ProQuest
Completes Acquisition of Voyager Expanded Learning
Press Release, February 1
ProQuest Information and Learning has completed the acquisition of privately held Voyager Expanded Learning, a leading provider
of in-school core reading programs, reading intervention programs, and professional
development programs for school districts throughout the United States. ProQuest
Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, is an electronic publisher of
content for libraries and educational institutions world-wide.
NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications
NIH Press release, February 3
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy designed to
accelerate the public's access to published articles resulting from NIH-funded research.
The policy — the first of its kind for NIH — calls on scientists to release to
the public manuscripts from research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12
months of final publication.
These peer-reviewed, NIH-funded research publications will be available in a Web-based
archive to be managed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of NIH. The
online archive will increase the public's access to health-related publications at a time
when demand for such information is on a steady rise.
The articles will be made publicly available through PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), a database
maintained by the NIH's National Library of Medicine.
Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News
Information Today, February 7
Dialog is to be broken apart into two separate business units. Dialog and DataStar will
shift to Thomson Scientific & HealthCare. Its general manager will be David Brown, who
will report to president and CEO Vin Carraher. The remaining units (NewsRoom, NewsEdge,
Profound, LiveNews, and Intelliscope) will stay as part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory.
USPTO Makes Trademark
Application File Available
Information Today, February 7
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) says that now—for the first time via
the Internet—anyone can use its Web site (http://www.uspto.gov)
to review documents in the official trademark application file. The system, known as
Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR), offers the public an advanced electronic portal to PDF
viewing, downloading, and printing of an array of information and documents for more than
460,000 trademark applications totalling more than 8 million document pages.
Atypon
Acquires Extenza e-Publishing Services From Swets
Managing Information News, February 7
Atypon Systems has acquired Extenza e-Publishing Services from
Royal Swets and Zeitlinger. Active since 2003, Extenza currently offers a journal hosting
service for some 50 publishers.
Atypon will maintain the Extenza brand as an additional e-publishing offering to
Literatum, Atypon’s current e-publishing platform. The transition of content to
Atypon will be finalised by August 1, 2005.
Ingenta Expands
Relationship with Infotrieve®
medicalnewstoday.com , February 7
Ingenta, the technology and services provider for the publishing and information
industries, and Infotrieve, Inc, a provider of content software technology and information
services, has announced an expanded partnership that will enable Ingenta-hosted content to
be indexed by Infotrieve's full-text crawler.
Excerpta Medica Launches Interactive Learning Tool for Health
Care Practitioners
Biz Yahoo! February 7
Excerpta Medica has announced the launch of ThrombosisClinic.com-a
state-of-the-art Web site that offers a new platform for health care practitioners to
access information on this critical topic.
AIP Begins New Open
Access Publishing Initiative
Red Orbit, February 13
The American Institute of Physics announced the launch of AIP Author Select, an open
access publishing option to be offered on a trial basis to authors contributing to three
AIP Journals: journal of Mathematical Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, and
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary journal of Nonlinear Science. The journals will permit authors
or their funding agencies to pay a $2,000 fee prior to publication in order to make
articles freely available on the Web.
IHS, Inc.
Files for IPO
Information Today, February 14
IHS, Inc. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of up to $350 million of its Class A
common stock.
Pressure grows over
surgeon data
BBC February 14
Pressure is mounting on surgeons to publish individual performance data after
another hospital unveiled heart surgeon mortality information.
Final restrictions on Google's stock lifted as boss nets £42 million
Times Online, February 15
SERGEY BRIN, president of technology at Google, made nearly $80 million (£42 million)
last week from the sale of 400,000 of shares in the internet search engine that he
co-founded with his college friend Larry Page. The sell-off came days before 177 million
more Google shares became available for sale yesterday, as the final restrictions on
employees selling their stock allocations were lifted.
Thomson Financial Launches Thomson Financial News
PR Newswire, February 16
Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC;
TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide
financial community, has announced the launch of Thomson Financial News, a tailored online
news service that will be delivered via the Thomson ONE solution suite.
Microsoft
Windows AntiSpyware released in Beta
Microsoft, February 17
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a new security technology that helps to protect
you from spyware
and other unwanted software. You can use Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) to manually scan
your computer for spyware or schedule a scan automatically on a regular basis at any time
you choose.
McGraw-Hill’s New Digital Engineering
Library
Press Release, Digital Publishing Solutions, February 17
Digital Engineering Library delivers more than 4,000 articles derived from 150-plus
outstanding McGraw-Hill titles
Sudan I product list
Food Standards Agency website February 18
This is a list of products that are currently known to be affected. Some products have
now been reformulated to take out the affected ingredient, so you should look for the
use-by/Best Before Date or the batch number to tell you if the product you have should not
be eaten. If in doubt you can contact the store you bought it from to check. The Agency
has made this list relying on information given to them by manufacturers and retailers.
List of food retailers
websites
Ingenta
Content to Be Indexed By Infotrieve Web Crawler
Library Jourmnal.com, February 21
Ingenta and Infotrieve have deepened their existing relationship: the duo announced in
February that Ingenta-hosted content is now being indexed by the latter’s full-text
crawler. Infotrieve said the deal with allow it to provide full text article searches via
its discovery research portals, increasing the depth of discovery resources for Infotrieve
customers and generating additional document delivery traffic for Ingenta-hosted
publishers.
Access
to latest research opened to consumers
Toledoblade.com February 21
The time-honored system for spreading information about new ways to
prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases is undergoing a major change. Starting in May,
National Institutes f Health (NIH) will ask scientists who receive funding from them to
submit a digital copy of each paper that has been accepted for publication. Scientists can
designate a release date, ranging from immediate public access at the time of publication
to the 12-month maximum. All the papers will go into a new PubMed depot, available without
charge.
Variable
Data Printing 2005: Publishers
eMediaWire, February 22
TrendWatch Graphic Arts has released its most detailed Special Report on
variable data printing in the book, magazine, and catalog publishing industry to date.
"Variable Data Printing 2005: Publishers" is written specifically for
publishers, and in its pages, TWGA provides its most detailed look at the adoption and
growth of variable data printing (also called "personalization" or "1:1
marketing) in the book, magazine, and catalog publishing marketplaces.
Science Goes Tabloid
National Review Online, February 24
Some scientific journals are abandoning scientific neutrality in favor of policy
stances and headline-grabbing scare stories, favoring style over substance.
Society
of Hospital Medicine to Launch New Medical Journal
PR Newswire, February 28
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has announced plans to launch a new
peer-reviewed medical journal, The Journal of Hospital Medicine, in 2006 to promote the
science and practice of hospital medicine and the enhancement of inpatient care. In
addition, SHM has signed an agreement with global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to
publish the journal.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced the launch of the Cell & Developmental
Biology Backfile Collection, the latest addition to its growing collection of digitized
journal libraries, and the first to be launched in 2005. The Analytical Sciences Backfile
Collection will follow with a scheduled launch of mid-March 2005. The Cell &
Developmental Biology Backfile Collection is available via Wiley InterScience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/backfiles)
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