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JISC Agreement Will Bring
Elsevier’s Scopus to British universities
Elsevier Press Release, September 1
Scopus®, the world’s largest abstract & indexing (A&I)
database of research information, today announced that the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), the UK government body that supports higher education by providing
strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) to support education and research, has concluded an agreement for
Elsevier’s Scopus.
Working Party on the Information Economy
Digital Broadband Content:
Scientific Publishing
OECD report, September 2
This report analyses the adoption of
e-commerce in publishing, digital delivery, and the use of ejournals, e-books, databases,
archives and repositories by research authors and research users. It analyses the drivers
of, and potential for, digital delivery and online access for authors and users as well as
publishers, levels of adoption and use, barriers to further adoption, and some of the
impacts of digital delivery and online access to scientific and scholarly content.
 See: Information
and Communications Policy
Yahoo!
slammed by human rights groups
Reporters Without Borders , September 7
The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in
April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” - shows that
Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities
with details that helped to identify and convict him, Reporters Without Borders said
today.
HMV
Offers 96.4 Million Pounds for Ottakar's, Trumping Managers
Bloomberg, September 8
HMV Group Plc, the operator of Waterstone's book stores, offered to buy
Ottakar's Plc for 96.4 million pounds ($177 million), trumping a 91.1 million-pound bid
for the bookshop owner from a group led by company managers.
DTI
winds up Adrian Smythe Publishing Limited
creditman.co.uk, September 9
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has presented a petition
in the High Court to wind-up Adrian Smythe Publishing Limited in the public interest. The
Manchester-based company was concerned in the publication of child safety and crime
awareness books for distribution to schools.
Google Hires 'Father of the
Internet' Vinton Cerf
eWeek.com, September 9
Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to become its
"chief Internet evangelist," the latest high-powered engineer to sign up at the
Web search leader. Cerf, 62, is widely known as the "father of the Internet" for
his role in developing the TCP/IP standards that form the structure of the Internet.
See
Google's blog on this topic
Google
creates tools for hurricane relief
CNET News.com, September 9
Google has created search tools designed to locate information and
people, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Keywords typed in Katrina
Search will return results only from hurricane-related Web pages, while Katrina
People Search can help find information about persons affected by the disaster, the
company said. Katrina People Search indexes information collated from several public
databases, including the Red Cross.
Wolters Kluwer Health acquires Boucher Communications
Sept 12
Wolters Kluwer Health announced that it has acquired the assets of
Boucher Communications, a business media company serving the optometry, optician and
ophthalmology fields. Boucher Communications’ assets will become part of Wolters
Kluwer Health's Medical Research unit. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
eBay plans to buy Net telephone provider Skype in a move aimed at
boosting its sales volumes and supplying seamless voice communications to its consumers.
Company executives said that eBay plans to pay $1.3 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in
stock to the global communications company
Google
launches blog search
CNET News.com, September 14
Google has launched a blog search feature, as it seeks to go
head-to-head with archrival Yahoo in the booming blog market.
Google Blog Search
£1.5 billion lost
annually in potential return on British science
University of Southampton, September 14
The UK is losing around £1.5 billion annually in the potential impact
of its scientific research expenditure, according to one of the key figures in the global
open access publishing movement. Professor Stevan Harnad, Moderator of the American
Scientist Open Access Forum and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of
Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, has calculated the potential
return on the investment in scientific research findings that are being lost to the UK
each year through the limitations of the current academic publishing environment.
Springer
will move more science publishing to India
Business Standard (India) September 15
Addressing a press conference in India, Derk Haank, CEO of Springer said
“given the high quality and high productivity, we are now expanding our other
business process beyond typical production work and into services for the financial and
marketing sectors.”
The same story appeared in the The Hindu Business
Line
Microsoft
acquires ID management company Alacris
CNET News.com, September 19
Microsoft has announced that it has acquired ID management
partner Alacris in a move to bolster its security efforts.
Datamonitor
acquires Verdict Research
Press Release, September 19
Datamonitor plc, business information company, has announced that it has acquired
Verdict Research Limited for a maximum consideration of £4.7 million in cash.
The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author,
and a former Poet Laureate of the United States has filed a class action suit in federal
court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books
through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that the $90 billion search engine
and advertising juggernaut is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of
the rights of individual writers.
Google's response to the Authors Guild which filed a lawsuit to try to
stop Google Print. (see above)
Atypon announces the migration of Extenza publishers
Press release, September 26
Following its acquisition of the Extenza e-Publishing service earlier this year, Atypon
is pleased to announce that 45 Extenza publishing clients have been transferred to the
Atypon platform. The former Extenza service is being re-named Atypon Link.
Wikibooks
takes on textbook industry
ZDNET News.com, September 28
The Wikimedia Foundation is now attempting to create a comprehensive,
kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks that are free and freely distributable,
based on an open-source development model. Because the books are digital and open source,
any teacher can decide to assign one and simply point students to PDFs they can print.
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