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This article focuses on the controversy concerning publisher Elsevier that emerged from a publishing venture in Australia. A civil suit was filed by consumer Graeme Peterson against Merck and its Australian subsidiary Merck, Sharp & Dohme Australia for the negative health effects while taking painkiller Vioxx from Merck. There are now questions on Merck's marketing strategy for the drug through a publication owned by Elsevier. An article on the Internet revealed that money was paid to Elsevier to publish papers favoring Vioxx.

The article focuses on a paper about rural development by Ross Todd and Joan Parker, School of Information Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The study was presented with the weighty title "Tapping into Author/End-User Knowledge Structures: A User-Based Classification." The story is really about the redevelopment of Woolloomooloo, a section of Sydney, Australia and it is a lesson in indexing terms built with civic participation. The long-term goal of their project, as Todd and Parker explained, is to develop a hypermedia database to meet the needs of researchers, past and contemporary activists, journalists, and community workers. Their special interest comes from the fact that in the 1970s Australia experienced intense community action about the shaping of the urban environment. The Green Ban Period, as it was known throughout the country, saw unionists refusing to work on sites where resident activists were fighting to keep their housing. The Green Ban group had a language unique unto themselves, but the usual indexing language and process fails to capture the messages and meaning of this group.

The article presents an international update on the information technology industry as of March 2004. IGroup, a distributor of databases, e-journals, and library automation systems, has contracted CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, a consortium of Australian universities to prepare a report on the feasibility of developing a new international certificate and diploma course for Asian librarians and information professionals. The feasibility study will seek to establish which skills employers are looking for and how knowledge management techniques and new library technologies and standards can be incorporated into a new curriculum. The National Library of Malaysia has launched a new Web site to help improve knowledge of Islam and Muslim communities. The International Islamic Digital Library is a Web-based collection of digital books, manuscripts, theses, journal articles and working papers. Also, in Australia, a new search engine has been launched that claims to offer more precise and personalized searching. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works that are free to be copied and reused, has announced that it's information discussions to expand its International Commons project to China and Taiwan.

Information about several papers discussed at THETA (The Higher Education Technology Agenda) 2017 conference held on May 7–10, 2017, in Auckland, New Zealand, are presented. The topics included Information Technology, Library and Knowledge Management in tertiary education and research with subthemes including Digital Transformation and The Research Ecosystem. The conference features several speakers including beekeeper Nick Wallingford.

The article discusses about the methods like overdue fines, e-mail reminders, freezing the library membership applied in Sydney, Australia to encourage borrowers to return the overdue library books. Topics discussed include increase in library fines in the country, reminding borrowers through electronic mail and increase in print book sales in Great Britain.

The article offers information on the VALA 2016 conference and exhibition hosted by the Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. (VALA), an Australian not-for-profit, held February 9–11 , 2016 in South Wharf, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne. It reports that at the event Lesley Ryall, VALA's executive officer discusses issues faced by librarians in the country includes Lesley Ryall, VALA's executive officer.

The article discusses the highlights of the Association for Information Science and Technology's (ASIS&T) annual meeting held in Melbourne, Victoria in October 2019. Topics covered include the importance of delivering information to the right people at the right time, place and way, ways to digitize and translate culture and knowledge from ancient and remote communities, and findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) principles.

The article covers issues related to the information services industry as of February 2010. An online, interactive timeline was developed by the British Royal Society for articles that have been published in the journal "Philosophical Transactions" during the past 350 years. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between broadcaster BBC and the British Library (BL) for the integration of the access to the collection of the library and BBC television (TV) and radio content. The Australian government has proposed censorship of the Internet.

The article focuses on the Marrakesh Treaty and cuts to the National Library of Australia's (NLA) budget. Topics discussed include adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty which makes easier for blind and visually impaired to access published works is moving forward, cuts to NLA budget will affect its Trove online archive, cuts may mean big reduction in number of items loaded into the Trove database and Madrid to declare collected works of Spanish poet García Lorca of major cultural importance.

This article presents some highlights of the 11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb05) held in Australia in July 2005. AusWeb is a forum for librarians, technologists, social scientists, and entrepreneurs to discuss broad issues shaping the Web's evolution. AusWeb05 featured four tracks: Technical and Standards; Education and Training; e-Commerce/e-Business/Online Marketing; and Society, Information and the Web. Although presenters were predominantly from Australia, there was a cross-section of delegates from Asia and North America. Web evolution was the starting point for the tracks, but topics quickly moved onto a more granular analysis of Web trends, four of which emerged as central themes for the conference: high-quality content, Google Scholar, e-learning, and business models.

Presents the schedule of several conferences in the information services industry from June to September 1990. 109th Annual Conference of the American Library Association; International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; 7th National Convention Records Management Association of Australia.