Information World Review articles from June 2006

Information World Review archives from June 2006

The stark naked truth about blogs.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth The stark naked truth about blogs ' Book review Blogging evangelists Robert Scoble and Shel Israel reveal the growing power of the new medium in their new title, Naked Conversations. The premise of...

An insult to the intelligence.(Dictionary of Information and Library Management)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering An insult to the intelligence ' Book review It's difficult to believe that the Dictionary of Information & Library Management has made it into a second edition because the book is such a witless waste of...

ISCTRC adds polish to its spy glass.(EBSCO Information Services's international security & counter terrorism reference center)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering ISCTRC adds polish to its spy glass ' site review Ebsco's International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) database has been given a new interface that greatly improves search abilities...

CONTENT ANXIETIES IN A DIGITAL AGE.(British Library)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell CONTENT ANXIETIES IN A DIGITAL AGE The British Library has a budget to die for. Yet the massive increase in the volume of information being produced, and rapid changes in the way this content is being...

Law of the online land.(LexisNexis Group)(Company overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Jane Dudman Law of the Online Land There's always a problem with beefing up an existing brand. The art of reinventing a well-known name in a particular field is fraught with the peril that the exercise implies a period of...

Elsevier to unveil new look ScienceDirect in mid-August.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering Elsevier to unveil new look ScienceDirect in mid-August Bobby Pickering Elsevier is preparing to unveil a major redesign of its ScienceDirect website in August, the beginning of a rolling programme of...

Academic search with a very personal touch.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Academic search with a very personal touch ' site review Microsoft's newly launched Windows Live Academic Search site, now available in beta, is a potentially valuable new tool for both academics and information...

Mobile explosion projects the future where you want.
June 5, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt Mobile explosion projects the future where you want David Tebbutt While not the only game in town, mobile phones and other handheld gizmos grabbed plenty of attention at Innovate Europe in mid-May. The event,...

Wiley expands EBM guides from Finland Academic and medical publisher John Wiley & Sons has secured a long-term deal with Finnish medical publisher Duodecim Medical Publications, which will see the Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines published in English.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Wiley expands EBM guides from Finland Academic and medical publisher John Wiley & Sons has secured a long-term deal with Finnish medical publisher Duodecim Medical Publications, which will see the...

TSO rebuffs latest sell-off rumours.
June 5, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth TSO rebuffs latest sell-off rumours Mark Chillingworth Former state-owned publisher, The Stationary Office (TSO), has rebuffed reports that it is due to be sold off by its majority stakeholder, Apax...

Wellcome Trust hits million page mark.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Wellcome Trust hits million page mark Kim Thomas The Wellcome Trust has completed the first million pages of its project to digitise nearly 200 years' worth of medical journals. The project, which started in...

Sussex helps dent Oxbridge citation league dominance.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: tracey caldwell Sussex helps dent Oxbridge citation league dominance Tracey Caldwell Oxbridge dominates the scientific citation league in the UK, according to a ranking by Thomson Scientific's Science Watch of 150...

Report vindicates JISC's OA funding.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Report vindicates JISC's OA funding Tracey Caldwell Funding for publishers willing to trial open access (OA) publishing has allayed concerns about the OA business model, according to JISC. Its three-year...

OpenText in the Office Tracey Caldwell OpenText is to make its enterprise content management (ECM) tools accessible through the Microsoft Office 2007 application range. OpenText will combine the information lifecycle management (ILM) and content manageme.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell OpenText in the Office Tracey Caldwell OpenText is to make its enterprise content management (ECM) tools accessible through the Microsoft Office 2007 application range. OpenText will combine the...

Library technology to simplify broadcasting.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Library technology to simplify broadcasting Kim Thomas A lack of standards in technology is making the lives of media information professionals more difficult. Katharine Schopflin, chair of association of UK...

Emerald fine tunes its engineering portal.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Emerald fine tunes its engineering portal Kim Thomas A new engineering portal, aimed at both practising engineers and academics, has been launched by Emerald Publishing. The portal, Emerald Engineering, will...

Guide dog website.
June 5, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, the charity that supplies blind and partially sighted people with trained dogs to improve their mobility and quality of life, is overhauling its website and intranet services...

London Book Fair wins out after Frankfurt challenge.(Frankfurt Book Fair)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith London Book Fair wins out after Frankfurt challenge Laura Smith The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) is seeking legal advice after losing a London venue to its main rival less than a week after announcing plans to...

FT embargo extended to 24 hours.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith FT embargo extended to 24 hours Laura Smith The Financial Times (FT) is to extend an embargo on feeds of its content to news aggregators until midnight on the day of publication. This new move will...

Brindley a beacon at BL.(British Library, Lynne Brindley)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering Brindley a beacon at BL Last month's full-throttle attack on the current management of the British Library by the historian Tristram Hunt is a piece of elitist nonsense. In the columns of the supposedly...

Author ups pressure on BL for user group.
June 5, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Author ups pressure on BL for user group Mark Chillingworth The British Library has given the idea of an independent users' forum the cold shoulder. Author and Freedom of Information Act (FoI) campaigner...

AAP club to fight US Fed Research Act.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth AAP club to fight US Fed Research Act Mark Chillingworth STM publishers are coming together within the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to fight the proposed Federal Research Public Access Act...

BioMed upbeat despite editors' concerns over content overlap.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth BioMed upbeat despite editors' concerns over content overlap Mark Chillingworth Concerned voices of dissent from the editors of BioMed Central journals are merely part of the process of creating a new...

Hummingbird flies into private hands.(Symphony Technology Group acquires)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Hummingbird flies into private hands Mark Chillingworth Enterprise content management (ECM) heavyweight Hummingbird has switched from being a publicly listed company to private ownership. Hummingbird...

Designing space for thought.(Birmingham University)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Designing space for thought ' book review JISC's guide to designing spaces for learning sets out considerations for the 21st century, which includes future-proof design for learning spaces. Increasingly,...