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Robert Massie (CAS, USA)
Outsourcing, Globalisation, and the
Information Industry: Trends and Implications for Vendors and
Users
Bonnie Lawlor (NFAIS, USA)
Abstracting and Information Services
in the New Millennium of Scholarly Communication – or Whose
Role is it, Anyway?
Vincent Caraher (Thomson Scientific, USA)
Acquisitions and Integration- - What it Means for Information
Vendors and Customers
Eefke Smit (Elsevier, The Netherlands)
Developing e-Products Together with the Scientific Community
Nancy Lambert (ChevronTexaco, USA)
Internet Patent Information in the Twenty-First Century: A Comparison
between Delphion, MicroPatent and QPat
Edlyn S. Simmons (Procter & Gamble,
USA)
Trends Disrupted? Patent Information in an Era of Change
David A Evans (Clairvoyance, USA) and Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Effectiveness of Cross-Language Searches Targeting Patent Databases
William Hayes (AstraZeneca R&D,
UK)
Leads Oriented Text Mining in Drug
Discovery
Germain Martino (Institut Français du Pétrole,
France)
Information in an R&D Context: Its Contribution to
an Industrial Project
Joanne Witiak (Rohm & Haas, USA)
Changes in Information User Behaviour
Elisabeth Gayon (ARKEMA, France)
Changing Sources and Requirements in Business Information
Hans-Georg Rohbeck and Alexander Mullen
(Bayer HealthCare, Germany)
Exploiting the Spider's Web encompassing Patent, Drug Pipeline
and Business Information to generate Competitive Intelligence
(CI) in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Alfred Elmaleh (Institut Français
du Pétrole, France)
Synergies Between Technical, Patent and Business Information
Ann Wolpert (MIT, USA)
The Movement Towards Open Access in Scientific Literature: An
Introduction
Jan Velterop (BioMedCentral, UK)
The Economics of Open Access Publishing
Stephen Bryant (NIH, NLM, NCBI, USA)
The PubChem Project: Progress and Feasibility
Pierre Buffet (Questel.Orbit, France);
Greg Coyle (Anacubis, UK); Bernard Normier (Lingway, France)
Rapid and Efficient Knowledge Extraction.
New Techniques for Increasing Productivity
John Lervik (FAST, Norway)
What Can the Information Community Expect from Search Engines?
Gérard Giroud and Annemie Nuyts
(European Patent Office, The Netherlands)
The New Generation of Search Engines
at the European Patent Office
Stephen Boyer and James W Cooper (IBM Corp, USA)
Automatic Chemical Structure Indexing from Plain Text
Jesús Salillas and Josep Prous (Prous Science, Spain)
Integration of Audiovisual Content in the Scientific and Chemistry
Information Space
Günther Kurapkat (Temis, Germany)
Increasing Reactivity in Pharmaceutical Research & Development
with Text Mining
Rachel Buckley (Thomson Scientific, UK)
The Life Sciences Information Challenge:
Focussing Delivery in a Multidisciplinary Information Environment