Information World Review articles from March 2007

Information World Review archives from March 2007

Brave new worlds.(Product/service evaluation)
March 5, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Brave new worlds On hearing about Linden Lab's Second Life, many professional people dismiss it as pointless. After all, with enough going on in their first life, why on earth would they want a second? A visit to...

E-book's new chapter.(the iRex iLiad)(Product/service evaluation)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth E-book's new chapter MP3 players arrived on the music scene back in 1997, but it wasn't until the arrival of the now ubiquitous iPod from Apple that MP3 began to take over from the CD. Likewise, e-books and...

a web 2.0 future for enterprise tools?
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth and Daniel Griffin a web 2.0 future for enterprise tools? Last month IWR put a group of young Web 2.0 darlings in the same room as the cream of the online information industry. In the ensuing no-hold-barred...

Wellcome in the changes.
March 5, 2007... Byline: jane dudman Wellcome in the changes Robert Kiley, head of e-strategy at the Wellcome Library, has been fascinated by medical librarianship all his working career. But like many in the profession, Kiley fell into librarianship...

Business information users look east.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Bobby Pickering Business information users look east There is no doubt that B2B companies looking for information about potential rivals in new markets have been the biggest new driver in the business/company information...

STM manifesto rubbishes open access research.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell STM manifesto rubbishes open access research Tracey Caldwell A group of major publishers has issued a 10-point declaration of "self-evident" principles that must underpin scientific, technical and medical...

Girl power triumphs at Bodleian.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Girl power triumphs at Bodleian Laura Smith One of Europe's oldest libraries, the Bodleian at Oxford University, is to be headed by a woman for the first time in its 400-year history. American Sarah...

gaze on the treasure of the greatest Renaissance mind.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Gaze on the treasure of the greatest Renaissance mind Two Leonardo da Vinci notebooks have been reunited online in a Microsoft-powered Turning the Pages upgrade. Mark Chillingworth applauds genius ' site...

IBM and Yahoo serve up a free lunch.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Davey Winder IBM and Yahoo serve up a free lunch Davey Winder tucks into this no-cost enterprise-level search dish and sends the chefs his compliments ' search engine IBM has already got an enterprise-class search...

e-books fail to fly into users' hands.
March 5, 2007... Byline: tracey caldwell E-books fail to fly into users' hands ' analysis As online journal access becomes the norm, the expectation has been that e-books will follow suit. But the reality is patchy provision of e-books as...

Pipes allows real users to mix and mash information.
March 5, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Pipes allows real users to mix and mash information David Tebbutt Yahoo has done the world a favour by introducing a hosted "interactive feed aggregator and manipulator", called Pipes. While the name will go...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chiillingworth ' Letter OA accepts the challenge I applaud your piece in February's IWR and would like to accept your invitation to make the case for open access (OA). I hope at least one publisher representative also...

Google makes Mini 2.2 enterprise-class.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Google makes Mini 2.2 enterprise-class Daniel Griffin Google is targeting its Mini search hardware and software system at major organisations with its latest range of upgrades to the blue box. The...

ProQuest put US civil war archives online.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell US history will be brought to life with the spring launch of ProQuest Civil War Era. The 2,000 digital resources highlight the differing perspectives of US government officials, clergy and social reformists at the...

Welsh valleys welcome e-books.(National Library of Wales)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Welsh valleys welcome e-books Tracey Caldwell The National Library of Wales has signed up for almost 300 e-books in an effort to make its resources more accessible to the scattered population centres of...

E-infrastructure ommission threatens UK's R&D effort.(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell E-infrastructure omission threatens UK's R&D effort Tracey Caldwell The UK's science research community will be overtaken by global competitors unless the e-infrastructure supporting science and innovation...

Information enlisted in war on terror.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Information enlisted in war on terror Kim Thomas Government scientists are to use OpenText's LiveLink enterprise content management system as part of a programme of sweeping changes that will help them manage...

Wiki man joins EC OA campaign.(Jimmy Wales)(European Commission's open access)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Wiki man joins EC OA campaign Laura Smith Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has backed a petition calling on the European Commission to give the public open access to taxpayer-funded scientific research. The...

Cell biologists come out in favour of OA.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Cell biologists come out in favour of OA Laura Smith The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) has thrown its weight behind the campaign for open access to publicly funded scientific literature, arguing that...

Leeds slashes salaries of specialist subject librarians.
March 5, 2007... Byline: laura smith Leeds slashes salaries of specialist subject librarians Laura Smith Three long-serving librarians at the University of Leeds are to see their salaries cut as part of a university-wide overhaul of pay and...

Readers desert Cilip 'gold standard'.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Readers desert Cilip 'gold standard' ' analysis IWR's annual reader survey has revealed that just 27% of respondents are chartered members of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

Build your assets.(information)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Build your assets Information is an asset -- not only the information sources and subscriptions your organisation acquires for use, or the treasures locked away awaiting digitisation, but also the layers of...

London holds on to its information lead.
March 5, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth London holds on to its information lead ' analysis European stock exchanges, the US Nasdaq and various global investment corporations have all tried to buy the London Stock Exchange in the last two...

blackwell brings bench to bedside.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Blackwell brings bench to bedside Kim Thomas Blackwell Publishing, recently acquired by Wiley, is to launch a new medical journal, Clinical and Translational Science (CTS), in January 2008. The bi-monthly...

law firm ready to keep going in a crisis.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Law firm ready to keep going in a crisis Mark Chillingworth Law firm Taylor Wessing has adopted an information platform that will enable staff in its human resources, IT, senior management and facilities...