KAP
journals added to Springerlink
Managing Information, September 2
More than 650 scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals from Kluwer Academic
Publishing (KAP) have been added to SpringerLink. This is a result of the merger between
Springer-Verlag and KAP, under the new name Springer.
Online US federal
library on health research sparks outcry
GovExec.com September 3
A battle over a proposal to make US taxpayer-funded medical research reports available
to the public is brewing on Capitol Hill, pitting some publishers and members of the
scientific and medical communities against each other.
NIH
Proposes Making Clinical Trial Data Free to Public
Medicalnewstoday.com, September 7
USA - National Institute of Health has proposed a "major policy change" that
would make available at no cost to the public the results of all NIH-funded research six
months after the work is published in a scientific journal, the Washington Post reports.
The proposal, which NIH has been considering for more than a year, would require federally
funded researchers to submit their papers to the agency after they have been accepted for
publication and edited by a journal.
11
Medical Journals Adopt Registry Policy
Las Vegas Sun, September 8
The editors of 11 medical journals, including some of the most prominent ones in the
United States, are adopting a policy meant to improve public access to study data,
especially negative results that drug companies might want to keep to themselves.
NIH unveils open access
draft
The Scientist, September 8
Papers based on NIH-funded research would be freely available 6 months after their
publication, according to a draft
National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy released Friday (September 3) in an
apparent compromise with journal publishers.
Co-founder
of the Public Library of Science receives presidential award
UC Berkeley News, September 9
Michael B. Eisen, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology and a scientist at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is an expert in computational and evolutionary
biology. He has received the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers (PECASE). In 2003 he co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a
Web-based, open-access scientific and medical publishing venture.
Medical journals to require clinical trial registration
NewScientist.com news service, September 9
Eleven prestigious medical journals around the world have announced a new strategy
intended to force drug companies to disclose more information about clinical trials. The
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) plan to refuse to publish
papers on clinical trial results if the trial was not recorded in a publicly-accessible
registry at its outset.
Sun to cut
back website content
Guardian Unlimited, September 12
A survey commissioned by managers at the Sun newspaper found that it was losing about
90,000 readers a day to its website, which offers the same content as the paper but free
of charge. They now plan to remove most of the editorial from the website and replace it
with story samples designed to entice readers to go out and buy the paper.
Science
and Technology - Ninth Special Report
House of Commons, September 14
On 5 July 2004 the Science and Technology Committee published its Ninth Report of
Session 2003-04, Director General of the Research Councils: Introductory Hearing. On 14
September 2004 the Committee received a memorandum from the Government which contained a
response to the Report.
Browse
documents of the Science and Technology Committee
Amazon
powers up its new search engine - A9
CNet News, September 14
A9 lets people navigate, annotate and store Web pages they've visited, and as the TiVo
digital video recorder does with television programs, it will recommend sites based on
users' past preferences.
Pearson chief back at work after lungs transplant
Independent.co.uk, September 18
Peter Jovanovich has gone back to full-time work running the £2.44bn Pearson Education
business just months after undergoing a double lung transplant.
Dialog to
Spotlight NHS Collaboration at Medical/Health Libraries Conference
Dialog Press Release, September 18
Dialog will spotlight its collaboration with England's National Health Service (NHS) at
the European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, to be held 20th-25th September in
Santander, Spain.
NHS to offer 1 million
patients private surgery
TheTimes Online, September 20
More than a million NHS patients are to be offered the choice of
having their operations privately by the end of next year under radical plans disclosed in
government guidance to health chiefs.
WH Smith pushed up by broker's praise of Swann
Independent.co.uk, September 21
Of the 17 brokers in the Square Mile following WH Smith, only one had a bullish stance
on the retailer. Deutsche Bank has upgraded Smiths to "buy" from
"hold" and as a result pushed shares in the group 11.75p better to 325.75p.
Symantec
Internet Security Threat Report identifies more attacks targeting e-commerce, Web
applications
ITWeb, (Zambia), September 23
Symantec Corp has released its latest Internet Security Threat Report. The sixth
bi-annual report provides analysis and discussion of global trends in Internet attacks,
vulnerabilities and malicious code activity for the period of 1 January 2004 to 30 June
2004.
New capital for
Swets & Zeitlinger
Royal Swets & Zeitlinger Press Release, September 24
Royal Swets & Zeitlinger Holding NV has announced that it will
strengthen its share capital by EUR 45 million. The shares will be privately placed with
existing shareholders, including NPM Capital and Cobepa. The funds will be used to
accelerate investments in e-services, strengthen the balance sheet and provide a
financially stable basis both for the coming renewal season and for the long-term future.
NHS to make employers pay for accidents at work
British Chambers of Commerce, September 24
An announcement was made by Health Minister Rosie Winterton, on plans for the NHS to be
able to claim costs from insurance companies for treating patients in all cases where
personal injury compensation is paid.
Nature
Publishing Group Simplifies Online News Process with Ektron's XML Authoring Tool
Ektron Inc.Press release, September 24
Ektron Inc., an innovator in web content management and authoring software, announced
that Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has selected Ektron's XML authoring tool to simplify
the process of posting news from science journalists around the world to their daily
online news service.
Active
Internet Users By Country September 2004
Click Z stats, October
The UK had 22 million Internet users in September 2004.
Nature
Research Journals' Archives Are Launched
managinginformation.com, September 27
Nature Publishing Group has launched online the Nature research
journals archive collection. The collection provides online access to every issue of
Nature Biotechnology (formerly Bio/Technology), Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, and
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (formerly Nature Structural Biology) published
from volume 1 issue 1 to April 1998, previously only available in print archives.
Ask Jeeves
Enhances its Flagship Search Engine
Information Today, Inc, September 27
Ask Jeeves, Inc., the company known for its dapper butler mascot, has been working hard
to improve the user experience on its flagship search engine, Ask Jeeves.
The
Internet Archive
The Hindu Business Line, September 27
The Web grows by about 20 terabytes of compressed data a month. This article describes
The Internet Archive (TIA) established in 1996 as a non-profit organisation by Brewster
Kahle, the founder and CEO of Alexa Internet. TIA has been archiving the Internet since
1996, taking a full snapshot of the publicly available Web, all the text and all the
pictures, every two months.
ISCBFM and NPG announce
a new publishing partnership
Nature Publishing Group Press Release, September 29
The International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (ISCBFM) and Nature
Publishing Group are pleased to announce a new publishing partnership. From January 2005,
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will publish the Society's leading international title:
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.
Biologist Michael
Eisen hopes to accomplish for science publishing what Linux set out to do for computing.
East Bay Express.com, September 29
For biologist Michael Eisen, the ultimate test of his plan to radically change the
future of science came down to convincing his skeptical younger brother to print a
breakthrough paper in Michael's unproven research journal. .... and article about
PLoS Biology.
Northern Light
Releases New Version of its Business Research Engine
Company Press Release, September 30
Northern Light announced that it has released a new version of its business search
engine and that the new version is available to individual users in addition to
enterprises. The new version, called the Northern Light Business Research Engine, is
available at www.nlresearch.com.
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