Once again the Online Information show starts the week after Thanksgiving here in the U.S., which means I cut the long weekend short to fly to London. I’m doing two presentations and I’m on a panel, plus I’ll be doing some blogging both here and at the Infotoday Blog as well. There does seem to be some news coming out of the conference, but not as much as I remember from prior years.

Scopus announced yesterday that it is now including links to full text articles in scholarly journals archived by JSTOR. I’ll be talking with the Scopus people in London, so may have more to report next week.

Thomson Scientific is doing a half day update meeting next Wednesday. They’ll be talking about some new launches regarding citation indexing and journal usage reports and enhancements to Thomson Pharma, Thomson Data Analyzer, Derwent World Patents Index, and DialogLink. I wonder how many attendees at the show will realize that Dialog is now part of Thomson Scientific and is quickly being relegated to a product line rather than a pioneering company.

LexisNexis Butterworths will have four press releases at the show, or so they tell me, some of which sound very similar to products already released in the States. However, because of licensing considerations, they haven’t been released in the UK. Others are tailored to the British market.

I’m sure there will be other corporate announcements rolling in as I indulge in some turkey tomorrow.