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The Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Library was established in 1885 and is one of the oldest pharmaceutical libraries in the United States. The research library serves a population of approximately 1,200 [...]

It is 3 a.m on a Sunday in August 1994, and in the recesses of an office park in Calabasas, Calif., Jose Gonzalez absorbs the bad news: his database has [...]

Academic institutions and government agencies were among the early adopters of open source search. Although it continues to make headway in commercial organizations, the enterprise has embraced software that comes [...]

Why Do We Need a Better CD-ROM Selection Tool? The growing importance of CD-ROM information is becoming clear to professionals in the field of library science. It is not feasible [...]

You have achieved much. Your library has a variety of CD-ROM hardware. You have purchased, installed and introduced to your users databases and other products to run on that hardware. [...]

The performance of your library automation system is much like the hard disk of a personal computer. We all know that with hard disks, it is not a question of [...]

Social-media technology is evolving at a rapid pace. New tools enabling increased communication with various constituencies are being introduced on a frequent basis. While the franchising community is not yet [...]

I was at a bar with some friends recently, and, since we're nerds, our conversation turned to Libra, Facebook's proposed digital currency. Some were adamant that it will be a [...]

AUTHOR AND YOUTUBER John Green has introduced a 10-episode Crash Course series, 'Navigating Digital Information' (http://ow.ly/nLhK30nEZTY). The curriculum was developed in partnership with MediaWire-a project of the Poynter Institute, funded [...]

STAQ unveiled a platform for enabling custom automated campaign and inventory management capabilities. According to a release, the new platform connects major ad servers with any of the 225 integrated [...]

Producing borderless prints in color or black-and-white, SureColor® P800 supports diverse connectivity, employs Epson® MicroPiezo® AMC™ printhead technology, and leverages Epson UltraChrome® HD 8-color pigment ink set. Media handling capabilities [...]

LONDON Table for one? A new pop-up restaurant opened briefly for solo diners, courtesy of Coca-Cola's Glac%au Smartwater. This is the second branch of Eenmaal (translated as "meal for one"), [...]

HP has unveiled HP Haven OnDemand, a solution that gives organizations of all sizes cloud-based access to key components of the company's analytics platform. HP said that Haven OnDemand, which [...]

it's hard not to like Alexa. She's quirky--her celebrity crush is Benedict Cumberbatch, and she sings auto-tuned songs with impressive accuracy. According to the Myers-Briggs personality scale, a test popular [...]

I've mentioned more than once to CIL editor Kathy Dempsey that writing about 'hip hightech' is one of my faves as a columnist. I think the main reason I like […]

Many information professionals have discovered the value of using news aggregators to subscribe to news feeds with updated content from blogs, newspapers, journals and other Web sites. RSS newsreaders are […]

Practically all the relevant STM publishers, aggregators, and the major science libraries have rushed to incorporate OpenURLs and link resolvers in their staple offerings. Still, the revolution is far from having reached its end, as the new standard OpenURL 1.0 is about to be released by NISO, allowing for a much larger range of applications. While commercial providers have developed mature solutions for libraries, breakthrough applications of the OpenURL in other domains still loom behind the horizon. The article provides an overview of the new standard's features, summarizes some trends of current applications, and gives an outlook of new services to be expected in the wake of OpenURL technology.

The aim of the Australian project called Better Medication Management System (BMMS) is to improve and maintain the electronic access to patient medical records, decrease adverse drug events and hospital admissions. The success achieved by BMMS is limited due to the less number of voluntary participants in the program.

Byline: Gabe Nelson The self-driving car is moving from research lab to product plan, with a wave of advanced features due to hit the market by 2020, automakers and suppliers [...]

Yahoo, Inc., this week said it had made considerable progress in recent weeks in the company's efforts to deploy encryption technologies throughout its networks following reports last year that the [...]

Honda Motor Co. has joined an alliance of companies that will work with Google Inc. on technological innovations for inboard automotive information networks, such as GPS. Other automakers in the [...]