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Increases in Wiley
journal Impact Factors
Laboratorytalk, August 1
Publisher John Wiley and Sons has announced significant increases in Impact Factors for
its journals across the majority of subject areas, according to the Thomson ISI 2005
Journal Citation Reports
UK Librarian,
Caught on eBay, Admits Major Book Thefts
LibraryJournal.com, August 4
In March, a bookseller contacted the City Council of Manchester, UK, with some
startling information: books and manuscripts from the Central Library were being sold on
eBay. Police traced the sales to a librarian, Norman Buckley, and recovered more than 400
items, including a 16th-century edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. He had so far
taken in £11,000 ($14,100) from the sales, but the total value of his theft was estimated
at £250,000 ($470,000).
Nature
Publishing Group Launches Its First All Japanese Language Publication
PRWeb, August 7
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced the launch of its first all Japanese
language publication on nature.com. The publication, called Nature Digest, is
comprised of a monthly selection of news, news features, and opinion articles translated
into Japanese from Nature and NPG’s daily online news service http://www.nature.com/news.
Further
delays for new Wi-Fi standard
ZD Net, August 15
The 802.11n standard now looks unlikely to be ratified until 2008.
The long-awaited next-generation Wi-Fi standard has been delayed again and isn't
likely to be ratified until sometime in 2008. The new standard, which will allow notebook
users to connect to wireless access points at much faster speeds than are currently
available, was expected to be finalised later this year.
Dell to
recall 4.1m laptop batteries
ZD Net UK, August 15
Dell and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission plan to recall
4.1 million notebook batteries a company representative confirmed. The recall affects
certain Inspiron, Latitude and Precision mobile workstations and XPS units shipped between
April 2004 and July 18, 2006. Sony manufactured the batteries that are being recalled, the
representative said.
Customers should go to this Dell Web site to determine if they need a
new battery.
Yahoo photos now live
PCWorld Blogs, August 17
It's the most ambitious Web-based photo sharing/organizing/editing service yet--
clearly inspired by the Yahoo-owned Flickr
service, but different, aimed at a broader audience, and more feature-rich
Boeing
Drops In-Flight Wi-Fi
ZD Net UK August 18
Connexion never drew big audience and will be phased out, execs say. The closure, which
was widely expected, marks an expensive retreat for Boeing's six-year project to put
satellite-based Internet connections on its commercial jets.
Wiley acquires
cardiology and scanning journals
Laboratorytalk, August 18
John Wiley and Sons has acquired publishing assets from the Clinical Cardiology
Publishing Company (CCPC) and the Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science (Fams)
Announcing
The Launch Of Open Access Central
Medical News Today, August 24
Open Access Central was launched today at www.openaccesscentral.com. Open Access Central is brought to you from
the team that created BioMed Central, the leading biomedical open access publisher.
Bringing together the open access publishing activities of Science Navigation Group, Open
Access Central includes BioMed Central and its newly launched sister site, Chemistry
Central. Future open access initiatives such as PhysMath Central will also fall under the
Open Access Central umbrella.
The US Patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a curious patent on Tuesday,
filed for in 2000. The patent covers a "system and method for supporting editorial
opinion in the ranking of search results." Observers are still uncertain if the
patent is merely an "artifact" or a signal for a new direction in Google News.
PRS Note: Patent number 7,096,214 The full text is available at the USPTO
System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the
ranking of search results
Apple
recalls 28,000 overheating PowerBook batteries
Reuters UK, August 25
Apple Computer will recall 1.8 million lithium-ion notebook PC batteries after nine
overheated, the second major recall in the past 10 days involving battery cells made by
Sony.
Tim Waterstone, the retail entrepreneur, could be set to launch another bid for the
bookstore chain he founded in 1982.
The 67-year-old, whose last attempt to buy back the HMV subsidiary collapsed three
months ago, told Scotland on Sunday that he still had the investors in place and was
poised to move this autumn.
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