| FEATURES |
Report from the Field
London Online: You've Been
Blogged!
Read excerpts from ITI's blog of the Online Information and Content
Management
Europe show held
in London last month.
by Dick Kaser
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| COLUMNS
& NEWS |
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NewsBytes
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Up Front
with Barbara Quint
Digital Books: More
Value-Added, Please
bq discusses the
growing appeal of electronic books.
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NewsBreak
Update
The Latest on Blogs, Search
Engines, and Content Integration 
by Paula
J. Hane
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Focus on
Publishing
A Googly New Year
Robin Peek reports on Google Scholar and the OCLC/Yahoo! partnership
that brought
OCLC's WorldCat
to the public.
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Internet Waves
The Dark Side
Shirley Duglin Kennedy
discusses the problems with scammers on eBay.
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Legal Issues
Reverse Engineering a
Controversy
George H. Pike talks about the legalities of reverse engineering
different types
of technology.
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Database
Review
A9 Enters Great Search Engine
Race
Mick O'Leary determines
whether Amazon's new search engine, A9, is a killer app.
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Interview
Essential for Science
Vitek Tracz, chairman of the Current Science Group, discusses his
successes in
publishing and the
future of open access.
by Richard
Poynder
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It's the Real Thing,
Baby
by Dick Kaser
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Letter to the Editor |
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InfoToons
by Gib Robbie |
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International
Report
Publication of Clinical Trial
Data
A new U.K. committee on the safety and efficacy of medicines will
address the
public's role in
the regulation of medicines.
by Jim Ashling |
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| Product
News & Reviews |
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| People
Line & the Executive Profile |
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| CONFERENCE
CIRCUIT |
Report
from the Field
Online Information 2004 in
London
The attention-getting topics at
this meeting were blogs, taxonomies, and open access.
by Donald
T. Hawkins |
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Report from the Field
High Energy, Fun, and Serious
Discussion Highlight CLA's Annual Gathering
Check out the action at
the California Library Association's annual meeting in
this
photo essay.
by Dick Kaser |
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Report
from the Field
American Society for
Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting
The theme of the 2004 ASIST Annual Meeting was Managing and Enhancing
Information:
Cultures
and Conflicts.
by Robin
Peek |
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Report
from the Field
Does Open Access Publishing
Really Work in Practice?
This daylong seminar, sponsored by the SSP and the ALPSP, featured a
keynote
speech by Peter Suber.
by Donald
T. Hawkins |
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Report
from the Field
Internet Librarians Own the
Future
The Internet Librarian keynote speech discusses why the future should
belong
to librarians and journalists.
by Lee Rainie |
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Conference Calendar
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| Cover
Notes |
Book
Review
Can You E-Mail Me That Article?
The Changing Landscape for
Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal
Issues, edited by Yem S. Fong and Suzanne M. Ward
reviewed
by Gwen M. Gregory |
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In Other Words
It's a Small World, After All
A look inside Information
Today, Inc.'s other publications
by Lauree
Padgett |
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| LinkUp @ Home
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Digital for additional Web-only content! |
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Perspectives
Fitness Craze Moves Online
by Wallys
W. Conhaim
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CyberSports
A Blog to Remember
by David
King
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Imaginary Countries
by Thomas Pack
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