JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) statement regarding their current plans for Open Access).

The key objective of JAMA is to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health.

Legal and financial publishing giant Thomson Corporation recently launched a pilot program to outsource many of its legal jobs to India, continuing a trend towards U.S. companies moving professional jobs offshore.

Alacritude, LLC, announced that it has changed its name to HighBeam™ Research, LLC, and has introduced the company's new flagship online research service, HighBeam Research (www.highbeam.com). The service is designed for individuals engaged in serious business, educational and personal research and delivers convenient, customisable access to the free Web, selected registration and subscription online services and the HighBeam Research proprietary eLibrary database. The company's eLibrary and Researchville services have become part of the new HighBeam Research service.

The technical team responsible for the smooth running of the internet is working on a set of standards to combat the growing tidal wave of spam threatening to overwhelm email users. This is to prevent spammers using faked addresses, which pretend to come from domains such as hotmail.com. This trick can help the messages dodge spam filters and makes email users more likely to open them.

The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG), a subgroup of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is currently working to decide on new technical standards that could turn this tide.