New Legal Regulations
Due to changes in the Companies Act, companies in the UK must ensure
that they include regulatory data on their website and emails before 1 January 2007.
Company Registration Information
A company's registration data includes:
- registration number
- place of registration
- registered office address
Email
Company registration information is already required on "business
letters" but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic
documents.
UK Pub Med Central (UKPMC) is launched
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ January 9
Another landmark open access development was announced yesterday in the
UK - UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)
has been launched.. Based on PubMed
Central (PMC), the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences
journal literature, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and
free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research
publications.
UKPMC is part of a network of PMC International (PMCI)
repositories. PMCI is a collaborative effort between the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), the publishers
whose journal content makes up the PMC archive, and organizations in other countries that
share NLM's interest in archiving life sciences literature.
List of central
government websites to close
current as of January 11
A large number of government websites are being rationalised - click on
the link above to read the 15 pages.. It is essential to note that the closure of a URL
(web location) does not imply that the service/s or information available there are being
shut down. Only out of date and irrelevant information is being removed, with other
material transferring to a much reduced list of Government websites.
Plan for
news to travel faster
Computing, January 11
Transport Direct is
upgrading the technology behind its live online travel service to cope with the increasing
levels of traffic information it receives.
The web portal provides journey planning and travel data nationally, and
allows people to plan journeys using different modes of transport.
NHS Direct website has a busy Christmas
NHS Direct, January 12
The NHS Direct service took over half a million enquiries over the 2006
Christmas period. The phone helpline received over 250,000 calls in the 10 days to January
4, while the website had 340,000 visitors. Site visits were up 30 per cent compared with
last year, while the number of telephone enquiries was 15 percent lower than last year.
Brussels reluctant to
regulate national media rules
EUobserver, January 17
Brussels has released a working paper on "media pluralism in the
member states of the European Union." The European Commission is hesitant to
interfere in national rules against the concentration of media in the hands of big
companies or politicians, despite the International Federation of Journalists warning that
EU media pluralism is at stake.
The National
Archives wins e-Government National Award
Press Release, January 17
The National Archives is celebrating its success at the
recent e-Government National Awards, announced on 17 January at the Savoy in London. The
National Archives was presented with the award for Central e-Government excellence:
Take-up and usage growth.
The e-Government National Awards highlight the UK's
best services to improve citizen and business transactions with councils, central
government departments and other public sector organisations.
The
Information Commissioner’s view of NHS Electronic Care Records
ICO Statement, January 18
The ICO has issued a note relating to the
implementation and operation of the new systems based on details provided to the
Commissioner by NHS Connecting for Health, the Department of Health agency responsible for
the electronic health records programme.
If you would like to find out some more information on the
changes you can visit this website set up by NHS Connecting for Health:
www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk
Google plots
e-books coup
Sunday Times, January 21
GOOGLE and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans
that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music. The internet
search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books to
their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a
Blackberry.
With 380m people using Google each month, the move would give a
significant boost to the development of e-books and have a big impact on the publishing
industry and book retailers. Jens Redmer, director of Google Book Search in Europe, said:
“We are working on a platform that will let publishers give readers full access to a
book online.”
Google
to digitise more than one million books
Slippery Brick, January 21
Google is partaking in a multi-year project in
conjunction with University of Texas at Austin to digitise more than one million books
from the universities libraries. This extends on a deal they had made starting in 2004
with five other libraries - the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford and
the New York Public Library. This is a massive, massive job that Google is undertaking,
but Jens Redmer, director of Google Book Search in Europe stated an important fact at an
invite-only event called ‘Unbound’ held recently at the New York public library,
‘The majority of information lies outside the Internet.’
Thomson Business
Intelligence Dismantling
Information Today, January 22
The strategic realignment that The
Thomson Corp announced last October continues to roll through Thomson's operations.
Thomson Business Intelligence (TBI), created from a 2005 reorganization of assets
previously assigned to Dialog and reporting—somewhat oddly—to Thomson Legal & Regulatory
has begun dismantling its operations and disposing of its products. Two of the
products—TBI Broker Research and InSite2—will transfer to Thomson Financial.
Another two—Market Research (formerly Profound) and NewsEdge—are up for sale.
And one—News Research—will be eliminated at the end of the year, although a very
similar product, Dialog NewsRoom, continues to operate.
Springer
Launches NanoEthics journal
Information World Review, January 23
STM publishing giant Springer has announced a journal about scientific
ethics to juxtapose its stable of scientific publications. NanoEthics will focus on the
booming field of nanotechnology, an area of science some fear will have damaging affects
on the environment and people's health
Publishing research to blogs and e-books is so easy, some are wondering
if peer-reviewed journals are on their way to obsolescence.
Online
fraud 'now major concern'
BBC website, January 24
Britons fear being ripped-off online more than gun crime, climate
change or even contracting MRSA in hospital, a survey has suggested.
Online fraud worries four out of 10 Britons, according to a survey from
3V, an electronic payments company. The survey also found 48% of online shoppers had
concerns about using their credit or debit cards online. In addition, one in seven people
said they knew someone who had suffered at the hands of internet fraudsters.
Elsevier
selected as new publisher of Annals of Vascular Surgery
PressZoom, January 25
Elsevier is pleased to announce that beginning with Volume 21 ( 2007 )
it has assumed publication of the Annals of Vascular Surgery, the official publication of
the French Society for Vascular Surgery, the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society ( USA ),
and the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society.
The European Commission is preparing new guidelines for the €3
billion a year European scientific publishing industry that could put pressure on major
firms such as Elsevier or Oxford University Press to give free access to articles based on
EU-funded work.
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