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DowJones Interactive Business information.
Pricing: Subscription based but with "free" searching, each article $2.95 each.
Functionality: Browse, profiling (to e-mail, online), and intranet feeds. 
Meant to be a link between their personal service for the wall stree journal and their deep research tool. 

Dialog Business information, scientific information strength too.  LiveIntranet, a Web-based information-management system that uses InfoSort, the company's proprietary indexing technology. It allows companies to automatically index and categorize both internal and external information and documents by the same standard terminology. Partnership announced 6/99 with Fujitsu whose  TeamWare division brings together the company's messaging and groupware technologies and is working on a new Knowledge Browser technology, which has intelligent monitoring to analyse what the individual browses every day and to build a personal library.

InSite2 From the Gale group, business intelligence subscription, web-based over 2,500 publications (5year archive), organized around companies, industries, and people. Uses the Gale Group indexing and enhances the Margin Links (ability to search on index terms), and hotlinks URLs appearing within articles. E-mail alerts, cites include title annotations and word count display, cites with summary or exerpts, cite plus kwic format. After a digest search, it will sort trade press articles by business topic (e.g., joint ventures, acquisitions, market share, etc.). Users can also choose to sort by Products & Services, Companies Mentioned, and Publication Name. Sets of companies, usually sorted by largest to smallest in
revenue, now can also be sorted alphabetically by company name, by geographic location, or by SIC code.  The Digest feature helps novices by grouping results in logical folders emphasizing current and relevant materials on a subject. Searchers can enter a company, industry, or name
and receive a company profile, full-text industry articles, news and key events, newsletter reports, Investext analyst reports for publicly traded companies, and direct link to SEC EDGAR filings for public companies, as well as other Webbased information through Margin Links.

KnowledgeCite Library - a unified collection of scholarly indexes, abstracts, and articles, crossing all disciplines and searchable through a single interface.  It uses an altavista search engine.  From the relevance-ranked list of search results you see links to all of the databases of the entire library. Subject terms are prominently shown-and allow the user to launch a search directly on that subject term.  Every word is indexed by multiple criteria, which work together to eliminate duplicate entries and create context and links between databases. The resulting hypertext library follows the Library of Congress Subject Headings.  It can also link with other library services like OPACs, interlibrary loan, document delivery and E-text. 

KnowledgeCite's Relevance Ranking: Six Criteria:  1. Term Location: Terms located in the subject field get a higher score; 2. Term Proximity: Documents where search terms are closer together get higher scores than documents where the words are farther apart; 3. Document Date: Documents that are newer (based on publication year) get a higher score; 4. Term Completeness: Documents that contain all or most of the query words get a higher score than documents that have only some of the query words; 5. Term Frequency: Documents with multiple instances of search terms get higher scores than documents with single occurrences; 6. Term weight: Stopwords receive lesser weight, and words that occur very infrequently in the database are given greater emphasis in the final score. [Source]

LEXIS-NEXIS One stop shopping for business, legal, medical, financial, market research information. 
Pricing: Pay as you go, or subscription based on use.
Functionality: Browse, profiling (to e-mail, online, fax), and intrernet and intranet feeds through private database solutions and Tell Me More program.

NewsEdge Business information - basic service at no cost primarily press releases, newswires.
Pricing: Premium service access to business publications.
Functionality: browse, profiling(to e-mail, online) and intranet feeds. Newer integration now with Microsoft mail product Exchange.  News comes into folders in Exchange. It uses their NewsTool product, NewsEdge NewsObjects®, that enables fully customizable, plug-and-play integration of news profiling and searching into third-party applications.

News Machine or 1st Page (RTI or Retrieval Technologies inc.)  Real-time news from Dow Jones, Associated Press, Financial Times, IntellX, Reuters, and many others with profiling capabilities, browsing, portfolio creation and more. Latest version allows easy to publish and easy to control broadcast of internal information.

OneSource Business Browser, consists of Company Profiler, Watchlist Update, Company Finder, Industry Profiler, Topic Search, and Executive Search. 

Powerize.com Web based news, financial and business information provider.  Basic, advanced and topical (news, financial) searches.  Result sets provide abstracts, rank by relevance, searching is free can purchase by document or subscription.  Currently over 8000 publications. Newswires, newspapers, newsletters and journals. Sources: chose to search by category or source, can limit by price of article, and sort by a variety of features. Seems to be archival as well as current. No visible clipping service option. 30 day free trial.  A powerize server permits simultaneous searching for intranets across local content, online services content and the web. It does permit persistent queries called channels.

Reuters   Their newswires and onlinre reports real time.  They offer Target News a way to add news to your web site - you work with their cybrarian to set up the feed by topic and pay a one time $1500 fee.  Can also include personal investing services including delayed quotes, historical pricing charts, company news, Market Snapshot and Portfolio Tracker.

SageMaker Access to over 4,000 full text busines and industry publications. Browser interface. But the tools also organize, integrate and allow sophisticated, subject-based searches on all types of internal as well as external information. It appears to be user-friendly information management and the ability to also track resource use. Server tools use Fulcrum search and indexing, database is oracle 8 and NT server.  7 day trial to SageWave the information tool is available at the web site.   Recent talks with Netcenter to make its sources available to small business using their custom netcenter.

WavePhore Newscast real-time delivery of over 4,500 sources using browsers. Customize news profiles or chose one of their 1300 topics, broadcast internal company announcements, forms or documents, track favorite stocks on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ,  includes in-depth Company Dossiers from D&B, e-mail alerts for remote notification of news and both "push" and "pull" delivery methods. Can feed extranets, intranets and web sites. Intralinks allow knowledge managers to link external info to work product.   Can deliver to Notes, too.

SMALL BUSINESS OR PERSONAL CURRENT AWARENESS

Electric Library Offers full text searching across papers, magazines, encyclopedias, and more. Major paper coverage is lacking though there are a healthy number of computer and management oriented magazines.  Monthly subscription $9.95 and Annual $59.95. 30 day trial is offered here to test the breadth of content.

NorthernLight Search engine design categorizes result sets.  Result set includes both web sites and special collection content.  Searches at no cost. Content in the special library includes materials from Investext, Major papers and other business publications and now the NTIS.
Pricing: Pay per article option or subscription.

NorthernLight is now partnering with Athena Library Automation Systems.  A webLink feature called Reference Search, links patrons directly from the library's catalog to the Northern Light research engine and carries the search terms they used to search the library over to their search engine. [Source]   They are also partnering with Teltech to provide research services.

The National Technical Information Service NTIS - government-sponsored U.S. and world wide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.  Search free at this link (leave the Boolean connector "OR" out of your search request - just use spaces) Critique: There are better sites for some of this information.  Little abstract or summary information is provided.  Reports are expensive - $40 range is not atypical. (You may want to subscribe to Gov.Research_Center depending on your needs instead which includes the abstracts.)

WinStar Business InfoCenter Offers business/company information, Copyrights, Patents & Trademarks, Medicine, News, People and Biographies, Science & Technology, Social Science, Govt. and Education through publishers like D&B, LEXIS-NEXIS, Experian and more.  Searches can be as low as .50 each but the purchase of the full record averages $6.00.

NEGOTIATING AGREEMENTS

How to negotiate a global contract with one of these services. [Source]

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