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AfDevInfo.com

Join an information safari that opens up sub-Saharan Africa to researchers

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online

An encyclopaedia written by academics must be better than one written by the crowd, mustn’t it?

Wolters Kluwer Health - OvidSP

A healthcare search site that does exactly what it says on the tin
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Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision

Edited by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy, with Lorraine Estelle and Jane Williams

The Big Switch

By Nicholas Carr
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World’s oldest bible goes online

May cause a problem for some Christians

Mould threatening tape archives

VHS tapes could be damaged by killer fungus

Data watchdog serves notice on government departments

HMRC & MoD slapped with enforcement notices

Multi-million pound project announced for journal preservation

Collaboration between Higher Education and British Library to store low-use journals

Research data dogged by secrecy and inconsistency

RIN calls for concerted effort on data quality and archiving standards

Nature Publishing offer to archive authors works

UK firms are warned to tighten up on security

SMEs are slack when it comes to data security

Cabinet Office publishes data handling review

Data will be encrypted, staff trained and privacy impact assessments carried out on all projects

National Archives revamp revealed today

“New facilities meet the needs of 21st century researchers” says chief exec

HMRC disc review to be published

The review will be published alongside a broader examination of data handling practices across government

SPARC gives Seal of approval to DOAJ content reuse terms

Metadata scheme makes licensing terms explicit for open access journals

OCLC announces plans for new structure

Revised governance setup aims to reach more libraries across the globe

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Bloggers, Blowers and Leakers

In an article based on his Justin Arundale memorial lecture to the Association of UK Media Librarians, Tim Buckley Owen calls on information professionals to help unmask the secret state
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