Information World Review articles from March 2008

Information World Review archives from March 2008

Mister Memory.(Bart Smith)(Interview)
March 3, 2008... Byline: Daniel Griffin Mister Memory Solid and robust, the 14 floors of the British Library (nine above ground, and five below) are a monument to memory, a haven for information. Since Bart Smith joined the institution in the late...

Vital statistics of the Western world.(Website overview)
March 3, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Vital statistics of the Western world ' website review Originating in the reconstruction efforts that followed the Second World War, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has built up...

Give your researchers what they really want.(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Byline: t caldwell Give your researchers what they really want ' book review This book is a first-time collaboration between three university librarians and aims to provide a practical introduction for newly qualified and...

Forward thinking gives IBM an enviable social pedigree.
March 3, 2008... Byline: d tebbutt Forward thinking gives IBM an enviable social pedigree Can you believe that IBM started a formal social computing research initiative back in 1998? It was partly born out of work by David N Smith on a persistent,...

in good company.(Company overview)
March 3, 2008... Byline: Tim Buckley Owen in good company With 40 million companies on Bureau van Dijk's Orbis database and 30 million on OneSource, the size of the company, business and financial information field is clearly enormous. There are plenty...

Rise and shine.
March 3, 2008... Byline: t caldwell Rise and shine Developments in health information are running at a feverish pace. All the signs and symptoms point to a fast-changing sector and the prognosis is good for health information professionals willing to...

Blogosphere answers.
March 3, 2008... Byline: dgriffin An assistant librarian at a commercial law firm in Edinburgh, Jennie Findlay started blogging to release her inner geek, never imagining anyone would ever stumble across it Q Where is your blog? It's at...

Microsoft moves to get back in game.
March 3, 2008... Byline: tcaldwell Microsoft moves to get back in game ' analysis The manoeuvrings of the internet giants have sent shockwaves through an information community aware that a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo will have a huge impact...

Web search engines slow on the update.
March 3, 2008... Byline: tcaldwell Web search engines slow on the update A researcher has uncovered serious shortcomings in how web search engines update their databases. None of the search engines in a study by Dirk Lewandowski updated their...

Scopus packs in another 600 titles.
March 3, 2008... Byline: tcaldwell Scopus packs in another 600 titles Citation database Scopus has added 600 titles to its database of 15,000 journals. Many of the new titles are from emerging economies and the social sciences, which have not been...

Information pull of China and India proves irresistible.(Crisil, Tata Capital)
March 3, 2008... Byline: tcaldwell Information pull of China and India proves irresistible Tracey Caldwell Major forays by Equifax and OUP into India and China respectively have put emerging economies in the spotlight. Equifax is to put in a...

More data shame for government.(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith More data shame for government There was further embarrassment for the government last month over information handling after it admitted that a disc containing the DNA details of thousands of suspected criminals was...

Librarians to thaw credit freeze.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Librarians to thaw credit freeze Laura Smith As the credit crunch continues to bite, information professionals in the business sector are being invited to share ideas about how the City can recover. City...

US colleges cut deal on digital fair use.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Peter W US colleges cut deal on digital fair use Kim Thomas In a move to tackle copyright breaches by universities, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has agreed guidelines on the use of digital content with the...

Price for open standard Athens 'too high'.
March 3, 2008... Byline: peter williams Price for an open standard Athens 'too high' JISC has failed to reach an agreement with Eduserv that would let the supplier's Athens authentication software work in the open standards environment of the UK Access...

Profits drop but content stays key.(news providers)
March 3, 2008... Byline: peter williams Profits drop but content stays key Kim Thomas News providers' revenues fell by 2.5% last year while growth in the search aggregation and syndication market continued at breakneck speed, with Google and Yahoo...

Uncertain times.(Reed Elsevier acquisition of ChoicePoint)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Byline: Peter Williams Uncertain times The shake-up at Reed Elsevier will have big repercussions for the information industry. As we report on our front page, the company is undertaking its biggest re-engineering exercise in a decade....

Academy slams orphan copyright proposal.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Academy slams orphan copyright proposal Kim Thomas The British Academy has attacked a proposal by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to make the Copyright Tribunal responsible for granting licences for...

Harvard goes to open access for research output.
March 3, 2008... harvard goes to open access for research output Harvard University's faculty of arts and sciences has voted to make research papers and articles available online, free of charge, writes Laura Smith. Robert Darnton, director of Harvard...

Macmillan buys into US customisation.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Macmillan buys into US customisation Laura Smith Global publishing company Macmillan has acquired the higher education publisher Hayden-McNeil for an undisclosed sum. Macmillan's US publishing arm...

Academic article scrapped over plagiarism.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Peter Williams Academic article scrapped over plagiarism Peter Williams In an unusual move an academic publisher has withdrawn an online article because of apparent plagiarism. Michael J Dunn, editor-in-chief of the...

Reed Elsevier ditches print to embrace digital future.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Reed Elsevier ditches print to embrace digital future Laura Smith Science, technical and medical publisher Reed Elsevier has signalled its intention to sell its business titles and concentrate on...

Digital strategies for publishers.
March 3, 2008... Byline: peterwilliams Digital strategies for publishers To help publishers ascertain their strategy in the digital age, Incisive Media is organising the EPublishing Innovation Forum in London on 7-8 May, with IWR as the headline media...

Extracts are full of goodness.
March 3, 2008... Byline: DW Extracts are full of goodness All the padding has been removed from SciBX's reviews of scientific papers, says Davey Winder ' e-journal review SciBX, a new publishing venture between Nature Publishing Group and...