Information World Review articles from May 2008

Information World Review archives from May 2008

All power tends to corrupt.(Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage)(Book review)
May 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas All power tends to corrupt ' book review In his book Does IT Matter?, Nicholas Carr controversially argued that the vast amount of money spent by enterprises on IT has failed to lead to competitive advantage. In...

Digital Images in Education: Realising the.(Book review)
May 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision ' 02a Subject label The advent of digital photography and electronic storage media has led to a worldwide proliferation of digital images. It is now...

Is all that internet activity helping destroy the planet?(Viewpoint essay)
May 6, 2008... Byline: David Tebbutt Is all that internet activity helping destroy the planet? Calculating carbon footprints has got to be one of the hardest jobs in the world. Carbon release has become the prime measure of our environmental...

slumbering giant Stirs.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Tracey Caldwell slumbering giant Stirs Traditionally viewed as the quieter cousin of STM (science, technology and medicine), social sciences and humanities publishing has seen many changes in recent months. Journal publishers...

doni?1/2t let the grey fade away.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas don't let the grey fade away Despite its distinctly unglamorous name, "grey" literature A- that mass of booklets, research reports and PDF documents produced in-house by organisations rather than through a recognised...

Slick and speedy research machine.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Davey Winder Slick and speedy research machine ' web review Wolters Kluwer Health is a big player in delivering custom electronic research data for the academic, healthcare and medical sectors. So when the company updated...

Webi?1/2s long march worth the wait.(Website overview)
May 6, 2008... Byline: Daniel Griffin Web's long march worth the wait ' web review The brand-new scholarly website Cambridge Histories Online has been designed to reference and host the works from the Cambridge Histories series. Although the...

Iti?1/2s on the system, but nobody knows where.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas It's on the system, but nobody knows where Kim Thomas Only 8% of companies have a dedicated search tool that lets staff look for information across their company's systems, according to a survey of 200 workers...

Pod first for the Library 2.0 Gang.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Pod first for the Library 2.0 Gang Kim Thomas The Library 2.0 Gang, a group of prominent names in the library world, has embarked on a series of podcasts on topics of interest to librarians. The eight...

ScienceDirect in major upgrade.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith ScienceDirect in major upgrade Laura Smith Scientific and medical publisher Elsevier has unveiled a major upgrade to its online research platform. ScienceDirect, which offers online access to more than a...

backfile to the future.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Gary Flood backfile to the future Ever more professional content, such as journals and books, is born digital, with the material being created and assembled electronically. The bits and bytes of the digital version flow...

The real price of knowledge.
May 6, 2008... Byline: Peter Williams The real price of knowledge At the dawn of a new technological age, moments of doubt are inevitable. Despite the actual and potential benefits of the digital era, it is clear that many are now wondering whether...

SwetsWise bags Science and more.(Brief article)
May 6, 2008... SwetsWise bags Science and more Tracey Caldwell Swets has signed up high-profile US journal Science to its SwetsWise online content service and revealed plans to offer access to e-books as well as journals. Swets chief commercial...

Doni?1/2t allow digital special IP status, say researchers.
May 6, 2008... Don't allow digital special IP status, say researchers Tracey Caldwell Anyone involved in non-commercial research should be allowed to copy parts of electronically published works, according to a survey of researchers using the British...

Faith in government dissolves.(Brief article)
May 6, 2008... Faith in government dissolves Kim Thomas The majority of the public no longer has faith in the ability of government and other institutions to protect their personal data, according to a survey conducted for the Information...

FT licence strategy comes good.(Financial Times )(Brief article)
May 6, 2008... FT licence strategy comes good Kim Thomas The Financial Times has released the new content licence that it announced last October. Since last month, only organisations with a direct deal with the paper can have access to its content....

EDS acquires info security business.(Vistorm)(Brief article)
May 6, 2008... EDS acquires info security business Tracey Caldwell In a move that highlights the rising profile of information security, IT services company EDS has added information assurance managed services to its portfolio with the acquisition of...

Data security fatally flawed by lax business practices.
May 6, 2008... Data security fatally flawed by lax business practices Laura Smith The Information Commissioner's warning that private and public sector organisations are not doing enough to protect data has been backed up by a survey of UK...

Publishers sue US university over copyright.
May 6, 2008... Publishers sue US university over copyright Laura Smith Three publishing companies have filed a lawsuit to stop Georgia State University infringing their copyright. Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Sage...

Red faces as Reuters is swallowed up.
May 6, 2008... Red faces as Reuters is swallowed up Laura Smith Thomson has completed the [pounds sterling]8.7bn acquisition of competitor Reuters. The deal brings the two-year process to a close with the creation of Thomson Reuters, a financial...

Tougher line demanded on data loss after latest breach.
May 6, 2008... Tougher line demanded on data loss after latest breach Tracey Caldwell Calls for greater penalties for data loss have intensified following the recent loss of the personal details of 370,000 HSBC customers. The Information Commissioner...