online edition of Harper's Weekly, one of America's leading 19th- century newspapers, covers the newspaper from 1857 to 1912. In February 2006, the publishers of HarpWeek created a free web site, AbrahamLincolnCartoons.com, featuring political cartoons from several newspapers from Lincoln's first presidential campaign through his assassination.

HighWire Press
Palo Alto, CA;
highwire.stanford.edu
Hosting over 900 full-text journals from learned societies, publishers, and university presses, HighWire is the largest repository of free full-text articles in the biological sciences. Last fall, HighWire unveiled a new web site, with an improved layout.

IBISWorld, Inc.
New York; 212-626-6794
www.ibisworld.com
IBISWorld provides strategic business information. It now offers academic insitutions its online reports and databases, including U.S. Industry Market Research Reports, Industry Risk Rating Reports, U.S. and Canadian Company Reports, and the Industry Assessment Database.

Idea Group, Inc.
Hershey, PA; 866-342-6657
www.idea-group.com
InfoSci-Online, the flagship database from Idea Group, covers topics in information science, management, and technology. Source materials consist of books, journal articles, teaching cases, and conference papers.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers)
Piscataway, NJ; 800-701-4333
www.ieee.org
Online journals, conference proceedings, and standards from IEEE are available in the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL). The records feature abstract/citation information from INSPEC. As part of IEEE's plan to digitize its journals back to the first volume and issue, historic documents in ultrasonics were recently added to IEL. IEEE also announced that its usage statistics are COUNTER-compliant.

Infotrieve
Los Angeles; 800-422-4633
www.infotrieve.com
Not only a leading document supplier but also a provider of technology solutions, Infotrieve offers the Ariel software for document delivery via the Internet, serving as an integral part of many interlibrary loan operations. The company also offers the Electronic Laboratory Notebook for managing research data and recently ceased charging for searching the ArticleFinder database of citations and abstracts from over 54,000 journals.

InfoUSA, Inc.
Omaha; 800-321-0869
www.infousa.com
InfoUSA's flagship database for libraries is ReferenceUSA, a directory of business and residential information compiled from telephone directories, annual reports, government data, Chamber of Commerce information, and National Change of Address updates. It contains information on 13 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households. New features include the ability to search for the top Fortune 1000 companies and links to stock information, company news, public filing information, and companies within the same corporate family tree.

Ingenta, Inc.
Providence; 401-331-2014
www.ingentaconnect.com
A document delivery supplier and host of over 6000 online publications, Ingenta provides content via subscription or pay per view. While COUNTER-compliant usage statistics are part of its Standard Statistics Solution, Ingenta offers an Advanced Statistics Solution with data manipulation and graphical display capabilities for an additional annual fee. The company recently introduced a new interface, which includes RSS feeds for journal tables of contents.

InteLex Corporation
Charlottesville, VA; 434-970-2286
www.nlx.com
InteLex produces two major collections in the humanities and social sciences, POESIS and Past Masters®. POESIS is a full-text collection of 43 philosophy journals available on the web. It is produced in conjunction with the Philosophy Documentation Center. Past Masters® is comprised of several full-text collections of the works, including correspondence, diaries, etc., of notable writers in literature, philosophy, political thought, and religion. The collection is available in CD-ROM and web formats, as well as in TEI encoding for loading on university servers.

JSTOR
New York; 212-358-6400
www.jstor.org
Continuing to build electronic back files of major journals, JSTOR is adding titles in the areas of the arts, humanities, life sciences, and social sciences. As of January 2006, the collection consisted of 582 titles from 358 publishers. The new JSTOR XML Gateway provides improved metasearching. JSTOR is moving into the public library market, with 12 publics on board so far.

Knovel Corporation
Norwich, NY; 866-303-3336
www.knovel.com
Knovel offers over 700 online, interactive handbooks for engineers and scientists from over 30 publishers and scientific societies. Its interactive tools include interactive tables, chemical structure searching, spreadsheets, graph plotter, and viewer. Knovel offers registered users free access to one of its titles every two weeks.

LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions
Bethesda, MD; 800-638-8380
www.lexisnexis.com/academic
In 2006, LexisNexis introduced a new interface to the Congressional Research Digital Collection. Users can search across different sources of data in a single search. Plans are underway to develop a new interface for LexisNexis Academic.

MarketResearch.com
Rockville, MD; 800-298-5294
academic.marketresearch.com
Tapping several sources as well as company and country reports, MarketResearch.com provides comprehensive online access to thousands of market research reports. MarketResearch.com Academic is a subset of its services for academic libraries and features market research reports from such authoritative sources as Packaged Facts, Kalorama Information, Specialists in Business Information, and Icon Group International, Inc.

Mergent, Inc.
New York; 888-411-0893
www.mergent.com
The premier service of Mergent, Inc., Mergent Online provides financial data and annual reports for U.S. and international businesses. It is a 2006 SIIA CODiE Finalist for Best Online Professional Financial Service. New features include biographies of U.S. executives and competitor information.

Morningstar, Inc.
Chicago; 312-384-4000
www.morningstar.com
Morningstar is a leading provider of stock and mutual fund information. The Morningstar.com Library Edition features a portfolio analysis tool and a stock and mutual fund screener to aid in selection of investments. Online documentation and training aids feature a collection of investing classes.

National Journal Group Inc.
Washington, DC; 202-739-8400
www.nationaljournal.com
A recognized publisher of books, magazines, newsletters, and directories in politics, policy, and government, National Journal offers Policy Central, an online collection of services made up of National Journal, Congress Daily, The Hotline, Technology Daily, Government Executive, and American Health Line. Users can access Policy Central by purchasing a NationalJournal.com Daypass for short-term information needs.

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Bethesda, MD; 888-FIND-NLM
www.nlm.nih.gov
NLM is the source of several databases in the health and life sciences for both researchers and consumers. Major health titles are MEDLINE/PubMed, MedlinePlus, and PubMed Central. The company also offers databases on hazardous substances, toxicology, genetic sequences, and HIV. NLM provides Entrez, a search gateway to several online resources with a single search.

National Women's Health Information Center
Annandale, VA; 800-974-9662
www.4woman.gov
A gateway to web-based resources associated with women's health, the National Women's Health Information Center offers resources produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, other government agencies, and the private sector. A useful feature of this service is "Today's Health News," linking to recent news.

Nature Publishing Group
New York; 212-726-9200
www.naturereference.com
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is part of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. and focuses on scientific publishing. Among its publications is Nature, its associated journals, and NPG academic journals. There are plans to digitize issues of Nature back to the 1960s. Subscribers can download a Nature.com toolbar for quick searching of life sciences subjects. NPG recently launched Connotea (www.connotea.org), a free social bookmarking service to help researchers organize and share links to information.

Naxos Music Library
Naxos of America, Inc., Franklin, TN; 615-771-9393;
www.naxos.com
A leading producer of classical music, Naxos has a number of online audio-streamed products available for subscription to individuals and institutions. The Naxos Music Library is a collection of Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo catalogs, plus titles from other independent labels. As of March 2006, it contained over 130,000 tracks of classical music, contemporary jazz, blues, world/folk music, New Age, and Chinese music. It also features tools to assist educators. The Naxos Spoken Word Library is a large collection of streamed recordings from the Naxos Audiobooks and Naxos Educational catalogs.

NewsBank, Inc.
Naples, FL; 800-762-8182
www.newsbank.com
A leading supplier of online newspapers to libraries, with over 1500 U.S. and international titles, NewsBank also produces NewsBank's America's Obituaries & Death Notices, with over 15 million records and daily updates. Readex, a division of NewsBank, produces scholarly collections of primary sources in microform and electronic formats. Its Archive of Americana collection is comprised of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and government publications. Early American Newspapers, Series I, is complete, and Series II and III are being digitized. Together, they offer unique access to local newspaper archives.

NISC (National Information Services Corporation)
Baltimore, MD; 410-243-0797
www.nisc.com
NISC produces unique databases, both bibliographic and full text, in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences in both CD-ROM and online formats. Among its unique titles are Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources, Arctic & Antarctic Regions, and INFO-LATINOAMERICA. NISC also produces several journals associated with Africa: African Journal of AIDS Research, African Journal of Aquatic Science, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, and Journal of Psychology in Africa. It offers the database Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption free of charge.

OCLC
Dublin, OH; 800-848-5878
www.oclc.org
In January 2006, OCLC acquired the assets of Openly Informatics, Inc., a provider of linking software and services. The linking database from Openly Informatics knowledgebase will enhance WorldCat, OCLC's metadata for ebooks, digital theses, and dissertations and vice versa. In late 2005, OCLC PICA also acquired Fretwell-Downing Informatics. OCLC's eSerials holdings pilot, begun in mid-2005 and continuing into 2006, offers a way to set and maintain electronic resource holdings (including e-journals and aggregated databases) in OCLC WorldCat. WorldCat reached the one billion mark, and NetLibrary now offers more than 100,000 full-text ebook and e-audiobook titles.

Ovid Technologies, Inc.
New York; 800-950-2035
www.ovid.com
Ovid released new interfaces for both the Ovid Web Gateway and SilverPlatter platforms and a new platform for Books@Ovid. Joining the federated search movement, the company released its own federated search product, Ovid SearchSolver, in a partnership with MuseGlobal. COUNTER-compliant usage statistics are now available for the Ovid Web Gateway platform via a new statistics reporting tool, Ovid Stats.

Oxford University Press
New York; 800-334-4249, x6484
www.oxfordonline.com
Oxford Journals Online underwent a major redesign in 2005, including a new domain name (www.oxfordjournals.org) and the consolidation of all Oxford journals from January 2005 on Stanford University's HighWire Press platform. In 2005, Oxford made available online archives of its journal content in five subject-based back files: Humanities, Law, Medicine, Science, and Social Science. Premium subscribers to Oxford Reference Online have several new collection options, including the Western Civilization and Literature Collections. Launching in 2006 are the Oxford African American Studies Center and International Law in Domestic Courts online service.

p4A.com, ltd.
Dayton; 888-481-9600
info.p4aantiquesreference.com; p4a.com
The p4A Antiques Reference Database was initially marketed to public libraries and museums but is now being marketed to academic libraries as well. p4A.com ltd. specializes in collecting and distributing market-based information about antiques, collectibles, and fine art in America and combining this information with its own proprietary reference information about individual items in the p4A database. An average of 1.3 full-color images are available for each record in the database, and licenses are available for onsite use and remote access by IP addressing.

Paratext, Inc.
Sterling, VA; 703-318-0285
www.paratext.com
The Public Documents Masterfile offers federated searching of pre-1976 government documents in tandem with the post-1976 GPO files and contains more than three million records. Projected for 2006 are more document collections, including British, German, United Nations, Canadian, and more. Paratext continues to offer the 19th Century Masterfile, ReferenceUniverse, BookNews Online, and Schwann Online. OpenURL links to all 19th-century full-text sources are projected for 2006.

Project MUSE
Baltimore; 410-516-6989;
muse.jhu.edu
With its tenth anniversary in 2005, Project MUSE introduced a new license for 2006. Forty-six new titles were added for 2006, increasing the company's offering to more than 300 journals from more than 60 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE is now indexed in Google and Google Scholar, and direct links from those resources are available to Project MUSE content. Introduced in 2005 were a new collection (Premium) and a renamed collection (Standard, previously Full). Project MUSE also offers an Australian mirror site.

ProQuest
Ann Arbor, MI; 800-521-0600
www.proquest.com
ProQuest completed the digitization of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times; plans to digitize the Hartford Courant (1764-1984) and The Chicago Defender (1909-75); and expanded its Historical Newspapers collection to include small-town and community newspapers. The vendor announced the sale of its periodical microfilm business to the newly formed National Archive Publishing Company and launched several new products, including the Black Studies Center and Historical Annual Reports. In the K-12 product line, three new resources were released: eLibrary Science, SIRS Decades, and World Conflicts Today from CultureGrams.

Questel*Orbit
McLean, VA; 703-873-4700
www.questel.orbit.com
With its leading patent management tool, QPAT, v4, significantly redesigned, Questel*Orbit also added a selective dissemination of information (SDI) feature to its Merged Markush Service. It will distribute Bayer Business Services Wistract, an information management software designed for researchers, patent attorneys, and information professionals.

Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Mountain View, CA; 800-537-7546
www.rlg.org
In March 2006, ArchiveGrid replaced RLG Archival Resources and, like its predecessor, contains nearly one million archival collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. ArchiveGrid is available free of charge through May 31, 2006. In August 2005, RLG released the first set of Eureka enhancements, and two more are planned. Additionally, RLG worked with former AMICO members to produce the CAMIO database, which replaces The AMICO Library of art images.

Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
King of Prussia, PA; 800-345-6425
www.rittenhouse.com
Rittenhouse is now offering the R2 Library, a web-based application that aggregates monographic content on the desktop for patrons. The R2 Library offers content from health sciences publishers, in the areas of medicine, nursing, and allied health, in a single interface. Purchase can be made at the title level with prices based on the number of concurrent users required for each resource.

Rotunda, University of Virginia Press
Charlottesville, VA; 434-924-1450
rotunda.upress.virginia.edu
Joining the likes of presses from Duke and Johns Hopkins, Rotunda is now the Electronic Imprint brand name for University of Virginia Press publications. Publications may be acquired either separately or as packages or collections, with pricing for libraries and schools based on institution type; pricing is also available for consortia and for individuals. Rotunda includes the papers and letters of George Washington, James Madison, Dolley Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Emily Dickinson, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti.

Safari Tech Books Online
Sebastopol, CA; 800-775-7330
www.safaribooksonline.com
Safari offers e-reference libraries, such as Safari Tech Books Online (for institutions) and Safari Bookshelf (for individuals), providing ebooks in applied science, business, computer science, and IT management. The company recently released SafariU, a tool that allows professors to build their own textbooks, and Rough Cuts, which offers readers immediate access to evolving manuscripts.

Scholastic Library Publishing
Danbury, CT; 888-326-6546
librarypublishing.scholastic.com
Scholastic Library Publishing continues to offer its flagship product, Grolier Online, a collection of seven databases (such as The New Book of Knowledge and Encyclopedia Americana) and an online research portal recently created primarily for the K-12 audience. Under the Grolier Online umbrella, the company offers Grolier Online Kids and Grolier Online Passport.

Snapdata International, Ltd.
London, England; +44 20 7829 8408
www.snapdata.com
Formerly Snapshots International, Snapdata International publishes international research market data; the company was rebranded Snapdata International Group in 2005 and its U.K. and U.S. offices were combined. Its flagship product is now the Snapshot Series, with the company also offering two other products: the Global Panorama Series and Company Portraits. Report coverage includes more than 30 countries and 30 industries.

SourceOECD
Washington, DC; 202-785-6323
www.sourceoecd.com
A service that delivers the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reports and data online, SourceOECD was initially released in 2000 and reintroduced in 2004 with a new platform built by Ingenta. SourceOECD offers more than 1500 ebooks in English and nearly 1000 in French. Titles are subdivided into nine themes, and a new Index to Statistical Variables is now available.

Springer Science+Business Media
New York; 800-SPRINGER
www.springerlink.com
SpringerLink now has more than 1200 journals and 2500 volumes in its Online Books Series (more than 25 series), plus a constantly expanding library of Online Reference Works and Databases, Online electronic books, and Online Journal A