Information World Review articles from March 2006

Information World Review archives from March 2006

A textbook for our time.(An Introduction to Library and Information Work)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell A textbook for our time Censorship, gender and IT: Tracey Caldwell finds it all in the standard textbook This edition of An Introduction to Library and Information Work updates what has become the standard...

Quosa's sharing habit will be hard to resist.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Quosa's sharing habit will be hard to resist The simplest way yet to let colleagues share, organise and analyse STM information services? Mark Chillingworth downloads and delves All the major players in...

Ivory tower introduction.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 6, 2006... Byline: jonathan gordon-till Ivory tower introduction A set of popular scholarly papers leaves Jonathan Gordon-Till scratching his head This handbook presents information management in the form of 15 scholarly papers, which have...

Councils roll out Google Mini on back of Jadu CMS.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Councils roll out Google Mini on back of Jadu CMS Accuracy and speed improve, and customer service traffic shifts to web, as council implements Google Mini-based content management. Kim Thomas reports Kettering...

Oxford clarifies cuts agenda.(University of Oxford)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Oxford clarifies cuts agenda Mark Chillingworth There will be no compulsory redundancies at the Oxford University libraries as a result of its [pounds sterling]100m restructuring plan, acting director...

Evidence to drive health info.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Evidence to drive health info Report pushes case for evidence-based content systems and electronic patient records. Tracey Caldwell reports Medicine is set to become an information-driven profession to help...

Sit back - and you'll die.(publishing industry)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Sit back -- and you'll die! It has become clear that every sector in the information industry is changing beyond recognition to meet the needs of the new platform for information, the internet. But is...

UK PubMed goes out to tender.(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Kim Thomas Medical research funding body the Wellcome Trust has invited tenders to find a supplier to host, manage and develop a UK version of PubMed Central, the US National Library's free database of medical...

Podcasts top playlist.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Kim Thomas A third of UK publishers have already launched podcasts, and another half intend to do so in the coming year, according to a poll taken by the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an industry body for...

LACA demands exemption from DRM.(Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, digital rights management)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Archiving and copyright specialist group the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) is calling on the government to exempt specific collections from digital rights management (DRM) protection. LACA...

ISI users tracking research evolution.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Survey)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Scientific researchers are increasingly looking to track the evolution of research to decide how to proceed with their own research, according to usage surveys of the ISI Web of Knowledge service. Thomson...

Critics round on RDN's rebranding.(Resource Discovery Network changes to Intute)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Tracey Caldwell The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is facing criticism over plans to rebrand itself as Intute. Critics say the renaming comes just as awareness is growing of RDN and its services, but RDN...

National Research Reserve lays disaster fears to rest.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth The concerns of Oxbridge university librarians about the risk of losing information forever to a fire or natural disaster have been allayed after the British Library (BL) and the Consortium of University Research...

Reed Elsevier aims online.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Europe's largest publisher, Reed Elsevier, has announced increased funding for driving its publications and users online. The initiative will cover Elsevier's academic publishing and business-to-business...

Ex-Xreferers nose out niche.(Exact Editions, Adam Hodgkin, Daryl Rayner, Tim Bruce )(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Xrefer founding trio Adam Hodgkin, Daryl Rayner and Tim Bruce are back in the reference business with Exact Editions, a new online platform for delivering and searching across magazine content. Exact Editions...

TFPL.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Information management and recruitment specialist TFPL has secured a contract to create a document centre and library for UEFA, the European football governing body based in Switzerland. UEFA selected TFPL after...

Big Blue goes large on IM.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Bobby Pickering IBM has upped the stakes in information management (IM) by pledging $1bn in investment over three years to expand IM software development. The company also said it was redeploying 15,000 staff to take the...

Do the right thing.(Blackwell Publishing)(Brief article)
March 6, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Do the right thing Blackwell Publishing's announcement that it is now a carbon-neutral company should be welcomed. Critics may scoff that it is merely PR, but climate change is a fact -- at least one...