Information World Review articles from October 2006

Information World Review archives from October 2006

extending the raj.(Tata Interactive Systems)
October 1, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt extending the raj Most of us haven't heard of Jamseti Nusserwanji Tata, yet the organisation he founded in 1868 is now a $22bn international corporation. It's into steel, hotels, brewing, motor vehicles, watches,...

ecm takes off in a new direction.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Martin Vietch ecm takes off in a new direction Last July, Microsoft took the unusual measure of breaking out the financial numbers for a product that few outside of IT and content management services would have heard of just a...

Social networks are no place for control freaks.
October 1, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt Social networks are no place for control freaks Time to confess. Despite being active in online social networking for several years, recently I have discovered that I'm really a bit of a control freak. This...

Standards body to draft ECM bible.(British Standards Institute, enterprise content management)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Standards body to draft ECM bible Kim Thomas The British Standards Institute is to develop a standard for enterprise content management (ECM). The standard will be available in the summer of 2008, and is...

Digital lifecycle cost study reaches climax.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Digital lifecycle cost study reaches climax Kim Thomas A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to investigate the costs of digital preservation has entered its most crucial phase. ...

GOSHi?1/2s single sign-on cure.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas GOSH's single sign-on cure Kim Thomas Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has slashed the amount of time medical practitioners spend logging onto different healthcare applications by adopting Vergence, an...

Mobile info revitalises ECM market.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Mobile info revitalises ECM market Mark Chillingworth Developing economies and the Beijing Olympics are driving the adoption of mobile internet usage and placing new demands on how information is...

Elsevier MD focuses on workflow.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Elsevier MD focuses on workflow Elsevier has moved to boost relationships with users and provide more workflow-based solutions by appointing Roy Jakobs as its managing director for academic and government sales...

Sage puts its heart into STM.(Sage Publications Inc., science journals)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Sage puts its heart into STM Tracey Caldwell Sage has launched a series of journals focusing on therapies for major diseases as part of "ambitious plans" to expand its STM portfolio. Ziyad Marar,...

Academy calls for training in peer review.(British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological Studies)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Academy calls for training in peer review The British Academy has waded in in support of the beleaguered peer review system, saying it remains the best system for humanities and social sciences, and that...

Euro Digital Library comes a step closer.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Euro Digital Library comes a step closer A central planning team has been set up to turn the European Digital Library project into a reality. Led by director Jill Cousins, a team of 70 information...

Google raises temperature of health information market.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Google raises temperature of health information market Tracey Caldwell Shares in US health information company WebMD have risen following speculation that Google could buy the business following the...

i?1/2Restedi?1/2 EBIC revived with new look for 2008.(European Business Information Conference)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth 'Rested' EBIC revived with new look for 2008 Mark Chillingworth The European Business Information Conference is to rise from the ashes next year with a new format in a suitably reborn city, Berlin. ...

Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM.(Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM Angry researchers, scientists and editors have called for action against the Association of American Publishers (AAP), one of the prime movers behind the...

Patent highway opens between UK and USA.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas A one-year pilot scheme to speed up the processing of patent applications in the UK and the US has been launched, writes Kim Thomas. The Patent Prosecution Highway will let patent applicants who have received an...

Scrutinising the scrutineers.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Scrutinising the scrutineers Two issues have been marching up the news agenda here at IWR in the last few weeks: fair use of copyright material, and the role and importance of peer review. Without doubt,...

Doing the business.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Doing the business Information is ever more critical to the success of organisations and information professionals should be hot prope rty. But as information discovery begins to be perceived as automated, the...

putting feeling into content.(trends in podcasting)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell putting feeling into content Podcasts are adding the 'human touch' to previously dry corporate information. They are providing a fresh new learning tool for professional development and study in corporates...

fatherly advocate.(David Worlock)
October 2, 2006... Byline: jane Dudman fatherly advocate Odd, isn't it, how often quantum theory can be applied to everyday life? Take quantum indeterminacy, better known as Shrodinger's Cat: an observation of measurement itself affects an outcome,...

Citizendium wiki puts experts in charge.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith Citizendium wiki puts experts in charge Laura Smith The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is to launch a competitor to the online encyclopaedia in which experts will be given the authority to edit the...

BL demands overhaul of intellectual property law.
October 2, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth BL demands overhaul of intellectual property law Microsoft and Google have joined forces with the British Library in calling on the government to radically overhaul the intellectual property (IP) law. ...

Science Museum bites bullet and breaks up rare collections.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith Science Museum bites bullet and breaks up rare collections The Science Museum is relocating its prestigious library to Wiltshire in the wake of a financial crisis that led to fears that it might lose the unique...

EMC tackles web content.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth EMC tackles web content Information management and storage supplier EMC Documentum has become the latest large-scale vendor to enter the web content management arena with the launch of EMC Documentum Page...

exhorting the obvious: design guru's style bypass.(Prioritizing Web Usability)(Book review)
October 2, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt Exhorting the obvious: design guru's style bypass How to make heavy weather of telling web designers where they go wrong ' book review Prioritizing Web Usability is the solemn title of web usability...

intuitive academic portal.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Intuitive academic portal ' site review Intute is the new single name for the individual subject-based portals previously known as the Resource Directory Network (RDN). Content from each RDN site has...

Tearing Down the Library Walls.(Book review)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Cladwell Tearing down the library walls ' book review The sixth Libraries Without Walls conference took place in September 2005. This book records the proceedings of that conference. The conference series began...

enterprise content management.
October 2, 2006... Byline: bobby pickering Enterprise Content Management Systems The past year has been another stirring one for vendors in the enterprise content management (ECM) software market. OpenText acquired Hummingbird, which had previously...

blogosphere.
October 2, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth With this glove, I thee destroya[bar] Librarian www.librarian.net/stax/1845 4 September 2006 US archive librarian Randy Silverman and conservation consultant Cathy Baker got their hands...

user choice will drive web 2.0 demand and funding.
October 2, 2006... Byline: David Tebbutt User choice will drive Web 2.0 demand and funding David Tebbutt The inaugural Office 2.0 Conference will take place this month in San Francisco, California. According to its organisers, the conference will...

focusing on the web 2.0 strategy.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Focusing on the Web 2.0 strategy The light-touch web, search and the role of the information professional are just some of the topics that will be drawing speakers and the industry to this year's Online...

obstructive copyright slammed.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Obstructive copyright slammed Kim Thomas The law on copyright has come under attack from the British Academy, which says its misuse is impeding new ideas. A report on copyright from the scholarly body for...

in brief.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark chillingworth Dow Jones ramps up financial archive analysis US financial news provider Dow Jones Newswires has upgraded its Archives for Algorithmic Applications to provide financial data and news from the last 20 years....

isi doubles its nursing content.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith ISI doubles its nursing content Laura Smith Thomson Scientific is to double its coverage of nursing journals by the end of this year, the company has announced. International Nursing Review, American...

Millennium Dome backers chose Autonomy search.(Nomura bank opts for Autonomy Idol 7 )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: kim thomas Japanese investment bank Nomura, famed for bidding for the Millennium Dome (pictured), is to adopt Autonomy's Idol 7 enterprise search software for 20,000 users in its offices worldwide. Nomura wanted faster keyword...

jisc launches A&I database benchmark.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith JISC launches A&I database benchmark Laura Smith The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has released the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) to detail what information databases offer, including...

bio-funders back the OA route.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Laura Smith Laura Smith Biomedical funders strongly support open access (OA) publishing, according to a survey by an OA publisher. A poll by open access publisher BioMed Central found that 31 of the 33 funding agencies...

wikipedia jumps offline and onto mobile devices.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Wikipedia jumps offline and onto mobile devices Kim Thomas Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia containing 3.8 million articles at the last count, is to be made available on mobile devices such as PDAs. ...

infopoems scale up to Skyscape.(John Wiley & Sons and K2 Consultants sign deal)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas Kim Thomas John Wiley & Sons has syndicated its InfoPoems medical research digest service to interactive health solutions provider Skyscape, which has more than 500,000 subscribers. The Poems (the acronym stands...

information gap does for record number of firms.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Information gap does for record number of firms Tracey Caldwell A big rise in the number of negative company announcements reveals a worrying information gap that could bring down many small and medium...

publishers wary on Google archives.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Publishers wary on Google archives Tracey Caldwell Content providers have given a guarded response to Google's latest toe in their waters -- a news archive search. Google's facility searches archived...

ou librarian knocks up custom social web search.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell OU librarian knocks up custom social web search Tracey Caldwell An experimental search engine is allowing users to search the del.icio.us social bookmarking service, using any del.icio.us links page, or the...

irish nurses secure clinical resources online.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Irish nurses secure clinical resources online Tracey Caldwell Ireland's largest professional union of nurses and midwives has signed up for Ovid's evidence-based clinical information databases. The...

europe starts to build an OA network.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Europe starts to build an OA network Tracey Caldwell The EU is to network research papers across Europe to create a free public information resource. The Driver project will use simple internet-based...

law and disorder.
October 2, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Law and disorder The British Library, Microsoft, Google and the National Consumer Council are all calling on the government to overhaul the nation's intellectual property laws. Hats off to them for their...

directory bright spot or b2b information.(Directory)
October 2, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Directory bright spot for B2B info Europe's business information market is still experiencing slow growth, says a report. Market analyst company IRN Research found that business-to-business (B2B)...

vendor demands suppleri play fair with local government over IPSV.(Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary )
October 2, 2006... Byline: Daniel Griffin Web content management system provider Jadu has called on its peers in the marketplace to play fair with local authorities as they move over from the Local Government Category List (LGCL) of metadata to the new...

in brief.(Elsevier Information Systems Inc. and EBSCO Information Services launch electronic database)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Learning offers digital archive)(Ingenta PLC and Google Inc. sign deal)
October 2, 2006... Byline: mark chillingworth Elsevier partners with Ebsco on electronic access Scientific publisher Elsevier and subscription agent Ebsco are joining together to offer electronic access to individual journals in the scientific and social...

academics line up against each other in US OA battle.(Oberlin Group of Liberal Arts College Libraries)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Academics line up against each other in US OA battle Mark Chillingworth Universities in the US have become embroiled in a letter-writing war over a proposed public access research law. The Oberlin...

a blog standard approach.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kim Thomas a blog standard approach Anyone who still imagines that law firms are dinosaurs when it comes to adopting new technology should lay that belief to rest. In the past year, the global law firm Allen & Overy has...