December 2003
Wednesday 24 December 2025
- Merry Christmas! - :: A note to advise you that Geoff and I will not be posting again until January 5th. We are off work until that time, and would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, the best of... (09:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 December 2025
- OUP and continuous online publication model - :: Back in August we posted about OUP's move towards experimenting with new online publishing model. A few more details have been released. Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is adopting a continuous online... (09:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- PLoS Biology -- December Issue Now Out - :: Vol 1(3) is here! Please let your friends and colleagues know that a new issue of PLoS Biology is up and running, and invite them to read it for free at http://www.plosbiology.org. PLoS has just announced [last week] that... (09:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 19 December 2025
- Engineering Information announces electronic backfile dating to 1884 - :: Engineering Information, a division of Elsevier, has announced the forthcoming availability of the Engineering Index Backfile. As of December 2003, the backfile will be available exclusively via the Engineering Village 2 platform. Backfile subscribers will have desktop access to... (09:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 18 December 2025
- NISO Publishes White Paper on Patents and Open Standards - :: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper on Patents and Open Standards by Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director of the Florida Center for Library Automation. This white paper is a timely reminder to everyone involved in... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 17 December 2025
- New Version of NetLibrary to Launch in January 2004 - eBook News:netLibrary 2004 is coming soon! Based on recent usability testing and customer feedback, we have re-engineered our site to provide you and your patrons with improved reliability, greater performance, a more intuitive interface, and non-English language capability. With literally... (09:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
- Nat Hentoff Blasts the ALA - :: In the Village Voice, Nat Hentoff opines that the American Library Association has abandoned 10 independent librarians, jailed in Cuba, along with other opponents of the Castro government, for nonviolent political activities.... (20:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- World's Largest Book Unveiled - :: Weighing in at 59 kg/113 pounds, and measuring 5 feet high and almost 7 feet long, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom, a 114-page picture book about the country of Bhutan, won't be fitting on any standard... (14:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- BioMed Central launches BMC Medicine and BMC Biology - :: "BioMed Central launched a new pair of Open Access journals – BMC Medicine and BMC Biology – on 1 December. The journals compliment the 57 established specialist titles in the BMC journal series by providing a selective home for... (14:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 15 December 2025
- Ovid Opens Full-Text Journal Articles to Pay-Per-View Access - :: From InfoToday: "December 15, 2025 — Ovid, a leading online service for medical, health sciences, and pharmaceutical information, has announced a new PayPerView Service for the full text of medical journals. The service is designed to open access to... (10:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 December 2025
- UK Parliamentary Committee to Investigate Pricing and Availability of Scholarly Journals - :: With an increasing academic backlash against yearly skyrocketing prices for scholary journals, a UK parliamentary science and technology committee is preparing to investigate the state of scientific publishing, in the new year.The committee will look at access to journals,... (15:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- MathSciNet Enhancements, Largest Known Prime Number Discovered - :: AMS has made some enhancements to MathSciNet, including multilingual interfaces. :: Speaking of numbers, in case you missed it, the largest known prime number was recently discovered by a 26-year old chemical engineering student. The number is 220,996,011-1, and... (15:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 December 2025
- Cornell University Library cancels Elsevier journal package - :: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/12.11.03/CUL_Elsevier.html"After several months of negotiations, Cornell University Library (CUL) administrators have decided not to renew CUL's subscription with publisher Reed Elsevier for a bundled package of more than 900 journals. Beginning in 2004 the library will subscribe to a... (15:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- b/ITE, Hazardous Chemical Db - :: The latest issue (Nov/Dec 03) of b/ITE, the bulletin of the Information Technology Division of SLA, has appeared, and has a nifty section on RSS. :: Two publications, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, and International... (11:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 December 2025
- Wiley Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dictionary - "The newly released "Wiley Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dictionary" from Wiley-IEEE Press offers almost 900 pages of definitions for a vast array of electrical engineering terms and acronyms used in today's literature. This reference text is organized to present the... (16:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- House of Commons STL Access Inquiry - As posted to Liblicense-L: HOUSE OF COMMONS PRESS NOTICE Committee Office, House of Commons, No. 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA Tel. Nos. 020 7219 2793-2794 (Fax. No. - 0896) email: scitechcom@parliament.uk No. 3 of Session 2003-04, dated 10 December 2003... (16:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- National Agricultural Library upgrades AGRICOLA Online Public Catalog - :: "BELTSVILLE, Md., December 8, 2025 – The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has released a significant upgrade to its Web-based AGRICOLA catalog of records for the materials in its collection. The new version of AGRICOLA provides improved access--many new search... (09:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 December 2025
- CSA Hot Topics - :: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts produces monthly Hot Topics, which they describe as "Comprehensive information on current issues with an overview of the subject, key citations with abstracts, and links to web sites." The two most recent Hot Topics are the... (12:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 8 December 2025
- Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th ed - Review of the online version - Courtesy of Dana Roth at CalTech, a review of the new online version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics:- Substance search has 5 pre-selected search fields: name (with left/right truncation), MF (Hill order), CAS RN, common formula (e.g.... (11:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 December 2025
- Max Planck Research Awards 2003 Presented - :: "As part of the efforts to promote international cooperation in science, the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented the Max Planck Research Award for 2003 on November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 12 scientists... (11:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Search Engine Decoder - :: Search-This has an interesting page called the Search Engine Decoder. Choose from 19 search engines, and the decoder tells you supplies and receives primary, secondary, directory and paid results.... (11:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 December 2025
- Dialog Announces New Web Service to Facilitate Content Integration for Web Sites, Enterprise Networks - "CARY, N.C., USA (December 1, 2025) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced the launch of its Dialog Application Programming Interface (API), a... (16:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- E-Biosci - The latest issue of Open Access Now is now available online. From the very interesting article Fingerprinting the Literature...Grivell likes to think of E-BioSci as a discovery tool, and he emphasizes the differences between E-BioSci and more conventional bibliographic service... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- AIP’s ScitationSM Links Scholars and Publishers to Online Services - “London, UK, December 2, 2025 - AIP Publishing Services today announced a new name for its online hosting platform. The new name, “ScitationSM,” will replace Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), as the service has been known since 1996. Scitation will... (12:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 2 December 2025
- Open Access Under Attack - :: The commercial sector seems to be concerned about open access, and has published recent articles attacking it. Last week Jan Velterop of Biomed Central, in a message to the Reed Elsevier Customers list, pointed out an article in IMI... (14:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- ACRL STS Research Forum -- Orlando 2004 - :: The ACRL Science and Technology Section's (STS) Research Committee invites submission of abstracts of research papers to be given at the STS Forum for Science & Technology Library Research in Orlando at the ALA Annual Conference, June 2004.... (09:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 December 2025
- Inspec Archive Grows, New Coverage Offered - :: Barbara Quint reports in Infotoday that Inspec will extend its archive from 1968 back to 1898. The XML file will be made available to purchase in Spring of 2004. In addition, Inspec is launching Section E of the database,... (12:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Neurobiology of Lipids - Peer-reviewed, Open Access - :: Neurobiology of Lipids is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published out of Moscow. More information is available here. The editorial board has 32 members, and one can link to each member's articles as indexed in PubMed. :: Today's homepage comes... (10:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)