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Elsevier to close
Biomednet, Chemweb and Engineering Village
The Times, 18 December
(print source)Elsevier is to close its life sciences web portal,
BiomedNet.
Google numbers
15 December
You can now search Google for numbers, including the parcel tracking numbers
for UPS and FedEx, for patents, aircraft registration numbers, and FCC equipment IDs.
Enter patent 5123123 into the search box, in Google's example, and you are offered a link
that says: Look up patent 5123123 in the US patent database. Click it and you can read the
patent for a "bathtub overflow control device". You can also use Google to look
up traffic conditions at US airports.
Search Google by Number
How to
do everything with Google
Discover what librarians and researchers know and learn the best tactics
and strategies for finding information on the web using Google search.
Version 52 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing bibliography is now available.
Version 52 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing bibliography is now
available. The bibliography has over 2,050 articles, books, and other resources related to
scholarly electronic publishing.
Science
and Technology Committee is to conduct an inquiry into scientific publications.
United Kingdom Parliament, 10 December
The Science and Technology Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament will
be looking at access to journals within the scientific community, with particular
reference to price and availability. It will be asking what measures are being taken in
government, the publishing industry and academic institutions to ensure that researchers,
teachers and students have access to the publications they need in order to carry out
their work effectively. The inquiry will also examine the impact that the current trend
towards e-publishing may have on the integrity of journals and the scientific process.
Leading
Publishers Sue Document Deliverers For Copyright Infringement
Business Wire, 9 December
Five leading scientific, technical and medical publishers, the
American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Inc., Marcel Dekker, Inc., SAGE Publications, Inc.
and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), have announced
they have filed copyright infringement suits against document deliverers Medical Review
Services, headquartered in Katy, Texas, and LMS Information Services, headquartered in San
Francisco, California.
Autonomy collects 'Product of the Year' Award
Autonomy Press Release, 8 December
Autonomy Corporation plc, a leading provider of
infrastructure software for the enterprise announced that its Collaboration and Expertise
Networks (CEN) product was recognised as 'Product of the Year' at the prestigious UK
Information Management 2003 awards.
Miserable
failure' links to Bush
BBC News, 7 December
George W Bush has been Google bombed. Web users
entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are
directed to the biography of the president on the White House website. The trick is
possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts
how often a site is linked to, and with what words.
eBook Retailers
Report Over 1 Million Units Already Sold in 2003
Open eBook Forum, 8 December
Retail eBook sales continued their strong growth into the third quarter of 2003
according to data released by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), the eBook industry trade and
standards organisation (www.openebook.org).
Cumulative units sold for the first three quarters of 2003 (Jan – Sept) have
surpassed the one million mark for the first time in a single year and are up 64% over Q3
2002
Informa buys U.S. commodity analyst
Sparks Companies
Yahoo, 5 December
Business information
provider Informa Group Plc has acquired Sparks Companies Inc., a leading U.S. agricultural
and food analysis and consulting firm.
Informa Group plc - Ł120 Million
Acquisition of PJB Publications Limited
Informa announcement, 3 December 2003
Informa has announced
the proposed acquisition of PJB Publications Limited, an independent publisher of
international business news and information services for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical
and biotechnology industries. PJB's key products include Scrip, ERA, RAJ, Clinica and
Pharmaprojects.
Atypon
Launches New Submission and Editorial Workflow Module
Business Wire 2 December
Atypon has announced
that it has launched a new module that streamlines the manuscript submission, peer review
and editorial processes that publishers use to get content prepared for print and
electronic publishing.
Forrester Research acquires assets
associated with GigaGroup, S.A.
Forrester Research, 2 December
Forrester Research,
Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) has acquired certain assets associated with GigaGroup, S.A. for $3.9
million in total consideration. Headquartered in Paris, GigaGroup's assets include 125
client companies and approximately $4.0 million of agreement value.
PRS Note: In February 2003, Forrester
acquired Giga Information Group
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