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Tim Waterstone's attempt to buy back the bookstore chain that bears his
name is off.
Federal Research
Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA)
Full text of Bill, May 2
US Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman introduced the Federal
Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA) in the US Senate (full text of the
bill; FAQ from
Cornyn's Office). The bill requires every federal agency with an annual research
budget of more than $100 million - including NASA, the EPA, NSF, and the Departments of
Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland
Security, and Transportation - to implement a policy for public access to research
results, providing such access no more than 6 months after publication.
The research will reside in a stable online repository
maintained by the Federal agency or, if it serves the agency’s federal purpose, in
another online repository that ensures free public access, interoperability, and long-term
preservation.
AOL loses
835,000 subscribers
Times Online, May 4
AOL, Time Warner’s troubled internet business, lost 835,000
subscribers and its operating profits dived by 17 per cent in the first quarter of the
year, the world’s biggest media group admitted.
Pearson Acquisition
Times Online, May 6
Pearson, the publisher of the Financial Times, has agreed a
deal to buy an 80 per cent stake in Paravia Bruno Mondadori Editori, one of
Italy’s biggest education book publishers.
EBSCO
Publishing Acquires Bibliography Of Native North Americans
Managing Information News, May 9
With the company's recent acquisition of the Bibliography of
Native North Americans (BNNA) database, EBSCO Publishing continues to expand its
collection of resources aimed at supporting multicultural and historical studies. BNNA,
originally compiled by the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University, is a
bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and
life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural
relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
The London
Book Fair moves to Earls Court in 2007
LBF Press Release, May 11
Reed
Exhibitions have announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to run The London
Book Fair at Earls Court with effect from Monday, April 16th –Wednesday,
18th 2007. This will be the only book fair to run during the Spring at either Earls Court
or Olympia.
Castle Harlan Agrees to
Acquire Baker & Taylor
Press Release, May 11
Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York-based private equity investment firm, announced today
that a private-equity investment fund it organized and manages has agreed to buy privately
held Baker & Taylor, a leading domestic and international distributor of books and
entertainment products to libraries and retailers, in a transaction valued at $455
million. Baker & Taylor, founded in 1828, is the world's leading distributor of books,
video, and music products to public and academic libraries.
HMV springs Ottakar's
bid shock
Hemscott, May 16
HMV has finally put forward a revised offer for book
chain Ottakar's but the price is so ludicrously low that it is hard to see why it
bothered.
Google faces criminal
investigation in Brazil, report says
CNet.com, May 17
The Attorney General in Brazil is seeking a criminal investigation into allegations
that child pornography is distributed on Google's Orkut social network site, according to a
report from Bloomberg on Wednesday.
Belgian
ServersCheck summons Google to court
ServersCheck announcement, May 17
ServersCheck, the Leuven supplier of monitoring software and hardware for
ICT-infrastructure, confirms the article in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and will
begin its case against Google Benelux at the commercial court in Leuven today. The cause
is the Google Toolbar, a part of the search toolbars in Internet Explorer and Firefox, in
which Google suggests illegal or cracked versions of the ServersCheck-software to surfers
for the keyword "ServersCheck". ServersCheck distributes the majority of its
products via the Internet.
Amazon in print
The Times, May 20
Amazon.com has unveiled a print-on-demand scheme for book publishers.
Through its BookSurge unit, Amazon said that it would take orders for lower-volume books
and print the books as they are ordered.
Website hopes for
£200m take-off
Times Online, May 21
The recent bout of internet companies being sold for high prices has
prompted Cheapflights.co.uk to
seek a sale or flotation, in a move that could value the travel business at up to £200m.
The
Public Library Of Science Launches The New Open-access Journal PLoS Clinical Trials
Medical News Today, May 21
The Public Library of Science announces PLoS Clinical Trials: A new open-access journal
advancing the reporting of trial results
An innovative new journal launches today devoted to peer-reviewing and publishing reports
of randomized clinical trials in all areas of medicine and public health. PLoS Clinical
Trials is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a coalition of researchers
and physicians founded in 2000 by Nobel Prize recipient and former National Institutes of
Health Director Harold Varmus, M.D.
Engineering
Village 2(TM) Wins 2006 Codie Award for Best Content Aggregation Service
PRNewswire, May 22
Engineering Information (http://www.ei.org)
announced today the selection of the Engineering Village 2 discovery platform as the
winner of the Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 21st annual Codie
Awards in the category of "Best Content Aggregation Service." The Codie Awards
recognize outstanding achievement in the software and information industries.
The complete list of Codie Award winners can be viewed at http://www.siia.net/codies/2006/winners.asp
Berners-Lee
calls for Net neutrality
CNET News.com, May 23
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear
separation between Internet access and Internet content. It's better and more efficient
for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate
market where we get our content. Berners-Lee characterized the issue as a U.S.-only
problem at present. "In Europe, Net neutrality is the rule," he said.
Techbooks to
Digitize More than 6.5 Million Pages of Journal Content
Press release, May 24
Techbooks announced it has been selected by Blackwell Publishing to
digitize hundreds of journals as part of Blackwell’s Journal Backfile Digitization
Program.
Dell embraces
Google
CNET News.com, May 25
Google and Dell have agreed to a first in a series of deals to
preinstall Web and desktop search software on the PC maker's computers, Google CEO Eric
Schmidt said Thursday. Under the deal, millions of Dell PCs will be loaded with the Google
toolbar for Web and PC search, along with a co-branded home page, before they're shipped
to consumers.
Bertelsmann's
$1.4bn publishing business for sale
Times Online, May 25
Bertelsmann has put its $1.4 billion-rated music publishing arm up for
sale after it agreed to buy out its minority shareholder Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. The
auction for the publishing business is likely to pit Universal Music with a clutch of
venture capital buyers.
The NHS in England decides not to renew its
central licence with CLA.
CLA website, May 25
This means that, without permission, any staff who photocopy, scan and e-mail extracts
from magazines, books and journals are likely to be breaking copyright law.
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