Information World Review articles from July 2006

Information World Review archives from July 2006

New websites engineering quite different results.
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth New websites engineering quite different results ' site reviews Roddy MacLeod, one of the information professionals behind the new TechXtra engineering search service, says that engineering is possibly...

Factiva setting a scorching pace with Web 2.0 add-ins.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering Factiva setting a scorching pace with Web 2.0 add-ins ' site review Factiva has certainly stolen a lead on its rivals -- chief among them LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) and Thomson Dialog (www.dialog.com)...

Academics launch e-learning investigation.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Academics launch e-learning investigation Kim Thomas The benefits of learning technology are to be explored by a new committee that brings together some of the most high-powered names in e-learning. The...

A SCIENTIFIC DIALOGUE.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Company overview)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Jane Dudman A SCIENTIFIC DIALOGUE It's "small but perfectly formed". That's how Tim Hamer, UK head of Thomson Scientific, describes the business he runs. In fact, the size of Thomson Scientific is all relative. It...

can the internet remain neutral?(competition between cable television industry and telecommunications industry)
July 10, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt can the internet remain neutral? American lawmakers are under siege from skilled telecom lobbyists and relatively unskilled, but outraged, participants in the internet world. The reason for the heat and steam...

Digital Universe fails Big Bang test.(Joseph Firmage, Bernard Haisch, Larry Sanger )
July 10, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Digital Universe fails Big Bang test ' site review The Digital Universe project has set itself an interstellar ambition -- to produce a web resource that is accepted by teachers, academics and librarians...

Nature accused of diluting journals for nanoscience gain.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Nature accused of diluting journals for nanoscience gain Mark Cillingworth Nature Publishing Group has defended its journals and pricing structure, after information professionals slammed it for diluting...

Training.(Calendar)
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth XML Summer School 2006 23-28 July 2006, Oxford This is a one-week, top-of-the-line course that will teach information professionals all the elements of the technology language XML. Expect to pay [pounds...

In Brief.(Springer and the Nano Research Society introduce "Nanoscale Research Letters ")(EBSCO Information Services signs MPS Technology)(Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health from Blackwell Publishing)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Nano Research Letters are an Open Choice Nanoscale Research Letters is the first journal to be jointly developed by STM publisher Springer and the Nano Research Society to use the Springer Open Choice author...

Ingenta wins global deals for platform.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Kim Thomas Eleven publishers, including Haworth Press, a US healthcare specialist, have signed up to the IngentaConnect platform, which provides subscription and pay-per-view access to scholarly journals and...

Royal Society set per page charge.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Royal Society sets per-page charge Kim Thomas The Royal Society is to charge authors [pounds sterling]300 per page to use its new open access journal service. EXiS Open Choice will offer authors...

Economist Group search for acquisitions.(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering The Economist Group search for acquisitions Bobby Pickering The Economist Group has raised the possibility of being in a takeover frame of mind, as it posted upbeat results for the year to 31...

Thomson Financial acquires AFX.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering Thomson Financial announced last month that it has acquired AFX News, the London-based European financial news service run by Agence France-Presse. But it denied it is building a rival service to Bloomberg and...

OpenText adopts Oracle ECM.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas OpenText adopts Oracle ECM Kim Thomas Enterprise content management (ECM) vendor OpenText has agreed a deal with Oracle to use the database giant's new Content Database infrastructure software. The Oracle...

Skinkers RSS technology backed up by Microsoft.
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Skinkers RSS technology backed up by Microsoft Skinkers, the London-based RSS-driven alerts technology provider, has secured technology-development backing from Microsoft. Skinkers has recently inked deals...

Whose rights need protecting?(digital rights management)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Whose rights need most protection? ' analysis A British Library seminar room recently played host to a motley gathering that included publishers, lawyers, music industry representatives, online...

JISC funds HE gateway to FoI.(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell JISC funds HE gateway to FoI information Tracey Caldwell Higher education is to get its own web gateway to information about the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) and information governance legislation, such...

In brief.
July 10, 2006... Byline: kim thomas Oxford dictionaries dial into mobile phones A new service from Oxford University Press (OUP) enables users to receive word definitions on their mobile phones from the publisher's dictionary range. At any time of the...

Open access open to debate.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Open access open to debate The open access (OA) debate continues to rumble on. Just as commentators are forever predicting the end of the line for the newspaper and the novel, the end of this debate is...

Talis competition seeks a mashup.
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Talis competition seeks a mashup Mark Chillingworth Library automation software vendor Talis is offering a [pounds sterling]1,000 prize to lure information professionals to show off their mashing...

A new direction for IPs.(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering A new direction for IPs? Do information professionals need to raise their game? This has always been a profession that has been torn by the conflicting demands of its users. Traditionally, IPs have grappled with...

Impact factors rocked by manipulation charge.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Impact factors rocked by manipulation charge Tracey Caldwell Shady practices by editors and publishers seeking to boost their impact factor rankings have thrown the integrity of ranking into question....

Microsoft hands copyright control over to publishers.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Microsoft hands copyright control over to publishers Tracey Caldwell Microsoft has moved further into searching copyright material with its Windows Live Books Publisher Program. Launched in May, the...

STM giants focus on Author ID.(author identification tools from Elsevier Group PLC and Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell STM giants focus on Author ID Tracey Caldwell Elsevier's Scopus database and Thomson Scientific have gone head to head with the launch of author identification tools. Amanda Spiteri, Elsevier's director...

Elsevier sponsors a more open-access article model.(Elsevier Group PLC)
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Elsevier sponsors a more open-access article model Nuclear physics authors can opt to pay for their articles to be published in six physics journals published by Elsevier under a new Sponsored Articles scheme...

RCUKfails to time stamp open access.(Research Councils UK)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth RCUK fails to time stamp open access Mark Chillingworth A long-awaited position paper from the Research Councils UK (RCUK) has failed to clarify its position on free access to research information funded...

Roll your own federated communal search engine.
July 10, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Roll your own federated communal search engine Rollyo's single-search service is an easy-to-use Yahoo-based search tool that lets users share their favourite websites. Mark Chillingworth skins up ' site...