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STM & Legal

Welsh Assembly government staff lost over 50 data devices, FOI reveals

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Wiley-Blackwell appoints marketing director to promote open access initiatives

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Legal firm uses LexisNexis Streamline for a bespoke networking solution

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Academic & Humanities

JISC Collections and DataSalon develop licence comparison site

JISC Collections will be working with DataSalon to specify and build an online licence comparison si...

SpringerLink relaunched with semantic linking features

The global scientific publisher, Springer, has relaunched its online platform SpringerLink with a “f...

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Click-enter the dramatic and politically charged lives of the Stuarts

Always wanted to uncover the clandestine world of espionage and treason in numerous documents describing plots and assassination attempts of the 17th century? Or simply wished to read Guy Fawkes interrogation in November 1605? Historians’ dreams come true with the release of the digital materials of State Papers Part III

Archana Venkatraman, Information world review 17/06/2010

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Business

Thomson Reuters acquires Healthcare Data Management

Thomson Reuters has acquired Healthcare Data Management, the organisation that established the model...

Vodafone UK receives information security management system certification

Vodafone UK has received a globally recognised certification relating to the provision of IT service...

Journal publisher Inderscience appoints PCG for marketing

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South China Morning Post launches native iPad app

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OUP’s latest dictionary edition includes social web terms, vuvuzela

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Google Wave drowned by apathy

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ICO clears Google’s personal data collection during its Street View project

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