Google Wave drowned by apathy
Google Wave was truly collaborative. It enabled users to manage their total communication on the web...
Liberating the NHS with intelligent informatics
The plans outlined in the "Liberating the NHS" whitepaper clearly demonstrate how effective informat...
Will Open Source Boost SAP?
Commercial software companies—particularly those with IBM’s DNA in their framework—are finding ways ...
Elsevier launches SciVerse
The innovative platform integrates the company’s key products and encourages the scientific communit...
Welsh Assembly government staff lost over 50 data devices, FOI reveals
Technology equipment valued at £21,000 has been lost by or stolen from Welsh Assembly government sta...
Wiley-Blackwell appoints marketing director to promote open access initiatives
STM publisher Wiley-Blackwell has appointed Natasha White to the role of associate director, open ac...
Elsevier launches SciVerse
The innovative platform integrates the company’s key products and encourages the scientific communit...
UK academic community gets access to Cambridge Journals Archive
An agreement between JISC Collections and Cambridge Journals, part of Cambridge University Press tha...
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Elsevier launches SciVerse

The innovative platform integrates the company’s key products and encourages the scientific community to collaborate on the development of customised search and discovery applications

UK academic community gets access to Cambridge Journals Archive

An agreement between JISC Collections and Cambridge Journals, part of Cambridge University Press that publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market, will ensure that all UK HE and FE institutions get perpetual access to the archives

Semantico extends international support to Shibboleth system

Semantico, the provider of services and technology for online publishing, has extended its international Shibboleth support with an aim to simplify access management

Objective collaborates with Exalead for enterprise search

Objective Corporation has entered into a strategic partnership with Exalead, the provider of information access solutions, for the provision of next generation full text and enterprise search technology

Non-profit organisation formed to solve name ambiguity problem in research community

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative has launched as a non-profit organisation, ORCID, dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in the scholarly research community

Inventions show aims to halt patents’ plunge

British Library is launching an exhibition – Inventing the 21st Century – that will showcase the 15 of the most ingenious inventions to come out of the UK in the last decade

Generic drug sector gets better information on API manufacturing costs

Thomson Reuters has collaborated with Rondaxe Enterprises, the software applications provider for pharmaceutical companies, to enable professionals working in the generic drug sector to better estimate the cost of manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)

Berlin Academic appoints Jan-Peter Wissink as editorial director

Berlin Academic, the newly-established academic and professional division of publisher Berlin Verlag has appointed Jan-Peter Wissink as its editorial director

JISC Collections drives through library deal

JISC Collections has procured an agreement that makes Theory Test Pro, the online study programme for the UK's driving theory test available to English public libraries at special subscription rates

Scottish Natural Heritage goes for transparency

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) says it is leading the way in making Scotland’s public data transparent. It is making information, that is not confidential or subject to the Data Protection Act, available to the general public as part of a drive to make the Scottish public sector more transparent
Objective collaborates with Exalead for enterprise search
Objective Corporation has entered into a strategic partnership with Exalead, the provider of informa...
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...
Semantico launches dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
Semantico, the provider of services and technology for online publishing, has launched an app called...
South China Morning Post launches native iPad app
It is the only Hong Kong-based newspaper as well as the only Asian English daily to launch such an a...
OUP’s latest dictionary edition includes social web terms, vuvuzela
Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. Th...
Google Wave drowned by apathy
Google Wave was truly collaborative. It enabled users to manage their total communication on the web...
ICO clears Google’s personal data collection during its Street View project
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has cleared internet giant Google’s collection of person...
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