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If there's one thing Paul Gazzolo wants you to know about Gale, it's that the company shouldn't just be recognized for its reference publishing. But Gazzolo, SVP and global general [...]

The tagline at Credo--'Building Information Skills for Lifelong Success'--is a slight variant of the one that was in use the last time Mike Sweet, CEO, spoke with Information Today (see [...]

Mark Holst-Knudsen likes to joke that Thomas Publishing Co. is the oldest internet company known to man, but in a sense, he's not far off. Founded in 1898, it published [...]

The World Wide Web in 2014 isn't exactly a house of cards, but it isn't Fort Knox, either. The exposure of OpenSSL's Heartbleed vulnerability in early April signaled a shift [...]

Ever since the media caught wind of bitcoin, coverage of the electronic payment system has tended to focus on the scandalous aspects of its use, including its role in facilitating […]

Although the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) may be well-known in the digital world of 2014, the nonprofit watchdog group was advocating and defending digital rights before the internet was a [...]

* Recent stories about electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (publicly traded as Foxconn Technology Group) brought the world's attention to the poor working conditions experienced by high-tech [...]

Although Kim Massana was an outsider to Innovative Interfaces (originally Innovative Interfaces, Inc., aka III) when he started as CEO in August 2012, he was no stranger to libraries or [...]

A thief who steals rare books and manuscripts is a specter haunting our libraries. And unlike graduate students, researchers, and others who hope to gain from the scholarship libraries make [...]

* Melissa, Olga, and Sebastien may be passing through town. Are you prepared? Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wants to prepare [...]

The ALA (American Library Association) 2016 Annual Conference, held in Orlando, Fla., June 23-28, saw 16,597 attendees (including nearly 5,000 exhibitors) converge at the Orange County Convention Center--a drop from [...]

The American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference kicked off with a timely keynote speech from Roberta A. Kaplan, which touched on the personal and political impact of the Supreme Court [...]

The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) 108th annual meeting and conference saw 1,450 attendees gather from July 18 to 21 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. At the [...]

The ACRL 2015 biennial conference, held March 25-28 in Portland, Ore., was a tribute to the strength of the organization; it drew more than 3,400 librarians and staffers from higher [...]

Kudos, a service for researchers to manage the communications around their findings, has partnered with PaperHive, a collaborative web platform for researchers, on a 6-month pilot program intended to expand [...]

The structure of a mission (or of a duty, quest, or guideline) can be comforting, in a certain way. When we know what the requirements of success are--and maybe even [...]

In recent years, there's been an explosion of once hard-to-find print content that is now available in digital, accessible formats. Companies that previously subsisted on the production of print content [...]

Just a few months after Marcie Granahan took over for Bonnie Lawlor, the longtime executive director of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), approximately 200 people gathered in [...]

The American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits FAQ helpfully warns readers, 'January is one of the coolest weather months in Philadelphia.' The conference's 12,207 attendees and exhibitors were [...]

The military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, 'War is the continuation of politics by other means,' and it can be pretty well assumed he had this issue of IT in [...]

This month's theme might have been 'Let It Go,' but, alas, the Walt Disney Co. has such a stranglehold on the self-help mantra-cum-sing-along that it now belongs thoroughly to the [...]

The open access (OA) scholarly publisher PLOS (Public Library of Science) has recently completed the most comprehensive site redesign in its history. PLOS was founded in 2001, and plos.org has [...]

This month's issue is full of articles that set the record straight--about legal findings, corporate acquisitions, massive open online courses, and more. In 'Authors Guild v. Google,' our copyright specialist, [...]

ProQuest launched a series of nine databases recently, focusing on different regions throughout the world. The databases contain full-text, scholarly journals organized into categories covering the output of Australia and [...]

Looking forward to stretching out on the beach this summer? Don't forget your sunscreen and umbrella and maybe a copy of your favorite newspaper for information professionals. While you're on [...]

Mark Hahnel is the first one to admit that he came up with the idea for figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, for somewhat selfish reasons. As a [...]

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) recently partnered with Altmetric, a tracker of alternative metrics for scholarly research, to integrate Altmetric's data into CCC's RightFind platform. 'Our customers asked us to provide [...]

There's a quote frequently attributed to author William Gibson: 'The future is already here--it's just not very evenly distributed.' When working with information and technology professionally, it's hard not to [...]

In a move made to bolster the company's unique 'authored and data insights,' LexisNexis Legal & Professional recently acquired Lex Machina, creator of legal analytics, a new type of legal [...]

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries), a not-for-profit organization that was one of the original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and Taylor & Francis Group recently announced an agreement [...]

While the U.S. government may be on the cutting edge of technology in certain sectors, high-tech hasn't come to its every endeavor equally. This month, we'll check out a few [...]

Scientific authors might soon see their specific type of hard work reflected in future bibliographic annotations if BioMed Central has anything to do with it. Building on Mozilla's Open Badges [...]

As it is with humble information industry newspapers, so it is with the world: Things move in cycles. We return for another edition of 'What Trends May Come' for the [...]

Scopus, Elsevier's citation and abstract database of peer-reviewed literature, has expanded thanks to a partnership with Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL). Elsevier and DCL are working together on the Scopus Cited [...]

Big business changes have a large effect on information professionals--more than for most, perhaps--due to the technological nature of their work, along with the tendency of (non-open source) technology to [...]

Following last year's release of Nursing Reference Center Plus (NRC Plus), an information resource for nurses, EBSCO Health has unveiled a new app designed to help nurses take advantage of [...]

The future is an inconsistent and amorphous thing, and this is no less true for libraries. The technologies, practices, and conception of Northeastern academic libraries in the future may not [...]

Although we have conference news throughout the year here at IT, this month, we've got an entire summer's worth of meetings, sessions, and get-togethers for you to look through. Our [...]

Wolters Kluwer recently partnered with the English-language editing and proofreading services company Editage to support authors who submit articles to its portfolio of journals. Editage will offer an Author Services [...]

Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the science journal Nature, announced it will add three more entries to its portfolio of 160 scientific and medical titles: Nature Energy, Nature Microbiology, [...]

The first major update of Innovative's ILS/library service platform Sierra was put into general release in April, containing more than 60 enhancements to the previous iteration. Sierra 2.0 is a [...]

Digital Divide Data (DDD) was started in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with a single project: to digitize Harvard University's student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Fourteen years after it began, DDD has [...]

This month, we have three features from three different areas of the info pro world--finance, public libraries, and law. George Pike reports on the recent Bloomberg terminal outage and what [...]

Through a collaboration with Cyril Labbe of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, Springer recently released SciDetect, an open source software program designed to automatically check for fake scientific papers [...]

Gale has announced plans to engage with one of the most widely spoken languages in the world by working to digitize a program of Arabic primary sources and reference materials […]

Spring semester classes may soon be coming to a close, but the info pro's job is never finished. This was perfectly evident at the ACRL conference in Portland, Ore., where [...]

New York-based Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) has been converting documents electronically for more than 30 years. So when Health Science Funding, LLC, a small pharmaceutical company, approached DCL with a [...]

Among the many subjects that deserve her attention, today's information professional should keep one eye on the law, especially as it pertains to her field. This month, we have a [...]

Although Elsevier already has more than 130 open access (OA) journals on its roster, the company is planning the launch of a new OA journal in the coming year: a [...]