scitech library question

October 2003

CINDAS LLC Database - New: CINDAS (Purdue University's Center for Information, Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis) LLC database has been released on CD-ROM or as a licensed web-based product. Read more from NewsFactor SciTech.... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)

Using Blogs in Student Projects - :: It is becoming more evident to me that students working in groups can make good use of a blog as a project management tool. Two weeks ago I helped a 4th-year mechanical engineering student create a blog for his... (23:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

New URL for SciTech Library Question On Its Way - :: To our loyal readers: We've purchased a new domain name for this weblog, https://stlq.info, and hope to have it functional within a few days. When the new domain gets "turned on", the old URL, http://podbaydoor.com/engine, should automatically redirect users... (12:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
PLoS Interview - :: Laura Lynch of Creative Commons interviews Michael Eisen about the launch of the new open-access peer-reviewed journal, PLoS Biology.... (10:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Call for Boycott of Cell Press Journals - :: A call for a boycott of Cell Press Journals has been written by two important researchers from UCalifornia San Francisco, Peter Walter and Keith Yamamoto. The call to boycott has made it to the SPARC-OAForum and is being republished... (17:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
October issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries - The October issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries has been released and is available to read on the Web at: http://www.ieee.org/products/whats-new/wnlib/wnlib1003.xml Stories in this issue include: 1. Sign Up for London Luncheon: "Patent Citations Prove R&D; Value" 2.... (16:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

U Alberta Mech Engineers Make Important Energy Breakthrough, More on PLoS Biology - :: University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Dr Daniel Kwok and Dr Larry Kostiuk (additional information here), working with two graduate students, Fuzhi Lu (L) and Jun Wang (R), have discovered a new way to produce electricity, the first such... (05:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

PLoS Biology Makes Major Impact On Its First Day - :: On Oct 13, 2003, the first day of online availability to the world, the new open-access journal PLoS Biology had already had a dramatic impact in scholarly publishing. As reported in The Mercury News, a research article by Duke... (06:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

PLoS Biology Is In The House, China Is In Space - :: PLoS Biology, "the premier open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science", made its debut yesterday. PLoS "is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public... (05:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

DASER Summit - Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources - :: Registration has opened for the Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources Summit, to be held 21-23 November 2003, MIT, Cambridge MA.... (20:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Stuff You Don't Learn In Engineering School, and What To Expect Beyond - :: The Sept 2003 issue of IEEE Spectrum features the first of a series of articles by Carl Selinger, called "Stuff You Don't Learn In Engineering School." As John Dupuis suggests, there is a role that engineering librarians can play... (16:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Elsevier Over The Top? - :: The Elsevier title, Surface Science Reports, will publish 4 volumes and 32 issues in 2003 (and again in 2004). A few eyebrows have been raised with the publication of Volume 51, which has been assigned 8 issues at once... (16:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee - :: Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the world wide web in 1989. He shares his ideas of a more "intelligent" web in this interview from the BBC. :: Today's website is from the Life Sciences Libraries at the University... (20:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)