Information World Review articles from October 2008

Information World Review archives from October 2008

Librarians set to be NHS cure.(on the role of librarians in UK's National Health Service)
October 6, 2008... Byline: LSmith Librarians set to be NHS cure ' analysis Librarians working in the NHS have been given a shot in the arm by the publication of a report that argues they should be as much a part of healthcare as doctors, nurses and...

The right tool for your search job.(search engines)(Website list)
October 6, 2008... Byline: BDB The right tool for your search job ' analysis There is no doubt that Google, the world's most popular search engine, offers some excellent search features. But there is a consensus that Google is not so effective at...

academiai?1/2s buried treasure.(management of data used by the academia)
October 6, 2008... Byline: TCALDWELL academia's buried treasure Data created in the course of research often goes unpublished and is soon buried in departmental or even individual systems. Yet the amount of data generated is rising at such a rate...

in data we trust.
October 6, 2008... Byline: MPERRY in data we trust Just 40 years ago documents on company data were micro-fiched and delivered by hand to information professionals. In four short decades the world has radically changed, with critical information now sent...

Content blunderbuss hits everything but the target.(on the observation that video is more engaging and effective in communicating ideas than written communication)
October 6, 2008... Byline: DTEBBUT Content blunderbuss hits everything but the target We humans have been sending signals out into space in the hope that, one day, aliens will pick them up and respond to us. As far as I know, the results have been...

Road closures and the superhighway.(The Information Society)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Byline: KThomas Road closures and the superhighway ' book review It says a lot about the pace of change in recent years that The Information Society, first published in 1994, is in its fifth edition. Methods of publishing and...

be the star of the show.(tips for information services professionals)
October 6, 2008... Byline: DTebbutt be the star of the show Ever since Stewart Brand declared that "information wants to be free" in 1984, he has been misquoted and misinterpreted. What he actually said was: "On the one hand, information wants to be...

give me an i?1/2ei?1/2.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas give me an 'e' The annual Frankfurt book fair is where everyone in the world of publishing gets a chance to catch up on the newest developments. Since the last fair, Amazon has launched its Kindle e-book reader in...

closer encounters.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Daniel Griffin closer encounters The week that I meet Caspar de Bono, managing director B2B of the Financial Times, the business and financial markets are in turmoil and the global economy bruised from the fall-out of the...

Cutting it.
October 6, 2008... Byline: peter williams Cutting it One of the many lessons slowly emerging from the horrendous dislocation in the financial services market is the value of information. When trust has broken down so comprehensively between...

SwetsWise follows the wiki route to help.
October 6, 2008... SwetsWise follows the wiki route to help Tracey Caldwell In a move demonstrating its confidence in the community-based approach, Swets is to allow users of its subscription management service SwetsWise to edit its help pages. By...

Google beats Chrome into shape.
October 6, 2008... Google beats Chrome into shape Michelle Perry Google has launched the beta version of its Chrome open source browser. Acknowledging the work of open source projects which led to the creation of Google Chrome, Linus Upson, director...

Sage buys communications and linguistics journals.
October 6, 2008... Sage buys communications and linguistics journals Kim Thomas Academic publisher Sage has acquired Language and Speech, and International Journal of Bilingualism, two journals previously published by Kingston Press. Language and...

HighWire act extended for OUP journal titles.
October 6, 2008... HighWire act extended for OUP journal titles Kim Thomas Oxford Journals is to extend to 2010 its deal with online host HighWire, which publishes all 220 of Oxford University Press's journal titles. Pam Sutherland, operations...

News Corp puts its faith in revenues from new media.
October 6, 2008... News Corp puts its faith in revenues from new media Michelle Perry News Corporation's redesign of the Wall Street Journal website and more effective marketing of Dow Jones digital products will boost subscriptions by more than $300m a...

EBSCO server puts Sushi on database menu.
October 6, 2008... EBSCO server puts Sushi on database menu Tracey Caldwell EBSCO Publishing has launched a Sushi-compliant server to automate the collection of usage data from EBSCOhost research databases. Sushi, or the Standardised Usage...

UK Pub Med goes beyond journals.
October 6, 2008... UK Pub Med goes beyond journals Tracey Caldwell Best known as an access gateway to biomedical research journals, the UK incarnation of the PubMed Central website is to introduce access to additional types of content, such as clinical...

For whatever shape your search takes.(Credo Reference's web platform)(Product/service evaluation)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Daniel Griffin For whatever shape your search takes Daniel Griffin applauds a wholly user-focused search tool ' website If there was one word you could use to describe the newly designed interface from the Credo...

Industry growth tarnished by the weakness of news.
October 6, 2008... Industry growth tarnished by the weakness of news Michelle Perry Annual growth of 4.5% will push revenues for the global information industry up to $466bn in under three years, but performance of news providers has slowed growth,...

College libraries win back search primacy.
October 6, 2008... College libraries win back search primacy Tracey Caldwell University libraries have staged a comeback as information intermediaries. A three-year study into how users navigate scholarly content reported that nearly 60% of...