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The article offers world news briefs related to digital information as of October 2016. Topics include plan of the European Union to introduce value-added tax on electronic books to harmonize print and ebook rates; the National Library of Israel's plan to acquire papers of author Franz Kafka after the country's Supreme Court ruling that manuscripts are the property of the Library; and digitization of author William Shakespeare's Globe archive in London, England by publisher Adam Matthew.

The article reports on the completion of the digitization of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1900 by the ProQuest Information and Learning in 2006. The papers are considered to be the most detailed primary source for information on nineteenth-century Great Britain, its colonies, and beyond. The company digitized 78,000 papers, which amount to 4.2 million pages for this collection. The papers are particularly noteworthy as being a forum among thinkers including Jenner, Arnold, and Trollope.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

Reports that the Gale Group, a Thomson Corp. company, is working with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust to publish the complete papers of Sir Winston Churchill. How the papers are considered one of the most important sources available for the study of modern British and world history; Details of the collection which includes his writings from childhood through adulthood; Expectation that publication of the document will begin in 2001.

This article reports on the plan of ProQuest Information and Learning to digitize the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1900 and release them later in 2005. The collection will include the Chadwyck-Healey subject index and searchable American Standard Code for Information Interchange text and images. It will join the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, the bibliographic spine of the program, and other new resources.

The article offers information on the Information Today Inc.'s first Taxonomy Boot Camp London, held October 18–19, 2017 a program showcased the range of impacts that taxonomies have on the ability to find content in an organization's repositories, intranet, and external facing websites and portals. It mentions that the event included workshops, short presentations on best practices, posters, and formal papers.

The article reports on a 2013 decision which the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) made to ask the European Commission to deliver the position paper, "The Right to E-read—An E-book Policy for Libraries in Europe", which is concerned with copyright for electronic books. EBLIDA's desire to have changes made to European copyright laws which would allow European libraries to acquire and lend electronic books is discussed. INSET: WORLD OF LIBRARIES.

The article reports on the launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) on January 9, 2007. UKPMC is the British version of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. It will provide free access to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. The service is the product of work done by the Wellcome Trust to encourage British research-funding bodies to promote and encourage open access publishing. A special manuscript-submission system has been also introduced to let scientists submit articles that have been accepted in a peer-reviewed journal directly to UKPMC.

This paper presents an update on the information industry as of February 2005.. Although normally a time for reflecting on the past year and making resolutions for the next year, this new year, like no other, is dominated by one catastrophic event: the devastation around the coast of the Indian Ocean caused by the tsunamis generated by the December 26, 2004 earthquake. Post-disaster blogs and other news sources proliferate, but no information channel was capable of preparing communities for the approaching calamity. In the aftermath, however, online services and information providers are finding new ways to help. Google quickly changed a strict policy and added a link to relief aid sources on its otherwise minimalist search page. Perhaps one of the most comprehensive site is provided by Wikipedia. Five new laws came into effect on January 1, 2005 in Great Britain, providing the British public with rights to access official information. Members of the public can now apply for any information held by public authorities on any topic and on any medium. VNU Exhibitions Europe has released the final data on attendance at the London Online meeting: more than 10,600 attendees, approximately 900 conference delegates and 230 exhibitor stands.

The article presents updates on copyright issues as of January 2004. Great Britain has passed a legislation that extends legal deposit to electronic publications. The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 provides a legal framework for ensuring that electronic media is systematically collected as part of the published national archive. The law will cover a range of electronic publications, including electronic journals, publications on media and other paper. In October 2003, Google found itself on the opposite side of the table when two French Travel agencies, Luteciel and Viaticum, successfully sued Google France for trademark violation. The lawsuit followed Google France's refusal to curb the use of trademarked terms in its AdWords program, which permits individuals and companies to have their advertisements appear on the Google home page when specific terms are used. Copyright has become hugely contentious in the digital age. The problems are best demonstrated by Kenya's experience. Above all, there has been the sheer scale of piracy in the country.

The article offers information on the State Papers Online, one of Gale/Cengage Learning's latest digital collections which brings a host of British primary documents to life from the Tudor and Stuart government and society from 1509 to 1714. When the four-part project is completed in 2011, users will have access to nearly 3 million pages of reports, letters, memos, and parliamentary drafts from the 16th through the early 18th centuries.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.