November 2003
Friday 28 November 2025
- Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books - :: While somewhat off the scitech-beaten path, here is an interesting essay on the future of books:"The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English,... (11:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 27 November 2025
- New Web Sites of Interest - :: New and interesting web sites, featuring descriptions from the EEVL Catalogue.Ethics in Computing. "Ethics in Computing is a guide to topics such as privacy, intellectual property, computer abuse, commerce, social justice and speech issues. It also covers basic ethical... (15:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 November 2025
- SciTech Library Mentors Needed - :: The Continuing Education Committee of the STS (Science & Technology Section of ALA) is always looking for volunteer library mentors.The Sci/Tech Library Mentors is a list of experienced sci/tech librarians who are willing to serve as mentors and/or resource... (13:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Web of Science to Expand Back to 1900 - :: Thomson ISI announced today an initiative which will expand coverage in Web of Science to include bibliographic data published between 1900-1944. Nearly 850,000 articles from approximately 200 journals are being added, and will represent the highest impact scientific literature... (13:48 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- British Library News - :: There is some interesting news from the British Library:The British Library has added details of over 2.55 million unique bibliographic records to the Amazon.co.uk books catalogue, with 1.7 million of these dated before the 1970 introduction of ISBN.In addition,... (09:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 24 November 2025
- Robots in the News - :: Researchers at MIT have constructed a robot whose top half is a robotic arm and bottom half is a Segway. The robot can move down hallways, find a door, and open it. Last week, the first walking robot capable... (13:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 22 November 2025
- Transportation Journal Scores Highest Percent Increase in Total Citations In Engineering - :: The November, 2003, issue of inCites reports that the journal with the largest percent increase in total citations in the field of engineering is Transportation Research Part C – Emerging Technologies.... (15:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 21 November 2025
- Taylor & Francis Purchases Dekker - :: Taylor & Francis, the UK publisher of technical and scientific literature, has purchased Marcel Dekker for $138.6US. It's been a busy year for T&F;, having already acquired Swets, Bios Scientific, Cass, and CRC Press.... (09:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Best of What's New 2003 - Popular Science - :: Popular Science offers its 2003 Best of What's New, covering topics including auto tech, aviation and space, engineering, home entertainment and tech, and general innovation.... (09:38 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 20 November 2025
- EPA Launches Science Inventory - :: The US Environmental Protection Agency has launched the EPA Science Inventory:The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional... (12:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 November 2025
- SME SourceTM and NanoGuitars - :: ebrary and SME Launch World’s Largest Full-Text Database of Publications in Manufacturing Engineering. The new database is called SME Source™, and includes: 4,000 books, journals and technical papers in manufacturing engineering, including the nine-volume Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook... (12:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 18 November 2025
- Searching SciFinder Scholar with CAS Registry Numbers - :: We are new to SciFinder Scholar at the University of Alberta. You need JavaScript to see my email address of the Millikan Library at CalTech, in Pasadena CA, has been using it for some time, and shares his thoughts... (12:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 17 November 2025
- Serials Crunch! How Does Your Library Handle It? - :: What's happening at Cornell is happening elsewhere as well. How does your library deal with the challenge of serving its faculties' information needs, in particular, serials, in the face of serious budget crunches? This issue (no pun intended) is... (13:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Cornell and Other Universities to Cancel Elsevier Titles - :: Continuing the previous thread, Information Today has issued an article called "Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles", by Paula J Hane. Subscription costs to scholarly journals continue to rise beyond what academic libraries are able to... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 November 2025
- Cornell's Statement on its Decision Regarding Elsevier - :: Cornell has put together a web page called "Issues in Scholarly Communication." They describe their predicament with Elsevier and their decision to drop "several hundred" Elsevier journals after not reaching an amicable agreement.... (10:42 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- New memory device could offer smaller, simpler way to archive data - :: "Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard have invented a combination of materials that could lead to cheap and super-compact electronic memory devices for archiving digital images or other data." (via: EurekAlert.)... (08:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
- BioOne - Two Years Later - :: BioOne, an "aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals", began operation in April, 2001. In this article, in the v 64 n10, November, 2003 issue of College & Research Libraries News, Heather Joseph and Adrian W Alexander examine how far... (16:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
- 25 Most Provocative Questions Facing Science, Landing on Mars - :: The NYTimes celebrates 25 years of covering science by posing "25 of the most provocative questions facing science." (ID and PW: podbay.) :: "A British-built craft designed to scour the surface of Mars for signs of life is scheduled... (11:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 10 November 2025
- SPARC and PLoS Partner to Advocate for Open Access Publishing - Press Release - "SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an academic and research libraries initiative, today announced its partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the groundbreaking organization of scientists and physicians committed to making scientific and medical literature freely... (18:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Core List of Astronomy Books - :: The Core List of Astronomy Books has been updated and is available as part of the NASA ADS Virtual Library.... (15:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Science Photography - A very interesting image found via The Daily Trudge: All the Water and Air in the World, a clever conceptual image by Dr Adam Nieman that reveals what would happen if the world's water or air were lumped together in... (11:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 9 November 2025
- EEVL Announces OneStep Industry News and OneStep Jobs News - From EEVL, The Internet Guide To Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, comes word of two new services for scanning industry news and jobs announcements.EEVL: the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, is delighted to announce the launch of two new,... (23:46 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 6 November 2025
- Using Weblogs for Library News - :: A few days ago, the University of Alberta Libraries converted its library news page to a weblog. This is a relatively new use of blogs in academic libraries, and I think it's a good one. There are dozens of... (17:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 5 November 2025
- 20 Google Secrets - :: From Rita Vine's Sitelines: Tara Calishain, creator of ResearchBuzz, has written a short article called 20 Great Google Secrets. Many of these tips would be of use to us when helping our students search on the web. Like most... (19:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)