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Drop the snobbery

Mark Chillingworth
Those obsessed with sneering at "intellectuals" seem to completely miss the point that it's not intellectual to care about quality, it's merely professional.

Can integrated David beat off best-of-breed Goliath?

David Tebbutt
Marketing clout could see off technical excellence in the Web 2.0 battle

Beyond Search

With the current crop of product announcements from enterprise search vendors, as well as new entrants to the market, IWR wonders what course search engines will take in the future
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Book reviews

Book review: The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future

Convincing users of the value in your virtual skills. Great ideas for librarians, plus a few anecdotes about ungrateful patrons
Site reviews

Site Review: Books24x7 podcasts

Best practice in a pod, ExecBlueprints offers top tips on business issues
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News & Reference Services

With blogs, bulletiun boards, podcasts and webcasts, the internet is an ever-evolving source of information. News aggregator vendors must adapt - and quickly
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Reading lists with OPML
Friday, 08 December 2006
Do you, or your colleagues, need to share up-to-date reading lists with others? And are those lists a mix of online and...
Strategies for using rss to deliver content, track 1, Online Information Conference 2006
Patent Office reform urged by Gowers report
Microsoft book search engine goes Live
Chancellor Gordon Brown announces copyright reforms today
Snippets from Online Information 2006
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Autonomy recruits army ants for search technology

Natural world inspires the web of internet development

Talks on digital rights stall

Negotiations between agents and publishers over digital contracts have stalled after failing to reach agreement on which rights should be granted to publishers. However, both sides were keen to stress that the dialogue was not at an end.

Management changes at Cambridge Uni Press

Holdsworth departs CUP as Gilfillan moves up

Firms at risk from Web 2.0 sites

User generated content could contain malicious code, say experts

Firms advised on intranet search optimisation

Is it best to meta-tag or not to meta-tag when attempting to organise enterprise information?

Asian blogosphere surges forward

Almost half of web users in the region now blogging

Virtual Earth and SalesWorks mash-up sales information

Mapping technology combines with satellite images to improve sales

US elections delay open access articles bill

Senate house elections delay federal research papers bill

Subscription model faces embargo threat

Latest survey urges publishers to analyse their business models

Blackwell severs family ties in £572m Wiley sale

STM market consolidates to meet technical demands of e-publishing

BT seeks intranet improvements

Search engine improves corporate information access for national telco
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Sales Manager: £40k
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
You will develop, implement and manage local sales plans to fit into a strategic plan to maximise sales of the group's journal...
Information Research Associate: £18-24 ph
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
A leading investment bank requires a researcher for a 2 month contract. The main responsibilities will include the provision of accurate and...
Senior Information Specialist: £40k
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Working for a private equity company within a small team environment, you will be key to the delivery of a first class...
Client Services Trainer to £32k pr
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Key responsibilities include delivering training to users focusing on content and functionality for products and publications. Knowledge of search engine capabilities is...
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Online tools: blogs and wikis

We bring you some of the most powerful collaborative and non-hierarchical online information tools
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