Information World Review articles from December 2007

Information World Review archives from December 2007

take control of the information joystick.(business information management, Thomas Cook Group and Solcara Ltd.)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin take control of the information joystick In the post-9/11 world, a global organisation can be vulnerable to any number of major incidents. A business or government department has to protect its international...

D&B puts the business facts at your fingertips with a tweakeri?1/2s paradise.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin D&B puts the business facts at your fingertips with a tweaker's paradise ' site review Dun and Bradstreet's Company Documents Service A- which provides access to Companies House documentation such as...

Meet the greatest names in science.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Meet the greatest names in science ' site review From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the Royal Society's wedding cake building in London's Carlton Terrace has been the home of British and Commonwealth...

STM mines workflow.(scientific, technical and medical information, Elsevier and Beilstein)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Wendy Warr STM mines workflow Scientific, technical and medical (STM) information has had an eventful 2007, full of acquisitions, controversies and new products. On the business side, a key event was Elsevier's acquisition...

tap into workflow.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas tap into workflow Major information providers such as Thomson and ProQuest, which offer academics and librarians access to millions of scholarly articles and research databases, now do much more than supply the...

Unmissable invite to read all about it.(British Library and technical partner Cengage Learning new website)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Unmissable invite to read all about it ' site review They are the first draft of history but, as many researchers would admit, are often overlooked. Historic newspapers, though, could enter the mindsets...

is virtual a virtue in scholarship?
December 3, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin is virtual a virtue in scholarship? Information literacy is close to Sheila Webber's heart. Her position as senior lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at Sheffield University is the latest role she...

beware the host with handcuffs.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Martin De Saulles beware the host with handcuffs One of the characteristics of Web 2.0 services is their collaborative nature. Hosted on the web servers of a third-party provider, the wikis, blogs or files created by your...

Smart businesses target people, not technology.
December 3, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Smart businesses target people, not technology A few weeks ago, Freeform Dynamics completed some private research among readers of a massively popular online publication. About 1,500 people responded to questions...

Back to Basics: the wiki.(wiki technologies)
December 3, 2007... Back to Basics: the wiki Discussion about wiki technologies is dominated by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. But there's more to wikis than Wikipedia, and a host of wiki applications exist to help you create information...

Microsoft blows enterprise search open with free tool.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Martin Veitch Microsoft blows enterprise search open with free tool Martin Veitch Microsoft has released a beta version of Search Server 2008 and plans full delivery in the first half of 2008, with a free Express version...

Citation software initiates analysis of search results.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Citation software initiates analysis of search results Tracey Caldwell Eugene Garfield, founder of the ISI citation index, has launched software designed to help science professionals make better use of...

FT offers fee exemptions for corporates.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas FT offers fee exemptions for corporates Kim Thomas Ahead of its introduction of direct subscription for corporate customers in April 2008, The Financial Times (FT) has announced a bridging agreement to smooth...

Deal gives academia four more years of ScienceDirect access.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Deal gives academia four more years of ScienceDirect access Kim Thomas Elsevier and the National e-Journals Initiative 2 (NESLi2) have agreed a four-year licence extension to give members of NESLi2 continued...

Newsstand digimags loaded for academics.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Newsstand digimags loaded for academics Laura Smith Libraries at academic institutions are to be given the chance to subscribe to online versions of popular magazines for the first time. Web-based magazine...

Amazon releases e-book reader.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Amazon releases e-book reader Kim Thomas Online retailer Amazon has launched the Kindle, a wireless internet-enabled e-book reader. At the New York launch, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said books had so far...

D&B launches two-pronged bid for Japan.(Dun and Bradstreet and Tokyo Shoko Research )(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Tracey Cladwell D&B launches two-pronged bid for Japan Tracey Caldwell Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) has moved to build its position in Japan by taking a majority stake in a joint venture with existing Japanese partner Tokyo...

PM calls on libraries to join the fight against extremism.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth PM calls on libraries to join the fight against extremism Mark Chillingworth Gordon Brown has called on universities and their libraries to join the fight against extremism and terrorism. In a...

EBSCO adds online health informatics.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas EBSCO adds online health informatics Kim Thomas EBSCO Information Services is to provide a subscription-based online reference library to medical research organisations and libraries. The StatRef library is...

Experian puts its bureau on the web.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Experian puts its bureau on the web Tracey Caldwell Experian is offering web access to data previously available only via its bureau services or corporate desktop systems. Demographics Online draws on...

No easy cure for patent problems.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Dan Griffin No easy cure for patent problems ' ANALYSIS There is an ever-growing glut of patent and related information swilling around global databases and libraries. But what makes the search task of professional patent...

VizNet rescues research from data overload.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth VizNet rescues research from data overload Tracey Caldwell Visualisation centres in the UK have got together and set up VizNet to help researchers analyse and present growing amounts of data. With...

Antarctica push fuels data rush.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Antarctica push fuels data rush Laura Smith Antarctica, once the lonely domain of Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton, is the setting for the last land-grab in history. Britain, Argentina and Chile have all...

You pay for what you get.(Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the child benefit records fiasco)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth You pay for what you get Civil servants have been left reeling by the news that CDs containing millions of child benefit records from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) database have been lost. The full...

Sanger toasts Citizendiumi?1/2s first birthday.(Citizendium's Larry Sanger on its first year anniversary)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Sanger toasts Citizendium's first birthday Citizendium, the rival to Wikipedia launched a year ago, has gone from strength to strength, according to its founder and editor-in-chief. Larry Sanger, the co-founder...

Sage teams up with Egyptian OA expert.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Sage teams up with Egyptian OA expert Mark Chillingworth Scientific and academic publisher Sage has entered the open access (OA) arena with a unique approach, thanks to a deal with Egyptian scientific,...

Thomson pulls IP elements together in a single system.(Thompson Scientific on intellectual property)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Thomson pulls IP elements together in a single system Intellectual property (IP) can now be managed, searched for and evaluated on a single interface from information provider Thomson Scientific. Thomson...

Bush bombs open access plans in war on spending.(President George W. Bush on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Bush bombs open access plans in war on spending US president George Bush has dealt open access supporters a blow by vetoing a bill to broaden requirements for free access to academic material. The US Senate...

Springer time for Kew.(International academic publisher Springer to publish Kew Gardens' journal)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Springer time for Kew International academic publisher Springer is to publish Kew Gardens' official scientific journal, writes Laura Smith. Kew Bulletin covers botanical developments at Kew, which is one of...

HMRC data fiasco sparks call for reform from experts.(Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs )
December 3, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell HMRC data fiasco sparks call for reform from experts Tracey Caldwell The HM Revenue and Customs blunder that led to the loss of CDs containing the personal data of 25 million child benefit recipients has...