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The job of the diplomat is to get people with diverse interests to work together on something that is of common benefit. But these…

The future for reference publishing will be entirely electronic, according to Steven Hall, journal sales and marketing director of Blackwell Publishing, speaking at the…

When the average researcher pulls the latest issue of a journal off a library shelf, or downloads an article from their desktop computer, they…

At the Online Exhibition in London at the end of last year, I was struck by the growing number of providers introducing visualisation products…

Last October, Sun Microsystems and Endeavor Information Systems, an Elsevier company, announced an expanded partnership. Their aim was to create data preservation technology to…

European library-management company OCLC PICA had a busy year in 2005. In June it acquired the German Siemens-spin-out Sisis Information Systems, a provider of…

The information world is a strange mix of commerce and public service. On the one hand, the world benefits from the free flow of…

Knowing what has been made and tested before is an important part of the drug discovery and development process. With so much information online,…

November 2005 saw the second stage of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), an international conference that brought together heads of state…

If you are developing a new piece of technology, what are your key information needs and how do you address them? This is a…

Everyone knows the price of information, but its value is a bit harder to quantify. One of the reasons that the information industry continues…

The individual end-user of information emerged as the central focus of attention at the Online Information conference in London at the end of November…