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Internet upstarts
v traditional publishers
FT.com, November 25
The benefits to scientists of open access scientific publishing provided
by the internet are too significant to be ignored.
Wolters Kluwer Health Partners with Cerner
Wolters Kluwer press release
Wolters Kluwer Health (WKHealth), the industry-leading drug information provider,
announced that it has entered into an agreement with Cerner Corp. to enhance point-of-care
decision support in Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and hospitals. Drug and medical
data from WKHealth's SKOLAR MD and Clin-eguide Order Sets will be integrated into the Cerner
Millennium® clinical knowledge system, called Executable Knowledge®.
Yad Vashem
international undertaking led by Yad Vashem in an attempt
to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
The Database currently contains some 3 million names of Shoah victims.
Sir
Howard Stringer speech: 'Television in the Digital Age'
Royal Television Society, 18th November
Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation of
America, gave a speech entitled 'Television in the Digital Age' to the Royal Television
Society on November 18, 2004.
There probably is little fear of contradiction that with 1,200 Wi-Fi sessions per week,
the British Library’s Wi-Fi network is the most popular (and largest) in London: The
library officially launched its Wi-Fi service today through its 11 reading rooms,
conference auditorium, cafe, restaurant, and outdoor area. The Cloud is operating the
service, providing pay-as-you-go service and allowing roaming with its many partners.
The library has 3,000 visitors per day, and a survey they conducted found 86 percent of
them were laptop owners; many left the library to find nearby Internet access. The library
expects its service will be even more popular than the current 1,200 sessions per week
with this formal announcement.
Blinkx
fills Smart Folders with search results
Blinkx web site
Blinkx has released an improved version of its search software that now creates special
folders in users' PCs about specific topics and automatically populates them with
documents grabbed from users' hard drives and from the Internet. The
feature, called Smart Folders, is the highlight of Blinkx 2.0, the newest version of this
Internet and desktop search tool, which is available as a free download from the start-up
company's Web site at www.blinkx.com
The American Institute of Physics announced today that it will offer on a trial basis
an open-access publishing option to authors contributing to three AIP journals: Journal
of Mathematical Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Chaos: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. The initiative has been named Author
SelectSM
Award For Best
Article In Aslib-Emerald Journal
ASLIB Press release, 14th November
Aslib and Emerald have launched the second annual award for best article in an
Aslib-Emerald journal.
Open
access journals are a hit, study confirms
EUROPA, 14th November
Whether traditional scholarly publishers are ready for it or not, open access journals
are a growing phenomenon. Some of the initial concerns about quality are diminishing and
the number of researchers either using the medium to publish findings, or to keep up with
each other’s work, is on the rise, according to the latest survey on new journal
publishing models
Sender
ID adoption on the rise
SC Infosecurity Magazine, 11th November
Companies are rapidly adopting Microsoft's email authentication
standard, a new study shows. A Ciphertrust survey of 10 million emails
detailed a 75 percent increase in Sender ID uptake in the last three
months.
Médecins
Sans Frontières receives top honour
MSF website, 11th November
Dr. Rowan Gillies, President of the Médecins Sans Frontières International Council,
accepted the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize in Amman, Jordan. In the
acceptance speech, MSF President Rowan Gillies gratefully accepted the award and
spoke out on the scope and need of humanitarian work:
Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) closes its mission in Iraq.
MSF website, 4th November
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is closing its mission in Iraq. The international
humanitarian organisation took the decision in view of the extreme risks currently run by
aid workers in the country. Given the still considerable humanitarian and medical needs of
the Iraqi people, the decision was reached with a great degree of regret and sadness.
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