Information World Review articles from February 2007

Information World Review archives from February 2007

commons touch on rights.
February 5, 2007... Byline: tracey caldwell commons touch on rights Copyright has become a battleground. On one side are those who want tighter restrictions to protect the rights and revenues of creators and publishers. On the other are those who say that...

document management evolves for the wider world.
February 5, 2007... Byline: bobby pickering document management evolves for the wider world The big stories in the electronic document and records management system (EDRMS) market in 2006 were the arrival of the heavyweight IT infrastructure suppliers --...

Leaked plan to attack open access has science in uproar.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Leaked plan to attack open access has science in uproar Mark Chillingworth Hiring a PR agency to take control of the open access (OA) debate has backfired on the Association of American Publishers (AAP)...

Idox lets TFPL Recruitment go.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Idox lets TFPL Recruitment go Tracey Caldwell TFPL Recruitment is up for sale following a year when the information management recruitment market saw a marked shift away from contract to permanent...

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February 5, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth ' reader survey Gadgets galore! It's survey time again. The IWR reader survey is your chance to have your say about Information World Review and the general state of the information industry. Oh, and you...

the telegraph marches to the beat of a different drum.(Website overview)
February 5, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth The Telegraph marches to the beat of a different drum ' site review Newspapers are having a tough time of it. Not only has the internet transformed their business landscape, but a slew of free newspapers...

Our web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains.
February 5, 2007... Byline: david tebbutt Our Web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains David Tebbutt In Web 2.0 circles, you often hear the "IT is dead" theme, or meme, as they like to term it. Or you may hear "IT will become a utility" as an...

Jisc uploads 130 years of census reports.(Joint Information Systems Committee)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith JISC uploads 130 years of census reports Laura Smith Every British census report between 1801 and 1937 has been made available free online for the first time as part of a project to digitise historically...

Piribo piles up pay as you go information.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Daniel Griffin Pharmaceutical and biotech online information company Piribo has launched an e-commerce information service, ReportBuyer.com. Rather than focus primarily on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology...

bling goes online to help UK's jewellers sparkle.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Bling goes online to help the UK's jewellers sparkle A government-backed investment plan for the UK's jewellery sector has awarded the contract to create an online information hub to content management company...

ProQuest clears up missing links.
February 5, 2007... Byline: kim Thomas ProQuest clears up missing links Kim Thomas Database aggregation company ProQuest Information and Learning has launched a search tool that will link users to the full text of electronic content in a library's...

Cornwell bags EC e-guidance update.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Cornwell bags EC e-guidance update Laura Smith The European Commission has awarded Cornwell Management Consultants a [pounds sterling]200,000 deal to update European guidance on the management of electronic...

Lazarus brings out of print back to life.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Lazarus brings out of print back to life Tracey Caldwell Cambridge University Press profited to the tune of [pounds sterling]500,000 in 2006 from its Lazarus programme for putting out-of-print books back in...

The perils of PR pitbulling.(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth The perils of PR pitbulling Put aside your opinions on open access (OA) as a publishing model, and consider for a minute the sad fact that the industry has reached the point where it feels it is necessary to...

Blackwell deal furore mounts.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Blackwell deal furore mounts The acquisition of scientific publisher Blackwell by US rival John Wiley has met with widespread condemnation from libraries and universities across Europe and the US, concerned that...

Police drop ECM from FoI beat.(enterprise content management)(Freedom of Information)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Police drop ECM from FoI beat Laura Smith Hampshire Police has demanded its money back from technology firm Hummingbird after an enterprise content management (ECM) system designed to help it handle requests...

BL and Bill team up on da Vinci codex.
February 5, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth BL and Bill team up on da Vinci codexa[bar] Mark Chillingworth Two notebooks that document the thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific investigations have been made available online following a...

Cuts loom for BL.(The British Library)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Tracey Caldwell The British Library has painted a dire picture of its future if proposed budget cuts of up to 7% go ahead. According to the BL, cuts of the magnitude planned by the Department of Culture,...

MIT.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: kim thomas MIT puts entire curriculum at disposal of e-learners Kim Thomas The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be available free online...