***Online World
by Jonathan Sunberg
In keeping with our coverage of events in new media WAVE attended the
ONLINE WORLD Conference & Expo in Washington, DC from Oct. 28-30. This is
the premier show for information based products. Among the numerous new
products announced, 9 stood out as industry newsmakers:
EBSCO Publishing has announced Collectanea, an easy-to-use, inexpensive
Web-based access to a large pool of information via the Internet or
corporate intranets.
The collection is divided into Collectanea Corporate and Collectanea
Consumer. Corporate contains articles from 1,000 publications hyperlinked
to extensive information on more than 30,000 companies, and can be
searched by topic, company name, or plain-English queries. Corporate
contains 50 special interest areas and costs $1 per user per year (a
$10,000 minimum). Consumer is $5.95 per month for unlimited searching or
$49.95 per year. This collection has six reference collections, which
include over 1,600 puclications and over 380 full text journals and
magazines.
www.collectanea.com
Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. the largest information provider, has
created a product for the web. The announcement of Dialog Web shows the
impact the Internet has had on the traditional online industry by making
Dialog searchable on the Web. Dialog Web, expected to be available in
Feb. of 1997, will have full HTML output and copyright compliancy for e-
mail redistribution, it will also contain an easy to use database
directory with hyperlinks to complete bluesheets.
Dialog Web will be available for the same price as Dialog and has an
automatic log-off mechanism after 10 minutes of inactivity in order to
prevent any unncessary charges. Current customers will be able to use
their existing password, while new customers only need to fill out a
simple online Service Agreement.
dialog.krinfo.com
Dow Jones has continued its focus on the business market with DowVision.
This web based service provides customized company folders and portfolios
(up to 100 stocks), major newspapers, and personalized folders. It is the
exclusive electronic source for the combined current day's editions of
the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times
and Financial Times, as well as the Dow Jones News Service and Barron's.
Consistent with DowVision's current Intranet pricing model, Dow Vision
offers discounts as the number of users grows. For as little as $2 per
seat, per month, corporate customers can receive business news, info. and
quotes directly on their desktops.
dowvision.dowjones.com
Amulet has introduced InfoWizard. The online research agent analyzes data
from authoritative industry sources and the Web, and delivers
personalized, pre-formatted reports containing 20-30 documents for $5-
$10.
This service eliminates downtime by doing the search work for you. By
going to the InfoWizard page one can inquire about a search, then let the
software, located back at Amulet's headquarters, gather and sort through
data from thousands of authoritative sources including on-line databases,
premier publications, news wires, and WWW sites. All the request
processing is done offline, which allows the user to work on other tasks,
while waiting for the report. In about 20 to 30 minutes a message is then
e-mailed notifying the user that the report is ready. Then for $5 to $15
you can purchase the report, which is ranked in relevance and organized
in subsections directly on your PC.
www.infowizard.com
Information Access Company's IAC InSite is a family of daily-updated,
flat-fee services offering access via the Web to 2500 of the world's
leading trade and business publications, industry newsletters, and
popular magazines.
The site covers 65 industries and contains over 7 million articles. This
release has added about 30,000 international company directory records to
the 170,000 US directory records already available. The subscription
price is based on a flat fee per seat. For consumer use it is $16.95 per
seat and for business use it is $39.95 per seat.
www.iac-insite.com
LEXIS-NEXIS announced improvements to its Market Research Library. To
promote these enhancements, the company has waived the $6 to $9 search
fee in the Market Research Library (MKTRES) through Dec. 31, 1996. The
library allows customers to purchase report information online by
subsection, eliminating the cost of buying an entire report. Users may
browse the entire table of contents and study the methodology of most
reports, as well as the actual tables, minus the data, before purchasing
the information. The subsections are $18 each, with a table it is $20.
The library also gives users a description and table of contents of over
1500 articles not in Nexis, which may be obtained elsewhere.
www.lexis-nexis.com/marketing/
Paracel's second major release in the past six months, is the first Web-
based enterprise wide news service which incorporates data fusion, called
Paracel TODAY. The product contains four unique features:
Data Fusion - hotlinks to company information on a highly customizable
platform.
PT Alert! - a non-intrusive floating ticker bar which headlines news and
business intelligence right on your desktop throughout the day.
Sources- 2500 national and international business and trade sources from
Dow Vision
Intuitive User Interface - The Front Page, Today's News, and A Week in
Review, are all customizable and easy to use.
www.paracel.com
Wave Issue 9612 11/8/96 Article 5-01