Information Today articles from September 2007

Information Today archives from September 2007

O'Reilly Media: spreading the knowledge of innovation.(Company overview)
September 1, 2007... Open the door to O'Reilly Media's headquarters and you won't see the usual reception desk. Instead, you'll enter a minilibrary stacked with an impressive collection of its publications in its floor-to-ceiling bookcases. With headquarters...

Data theft continues strong.
September 1, 2007... Despite efforts by security companies, warnings to those holding personal data, and ongoing consumer and legislative efforts (at the state level more than the federal), major security breaches aren't slowing down. One of the latest cases...

The world of science on your desktop.(WorldWideScience.org)(Website overview)
September 1, 2007... If you have Internet access, you now have access to scientific and technical research and data from around the globe. In June, the WorldWideScience.org portal became available to the public. The portal project, created by Walter Warnick,...

Knovel, JISC enter 3-year agreement.(News Bytes)(Joint Information Systems Committee)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Knovel Corp. and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Collections have entered a 3-year agreement that lets JISC member institutions access Knovel's engineering resources. JISC negotiates with publishers of online information to provide...

Elsevier publications available on EBSCO.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... EBSCO Information Services added Elsevier content to its collection of ebooks. Elsevier brings more than 4,000 ebooks from ScienceDirect, and 50 reference works ranging from specialist studies to broad-based encyclopedias. Source: EBSCO...

ProQuest Library School Program open for 2007-2008 year.(News Bytes)(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ProQuest's Library School Program, which gives information science students free access to ProQuest's reference tools during the school year, is now open for the 2007-2008 term. The program is designed to help students learn necessary...

News Corp. acquires Dow Jones.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, purchased Dow Jones & Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal. News Corp. added Dow Jones to its other business holdings, which include Fox Broadcasting Co., DirecTV Group, The New York Post, and...

HP acquires Opsware.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... HP acquired Opsware, Inc. for an estimated $1.6 billion. Opsware, a software company specializing in data-center automation, will combine its solutions with HP's IT management software to boost HP's portfolio of business technology optimization...

Nstein signs contract with Canoe.ca.(News Bytes)(Nstein Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Nstein Technologies signed a contract with Canoe.ca, a news provider and subsidiary of the Quebecor Media group. Under the terms of the contract, Canoe.ca will use Nstein's Ntelligent Content Management Suite to manage and publish all of its...

Credo Reference partners with SOLINET.(News Bytes)(Southeastern Library Network )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Credo Reference announced a partnership with the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) to offer Credo Reference's service to SOLINET's library cooperative members at a discount. The Atlanta-based SOLINET serves the Southeastern U.S. and the...

ClearStory partners with Cognizant.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ClearStory Systems, Inc. has signed a deal with Cognizant to expand ClearStory's service offering and industry coverage. Cognizant, provider of IT and business process outsourcing services, developed Digital Media Lab to address digital content...

Answers Corp. acquires Dictionary.com.(News Bytes)(Lexico Publishing Group, LLC)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Answers Corp. purchased Lexico Publishing Group, LLC (owners of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference .com) for $100 million. Lexico's Web properties, which earned $7 million in 2006, generate about three times the total page views of...

HP named a leader in IT software solutions.(News Bytes)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Forrester Research named HP a leader "in software solutions for end-user... monitoring of IT services and applications," according to an HP press release. According to Forrester, end-user monitoring is the only way for the IT industry to know...

Susan Kesner elected SSP president; SSP Meeting reaches record attendance.(News Bytes)(Society for Scholarly Publishing)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has elected Susan Kesner as the new SSP president. Kesner, director of publisher development at the Copyright Clearance Center, accepted the position at the end of the SSP Annual Meeting in June. ...

ProQuest signs agreement with Cambridge University Press.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ProQuest and Cambridge University Press signed an agreement to include more than 200 Cambridge Journals titles in selected ProQuest products. The agreement increases the amount of scholarly, full-text articles available to ProQuest's journal...

European economics libraries create NEEO.(News Bytes)(Network of European Economists Online )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... European economics libraries received 2 million [euro] to create the Network of European Economists Online (NEEO), a subject-based information repository. The service will provide open access to the libraries' economics information. ...

Japan accepts open software standards.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Japan became the first Asian nation to adopt a policy to let government agencies solicit bids from software vendors that support international open standards. The Japanese government will give preference to products that meet open standards and...

Be careful what you wish for: user-generated content demands.(Up Front with Barbara Quint)(Column)
September 1, 2007... The other day, I had a message titled "Review Your Amazon Purchases" in my Webmail inbox. Messages bearing this kind of title tend to raise my skeptical hackles. Many of them come from outfits that I have no preexisting relationship with, and,...

Digitization announcements lead the news.(News Break Update)(online library services)
September 1, 2007... A flurry of digitization and data-conversion announcements hit the news pipeline this summer, several of them seemingly aimed at fighting back against Google's dominance in book digitization. In early June, Google Book Search added a...

The iPhone Blitz--a boost for the mobile web.(News Break Update)(Apple Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... After incredible product publicity and media hype, Apple released its new iPhone. Since it only works with AT&T (not known for its signal strength or network speed) and not with other networks or with the SIM (subscriber identity module) cards...

ProQuest update.(News Break Update)(change of name)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The "other" ProQuest--what was left after selling ProQuest Information and Learning to Cambridge Information Group, which retains use of the ProQuest name--has now changed its name to Voyager Learning Co., after its main product line for the...

Thomson Learning update.(News Break Update)(company name has been changed after acquisition by Apax Partners Worldwide L.L.P. and OMERS Capital Partners Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Thomson Learning has changed its name to Cengage Learning. The company, recently acquired by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners from The Thomson Corp., said the new name is based on being at the "center of engagement" for its customers...

Google-ing.(News Break Update)(software)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Google introduced software that will help consumers use Web-based applications when they're not connected to the Internet. Google Gears is an open source browser plug-in, letting software developers use it to enable applications with JavaScript...

Search engine news.(News Break Update)
September 1, 2007... Ask.com announced that it will be implementing a new product called Ask-Eraser to offer its searchers control over their privacy when searching for information on the Web. Users will be able to opt to search anonymously. AskEraser is expected...

A blogger's vocabulary.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Check out the top 15 words that you're likely to see in a blog, according to a study by the Oxford English Corp.: * Blogger * Blog * Shit * Oh * Yeah * Stupid * Post * OK * Stuff * Lovely *...

OCLC purchases remaining OCLC PICA shares.(News Bytes)(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... OCLC, which acquired the remaining 40 percent of the shares of OCLC PICA Group B.V., became the group's sole shareholder. In 2000, OCLC acquired 60 percent of the PICA organization. Source: OCLC (www.oclc.org)

Google to acquire Postini, GrandCentral.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Google has agreed to acquire Postini for $625 million. Postini offers solutions for communications security, and it serves more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Under the agreement, Postini will become a wholly owned...

AT&T acquires Dobson.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... AT&T acquired Dobson Communications for $2.8 billion, according to an AT&T news release. Dobson provides 1.7 million customers with wireless service in rural and suburban areas under the Cellular One brand. Source: AT&T (www.att.com)

NFAIS chooses new name.(News Bytes)(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... NFAIS member organizations voted 96 percent in favor of the group's new name: The National Federation of Advanced Information Services. The name will be used immediately for promotional purposes. According to NFAIS executive director Bonnie...

Ex Libris teams with Ricoh.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... Ex Libris Group and its Japanese partner USACO Corp. are collaborating with Ricoh Co., Ltd. to promote Ex Libris product sales in Japan. In 1993, Ricoh developed Limedio, which is currently the most widely used library system in Japan. ...

Walter de Gruyter acquires K. G. Saur and Max Niemeyer.(News Bytes)(Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. acquired K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. acquired the publishing catalog of K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, which includes the catalog of Max Niemeyer Verlag. This acquisition makes Walter de Gruyter the largest publisher of humanities and social sciences...

Wiley-Blackwell journals see strong gains in impact factor.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Wiley-Blackwell now has 321 journals in the top 25 percent group rated by impact factor, which corresponds to a journal's value and how often it is cited by other researchers in its respective areas. Also, Wiley-Blackwell now publishes 237...

Online Tutoring options.(LETTER TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... I read the article on the ThinkingStorm tutoring service ["ThinkingStorm: The ABCs of Online Tutoring," July/August 2007 IT]. For your information, quite a few public libraries, including Anne Arundel County Public (MD) where I work, offer...

Mixed messages.(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services's anniversary celebration)(Personal account)
September 1, 2007... I learned a lot this summer. For starters, I cleaned my office for the first time in 4 years. In sorting the numerous stacks of paper into specific piles that "really don't matter any more" and "need to be kept," I learned a great deal about...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
September 1, 2007... SO, WHEN ARE YOU GOING FOR YOUR CHIP IMPLANT? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THAT RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION THING?--SOUNDS ORWELLIAN TO ME. POSSIBLE OBJECTOR HERE... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NO SIR... THIS IS VERY SERIOUS....

Congress set to support NIH mandate.(Focus on Publishing)(United States. National Institutes of Health)
September 1, 2007... In July, the House and the Senate backed provisions in the 2008 Labor, Health and Education Appropriation Bills that would require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to direct its funded researchers to deposit manuscripts into PubMed...

ICANN reviews changes in DNS policy and legal issues.(Legal Issues)(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)(domain name system)(Conference news)
September 1, 2007... One of the more interesting facts about the Internet is that no one person, corporation, government, or group runs it as a whole. Different organizations are responsible for different operations: setting and managing technical standards,...

The 'L' word.(Internet Waves)(librarianship )(Column)
September 1, 2007... There aren't a whole lot of good things about getting older, but I can tell you one. You can say any G--d--thing you want, and people will say, "Ah, leave him alone. He's just an old fart." --My late grandfather on my father's side, who did...

Alexander Street Press and American Antiquarian Society digitize Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Alexander Street Press and the American Antiquarian Society have teamed up to digitize and publish Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the first in a series being published from the society's collections. Letters and Diaries contains...

ProQuest to digitize Colonial State Papers, partner with AAS.(News Bytes)(American Antiquarian Society)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ProQuest announced that it will digitize portions of the U.K.'s Colonial State Papers, previously only available for viewing at The National Archives. The papers are handwritten and cover British history between the 16th and 18th centuries,...

The importance of looking back.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Column)
September 1, 2007... When writing about the Web, most of us tend to be forward-looking. What's going to be the hottest tool that everyone must have? What is the next cool gadget going to do? When is the next version of [fill in the blank] going to be ready for...

Mainstream Data acquires Newscom.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Mainstream Data acquired Newscom, LLC, which offers its subscribers access to more than 19 million photos, graphics, illustrations, and news stories by publishers worldwide. Its customers include companies such as the BBC and Reuters. ...

Mellon Foundation funds internship program for Columbia University.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave Columbia University Libraries a $563,000 grant that will fund a project that awards internships to graduate students. The students have been helping librarians organize and describe primary source...

Thomson Scientific, SLA name 2007 Information Professional of the Year.(News Bytes)(Thomson Corp. Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The SLA Australia/New Zealand chapter and Thomson Scientific, the award's sponsor, presented Stephen Due, chief librarian at Geelong Hospital/Barwon Health Service, with its 2007 Information Professional of the Year Award. The award is given...

The Bank of New York, Mellon Financial merge.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... The Bank of New York Co., Inc. and Mellon Financial Corp. merged to create The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., a new asset management and security services company that will operate in 37 countries. Source: The Bank of New York Mellon Corp....

SIIA releases Software Implementation Toolkit for Educators.(News Bytes)(Software & Information Industry Association )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) released its Software Implementation Toolkit for Educators, which presents strategies for improving the effectiveness of software purchases, including improved...

New York Times, NYTimes.com partner with Monster.(News Bytes)(www.nytimes.com/ monster)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The New York Times, NYTimes.com, and Monster joined to launch a career Web site (www.nytimes.com/ monster) for the New York City metropolitan area. The site combines the features of NYTimes.com's old job site with Monster's career postings,...

YouTube launches international sites, mobile support.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... YouTube launched versions of its Web site in nine different languages, with localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. The company announced that it is also working on a version...

Mark Logic receives patent on MarkLogic Server technology.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... Mark Logic Corp. received a patent titled Parent-Child Query Indexing for XML Databases, which protects algorithms within the MarkLogic Server. Source: Mark Logic Corp. (www.marklogic.com)

Six libraries receive Building Better Communities Awards.(News Bytes)(SirsiDynix)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... SirsiDynix has announced the recipients of its Building Better Communities Awards, which recognize libraries that use technology in "creative and enterprising" ways to improve their communities. The six libraries that received the award are...

Julia Blixrud honored with 2007 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Julia Blixrud has received the 2007 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award. The award is presented by the Serials Section of the ALA's Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Division and is sponsored by ProQuest. It recognizes...

J. Paul Getty Trust receives 2007 Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Award.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The J. Paul Getty Trust received the 2007 Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in the Media, Arts, and Entertainment category. The award recognizes the Trust's Getty Vocabularies research tool, which compiles information...

Emerald announces winner of MLS Student Best Paper Award.(News Bytes)(Emerald Group Publishing)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Emerald Group Publishing announced the winner of the first annual Emerald MLS Student Best Paper Award. Mari Beth Slade, a student at Dalhousie University, won for her paper "Compete or Collaborate? Resource Sharing in Corporate Libraries." She...

2007 ILIG International Award recipient announced.(News Bytes)(International Library and Information Group)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The International Library and Information Group (ILIG) of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has chosen Jan Lewis as the recipient of its 2007 International Award. The award was given to Lewis for her...

Wolters Kluwer acquires MediRegs.(News Bytes)(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Wolters Kluwer Law & Business acquired MediRegs, a Massachusetts-based healthcare software provider. MediRegs' healthcare research database services will become part of Wolters Kluwer's Business Compliance group. Source: Wolters Kluwer...

SIIA eBay piracy case settled.(News Bytes)
September 1, 2007... The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that it has reached a settlement in the case of Symantec, et al. v. Chan et al. The SIIA filed suit on behalf of its member corporation, Symantec, accusing the defendant of...

WikiAnswers now second largest Q&A site.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Answers Corp.'s WikiAnswers is the second-largest Q&A site on the Internet and has more than 200,000 members, according to Hitwise. Answers Corp. acquired WikiAnswers in November 2006. Source: Answers Corp. (www.answers .com)

Randal E. Bryant to receive IEEE's Emanuel R. Piore Award.(News Bytes)(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... IEEE awarded Randal E. Bryant, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, its 2007 Emanuel R. Piore Award. The award recognizes contributions in the field of information processing in computer science. Bryant's award...

Virtual World introduces awards ceremony.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Ailin Graef, known as Anshe Chung in Second Life, and Jon Jacobs, who goes by Neverdie in Entropia Universe, created the Virtual Worlds Academy, which will bring an Academy Awards-like ceremony to the virtual world. The founders said that the...

SLA, EPA continue talks about library closures.(News Bytes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... SLA met with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to discuss the closure of several EPA libraries. The two organizations are trying to reach an agreement for the benefit of both the EPA and the libraries' users. On April 6, Mike Flynn,...

SuccessFactors continues to manage work force performance.(IT Spotlight)(Company overview)
September 1, 2007... Here's another high-tech company offering an innovative new service to help firms manage work force performance around the world. FOUNDER Lars Dalgaard founded SuccessFactors in 2001 after a successful career with Novartis and Unilever...

LibraryThing: cataloging for the (social) masses.(www.librarything.com)(Website overview)
September 1, 2007... When LibraryThing (LT; www .librarything.com) launched in September 2005, the site was designed to provide book lovers with a robust cataloging application. Founder Tim Spalding wanted a tool that he could use to keep track of his personal...

In memoriam: Martha E. Williams.(In memoriam)
September 1, 2007... Martha Williams, a pioneer in the field of computer databases for more than 40 years, died on July5 at her home in Port Washington, Wis., at age 72. Ms. Williams was born in Chicago to Harold and Alice Fox Williams. She attended the Woodlands...

Case study: Springer raises profile of reference works.(Springer Science+Business Media )
September 1, 2007... When Springer Science+Business Media launched its eBook program in June 2006, the STM publisher hoped to breathe new life into a format that hadn't garnered a large audience. Apparently, the publisher had a solid model to follow. It had...

Searching for people in all the new social places.
September 1, 2007... Information professionals are well skilled at hunting down facts about people. But these days, it's even easier because people are offering plenty of information to the world via social networking sites. Want to know who is a friend of a...

How investing 1 billion [euro] could help Europeans age better.(International REPORT)
September 1, 2007... No, this isn't a plan to provide all European citizens with anti-wrinkle cream under socialized medicine, but rather an investment of 1 billion [euro] ($1.38 billion) for research into information and communication technologies targeted at...

Montclair State wins Mobile Technology Innovation Award.(News Makers)(Montclair State University)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Staying connected is easy for 4,000 students carrying the Campus Connect mobile phone at Montclair State University, New Jersey's second-largest university. In fact, Campus Connect, which is a collective venture developed by the university,...

Open house for Lubuto Library Project.(News Makers)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Decorations are being added to the library buildings, and final preparations are being made to celebrate the first completed library for the street children in Lusaka, Zambia, according to Jane Kinney Meyers, president of the Lubuto Library...

ASIDIC leadership changes hands.(News Makers)(Association of Information and Dissemination Centers)(Kevin Bouley)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Kevin Bouley has stepped up as ASIDIC president to fill in for Carolyn Finn, who resigned unexpectedly due to health reasons. Bouley, who will take over until the ASIDIC Fall Meeting Sept. 9-11 in Arlington, Va., is ASIDIC's past president and...

Conference dates.(Conference Circuit)
September 1, 2007... FOR 2007 WebSearch University Sept. 17-18 Washington Marriott Washington, D.C. Streaming Media Europe Oct. 4-5 Copthorne Tara Hotel London Internet Librarian International Oct. 8-9 Copthorne Tara Hotel London ...

The fall conference season gets underway.(Conference Circuit)(Conference news)
September 1, 2007... As summer wanes and fall approaches, the information industry conference arena is again buzzing with activity. Society meetings and significant conferences dot the calendar this month, including a few societies such as IEEE and ACM, which are...

The many faces of ALA's 2007 Annual Conference.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Conference news)
September 1, 2007... During the 2007 American Library Association (ALA) annual conference this summer in Washington, D.C., I ran into fellow blogger Dick Kaser, Information Today, Inc.'s vice president of content. When we exchanged notes on our conference...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2007... September 5-7: Graz, Austria (Know-Center). The seventh International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW) will be held concurrently with the I-MEDIAConference on New Media Technology and the I-SEMANTICS Conference on Semantic...

Internet Librarian 2007: the Internet conference and exhibition for librarians and information managers.(CONFERENCE PREVIEW)(Conference news)
September 1, 2007... 2.0: INFO PROS, LIBRARY COMMUNITIES, & WEB TOOLS October 29-31, 2007 Monterey Conference Center Portola Plaza Hotel & Monterey Marriott, Monterey, California INTERNET @ SCHOOLS WEST * OCTOBER 29-30 www.infotoday.com Web...

The top 10 most significant ecommerce developments.
September 1, 2007... The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) unveiled a list of the top 10 most significant ecommerce developments during the past decade on the 10th anniversary of the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce released by the White...

The latest business technology buzzwords.
September 1, 2007... At your next business meeting or conference, work any of these literary gems into your conversations. information touchpoint: Any contact in which information is shared or transferred. Yes, meetings are information touchpoints. ...

APFM, JISSN join BioMed Central's open access journals.(Product News & Reviews)(Asia Pacific Family Medicine and Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Asia Pacific Family Medicine (APFM), a journal that publishes regionally focused medical research, and the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN) are now part of BioMed Central's open access journal platform. The...

GIDEON medical database searchable via MetaLib.(Product News & Reviews)(services of Ex Libris Group )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Ex Libris Group and GIDEON Informatics have made the GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) database searchable via Ex Libris' MetaLib interface. The GIDEON database helps researchers diagnose and reference a range...

ALPSP launches open access feature.(Product News & Reviews)(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) launched ALPSP Author Choice, which lets authors choose to make their articles free online immediately upon publication, after paying a fee. The program is in a trial phase...

Nielsen debuts BookScan in New Zealand.(Product News & Reviews)(The Nielsen Co. (Florence, Kentucky))(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Nielsen Co. debuted BookScan, its retail book sales-tracking service, in New Zealand. BookScan also operates in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, the U.S., South Africa, Spain, and Italy. Source: The Nielsen Co. (www.nielsen.com)

Green searching--or not?(Database Review)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2007... It's time to start another database review, and I'm trying to think of a topic. It's hard to concentrate because it's so hot here in the house (I'd turn up the air conditioning, but energy costs are so expensive). What's a topic that is of...

UC Irvine offers online program for novice Web designers.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The University of California-Irvine Extension is offering Web Design Specialized Studies, an online program for novice Web designers. The program will teach Web designers how to increase site traffic, ensure repeat traffic, add functions, and...

Wiley-Blackwell to publish Academic Emergency Medicine.(Product News & Reviews)(product introduction of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine chose Wiley-Blackwell to publish its journal, Academic Emergency Medicine. The first issue with the new publisher will be available in January 2008. Source: Wiley-Blackwell (www...

Thomson West introduces Westlaw Business, LiveNote version 10.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Thomson West introduced Westlaw Business, a workflow tool that provides business filings, relevant law, and expert guidance for business law professionals. In addition, Thomson West released LiveNote version 10, a real-time transcription,...