Information World Review articles from January 2007

Information World Review archives from January 2007

2006: takeovers, makeovers and handovers.
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin 2006: takeovers, makeovers and handovers January High: Gowers to head up IP review Dry: Nature and Britannica fall out Starting the year with a controversial bang, scientific journal Nature...

What the government doesn't tell you.(Sources of Non-Official UK Statistics)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin What the government doesn't tell youa[bar] ' book review The abundance of governmental and official statistics available is nicely complemented by the succinctly and accurately entitled Sources of...

Get up to speed with Web 2.0.(Web 2.0)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Byline: david tebbutt Get up to speed with Web 2.0 ' book review Defining best practices for Web 2.0 is a huge challenge -- the whole point of Web 2.0 is that it's continuously evolving. But hats off to John Musser for trying. His...

Taking stock of sentiment.(Website overview)
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin Taking stock of sentiment ' site review The web-based Corpora News analysis tool is designed for researchers, PR agents and investors keen to track news coverage. The site extracts text from web-based news...

British library's blast from the past.(Website overview)
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin British Library's blast from the past ' site review Over the past two years, the British Library, with financial support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has embarked on a large-scale...

Blogosphere.
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin Don't bash the buzz Passionate, Creating Passionate Users http://headrush.typepad. com/creating_passionate_users Web 2.0 was one of the most prominent topics up for debate at this year's Online...

taking part.
January 8, 2007... Byline: bobby pickering Key Notes: professional groups and services suppliers

Training and Continuing professional development.
January 8, 2007... Byline: bobby pickering Training and Continuing professional development As the new year begins, savvy information professionals will be weighing up the state of the profession to see where the threats to their livelihoods might...

Breathing new life into kM.(knowledge management)
January 8, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Breathing new life into kM A lot of people are asking: "Is knowledge management dead?" A common response is: "Did it ever live?" Part of the problem lies in different people's understanding of the term....

Why you should always deliver the punchline first.
January 8, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Why you should always deliver the punchline first David Tebbutt How many times have you heard the phrase "sell the sizzle, not the sausage"? And how often do you resolve to do so to capture interest and...

' Blog responses Turning knowledge into value Many organisations don't understand the potential impact or value of knowledge management technology. That's why what we are doing in East Lothian and in Scottish schools in general seems to be working. We ha.
January 8, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth ' Blog responses Turning knowledge into value Many organisations don't understand the potential impact or value of knowledge management technology. That's why what we are doing in East Lothian and in...

whn is open access really open access?
January 8, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell When is open access really open access? Tracey Caldwell Some forms of open access are, it seems, more open than others, with a an American Scientist Open Access Forum debate ending with a consensus that a...

Mutual jisc company board voted in.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Laura Smith The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced details of JISC Collections, a mutual trading company that will license online resources for education bodies and research councils. All...

Where's portal technology going?(Andrew Cox's Portals)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Byline: jonathan gordon till Where's portal technology going? ' book review It is difficult to judge a book like Andrew Cox's Portals given that no commonly agreed definition exists of the role of this technology. But one...

Esmerk wins GB Railfreight contract.
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin Global business reports provider Esmerk has been selected as the information provider for GB Railfreight's strategic decision makers. GB Railfreight operates rail freight services such as bulk freight, container...

Brown shakes up health research.(Gordon Brown)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Brown shakes up health research Laura Smith Medical research institutions and funding bodies have given a cautious welcome to proposals that will overhaul the public funding of health research in the UK and...

The top websites of 2006.
January 8, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin sites with sizzle: IWR's picks of the year Exact Editions This digital magazine platform makes content as searchable as in e-journals and e-books, with fast and reliable results. It even manages to find...

evidence guides gowers to strike the right balance on copyright.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Evidence guides Gowers to strike the right balance on copyright As the author of the Gowers Review into copyright and intellectual property, Andrew Gowers has struck just the right note. "The evidence he...

Tel will fail unless EU collaborates.(The European Library)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: laura smith TEL will fail unless EU collaborates Laura Smith Museums, libraries, publishers and European Commission officials have called for better collaboration between national libraries to ensure an ambitious project...

elesevier talks up output informatics for academia.
January 8, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Elsevier talks up output informatics for academia Mark Chillingworth STM publishers can provide universities with the help they need in measuring their output so as to attract funding and students in the...

in brief.
January 8, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Management in the mixer at Cambridge University Press Michael Holdsworth, managing director of EMEA at Cambridge University Press, has left the company and will be replaced by Andrew Gilfillan, previously...

Brown shakes up health research.(Gordon Brown)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith two bodies are also planned, as is speeding up the adoption of cost-effective drugs and the prioritisation of public and private sector research that addresses health needs that have not been met. Speaking at the...

Wiley digitises 750 books in Landmark series.(John Wiley & Sons Inc.)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Wiley digitises 750 books in Landmark series Daniel Griffin Scientific, technical and medical publisher John Wiley & Sons is to digitise back volumes from its Landmark series of books. The digitised...

yahoo rejects google subpoena.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Daniel Griffin Google's subpoena of Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo to help fight a lawsuit against a group of publishers and the Authors Guild has been rejected by the company's search rivals Yahoo and Amazon. ...

proquest information and learning to merge with CSA in $222m deal.
January 8, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth ProQuest Information and Learning to merge with CSA in $222m deal Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has bought academic database provider ProQuest Information and Learning and will merge the ProQuest division...